Participants Of The Battle
Runwalker March Fortress
Larshil Fortress
I wonder if I’m dreaming or something.
Up until just now, I was fighting a dashing spear-holding middle-aged man. The man was bewildered by the fact that he heard an explosion in the direction of the town and the fact that my movements are very gradually improving.
I had taken advantage of that opening, and very gradually pushing the man back, but my body had also quite reached its limit. As for the reason, it’s probably because my status went up compared to before I fight this person. Whenever I increase my speed, my body is very gradually becoming incapable of keeping up.
That’s why, I tried to bring down this man while my body still moves, but at that time
“Mow down, Empress Boreas”
I heard a voice say. It was a very beautiful voice. A voice that can be heard clearly, even in this battlefield where the sounds of swordfights and magic explosion resound. However, that voice packed a ridiculous sense of intimidation. And then
“Everybody, get downnnnn!”
the man before my eyes turns pale and shouts. Looking at the sight of the man, who was that strong, shout without any concern for his image, the people around ridicule him, but my instincts are saying that I ought to obey.
I too got down shortly after seeing the man get his body down onto the ground, and at that moment
Doun!
a whirling lump of wind fell over from the sky. That lump dropped on top of us, the Regalia army, and exploded the instant it dropped. We were blown away all at once because of the whirling wind’s explosion. That gust of wind was ridiculously powerful; it’s to the extent that the adults are flying off easily.
I got down onto the ground, stabbed my sword into the ground, and somehow withstood it, but had I not done do this, I’d probably be in the skies as well. After that, three more blasts of the same thing was also released. With just this, the Regalia army that had broken into the fortress was no longer functional.
And then the one who descended onto the fortress was
“Oh my, did I overdo it?”
a peerlessly beautiful woman who chuckles. She probably looked like a Goddess or an Angel to her allies. However, from how I see it, all she looked like was a Grim Reaper.
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“Hea, Headmaster. It, it has been a while”
I say to the Headmaster, who’s smiling before my eyes. Sca, scaryy. I wonder what the person, who rightfully shouldn’t be here, is doing here. I thought that, but the thought, ‘if it’s this person, she can probably do whatever she wants’, ends up coming to mind.
“Aah, it’s been a while huh, Sieg. I came to help since it looks like you’re being pushed back. Look, up top as well”
“Eh?”
I could see the silhouette of a person descend onto the fortress the moment I looked up into the sky. I couldn’t see the person because they coincidentally overlapped with the sun, but
“Are you alright, Otou-sama!”
I knew who it was with just this voice. This child should rightfully be in the Royal Capital as well though.
“Aah, I’m alright, Aerith”
I say to my daughter, Aerith, who extended her hand to me, and stand even as I’m being pulled. There’s a youngster whom I don’t recognise behind her. He’s wearing a Restriction Collar or Slave Collar-like item on his neck. Who’s that?
“Nice to meet you, Margrave Runwalker. My name is Tigris・Lambert. I came to return the favour to the saviour of my mother’s life, Leivelt”
If we’re talking about Tigris・Lambert, isn’t that the eldest son of Duke Lambert. Why is such a youngster here. Furthermore, he said to return the favour to Lei, what did that fellow do.
Alexia-sama, Ferris-sama, and a mask-wearing young girl are there at Marco’s side. Which means
“Aah, thanks for coming. It’s a great help. However, Aerith and the others are around, that means, Lei came as well?”
“Of course. It’s just that, on the way here, when we went to the mansion, the mansion was being attacked by somebody, so Lei went over there”
……as I thought, the explosion just now was at the mansion huh. I suppose, they probably used magic to break the magic barrier that’s been put up at the mansion.
However, there’s nothing to for me to worry about if Lei went there. He probably sent the Headmaster and the others over here because he thought that he’ll be fine by himself over there.
“Leaving that aside, let’s quickly end today’s battle”
Over there, the Headmaster says that. And then she went down from the fortress. She uses a violent gust of wind around her body and flies in the sky. And then she releases numerous lumps of wind just now.
The Regalia army too puts up a magic barrier and somehow blocks it, but a single blast blows away nearly ten people worth of magic barrier. If it comes down to multiple blasts of that, the Regalia Army won’t be able to block all of them entirely. ……humans, they fly that easily huh.
“Well then, us too,『The Strongest Sword That Slices Everything Apart』, 『The Magic Shield That Repels Everything』”
I wonder if Tigris-dono used some kind of magic. His sword and shield, both start to shine. He then heads towards the remaining Regalia army that’s on the fortress.
The Regalia soldiers, they try to block him with their swords and spears, but Tigris’ sword, it slices them easily, as though they weren’t there to begin with
The Regalia soldiers too, they weren’t just getting done in one-sidedly, they slash at Tigris, but they were repelled from just making contact when Tigris’s shield blocked them. And then Tigris slashes at the soldiers at that opening. I wonder if it’s some kind of ability.
“Alright, I’ll also do my best for the sake of protecting my hometown. Go berserk! Oodachi of Serpent Flame!”
Aerith, who was beside me, says something like that. And then, when she activates her magic, Kagerou, which I gave her as a gift, changed its shape and transformed into a large sword which probably has a length of two meters.
“Haah!”
Aerith swings the sword, that easily surpasses her height, with ease. Despite being surprised by that, the Regalia soldiers try to deal with it, but they end up being sliced before they got close to Aerith’s long sword. It’s a length that not even a spear will reach.
Even when they try to cast magic, she closed in and sliced them before they cast it. The Regalia soldiers are in a sitting duck state. On top of that
“Seyaa!”
Aerith’s sword split up and extended like a whip. It looks like it’s extending through Magic Power; it extended quite a distance and skewered the Regalia soldiers altogether.
……good grief. It’s also the same for Marco, but Aerith had also gotten stronger before I knew it. I’m surprised by how fast children grow up. Lei has probably gotten quite strong as well huh.
“Re, retreatt! Retreat〜!!”
The Regalia Army were proceeding advantageously until just now, but because of the Headmaster’s participation in the fight, their frontlines collapsed, and they were forced to retreat. The person who caused that
“What, how boringg. If it’s like this, there’s more fun in teaching Lei”
, got angry. ……Lei, you sure did well putting up with her. I’m the one who requested the Headmaster, but I’m sorry.
