Chapter 147 – Adria Battle (8) *Jennifer Battle Outfit Illustration*
Adria Battle (8)
When Yuno was at the imperial palace, she briefly breathed a sigh of relief when she arrived safely at the 3rd villa where she resided.
‘Good. I got in safely. If I could have gotten in this easily, Catherine would have gotten in without much difficulty. Catherine is much better at infiltration than me, so you don’t have to worry about it.’
There were two guards guarding the entrance, but they were instantly knocked unconscious by Yuno’s hand blade, and Yuno entered the villa and expanded her spirit.
‘Let’s see~ It must be here… That’s right! I found it!!’
Yuno’s sense of humor quickly found the hidden children. As expected in advance, Yuno could sense the presence of about 2,000 children in Yuno’s underground training center, so Yuno suppressed his presence and went downstairs as carefully as possible.
“I’m hungry. I miss mom~”
“When are you letting us out?”
“Be quiet!! You guys! Even you guys can’t help it. I’ll let you go when the time comes.”
When I stuck my head out and took a peek inside, I saw about a dozen soldiers comforting children who had been taken hostage and about 2,000 children with their limbs tied.
‘Luckily, there don’t seem to be any children under the age of five. Well, they have to be over the age of five to listen to what they say… Still, seeing as they are comforting the children, they don’t seem to be mean-spirited, unlike Heinrich’s soldiers… Don’t kill them, just faint them moderately. I have to do it’
Yuno carefully climbed up with his hands and feet attached to the ceiling.
‘If caught, the children could become hostages. You have to fall on their heads and subdue them instantly.’
As she was going up, she made eye contact with a little girl, but when Yuno put her finger to her lips and made a gesture to be quiet, perhaps thanks to Yuno’s handsome face, the girl realized that she was the one who had come to rescue her and turned her head. He nodded and gave me an understanding look.
Thanks to the child’s cooperation, Yuno reached the center of the ceiling without being detected and fell behind the soldiers without making a single sound.
Then, without giving the soldiers a chance to scream, Yuno struck the backs of their necks one by one and knocked them unconscious, completing the suppression in an instant.
Hehe, looking at things like this, wouldn’t I be quite useful even if I were an assassin? I heard that Catherine really taught me a lot of different things.’
Several children looked at Yuno, who was inwardly praising herself, with shocked eyes and spoke to her.
“Who… Who are you?”
“Are you here to save us?”
“What happened to my mom and dad?”
“Aaaaah I miss my mom!! I want to go home~”
When some children started talking, they finally noticed Yuno’s appearance and started screaming wildly.
“Quiet! Quiet!! I am Juno, the Third Prince of the Balkan Empire. I am fighting against the evil Heinrich, who forced your mom and dad to fight and captured you like this. So, you must be quiet and help me so that you can protect your mom and dad. I can go see you. Everyone, will you be quiet?”
The children immediately became quiet when Yuno told them to cooperate if they want to see mom and dad.
Yuno smiled for a moment at the sight of the children and first released the ropes of the older-looking children, and then he tied up the unconscious soldiers with the ropes.
He then gave the soldiers’ weapons to the released children and instructed them to release other children as well. And as Yuno watched the children being released one by one, he prepared to move again and held the hand of the child who appeared to be the leader.
“You guys need to take care of your little brothers. Just release the other kids here. If you do that, I’ll be back soon.”
“Where are you going? Can’t you stay with us?”
While stroking the heads of the children who were looking anxious, Yuno informed them that there were other children in the building next door, so just wait a moment, and they would come and rescue them right away.
“I understand. I will release all my friends and younger siblings and wait quietly here. Your Royal Highness.”
“Just call me older, Yonseok. It’s hard for someone so young to pretend to be an adult.”
The children were even more reassured by Yuno’s friendly attitude toward them, and seeing them like that, Yuno quickly headed to the empress’ palace.
Yuno was able to quickly enter the Empress Palace because it was right next to it.
Just like in her own villa, many children were held captive in the empress’ palace.
Yuno, who quickly suppressed the soldiers there, quickly released the children and then joined the children of the 3 villas and headed to the backyard garden.
Normally, this was a place where the Guard Knights would have been standing guard, but fortunately, the Guard Knights had all surrendered to him, so there were only a few garrison members standing guard, and they were all suppressed by Yuno’s hand.
‘Let’s see… The secret passage I used… Yes, it’s here’
He wondered if the secret passage he was using had been closed, but fortunately, the passage still existed.
‘Well… What kind of crazy person would take a close look at the back of the women’s restroom in the imperial palace garden? I was grabbed by my mother and her maid, and dragged forcibly to the women’s restroom, and I found out that I was an unusual beggar.
It was a little embarrassing to think about those times, but Yuno opened the passage and looked inside to let the children escape anyway. When there was nothing wrong, she looked at the children and explained how to move forward.
“Guys, if you go in here and look on the other side of the castle wall, you will see a brightly lit field in the field. If you go there and say that the Third Prince sent you, your mom and dad will be released. Do you understand?”
When the children nodded that they understood, Yuno pushed the child who had led the children all the way to this point into the passage first.
“Wait, what’s your name?”
“Centrice”
“Okay, Sentress. You have to take care of the kids! You’re the leader, okay?”
“Yes, I understand. Your Royal Highness”
Kkoong~
“I told you to call me brother…”
As Yuno lightly fed her honey chestnuts, Sentress nodded her head once again, with tears in her eyes, and Yuno told her to leave and began to let the children escape behind Sentress.
“Come on, hurry up!! There’s no time!”
Time was running out because we had to escape thousands of children, but unlike ourselves, who had been very tall since childhood, the commoner children were very small, so we were able to quickly escape by pushing three or four people into the passage, and it took about 30 minutes. As Jennifer and Catherine brought in an additional 4,000 children, Yuno continued to let them escape as well.
“I could have everyone escape in about an hour… But it looks like the numbers are a bit lacking?”
“So… I guess I missed something?”
“Hmm~ I don’t really have a place to hide it… Ah!!”
It was only then that it occurred to Yuno that there was one place missing.
“Ah!! The 2nd constellation!! Why did I miss this place!! Damn it!!”
Juno, who thought that Henry, who ascended to the throne would only use the main palace, had inadvertently left out the second palace, blamed himself and tried to run to the second palace.
“No, Yuno!! There’s no time anymore!!”
“That’s right, Master!! It’s dangerous! I counted the number and there are probably less than a hundred children there. If that’s the case, Master, you’ve done enough!!”
Catherine and Jennifer tried to stop him, saying it was dangerous, but Yuno was stubborn.
“No. There’s still about an hour left until dawn. I’ll be right back in the meantime.”
“Then me too!!”
“I’ll go too, master!”
“No. If we all go together, there won’t be much difference in search time. So Jennifer and Catherine, help the children escape from here. The garrison might notice and come.”
“Do you really have to come here safely? I’ll definitely wait here for you.”
“If there are any children left, you have no choice but to come here, right? Jennifer, the master’s bitch wizard, will be waiting for you with her secret trick prepared.”
“I understand. Catherine, Jennifer. I will definitely come back within an hour, so just wait a moment!”
Yuno comforted Jennifer and Catherine, who were worried about her, by kissing them on the lips, and then quickly ran towards the second villa.
After a while, Yuno arrived at the 2nd villa and clicked his tongue at the surveillance network, which was on a different level from the 3rd villa and the empress’ palace.
‘What? What is Heinrich hiding here that’s why he’s placed so many defenders?’
The hundred or so guards the second villa were not tempted by Ah Jin and maintained a strict surveillance posture.
‘Hmm~ It may be possible to infiltrate, but if there are children, it is almost impossible to take them out. Should I give up?’
As Yuno was thinking about giving up, the image of the parents of the children who had fallen from the castle wall crying miserably came to mind, and Yuno had to grit his teeth.
‘Shit!! First, let’s find out whether there are children or not. There will be a way somehow!!’
Yuno decided to enter the 2nd villa, thinking that things were going to be difficult, and even succeeded in infiltrating carefully by following the shadow.
‘Okay… If I show off my spirit here… Huh?’
However, Yuno’s head was tilted as there was no sign of anything other than the presence of the soldiers outside.
‘This… This can’t be happening? Is there really nothing? No… If you think that way, the tight security outside doesn’t make sense… There’s definitely something here.’
In the end, Yuno decided to search through the second villa.
Fortunately, there was no security inside, perhaps because there was tight security on the outside.
‘Or maybe there’s something in the troops that serve him that he doesn’t want to be discovered… Anyway, there’s nothing in the bedroom… Shall we take a look at the office as well?’
Juno, who found no clues in Heinrich’s bedroom, went into the office next door and looked around.
‘Hmm? Why are the books still on the bookshelf? With his personality, even if he ascended to the throne, he would have taken all the books he was reading…’
Thinking that the bookshelf was suspicious, Juno began to search the bookshelf more closely, and as he did so, a financial theory book written by Heinrich caught his eye.
‘That’s the book he wrote, right? Contrary to his personality, he said that even Rachel would approve of him in terms of finance… Tsk tsk, it’s a waste of talent. It’s a waste.’
When I took out the book, thinking that if I hadn’t been so greedy, I could have been the Minister of Finance assisting Prinz, the bookshelves suddenly started to move to the side.
“Uh… Huh? What is this?”
After the bookshelf was completely pushed away, a staircase was revealed in the dark space, and Juno rushed into the darkness, convinced that this was the space where Heinrich was hiding.
*Illustration of battle attire for Jennifer, the female wizard who follows Yuno
