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For some reason, the area leading from the former Viscount Marquis Bottox’s hideout in the suburbs to the city of Karamiya was bustling with visitors.
First, it was the former Triaark Redeo Wahl, Princess of Waiyar, who had been turned into a “puppet of the dead” by Zolgelge.
Then, just encountering the “Wandering Dismantlers” consisting of three Demonkin was enough to fill my plate, but to make matters worse, the Hero Party joined the fray, which was like a bolt from the blue.
And yet… the memories of my past life as Lester the Cleric remained vague and indistinct.
To think that I would meet Lester the Cleric in a place like this.
Why are my past life memories so unclear?!
“I finally found the person who killed Mizet Ozman. I will surely defeat you all!”
The first one to speak to me was Johan Tazzo, the shield warrior.
I remember Mizet Ozman, who appeared in his preceding speech.
Actually… until very recently, Lester the Cleric and Johan the Shield Warrior were fellow virgins.
She was a kind woman who allowed him to experience his “first time.”
Johan and Mizet met when they were staying in a village in the Southern Nations, and the girl who took care of them was Miss Mizet.
She wasn’t beautiful, but she was a home-loving village girl with a warm demeanor.
They became close, and eventually, they had sex. That’s how their romance began.
Unlike the handsome hero Albert Sandia, Johan had a rough, gruff face, so he didn’t have much luck with women.
However, strangely enough, Johan and Mizet hit it off.
I remember that they had promised to get married in the future.
This was because Lester the Cleric had been asked to handle their wedding arrangements.
However, shortly after the Hero Party left, tragedy struck.
The village was attacked by Demonkin and completely wiped out.
When I arrived at the village, pulled along by the furiously enraged shield warrior, there were no survivors other than a Demonkin guard.
Still, Johan ran around desperately to check on Miss Mizet’s safety.
The village had several large wooden barrels for preserving and aging the villagers who had become ingredients, and he inspected the meat chunks in the process of aging with tears in his eyes and a look of desperation.
It turned out that Miss Mizet’s body had been pickled in vinegar.
The decisive factor in identifying her was a distinctive mole in the shape of a three-star cluster below Miss Mizet’s left breast.
It was also evidence that Johan and Mizet had had sex.
Johan, clutching the dismembered remains of Miss Mizet, who had been reduced to a tragic state, wailed.
Despite his companions from the Hero Party being nearby, Johan wept like a man.
Even his companions could only watch.
And then, they tracked down the culprits and came all the way here…
I looked at the Hero Party again.
Hero Albert Sandia and Shield Warrior Johan Tazzo were as they always were.
The Hero had become more skilled in handling the Holy Sword Calyute and had gained more of a heroic aura.
As for Johan, his shield had been replaced.
I recall that shield was hung on the wall of a Demonkin castle that was captured during their invasion of the Northern Nations.
Looking closely at the captured shield, the crest of the Desmonia Kingdom was depicted on it.
Next, I looked at the rear guard.
In the center of the rear guard stood a person in clerical attire, looking vigorous.
This was Lester the Cleric, my past self.
In his hand, he held a splendid long staff, which was an expensive magic staff gifted by the Asgard Holy Church.
It was a parting gift for being chosen for the Hero Party.
Beside him, the aloof Elf with a quiver and short bow on her back was Princess Edelgard Tinde Tintar, the fourth princess and half-sister of Dietlinde.
She was a poor-breasted Elf, as typical, but she exuded an aura of nobility befitting a princess.
After defeating Demon King Gandaro, Edelgard returned to the Tintaal Kingdom and was crowned Queen.
Rumor has it that she had built a happy family, becoming the mother of two children.
I felt a slight sense of incongruity, but it was probably just my imagination.
This was the team that was present before Lester the Cleric joined.
They were accompanied by two other women.
The first woman was Frogis Yancker Sauzen, a mace user who belonged to the Holy Knights of the Asgard Holy Church.
She had her black hair cut into a bob, and she had a sharp-eyed, beautiful appearance.
She was of average build, and her breasts could be described as small.
Although Frogis could also fight on the front lines, her current primary duty was to protect the rear guard.
Frogis was also scouted by the Hero and joined the party, and like Edelgard, she was also the Hero’s lover.
Rumor has it that she offered her virginity to the Hero.
Frogis was from the Southern Nations.
Moreover, she was a former princess of a small country.
The name of the small country was the Kingdom of Sauzen, and it was said to have been destroyed by the Kingdom of Sazania.
At the same time, she stated that she would seek revenge on anyone from the Royal Family of Sazania she encountered.
Since Sheela, who is of Sazanian royal blood, is in the “Princess Harem,” I need to be careful not to let it slip.
Of course, explaining this to Sheela here and now would be difficult, so I can only pray that I don’t say anything I shouldn’t.
In that sense, the words and actions of Elise and Freya, who are from the same region, might also be dangerous.
There’s no telling if they might reveal something in their usual “comedy duo” or “slapstick routine.”
By the way, Frogis died during the battle against the Demon Lord Army.
After being captured by the Demon Lord Army, she was violated and then executed.
Her execution method was impalement.
Specifically, she was impaled from behind through her anus with a blunted stake, with the tip of the stake protruding from her mouth.
It is said that blunting the tip of the stake was done to prolong her suffering by not damaging vital organs when she was pierced.
The Hero cremated Frogis’s body, her face contorted with despair, pain, and terror.
In other words, she was purified by the flames of the Holy Sword Calyute.
The other woman’s name was Hermit Mishly Yasunas, an offensive magic user.
She was a cool beauty with short, light blue hair and blue eyes.
However, like Mai, she was petite and had small breasts.
Hermit was a new member who was scouting as an adventurer before being scouted by the Hero.
And, not surprisingly, Hermit was also a lover of the Hero, having offered her virginity to him.
Hermit was also from the Southern Nations, and like Frogis, she was a princess of a small country.
Her country was called the Duchy of Yasunas, and it too had been destroyed by the Kingdom of Sazania.
Hermit, the second princess, was also fully intent on seeking revenge if any survivors of the Sazanian royal family remained.
It seems the Kingdom of Sazania, in the Southern Nations, had gone too far, much like the Espana Imperial Kingdom.
Incidentally, Hermit also died in battle against the Demonkin.
She was split in half and died anticlimactically after losing a magic battle with the Demonkin.
Her body was trampled on the battlefield and could not be recovered, a tragic fate.
And I remembered something else.
The Hero Party had its current formation immediately after defeating a detachment of the Demon Lord Army that served as a bridgehead in the Southern Nations after a fierce battle.
In that fierce battle, they had defeated Beberon, one of the Demon Lord Army’s Four Heavenly Kings, who was also the Chief of Staff of the Demon Lord Army and the commander of the forces dispatched to the Southern Nations.
Incidentally, Beberon’s second daughter is Miralca, with whom I performed the “First Night Ritual” the other day.
And in the counter-offensive operations in the Southern Nations, many warriors died.
Defeating the enemy’s detachment, despite heavy sacrifices, was a significant achievement.
Taking advantage of that momentum, they were about to advance towards the Northern Nations, where the enemy’s main force was located, when the news of Mizet Ozman’s death arrived.
The Hero Albert Sandia, spurred on by the Shield Warrior, came to the Western Nations in search of enemy information, like a hunting dog.
I remembered a lot, but the crucial details remained shrouded in mist.
Incidentally, in the major counter-offensive in the Southern Nations, two members of the Hero Party had also died.
The first was a self-proclaimed “monk,” Goza Rapsun, a battle hammer user.
He was a bald, large man who wielded his battle hammer with superb strength.
As his appearance suggested, he had a bold and unrestrained personality, and did not get along with the nervous Lester the Cleric.
I believe he approached the Hero himself and asked to join the party?!
However, since many Demonkin were brute force types who used magic to enhance their physical abilities, bludgeoning weapons, which relied on sheer mass, were effective against them, and he had clubbed countless Demonkin to death.
But the enemy commander, Beberon, was a cunning man.
Goza, who often served as a front-liner, fell victim to a despicable trap and met a tragic end.
The second person to die was Janas Hamann, a female warrior who used a spear.
She was a large female warrior with short, reddish-brown hair and tanned skin.
She had a sisterly demeanor and was a master spear wielder.
Her chest was also developed with pectoral muscles, giving the impression of large breasts at first glance, but it was more of a case of breasts sitting on top of developed muscles.
In other words, her breasts themselves were likely small.
Considering this, I arrived at a conclusion.
That is, Hero Albert Sandia has a preference for short hair and small breasts.
In that case, is Edelgard with her long hair an anomaly?
In the end, it’s just a preference for small breasts, isn’t it?!
Naturally, Janas and the Hero were in a close relationship.
As for Janas, her combat position was from the front to the center.
However, it became her undoing that she often fought on the front lines to fill Goza Rapsun’s void, and she was also killed by Beberon’s deceitful tactics.
The reason why the current Hero Party has many rear-guard members is that they had not been able to replace the two front-liners.
“Become the rust for my sword! Or rather, I’ll turn you into ashes!!”
“Who pickled my wife?!”
Hero Albert Sandia and Shield Warrior Johan Tazzo attacked the group of three Demonkin.
Normally, Johan the Shield Warrior would defend against the enemy’s attacks while the Hero exploits any openings, but Johan also charged forward, his hatred for the one who killed and pickled Miss Mizet seeming intense.
[Black Cutter]
[Dark Ball]
[Acid Arrow]
In response, Yaira, the dark magic user, unleashed a barrage of magic attacks.
Even so, the Hero and the Shield Warrior charged forward without faltering.
It was a straightforward charge, as if embodying the fact that one is a hero precisely because of their courage.
Only the four rear-guard members remained on the Hero Party’s side.
Naturally, horned wolves, lower-ranking Demonkin, surrounded them, occasionally launching attacks.
Lester the Cleric, the healing role, was useless in this situation.
Frogis Yancker Sauzen, the mace user, was the cornerstone of the rear guard’s defense and fought diligently.
If Lester the Cleric were to fall, there would be no one to heal them, so the responsibility was immense.
[Fire Cutter]
[Aqua Ball]
[Wind Arrow]
[Sand Wall]
Meanwhile, Hermit Mishly Yasunas, the rear-guard mage, was busy countering the enemy dark mage Yaira with four-elemental magic and supporting the Hero and Shield Warrior with magic barriers.
Edelgard, the Elf archer and water elemental magic user, drew her short bow and began firing a volley of arrows from the quiver on her back.
This was because there were many horned wolves surrounding them.
And then, the Hero and Shield Warrior engaged the enemy.
At the same time, the enemy’s target shifted from us to the intruding Hero Party, but some of the horned wolves continued to attack us.
They moved with agility, making them difficult to hit.
However, we also have experience fighting demons.
While “Assy-kun” and “Crispy-kun” were terrified by the approaching horned wolves, “Black Princess” and “White Princess” stood calmly, perhaps due to their trust in us.
The horned wolves that approached became prey to Elise and Elder Sister Shera’s various magic attacks.
The only one who seemed faltering was Dietlinde.
This was probably because her half-sister, Edelgard, was fighting nearby.
She was fighting from a position behind the carriage, where Edelgard had been.
She also hid her distinctive hair and Elf ears under her hood.
Dietlinde seemed unwilling to meet Edelgard here.
Incidentally, Edelea, wielding twin swords, and Swan Hilda, holding a shovel, stood by as a reserve force in case anything happened.
Still, Swan Hilda seemed to have taken a liking to the shovel.
The one she was currently equipped with was a gardening tool found during the battle against the Undead army, and she had asked Zwei to create a new weapon for her.
Meanwhile, the Hero had chosen “Todong of the Fermented Fish” as his opponent.
He unleashed a fiery slash with the Holy Sword Calyute, but it was difficult to inflict a fatal wound on Todong, whose physical abilities were enhanced by magic.
And the Shield Warrior was fighting “Jange of the Raw Fish.”
Given the fact that Miss Mizet’s body had been pickled in vinegar, Johan had indeed found his nemesis.
Well, when Johan shouted in his preceding speech, Jange had let out a meaningful smirk, which likely allowed him to deduce it.
Meanwhile, Yaira, engaged in a magic battle with Hermit, carefully aimed and unleashed her magic attacks.
Most of them were aimed at the Hero Party, but sometimes stray shots or ricochets would come towards us.
The exchange of intense magic attacks was so fierce that there was no room for anyone else to intervene.
“Someone, please defeat that female Demonkin for me.”
Unable to bear it any longer, I cried out.
Thank you for reading.
episode56-9 The Princess’s War Front is Turbulent ①
was scheduled to be posted on January 8, 2022, at 0:00.
