The explosion occurred again after a short while.
Now the sound rings twice and three times in a row, and the outer wall spills off as if dragged by it.
"Exactly."
Moore pokes reality like he's talking to himself.
Originally there were only two hundred defensemen left in the King's Capital.
The number of opposing enemies is unknown, but it will not go below a thousand at least.
Besides, the surprise raid allowed us to break into the city in no time.
Sooner or later it was inevitable that the royal castle would fall.
"Ma'am, it's time for you to seriously suck. I know how you feel, but I need you to think about your safety here."
"Your Majesty..., are you all right?
"There will be an escape route available for times like this, and the castle soldiers have bought enough time. All we can do is hope we're safe."
For Moore, who is neither noble nor now a soldier affiliated with the Royal Army, royalty would mean 'I want you to be safe if possible, but that's why you're not the subject of loyalty until you put yourself at risk'.
"Either way, it's tidal time. I can't admit it any more. If you can't hear me, I'll do my best to get you there."
Minerva understands that the situation is so urgent to Moore's seriousness.
"I have to. Let's get out of the king's capital."
Minerva chose to follow Moore's advice, even though he didn't know where the royal family to serve was going, and felt itchy (postcard) about leaving the king's capital by leaving the people to protect.
"Dear Sorte, Mirmeus is with you"
I guess Sorte and Eleanor, who were spoken out, also understand the danger of remaining in the king's capital in this situation.
"Yes, I'll take care of the injured"
"I understand. We can't let this happen."
I asked to accompany you, Minerva. Just give me back my consent.
"In the middle of the woods to the east, the Imperial Army to the south and the battlefield to the north. West, if that's the case."
"Yeah, let's go to the capital."
Moore is right, even if it falls from the king's capital, the destination is limited.
If we escape from the enemy's hands and become a safe place, we will have to make our way west.
Fortunately, the territory of the Duke of Nilesteria family lies about a day west of the king's capital along the coast.
It was a supremely natural choice, even in the sense of moving away from the imperial and trian armies.
When Minerva and the others escape from the west gate of the king's capital, they receive horses from the Duke's men who have kept them waiting and head west mainly with the refugees.
But the walk is slow.
Because the evacuees, unlike the Minervas, were mostly on foot, and the loads they took out of the house also weighed their feet.
Old people, children and the wounded walk even slower.
If the chaser came, it would not have been possible to escape.
"As far as I'm concerned, I just wanted to rush into the capital."
"I can't. That would affirm the deed of that man in the carriage."
Do not protect what is to be protected and make your own preservation a priority.
You couldn't have admitted to such an act.
But on the other hand, it is also certain that he is involving Moore and other escorts in his creed, and Minerva cannot wipe (pluck) his self-loathing.
Everything is just in a position to be protected, because of my lack of power.
"Well, I assure you that there can be no such thing if even I am asked if it is right to abandon the refugees and flee as if they were nobles. In my heart."
It would be a difficult position if you tried Moore.
In terms of his idea of wanting this to happen with nobility, the action that Minerva is taking today may be correct.
But from the standpoint of being entrusted by the Duke and his son with the escort of Minerva, the priority is to get him to safety as soon as possible.
Take the street west with heavy air for an hour.
"Ahhh. He's already here."
Moore turned his torso back with his horse's head facing west, announcing the emergence of the chaser in a recessionary voice.
Minerva also turns back over his shoulder as he advances his horse, and what is visible in the distance is a group of armed humans coming out of the west gate of the Wang capital.
Naturally I'm not on your side.
"You got a chaser already? They won't have to chase soldiers until they're there, such as the fleeing refugees."
"Well, if it's just the refugees, they'll leave them alone."
Minerva derives one answer to the meaningful way Moore says it.
"... Could it be because I'm here?
The Duke of Nilesteria family leads back to the royal family, so to speak, the royal sidestream.
Naturally, the Lord Duke, his daughter Minerva, also has the right to inherit the throne, albeit inferior.
Of course, in normal times, succession to the throne cannot come first to Minerva.
But no matter how inferior or substantially absent, the right of inheritance is the right of inheritance.
If the Empire thinks the kingdom's resistance is too much to grind from its roots, Minerva's presence would be intrusive.
"You're a popular lady"
"You don't deny it."
That is to say, that there is no answer to the query.
"Besides, that's not a good idea. If it's just us, I think we can get away with it if we run the horse."
Few options have been given to Minerva today.
Whether you stand up to the nobility that protects the people only, or turn yourself against them and attract enemies, or try to negotiate with them, or leave the refugees behind and flee.
If the imperial soldiers are targeting the heirs to the throne, Minerva himself may be able to ensure the safety of the refugees by leaving the group.
But if the Imperial Soldiers were unaware of Minerva's movements, or were targeting the refugees themselves, the result would be to pull their guards forward.
That's not surprising to be taken as' abandoning the people and prioritizing their own preservation '.
Then you'll try to negotiate with the Imperial Soldier?
Probably should buy you some time.
But this presupposes that the enemy's aim is Minerva.
Besides, even if it were to ensure the safety of the refugees as a result of the negotiations in the first place, what would be required of them in exchange would be to detain Minerva's figure.
Naturally, the Moors. The escort couldn't have allowed that, and Minerva herself, thought it was just a waiver of responsibility, not a self-sacrifice.
First, because there is no guarantee that the Imperial Soldier will keep his word after Minerva is captured.
Of course, you can't be allowed to leave the evacuees and run away.
Then only the path of resistance will remain.
"First we try to negotiate with our enemies to buy us some time, and after the negotiations are broken, we just have to push our enemies to a halt with all our might"
"As an escort, I'd like you to run into the capital with only the lady while we stop the enemy."
"Leave the evacuees behind, are you?
"From what I've seen, there are about a hundred of them."
Make one hand look like a shield and Moore looks at the Imperial Soldier.
"I don't think you can beat five times as many enemies as you want, and you can't reach them if you go around like a stoop. Why don't you just run away?
Moore still asks Minerva, who shakes his head silently.
"Why. Is pride and pride of nobility so important? Even involving all the escorts."
He seems to have been stuck asking if he's going to drive his escort to a dead place because of your selfishness, and it hurts so that Minerva's chest can be tightened.
Still, I couldn't back off.
"It is the people of the kingdom who are behind us, because I am the nobleman of the kingdom. If there are nobles higher than me on this occasion, they will also be allowed to give priority to our own safety. But now it's just me and Mirmeus."
If Eleanor is the head of the Viscount family herself, the story may be different again, but she is just a courtier with no title, just like Minerva.
Given their respective qualifications, it would be Minerva without having to argue to be considered high.
"Then on this occasion my words are the words of the kingdom, my deeds, that is, the deeds of the kingdom as well. At least that's what the evacuees will think. If I abandon them here and now, that means synonymous with the kingdom abandoned them. If I do, I can't run away to protect myself."
Minerva has been taught since childhood that it is the spear of the country and the role of the nobility that should be shielded by the people.
"I'll do the negotiation and the time buying alone. Captain Greysta and his men will escort the evacuees."
"Don't be stupid"
Moore blocks Minerva's words with a smiley face.
"Which escort will allow you to offer the prince to protect alone before the enemy? I don't call that an escort anymore."
Moore, with a big sigh, presents a counterproposal saying, "Then let's do this."
"Start by negotiating and buying time, and after the break, pull the enemy in another direction with a few escorts with the lady. Pull as many enemy soldiers as you can and get away from the refugees, after you've bought time not to be besieged. The majority of escorts are left to stop the enemy from flowing towards the evacuees. So what do you say? If the enemy's aim is the lady's, maybe you can keep most of the soldiers away from the refugees. I don't want to endanger the evacuees, but I think the ladies and our escorts have eyes for survival."
"Thank you, Captain Greysta. So let's go."
"I'll tell you what, this isn't going to be very dangerous."
Without hiding the grump, Moore begins to coordinate with the other escorts.
As a result, it was decided that Minerva and Moore, in addition to the three of them, would be trained.
Salte and Eleanor have also offered to accompany him, but Moore overtakes it by saying "not enough horses".
"These five are the only ones trained as military horses. The rest of the horse will definitely be useless if it becomes a battle"
Horses don't just have to run with people on the battlefield.
It was more obvious than seeing the fire that if he was not trained as a military horse, the soldier would emit a male scream (otaku), and the control would be advantageous (liked) or gone by surprise at the light and sound caused by magic.
Horses originally raised as military horses are mostly driven out into battle with the Empire and into the interception of the Tria army.
That would be where the Duke's house was able to secure the military horses, albeit the five of them.
In the end, Solte and Eleanor decided to join the other escorts in protecting the refugees.
First of all, the Minervas, the five horsemen, set up in the middle of the street to wait for the Imperial Soldiers.
Naturally, in the meantime, the remaining escorts were rushing the refugees to the west at all.
As the distance from the Imperial Soldier shrinks, its formation becomes apparent.
"As I thought, you don't have many cavalry."
"Right. Is it something like seven or eight horsemen?"
Minerva also sees a group of chasers.
Infantry for the most part, but probably a platoon leader or some of the squad leaders were on board.
"If we were to put him on the ship, the number would be very low, and this time it would be an ambush from the harbor. There will be little cavalry turns. I guess I just brought a few, just in case. It's annoying for us."
"If only those cavalry men had served, they wouldn't be able to engage in pursuit."
One of the escorts, who played a role with Minerva, speaks to Moore.
"Yeah, I guess we'll have to keep our speed down so that the Imperial soldier on foot can keep following us after we've planted the cavalry."
The low number of enemy cavalry is convenient for the pursued side.
Infantry can't catch up with a cavalry that really runs, and there's a better chance the Minervas will survive without even being surrounded.
"But, ma'am. I don't think the lady needs to take the lead and negotiate, as far as I'm concerned."
"No. We need to get that one to the negotiating table first. To do this, I'd better take the lead myself and show myself. Plus, if you reveal your presence beforehand, you'll follow me around firmly later."
"Well, I won't deny that. Don't get distracted because an arrow may fly."
The distance between him and me becomes a little shorter even while Moore stands in Minerva's wake.
He was about a hundred imperial soldiers who jumped out of the west gate of the Wang capital, but when he noticed the Minervas who would welcome it in a handful called the Five Horsemen, he stopped for about fifty meters.
The sea breeze carries the scent of the tide across the street.
The silence between the bundles was coming when the footsteps of the Imperial soldiers disappeared.
"Who is the commander of the squad?
It doesn't look like a battlefield, it makes you feel elegant but it sounds like Rin.
An Imperial soldier bothered.
After a while, the voice of the man from the Imperial side will raise the voice of who (what).
"Who am I to command this unit, but who are you like that?
"My name is Minerva Nilesteria. I'm the daughter of the Duke of Nilesteria."
With Minerva's answer, even more imperial soldiers begin to bother.
Speaking from the common sense of the empire, I guess it is inconceivable that a high-ranking aristocratic courtier will emerge in a place that would be a battlefield.
Not to mention that what Minerva wears is a combat weapon, not a dress.
The appearance of the sword, crossing the horse, was very unlikely to be a lady.
"Behind us are all the non-combatants who have fled the King's Capital. I'm not willing to resist, and I don't have the skill (even) to fight. If you..."
Minerva screams out loud when he finds a shitty spot in his sight as he calls on the commander of the Empire.
"Something's coming!
"Spread out!
Moore gives instructions reflexively, and Minerva also moves the horse quickly.
Trying to blur next to it, the fireball sucked into the place where Minerva was until just now.