Chapter 149 – Adria Battle (Finish)
Adria Battle (Finishing)
Yuno, who escaped safely to the base thanks to Jennifer’s space movement magic, quickly ran to Yuria’s tent with the out-of-breath children.
“Mom!!”
“Yuno! You’re safe! I’m so glad!! Mom was worried about you… Huh? But… What about these kids?”
Yuria, who had been praying for Yuno’s safety despite being unable to sleep even though it was early morning, quickly got out of bed when she heard her son’s voice, and opened her eyes in surprise when she saw the children Yuno was holding.
Following Yuno, Catherine, Jennifer, Isabella, Marie, Kurimu, and Miruku came in with their children.
The spirit beings, Mari, Kurimu, and Miruku, were holding on to the children’s dying lives by healing them with spirits, but their condition was so serious that they were slowly losing their breath, so Yuria urgently got up and began to check their condition.
“We must act quickly, starting with the most dangerous child! Isabella! Put him down here on the bed. Quickly!”
Yuria, who began healing Isabella from the child she brought with her, radiated beautiful light from her hands. Then, her child’s complexion slowly recovered as she received her light, and her crackling breathing gradually calmed down. Yuria, seeing this, stopped healing her and called her child.
Yuria was healing her step by step and reviving her urgent children, but Yuno’s heart was becoming more and more urgent. This was because the complexion of the child she was carrying was getting worse.
‘Of course… I know that the mother is treating the urgent child first, but… This child is also urgent…’
She was the child who first spoke to her and informed her that they were dying, and as she was the first child she saw, Yuno’s heart burned as her attachment grew.
At that time, the door to Yuria’s tent suddenly opened and one of her little children came inside.
“Centoria!! Are you here?”
“You can’t go in here!! Let’s go out with the guys!! You’ll be a distraction if you stay here, right?”
“I don’t want to!! My sister is over there!!! Let her go!! Let her go!!”
Her soldiers followed and tried to send the child out, but Yuno stopped her soldiers and let her child in.
This was because the child who recklessly entered the tent was Sentress, whom Yuno had told to escape first and lead the children as captain.
When Yuno allowed Sentress to enter, the soldiers meekly retreated, and Sentress ran to Yuno, grabbed the girl he was holding, and cried.
“Brother!! What happened to our Centoria? Why is my little brother covered in blood like this? HeheCentoria!! Come to your senses!!”
“Centrice? Is this your sister? Ugh!! Heinrich!!”
Seeing Sentoria like that, Yuno gritted her teeth and told him that Heinrich had tried to torture and kill Centuria, and that he had accidentally found Centuria and her children dying.
At that fact, Sentress was furious, gritting her teeth, and Yuno was also furious once again, but when Yuria, who had already finished healing the other children, called, they calmed down their anger and ran to Yuria, thinking that they should save their lives first.
Yuria also seemed to be having a hard time with her continued healing, but she was not one to give up on dying children just because she was having a hard time, so she began healing Centoria, squeezing out the last of her strength.
A bright light emitted, and Centoria’s complexion became increasingly relaxed. Her pale complexion, which had been pale due to massive blood loss, gradually turned a peach color as her blood was rapidly regenerating, and her once white fingernails also began to turn pink.
“Phew… It’s over. Everyone’s lives will have been saved. However, because the bleeding was so severe, there might have been damaged organs… Even with my healing, I can’t bring them back.”
“It’s okay!! Thank you for saving my little brother’s life!! Thank you!! Thanks to you, my little brother survived!!”
Without knowing who Yuria was, Sentress kneeled down in front of her and expressed her gratitude. Seeing Yuria smile kindly, she held his hand and helped him up.
“But how can you call my son brother? What happened?”
When Yuria called Yuno, the prince, her son, Sentress’s face became pale as if she realized that Yuria was the empress, but Yuno smiled and said that it was a child she had met while rescuing, and that she liked her spirited appearance and that he was her son. He told me that he told me to call him brother.
“Hehe, so there was such a connection? Anyway, I will be taking care of the children, so you can go out now. Mari, Kurimu, and Miruku will stay and help me.”
Yuria gave orders to her guests, excluding only the spiritists who would help her heal.
Still, Yuno felt fortunate that her children were alive, and after taking her Sentress to where her comrades were, Yuno returned to the command barracks.
“Lord Leverkin. Are food distributions going well for the rescued children?”
“Yes, Your Majesty. I fed everyone to their hearts’ content. Heinrich ate it hungrily because he didn’t even provide food. However, I gave him oatmeal that doesn’t weigh on his stomach, so he won’t get sick.”
“Okay. But Ah-jin didn’t return… Will it be okay?”
“If it’s Ah-jin, there won’t be a problem. He probably dealt with the soldiers appropriately and then hid in an alley in the capital. If Ah-jin decides to hide his presence, I can’t guarantee that I’ll find him.”
“Okay. If you do that, there won’t be a problem. Yuno. Let’s go!!’
“Yes brother!!”
Yuno went to the front of the camp with Prinz and shouted loudly as he looked at the soldiers.
“Now! It’s time to finally take back Adria!! It’s time to put the empire right by toppling the crazy man who enjoys torturing and killing young children and conscripting their parents to use them as meat shields!! Raise a flag to announce the advance. Move up, soldiers!! March to Adria!!”
After hearing about the events of the previous night while eating breakfast, the soldiers responded to Yuno’s speech and raised their spears high.
And the children that Juno had rescued last night gathered courage and held the hands of the soldiers at the front to free their parents, and they slowly began to advance, united in their desire to defeat Heinrich.
As the sound of Juno’s army’s advancing footsteps shook the ground, Heinrich’s side also reacted strongly.
“The rebels are advancing!! Raise your shields and spears!!”
The commanders waved their whips and gave orders, but the citizen soldiers who had been forcibly brought in and became soldiers because of the children were showing no motivation and were hostile.
“Get into formation!! Will you come to your senses if you see your children dying again?”
However, when they heard threats against children, they had to grit their teeth and take up arms.
“Ha~ How long do I have to do this… I miss my son…”
Hehemy daughter’s health is not good, but is she eating properly?”
“How will you feed the children when we, who have to fight, don’t feed them properly? They deserve to be punished!!”
The citizen soldiers were forced to raise their weapons and let out voices full of dissatisfaction. The expressions of the parents who had not seen their children for several days were a mess, but after a while, when Yuno-kun approached them, their expressions changed to incomprehensible expressions.
“Mom!! Dad!! We escaped!!”
“You don’t have to force yourself to fight. Dad~~!!”
The number of children screaming at them was enormous, and wizards such as Isabella enlarged the faces of the children they rescued using image magic and made them float in the air.
Then, the expressions of the citizen soldiers began to brighten.
“Uh… Huh? How is my son over there?”
“My daughter is alive and safe over there!! Ah! Thank you, God!!”
Yuno shouted at the citizen soldiers.
“Citizens of Adriatic!! There is no need to fight for Heinrich anymore!! That vicious Heinrich used children as hostages for his power and used you as meat shields!! So last night! Your children. I have rescued you!!”
“Dad~ Mom~ His Highness the Third Prince rescued us~”
“Let’s go defeat the bad emperor together!!”
Although the children screamed as the soldiers told them when feeding them, there was nothing false about them, so the children also screamed loudly with the thought of saving their parents, and the sounds shook the hearts of the citizen soldiers.
“His Majesty the Third Prince risked his life to save our children…”
“The emperor is capturing children and holding them hostage… But His Majesty the Third Prince personally comes forward to rescue them… Damn who is the emperor!!”
The final blow was dealt to the citizen soldiers who were in tears when they saw the children. Jennifer had saved the terrible scene in Heinrich’s secret room last night with an image save spell and had sent it up into the sky.
“Also, as a member of the royal family, I would like to apologize! As you can see, Heinrich tortured and killed the children in the secret room of the second villa for his own enjoyment!! Because of Juno’s unscrupulousness! He was not able to save all of those children and some of them were killed. I could only save the children!! After this situation is resolved, I will kneel and apologize to the children who were killed!!”
The gruesome sight in the secret room of the second villa completely rolled the eyes of the citizens and soldiers. Several parents of the murdered children were seen fainting, and the parents of the children Yuno saved were also shedding tears as they thought about the pain their children had suffered.
“Have you seen this crazy emperor!! Emperor Heinrich must be killed!!”
“This is not the time!! We should kill the emperor ourselves and make His Highness the Third Prince the emperor!!”
“That’s right!! Let’s advance to the imperial palace!!!”
“Wow!!!”
The tip of the militia’s spear instantly turned in the opposite direction. The commanders with whips and swords were embarrassed and shouted to not be deceived by the rebels’ false propaganda, but such cries did not work for the citizen soldiers who saw the children with their own eyes, and the commanders were instantly killed by the citizen soldiers’ spears and knives.
“Let’s advance to the imperial palace!! Kill that bastard Heinrich!!”
“Open the castle gate!! Do you know that we can’t go beyond the castle wall and do this? If you don’t want to die like the emperor, open it right away!!!”
The defenders, whose countenances turned pale at the citizen army’s sad roar, quickly opened the gates. They also felt that the tide of war had completely turned and that Emperor Henry’s fate had ended.
The gates were opened, and 50,000 citizens flocked to the imperial palace through the Adriatic city.
The imperial palace guards, who were looking at the citizen army, did not intend to defend but instead smiled as if they were welcoming this situation.
“It looks like His Highness the Third Prince did a good job persuading the citizens. Good!! Are you ready?”
“Yes! Captain!! We are fully prepared!!”
“Good!! Change the flag and open the door!!”
Following the command of the garrison commander, the imperial palace guards lowered the emperor’s flag and raised Yuno’s flag brought from the three-star palaces. And at the same time, the main gate of the imperial palace began to slowly open.
“Huh? What is it? The imperial palace guard is opening the palace gate?”
“I guess they don’t want to die either.”
As the citizen army attempted to enter the main gate of the imperial palace, the garrison commander spoke to them.
“We also saw the horrors of the 2nd Palace last night!! Let’s drive out Heinrich together!!”
“You detained our children too!! You bastards!!”
“I… I’m sorry about that! But it was the emperor’s order, so I couldn’t help it at the time! But now we have decided to no longer recognize Henry as emperor!”
“… Are you saying that the disaster at the 2nd Palace had nothing to do with you?”
“That’s right!! We really didn’t know either!! The garrison that guarded the 2nd Villa died at the hands of His Highness the Third Prince!”
“Okay! I’ll believe you! Instead, we have to do a good job preventing Heinrich from escaping!!”
When the citizen army listened to their excuses and was satisfied, the garrison joined the citizen army and advanced to the imperial palace.
Since the imperial palace was already empty, it was quickly occupied, and some citizen soldiers invaded the mansions of the nobles who had been loyal to Heinrich and sucked the blood of the people and began to massacre them.
Meanwhile, Henry, who was drinking with his mistresses at the main palace, frowned when the chancellor, the Marquis Dietrich, hurriedly entered.
“What’s going on, Prime Minister? Are you saying the 8th and 9th Corps are late again? Tell them that if they’re any longer late, I’ll cut off the head of the Corps Commander!!”
“That’s not true!! You must avoid it right away!! The citizen army has betrayed!! They are currently advancing towards the imperial palace and are pushing towards the main castle!!”
“What? What are the imperial palace guards doing!! Order them to repel them immediately!!”
Dietrich beat his chest as he watched Heinrich give orders drunkenly without understanding the situation.
“The imperial palace guard has betrayed and joined the enemy!! Now we have no troops left!! Please quickly escape to the secret passage!!”
Heinrich felt sobered when he heard that even the imperial palace guards had turned their backs on him.
“Damn it!! I have no choice!! First, take my mistress and treasures…”
Even in this situation, Dietrich, seeing that Heinrich was trying to take care of his mistress and his belongings, began to forcibly drag him away.
“Ruthless! Prime Minister!! You touched the Emperor’s Jade Body!!”
“Your Majesty!! Now is not the time for this!! Our enemies will become our true nature right now…”
Kwaang!!
As the sound of the castle door breaking was heard, Dietrich’s complexion became even paler.
“The enemy will soon storm into the royal palace!! Quickly, through the secret passage…!!”
Only then did Heinrich grasp the situation, throw away everything and head toward the secret passage.
However, due to Speyer’s tip, Yuno had already identified all the secret passages in the main palace, and Jennifer and Isabella had destroyed all the passages under Yuno’s instructions.
“Oh… Oh!! What should I do now, Prime Minister… Prime Minister?”
When Dietrich saw that even the secret passage was completely blocked, he began to think deeply.
‘Now that it’s like this…’
“Prime Minister?”
Cheaeng!!!
Dietrich suddenly pulled a sword from his waist and attacked Heinrich.
“What are you doing, Prime Minister!! How dare you attack the Emperor!!”
“What can the emperor do in this situation? Even the country must survive!! If you sacrifice your head, your life will be spared, right?”
Seeing Dietrich betraying him, Heinrich gritted his teeth at the prospect of betraying even his best confidant.
“This… This… Traitor!!”
However, neither Dietrich nor Heinrich were that well versed in martial arts, so they could not kill each other.
In the end, even though the citizen army arrived at the royal palace, they swore at each other and behaved indecently until the end, and both were taken away to the square in front of the imperial palace.
In the square, Prinz, his staff, Yuno and his women were already seated, and Ajin, who had come alive from the alley, was glaring at them with all his might. The citizen army was at first taken aback by the appearance of the troll, but when they saw Ajin showing utmost respect to Yuno, they cheered and mocked Heinrich, who was dragged out, saying that the troll was also loyal to the third prince.
“Tsk tsk, even trolls are loyal to His Majesty the Third Prince…”
“You’re stabbing the prime minister you appointed… That’s the emperor too…”
Heinrich let out an angry look as he looked at those citizens.
“If you hadn’t betrayed me, this wouldn’t have happened!! You traitors!! You all will pay for betraying this emperor!!”
However, Heinrich’s anger only aroused ridicule rather than fear, so he ended up kneeling in front of Juno and Prinz.
*Illustration of Yuno’s entry into Adriatic
