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

Chapter 18

Sneak Attack (2)

It smelled good.

At first, he just wanted to try it once, but when he was eating his meat skewer, he saw the children swallow their saliva. Then the thought that he should share appeared.

At first, he thought he could just leave his money at the skewer shop.

However, the gazes of the children while skewers were being grilled somehow reminded him of Mrs. Suare.

So Leon asked the seller to wrap the skewers one by one, and while holding the wrapped ones in one adorable hand, he went to the children who were sticking together inside the corner wall leading to the alley and stretching their necks.

Leon, who is a thoughtful child, is sorry if he misunderstood the meaning of their gaze, but he wanted the children to be able to take as much as they wanted with ease.

“Here.”

Leon didn’t get too close to the children.

Not because he felt uncomfortable, but because the children might feel uncomfortable.

No matter how neglected he was in Barossa, he was of the Imperial family.

For some, simply standing there could cause harm or even threaten their life.

Leon took out his handkerchief and laid it on the clean floor, leaving the skewers on it and backing away.

The children looked at each other, then came out and picked up the handful of skewers.

There were quite a few children, but the skewers were ample.

He prepared just enough numbers. He was sure there would be children who wouldn’t eat it and want to take it home and give it to their mother or brother, so he was concerned.

However, there was a struggle to be the first one to get it, and there was a limit to what a child could pick up with their small hands, so there was a bit of a commotion.

Leon was about to go back to the place where his mother was with the four skewers he had set aside, but he saw a girl who looked like his age, unable to intervene from the other side.

Then the girl picked up one of the skewers that another kid accidentally dropped.

The girl did not care if it was dirty. She grabbed it and went somewhere.

Leon, whose eyes were round, walked a few steps closer to her without realizing it.

The children who shared the skewers were scattered all over the place, and there was no one between the girl and Leon, so he thought that it would be okay if he went and gave her his share.

When he almost reached the corner of the alley where the girl was, a hand suddenly popped out, but it wasn’t the girl’s hand.

Tu-dukk!

The skewer in Leon’s hand fell to the floor and Leon was sucked into the darkness.

The girl thought she heard something behind her back, so she turned around, but there was nothing.

Then, a gust of wind blew past without a drop of a shadow, followed by a beautiful woman with silver hair running in front of her, and then disappeared into the alley.

“What was that?”

The girl tilted her head, saw the four skewers that had fallen on the floor, widened her eyes, looked around, and quickly picked it up.

“Hup!”

The girl smiled brightly and went back to her house.

Tadadadakk!

The sound of footsteps echoed in the alley less than three meters wide.

As soon as Rohan entered the alley, he stopped, cut the people with his sword, then stepped on the bodies of those who fell and leaped high.

Rohan’s sword cuts through the air.

Swaekh! Swaeeekh!

The blow emitted from Rohan’s sword struck the rear of the group that had kidnapped the 3rd Prince and were fleeing.

Paaang!

“Co-ugh!”

As if their backs had been ripped apart in one bite, three or four people at once fell with their faces to the floor and their backs cut open.

Because the attack was limited in scope, it had no effect on those who had the 3rd Prince in the lead.

Among the only three swordmasters in the Empire, his ability that occupies the top position could not tolerate such a mistake.

Even after being caught by such a powerful enemy, the kidnappers did not panic.

As if it was the expected situation, the man who was running while holding the 3rd Prince in the lead blinked left and right.

The five who followed him slowed down, then turned around and faced Rohan.

One of the five faced Rohan in the center, while the other four split in two and ran towards Rohan. The four kicked off both walls and floated in the air.

The guys crossed and jumped over Rohan’s head and got down behind Rohan’s back.

With a slight time difference and distance, two of the guys landed behind Rohan and stood in place, while the other two, leaving their comrades behind, began to trace the path Rohan had run.

It happened in just a few breaths.

Rohan’s eyebrows twitch.

Because he knew their intentions.

At the midpoint between the increasingly distant 3rd Prince and the gradually approaching 2nd Empress, Rohan had to choose between the two.

In fact, it was an easy choice.

Aside from the fact that the first thing to be protected in the Imperial family is the prince who will carry on the bloodline.

“Go!”

The 2nd Empress, the party involved, shouted without hesitation even though unidentified men were blocking her.

He turned his head to confirm, and that stern look in her eyes spoke like the ruling monarch, ordering him to carry out her orders…

She had the appearance of a relentless master who warned him of failure.

The nape of the swordmaster Rohan’s neck became cold.

There was no time to think about how it could be so.

Rohan had not caught the kidnapper, not because he did not have the ability.

Rohan was only looking for a time when there wouldn’t be the slightest risk for the 3rd Prince.

But now that the situation is like this.

Following Elisha’s line of sight, Rohan turned his body and stabbed his sword into the ground.

Then, as if scooping the soil outward, it bounced.

Pababakk!

The soil sprayed with strong momentum was not at the level of getting into the eyes and blurring vision.

“Ugh!”

The two of them, who were trying to stick behind Rohan, swallowed the wind in an unexpectedly strong shock.

But the real surprise for them only started after they came to their senses.

“U-Uwaaakh!”

They didn’t know whether it would be better if the attack just penetrated them at once.

Tiny grains of earth and small stones crumbled as they moved, causing great pain.

With his left foot as the central axis, Rohan rotated his body strongly and extended his right foot.

Puuuck! Puk!

Those who were bending their upper body in agony were hit by Rohan’s kick, and their bodies bounced back.

Then they bumped into the two who were about to approach Elisha.

Gwaaang!

Rohan turned around without even giving a glance to the four who were entangled, and immediately slammed the ground toward the front and jumped.

In the middle of the alley, the man who had to stand alone to block Rohan clenched his teeth and raised his sword high.

Rohan had to catch up with the fleeing masked man who was carrying the 3rd Prince over his shoulder before he became a complete dot, so he didn’t want to delay even for a second.

Kwaduk!

Rohan’s mana-infused sword fell diagonally and collided with the opponent.

Along with the sword he was holding, the enemy fell to the floor in a split second.

Rohan stepped over the man, not minding getting his feet dirty.

He had to return with the 3rd Prince.

Elisha looked down at those who had fallen on the floor.

It looked funny, but one shouldn’t think of it as funny.

They became like that because their opponent was the swordmaster Rohan.

Elisha quickly scanned the floor and reached out for a sword dropped by one of the bastards.

The two kidnappers that Rohan threw in place of weapons didn’t seem to be able to move…

The other two looking at her were the problem.

Although Rohan delayed the time as much as possible, they would surely attack Elisha when they came to their senses.

As Elisha was about to grab the handle of the sword, which she found quickly, she heard a sound on the floor.

Seeukk. Sseuukk!

One of the people from the tangled mass swept his hand through the floor.

The bastard stretched out his arms in a prone position, trying to take the sword that Elisha was holding.

“What are you trying to do?”

Elisha mumbled coldly and pressed the man’s wrist with the tip of her toe.

As his hand stopped just before he touched the sword, the masked man slowly lifted his gaze from the woman’s feet to the hem of the dress and over it as she stepped on his wrist.

A woman with silver hair stood with her back to the setting sun.

The woman slowly bent her back.

Her shiny silver hair was pouring out and waving right in front of his eyes.

Her slender wrists and white fingers that seemed unable to kill even a small beast grabbed the handle of the sword and lifted it up…

Swaeegh!

It fell straight down towards the masked man.

Thud!

The masked man’s body, which he had been lifting slightly, dropped to the floor and stopped moving.

Elisha bit her molars tightly as she pulled the sword she was holding from the back of the masked man.

Shuah!

When she pulled out the sword with great force, hot blood spurted out and splashed on Elisha as well.

Elisha rubbed the blood with her shoulders quickly, lest the blood from her forehead dripped into her eyes and obscured her vision.

She took a deep breath and then…

She clenched her sword’s handle with both hands and turned her body.

Swaaeegh!

The masked men, who had been quietly approaching her back, quickly pulled his body back and escaped Elisha’s attack.

Elisha swung her blade sideways and pushed forward, hurriedly following the escape of the enemy.

It would have been better for Elisha’s safety if she escaped, but Elisha was worried that the masked man might follow his colleague and help him kidnap Leon.

Of course, there is also a high possibility that the one who was currently dealing with Swordmaster Rohan is incomparably better than these people who had been left here.

It is the parents’ mind not wanting to underestimate anything that is related to their child.

The approaching sword from behind went between the masked man’s open armpit and side before digging into the flesh.

“Khohk!”

The masked man, who did not expect that Elisha would do this, fell sideways as his blood was spilled.

Elisha quickly released the handle of her sword.

The sword was not in a situation where it could be pulled out as it was stuck quite deep, and it fell along with the masked man who had collapsed.

“Haa… Haa…”

Elisha groaned, approached the masked man who had fallen, slammed his chest with her foot, pressed it down, bent over and took off the mask.

It was not a familiar face.

The wound was large, but the man seemed to be still breathing.

Elisha’s mind was complicated, but as soon as she saw the opposite direction, her thoughts became completely blank.

“Leon!”

Elisha stepped towards Rohan, who was running towards her as quickly as possible…

Rohan’s dark auburn eyes fluttered wildly, and she heard his cry.

“Get away!”

Elisha turned her face to where Rohan was looking.

The man, who was lying on the ground, seemingly dead, was throwing something he had pulled out of his bosom at Elisha.

Chareukk!

The content of the fist-sized bottle was scattered in the air.