In This Life, I Will Raise You Well, Your Majesty! - Chapter 100

“Which territory are you from, sir knight? Seeing that none of us recognize you, I don’t think we’ve seen each other at a political meeting.”

The tactic of skillfully putting pressure by stating their identity was pretty effective.

“Do you think we’re going to steal your merits? You look like you’re having a hard time, so we’re trying to help here. Surely you know the solidarity of the western aristocrats, right?”

All the other person’s words sounded like threats to the man’s ears, which was probably true. The man glanced around.

Six people were too much to deal with alone. If he had known this would happen, he would have left some of the people he had let go first.

As the man with a hardened face loosened his hand holding Vera’s ankle, Vera and Benjamin slumped to the floor. Thinking about that, the man’s opponent chuckled and made his subordinates put down their weapons. He seemed to be determined to appease the man in earnest now.

But as soon as their tension eased a little, the man tried to take Benjamin away from Vera, who was still on the floor.

As soon as he reached out to him, Benjamin moved his gaze and looked up at the man, making the man’s breath catch. He immediately changed his goal to Vera, not Benjamin.

The man wrapped his arm around Vera’s waist from behind and aimed a dagger at her neck. Benjamin came along with her when he caught her, so he thought this would be better. Even considering his safety while going to the duchy.

“What are you doing!?”

The opponent, who seemed proud at the thought that everything was going the way he wanted until recently, shouted at the man’s behavior.

“If you wait a moment, I will return with the master’s permission.”

“That doesn’t make sense!”

“Trust in the solidarity of the West. Will my master forget the precious people trying to help him?”

The opponent kept his mouth shut and fumed when he replied using his own words. The knights around him also tried to approach the man with the sword’s handle in their hands.

“I have lost my colleagues and my eye. I don’t mind at all if everyone dies here… If you cause problems for the heir of the duke family, I don’t know if the duke will stand still.”

When the man threatened him, his opponent flinched.

The man crept down the hill with his sword on Vera.

Once he went down the mountain, there would be as many horses as the people, so he could get them anywhere and head straight to the duchy.

While the man’s one eye glistened with greed, the opponent’s leader gave a meaningful glance at one of his knights.

While the man moved with his one eye observing the man who appeared to be the leader of the other side, the knight, who had been ordered, climbed up the mountain in the opposite direction.

As the distance from the group persecuting him gradually increased, the man’s heart was relieved little by little.

They might e after him soon, but he was pretty quick on his feet. If they caught up to him, he could use the hostage. The man who was thinking lowered his head to the prickly gaze that looked up at him.

“Uu…”

The devil was watching him with open eyes. He feared what would happen to the Western territory if someone like that became the duke. The man remembered how he had cursed and been harsh on his mother earlier. He thought that he needed to leave the West to survive after this.

He was about to twist the corners of his mouth when…

Shh!

An ominous sound came from behind.

“Ugh!”

The man dodged in surprise, but his shoulder was cut. Blood splattered. The knight who had separated himself from the rest of his group and climbed up the mountain had e round to the man on a slope down the valley on his left.

Swaeegh!

The man deflected the second attack with his dagger and had no way of avoiding the next one, so he quickly pushed the child in.

To be precise, it was Vera who was holding the child. Vera somehow tried to sacrifice her body instead of the child, but it was too late.

“Iihk!”

The knight made a mistake in the sword’s trajectory, but it was difficult to retrieve it because he had already put his strength into it.

Then.

Chaeng!

The knights, who had run from above while the two were fighting, threw their weapons to block their colleague’s sword. His hand was almost torn, but it was better than sticking a sword into the heir of the duke family.

The knight, who would have been worse off than dying, rushed to the man, ignoring his safety. However, the man was capable enough to claim the treasure by himself, even if he had been distracted by Benjamin.

Pakk!

The man kicked the knight’s abdomen with his foot. As the knight’s upper body bowed in shock and pain, the man skillfully thrust the dagger between his shoulder blades.

Puck!

The dagger that pierced through the flesh collided with the bone and rattled. Blood gushed out as the man drew the dagger. The man tossed the body of such a knight at his rades, who had e close and started running down the mountain.

“We can’t lose them! Get him!”

The nobleman and the knights shouted with their eyes lit. There were big and small quarrels during the treasure hunt, but it didn’t take much time for them to get to know each other just by crossing one bridge from the West.

The only treasure had an owner. Now they must kill and steal from the owner to get the treasure! Moreover, the war had begun since they had already seen blood.

***

Elisha ran into difficulties from the beginning of the mountain range. Due to the considerable number of people climbing the mountain in pursuit, there were too many traces left on all sides.

In addition, some of the nobles sent their knight manders and knights up, waiting near the entrance, so Elisha had to wear a hat and cover her silver hair deeper inside her cloak.

It was fortunate that she could pass by the other nobles pretending not to know each other as no one had any time for pleasantries. When it was too hard for horses to travel, Elisha’s party got off the horses and started running directly with their feet.

The Zelot Knights were as sensitive to others’ presence as they were in hiding their presence. They could easily find a group of people, but no one would be able to find them. As the place was buzzing and the smell of blood could be felt everywhere, Elisha, who thought things couldn’t stay this way, stopped.

She summoned Undine. Undine sat on a seashell and rubbed her cheek.

“I don’t know if it’s possible, but…”

Elisha muttered, closed her eyes, and focused. Water was everywhere in the world. Even in a handful of dirt, even in a breath of wind.

“It’s possible, right?”

Elisha asked, and Undine nodded. Refreshing energy emanated from Elisha’s whole body. The wind made the grain, and the soil shook. The world seemed to revolve around her.

The Zelot Knights opened their eyes wide to the mysterious sight they were seeing for the first time.

Elisha connected water with water and wandered among those who touched the water. Then she found the energy she recognized.

The West was the land most affected by drought in the empire. However, this mountain range had inherited the spirit of the Pavezzo Mountains to the very end.

The tree was barren, and the leaves of grass withered to yellow, but the fact that it was still standing with its roots in place was proof of that. Therefore, deep inside the earth, there were quite a few drops of water biting soil grains.

Otherwise, even Elisha might have stopped in the middle because power could be used indefinitely.

Then, at some point, Elisha opened her eyes. A silver light flashed and disappeared in the middle of the sky blue eyes.

***

Vera was so shaken and dragged around that she couldn’t get her act together. Despite that, she didn’t forget one thing, though. Just one thing. That she had to hold her child with her arms tight.

“Give me the little master! How dare you kidnap the heir of the duke family!”

Every man she encountered down the mountain told her that. The one-eyed man dragging Vera and the child had already died, and the people around her had changed several times since then.

Some tried to kill Vera, and some tried to separate her from her child, but, like the first man, they all gave up eventually.

Had it not been for the condition that the little master had to be brought back alive, he would have already died.

Chae-chaeng! Chaeeng!

Blood was splattered everywhere with the sound of weapons clashing. It wasn’t like this was not normal. It happened all the time, and Benjamin hadn’t responded much so far, but this time he looked different.

His eyes were busy looking here and there, and sharp energy emanated from the child’s body. So Vera knew. This fight was going to be different than before.

“Gwaaagh!”

“Kill him, kill him!”

“The one you killed a while ago is the viscount’s heir! Do you think we’ll forget this grudge?”

Both groups were excited because they had e here spilling blood. The little master was no longer a problem. No one could even remember how much blood of the knights of the Western nobles had been sown on this mountain.

Vera got goosebumps at the blade that stretched little by little towards them.

People had used or threatened her and her child as hostages but had never left them in the middle of a fight like this.

Now they were so out of their minds that they couldn’t care less about themselves.

Vera pulled the child closer. The child looked at his mother for a brief second.

The knight who stumbled while fighting against a stronger opponent than him discovered Vera, who was moving carefully. The knight, who had bumped into her, made eye contact with Vera, who fell.

“W-Where do you want to run!?”

As the knight shouted, Vera pushed Benjamin’s back hard to the opposite side of the crowd, telling him to go first, and tried to get up too. She was just pretending, to be exact. She tried to trick Benjamin into going first because she had a cramp in her leg.

“Mom will follow you soon. Run first, quick!”

Vera said in a voice mixed with laughter. Like it was real. It was clear that the knight was lowering his sword after noticing Vera’s movement, but she tried not to care as much as possible.

Even if she couldn’t escape, she didn’t want him to remember her death. She shouldn’t have let her blood splash over him.

“Come on, go ahead, Benjamin.”

Vera said, turning her eyes from the sword and engraving her child’s back in her mind…

Chwaruk!

She heard the sound of rushing water. The pain that she thought would e in couldn’t be felt. When Vera raised her head, a water barrier was blocking her and the knight.

“Is that you?”

The strong and beautiful person who used the spirit of water.

Vera cried out in surprise and looked to the front, and her child was held in the person’s slender, white hands. But Vera was not afraid.

Because the hands were heading toward Vera and trying to put the child in her arms. Vera held the child in her arms and leaned her head against the leg of the person who approached her.

“I’m late. You must have seen a lot of things you shouldn’t have seen.”

Elisha lowered her hand and brushed Vera’s tangled and blood-soaked hair. Just like she’d do to Leon.

Everything she was able to do little by little to the people around her was learned from Leon.

“No, no, you’re not. Thank you for ing.”

As Vera spoke, Elisha gave her another pat, then looked down at Benjamin.

“You protected your mother. I’m proud of you.”

Elisha seemed to know how Vera, who was not worth a hostage, had survived this chaotic situation.

“Ah, we broke up with Miss Rosie in the middle… and Ash couldn’t be found as well…”

Vera pulled out what had been piled up and wept again.

“We found Ro… sie on our way, but I don’t know about the knight Ash. I guess we’ll look more carefully later.”

At Elisha’s words, Vera turned her head to where her gaze was directed and turned blue. The fight was in a lull, and all those fighting with their swords were looking this way.

The fight, which had been especially fierce, seemed to have attracted other groups around it because of the loud noise. The approaching shadows overlaid the mountain with darkness even though it was not night.

“Now that this has happened, please wait a little longer.”

Elisha spoke to Vera and stepped forward.