Translator: AkazaTL
Pr/Ed: Sol IX
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Chapter 62 : Dagger
“What happened to Bosman Alphonse?”
“He is not seen. It seems the enemies secured his person during the chaotic battle. I apologize. We should have paid a little more attention to securing the hostage’s person…….”
“No. It’s fine, so don’t mind it. Even if we kept him, what would he be other than a rice maggot anyway?”
Although Bosman was a hostage who still had plenty of utility depending on how he was used, I waved my hand with an indifferent expression.
‘Did the Commander perhaps intend to give up Bosman from the start?’
Seeing my appearance, as if I secretly wanted the enemies to retrieve Bosman, Ismael tilted his head.
“I hope that guy finds his way back ho properly.”
“Pardon? Do you have an order you wish to give, Commander?”
“It’s just talking to myself. Tell the pursuit squad. Tell them that while they should dispose of the knights in the process of pursuing, if the soldiers don’t resist, just let them run away. There’s no need to pursue too persistently either.”
Although there was a need to clean up the corrupt knights who committed evil acts while parasiting off the nobles at this opportunity, I had no intention of being harsh even to the mobilized soldiers.
Anyway, in this era, the role of common soldiers was all about attending to knights and managing occupied territories.
It was enough just to give a shock to the capital’s troops and make them disintegrate.
For the common soldiers scattered by the shock of defeat to regroup, at least 6 months or more would be needed.
Eventually, they were troops who would have to faithfully follow my orders soday.
And.
‘Anyway, everything will be over in 6 months.’
It was truly a complete victory.
Beverick’s belief that dividing troops was the privilege of the side with superior military force was not wrong.
However, Beverick lacked the ability to judge which side’s military force was superior between the friendly forces and the enemy forces.
That misjudgnt had brought about this one-sided result.
Crunch!
I put strength into my hand, turning the telescope engraved with the Alphonse emblem into powder just like that, and then said.
“Let’s return.”
***
“Haa, haa, haa-”
Beverick, who succeeded in escaping from the battlefield, only then let out a rough breath and sighed in relief.
The entourage that ca into his view as he looked around was rely 50 people.
It was a shabby procession, unbelievable for an entourage attending a Commander-in-Chief who had led a force of over fifty thousand.
“Hein…… Reichart…… Before long, I will chew on the flesh of you and your father at the sa ti!”
Beverick, who spat out a curse toward once, turned his gaze and looked ahead.
There, Bosman could be seen hanging on a horse while unconscious.
“Bosman…… Forgive this unworthy father.”
If there was sothing fortunate for Beverick, it was that he had sohow secured the person of his son, Bosman, during the chaotic battle.
Of course, his son whom he barely retrieved had one hand cut off and was covered in wounds all over, though.
“You guys take my son and escape the battlefield, hurry! Go straight to the capital.”
Beverick, who barely held back the surging anger by biting his lip, turned his back while entrusting Bosman to the knight order under his command that was attending him, and said.
“I will remain here and deal with their pursuit squad that might exist.”
“Family Head! It is too dangerous. Since we don’t know when the enemy’s pursuit force might storm in, please move together with us.”
“I’m fine, so you go first. Do you not see Bosman’s critical condition?”
Despite the dissuasion of the attending knights, Beverick didn’t seem to have the heart to change his mind.
Beverick thought he had to hold the position himself even to secure the retreat route for his son whose body wasn’t even sound.
“I will secure the retreat route for a short while together with Sir Helkane and then head to the capital again. So you hurry and take Bosman and retreat.”
Of course, Helkane’s intention wasn’t reflected in this manifestation of Beverick’s praiseworthy paternal love, but Beverick believed.
Anyway, that Helkane, the strongest combat power among the routed soldiers attending him, would remain here with him and buy ti.
“Leave this place to us and you go quickly, hurry!”
Included in this belief of Beverick was also the extrely natural fact that if a critical situation ca, he would make Helkane a shield and run away imdiately himself.
Anyway, he was the Commander of the Subjugation Force and the Family Head of the Great Alphonse Family, and Helkane was nothing more than a Vice-Commander who had to follow his orders.
Clip-clop clip-clop-
A short while later, the 40 or so people carrying Bosman left, and the 10 people including Beverick and Helkane hid themselves in the forest to prepare for the pursuit force that might co.
But about 10 minutes after they hid themselves.
Flash.
Helkane, who had been listening to Beverick’s orders without a word until now, suddenly drew his sword and started grooming the blade.
“Sir Helkane! What are you doing right now! Do you not even know the fact that if you draw your sword carelessly, we could be exposed to the reflected light?”
“Ah, I apologize. I failed to think of that fact.”
“Ay, tsk tsk. Anyway…….”
An upper-rank knight of the Alphonse family clicked his tongue pointing out Helkane’s rash behavior.
Helkane smiled brightly and turned his body toward the knight.
“Our figures must not be exposed…… Do not worry.”
Spurt.
“Gurgle…….”
Blood burst out from the mouth of the middle-aged knight who was rebuking Helkane.
Helkane’s sword, which revealed its appearance again, had pierced through the knight’s Adam’s apple in an instant.
“There won’t be any incident of us getting exposed.”
At the situation that happened in an instant, Beverick looked at Helkane with his mouth gaping wide.
“Sir Helkane, what an outrageous act!”
“You bastards are also the traitor Reichart’s…….”
A short while later, Beverick’s attending knights who ca to their senses scread out one by one with flustered voices.
“Shut your mouths.”
But their shouts were buried in an instant by Helkane’s mad voice that burst out imdiately after.
“Because of you bastards’ terrible incompetence, my precious subordinates were sacrificed today, and I had to endure unbearable humiliation.”
Of course, it is true that my level was higher than he had expected, and my Royal Guard Knights were also much stronger than thought.
However, if they had waged an efficient battle under his command, there wouldn’t have been an incident of suffering such a one-sided defeat, and there wouldn’t have been an incident of his henchn dying so futilely either.
“You will have to repent for your incompetence with your lives.”
Helkane swung his sword in all directions with bloodshot eyes.
“Gurgle!”
Blood burst out repeatedly from the mouths of the knights guarding Beverick’s side.
Although he lost overwhelmingly to , Helkane was a talent who had reached the entrance of the 6th Star at that age.
Beverick’s Royal Guard Knights, who were soaked in vanity and bluff, couldn’t be his match.
“Augh!”
While about ten knights were being sacrificed, all Beverick could do was climb onto his horse with trembling hands.
But Helkane had no intention of tolerating Beverick’s escape.
Beverick’s right foot was cut off just like that by the Blade Aura he shot out.
Thud!
Beverick, who lost his balance, rolled off the saddle he had barely climbed onto.
“Ah, augh…….”
The first thing seen in front of the eyes of Beverick, who was clutching his ankle from which blood was flowing profusely-
“…….”
Was the appearance of Helkane looking down at him with eyes filled with madness.
“Maggot-like bastard.”
Helkane, who concentrated his anger since the march started into a single phrase, swung his sword just like that.
Roll-
Beverick’s head ended up in a state of rolling on the outskirts of the Reichart territory, having lost its torso.
“Haa, haa…….”
Helkane, who succeeded in shaking off the accumulated anger at least a little bit, tied his disheveled platinum blonde hair neatly.
And he took out the pendant Rishu had given him before departure.
Inside the opened pendant, a secret letter left by Rishu was contained.
A letter she told him to open when the situation was wrapped up in any way.
‘Mother, please forgive for doubting Mother’s insight for even a mont.’
A secret order to covertly behead the leadership of the Alphonse family including Beverick, aiming for an opportunity when the Subjugation Force was defeated and the situation beca chaotic.
‘Mother already knew everything.’
Rishu was already anticipating it.
Both Beverick’s incompetence and the Subjugation Force’s defeat.
Whoosh!
After gathering the corpses he beheaded in one place, Helkane set fire to the pile of corpses.
The corpses of the maggots tangled together and blazed up fiercely.
Helkane, who succeeded in erasing his traces left on their corpses, climbed onto his horse imdiately.
“Hiyah!”
And he galloped toward Abysin where Rishu was waiting.
In the place he left, acrid smoke soared up in all directions as if mocking Beverick’s futile death.
***
Knock knock knock!
“Young Master, the Young Lady is looking for you.”
“The Young Lady?”
That night when the battle was wrapped up.
I, having taken off my armor and preparing to finish today’s schedule, shook my head slightly at the visit of an unexpected guest.
“You step back, and tell the Young Lady to wait for a mont.”
“Understood. Young Lady, I will take my leave now.”
“Yes, please do so. Thank you for caring.”
Although the door was firmly closed, I could clearly confirm that the maid who escorted the guest here had withdrawn with careful steps.
And around the ti the maid disappeared beyond the corridor.
“……Master, can I co in?”
Sherazade’s voice, which had been mimicking a plausible noblewoman until just a mont ago, had turned into an innocent voice like usual before anyone knew it.
“If it’s not an urgent matter, co next ti.”
Click.
“Why? Is the Master sick sowhere perhaps?”
“……I believe I told you to co next ti.”
Looking at Sherazade who peeked her head in with the door open despite the eviction order, I let out a short sigh.
“Where does it hurt? Can’t you tell ? I’m good at making things like dicine too.”
“I’m not sick.”
“Then why can’t I co in?”
Towards Sherazade who was requesting permission to enter while rolling her eyes left and right, which looked exceptionally large today, I said in a low voice.
“Because facing right now won’t be such a pleasant thing.”
“Master, perhaps today…….”
“Just as expected.”
I turned my back toward Sherazade while unfastening the clasps of my armor.
Was it because I saw quite a lot of blood? Although there was no incident of getting blood on myself directly, a faint scent of blood was rising from the armor even now, quite a long ti after leaving the battlefield.
“……U, uh no. Thanks for worrying, but I’m fine.”
However, unlike the expectation that she would withdraw at this point, Sherazade took a step into the room even while hesitating.
“Ah, I see. I was supposed to give this.”
“What is that?”
“The secret passage key to the food storage I was supposed to give you last ti.”
Thinking that the reason Sherazade insisted on coming into the room was because of the key she was supposed to give a few days ago, I took out a key from the drawer.
“Who said I need this?”
“……You don’t need it?”
“No, it’s not that I don’t need it. It’s not that but…….”
Sherazade shook her head a few tis and said.
“Actually, I’ve been feeling sothing strange continuously from over there since a few days ago. I wanted to tell you earlier, but Master looked busy all this ti so I couldn’t talk about it!”
“Over there?”
“Yeah. At first, I wondered if it was my delusion. But as ti passed, I felt it more and more clearly. It seems sothing strange is happening over there.”
Sherazade’s finger was pointing in the direction where the capital, Abysin, was located.
“If you were to explain concretely?”
“Um, how to say it. It’s sothing I can’t explain in words, but sothing ominous is happening in that direction. I feel gloomy energy creeping up.”
“If the direction is over there, the distance?”
“It seems to be near the place I flew carrying the Master last ti.”
The direction and distance Sherazade designated were all pointing toward the capital, Abysin.
I, having confird all her words, nodded.
“Got it. Then you may leave for today.”
“Master, you really understood what I said, right?”
“Of course. So you may leave now.”
Click.
Sherazade, who confird nodding repeatedly, left my room with a relieved expression only then.
Left alone, I finished taking off my armor and poured tea full into the teacup prepared in advance.
And leaning back in the chair, I closed my eyes while bringing the teacup to my mouth.
Clack.
When the teacup that had been full was emptied, I opened my closed eyes.
‘It seems I didn’t guess wrong.’
My eyes, which had regained peace for a mont, emitted a sharp light once again.
It seed sothing unusual was definitely happening in the capital.
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