Election Arc

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Election Arc
Part of Salabria Saga
Information
Location	Secondaria, Hybride Kingdom Primaria
Side	Solum Alliance;Primaria Alliance ;Secondaria Alliance
Result	Hiroto is elected as the Governor of Salabria
Media Duration
Light Novel Volumes	LN 4
Manga Chapters/Volumes	MN Ch 33 (Second Half), MN Ch 34
Chronology Light Novel Chronology Torlan Arc ←Election Arc→ Gezerkia Arc Manga Chronology Torlan Arc ←Election Arc→ N/A

Election Arc is the 4th story arc of Kou 1 Desu Ga Isekai De Joushu Hajimemashita series and the last arc of Salabria Saga. This arc illustrates the prelude, during, and the aftermath of Salabria's Corectio, an election that is held at Salabria where noble across the province are competing against each other for the position as the Governor of Salabria. Hiroto enters the election as Solum's representative while confronting other several rival noblemen who try to ruin his rise along the way, such as the likes of Excelis (Elven Lord of Primaria) and Feuillet (Lord of Secondaria).

Prologue

Prelude to the Election

Within the next month, governor Baulois-the current Governor of Salabria-will be stepping down from his position. With his retirement, many castle lords will be voting to determine the next governor, with Feuillet of Secondaria and Excelis of Primaria as the 2 main candidates for the upcoming Corectio. 

Excelis's dilemma in dealing Solum Alliance.

At Primaria, Slara reaches the castle and follows a solider to meet Excelis who complements the vampires' Air Carrier service as both fast and convenient, to the point thinking hiring one is an extraordinary feat. To the elven lord's shock, however, she reads a letter from her trader by the name Illion regarding Feuillet's increasing influences that gained a lot of his supporters, along with an ultimatum from his 4 major supporters into enacting the Development Order on Primaria's behalf if she want to keep her allies. Whilst thinking that accepting the Developing Order may seemly the only way to combat Feuillet, Excelis also suffers her dilemma because she also considers about Hiroto, the leader of the Solum Alliance who will likely rejects her if she enact the enact the Development Order, so she tries to think of something to convince him to accept it too.

Meanwhile, Feuillet and Torlan are having a dinner while discussing the Air Carrier that is approved by Neka. As Feuillet remarks how he will manipulate the Air Carrier service for victory at the upcoming election, Torlan expresses his disgust towards Hiroto whom Feuillet comments as an astonishing person due to his caliber. Nevertheless, Feuillet claims that he will get the last laugh in the end so he have Torlan ordering Kazm to pack something in his another plan to ruin Hiroto.

Plot

The Wheat Price Conspiracy

Part 1

On his way to Solum from Cecra, a Cecra merchant is traveling with his produce while remarking Solum's growing popularity due it's changes 4 months ago. On his way to the bakery via a small alley, he is colliding with

Part 8

So, Hiroto rushes to the scene with Sorceire who informs him that she never heard of the wheat price's drastic rise and the local baker is actually a nice person who doesn't raises the prices for quick profit, further adding the Diferente's suspicions about the wheat price's sudden rise and with Sōichiro and Curele coming along, he vows to get the bottom of this case.

Back at the bakery, tension between baker and 30 townspeople worsen when the crowd accuses him as a money grubber and vows never buy a bread from his bakery, even though the baker explains that he had no choice to raise it to circumstances. Not helping matters is Valkyria only watches the argument with grim when she failed to quell the quarrel. Courtesy to Hiroto, the quarrel stops and when the baker asks if he is about to arrest him, the Diferente tells him only want to asks some questions and wants everyone to come with him along with the cart.

Part 11

Excelis and Baulois.

Elsewhere, Excelis seeks Baulois for his support in the upcoming Corectio while presenting her own Development Order to him. Baulois, however, opts to have his would be successor to decide Salabria's future Development Order instead, and not only he advises the Elven Lord to avoid unnecessary conflicts with the vampires as he views them as the forest's guardians, he is also recommend her to visit Solum in order to understand the situation herself, further reminds her that politics isn't something to be done on the table, rendering her speechless. All Excelis can think of is that the Development Order is imminent due to Salabria's rising population and a means to gain support from other castle lords, though this brings her unease for she is unsure if she is doing a right thing.

Excelis's Desperation for Solum's Vote

Part 12.1

At Secondaria, Donis, the Steward of Primaria, try to convince the local Elves Association to approve his lord's Development Order in order to win votes from 4 Southern cites (particularly Marcel, Glinka, Gustave and Victor), only to be rejected by Magnelis who claims that even getting these votes at the expense of abandoning Solum, they are still not enough to defeat Feuillet-forcing him to leave with bad news

Part 12.3

At Primaria, Excelis is shocked and confused to hear Donis's report that Secondaria Elves Association will not support her but they don't support Feuillet either. What's more troubling is Feuillet has 8 votes and despite she takes the lead with 12 votes, Excelis fears that Marcel Lord and others will defect for Feuillet if this situation persists. Things turns to Excelis's favor, however, when she receives 2 letters from Solum and view them as a best chance to gain it's support by force-specifically after hearing news about its road expansion and the wheat crisis. So, she orders her steward to summon Illion as she want to tell him her plan.

Hiroto and Excelis

Part 1

On the next morning, Excelis wakes up and in spite of her unease about Donis's plan she goes along with it by ordering her servants to send letters (via Air Mail) to both Southern Castle Lords (Marcel, Glinka, Gustav and Victor) and Hiroto and tell them to come to Primaria immediately.

Part 12

Initially tempted by Excelis's seducing offer, seeing her shaking frantically causes Hiroto to reject her but offers her a third solution to beat Feuillet: him becoming the thrid candidate of the Corectio. Finding his plan skeptical, Excelis warns Hiroto that doing will ends up giving Feuillet's advantages and even after she learns that breaking trust between Solum Alliance and vampires will doom Salabria, she thinks defeating Feuillet is impossible due to Glinka's support, only to be rendered speechless by Hiroto's explantion that chances of losing only counts when a candidate either gives in or accept Ibrid System or never enact the Developing Order entirely. When Hiroto further explains about Feuillet's strategy to gain advantages before the Corectio, Excelis insists that his chances of winning are slim because she still got Primaria's support, though she herself ends up shakes her head when Hiroto asks her if she really want to enact the Developing Order while denying Other Species's existence. Excelis's answer prompts Hiroto that they can win the election but rather than forcing her to cancel the Developing Order, he wants her to keep her stance until the final debate.

Hiroto's Visits onto the Secondaria Elf Association

Hiroto ensures Magnelis that he will win the election.

After their Hot Spring trip, Hiroto and the girls (Valkyria, Mimia and Sorceire) return to Secondaria but he has to visit the Secondaria Elf Association alone via Alvy's orders. Upon his arrival, Hiroto meets Magnelis who asks him about his meeting with Excelis, but the former replies that they can at least be partners for now. Suddenly, Magnelis requests Hiroto to participate Salabria's Corectio and entrust the Elven Association to deal the malt price incident. Whilst he himself has predicted that Feuillet was behind of everything, Hiroto then asks Magnelis why the elves want him to participate the election even though they knew Feuillet's trap. Magnelis replies that is because the Elf Association refuses to support Feuillet due to his desire on crushing Solum and abolishing the Air Mail Service-something he elder views as essentials to the Ibrid System; furthermore, he adds that the Diferente can expand Solum's road networks if he win the election. Moved by Magnelis's words and everyone's faith in him, Hiroto replies that he will win the election-starting by visiting Lusa.

The Race for the Election Votes Begins

Part 5

Meanwhile, Excelis visits Secondaria Elf Association only to be shunned by everyone for wasting her time to convince them for their support. With only Magnelis and Excelis left under the former's order, the latter tells him that she deliberately fully implementing the Developing Order in order to prevent Primaria's surrounding cities's support for supporting Feuillet. Disappointed by Excelis's unrighteous path, Magnelis tells her that they too deliberately not support her.

Part 7

Hiroto protects Sorceire from Aldus Lord's scorn.

Back to Hiroto and Sorceire, they arrive at Aldus only to be scorned by its castle lord as he accuses Darmur as a "traitor" for his "shameless" support for a "peasant" like Hiroto. To protect Sorceire, Hiroto tells the lord to lash his hostility at him instead and not only he warns that hurting Sorceire will only damaging his reputation, he also calmly tells him that he wishes to get along with everyone once the Corectio is over and leave Aldus with Sorceire. The duo receive the same harassment from the castle lords from both Litteau and Nolte respectively where they also loathed Darmur's "treachery" so much they reject the Air Mail service becuase they refuse to coexist with the vampires; to further adding insult to the injury, Norte Castle Lord "advises" Hiroto to quit as he "warns" the youngster about the vampires' hypothetical "betrayal" in the future.

Still, in spite of having 6 votes, Hiroto remains optimistic for the victory has he has eyes onto Rudin instead. As Sorceire apologizes to Hiroto for Secondaria Alliance's hostility against Darmur while Valkyria worries about his would be defeat, Hiroto reassures them that hope is not lost as he explains his reasons of visiting the lords of Secondaria Alliance was to check their impression of him and since Rudin was the only one willing to listen to him, so he opts to pay Lusa a visit again.

Feuillet's Struggles and Lusa's Betrayal

Part 1

After leaving Solum, Feuillet continues his quest to gain supporters by visiting Dexia and offers its lord some lucrative offers as exchange for his vote, only to be confused by Dexia Lord's rejection via reading a piece of paper. The same thing happens when he visits Natra and even as he realizes that it was part of Hiroto's plan, he explains that he was "reconsidering" some special cases but Natra Lord-while reading the piece of paper- replies that unless the Secondaria Lord publicly declare his "special cases", they will keep support Hiroto.

Part 7

Elsewhere, Excelis visits Secondaria Alliance's cities only to be scorned by Feuillet's supporters out of their suspicious about her own Developing Order. When she visits Neka and talks to Darmur and Zeldis, the latter insists that he only supports Hiroto in spite of the vampires' inability to vote, causing her to think humans and vampires are going to coexist someday. Whilst resting at her inn, Excelis receives Hiroto's letter that the "ball" will continue but she also increasingly worried about the Diferente's chances of winning when she learns that Feuillet-due to his deal with Glinka-is ahead of both of then with 8 votes.

Of all Feuillet supporters, however, only Rudin questions the Secondaria Lord's genuinity regarding to the point comparing him to Hiroto . After being informed by a messenger about Hiroto's arrival, he welcomes the Diferente and when the lords indulging the wine together, he asks the Diferente if he truly want to cancel Secondaira's Development Order. Hiroto replies that he only cancel some projects because he need to check something beforehand, such as the forest's water supplies and its destructive consequences to the town if the Development Order is implemented. With Rudin's support, Hiroto gains Lusa as his ally and earns his vote.

Meanwhile, Excelis visits Solum and she is so astonished by it's real autosphere that she angrily realizes that she has been hoodwinked by Feuillet and his fellow lords. Upon entering a local bar, she is curious to see its lively autosphere and courtesy to a guard's information from the locals, she learns that Hiroto is catching up with Feuillet with 7 votes. Meanwhile, Feuillet confronts Rudin and tries to gain his vote by claiming that he is still "reconsider" the Air Carrier service, but Rudin hears enough and demands him to declare that "exception" if he want his vote back. Shocked and appalled by his fellow castle lord's words, Feuillet warns Rudin about the consequences of his defiance but the latter replies that he that he only knows the benefit of supporting Hiroto, further adding the Secondaria Lord's ire as he begins to see that his schemes are falling apart.

At Primaria, just one day before Corectio, Astelis is also surprised to see Hiroto have 7 votes like Feuillet and begin to wonder if Hiroto is going to win the election. Whilst recalling bad memories about Salabria's calamity under Baulois's governance through Southern City' rampant land reclamation, to the point feeling regret for Primaria's neutrality after hearing that both Feuillet and Excelis fully implementing the Developing Order, he also thinks that only Hiroto can stop them from damaging Salabria any further.

Final Debate for the GovernorPosition

Part 3.2

Sentelio's defeat not only causes Hiroto's peers (specifically Sōichiro and Alvy) worry about his position, it also relief Feuillet a bit as he view this as his best chance to regain his momentum in achieving his victory.

Part 4

The third and final debate begins with Feuillet tells Hiroto his "pity" having for Sentelio's incompetence, but Hiroto is not only unfazed by such insult and rather grateful to see Sentelio's courage despite his shortcomings, he gives Feuillet the same advice on punishing Torlan-causing the Secondaria Lord speechless. . Later, both Excelis and Feuillet deem Hiroto as "inadequate" to be the Governor of Salabria for not enacting the Developing Order to control Salabria's population growth. When Hiroto calls his opponents out for their imprudence to Salabria's vampire crisis while developing their respective cities, Feuillet indicts him for "opposing" the Developing Order but Hiroto rebuts his argument by not reveals that he doesn't "opposed" the project itself, but explains its dangerous consequences to Salabria if left unchecked. From species inequality to Air Carrier Services, all of Feuillet's argument have been shoot down by Hiroto and when he changes the subject to the Ibrid System, Feuillet ridicules Hiroto so viciously that he deems the it as "unnecessary" since the Emergency has "ended", only to be rendered speechless by Hiroto's practical question regarding his definition of the Emergency itself while mentioning Other Species' significance to a city. Unwilling to lose to an upstart, Feuillet changes the subject again but this time, he accuses Hiroto for his "favoritism" to the Other Species over mankind. To Feuillet's horror, however, Hiroto counters it again by brings up Kazm's wheat monopoly that nearly ruined Solum and asks everyone if breads are Other Species' only food; even worse, the crowd (including Southern Cities castle lords along with Astelis and Baulois) are so impressed by Hiroto's performance that they give him an ovation and the judges end the debate before he can even think a counterargument against the Diferente.

Hiroto is congratulated by Sorceire and Sentelio.

Afterwards, officials tells everyone to cast their vote for the respective candidates via ball ballots. Some time later, the results are in and to the joy of Sōichiro and others, Hiroto emerges victorious when he has 9 votes for the the victory, followed by Feuillet's 7 votes and Excelis's 3 votes. As the crowd cheers for Hiroto's victory, nearly all of his peers (Sōichiro, Alvy, Curele, Valkyria, Mimia and Sorceire) hugs him and congratulating their friend for this miracle. Whilst thanking Rudin for his aid, Hiroto also confronts Sentelio who tearfully apologizes for his past antagonism against him a few months ago while thanking him for defending him from Feuillet's insult. Later, Hiroto approaches other noblemen (Excelis, Feuillet, Baulois, Magnelis, Astelis and others except Glinka Lord) and shakes their hands with hopes that they can get along with each other under his governance. With his name is written down by an official, Hiroto is officially elected as the new Governor of Salabria.

Epilogue

Aftermath of Hiroto being the Governor of Salabria

Part 1

(To be added...)

Part 2

Meanwhile, the Solum-Cerca Road Project will be commenced next week and when Sentelio thanking the officials for their aid, the latter replies that the he should be thanking Hiroto instead for being an excellent castle lord.

Part 3

As for Hiroto and others, they are having a hot spring bath under Darmur's treat.

Characters

Major Hiroto Kiyokawa Sorceire Mimia Valkyria Sōichirō Sōda Curele Torlan Feuillet Excelis

Supporting Damur Alvy Carabella Slara Rudin Magnelis Astelis Baulois

Story Impact

• Whilst making her cameo in Sorceire Arc, Excelis is properly introduced in this arc as one of Hiroto's rival for the Corectio alongside Feuillet. Unlike Feuillet who want to smear Hiroto in any methods he could think of, Excelis wants his support instead since she is also disgusted by Secondaria Plans only to follow suit out of desperation to keep her supporters from voting for Feuillet.

• More characters are introduced in this arc, specially the officials such as Baulois and
  • Baulois is introduced as a would-be retiring Governor of Salabria and he is one of very few figure who understand Salabria's ongrowing problems, specifically the vampire crisis that plaguing Salabria for quite a time. In fact, he is one of few people who witnessed Hybride's emergency state prior to the first Diferente's arrival, its improvement under the first Diferente's governance and its returning woes due to humans' discrimination and prejudice against the Other Species simply because they all assume that the "Emergency" is over.

• The aftermath of the Corectio has impacting those who are involved, specifically Hiroto for he becoming the youngest candidate (and the first outsider) to be elected as the Governor of Salabria. This set a milestone for Hiroto as this position paves his for further greatness in his future adventures.
  • Even as Excelis's main supporter, Astelis is so astonished by Hiroto's outstanding performance that he remarks him as a right candidate for the governor position, mostly due to his foresight in seeing a bigger while acknowledging his own limitations. Like his daughter, he is now one of Hiroto's recurring allies as his adventures go on.
  • Of all castle lords who congratulating Hiroto's victory after the end of the Corectio, only Glinka Lord, whose name later is revealed as Zoppo, refuses to acknowledge the Diferente by not shaking his hands. This foreshadows the events of Phyllis Affairs Arc where he got involved in a conspiracy of Hiroto's first near assassination via Phyllis's scheme.

Trivia

(TO be added...)