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Volume 2 Chapter 1 Part 10

And when the siege tower approached the castle gate, a silvery-white light shone from the top of the turret. The light soared and landed on one of the gate towers guarding the castle gates.

(Is that person... ?)

Petr lets out a wry smile.

It must be Aishela, who is always accompanying Captain Grak’s mercenary army.

She is a black-haired warrior woman clad in silver scale armor. She has superhuman jumping power and the ability to change the direction and speed of her fall while falling. Both her appearance and abilities are said to be the imitations of Valkyries, the spirits of the warrior maidens from the divine world called Valhalla. Petr would not be at all surprised if someday it turned out that she is capable of soaring freely through the skies just like the real Valkyries were supposed to be capable of doing.

She was Petr’s first opponent back when Lassic’s forces attacked Theo’s castle. If she was fighting seriously, then Petr would have definitely been killed back then, but it was not until later that Petr learned that before the battle started she has been instructed to not kill as many of Lassic’s soldiers as possible.

Thanks to that, Petr’s life has been spared, and through a bizarre twist of fate Aishela took a liking to Petr, and the two of them have been something akin to best friends ever since. She is a beautiful woman, and she was always friendly and nice with Petr, and yet he still hesitated to fully let his guard down around her because he knew just how absurd her real strength was. However, the person in question did not seem to mind that in the slightest, and she was always hugging him every time they met instead of doing just a regular greeting with him.

He already tried asking her to stop doing that multiple times, but she was not listening to his words at all because she was unable to control her own impulses.

(If she manages to get herself onto the castle’s ramparts, then the battle is going to be as good as decided. )

Petr felt relieved, because as long as Aishela was here, then it meant that his own role in the siege was practically over now.

「Hide behind the shields and wait for a while. If there is an opening, feel free to shoot! 」

Petr ordered his soldiers while he himself decided to watch Aishela fight… but as soon as she noticed him watching her, she turned away from the battle and blew him a kiss.
Then I saw Aixera turning to Petr and throwing him a kiss.

「You are amazing, Petr! 」

Aishela smiled and shouted. The young 16-year-old monarch who had a cute face and personality reminded himself that he still needed to do what needs to be done.

(He is so cute when he is embarrassed like that!)

He attracted the attention of the archers on the walls so that she could easily leap to one of the gate towers guarding the gates. Right now, Aishela had a strong urge to jump over to Petr, hug him, and kiss him on his lovely, puffy cheeks, but in the end the urge to do battle has won, so she settled on only blowing him a kiss.

Aishela suddenly jumped into the air and fell from above the heads of the guardsmen stationed on the gate tower, sending them all into a panic.

「Now, let me take you all for a dance! 」

Muttering a phrase in an old-fashioned tone, Aishela slashed her naginata and cut off the flesh on the legs of the enemy soldiers in front of her. The soldiers all rolled onto the floor, screaming as the blood spilling from their freshly cut-open legs stained the floor beneath them in a bright shade of red. Aishela made sure cut them all so deep that they should no longer be able to stand back up even if they tried.

Now that she was done dealing with the soldiers in this guard tower, Aishela moved right to the next one where she dispatched another group of soldiers in the exact same way.

Aishela moved to another tower and neutralized the defenders in exactly the same way.

Above the gate tower oil was already boiling in a cauldron and large stones were piled up one on top of the other in a large mound. If the siege towers move even a little bit closer to the castle walls, all these things are going to be dropped onto the attackers at once.

Aishera turned to Lucas, the Sniper who was waiting for his turn to attack on top of the siege tower’s turret, and gave him a thumbs-up. Lucas grinned and nodded, telling Grak and the others inside the siege tower that the gate tower had been neutralized.

Then, in the next moment, the siege tower violently rushed towards the castle gate.

Hearing the commotion, Aishela looked back towards the siege tower and almost choked on her own spit. Captain Grak, who was always proud of his superhuman strength given to him by his Arts was now pushing the siege tower with all his might… but he was putting way too much force into it than he should have been pushing.

「Too fast, Captain! Too fast!! 」

Aishela cried out in haste, but it was all to no avail. At this rate, the siege tower will crash into the castle gate.

Even Lucas, who was usually taciturn and composed no matter what was happening started swearing like there was no tomorrow. The turret part of the siege tower will definitely crash into the stone wall of the castle at this rate.

「Lucas! Over here! 」

Aishela leaned out of the gate tower and stretched out her hand.

「Can you jump?! 」

Lucas hesitated for a moment, but when he saw the castle gate approaching in front of him at frighteningly high speed, he made up his mind and jumped.

Arts are also engraved on his feet. However, they are the ones meant only for high-speed movement and covert movement, and were giving him no supernatural jumping power, so even though the distance was not all that long, he almost ended up falling to the ground.

However, just before that, Aishela grabbed Lucas’ arm and pulled him back towards herself. With too much momentum, Lucas he was going to end up crashing right into Aishela’s chest.

Aishela stuck out her chest and caught the sniper with it. When his face collided with the armored part of Aishela’s breastplate, her chest sank up a little before it got immediately pushed back again.

「Are you okay? 」

「Yeah, your elasticity cushioned the impact. 」

Lucas said in his usual sour voice, but with a slight bit of hesitation added to it.

「Glad that I could be of help to you. 」

Aishela smiled softly.

However, the momentum of the siege tower did not stop there, and a short while later, it ended up colliding with the castle gate with a loud crash when the battering ram at the tip of the tower had broken through the castle gate in a single blow as it got pushed inside of it for a bit. The turret part crashed into the stone wall of the castle gate and broke into pieces.

When the dust finally settled, Aishela could already see Moreno’s face as it twitched in anger.

(Well, I did my best to bring it here in one piece, but it’s a pity that it will not be able to do anything more.)

Aishela muttered to herself.

「I’ll leave the rest here to you then. 」

Aishela left Lucas with these words, and she leapt from the gate tower and landed in the castle courtyard.

By that time, Grak’s mercenaries had already jumped out of the wooden horse. Then, a fierce battle was fought with the enemy castle soldiers who were already waiting for them.

Grak stretched out his log-like arms and spun his body like a spinning top, knocking down enemy soldiers like they were just bowling pins, and Lucas sniped them from the gate tower, killing one person with each shot.

The enemy was desperate, but no matter how long the battle lasted, no protection from a banner appeared, and no Lord, Mage or Artist came to the rescue of the castle’s defenders. The army of King of Sevis lost most of its Lords after its two recent defeats, and the magic division’s contract was also canceled. The mercenaries contracted by Nabir Gerje seemed to have ran away as well.

「I feel like I’m going to have no problems fighting against a disorganized army like this. 」

Aishela frowned while looking at the enemies she was about to face.

She could not help it but to feel sorry for the soldiers forced into fighting a pointless, lost battle like this one.