But handling a young enemy soldier surrendering in the village was no small distress for him.

The person who educated such a fainthearted Berl was the current enemy’s deputy commander.

“Do not hesitate. We must annihilate all enemies. If it’s an adult, they will plan a scheme behind our backs, and a child might grow up to harbor resentment, won’t they?”

Due to his words, all the hostages caught at the time were killed.

In the end, the enemy’s knight corps, which had many casualties until the general came to the rear, would have been recorded as the worst incident if the emperor hadn’t hushed it.

Having gone through that incident and become a wreck, Berl’s request for a transfer to where Lucia was, was his desperate decision, despite being unable to quit being a knight.

He’s now more loyal than anyone.

Berl was determined by his words, but he laughed with a face that seemed to know it would be so.

“Still hesitating like that, Berl Altroot?”

“That’s not hesitating, but rather a consideration for me.”

At that familiar voice, the expressions of the Yellow and White deputy commanders suddenly changed.

As if it’s strange that it’s shivering like a sleeveless outfit in midwinter, when they turned their heads,

“……Commander?”

Lucia’s entourage of allblack was passing through the entrance of the grand armor and stepping into the shade between the central nut pines.

The deputy commanders bowed their heads to show respect at once.

“Commander Lucia. I welcome your return to duty.”

Lucia still stood silently in front of them, then spoke as the deputy commanders raised their heads.

“Enough with the play on words, our children need to use this place, so where should the approval for schedule modification be done?”

“…….”

The enemy’s deputy commander swallowed his dry saliva as if caught in the wrong.

But that was only for a moment.

Remembering the fact that the black monster in front of him had become a mother, he thought there was nothing to be afraid of.

She had given birth to more gentle people, but at the same time, more people who looked down on her had appeared.

“Commander Lucia. Of course, it’s possible. But didn’t you just mention consideration?”

“So?”

“The ones who suffered for over five and a half years due to your absence are our knight corps. So, it’s only right to show consideration at least as much as the time the Black Commander has been on leave, isn’t it? So please wait, and don’t miss it next year……”

Certainly, several times, it was true that he had taken on tasks that required the commander on behalf of the Black Knights.

But since it was not such a laborious task, cold sweat flowed down the backs of the Yellow and White deputy commanders at his words, trying to pull them to the same side again.

They wanted to say no here, but it was also true that they had kept their mouths shut because they had not been able to use the armor hall for half a year.

Lucia continued to stare at the enemy’s deputy commander’s face, who was babbling, with unfeeling eyes.

‘Why does he talk so much?’

The Royal Knights, returning after a long time, seemed to have changed a lot in their atmosphere.
It felt like speaking with a sword rather than those nobles who always sit and talk, as if she was better at wielding words.

“Even during the war, they were made to be sword fodder through wordplay, and this is all the treatment they get for surviving.”

That’s how it was.

The reason she was able to bring up a criminal group without much resistance at the time.

It was because they promised to place them on the front lines as they wished.

No one at the time could have imagined that the Black Knights, arranged as sword fodder, would win every battle without really dying.

Lucia, angry that they were treated this way immediately after the war ended under the pretext of no leader, rather than thanking them for the sacrifice of their lives.

She looked at the enemy’s deputy commander in front of her and picked up a rather sturdy weapon from the nearby stateoftheart sword stand.

It seemed like a mace that knights often use these days.

After swinging it lightly a few times, it seemed like a powerful weapon that gathered rotational force as if the attack was defense, and poured out power in one blow.

Then the enemy’s deputy commander stepped back and spoke urgently.

“What, what are you doing, grownup! Challenge me to a duel as a knight!”

Did he misjudge?

Looking at her mad eyes, it seemed like nothing for her face to be wiped out by that mace, let alone a mother’s scolding.

Lucia chewed on his words and suddenly remembered an impressive sentence she had read in a parenting book that morning.

“People who are inconsiderate are not adults. When such children fight over toys…”

Thus, she, who had been swinging the mace rhythmically, threw it with all her might, imbued with her sword energy.

Then,

KwaGwaGwaGang!