170 Children of the Battlefield
My heart, which seemed to be about to explode, became quiet the moment the horse took its first step. It feels like a lie that I ran amok like a madman a while ago.
‘You can win. I win.’
The opponent is the young emperor who has just turned 20.
It is a flower in the greenhouse that has been carefully nurtured by people around it because it possesses magical powers.
There’s no way you’ll get tired of a bravado-full human who doesn’t even have armor properly on a battlefield like this.
Unlike wars supported by competent officials and generals, individual battles depend only on one’s own abilities. There is no way that he, who has been trained in battlefields and competitions for a long time, will lose. It shouldn’t be.
The Crown Prince shouted loudly.
“Come on, kid!”
The Emperor of the Empire waved the reins. The emperor runs towards her with her beautiful black hair flying.
At that moment, the air surrounding the emperor’s body changed.
The relaxed atmosphere that had been there before had completely disappeared. It’s like a heavy, sharp spear, no, it’s like a suffocating darkness.
It felt as if all the air around him had turned to heavy water and was rushing towards the crown prince.
‘What, what is it?’
I couldn’t breathe for a moment because of the pressure.
***
It would be a bad manners to bring out a lightsaber in hand-to-hand combat. Rudy ran towards the crown prince holding Excalibur as it was.
As he got closer to the crown prince, who was wrapped in armor, he swung his sword with his whole shoulder. As if knocking, he slashes the sword at the crown prince.
A hair’s length later, the Crown Prince raised his sword from below.
The response is pretty quick. Certainly, it seems that many people have combat experience.
However, as much as he wore the armor, the crown prince’s movements were slow. I couldn’t possibly keep up with Rudy’s light movements.
The two horses approaching each other seem to be excited. It seems that the owner’s excitement was transmitted to the horse as it is. We had a war of nerves between us, blowing our noses.
“A kid!”
The Crown Prince shouted as if taking off heavy air.
This time, the Crown Prince’s sword flew towards his shoulder. Blocks the opponent’s sword with the shield and pushes it away.
As Rudy also struck with his sword, the distance between him and the crown prince was so close that he could feel breathing. It’s like wrestling with a sword and shield.
The sound of the horse scratching the floor ran through my nerves and rang in my head.
hahahaha, for some reason, laughter broke out. It’s like drinking compressed caffeine.
Laughing dryly, Rudy firmly folded his arm holding the shield and pushed it along with his shoulder. At the same time, he struck the crown prince’s armor with his sword in succession.
The crown prince’s body seemed to shake with a thud, and then he fell off the horse when he struck again with the sword. It seems that he couldn’t balance because of the armor.
Rudy jumped off his horse and slashed the knife straight down.
The Crown Prince rolls to avoid it. He holds the sword but seems to have missed the shield when it falls.
Rudy struck the sword again in the direction the crown prince was avoiding.
The Crown Prince hurriedly blocked it, but was pushed back by force. Rudy’s sword scraped the crown prince’s shoulder, nicking the armor slightly.
Rudy slammed the sword sideways, and the Crown Prince’s sword flew sideways and fell.
While the crown prince hesitated, Rudy jumped on top of him. Presses the opponent’s helmet with the entire shield.
The embarrassed crown prince struggled to push him away.
But Rudy’s body did not budge.
Rudy is not simply pressing with force. The human body was surprisingly strong and absurdly flimsy, so even holding down certain parts did not require any strength.
Being trained by Boris, I knew it deeply enough to die. The skills that Rudy has learned through being physically assaulted will never be released even if the crown prince struggles with all the strength he has been sucking.
Boris never taught anything fancy. All he taught was focused on saving one’s own life and killing one’s opponent in real combat.
The Crown Prince, who would have learned the elegant swordsmanship first, would not have been able to defeat Rudy even after waking up from death.
Rudy said while riding on the crown prince’s body.
“In response to your courage in facing the Empire alone, I guarantee the safety of your wife and child. You can die in peace.”
Was he worried about the future of his wife and child? The crown prince, who was struggling under Rudy’s body, seems to have lost some of his strength.
Rudy drew back his shield, raised his sword upside down, and lowered it with all his might into the crown prince’s neck.
The sword penetrates the hard armor. The feeling of something hard breaking through his leather-gloved hands was transmitted.
must be killed at once. otherwise you will suffer Rudy’s hand tightened.
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Damn, something broke.
The sword severed the crown prince’s neck bone and plunged deeper into it. The Crown Prince’s armor drooped, completely eliminating resistance.
When Rudy stood up, cheers rose from all sides.
“Wow!”
“Long live His Majesty! Long live the Emperor of the Empire!”
“Long live putegrin!”
As they raised their swords toward the imperial army, the cheers grew even louder.
When I glanced up at the castle, the shadows of several people on the wall quickly disappeared into the depths. Judging by how well-dressed he was, he must have been the owner of this castle.
Almost at the same time as the lord of the castle disappeared, the door on the side of the castle opened slightly.
A man with a mustache was pushed out of the side door as if being chased. The side door kicked the man out and then closed again.
The bearded man seems to be a servant. The clean demeanor and dress seemed that way. It may be the chamberlain who is said to have disappeared.
The bearded man didn’t seem to care about the man in the castle who had kicked him out. I only saw the corpse of the fallen crown prince. Silently, without a sound, tears flowed from the bearded man’s eyes.
An aide from the imperial army ran to Rudy’s side.
Rudy looked away from the chief chamberlain of Cania and looked at his aide.
“Treat the crown prince’s body with respect. Get a proper burial. If the author is the chamberlain, ask him to listen to the customs of Chania and do it as it is.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Levin is coming closer.
Rudy continued in a low voice.
“The crown prince’s wife and children are fully protected. All other castle lords and nobles must exterminate the men and give the women to the soldiers. I never thought that this person’s body would not be collected in the castle. I knew how to do it. They’re not worth keeping alive.”
Levin bowed politely.
Rudy shrugged grimly and gave the order.
“Prepare the mortar. Occupy the castle within today.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
A smile wearing a servant’s mask hung over Levin’s pretty face.
As he relayed Rudy’s instructions to the captains, he heard Levin add a word.
“Don’t touch the children. You know, but Your Majesty is sad.”
The captains answer each one.
“of course.”
“How many years have you been on the battlefield together?”
He had a good load.
If the crown prince of Cania had subordinates like that, the empire probably wouldn’t have been able to set foot here.
Rudy knelt down and watched the chief chamberlain of Kania taking off the crown prince’s helmet. Tears from the chief chamberlain of Kania were dripping down on the corpse of the Crown Prince.
After a while, a huge fireball flew towards the impregnable castle.
***
The castle shook with a bang, a bang, a sound.
The Crown Princess hugged the children tightly as if covering them with her body.
The eldest child is Princess, who is 10 years old this year. There were three more children under him. The first and second died young, and these four children remain.
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Dust fell from the ceiling as the building shook. The castle looks like it’s about to collapse right now. The children were terrified and started crying.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. Come here.”
The Crown Princess hugged the children even tighter.
she’s scary too When a castle is captured, women are trampled by enemy soldiers without exception. It doesn’t matter whether you are royalty or commoner.
oh my god
The Crown Princess muttered to herself and kept whispering to the children that they had nothing to fear. But his own voice was trembling terribly.
Suddenly, my nerves turned to the door. Someone was knocking on the doorknob.
“…Quiet. Please be quiet. Don’t cry.”
The Crown Princess shut the youngest son’s mouth.
The door was locked and all the entrances were blocked with furniture to prevent others from entering.
As my husband left, I asked him several times that he must do so.
When the castle is captured, the first thing to harm herself and her children is the count and his subordinates, or her husband’s subordinates, he said.
And added a word.
[The easiest way to deal with children of royal blood is to kill them. Even if you keep it alive, it will only become a ember of rebellion, so you will kill it completely in the chaos. In particular, children of orthodox heirs are executed without exception. So, under normal circumstances, none of our children would survive. There is information that the emperor of the empire is sympathetic to children, so let’s put our hopes on that.]
If the chief chamberlain does not return and the imperial soldiers arrive here, it means that the emperor has decided to kill the Canian royal family without leaving a seed behind.
In that case, they kill their children and die themselves. I made a promise to my husband.
At least the poison was prepared so that he would not suffer a disgraceful death. She gave her what her husband always had and left.
The Crown Princess stared at the door.
The door rattles again.
‘Who’s trying to open the door now? Is it the chamberlain? Or enemies? or not.’
As I was shaking, I heard my father’s voice through the door.
“Why doesn’t the door open? Crown Princess Mama, you need to escape quickly. Open the door.”
‘father.’
Father speaks more politely than at other times. These days, instead of saying Mama, there were more cases of calling her by her first name as before. When her husband was away, her tone was rather violent. It was said that she was a completely useless daughter who did not contribute to the family.
My husband’s words were spinning around in my head.
[The first person to try to harm you and the children is the Count. You should never trust him. He will hand you and the children over to the enemy and try to save his own life.]
Is it really Will the father really sell himself and his grandchildren to the enemy?
Although he neglects her now, he was a loving father when he was the Crown Princess. I was wondering what to do when the 10-year-old princess asked.
“Mother, Grandpa is outside, won’t you open the door? If you stay like this, you’ll die. Let’s run away with Grandpa, okay?”
Seeing her frightened face, the Crown Princess came to her senses.
There is no escape from this castle. There is only one way for the enemy to rise. There was only one way down at the same time.
There might be a secret passage in this castle too, but my father didn’t tell me where the entrance was until the enemy came out of the castle. If he had really intended to save her and the children, he would have announced the passage in advance.
If there is no secret passage, it is literally her father calling her to go with him in a castle where there is nowhere to escape.
“Princess, come here.”
The Crown Princess straightened her back. Hugs the princess while holding the children.
“I know you’re afraid. But my father asked me to. Never open the door except for the chamberlain.”
“But Grandpa.”
The princess looked at the door with a tearful face. Unlike the Count, who had tried to open it quietly a moment ago, now he was knocking on the door with a bang.
The Crown Princess held the children’s heads in her arms so that the little ones could hear them a little less.
“Be patient, just a little bit.
He paused for a moment because his throat was choking, then continued with a smile.
“The chief chamberlain prepared a delicious drink for you. Let’s drink it together in a little while. It’s a drink that makes you feel good, so your fears will disappear.”
The princess nodded.
The eight-year-old princess whimpered and said.
“Mother, can’t we eat it now? It’s so scary, I hope the scary thing will go away soon.”
The Crown Princess glanced at the drinking glass on the table and answered.
“In a little while. When Grandpa goes, it would be nice to eat it then. Let’s wait a little bit.”
The princesses couldn’t help but nod their heads.
The Count knocked on the door a little more, but the sound suddenly stopped.
The Crown Princess listened. Why did the sound suddenly stop? Why did Dad stop knocking on the door?
As I listened closely, I thought I could hear loud footsteps in the distance.
Then, before I knew it, the loud sound of knocking on the building disappeared. Instead, people’s screams could be heard through the thick door.
“oh my god.”
The Crown Princess muttered involuntarily. I lost strength in my lower back and my body became limp.
The enemy entered the castle.
That’s it. Now everything is over.
Alas, cruel god. Are you abandoning all these children?
The Crown Princess sat there blankly and slowly got up.
“Everyone, go to the table. Grandpa’s gone, so let’s have a refreshing drink.”
Before the Crown Princess could finish her words, a child escaped from her arms and ran to the table.
I blankly watch as the child grabs the cup with his tiny hand.
The other children rushed over to the table and took a cup in their hand.
As the tears poured down, the children’s figures gradually disappeared. I want to see the final road clearly, but my body did not follow my heart.
