Volume 4 Chapter 12 (1/2)
Chapter 4 Episode 12
Editor:Starbuck11, Key, Kev.
Morning, 3rd Day, 1st Month, the Year 2814.
”Baron-sama, we can finally see it. That is the city of Periveria.”
Following the direction the village girl had pointed, Ryouma saw a grey dot across the plains.
As the group exited the highway, the outline of the grey dot become clear.
It was a solid fortified city surrounded by high walls.
Although it was the same fortified city just like Epiroz, the scale was on a completely different level.
”Ah! Father.”
The village girl who saw her father waiting for her near the city's gate looked happy.
They both had been separated for a few days, which made her behavior seemed natural, but Ryouma could not help but smiled bitterly.
After all, the village girl who was supposedly already an adult, reacted rather childishly.
(I did pay attention to her carefully. But well, I guess it can't be helped...)
It seemed that the Marfisto sisters, who rode beside Ryouma also felt the same way.
They felt that perhaps the behavior of the village girl was a sign of anxiety and fear.
For some money, they took the job of guiding Ryouma and the others toward Periveria city, and for them these past few days must have been quite intense.
By accepting a job from an army of another country, it could be said that they had taken a gamble, although they did it because of the taxation starting to kill them.
And even if they took the job because Ryouma told them that they were reinforcements from Rozeria, they still did not know if it was true or not.
And what if Ryouma was an enemy of the country disguised as a friend ?
If that happened, the villagers would have been executed as traitors toward the motherland.
Even if they insisted that they had been deceived, they would probably be ignored.
Since it would have been easier for the government to execute them to make an example.
And to make the commoners stay in place.
In any case, their lives were at stake.
Even though the villagers did not realize it, they still instinctively felt it.
Nevertheless, taking the job from Ryouma was nothing more than putting the villagers in a danger.
Now when the distance between Ryouma and the welcoming party became shorter, the figures who welcomed them came into view, and Ryouma noticed that some of them frowned their eyebrows.
A frightened expression was engraved on the face of the village girl's father.
Probably noticing her father's expression. Grief can be seen on the village girl's face as well.
(Oho? It seems there's some misunderstanding huh?)
Had the village girl's father been chased by the enemy's soldiers, then he wouldn’t be standing there.
Furthermore, there were armored knights following behind him.
(They are Zalda Kingdom's knight, no? Why does he looked frightened like that?)
”Ryouma-sama...”
Ryouma put his hand on Sara's head who looked anxious, and he showed his usual smile.
”It will be fine. Both of you wait here... Understood?”
”Please be careful...”
After nodding his head in response to Laura's words, Ryouma stopped his army and proceeded alone toward the Zalda knights.
After all, if both sides could not grasp the situation, it would be hard to shake hands...
The Zalda Kingdom's knights then split to the sides, and a single knight approached Ryouma while bringing some escort.
Looking at the knight's helmet, that person seemed to be a high ranking one.
And beside him, the knights who guarded him as escorts also wore good equipment.
(Is he a leader of a knight order? Which means, he is a general huh?)
Ryouma eyes narrowed.
(Why did they bother to send a high ranking person just for this? Is this because of how much they had been cornered?)
”Are you the reinforcements from Rozeria?”
As soon as he closed the distance with Ryouma, the man who seemed to have a high ranking position turned his sharp eyes toward Ryouma and asked him the question.
For someone who met each other for the first time, the man’s etiquette was kind of lacking.