Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin Episode 2 Discussion

Zefyris said:

I'll try to help a bit. There is quite a few scenes cut, so lots of things are there but simply suggested/ needing to be deduced for various infos. This is definitely not a case where you can simply watch without thinking.


The soldier received a lethal wound and it wasn't possible to save him. He indeed interogated him while promising him aid, but that wasn't doable. He didn't especially felt good about it, but it had to be done, and isn't asking to be forgiven about it either.



She's the daughter of this country's top military. She was educated that way, for that role. She's very smart, but she's also educated to protect and obey the imperial family.


This is heavily incorrect.
There's a precedent in their world they are (Ikta's father). He went agaisnt such order. Was accused of treachery, put in prison, killed, his family lost any status they had, and so on.
Let's think of the various choice they had there.
-Disobey. That's a bad idea. Not only would he die anyway, but on top of this his family would get the shaft rather than just him.
-go to the enemy alone. Would mean abandon his soldiers, would mean abandon his family.
-go to the enemy but try to convince his troops to do the same. Would create a strife between loyal troops and troops wanting to rebel. lots of deaths, and every family from soldiers who went away would take the shaft. But that's not all. Any friend he had, especially in the army, would be suspected to be a traitor as well, so that decision would actually have consequences for his friends outside of his family.
-Die following orders after doing his possible to have the less soldiers left when it happens. Saving a lot of soldiers, having his family able to live properly without shame, without having their life standard confiscated and so on.

All in all, he choose wisely, there wasn't really any other choice that didn't brought huge danger/problems to his own family, for example. The moment he received that order, there was no good choice left for him. Also, the example you're taking is heavily different. Since germany had already lost, choosing to refuse would not lead for them to consequences like trial and the like, since their superior wouldn't have time for this. It wasn't nationwide either, but a small part of the army ordered to do that.




Actually, that's not what was said. His plan for life was to work at the imeprial library. An easy life, with a good income, but you normally can reach such place by normal means.
So Igsem proposed him to get him that job in exchange of being help to ace the military officer exam.
The military exam was in two parts. the first was obviously written, and is said to have been passed by all those in the ship, that were going to the second half (which was practice, obviously). Igsem mention that Ikta worked hard to study for that exam, to that ikta answered that this was a necessity to get that job.
Ikta never ever intended to become a soldier. Making Igsem ace it, and failing at it himself, receiving the librarian job he wanted. All of this can be deduced from conversations early on in the first episode, btw.
However, he received the title of knight as a "reward". A knight is a soldier. He cannot refuse to go the army. And worse, he was made knight for two things and he understand that very well, as he said in episode 2.
One, as a political tool, using them as hero to increase the morale of the population
two, for the personal use of Chamille that is obviously plotting something.

So yeah, his plans of life are absolutely ruined, he becomes a soldier, a hero, and a noble (knight is noblesse title as a rare reward for soldiers), and he dislike any of those.



There is a lot of hints that she's actually smart, and has a way to think that is quite in contradiction with her status of imperial princess. She's still 12 years old tho. She can make mistake as well due to inexperience.