Chapter 760 – Day 87 – The Princess Has Something She Wants to Do.
“These things are real! They won’t stay still?! They’re going to die, really!!!”
“Sister Leonie!!! Please take a look!!!”
The screaming children were running desperately to avoid Leonie, who was running towards them with all the objects in her hands.
“You strangely entrusted me with each and every item from a while ago!”
Leonie, who was cheering, was showing off her strength in a small way to commemorate the return of her right arm.
It may not have been her intention to pick on Leonie, but the items brought by her curious children had already created a tower full of them. As soon as Leonie, who had to hold it with both hands and move it, realized that she had ended up in the circus, she started to get angry.
“Sister Leonie! These are items from the warehouse, so don’t throw them!”
“I know!!!”
Leonie looked really healthy as she ran after her children.
“It’s a shameful sight.”
The old man looked at the happy sight for a while and stroked his beard with his right hand.
“It seems like a really boring sight for a girl from Holympia.”
“What could be better than everyone going about their daily lives in peace? I am so glad that Sister Leonie has regained her health.”
“Hehe, just like Sitri said, she’s really different from the arrogant ladies.”
The old man, smiling cheerfully, was drinking tea that the princess had brewed.
It was a clunky kettle and a not-so-pretty teacup, but the tea made by the princess, who had the knowledge and wisdom to brew tea, was excellent.
“I’m just happy to be able to have this conversation with this village and the village chief.”
“Did Sitri say that?”
“Yes, am I wrong?”
“What does the village chief know? What does an idiot like me know? I’m just the oldest man in this village.”
“Just as barley bows its head over time, people gain wisdom over time. You are doing your job sufficiently as a village chief.”
The village chief smiles kindly at the princess’s gentle words and drinks tea silently for a moment.
“I thought Hans did something useless at first…”
“Ah, are you talking about the person who saved me?”
The village chief nods and points to Hans, who has been fishing all morning by the river, but is being pointed at by the children because he has not caught a single fish.
“You did a great job, huh, to rescue the angel who brought life back to this dying village.”
“Are you an angel? No, chief. That’s too much of a compliment.”
“Hehe, the lady from Holympia probably doesn’t know. Well then.”
The village chief nods and caresses the worn-out teacup.
“There was a commotion like this before when Sitri came to this village.”
“Sister Sitri? Wasn’t she here from the beginning?”
“You… Yes, yes. I’m not sure since you were washed up in the river.”
The village chief smoothes his beard for a moment.
“There are too many crazy monsters outside this village.”
“When you say monsters, do you mean goblins or orcs?”
“Yes, other than that, there is also a slime that comes out of nowhere and spreads poison everywhere, so it is not a place for people to wander around.”
“Did Sister Leonie lose her right arm while dealing with such a monster?”
The village chief sips his tea with a very bitter expression.
“Leonie… I think you already know.”
“You’re the youngest daughter of the Obern family, right?”
The village chief nods his head at the princess’s answer.
“Seeing that the youngest daughter was not raised like Geumji Ok-yeop and ended up here, it can be seen that the family does not expect much from her.”
“It’s the girl from Holympia.”
“Unfortunately, in noble families, there are many cases where children are discriminated against based on usage, even though they are blatantly identical children. Sister Leonie must have wanted to prove that she was just as capable as her older sisters and brothers.”
“It’s just as you said. However, no matter how excellent a knight he is, how can he defeat all the monsters that fill the mountains and fields?”
Looking at the village chief with a resigned expression, the princess opens her mouth.
“What is the nobleman who rules this territory doing? If there are so many monsters that the roads cannot be used, there will be no problem even if we declare a sweep.”
Hehe, look at what our village looks like. The only thing we can take from this land where wheat cannot be grown properly is milk squeezed from livestock and things properly grown in the fields.”
The princess bites her lip at her village chief’s words.
“No matter what…”
“Isn’t the extermination of monsters something that happens for nothing? It’s not worth the cost of eradicating enough monsters to be able to use the road properly.”
“It’s a nonsense story! Nobles, who have been granted land by His Majesty the Emperor, have a duty to look after the people living in that land.”
The princess’s expression was serious.
“Even if it is a land where you cannot collect as many taxes as you want, this land is a land given by His Majesty the Emperor to the owner of this land. The same goes for the people of the territory. We will cherish everyone’s lives and live a peaceful life at all costs. It is the duty of a noble to do this.”
“The lady is truly a good person.”
The village chief sips the last cup of tea and makes a bitter expression.
“It would be great if all nobles… Did their duty as well as the lady from Holympia.”
“Chief…”
“Even if we try to do our duty, what can we do with just one person?”
The village chief grabs his cane as he sees Leonie playing and screaming noisily with the children.
“Still, I’m glad that the young lady from far-off Holympia said such kind words. The more nobles who think like the young lady, the more hehe, wouldn’t we all live in peace?”
The princess could not just leave the village chief with an expression of resignation and compromise.
“Cho, Chief. You said Sister Sitri came from outside, right?”
“That’s right.”
“So the Church of Christ is not providing any help? The Church of Saints…”
The village chief gently holds the hand of the princess who speaks urgently.
“Sitri is still doing her best. Hehe, when our old ones cough even once, they roll up their sleeves and come running in fright.”
“That’s not it…”
“Are you saying that I should ask pretty nuns, just like Sitri, to come to this land where monsters can eat? Hehe, if you’re old, you should die gracefully. There’s a degree of shamelessness.”
Resignation and compromise.
At the village chief’s words that she had no choice but to live in reality, the princess eventually closed her mouth and bit her lip tightly.
* * *
“Oh, my… I had no choice but to come this far…”
“Isn’t this completely crazy?!”
Behind the princess, who was walking away with great strides, stood a young man from Hans’ village holding a sharp-edged spear.
The two of them were sweating profusely from their foreheads, but were wearing clothes filled with fabric that they had gotten from somewhere.
“I hate to agree with what that guy Hans said, but is this really crazy? The girl from Holympia and me! The two guys behind here are the end?”
Leonie was equally embarrassed.
Suddenly, the princess said she was going to go outside her village, so Leonie grabbed her shoulder and asked her about various things. Since the answer was that she would get rid of the crazy and dangerous monsters, Leonie tried to stop the princess in any way possible.
But there was no one who could stop the princess. It was impossible to stop the princess from walking out of the village, whether he held her shoulder.
In the end, all Leonie could do was to gather people in the village who could ‘barely’ fight against monsters, but Hans, a fisherman, and a young man who took care of livestock ended up there.
“It’s okay if you don’t follow everyone.”
“Oh, no, that’s not it! That girl! Isn’t it because the monsters out there aren’t just scum?”
Hans, who was trembling, was trying his best to convince the princess that she could just run away.
“It looks like you learned about goblins from a book. These guys are really, really fierce, aren’t they? They’re really dangerous!”
“Ha, Hans is right. Not only are there goblins, but there are also orcs and wolves that eat people, so it’s really dangerous.”
“I know you have the skills, but it’s impossible to clear the entire path to the duchy by yourself. Isn’t that crazy?”
The princess sighs when even Leonie, the only one capable of wielding her sword, says that.
“Sister Leonie.”
“Let’s go back. This isn’t a matter of persuasion or anything like that. Are you saying you’re going to die? These aren’t people you can subdue with a rune spell or two!”
“What were you planning?”
“What, what? What?”
Leonie opens his eyes wide.
“Sister Leonie, you were planning to get rid of the monsters here. You weren’t planning on dealing with enemies indefinitely without any plan, right?”
“Of course not! But, you’re saying that’s not possible? There are a lot of forests and natural caves around here, so there are a lot of places for monsters to hide.”
“Sister Leonie knows all those places, right?”
Leonie is at a loss for words for a moment, gapes, then shakes her head from side to side.
“Hey, hey, hey… Don’t play around! If you come from Holympia, I tell you to behave like a girl!”
“You can’t do that. If you have the opportunity and power to save people, you should do it. That’s what nobles are.”
“Hey!!!”
Unable to bear it any longer, Leonie screamed loudly and grabbed the princess’s shoulder.
“Are you crazy?!”
“No, I’m not crazy.”
“Don’t be ridiculous! Look at me! I know I didn’t think like you! When I thought I was the best, I did the same thing as you! Look at me!”
Leonie shouts once more, raising his right arm and shaking it with the sound of his gears.
“I was lucky enough to escape without an arm. I could die without knowing what would happen today!”
“I have work to do.”
Leonie stops breathing for a moment at the princess’s unexpected answer.
“I don’t know who I am. I don’t even remember what my life has been like. But there is something I must do.”
“You…”
“It’s not that I’m going to clean up the monsters here just because I’m a good person. Even if I stay in this village forever, no one who might look for me will come. Then, I have to at least do something to clean up the front of my house.”
Leonie bites her lip after hearing the princess’s words, which do not simply mean to do a good deed.
“I know what you’re thinking… But it’s not just one or two. There are more than 10 coming out of the cave…”
─Sasashak!
The sound of the four people talking was too loud.
The sound of falling leaves was heard, and a pitch-black figure leapt out of the air and rushed towards the group.
“Ooh, wow!!!”
Hans squeezes his eyes shut and ignorantly draws his wooden spear forward. His behavior was too absurd to deal with a goblin flying in the air.
“Sigh.!”
The princess lightly catches the goblin in the air with her left hand, grabs her neck, and slams her into the ground.
─Kwasik!
“… Huh?”
Leonie looks with her mouth wide open as the princess so easily subdues her goblin.
‘What’s this? What have you done? Is this some kind of magic? No, you just grabbed the goblin by the neck with your bare hands and slammed it to the ground?’
At that moment when you can’t say anything, you can hear the unpleasant screeching of an animal.
The goblins hiding in the dark no longer hide themselves. They charge at the party on wolves dirty with mud.
“The number is smaller than what Sister Leonie said.”
“No, what are you saying… What happened?”
The princess lightly kicks a stone stuck on the ground and hits the wolf on the head. Wow! The wolf screamed and threw itself to the ground, while the goblin riding on it rolled around on the ground.
“Ha!”
After lightly kicking the goblin, the princess continued to kick the goblin’s body coming from all directions and skillfully dodged and subdued the dagger that came deep in.
“Hans! Spear!”
“Yes, yes? Yes? Oh, I understand!”
Hans politely holds the spear with both hands and holds it out to the princess.
The orc, who walked steadily in the dark, pauses for a moment when he encounters a situation where the goblins have been completely destroyed, contrary to his thoughts.
Not willing to miss the opportunity, the princess grabbed her spear and ran in front of her. She reflexively dodged the axe being swung at her and drove her wooden spear deep into the orc’s neck. 〉
Since she was an orc who was not easily injured by weapons made of steel, the wooden spear the princess was holding was shattered, and only the tip stuck into her palm like a thorn, but that was enough.
─Jurge!
The orc, screaming with blood spurting from her neck, tries to grab the princess by her hair, but is unable to do so. The princess lowered her body and pushed the orc’s groin hard with her shoulder and kicked the spear stuck in the stumbling man’s neck, driving it deeper.
─Boom!
After easily dispatching one of her orcs in an instant, the princess shakes off her hands and opens her mouth, looking at Leonie and her companions who are speechless.
“This isn’t a situation where there are just a few of them, right? Sister Leonie. Please guide me to where these creatures live. I think it would be easier to get rid of them quickly before the sun rises.”
Leonie could no longer think that the princess was an ordinary young lady.
