Episode 94
Translator : Missme
Editor : Aru
I was surprised. Ash was the owner of the sound of footsteps that had been limping like iron.
Ash showed up without even taking off his armed armour. And behind Ash, I saw a servant panting and following him.
“panting, no, I don’t know what’s going on, but how can you be in such a hurry…….?”
“It’s alright.”
“Yes?”
“Let’s go back.”
Ash, who looked at this side for a while without any action, turned immediately.
The servant probably took the role of guiding him to the parlour room, but he seemed to have fallen behind from the middle, then I watched the servant do so with a blank face.
Then the servant came to his senses and chased Ash again.
“Your Excellency, I’ll show you to your room!”
The parlour-room door closed again.
Silence fell suddenly. It was a silence that filled the place in place of the sudden disappearance of the disturbance.
After a while, the daughter, who was sitting on the left, broke the silence.
“……..what just happened?”
“Your Excellency, the Duke of Widgreen has been there.”
“That’s what everyone in this room knows if we all have no eye problem.”
At this time, the daughter and Jenny, sitting on the right, covered their mouths. Their expression looked dreamy.
“I envy you, Princess!”
“What?”
“You just saw it, didn’t you? You saw it, right?”
Jenny covered her cheek with her hand that covered her mouth and said.
“Don’t you know? The Duke just made sure that the princess was safe here.”
“…….!”
“And as soon as he got back from the subjugative force, His Excellency didn’t even disarm his armour.”
“Oh, my.”
“What does this mean?”
Jenny had a fluttering look on her face like an adolescent girl. No, actually, she was an adolescent girl.
“That’s just how much his excellency worries and misses the princess!”
“How!”
“Oh, my God!”
Jenny’s lucid theorem gave a burst of exclamations on the left and opposite sides.
“I envy you!”
“It would be great. Princess.”
“If I had a brother like that…….”
“His face gonna be so different, are you okay with that?”
“That, that…..”
“Anyway, Princess, am I right?”
Jenny looked at me triumphantly and enviously at the same time.
I didn’t answer.
It was not that there was any disagreement with Jenny’s above interpretation and theorem.
Jenny was right. I don’t know if it was insight or the romance of a dreamy girl, but her explanation was probably perfect.
I remembered, as soon as he opened the door of the parlour room, he found myself and soon his golden eyes became tender and relieved.
“… Princess!”
“Are you all right?”
As soon as I hit my forehead on the table, there was an immediate fuss. I waved my hand in that state to convey that it was okay.
My heart tickled and I really felt like dying.
***
The subjugative force went smoothly.
To borrow the expression of the people around, the situation itself seemed to be more of a marvel than a smooth one.
The fifth day of subjugation.
Count Dotteridge, the landlord, trembled his hand after receiving the progress from the subjugative force.
“Oh, no, how did you get this far…!”
He was filled with admiration as if it could not be trusted.
“That’s what I expected to do for 15 days!”
What?
“It’s always been like that so far. But you’re amazing. Wonderful!”
The count did not stop praising the subjugative force with his keen eyes. It was understandable. It’d take 15 days, but if Ash had shortened it to five days.
I enjoyed wonderful things together by the Count’s side.
At first, the subjugative force seemed to shrug off the count’s praise as a group but soon confessed that everything was Ash’s work as if their conscience was hurting.
Ash seemed to roam the forest. One day to dispose of all the monsters that flowed out of the forest and invaded the outskirts of the territory. And for the rest of the four days, Ash has cut down the family of monsters that could be seen from the inside of the forest, which made the whole of territory tumultuous for a while.
‘I think I know.’
It seemed to me that the mere mention of a scene that I had never seen before. But, in fact, I’ve already seen the monster’s head flying like this in the northern woods with one gesture of Ash.
‘That’s amazing anyway.’
What did he eat and grow strong like this? No no, I’ve seen almost everything you eat since you were born at the age of zero.
‘This world is unfair, too.’
Well… it’s still better to be born like Ash than someone else.
Amid such a futile thought, the subjugative force has come to an end.
I’ve been looking at Count Dotteridge who has been smiling for some time now and said.
“The Count.”
“Oh, princess. Anything you want to say?”
“The subjugation force’s task was only trying to reduce the number of monsters that explode every few years, right?”
“Oh, yes. That’s right.”
The count nodded and added to his words.
“In fact, it would be perfect for us and the imperial family if we could root it out rather than just reducing the number there while fighting the monsters, but it’s practically impossible.”
Well.
The forest, which occupies the entire part of the south, is so wide that it can be used as an expression of ignorance. How can they exterminate all the monsters that live in it when it’s even been said that no one has seen the end yet?
‘If only they could pull all the monsters that exist in every corner in one place.’
Suddenly, I thought about the enchanted cloth and soon shook my head. It’s too early to think about it now because it’s not certain yet.
‘I need to confirm it, first’
I slowly got ready to go into the forest with Ash.
The subjugative force was completed exactly a week after the subjugative force arrived in the territory.
On the last night, Count Dotteridge held a grand banquet to express his gratitude for their hard work.
At this time, one of the subjugators, who was overly excited and drunk, would re-enact the battle that took place in the process of subjugation.
The next day I climbed alongside Ash on the horse.
My ankle had been feeling better in the last few days waiting for the subjugative force to end.
I sent off the subjugative force who enthusiastically ready to leave and escaped the territory. We sent the subjugative force up to the capital first, then turned to the territory head and headed for the forest with Ash.
I have already explained to Ash what I intended to do in the forest.
Ash seemed less interested than I thought in the enchanted cloth story that I brought out with a rather serious face. Rather, I had a strong feeling that he was motivated because he’s hanging out with me.
Thanks to you, I had to feel a sense of deja vu.
‘It was like this when I went to steal the cloth of the temple…’
Hmm.
Well, anyway.
I moved with a firm grip on the reins.
The enchanted cloth was brought out hidden inside a thick cloak-shaped coat.
The refreshing wind of the forest was blocked by the coat, instead of tickling the exposed face and hands.
On horseback, I looked around lightly.
Now it was just a little outside the entrance of the forest, but the smell that permeated under the nose was deep and refreshing.
The bushes are waist-high and the trees were high and dense enough to cover the sky. It was an environment where it seemed harder to move than I imagined.
‘This is the Apel Forest.’
The Apel forest. It was a name given to this forest, but in fact, no one called it by that name honestly.
The forest of monsters. The monster’s home. Fucking Monster World and so on. The Apel Forest was so often called “Monster” rather than its original name.
In fact, Count Dotteridge is also called this “Monster’s Nest” when referring to this place.
It’s not that important.
‘By the way, they caught monsters like that here.’
The monster’s body was somehow useful in its own way and was brought out the territory, so the forest was quite neat considering that there was a subjugative force until just yesterday.
A few cut trees, which are believed to have been cut off together by cutting down monsters, showed traces of the destruction.
I imagined inwardly, looking at the clean, straight, and sharp under the tree, as Ash rode his horse through this place, he cut down monsters one by one.
“….”
“Noonim?”
“Huh?”
“What’s wrong?”
“……Ah.”
I didn’t even know that I stopped the horse because I was imagining so hard. I quickly rode the horse to Ash’s side.
Ash stared at me carefully.
“What did you think?”
“That’s…”
That’s the thing.
Do I have to confess with this mouth that I was imagining you were here in armour, leading a subjugative force and sweeping away the monsters and that the imaginary inner circle unexpectedly became quite wonderful, and I was lost in my imagination for a while?
“Nothing.”
I can’t do it. I found something to quickly change the subject after dodging the answer.
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