Chapter 15 – Things You Shouldn’t Forget
After properly handling a mutant ogre suffering from food poisoning.
—Kurrureuk, Kurrureuk!
“Everyone, calmly surround him and keep him in check! The main officer will cut off his head!”
“Even if you cut off your arm, it will sprout in an instant. Isn’t that the same thing if you blow off the head?”
“No! According to the Grand Monster Tactics Collection, trolls are…”
— Kwajik!
“Uh…?”
Roughly similar to the feeling of going around the training ground, I ran along the castle as if I was circling Viscount Bartok’s territory, clearing out the big monsters.
“You’ve had a lot of trouble. The northern front looks tough. Go and help.”
“Yes! Captain!”
It’s a little clumsy, but as I encouraged my subordinates to do their best to fight, the flow of battle was slowly coming this way.
“The enemy’s forces are by no means infinite! Look! Hasn’t the offensive subsided significantly? From now on, the goal is to switch from maintaining the front line to annihilating! Drive the monsters out of no man’s land!”
“Wow!!!”
The result of repeating the same process as before a few times after giving orders loudly to the subordinates, thinking that it would be okay at this point.
“This is the commander’s order. 3rd Centurion, all charge!”
“It’s okay even if ten ogres come rushing in! Go forward and fight! We have a leader!”
The waves of monsters that had been flocking like mad were completely subsiding.
As expected, it seems that the effect was great that he was busy running around and dealing with monsters that were big enough to tie up several knights.
—Kek, kek!
—Kee-ying, ki-ying…
After deliberately walking around smelling like blood, monsters scream and run away whenever I get near them.
In fact, it should have been like that from the beginning.
The appearance of the monsters earlier, when they ignored their strong survival instincts and went wild as if they had all gone crazy, was clearly abnormal.
In the first place, isn’t it already a long way from the fact that different types of monsters work together like an army to completely overthrow a territory?
Having such a question, I continued to wander the battlefield.
A scene lined with large and small pieces of ice and frozen corpses of monsters appeared before my eyes.
“It’s very cool here.”
Could it be the vice-captain’s work?
As expected, it was the owner of the image of the manifestation system optimized for such a large-scale battle.
Regardless of the skill level of the image, to enemies below the level, it is literally a death god.
“What…?”
However, I started to feel a very unpleasant aura nearby.
Its viscous momentum seemed to embody the aggregate of negative emotions such as madness, malice, and desire.
When I hurriedly ran towards the place where that disgusting, dark spirit lingered especially strongly, I found the vice-captain being harassed by trash with a somewhat familiar face.
With even the sword broken in two, it was a dangerous situation that seemed to be overpowered at any moment.
“Don’t be shy, stay calm…”
— Kwajak!
Without a chance to cover this and that, he immediately blew off the creature’s head, just like he did to the deformed ogre.
“Trash… Who dares lay its filthy grip on anyone.”
Seeing what he had done, I wondered if it would have been better to subdue him and dig up information only after it was too late.
I deserved to die because I dared to touch my precious subordinate.
It took a little bit of his status, but he wasn’t afraid to take care of it.
Rather, wouldn’t the Medici family thank me for taking care of the filth of the family instead?
That was when I was thinking about it.
— Brilliant!
It must have been that I exerted too much force through punching, and my armor, which had been through a long and intense battle, cracked and ran out of life.
It was something that I had worn for a long time, but it was consumable anyway.
I took off the armor that no longer had any meaning and threw it to the ground.
And let’s go to her to help her downed sub-captain.
“Vice-captain! Are you okay? Oops, you’re completely exhausted.”
“Everything, Captain! Back!”
—Procrastinate, procrastinate…
Whatever he had done, he was about to get up from his seat, engulfed in a dark aura, even though his head had literally exploded.
Then it was enough to crush him until he could no longer rise.
“Gah, gahhh…!”
— Kwajik!
“It’s okay. You can rest assured now. It’s really amazing to be able to take care of so many monsters by yourself. Vice-captain.”
“Ah…”
I raised the vice-captain’s body, supported him with one arm as if hugging him, and then immersed himself in the garbage disposal process.
I wondered if I should at least cover my eyes from the sight that might be a little gruesome.
The vice-captain was a knight before being a woman.
If it was the princess, she wouldn’t know, but it seemed like she wouldn’t have to be so extravagant.
— Ppajik, wadeuk!
After using the ground as a chopping board and beckoning to knead his bones and flesh a few times, he became more like a lump of meat thinly flattened with a hammer than a human being.
“Ooh, oooooh…”
However, seeing that it continues to regenerate thanks to the dark energy even after reaching that point, it seems that it has already degenerated into something other than human.
However, it didn’t matter. Not only is he not strong enough to overcome my image in the first place.
Master said that enemies with abnormally strong regenerative powers could just compress their bodies and shuffle them around.
If you do that, your regenerative power will become poison and soon you will die of exhaustion.
— Kwak!
As I clenched my fists and expressed my will to press down from all sides, before long, his limbs bent arbitrarily and burrowed into my body.
— Deed deed… !
Then, the black momentum coming out of something similar to a bead he was holding grew stronger, and his hands trembled little by little due to the strong sense of resistance.
“Keah…! You bastard…! How the hell did you get this kind of power… This, this goes against common sense…!”
“Does a person who has already betrayed humans now discuss human common sense? Seeing that he can talk even after being like that, there is no need to ask more questions. I have to call the Heretic Questioner.”
Give me a little more strength, cover the dark momentum with my momentum, and roll his body into a ball like an empty worm.
— Brilliant!
With a cracking sound, the marble he was holding cracked, and the black aura no longer occurred.
At the same time, the sense of resistance in his grip disappeared in an instant, and his body exploded as it was.
I immediately turned her around and embraced her vice-captain, trying to keep her from being hit by her fragments as best she could.
“Ugh…!”
“Oh, I’m sorry. Are you okay?”
However, I couldn’t help but get a little bit of it, so I took off her gloves and carefully brushed the dirt off her cheeks and hair.
“Ah, ha ha…”
However, the vice-captain’s face suddenly turned bright red, and the strength of his body, which he had been struggling to control, was completely released.
That was a bad sign. The condition was more serious than expected.
“Oops! Did the mana runaway happen? Excuse me for a moment.”
“Haha…”
—Wow!
I ripped off the vice-captain’s breastplate and immediately tore the under armor inside.
Then, her pure white skin and a long bandage wrapped around her bulging chest were revealed.
For a moment, I wondered if I should even tear it off, but it didn’t seem like that at all.
It will be fine if you put it on your stomach instead of your heart. Is it something I should be a little more careful about?
“Vice-captain, are you still sane?
At my words, the vice-captain gave her a hard nod with her reddened face. Fortunately, he seems to still be sane.
When she placed her palm near the mana core located near the vice-captain’s lower abdomen, her body immediately shook once.
It was only natural that it was one of the deadliest vital points for a knight.
“Trust me and accept it as it is. From now on, I’ll blow it towards you.”
“Ha, ha, ha…”
Originally, it was better to do it slowly, but the vice-captain’s face was getting more and more red.
That’s why he immediately poured a lot of thick mana into her body.
“Whoops!”
“Not yet, yet. Take it slow, take it all in.”
The vice-captain’s mana core, which had been shaking irregularly, pulsated violently and accepted my powerful mana as it is.
“Haaaaa…!”
“It’s okay. Cheer up a little more. It’ll be over soon.”
I gently caressed the vice-captain’s belly to help her accept my mana.
The whole body trembled and flinched incessantly.
From now on, it was a tough time. From now on, it’s all up to her, not me.
“Kyaaaaa!”
Fortunately, the sub-captain’s petite body fully accepted my strong flow of mana.
The muscles in his lower abdomen, which had been tense, tightened once, and at the same time, the flow of breathing and mana was noticeably stabilized.
It was a success.
“Whoa…”
When the extremely dangerous and intense mana injection process was finally over, I also let out a sigh because I was exhausted.
“Now, since it’s all done, calm down. I thought what if you couldn’t accept my mana, but fortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any rejection. You and I seem to be very compatible.”
“Ah, Captain. Captain Wolfgang…”
As if it was very difficult, the vice-captain called my name and silently closed his eyes, exhaling only thin exhalations for a while.
I supported her vice-captain’s upper body and made her recline, then waited until she was able to control her body on her own.
Within a few minutes, his physical condition rapidly returned to normal, and the vice-captain regained consciousness.
When I opened my eyes and met my face, my face was dyed red again.
“Hot! Captain… Uh, uh… Joe, a very embarrassing moment…”
“It’s okay. I ran out of energy and exhausted myself, and even a runaway mana phenomenon happened. How fortunate it is to end like that. You really worked hard to deal with the tough enemy alone.”
I patted the vice-captain’s shoulder and thought.
Trash stained with black energy, Pietro was indeed an enemy that was too heavy for the vice-captain to handle alone.
He was a guy who had completely escaped from humans, had endless regenerative powers, and even radiated quite a menacing spirit, so if he was a little bit later, something big would have happened.
—The monsters run away!
—Win! Captain, where is the captain?
—Can’t you see the vice-captain? Come on, find the two of you!
Meanwhile, looking far away, the few remaining monsters were running far away.
His subordinates, excited by the sense of accomplishment of victory, were looking for us.
I had to go to my subordinates. Winning is winning, and cleaning up was indispensable.
“Vice-captain Agnes. Can you stand up?”
“Sir…! I’m sorry. Huh, my back doesn’t have any strength at all…”
However, the vice-captain was so exhausted that he couldn’t get up on his own.
On top of that, couldn’t he make him stand in front of his subordinates with a bare chest with only a bandage wrapped around his chest?
It was much better for me to expose my bare body.
After putting my under armor on the vice-captain, I turned my back. Unlike the torso, there are few scars on the back, so it should be less unpleasant.
“I can’t help it. I’ll carry it.”
“Eh heh?!”
“Are you going to make me say it twice?”
“Well, excuse me then…”
That’s how the vice-captain moved on my back.
—Malkan!
I had to suffer from a somewhat nice yet subtle feeling, like three faces being rubbed simultaneously on my back.
It was unavoidable due to the vice-captain’s body shape, but why did he keep rubbing his face?
“Sueup! Haa… De, how can my back muscles be so…”
“Please be still. Both of you are embarrassing. Wouldn’t it be better to pretend you fainted in front of your subordinates?”
“Yes…”
In the middle, I encountered unexpected variables.
In the end, the first large-scale battle he led as the leader of the Black Lion Knights ended in a relatively clean victory.
* * *
As soon as the ogre started punching his castle gate, Viscount Bartok, who was said to have passed out by grabbing the back of his neck, came to his senses as soon as the battle was over.
“Ohh, thank you! Thank you so much everyone!”
Soon after, he grasped the situation and warmly welcomed the Knights of the Black Lion to the point where it was a bit burdensome.
Viscount Bartok, which is a kind of gateway city to the islands, is very wealthy, not befitting its small size.
Hundreds of knights were also equipped with accommodations to stay.
Viscount Bartok declared that he would provide all members of the Black Lion Knights with as much rest and entertainment as they wanted.
So I decided to stay here for a few days and rest with my men.
I had to wait for a while until the Heretic Questioners and agents from the Imperial Security Department arrived anyway.
It was because even if Viscount Bartok changed his mind and charged the cost of his stay, it would have been enough to crush it as an operation cost.
Meanwhile, fortunately, no deaths occurred in the rest of the units, except for the unfortunate victims of the 2nd Centurion, which was the preceding unit.
Most of them were lightly injured and severely injured, only those who had their limbs blown off.
If he hadn’t died, the cleric would give him a miracle, so there was no problem. According to the regulations, the medical expenses of duly ordained knights could also be treated as operational expenses.
So, it meant that I could rest in peace.
“Feel so good!”
I lay down on a soft bed in a single room at a top-notch inn and enjoyed the relaxation I hadn’t seen in a long time. The subordinates must have stopped by the tavern or brothel by now to have a good time.
Rest was important, so as long as he didn’t commit a crime, he had no intention of controlling what he did. Since they were knights who were appointed in the first place, they’ll play around on their own.
It was a time when I was having so much fun rolling around.
-Hoot!
A pure white eagle owl suddenly flew in and knocked on the window of the inn room.
“Oh, damn…”
Seeing him, my heart sank.
It was only later that I realized that I had forgotten something very important.
Come to think of it, it had already been a week since she hadn’t sent her letter to the princess.
I wondered how he got here, but that wasn’t the point.
I opened the letter with trembling hands.
“Hut!”
Inside the letter, there were countless traces of bright red lips that made me afraid of why he had done this.
In addition, unlike usual, the content was just a short scrawled sentence without a period.
[Look forward to it]
