144 – Taming the Madman (4) -Correction
Nielen drew his sword and revealed his murderous intentions.
“Come out, you are clumsy in tailing.”
He was able to detect the location of the follower even though it was early in the morning and the visibility was not secured, and even though it was a distance that ordinary people would not be able to detect at all.
A man walks out from behind a rock.
It was Damien.
He slowly approached the dead tree. Nielen asked Damian high-handedly.
“Hmm, Eternia’s new rat. Tell me Have you been ordered to dig up information about the principality?”
Damian answered calmly and politely.
“I understand that the principle is to move in a group of two when traveling for business at night.”
Nielen shot sharply.
“It doesn’t look like you’re moving as a team with this lady-in-waiting.”
“It’s not like that, but I couldn’t stand to watch a young girl leave the camp alone at night without permission. It’s my ignorance. If I had known it was for a private tryst with the commander-in-chief, I would not have come.”
He dutifully shoved his opponent into the mire and tried to get himself out.
Nielen laughed at the cunning eloquence.
“I don’t care what you say. However, if you divulge what you overheard today, you will pay a heavy price.”
“I will keep this in mind. I apologize for interrupting the tryst with needless distractions.”
Nielen’s life has been reaped. He put the knife in
“You seem to be overflowing with camaraderie, but from what I hear, you dared to ask to be the princess’s direct escort?”
“The pact with the princess was just like that.”
Ni Ellen gestured to her maid who was standing beside her. Then she nodded her head alternately at Ni Ellen and Damian and disappeared towards the camp.
Nielen said in an admonishing tone.
“Don’t be mistaken as if you’ve achieved anything just because you made the dough for one low-level soldier. Beside the princess is a place that even knights who have devoted themselves to the principality for a long time would not dare to be allowed.”
Not being part of the escort means that he is also in the target of protection. It wasn’t a big deal if it just passed by quietly.
Damian deliberately got on his nerves as if provoking him.
“…Then can I prove my worth by fighting you myself?”
Perhaps, he didn’t know that he was trying to force himself because he was carrying Silverin’s name on his back. If that’s the case, he couldn’t even appoint him. First, it was because Bibi would not allow it, and secondly, it was because he always went wrong if his heart was ahead of him.
Nielen didn’t react much to her provocation.
“The escorts still have a long way to go. I don’t want to be distracted by useless work.”
Nielen turned around and walked off into the darkness.
Damian quietly nodded his head. Then he respectfully bowed her head toward Nielen, who was moving away, and said something incomprehensible.
“I hope so too.”
***
The night before passed without incident, and I greeted the morning in the tent.
I opened my eyes and reviewed the situation for a while. Nielen and the maid, these two were having a secret conversation about her princess.
It’s suspicious, but I wasn’t sure if it was really related to treason or betrayal. If he had plotted treason, he would have killed me who was overhearing and disguised himself as an accidental death. But it didn’t.
It was far from conclusive evidence, but I couldn’t be relieved. No matter what I do, one day I will run at it with my eyes wide open to kill me and her princess.
Then Misha, one of the ladies-in-waiting with whom I became close, snuggled up my tent and pushed her face.
“Are you awake?”
I pulled off the blanket and stood up.
“Yes, what are you doing?”
“Oh, no. No.”
“… ?”
As she was about to leave, she said with a disgusted face.
“Well, nothing else, hey, uh…Have you ever seen Polly?”
Polly was one of the five maids who rode the wagon with me, and she was the same girl who had been summoned by Nielen the night before.
“I saw it.”
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“Uh, do you know where it went? It’s breakfast time, but I can’t see it.”
“I saw him going somewhere in the middle of the morning. It was moving secretly.”
“Ah! That’s enough.”
I didn’t give any explanation, but Misha immediately convinced me that it was a normal thing for her.
“Does this happen often?”
“Ah! Sure. Polly has to attend her princess’s bath every night from time to time. I work late at night, so let me rest the next morning.”
“… A bath attendant?”
I have a feeling that something is wrong. Is it necessary to perform bathing services so secretly?
“Yes, but, but no one has ever attended the princess’s bath except for Polly.”
“… Any special reason?”
Misha makes a slightly troubled expression. Then she peered out of the tent as if she were looking out, then came up to me and whispered in my ear.
“I don’t know, but the princess’s illness… There is a saying that it is because Everyone assumes that, but I can’t just say it out of my mouth.”
I had heard rumors that the princess was suffering from a genetic disease. On the surface, she didn’t seem too sick, so it didn’t bother her too much. What kind of disease is she suffering from?
In the current situation, no answer came out even after gathering information. What leads me to that dream scene? What the hell is going to happen
At that moment, someone shouted loudly from somewhere beyond the tent.
“Emergency! Gather everyone!”
Booooong-
Shortly, horses hooves clatter and a majestic horn resounds.
“Everyone wake up!”
Soon after, the whole place is immersed in the sound of busy footsteps.
Soldiers who had received an emergency mustering order from early morning packed their weapons and jumped out of the tent.
Mischa, the handmaid, widens her eyes, and she is at a loss.
“Uh, uh! Well, Damien-sama….”
“You won’t have to go out.”
I also grabbed my weapon and hurried out.
From the center of the camp, a rider with a horn issued an urgent order.
“It is an emergency. Get everyone ready for battle and march southwest of town. Right now!”
The soldiers lined up in perfect order and rushed out to where they were ordered. At camp number 2 on the other side of the village, wizards are also moving busily, flapping their robes.
I hurried after them.
Kang! Kang!
In an empty lot beyond the fence, the sword light reflected in the early morning gleamed continuously.
And a roar that made my eardrums ache resonated like thunder. The moving soldiers were so surprised that they shrank their bodies for a moment.
“Here! There’s a demon over there! Hurry up and support them!”
There, four knights were fighting a fierce battle against a two-headed lion.
That lion-like beast was twice as big as a brown bear. The knights who dealt with the Witchbeast in the past were struggling seriously.
A couple of them had already suffered excessive bleeding in their abdomen.
It seemed that the demon beast was crawling down to the village and was discovered by the scouting party and a battle broke out.
The troops who came out to support hurriedly ran and joined the battle. The battle lines are ready in the blink of an eye, as if they have already undergone several mock trainings.
The knights stand at the fore. As the Demon Beast growled and swung his front paws, he swung his sword in unison to keep him in check. In the meantime, the wizards in the back row hurriedly memorized spells. The connection between offense and defense was as smooth as water.
Soon after, magic fireballs appeared in the air and immediately rushed at the demons.
Boom!
Avoiding the explosion, he quickly drew his body back, his mane flying. The situation immediately turned into a state of confrontation.
In an instant, dozens of reinforcements rushed in to surround the demon beast, and it immediately turned around and ran away into the woods.
The female knight who was fighting in the front shouted.
“Stop the chase!”
The knights who were about to advance to the forest stopped hesitantly.
It was a good decision. There is a principle that is always emphasized in magic mathematics classes. The forest is an extremely advantageous battlefield for Mursu. Jumping in because of numerical superiority is tantamount to getting inside the guy’s snout.
First of all, it was clear that they would start subjugation after culling out the injured and completing all preparations.
And this was an important opportunity for me.
***
“It seems that the rovilion has finished hibernation and has come down to the village to replenish its nutrients.”
Hearing Gerald’s words, Bibi quietly nodded his head.
The village chief was trembling as he prostrated himself in front of the princess. He feared that he would be held accountable for failing to say something in advance regarding the appearance of the Witchbeast.
But Bibi didn’t seem to be very interested in arguing right or wrong.
“Is this town often attacked by monsters?”
The village chief replied.
“That’s not true. However, he used to chase us once or twice a year, preying on livestock and babies. Certainly, the guy who was no more than the size of a wild dog last year has grown so huge that he can’t come….”
“Unlike humans, some monsters complete their growth in one to two years. That’s why it’s important to subdue them in advance.”
With no young men left in the village, subjugation would have been unthinkable.
From the point of view of the escorts, they could never be ignored. If left alone, not only would all the villagers become prey to the Witchbeast, but the escort could follow them later.
Bibi didn’t think about it for long.
She gestured to the village chief to leave. As the village chief bowed and left, she said to Gerald.
“I tell you that only the minimum number of troops remain to protect the village, and the rest to form a subjugation party and advance to the base of the demons.”
“I will issue orders immediately.”
“Oh, and….”
As if there were more left, Bibi opened her mouth and paused for a moment.
Gerald looked back with a foreboding feeling.
“Do you have anything else to tell me?”
Bibi hesitated for a moment before speaking.
“What was the reaction of Silverin’s apprentice?”
“Do you want to know the reaction to the monster that appeared this time?”
Bibi seemed unwilling to give the impression that she was giving Damian her attention.
“That’s right. She said, um, she heard that when she was attending Eternia class, she saw Kira Claw and she got scared and threw her weapon away and fell.”
Rubi remembered the situation when Gerald was observing the classes of the Eternia Combat Team. However, since she had heard only her report, it seemed that she accepted her situation with some distortion. She was, of course, at the time she was outwardly frightened and backed away, but she sensed that was not all there was to a quick-witted person.
“According to reports, when a knight of the duchy engaged in a bloody battle with the Demon Beast, he did not jump into the fight and only watched from a distance.”
Then Bibi covered her mouth with a fan and burst into laughter.
“It seems that after attacking easy opponents without hesitation, they suddenly become sensible in front of the Demon Beast.”
“… “
“At this point, it would be nice to have Damian attend the punitive force.”
“…It’s a dangerous position, but is it okay?”
“If you have the right brain, you won’t go out alone to face the Witchbeast. Take me And clearly show the gap with the elite knights of the principality.”