Stateless Area is the 107th chapter of the Kingdom manga, written and illustrated by Yasuhisa Hara.
Summary
After being kicked off a cliff, Shin slows his fall by hitting a tree and then landing in a small lake in a small village. En watches Shin swim to the shore and is relieved that he is alive, then turns to Ou Ki and asks him what his plan was. Ou Ki tells him that it was training, and Shin reaches the shore to find combat going on.
At the Strategist Academy, Ka Ryo Ten hears from Mou Ki that he was going to a battlefield, having received permission from Shou Hei Kun to do so during the next war. He tells her that he would only be observing, and seeing the battlefields was a very different experience for those who only know of the "tabletop war games".
Ou Ki tells Shin that he was in one of the many "stateless areas" located within Qin, barren lands where those defeated in war flock to and once again engage in combat to dominate the narrow wilderness. Ou Ki speaks to Shin and tells him to subjugate the region for him. He tells Shin that he had fallen into the area of the Nanba Tribe, the weakest of the ten groups in the area, and numbering around 100 in population. Upon hearing the number "100", Shin registers that this was Ou Ki's way of training him, right as he sees enemies break through a fence. He tells Ou Ki that he accepts and immediately leaps into combat while organizing the Nanba.
Ou Ki watches Shin begins to plug the newly made gap and decides to leave. He tells En that he would only take Shin to train after he finished subjugating the area, expecting Shin to learn the difficulty of leadership and the strength of unity there.
Winter comes. Qin would rally its army in the second month of the new year.
Characters
Qin
- Strategist Academy
- Ka Ryo Ten
- Mou Ki
- Shou Hei Kun (Mentioned)
- Unnamed Strategists
Stateless Area
- Nanba Tribe
- Kou
- Kou's mother
- Unnamed elders
- Unnamed others
- Unidentified Tribe
- Unnamed attackers
High Points
- Shin and Ten started their respective trainings.
- Mou Ki and Ten receive permission from Shou Hei Kun that they are allowed to accompany the army staff in the next war.
- Shin is tasked by General Ou Ki into subjugating a stateless area.
- The new year comes.
Trivia
- Bonus Chapter 8 was added in Vol.10.