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Volume 7 Chapter 4 Part 5

「Yeah, having you here with me is really reassuring. You have no idea how relieved I am. But no matter what happens, don’t fight with a sword, okay? Just focus on supporting me with magic. 」

Lassic said with a grin on his face.

「Okay. But if I do exceptionally well in this battle, you have to buy me another accessory for my collection. 」

「Yeah, yeah, sure, we’ll discuss the details later.

And while we’re at it, maybe you should talk with her about it?

Lasik answered and then Moreno turned his attention to Natalia, who was acting as the current ruler of Ozer.

「What are you talking about?」

Natalia asked with a straight face, as if she didn’t understand what the two of them were just talking about.

「You know, what we just talked about recently? 」

Lasik said suggestively to her, and Natalia looks around her in a panic.

「W-Were you really serious about that?! 」

「Of course, you can’t joke about something like that, can you? 」
Before his departure, Lassic called Natalia to his side and told her that he wanted to take her as his queen. He wouldn’t adopt the child she had with her late husband, Neman Maudry, but he would still be raised as an heir to the Maudry family.
He told Natalia that he would have her own Crest returned to her, but she would, but she would have to transfer the title of Viscount Rajo, the ruler of her family’s home, to her eldest brother Cassin.

Cassin was appointed as her aide and watched her for a while, but it was decided that he was someone who could only lead the Viscount family., so he intended to replace Natalia as Lord of Ozer. He left it up to Theo to decide whether to subordinate him to Lassic. or directly to Theo.

Natalia agreed to return her title and transfer it to her eldest brother, but there was no response regarding Lassic’s marriage proposal itself just yet.

「They say it’s bad luck to make a promise like that before a battle. 」

Natalia still looked confused and hesitant.

「I don’t care about such things. Regardless of your reply, this will be the last time you’ll be standing on a battlefield, Lady Natalia. Don’t push yourself too hard. 」

「As long as I am your subordinate Lord, I will continue do my best for your sake, Lord Lassic. 」

Natalia answered resolutely.

「Now, let’s make sure that we’ll hand Milza’s ass to him! 」

It was then that Lasik raised his voice again, but….

「Huh? What’s that? 」

One of Lassic’s subordinate Lords raised his voice. When they all looked ahead, they saw a group of cavalry approaching them at full speed.

Someone was coming towards them.
「The flag that they’re carrying is the unicorn emblem of the Constance family. Unlike the black unicorn on a white background of the Artuk Treaty, it’s gold on a white background. 」

She was the one who changed the unicorn to black, partly to honor the mourning of Earl Vilar of Artuk. Because they were made in large quantities, they were skimpy on the gold thread.

「It looks like they’ve succeeded in getting Regalia back. 」

Although he was anxious, Lassic decided to wait for the Regalian cavalry.

The regalia cavalry got closer and closer, until it stopped at Lassic’s camp. Serge Constance and his contracted Mage Eret Harkas approached Lassic on horseback.

「What about Regalia? 」

「We have taken it back. This time, we are bringing 1,000 horse archers to take back Castle Unicorn from the invaders. 」

It was Eret, not Serge, who answered Lassic’s question. Not only is she Serge’s contracted Mage, but right now pretty much everyone was under the impression that she was also his guardian.

「I would like to listen to what Regalia has to say, but there is something urgent that we need to take care of right now. 」

Lassic looked back at Dartania’s army, which was heading towards Theo’s camp. Of course, it was getting further and further away while they were standing her talking.

「I am aware of this. We heard about the situation from King Alfred of Clovis, who had fled the battlefield, and hurried to the scene. If you wish to pursue the Dartanian army, then feel free to join us as well. 」

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「Thank you for the kind offer, but aren’t you all tired? 」

「We are, but that’s not a problem. We’ve been beaten by Dartania’s army one time too many, but at least we can boast that we’re faster than them. 」

Eret said with absolute confidence in her voice. The fact that they were able to escape death at the hands of the Dartanian army so many time also means that they’ve been beaten by them that many times, but Eret didn’t seem to care about that all that much.

In fact, by running away from the battlefield, Serge Constance was actually able to protect his country, and this time his efforts also made it possible to delay the Dartanian return to Artuk by running away from his castle. Thanks to this, Theo was able to mobilize a large number of Artuk’s citizens and amass big enough army for himself to take on Milza in battle.

「In that case, let’s split up and chase after him! 」

「Understood. Then, we will go from the right, so you can take the left side. 」

Eret bowed to Lassic and and looked back at Serge.

「Everyone, let’s pursue them! We will destroy the Dartanian army here so that the desert people will never invade our homeland of Regalia ever again! 」

Serge called out to his troops, which consisted of nomadic cavalry archers he had mobilized precisely for the purpose of this battle. The nomads responded by letting out their own strange voices, which were probably voices of encouragement.

「I heard that apparently the nomadic people didn’t want to respond to his call to action. 」

Lasik murmured curiously.

「I heard so too, but apparently Lord Serge kept on visiting the nomads and tried to convince them to his cause while also providing various benefits to them. He is said to be a good Lord who listens carefully to what the people have to say and takes prompt action whenever it is necessary… or so I’ve heard. 」

Moreno answered Lassic’s question.

「Well, I guess this just goes to show that it takes something more than being just a good fighter to be a good Lord. 」

Lasik nodded, stroke the sides of his horse with the soles of his feet and galloped off. Moreno ran alongside him, followed by Natalia, their knights, and cavalry.

Dartania’s army was already far ahead of them.

There’s no way they’ll make it in time, but Theo has built a solid base, so it shouldn’t collapse anytime soon, and it would have been difficult for Dartania’s army to get behind them.

「Milza, I will not let you do anything to the man who will be my master! 」

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That was when Milza was charging into Lassic’s camp.

「Something is wrong… 」

While Mirza was running his horse, he suddenly twisted his neck.

「What do you mean? 」

Terius looked around, but didn’t notice anything of particular interest.

「It’s Lassic David’s camp. It’s divided into three smaller camps, lined up horizontally instead of vertically. It’s as if he’s welcoming us to attack him. 」

「The mobility of the Selvis’s army, which is mainly infantry, and our army is different. Since we can’t escape, we must be prepared and plan to intercept them. 」

「In that case, they should have been more defensive. That formation purposefully looks as if they were encouraging us to get into close range engagement with them, and the last time we tried to do that, like you said, there was no way to escape. It feels like it’s the setup for the exact same thing here. 」

Milza must have had a wild flash of instinct that told him that something about it was wrong.

「Yes, when you put it like that, it does feel like we’re getting set up. 」

Terius certainly thought it was strange as well.

「But on the other hand, if we cut into them here, we should be able to easily defeat them, and that would spell the Artuk Treaty’s loss, right? 」

That formation doesn’t seem to care about that. The reason why Kirch’s army took up a column formation was because they were prepared to attack Milza with all of their army. expand horizontally. If only they spread out horizontally, the damage they’ve suffered would’ve been greatly diminished. As a result, Daltania’s army defeated many enemies, but a surprising number of their own soldiers also got defeated.