The wife of the villains, returning to death to change her mind.

"... Dear Ditus. This crusade means your wife will join the battle..."

A few days ago, the Duke of Farrence, the territorial capital, Naos.

It was at the beginning that such reports were brought to Deputy Knights Chief Ditus Evalight in the Knights of Naos stuffing.

It was Ed, an obedient knight of the Knights, who had been called by the Duke of Farrence to ask him for an errand, so I knew immediately that the contents would have been that.

But if you were honest with me about the content, it didn't happen.

Because Ditus said this to Ed.

"I see, you see our battle a little further away, right? Totally... your wife seems a little too selfish. Although the Duke's wife, fighting demons is always dangerous. Even if you think you're keeping enough distance, you can still see arrows and magic flying..."

Yes, Ditus said the selfishness that the Duchess often had in that position, I thought.

In fact, to date she has repeatedly described herself and a past that has troubled the Duke.

So this time it will be the same, what I think was not a blamed story.

But to such a ditto, Ed says, with a cold sweat.

"No... it's not."

"Hmm? What do you mean...?

"Your wife literally wants to be (...) in the war, and that seems to be the story...... not watching the game. I'm in the war."

"Is...? Are you telling me the Duchess is gonna fight the demons? Side by side with us?

"The Duke said it was exactly his intention..."

"Don't be stupid. Is that something you can do? I do hear that the Duchess is the one who was able to leave the college with excellent grades. But it's different from the actual battlefield and on the desk. Besides, I'm guessing this opponent is the Goblin Army, which consists of thousands of people. Where the Duchess is..."

"I told you that too, but when your wife proved that she would be a force of war, the Duke told her... to do a mock fight with your wife today in our Knights..."

"A mock fight? Hmm... I see."

Here Ditus understood the story.

I suppose the Duke gave the condition that if you win there, you will allow the Duchess to enter the war.

But this is a battle where the Duchess' defeat has been decided from the beginning.

I mean, I couldn't help it.

The Duchess' wish is thereby dismissed in peace.

I thought about it.

But then you'll also say that the Knights face can never lose.

It is unlikely that the mock battle will take the form of a single duchess versus dozens of knights, and it will be a mock battle in the form of the conversion of one common sorcerer into ten knights even in Wang Du.

That would be a legitimate battle for what we do in the king's capital, but not if we do it here in Naos.

If you also gave the terms with that in mind, the Duke would mean quite a crook, but Ditus had no doubt in saying that it would be.

That duke, who looks like a beautiful standing princess, is a good eater of fruit, and I remember Ditus being put on again and again.

I just didn't hate it.

Rather, because its strength to push without choosing means for the purpose can be trusted as a serving nobleman.

Such an impossible challenge he put out.

First of all, the Duchess has no chance of winning.

And what Ditus should do is further reduce that odds of winning.

It seems easiest to mix a lot of excellence with the knights on the side against the Duchess and say that the quality of the knights that would belong to the Duchess would be slightly reduced.

A few others......

"All right, Ed. I'm going to give you instructions. Your wife won't understand you. Do it."

"Ha."

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It was just miserable when you looked at the results.

Twenty who consolidated the mighty knights lost mildly to ten who did not.

The reason is clear.

The knights on the Duchess' side were powerfully aided by the Duchess' sorcery, even though they were superior in skill and power.

The effect was immense, gaining several times more power and speed than usual, and even increasing to vision and sensing ability.

If this one attacks, it will be prevented by a magic shield, and if the other attacks this way, the metal shield will be cut off like butter.

There was no way I could win that.

Twenty knights, including Ditus, fell to the ground in tears.

The result, however, was not to buy the Knights' distrust.

Rather, it was born to the knights who were on the spot something like worship of the Duchess.

We can win ourselves as long as we have her.

Never lose.

Such worship.

That's why no one has complained about her coming on this expedition.

And... the crusade of Goblin's Army, which I welcomed.

The Duchess first put on a powerful auxiliary witchcraft that she called me then to the three hundred knights gathered on the spot.

That's all it takes, thousands of goblins and so on to kick it off.

That's as much as I thought.

Yet after being told to wait a little, the sight that emerged in front of me was outrageous.

I was told that I would sprinkle some goblins with magic first, but I thought thunderwind Thunderstorm would crush dozens of them or so.

And yet it's actually a tremendous sorcery... a powerful, industry-fired giant rock that I've never even seen descended from the sky and instantly annihilated nearly two thousand goblins.

That one may be the goddess who went down to the Duke's Lands.

Few knights thought so, needless to say they fought as hard as never before after receiving a signal of assault from the Duke's servant Walter.

Ditus then rushed around to find the head of the goblin.

Because if you don't defeat it, nothing will end.

But somehow I had a hunch.

Goblin chief, perhaps if there is a Goblin General in this case...... your wife will do it.

I have such a feeling.

Ditus finally gets there when he runs around destroying the goblin of the base while thinking about it.

There was light pouring down there.

The sun's rays illuminate the hills just a little higher like a spot, on which the Duchess smiles with the neck of the Goblin General in her hand, with a bloody face.

Ditus realized at that moment.

"... that is the goddess of my land...!

Ditus knelt unexpectedly on the spot, and the knights who saw her with him imitated it.