Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

Leppe noticed Lily’s shocked expression and with a small smile, whispered in a low voice so that only Lily could hear.

“You see, we only need Laura’s son, and to obtain that, we don’t need Laura’s partner to be the hero, right?”

“…!”

“If anything, the temple officials who may survive after the attack on the royal capital will be more suitable to be Her Highness Laura’s partner, don’t you think?”

Lily was astonished to realize that the three people present had essentially divergent objectives.

Juliane was thinking of rebuilding the strength of the Demon Army. Perhaps she had some candidates up her sleeve to revive the demon generals, whom she referred to as vessels other than Lily. One of them would surely be Saint Laura.

On the other hand, surprisingly, Leppe believed that the heroes would certainly succeed in defeating the Demon Lord. Since he was expecting to get a child from Laura, it was only natural that he would expect them to be able to defeat the Demon King. At the same time, he was definitely thinking of eliminating Lily’s older brother Mazell and possibly Knott at the same time.

Knott’s goal appeared to be the elimination of Lily’s older brother, the Hero Mazel, after taking all the glory from their expeditions. The difference between the two sides was that they were aiming to kill Lily’s elder brother either before defeating the Demon King, or after taking the achievement and being called a hero themselves. 

However, whether that would be possible or not would be another matter. And it was not even clear whether Juliane would really let Knott achieve his goal after the attack on the royal capital. If Mazell or Welner had heard all this, they would have spat out that the two of them were obviously not thinking straight.

All three of them had slightly different goals, but the only thing they had in common was that they did not want to harm Laura. Lily was now aware that she was in the position of being Laura’s substitute as Juliane could not possess Laura.

Lily, who had been lying face down for a while, looked up.

“…Kuh.”

“What?”

Juliane overheard Lily’s soft mumble.

Lily had a determined look on her face, as she grimaced from the toxins being forcefully removed from her body and felt exhausted from doing so, however…

“I won’t give up. Welner-sama would surely do something about it. I’m sure he already has a plan for you.”

It was probably the best resistance Lily could muster at the moment. At the same time, Lily was determined to resist to the end.

“I am not just the sister of a hero, nor am I a proxy for Laura-sama. I believe in myself as me, and I believe in Welner-sama.”

“Hohou…”

Juliane smiled. Was it humor or hopelessness that allowed the girl to continue to believe in something? But in the next instant, Juliane gave Lily a clear look of pity.

“I told you earlier. I don’t know what happened to that Spearman (Welner), and even if he is alive, it will be difficult to find this place. The city’s barriers have already been damaged, and the waterway that powers it has been blocked. There is no way he could survive the attack.”

“Still, I know that Welner-sama and the people of the royal capital must have an alternate plan.”

“It’s no use. They don’t know enough to begin with. For example, the true nature of the barriers in that city is now unknown. The barriers are also interlocked…”

Almost as soon as Juliane uttered these words, there was a loud roar and vibration that shook the ruins itself.

Immediately after, a large amount of water flowed out of the holes in the surrounding walls, noisily filling the surrounding moat and flowing out into the waterway downstream. Perhaps because of the water flowing in as a source of power, the surrounding mechanism, which was still functional, started to activate, and the entire space was filled with a dim light.

“Why is the water flowing!?”

“Why is this…?”

“What happened!”

Juliane and Leppe looked astonished, and Knott rushed to the door and opened it, probably to see the canal for himself.

But Knott could not step beyond the door. As soon as the door opened, a spearhead reached out and pierced Knott’s throat.

Knott received a fatal blow and fell backward in a cloud of blood. Immediately after that, an avalanche of knights came pouring in through the multiple doors at the same time, crossing the bridge at once and deploying themselves in the central area to begin slaying the surrounding monsters.

Even the insect-type monsters were slow to react, their tentacles were slashed off by swords, their heads smashed by battleaxes, and the entire swarm of insects began to be pushed back by the wave of people.

Amidst the battle cries and angry shouts, mixed with the metallic sounds of armor, and the screams of the strange insects filling the space, the voice of someone very familiar to Leppe and Lily flowed into their ears.

“Max, move to the front. Augen squad, open a path to the Priestess! Valcay, we have arrived right on schedule! Neurath and Schunzel, go and seize the Priestess!”

“Huh!?”

“Welner-sama!”

Welner, who led the Zeavert Knights with his figure covered in blood stains here and there as well as his spear at the ready, rushed into the pack of magic beasts.

He glanced at Lily once in response to her voice, and then rushed straight to his opponent, who was clad in the priestess’s garments.

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