Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 198.5

Mira, who was looking around from the top of the carriage with [Far Vision] skill, squinted her eyes and told us what it was.

“An army…Mister Knight, have you heard anything?”

“As I recall, there is a battalion out there to rule Cutlass, but I have not heard that they are following this route.”

In response to Dalton’s question as he emerges from the carriage, one of the knight barons rented from Baron Suleiman nods his head in agreement.

This route would get us there relatively quickly, but some parts of the road are narrow, making us vulnerable to monsters and other attacks. It would be no problem for us, but I wouldn’t say that it is not a route for a single battalion of nearly a thousand people, but there would be no reason to choose it.

“Be on the lookout, just in case.”

At Dalton’s command, Rainbow Sword and, momentarily bewildered, Sanje and the other mercenaries moved in, ready for battle to a degree that was not unnatural.

Ron…the third prince had enemies who wanted to kill him, and although Elena’s presence seemed to have stabilized Ron’s position, there was a possibility that they would target “me” to scoop up his footsteps.

A battalion scale for that would be too large, but if the commander was a high-ranking nobleman, it should be possible to change the route, make up suspicions of counter-intelligence, etc., and even trick him into a fight.

“…”

As we gradually approached and could see the entire battalion, a few horsemen came running from the other side and raised their voices in front of us.

“I am sure that you are Lord Dalton of Rainbow Sword and his associates.”

“Yes, and who are you?”

“This is the support battalion of the Cutlass Resident Army. Viscount Talar, the commander of the battalion, has asked me to invite Lord Dalton and the young lady who was found.”

“…I understand. Tell him I’ll be right there.”

“Yes.”

The knight baron, who had caught Dalton’s gaze, replied, “A neutral nobleman,” as the messenger’s horse returned to the battalion. We did not have enough information to make a judgment. But I didn’t sense a certain tension in the signs I felt from them that they were trying to trick us into a fight.

“Shall we go for now?”

“Well, I guess so.”

Dalton nodded lightly at my words. Dalton was a heavy fighter, hardened with mithril, and there was no one who could easily kill me now. We stepped forward, thinking that at the very worst we could manage to kill the commanders from the top down while Dalton kept his men in line.

When we arrived at the battalion where we had stopped, we were met with curious looks from the soldiers who had made way for us. An incidentally stifled little shriek was heard from someone who had appraised us.

The knight from earlier returned from the middle of the road and led us on foot, and the doors of a luxurious carriage, not unlike an army carriage, opened…was that Ron? Ron, dressed in his sumptuous costume, having removed the dirt from his impression of me, noticed me and smiled slightly, then took the hand of the next person who appeared and quietly let “her” out of the carriage.

The surrounding soldiers and knights let out inarticulate sighs of admiration at the sight of the girl in a dress as opulent as Ron’s. The slight murmur of admiration was followed by a sigh from the knights and soldiers.

In the midst of this faint murmur, I involuntarily stopped in my tracks, and when she noticed this, tears welled up in her azure eyes reflecting mine, and she jumped into my chest as though shaking off Ron’s hand.

“Welcome back…Aria.”

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“I’m home…Elena.”