Let’s Tame The Crazy Heroine - Chapter 75

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Chapter 75

“This was a warning, but there won’t be a next time, Beatrice!”

Warning my ass.

I swallowed the breath that had risen to my chin and ran without rest.

Suddenly, a chilling sound like drawing a bowstring came from behind.

It was when I reflexively tried to draw up what little mana I had left to cast a defensive spell.

“Beatrice!”

Along with a horse’s neigh, Jacques burst out from beyond the bushes and swept me up.

“Jacques!”

Jacques seated me in front of him and began galloping away.

At the horse’s rapid speed kicking off the ground, the startled knights began frantically spurring their horses.

“Jacques, how did you get here…?”

“I thought I’d be caught soon, so I came toward where Beatrice was.”

“What about the maids?”

“…They were all captured.”

“Then…”

“Don’t worry. They’ll be punished, but not to the extent of threatening their lives or health. They’ll probably just be confined to their homes for a while.”

I felt sorry for the maids.

To be confined to their homes because of a promise they made with me.

As I was biting my lips, Jacques suddenly turned the horse’s direction and drove it toward a place thick with fog.

“Where are we going?”

“I think it would be better to shake off the knights for now.”

With poor visibility due to the fog, it would be difficult for the knights to follow.

As we galloped like that for a while, I could see peculiar flowers blooming throughout the forest.

Where have I seen these flowers before?

As I squinted and looked down at the flowers, I suddenly remembered.

The flowers that the rabbit monster vomited at the hunting competition.

They looked similar to those flowers.

“Jacques, could you stop for a moment?”

When Jacques slowly stopped the horse, I dismounted and examined the flowers.

They were indeed the same flowers the rabbit monster had vomited last time.

I hurriedly picked a flower and showed it to Jacques.

“Jacques, do you happen to know what kind of flower this is?”

“It’s a flower that suddenly started growing in the Holy Kingdom recently. It’s called ‘Pimpis,’ and its reproductive power is so strong that it spread throughout the entire Holy Kingdom in an instant.”

“Are the timing of when Masu Transformation began spreading and when the Pimpis flowers started reproducing similar?”

“…Now that I think about it, they do seem roughly similar.”

Jacques’s expression became serious.

“Could this flower be related to Masu Transformation…?”

“It seems like we need to confirm it.”

I had a strong intuition that the Pimpis flowers were connected to Masu Transformation. I decided to take this flower with me for now.

I inserted the picked flower into my brooch-shaped magical tool and attached it to my dress.

“We really need to hurry now, Beatrice.”

At Jacques’s urging, I mounted the horse again, and it began galloping rapidly.

It was the moment we arrived at the point where the fog ended.

An arrow flying from behind barely grazed Jacques’s arm as it passed.

“Ugh!”

“Sir Jacques! Stop!”

Damn, they caught up already!

Red blood flowed down Jacques’s arm. But Jacques paid no attention and drove the horse forward.

“Jacques, you’re bleeding!”

“It’s fine, Beatrice. This much will heal quickly.”

Due to my lack of mana, I couldn’t even use healing magic on him.

Feeling my mana now about three-tenths full, I bit my lips.

Jacques drove the horse rapidly. Even during this, arrows kept flying.

Jacques was essentially acting as my human shield.

Quickly, please quickly…!

As I prayed inwardly, I could see the border in the distance.

“The border!”

At that moment, one of the flying arrows hit the horse’s hind leg.

Along with the horse’s sharp cry, we crashed to the ground.

Jacques pulled me into his arms and rolled on the ground.

“Ugh…!”

“Jacques! Are you okay?”

“I’m fine, Beatrice.”

Jacques quickly got up and drew the sword from his waist.

The knights dismounted and stood before us.

“Sir Jacques, this is troubling.”

“Beatrice must return to the Empire. That was the condition for healing the people with Masu Transformation. Since Beatrice kept her promise, shouldn’t we keep ours too?”

As Jacques stood ready with his sword, the knights also drew their swords one by one.

Seeing this, Jacques became furious.

“Are you servants of Beatrice, or servants of the committee!”

At Jacques’s fierce shout, the knights flinched momentarily.

“Isn’t Beatrice’s will our will? Why do you try to go against Beatrice’s will?”

“But Beatrice is someone absolutely necessary for the Holy Kingdom…”

“Beatrice has fulfilled her duty! So it’s right to send her back!”

At Jacques’s words, I could see the knights hesitating as if troubled.

Taking advantage of this gap, Jacques turned his head and spoke quietly to me.

“Beatrice, the border is just a little further. Run.”

“But Jacques, you…”

“I’ll deal with the knights here.”

Jacques smiled faintly at me, then turned his head back with a resolute expression.

“Please return safely.”

Then he charged toward the knights.

As the startled knights readjusted their grips on their swords, Jacques knocked away one knight’s sword.

“Run quickly!”

I turned around and began running.

Hoping Jacques wouldn’t be seriously hurt, I ran toward the border.

I could hear the knights shouting something from behind.

But I didn’t look back.

I had to return. Even if it was to prevent the world’s destruction.

And…

Even if it was to save Kaisis.

I ran while panting, and the sharp sound of clashing swords continuously came from behind.

It wasn’t long before I arrived near the border.

“Beatrice, stop.”

A knight who had somehow followed aimed an arrow at me.

Just a few more steps and I would make it. I couldn’t be caught here.

“Let me go.”

“I’m sorry, but I cannot do that, Beatrice.”

In the end, did I have no choice but to use magic?

I drew up my magic power as I stood facing the knight.

Just as I was cautiously stepping backward, about to cross the border, someone grabbed my hand and pulled me.

Having crossed the border in an instant, I turned around to look back.

And seeing the person in front of me, I opened my eyes wide.

“Kaisis!”

It was Kaisis.

“Master….”

But something was strange.

Kaisis’s condition wasn’t good.

I hurriedly checked Kaisis’s condition.

Blood was gushing out from his side as he gasped for breath.

“Kaisis, what on earth happened….”

At that moment, Kaisis swung the sword he held in one hand.

Crack-!

At the same time, the arrow that had been flying toward me was cut in half.

I quickly turned around to look back.

The knight was looking at me with a frustrated expression.

Since one couldn’t cross the border without permission, he must have shot the arrow from beyond the border.

I decided to take Kaisis and get away from the border first.

“Kaisis, can you walk?”

Kaisis nodded his head with difficulty.

I supported Kaisis and went deeper into the forest.

I could see Jacques running toward us from far away.

Then, seeing that I had crossed the border, he smiled brightly and bowed his head toward me.

I also bowed my head to Jacques in greeting and went deep into the forest with Kaisis.

Kaisis was gasping for breath and then collapsed right where he was.

“Kaisis!”

As I embraced Kaisis, something got on my hands.

Looking down, my hands were completely stained with red blood.

“What on earth happened!”

“I encountered a Black Mage. And magical beasts too….”

“Why weren’t you in the North….”

“I came to get you. Because master didn’t come back for too long.”

In other words, he had tried to come to the Holy Kingdom to rescue me from being kidnapped.

Only then did I realize why Kaisis had been in Helten Forest near the border.

I examined Kaisis’s wound and frowned in distress at the deeper wound than I had expected.

“Stay still. I’ll heal you.”

As I was about to place my hand on Kaisis’s side, Kaisis grabbed my hand.

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