Chapter 150
Being embraced by Maria-san, that warmth made it seem like tears would come out as my heart made a startled jump .
Is she injured, for example?
Or rather is she a ghost, for example?
「……」
「Ara? Ara ara ara?」
Maria-san is tilting her head, as my hands wordlessly crawl up her body .
Ilya is firmly, merely standing by at my side with a serene face .
It may be an artful confirmation but, it kind of seems that they think I’m doing something strange again or such .
No I also wouldn’t not think something of this but……since I was worried?
「There are hands, there are feet……even fingers . 」
I tried confirming her fingers like I was interlacing with them but, Maria-san is letting me do as I will with a smile .
Is she the holy mother?
I pushed my ear up against her breast and, tokun tokun, I heard the excessively reassuring sound of her heart come .
「Not a ghost right?」
「Truly……It’s truue……」
I ended up showing my tears without intending to .
With the war as it is, life has become cheaper than in times of peace .
Especially for the soldiers and officers standing on the front lines .
As such, the safety of precious people is a joy more irreplaceable than anything .
「I believe you but……somewhere in my heart, that you were dead……tsu」
「Alice-dono……truly is adorable . Pardon me . 」
Maria-san gave my head a yosh yosh .
This is bad, my tears won’t stop if I’m treated kindly right now though!?
「I always end up putting you in painful positions, with my worthlessness do I not . 」
「Something like worthlessness! If Maria-san wasn’t here, just how many sacrifices would have emerged in the principality and kingdom……Please don’t say, something like you’re worthless!」
For all that I lacked power I held her firmly with all my force .
「There is nothing to be proud of, the result was that the principality ended up being a battlefield, the burden on our people was severe . Furthermore, I do not intend to belittle you but, since people of youthful ages like Alice should not be sent out to war……」
As a commander and, as an adult, Maria-san is carrying the responsibility for the results .
She’s completely different than the arrogant people Kran was dealing with in the kingdom .
I suppose the cheap words of someone like me won’t sway her from sorrow to joy .
Even so I want to say it .
Because if this person wasn’t here, I might have lost my beloved people and country .
「But, fufu, I am grateful to you . As the representative of the people, I offer thanks for that kind nature . 」
「ah……no, since I am……only, doing as I please . 」
It’s super embarrassing, to be given thanks by a wonderful person like Maria-san……
「Ufufu」
To hide my embarrassment, I’m doing something incredible in wedging my face into Maria-san’s breasts though .
I try glancing up, at a warm laughing voice .
My eyes meet with those of the Maria-san expressing the holy mother’s smile .
「My prided imouto has ended up becoming two people has she not, really what shall I do?」
「……」
I, I wonder what she means .
I certainly am concerned about Kran’s matters but, is it possible that this person knows something……?
「Ma, maa, eto, that is great! Maria-san, what have you been doing up until now?」
I’m reluctant to part but, I separate from Maria-san and sit properly .
I shake off the magic power of her breasts .
「I suppose then……It certainly was a narrow escape from death . We sealed the passage to stop a large mass of enemies, invited them into the forest and, were fighting a disorganized battle to gather time but, we were greatly outnumbered, in the end I fell into a deep river flowing through the West Petra Great Forest . 」
Maria-san didn’t discuss much of it but, as the enemy army got fed up with that overly incredibly strong Maria-san they sent chimeras one after another on suicide attacks and pushed her back, I heard only that sort of situation from the surviving soldiers .
「And so, the story ended up becoming almost like a fairy tale after that but……」
After pausing for 1 tempo, Maria-san makes a slightly troubled sort of face .
Unusual .
「When I woke after losing conscious, I was receiving treatment in a remote village . 」
Village?
In that, great forest that’s on the same sort of level as the Amazon?
「Was there a principality village, in the West Petra Great Forest?」
Maria-san, shakes her head to the side .
「There being a village in a place like that is not something that is among the sort of reports I have heard . And beyond that, that village might, not have been a place that invites those who feel like going . 」
「?」
「The villagers called it, the interval between worlds . It might have been like the entrance to the fairy village . 」
「Fairy village……?」
To think I would hear that name in this sort of place .
However given that, the commonwealth’s aim is……
「Nn? But, Maria-san returned from there by walking right?」
「That is……」
That endlessly troubled face of Maria-san’s is already most beautiful .
「I was planning to take my leave after conveying my thanks to the villagers but, I could not leave under my own power . 」
「A barrier, or such?」
To be sure it seemed the elves’s forest also had that sort of thing .
「I suppose that might be so . As a result, I borrowed a bed having been told please stay one more night and when I woke up……I was in the place where I fell into the river, in the deep forest within the West Petra Great Forest . 」
Oi oi……isn’t it a little awful to have such an end like being thrown out .
It’s a story like being bewitched by a tanuki or fox .
……Nn, fox?
The face of the Kyuu that came to be entrusted to my mansion floated up .
「……But Maria-san, for something like nearly half a year of recuperation to have been necessary, that must have been a rather awful injury right? It’s good that you recovered . 」
Ah, Maria-san is making a troubled face again .
「……I’m also bewildered but, my injuries were not anything impressive . My stay in the village was a matter of only a few days . As such, I am surprised at this current situation . 」
「A few days? But since the communications from Maria-san were severed, half a year……has already passed right?」
I look at Ilya for confirmation and, she nodded that there was no mistake .
Maria-san’s face is also clouded .
「Eei, it is a somewhat mysterious situation but, it does seem that way . In this time of war, I am always causing hardship . 」
The composed Maria-san is, trying to take in reality as reality .
It has in fact been half a year, you could say Maria-san was safely thrown out of the great forest because I stole back the dominion of this area .
When I think if she had been thrown out into the enemy’s domain, it makes me shudder……
……Fuumu, deep within the West Petra Great Forest is, a mysterious village .
The entrance to the fairy village .
The reason that the commonwealth is repeatedly attacking here .
「U~n . It does concern me but……right now dealing with the realistic issues comes first doesn’t it . 」
I suppose we’re unanimous in that regard .
I strongly met my eyes with Maria-san’s and, nodded .
「Eei, let us show the commonwealth be pushed back . 」
Holy knight Marianna・Houston .
A person that is this reliable has, now, come back here for us .
There is nothing more heartening than this .
「Of course, since I will also help . I request that you leave pointless debates be, Maria-oneesama . 」
Maria-san held her mouth and smiled, as I made a silly display .
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「Sally forth!」
「「「Yes, mam」」」
The unit sortied from the fort, on the command I issued from the galloping horse I’m riding with Ilya .
The high command has been returned to a peerless person so, there are absolutely no worries, not even the slightest thereof .
I will only do the things I want to do, as I want to do them .
「We’ll start by searching for oneechan . Contact with Solt-san is?」
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