I’ll Live My Second Life!

189 Fighting to survive

The apprentice knights who escape the village run through the woods.

Occasionally I look back and feel relieved to make sure I don’t see the enemy.

“Looks like the enemy hasn’t found you. After we bypass the woods and defeat our enemies, we’ll move along the road to a garrison with soldiers.”

Moving along the road runs the risk of being tracked by the enemy.

Still, it is in our lack of familiarity with the geography around here that Phee chose it.

If we get too far off the road, the Fees will lose all land exploration around here.

For that matter, tracking may also be avoided, but this is a mountainous area with few people.

Don’t know. If you go behind the mountains, you’ll hit hardships, shipwrecks, falls from heights, and such risks. If the enemy identifies their path, they may also be hunted down at the cliff.

Besides, the Feys don’t know what the enemy’s all about.

Maybe there’s more troops out there than that, wandering around here. There may be an opponent’s stronghold somewhere in this forest.

When that happens, I intend to go the other way to get behind my enemies, but I will be pushed.

Given that, take advantage of the detached advantages to travel along a secure path and, above all, to the garrison as quickly as possible.

This seemed best.

“Just hang in there, please!

But it was Cognac who waited for it.

“Oh, my God, Cognac”

“It’s not good along the road…”

Cognac said with a cold sweat. Still pale. Maybe my kicked stomach hurts.

“What do you mean…?

Everyone inquires back into Cognac’s words. The apprentice knights also thought that along the road was best with each thought.

Cognac tells such apprentice knights.

“They might have horses.”

“What…?

Hearing it, Phee unwittingly shouted.

“When I was caught, I saw the men in the village carrying the fodder outside the village. I think he’s hiding a horse somewhere in the woods.”

“Ho, is that true…? Didn’t I get something wrong?

The boys’ voices still seemed suspicious.

“If that’s what he says, I’m pretty sure.”

But it was Hylal who said I could trust that word.

“We’ve grown up in a village where we make our living hunting. He also had a lot of horses in the village. Me and Cognac used to take care of horses as kids. So I’m familiar with that.”

“So, seriously, you mean there’s a horse…”

When you have a horse, you have different mobility.

The opponent can use the horse’s feet, whereas this one is a human one. No matter how hard you run, there are limits. It’s a long way to the garrison. She takes a short break. Then it came not only to the risk of being caught up, but also to the risk of turning around and being ambushed.

“Horses… not good…”

It was Phee who held her mouth to such boys’ conversations and turned bright blue.

The look is tense.

“What the hell is wrong with you… look like that…”

“Sure, we don’t even have horses in our enemies, but if we avoid them well along the road and in good sight, we’ll be fine.”

“That’s right. The route to escape just gets a little tougher.”

The boys, who don’t know what Phee’s thinking, shake their necks. I’m sure I was at a disadvantage, but it was originally a disabling escape. I didn’t think my opponent, who had previously given me precise command, would be upset so far.

“I asked the two people in the east quarters who went to get help first to move along the road…”

“Ah…”

The words finally occurred to the boys.

About the first two boys we broke up with.

They’re moving along the road and asking me to call for help at the garrison.

And as things stand, I don’t have the means to get in touch with those two. There is no way of informing them of the fact that the enemy is coming at their horses.

I mean……

“If you leave the horses alone, those two could be assaulted and killed at their worst…”

…………

The boys became scenes.

I thought I could finally get away with it, but there was an obvious crisis in my people.

“Sorry… it’s my mistake…”

Phee apologizes.

“No, that’s not true!

“That’s right. No one would have guessed there was even a horse!

The boys follow us, but even if the judgment itself isn’t wrong, it’s true that this actually happened because of Phee’s instructions.

Fee thought that instruction was best then.

But now that I think about it, maybe I shouldn’t have split my troops cheaply in a situation where everything is unknown……

But that was something I couldn’t help asking myself anymore.

“Cognac, do you know how many horses there are more or less?

“Considering that feed is an amount of a meal, maybe 20 heads…… hey, what are you thinking?

Cognac had a bad feeling and asked back Phee’s intentions for the question.

Fee answers.

“I’ll stay and stop the horse.”

“Stop…”

That was an indication that in this circumstance where we were escaped from enemy supplementation because of it, we would deliberately go under the enemy.

Naturally, the advantages gained so far for escape disappear with dew.

Still, Phee had to stay.

There are two options presented to Fee. Abandon the two men in the east quarters to ensure their own safety, or risk their lives to help them.

There was no way I could have chosen to abandon or anything more than this happened at Phee’s behest.

No, that could be deception, too.

Phee looks up and says as she looks at the apprentice knight’s face.

“But I’m sorry… I can’t do this alone… I need personnel to help me stop the horse.”

Fee wanted to be helped by all of us. To do that, take the risk. But we just have to help the two of them. With the helpless contradiction of putting yourself and your people at risk for that.

“Of course I’m not asking everyone to stay. In order to escape the target after stopping the horse, it is necessary to be able to move highly collaboratively in its number. So I want to choose the people who can move most effectively against each other, with the smallest number of people, to fight and escape…”

And with the number of people whose damage will be minimal even if they fail……

I couldn’t have spoken this word directly, which smelled out of words. So that those who do not participate in the operation can properly focus on escape without the thought of their hair pulling back.

Fee’s heart aches at the cowardly words and deeds he has done.

There is no guarantee of success in this operation. So you can’t have too little or too much. with the most, optimal and the number of people who will lose the least in the event of failure….

It was almost decided who could entrust the idea of such a fie and achieve the conditions offered……

Its gaze turns naturally to a group of boys in a group.

To Fee’s eyes staring at them, he was shaking with anxiety and guilt.

The boys in the northern quarters giggle and answer such an unusual look of Phee.

“Hey! You smell like water! There’s no way we’re not staying with you!

“Yeah, I am. I’ll follow you right to the end.”

“I’ll protect Heath… yeah, I’ll protect everyone!

All the boys in the north quarters nodded at me.

“Guys…… thanks. Sorry……”

Fee’s face was shattered.

“Wait! If you want to stay, let me do it! It’s my fault this happened in the first place!

It was Cognac who gave those fies a desperate look.

There are tears in the eye. Everyone found it to be a word of unusual seriousness.

That’s why Phee has to say.

“No, you can’t.”

“Why! It’s not your fault this happened! I… because I let everyone behave on their own! So if you’re gonna take responsibility and stay, I’m the only one!

Fee found out Cognac’s sincerity.

That’s why I had to cut his wishes ruthlessly. Because on my orders, I can see the twitching that has put my people at risk……

“Only Cognac is familiar with the geography around here.”

“Ah…”

Cognac stands flattered by the allegations.

Cognac was the only one who looked at the map in detail until we got here. He didn’t try to show the people around him the map. With that pride and will……

“If you want to avoid tracking them, you have to repeat the trip off the road over and over again. When that happens, we definitely need someone who remembers this map. All I can do about that is remember the map. There is nothing but cognac. You have a duty to deliver the remaining members safely to the station.”

The fies, who do not know the map, rely only on the road they have come so far and cannot return to the garrisons and fortifications. We can go off the road a little bit, but there are limits to that.

Until now, that’s good. Walking to each other can bring apart advantages to life.

But things have changed. They have horses. There is a risk of being caught up with just walking along the road. Phee’s maneuver is not always a success.

Cognac relies on the remaining members to safely evade enemy pursuit and return to the garrison.

“I… I…”

Cognac sifts his voice and nags……

Even if Cognac’s attitude when he was looking around created this situation, it couldn’t be undone. The villagers took it from me when I grabbed both the map and the gear. That map is all in Cognac’s head anymore.

Fee smiled as he braved him.

“Cognac, retrieve the two men from the east quarters and get everyone to the absolute garrison safely. We’ll stop the horses and we’ll be back.”

If there’s a cognac, stopping the horse is fine, too, for some time. If we can retrieve the two men in the east quarters and buy time to take a route that can avoid tracking the horses…

In other words, it also reduces the risks for the Fees.

When Cognac heard the words, he said in his usual strong voice that when he was slightly nagging and whimpering, he rubbed his shin and eyes with his right hand.

“Wow, okay. Absolutely, because I’m gonna get these guys to the garrison and I’m gonna get them rescued right away! So be sure you’re all right, too! Absolutely!

“Yeah……”

Cognac recounts the rest of the apprentice knights.

“You guys, let’s go! We have to get to the garrison every minute!

The apprentice knights, taken by Cognac, ran across the woods. I’m not abandoning the Fees, to help my people.

Fee groans as she drops off that back.

“Good luck, Cognac”

But there was only one person left on this spot.

It’s Cognac’s childhood hyral.

“Hyral?”

“I’ve told him I’ll stay. I’m childhood friendly with him. I’ll follow up on his failures. That’s just not enough for four of us. If you want to stop the horse, the bow is effective. If only one good archer could help.”

Sure, I needed many bow users now. Fee has one, but that’s all I’m thin about.

The Fees honestly received the favor.

“Thanks, that’ll help.”

Apprentice knights, 14 people ran to the garrison. The rest of Phee, Couinu, Slad, Laemier and Heiral remain in the woods. To stop enemy horses.

The Fies moved along the path of the forest where they first encountered their enemies.

If we are to stop the cavalry, we must put it away in the woods, where freedom of movement is not advantageous. There are three of them with bows. Phee, Hylal, then Laemier sets up Hylal’s spare bow.

It’s almost time for the sun to start falling, but the lights were still in the woods. It will take quite some time before the sun sets.

The woods plugged at the beginning of the evening.

In that silence, I hear more and more noises in the ears of the Fees. That scrubbing sound of metal armor crossed with the footsteps of horses and soldiers.

“Guys, I’m sorry about all this…”

Fee apologized to the people who stayed for me again.

Slad and Laemier laughed at Fee for his uncommonly weak attitude.

“What are you talking about! Defeat the horse! Then we run away! We’d be easy, wouldn’t we?

“Yes, we can, if we join forces. Shall we all go home safely?

Couinu also stared at Fee and nodded courageously.

Fee thinks.

I don’t want to lose any of these friends.

“Yeah…… right…… Let’s all go home safe.”

So this operation must be made a success.

As the enemy’s footsteps became clearer, such apprentice knights also shut their mouths.

An enemy shadow appeared in its sight.

“I’m here…”

“Let’s go……”

“Yeah……”

Lower your voice and start moving.

The battle for the survival of the Fees begins……