Let’s Tame The Crazy Heroine - Chapter 74

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Chapter 74

What?

I stared at the system window with a bewildered expression.

Kaisis is being attacked by someone?

Helten Forest is an Empire forest that borders the Holy Kingdom, so why is Kaisis there?

The system window kept making beeping warning sounds as if alerting me, making my mind even more chaotic.

Since I had stopped treating patients and was looking up at the air, I could see people following my gaze.

But they wouldn’t be able to see anything.

“Beatrice, what’s wrong?”

Jacques approached and asked me.

I calmed my anxiously beating heart and shook my head deliberately.

“It’s nothing.”

Then I started treating people again.

Kaisis is being attacked by a black mage?

No, how did the black mage and Kaisis meet? Did Kaisis find the black mage?

They said Kaisis is being attacked, but isn’t that very dangerous?

My heart was beating roughly.

After finishing treatment on the last patient, I felt my mana was depleted.

When I removed my hands, the now-healed patient bowed his head toward me.

“Thank you. Thank you so much, Beatrice.”

I forced the corners of my mouth up into a smile. Then I took Jacques to a secluded spot.

“I’ve treated everyone. So please send me back to the Empire now.”

At my words, Jacques’s expression darkened.

“You have no intention of staying here permanently?”

“No.”

“Did we perhaps fail to provide something for you?”

“No, it’s not that.”

When I shook my head, Jacques looked at me with a sad expression.

“Then why, Beatrice?”

“I have things I need to do back in the Empire. I’ve solved your country’s problem, so now it’s time to solve my own.”

Even while we were talking, Kaisis would be under attack from the black mage.

I spoke while trying to suppress my anxiously beating heart.

“Please send me back to the Empire quickly.”

At my words, Jacques was silent for a moment before speaking.

“I thought you might change your mind once you came here. But I was wrong.”

I was anxious that Jacques might refuse to let me go.

“According to the prophecy, it says the saint must be in the Holy Kingdom.”

That’s when it happened.

Jacques looked at me with eyes that seemed to have made some decision.

Without realizing it, I became tense and swallowed my dry saliva.

“But since we made a promise, I must keep it. You’ve also kept your promise with me, Beatrice.”

Jacques said that, then whispered in my ear.

“All of your activities are being monitored by the Committee. If we head toward the border, we’ll probably be discovered quickly.”

“The Committee?”

“Yes, it’s the group that supports this country. I’m also a member of the Committee. They’re strongly insisting that Beatrice must remain in the Holy Kingdom.”

Jacques said that, then instructed a maid to bring out a spare dress.

The maid immediately brought the dress.

“I plan to dress this maid up and disguise her as Beatrice to lure the Committee.”

Jacques calmly explained his plan.

“Beatrice, do you know how to ride a horse?”

“I know how to ride, but I’m not skilled enough to outrun someone.”

“Then we’ll have to travel by carriage.”

The carriages were divided into two.

The carriage with me and Jacques, and the carriage with the maids.

I would take the maids’ carriage to the gate near the border, while Jacques and the maid disguised as me would take my carriage to a different gate.

It was a simple but difficult plan.

“What happens if we fail?”

“You’ll be imprisoned by the Committee.”

Crazy.

What are they, obsessive male leads? Just imprisoning people like that?

“The Committee won’t try to let you go, Beatrice. But I’ll risk my life to send you back to the Empire.”

Jacques spoke with a resolute expression.

I suddenly became curious about what would happen to Jacques after I left.

He was opposing such a hardline group – wouldn’t Jacques be in danger?

“Then what about you, Jacques, after I leave? What will happen?”

At that, Jacques’s eyes widened for a moment, then he smiled bitterly and said,

“Don’t worry about me. I’ll handle myself well.”

Looking at that expression and tone, he would definitely receive severe punishment.

Somehow I felt a little sorry for Jacques.

“You don’t need to worry about me. At most I’ll be punished by having my Committee membership revoked.”

“Is that really okay?”

Jacques smiled faintly and nodded.

“Following your will, Beatrice, is much more important than something like Committee membership.”

“…Somehow I feel sorry for Jacques.”

“You don’t need to feel sorry. I’m just keeping my promise too.”

Jacques said that, then immediately put me in the carriage.

“In a little while, we’ll switch carriages in the forest near the border.”

I nodded.

Not long after the carriage departed, we arrived near the border.

I hurriedly got out of the carriage and switched with the maids.

The maid wearing my dress bowed politely toward me. Then the other maids and Jacques also bowed their heads.

“Though it was brief, it was an honor to serve you, Beatrice.”

“It was an honor!”

When Jacques spoke, the maids said in unison.

Given the situation, it was in a small voice that only I could hear, but I could feel their feelings for me were great.

“It was an honor for me to meet all of you too.”

When I spoke with a faint smile, the maids with moved expressions soon hardened their faces with determination.

“We’ll somehow lure the Committee. In the meantime, please cross the border and return to the Empire, Beatrice.”

“I will.”

I took one last look at Jacques and the maids and started the carriage.

The carriage crossed the forest path at high speed.

My mana was now about one-tenth full. It was still too much to attempt teleportation.

I could hear the coachman diligently whipping the horses.

I prayed in the rattling carriage that Jacques’s plan would succeed.

That’s when it happened.

I heard the horses’ high neighing, then the carriage stopped.

“It’s an attack from the Committee!”

The coachman shouted urgently.

I hurriedly got out of the carriage.

Looking ahead, I could see that one of the two horses pulling the carriage had collapsed with an arrow in its leg.

“Since they don’t know which one is Beatrice, it seems they’ve decided to attack both to find out.”

I bit my lips.

There was only one uninjured horse left. But unfortunately, I didn’t know how to ride.

“Beatrice, please escape.”

The coachman asked me to hand over my robe, then put it on himself and mounted the horse.

“I’ll try to lure the Committee away.”

Why were these people, who didn’t even know me, going this far for my sake?

What exactly was this position of saintess supposed to be?

I stared blankly up at the coachman, then belatedly came to my senses at his words to hurry and escape, and began running down the forest path.

If I could just get past this border, it would be Helten Forest. That meant I could meet Kaisis.

So just a little more, just a little more…!

As I desperately crossed through the forest path, the sound of “Found her!” echoed from behind.

“Beatrice! Stop right now!”

Would you stop if you were in my position?!

I ignored the words of the knights who seemed to be sent by the Committee and ran down the forest path.

“Beatrice, if you continue like this, we’ll have no choice but to use force!”

Someone shouted.

Right now my mana was about 20% full.

Teleportation would be too much, but I felt like I could cast a defensive spell at least once.

I gritted my teeth and crossed through the forest path.

That’s when it happened.

Thunk-!

An arrow that flew from behind embedded itself in a tree next to me.

Good heavens!

If it had hit me wrong, it would have been a fatal wound. It wasn’t aimed at my head, but seemed to be targeting my shoulder or arm.

Wait, I’m the saintess. Is it okay to shoot arrows at the saintess like this?

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