The Cooking Princess - Chapter 89

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The Princess Who Cooks

Episode 89

The Prince’s judgment to cut off supplies first was accurate in itself.

However, unless one fully understood the behavioral patterns of pirates who act in a disciplined and unpredictable manner, the act of cutting off supplies would be difficult to succeed.

Some knights who knew this openly snorted, and the Knight Commander stepped forward to mediate the situation.

“Your Highness the Prince. If cutting off supplies were easy, we wouldn’t be in this situation.”

A subtle power struggle arose between the knights and sailors who followed Shuel and the knights who had long guarded the Chato Domain.

Shuel had also been sensing the ominous atmosphere that had been brewing since earlier. He looked at the surrounding knights, fell into thought for a moment, then added:

“If anything goes wrong, I will take responsibility for this matter.”

At his words meant to make the knights of Chato Domain comply, the knights and sailors brought from the Imperial Palace cried out as if feeling wronged.

“Your Highness the Prince!”

“I’m confident, so don’t worry.”

No matter how uncooperative the knights of Chato Domain intended to be toward the Prince, he was the legitimate Prince of the Luzhiere Empire.

Since Prince Shuel, the legitimate heir, had spoken to such an extent, they had no choice but to refuse, so they grumbled but followed his orders.

The knights and sailors launched a surprise attack at 4 AM on the area Shuel had pointed to on the map, as he commanded.

…And there really were the pirates’ supplies there!

Moreover, just as the Prince had said, they were few in number, so they could be subdued instantly even with a small force.

The knights felt confused that the Prince’s prediction was correct as they steadily captured the pirates.

And the pirates’ supplies, which had mysteriously kept coming back to life despite the Chato Domain knights’ desperate attacks until then, were completely cut off after attacking the place Shuel had designated.

Only question marks floated in the minds of the knights who had successfully cut off the pirates’ supply line according to the Prince’s orders.

‘??????’

They cut it off themselves and were even more bewildered themselves.

Was it really this easy to cut off the supplies of pirates who moved in such a disciplined manner that they were hard to predict?

In the first place, since they had pirate ships, they had more convenience in storing goods. But they didn’t raid multiple places, and just because they raided one place, they couldn’t exert their power for days like this?

As if reading the knights’ doubts, Shuel kindly explained.

“Even pirate ships need material supplies. They must have times when they disembark from their ships.”

Along with his words, Shuel pointed to the map.

It was exactly the place where he had instructed them to launch a surprise attack, saying the pirates’ material resupply would take place there.

“The pirates’ homeland is not the Luzhiere Empire but beyond the sea. Especially since they plunder so much from our Empire, it’s obvious they have supply lines. To procure materials, they eventually have to come up on land.”

He said he had narrowed down the supply locations to two places after looking at the materials organized by the Chato Domain’s knight order.

“It wouldn’t have mattered which of the two it was. If we had come up empty, I was planning to immediately raid the other place.”

Still, looking at that vast map and narrowing down the pirates’ supply lines to just two places in such a short time didn’t make sense in itself.

“Oh, as expected of Your Highness the Prince!”

“We believed in you!”

The central country bumpkins who didn’t know much about pirates were just excited without knowing how amazing this feat was.

On the other hand, the sailors who had even once experienced facing pirates all had their eyes bulging out.

Even after looking at all the materials together, they couldn’t understand how Shuel had predicted the supply location.

“But how exactly did you do it?”

Having done something that made no sense, the Prince added with a clueless expression as if thinking ‘Why don’t they understand this?’

“Pirates aren’t fools either, so they would paradoxically avoid the ‘good’ locations and times with the highest probability of being raided. Because there’s a high possibility of being predicted by us.”

Then the only remaining place was near the bridge, which had low risk, relatively low possibility of being predicted, and where a small number could quickly resupply, Shuel explained.

“Thanks to the materials you brought after this, I was able to narrow it down to one place.”

…So that means it wasn’t even a guess between two places?

The knights’ mouths fell open at the incredible accuracy.

You were certain about the supply line just from materials without even going to see for yourself? How exactly do you do that?

“Anyway, now that we know the supply location, shouldn’t we estimate when they’ll disembark from their ships and defeat them one by one?”

Listening to Shuel’s calm words, the Knight Commander harbored suspicions inwardly.

‘Could it be that the Prince is in collusion with the pirates?’

However, the Knight Commander himself knew better than anyone that this could never be the case.

After all, Shuel had come to Chato Domain for the first time today.

‘Then this incredible feat is really, all of it… just accomplished by using his head?’

Various strategies that everyone dreamed of but couldn’t quite achieve were being ruthlessly unfolded under Shuel’s hands.

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After that, Shuel succeeded in every operation he executed.

According to Shuel, pirates were a ragtag bunch and their numbers weren’t that great either, so if one grasped their behavioral patterns and defeated them individually, he could make it so they could never approach the Luzhiere Empire again.

‘I don’t know, that’s scary. How does he do it.’

With his insight that never once missed the mark, even the knights who had initially been wary of Shuel’s failure, calling it luck, now respectfully showed courtesy before Shuel.

Since the greenhouse Prince who had never even fought was giving instructions with such a peaceful face, the Imperial knights had doubtful expressions but thought ‘This must really be easy as His Highness the Prince says~’

‘Idiots!’

After subduing the pirates and having some rest time, the Knight Commander, who finally couldn’t stand it anymore, asked incredulously.

“But how can the operation success rate possibly be 100%? Please tell us the secret.”

To that question, Shuel gave a truly frustrating answer.

“Hmm… Isn’t it obvious?”

At the Prince’s nonchalant words asking if it wasn’t obvious, the Knight Commander was dumbfounded.

It wasn’t obvious.

“Pirates move in a disciplined manner to prevent their movements from being predicted as much as possible.”

The remaining pirates were probably terrified by now.

Why? Because every attempt at plundering was thwarted, they kept moving their base continuously but even that kept being predicted, and all the goods they had struggled to plunder were being taken away.

Splitting the squad in two? Such tricks only gave Shuel a good opportunity to defeat them individually.

Attempts to deceive the army failed repeatedly, and with comrades being captured or executed and supplies cut off, the pirates couldn’t endure for long.

It was even winter now.

The enemy feared his mysterious predictions and allies thrilled at them. The knights were all desperate to know the secret.

When the Knight Commander said that predicting the pirates’ movements was difficult, Shuel asked back as if truly puzzled.

“Is prediction difficult?”

The Prince’s expression clearly contained the puzzlement of ‘Was that moving in a disciplined manner?’ so it was impossible not to notice.

Only the Knight Commander of Chato Domain felt frustrated watching this.

‘This is really driving me crazy!’

Shuel’s command ability was not something just anyone could possess.

The conduct of the domain knights, who had been disrespectful and dismissive thinking how well could a Prince on the frontier’s frontline do at best, became increasingly proper as time passed.

The Knight Commander of Chato Domain, whose master had disappeared, asked.

“Where and how exactly did you study such things?”

He closed his eyes for a moment, pondered, then answered in a calm tone.

“I self-studied.”

“Pardon? Did you say self-study?”

The Emperor had suddenly become a madman who sent an eighteen-year-old Prince who hadn’t even properly learned military science to the frontline, but Shuel didn’t bother to correct this.

Because it was a strict fact.

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