Chapter Chapter 27: RATH 27 TL: Eevee (1/2)
RATH 27
TL: Eevee
4. The others’ stories (1)
#1 Their story: the story of the one who defeated the Sword Star.
“The enemy has defeated the Sword Star!”
“Kuaak, this, thisaaaaarrrrghh!”
“Damn it, tighten the encirclement! We cannot let him escape!”
“Ah, damn it. Why am I running away.”
“To not get hit.”
“That’s it!”
Magic that changed the landscape, and arrows that could paralyze with a scratch all flew over my head.
Ahh. Damn it. I’m tired as hell, and according to my original estimations we should have been captured a long time ago.
“Stop! You are already surrounded. It’s too late for you to run now!”
The knight chasing after me is the problem!
What’s there to hide, that’s the duke’s daughter I’ve constantly been referring to all this time!
And now that reminded me, the princess herself was part of this operation!
In that case it wasn’t weird for the princess’s knight order to mobilise, meaning that it was possible to meet up with said daughter, but to think we’d meet up right in front of each other!
If she saw me right in front of her eyes, how would she act?
Would she try to kill me for playing her? Or would she cry with tears streaming down her face?
Either way I’d prefer not to deal with. Especially the latter.
“Now, isn’t it about time for us to get caught?”
“Since you defeated the Sword Star some really dangerous things are flying at us now too!”
“No.17, duck.”
“Hiik! Hu, hurry with the warnings!”
No.17 of the Nermia family yelled at me as she just ducked under the arrow.
At this rate it seems like it’ll be hard to get support from the Nermia family as well.
Hm. Yep. Let’s just…
“Should we just die?”
“What bullshit is that!”
“Save the sleep talk for when you’re actually asleep!”
“I think we really are going to die.”
A large-scale magic dropped in front of us and left a crater.
It seems that the mage brigade have shown up in the air as well.
I think they’re still mistaking me for the instructor at this point, I was wondering if I should mix in a counter or not but.
“That’s dropping right this way?”
“What the hell, that’s a bombardment! And a direct line of fire!”
“Dodge!”
That’s an attack that even left No.1000 terrified, who the instructor said dodged the Empire-style bombardment like a joke.
Ah, now that I think about it, the instructor could have thought ‘if it’s this human, they probably won’t die from just this.’ and just poured on the attacks.
If I go forward, it’s dangerous, if I stop the noble girl is waiting. Options, options….
‘There is one!’
Yes, there was a way.
Although it really did a number on my conscience, it’s better than me meeting directly with the girl.
“Doppelganger, if you complete this successfully then you’re free.”
“I’m ready for anything.”
As I saw the doppelganger nod, I had the doppelganger take off its hood and run in a different direction from ours.
And the bait was successful.
“Re, Rein?!”
Although my heart hurts to see the noble lady’s wide eyes on seeing the doppelganger but it can’t be helped!
-Run, as far as possible!
-Alright.
I said the contract would be complete once it was caught.
But instead, getting caught deliberately was forbidden. It just had to run as far and fast as possible to divert attention.
“Kasen! You lead the squad and continue pursuit. I will chase after the stray.”
“Eh? Vice-captain, what?!”
Thankfully the noble lady took five subordinates and started chasing the doppelganger.
After separating from us the doppelganger would be lucky to last ten minutes.
If a person uses magic then they could exert speeds even faster than a horse, but there’s a limit.
Because of this we’ve been using many tools the instructor had given us to stop the horses’ movements and increase the distance between us, but we were running out of tools, and I didn’t want to feel any guiltier seeing the noble lady nearly fall off her horse several times chasing after us.
And now, since she’s not here…
“Surrender now?”
“Is it finally over?”
“End?”
The moment we stopped the bombardment stopped like a lie, and the kids breathed a sigh of relief.
“Don’t move!”
“Iiiit?”
“Hold, hold on?!”
But very quickly, I brought a dagger up to No.1’s neck.
He’s still a duke’s son, therefore he has plenty of use as a hostage!
“We need to buy more time.”
“Wait, but why am I the hostage?”
“Your house is the best off.”
“Really?”
Looking at is, our pursuers made baffled expressions.
Yes, organization members were running away together, and if they suddenly start up a hostage scenario then anyone would find it weird!
“Ahhh~ I’m Duke Raina’s son Raina rel Swin! I was undercover in the evil organization as a spy, but I got caught! Save me.”
“Oi, that’s way too awkward, can’t you act properly.”
“This much should be fine?”
With those words it seemed there was a commotion among the knights before another knight came forward after sending the others back.
“I am Her Highness’s Third Knight Order’s First Squadron Captain, Kasen! If there’s anything you want then begin negotiations!”
Wow, it seems like the name of the knight order really is the Third Knight Order. While others use family names, flowers, animals and such, the rumours that princess said she couldn’t be bothered and just named them by their ordinal numbers was true!
Wait, before that.
What kind of deal do I have to make so that I don’t show myself getting caught to the noble lady.