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

Chapter 37

It was a rare sight of a beautiful woman standing on a precarious pile of logs, holding a doll-like little boy in her arms.

Underneath them, hideous monsters filled the floor and stared at the two people, with a pitiful expression on each of their faces that could pierce even the sky.

“I didn’t know which side was being bullied until now.”

Perry mumbled involuntarily.

The moment he saw that scene, he felt like he knew why Miller was speechless.

This was probably because the sky-blue eyes looking down at the monsters in a proudly riding posture on the pile of logs were terribly indifferent.

There was not even a single tremor, nor the instinctive hatred or contempt of a human being toward monsters.

As a being in the world who is still breathing and alive, one could not help but feel shocked because of those eyes.

It was as if they were saying, “You are worse than dust. You can’t do anything to me. You are not a threat.”

Kyaaak!

Kuaaang!

The more vicious ones moved their gaze, stretched out their arms, jumped up the ground and soared.

Even if the stacked logs were quite high, it was only about 6 or 7 meters.

It didn’t seem like it would be able to withstand the power of the monsters that were about to crash on it, or to be occupied by the monsters who climbed on it with nails.

With a single, careless gesture of Elisha’s chin, water overflowed from the horse’s hoof and flowed down the log and poured down on the monsters.

It was a fairly strong stream of water that caused the monsters to slip and fall down.

“This is the power of the water spirit.”

Compared to fire spirit, a water spirit would be one level lower than a fire spirit in terms of their destructive power, so Elisha thought it would certainly have little use on the battlefield, regardless of other things.

But this. This is pretty good, isn’t it?

Better, even.

“In the current situation, it would be better to use it naturally than amplify the power.”

Currently, Elisha did not have a contract with the mana spirit, but used the energy in the jewel to control the spirit, so mana usage was important.

With her lips curled up as if she was satisfied, Elisha raised her head.

At that time.

Kwaaang!

A handful of monsters at the farthest distance from the log, that is, at the very rear, were crushed.

Unlike the knights who were still observing what was going on, Rohan did not delay.

Thud!

As his foot took a step into the empty space, the ground shook.

The monsters who were within the range of vibration looked at Rohan at once. Those who were stimulated by Elisha immediately attacked Rohan.

Rohan rushed into the closest one and inserted his sword.

Puk!

The sword pierced the monster’s stomach and came out behind its back. The monster that had been sewn into a skewer gripped the sword with both hands.

As a result, Rohan’s sword was blocked. Meanwhile another monster squealed and opened its mouth from the side.

Rohan lifted his arms as the monster tried to bite him.

The monster that was pierced by Rohan’s sword was lifted up as well, looking too easy considering its size.

Rohan shook his sword before the monster slid into the inner side of the sword due to its weight.

Kwadang!

The body of the monster that was released from the sword fell on top of the other monster and got tangled all at once.

Most of the attention of the monsters that had been directed at Elisha shifted to Rohan.

Rohan flew through the monsters with his sword.

Miller and Perry finally reached Rohan.

“We’re here!”

“How can there be so many monsters?!”

The carriage and the knights guarding the carriage, which were behind, were approaching.

“There are no other monsters or disturbing groups in the vicinity, Commander!”

Following Rohan’s instructions, the rest of the 1st Knights, who had searched the area, quickly joined and wielded their swords.

Miller and Perry, who had done nothing even though they had come earlier, sipped their lips with their tongues.

And carefully, check out the 2nd Empress on the stack of logs in the distance.

‘Idiots.’

The way she looked at the monsters seemed to be drawn to the two, making their backs cold.

The two of them swallowed with their dry throat and looked at each other.

“A-As a knight we have to earn our pay the proper way, right?”

“That’s… right. I don’t want to be treated the same way as the monsters by the 2nd Empress.”

After reasoning with themselves, the two of them clapped their swords tightly and began to cut through the monsters.

“Tsk.”

Elisha clicked her tongue as the warm little thing moved in her arms.

“Mother, should I keep sleeping?”

Elisha quickly pulled the reins to one side, and went down on the opposite side of the way she had come up on.

As she crossed the log pile, the view before her was wide open.

“You can get up now, Leon.”

At Elisha’s permission, Leon slowly opened his eyes.

While rubbing the area around Leon’s eyes, Elisha continued to be wary of her surroundings.

She was careful because there might be monsters hiding here, or she might run into things that were running around the pile of logs behind her back.

The situation continued for a while, and then she could feel the commotion behind the pile of logs that they had passed over gradually subsided.

“It will be cleared up soon.”

It wasn’t a big threat in the first place.

However, on a well-maintained road like this, where it is frequented by people, this scale could be considered abnormally large…

It bothered her that monsters with a certain level of intelligence did such a daring thing such as blocking the road with logs while forming a group like that while hunting people.

After a while, as she thought…

Geudeuk! Deuk!

Thud! Thud!!

After the fight, the logs were dragged to the ground, and as the bottom of the pile was pulled out, the logs above were tilted and collapsed, and the sound of the logs hitting the ground resounded.

It was only natural that they had to clear the road so the carriages would be able to move.

The hazy dust soon disappeared and the knights filled the quiet space.

“Are you okay?”

Rohan was the first to find Elisha.

Elisha nodded and Rohan stared at her.

As the knight leader responsible for the safety of the 2nd Empress, he should have pointed out that her actions were dangerous, but he decided to keep his mouth shut because he also knew how quickly Elisha judged and how appropriate her response was.

In the end…

“I was late. I’ll pay more attention from now on, Your Majesty.”

He blamed the problem on himself.

He was such a person, Elisha thought. Someone who’d rather bring out one small, wrong thing instead of stating the great things he did.

“I was too far away from the main camp. I will be careful in the future.”

She didn’t say she wouldn’t ride a horse anymore.

Because horse riding was something that ‘she’ liked.

It’s the owner’s duty to care about the people below her, however, if one does not do what they want just because of their subordinates, then it is such a huge loss.

The man in front of her understood it.

“Alright.”

Rohan, who answered, finished cleaning up the surroundings, and their party quickly left the place.

The party, which had been running non-stop, was able to find a place to spend the night before the sky turned dark without difficulty.

The carriage stopped, and the knights and maids concentrated on their work.

Elisha herself was not very picky, but because of the Marquis and some nobles, their dinner was more luxurious than what she ate at the 2nd Empress Palace.

She was tired from dealing with monsters, so she could’ve skipped it for a day or so, but Elisha still stood up in front of Rohan with a sword in an empty lot a little far from the party.

Despite the opposition of the Marquis, it has continued throughout the journey from the beginning.

This was because of Elisha’s argument that it would be better to learn more swordsmanship for self-defense as much as going to a dangerous place was valid to some extent.

As soon as the formal greeting was finished, Elisha swung her sword.

Chang, Chaeeng!

Rohan lightly deflected her sword.

Elisha, who had taken a few steps back, scraped off Rohan’s blade and dug into his reach without hesitation.

Rohan knew how dangerous the 2nd Empress could be when she didn’t have the 3rd Prince by her side.

Both for herself and for those who fight her.

As Rohan was about to escape, her sword stretched out and chased after him.

It’s terrible.

Like the fangs of a beast chasing its prey, but without the ingenuity or cunningness of a snake.

Kaaang!

Rohan deflected Elisha’s sword and started going on the offensive.

Elisha could not dodge all of his moves.

No, she simply did not avoid it.

She focused on identifying only one decisive move among the attacks pouring towards her.

It was not done out of courage because she knew that Rohan had proper control of his sword.

But because she was such a person who could casually give away her flesh in order to cut someone’s bones.

Therefore, just a little more!

More!

Although her skin was not ruined and no blood was shed, Elisha’s sky-blue eyes flashed as she received the harsh energy that squeezed her heart and weighed on her body.

Now!

Elisha pierced using her sword, which she had been holding until now, with all her might, toward one point.

“Hah.”

Rohan sighed.

The 2nd Empress’s swordsmanship was too biased to be useful. He was trying to teach her how to defend herself naturally, but the 2nd Empress pierced through Rohan’s last moves and counterattacked.

Chaeng!

Rohan, who defeated Elisha’s counterattack and turned it into nothing, usually ended the battle at this point, but not today.

Rohan did not retrieve the sword.

Seeing the sword that was coming her way, Elisha lifted the corners of her mouth.

She pretended to bump her sword hard against him… But pushed her sword to the side, and at the same time, she kicked the ground and jumped high.

As Elisha’s arms swung the sword all the way from behind her head to the front, her body descended rapidly.

Rohan tilted his head and looked up at the blade that was slashing down parallel to the ground. The silver hair fluttered in the wind, spread wide, becoming an arrow and dazzling his eyes.

Rohan’s sword went up to the sky.

Kwaaang!

With a loud sound, Elisha’s body floated backwards and was thrown away.

“Your Majesty!”

The knights who were watching shouted in surprise, but the commotion did not last long.

Swaaaa!

It was because Elisha’s back was surrounded by blue transparent waves that sprouted like wings behind her.

There were a few people who had seen the water spirit used by Elisha from afar before.

However, it was a disastrous sight, unlike the current unrealistically beautiful one.

A commotion of a different reason and of a different kind arose among the party and then disappeared.

Elisha looked down at Rohan without paying any attention to it.

This was the first time she had summoned the water spirit during a battle.

This was because she had to accurately check her skills with the sword.

But now, with little time left to reach the Verdin Duchy, it was time to check everything she has.

If one can’t use the best card in optimal condition at the moment when they need it, then what’s the point of having it?

It won’t be easy to get used to using the water spirit and swordsmanship at the same time, but…

As one of the leading swordsmen in the Empire as well as the Continent, Rohan was a great teacher, and she benefited from him in re-learning swordsmanship.

Along with that, there were some realizations she gained from summoning the water spirit when dealing with monsters.

“Next time, can we go one step further?”

Elisha said, but Rohan remained silent.

But he didn’t say no either.