Volume 1 Chapter 1 Genderbend Female Knight, Kills the Bandit
"Help me! Please! I will leave the bandit life behind! I swear to god! "
A ragged man in dirty leather armor knelt before a bloodied woman, begging for his life.
Three dead bodies, dressed like the man, lay around, cut with swords and partially severed.
The woman was tall, about 190cm, with a tough, muscular body. Her short hair was shaved, looking like a man. She wore hard leather armor hardened with oil.
When the woman glanced briefly at the man, she turned her eyes back to her long sword in her right hand. The sword glistened with blood and fat from the dead men she cut down.
"It was no wonder we became bandits! When the Viscount's taxes became too heavy, we were sent to the mines as criminals. We would die! "
"Go ahead."
The woman slowly stared at the man, her eyes sharp and cold.
"There was a bandit who said similar things before. I took mercy and let him go. Do you know what he did afterward?"
The man opened and closed his mouth repeatedly, clearly sensing that the story was bad for him.
"He attacked and killed a traveling merchant who was in the village. Then he stole his goods and fled on a wagon. After that, no traders came to the village for a while. The woman continued, since then, I have killed 56 bandits like you."
The man's face reflected in the shining sword, showing he realized his future was grim.
"Exactly 60 now. That's easier to remember."
One more dead body lay on the ground.
"Miss! Haven't I told you not to run alone?"
"Sorry, John. But I can run faster than you, right?"
"Well, yes. With your magic and your noble blood, you can boost your speed. Ordinary folks like me can't keep up."
Five men running toward the woman glared at the dead bodies on the ground and looked annoyed.
"Miss, can't you kill a little more elegantly?"
"They're pretty enough ── I can tell they're people."
The man called John shook his head in exasperation and ordered the other 4 to bury the bodies.
"Dig the hole a bit deeper. It will be a hassle if a beast digs it up. Also, strip the weapons and armor before throwing them in the hole. They can be repaired and sold or used."
"Yeah, sure," John replied lazily, and he and the others began stripping the equipment from the bandit corpses.
(Now that I think about it, I've gotten used to stripping corpses. It's a situation that would never happen in Japan, but you get used to it after doing it enough.)
He reached for the left chest pocket as he would have in the past, but there was no chest pocket, and the cigarettes and lighter that used to be there were also gone.
"...Habits really don't go away, even if you're reborn."
He was a young man who had worked in security in his previous life in Japan. In this life, he had been born as Eleonora, the acting knight of the Kingdom of Ashreach's Kamitafira Knight, living for 15 years.
By now, as a female knight who had lost any feeling about killing, she lived her life.
Kamitafira Knight's domain included 2 villages (one farming village and one fishing village), located on the southern part of the Tyria Peninsula in the Kingdom of Ashreach. It was a small, unremarkable noble house.
The reason she held the position of acting knight was because 2 years ago, the coastal area was attacked by barbaric heathens from the northern islands. They were called the Suno people. Sometimes they were merchants, sometimes fishermen, and sometimes raiders. This year, due to a food shortage in the Suno land, they came to plunder the warmer Kingdom of Ashreach.
The Suno warriors, led by Danruhav of the Red Shirted, attacked the Kamitafira territory. Eleonora's father, Lamberto, the previous knight, fought and died in battle with Danruhav, and the Suno warriors retreated.
Now, the problem that arose was the succession issue for the knight's domain.
Lamberto, her father, had risen during the war and married late.
His wife, after giving birth to Eleonora, had long been infertile. After many years, they finally had a son, who was 2 years old at the time and now 4. He would be an adult in 12 years, after 8 more years and the confirmation ceremony.
The long absence of the lord was a problem. Lamberto's wife, Phyllis, was the daughter of a wealthy farmer and couldn't manage the land. Obviously, neighboring nobles would take the opportunity to seize the territory under the guise of protection. And so, they came.
The one who repelled them was Eleonora, just 13 years old at the time. No, she, in leather armor, mobilized the village men and began a defensive battle.
Eleonora enhanced herself and her longsword with magic and charged into an enemy force of about 40 soldiers, rampaging wildly. First, Eleonora slashed at the knight on horseback, cutting off his right thigh and unseating him. Then, she cut down 3 of his attendants.
The conscripts were in a state of confusion, running around. Men charged after Eleonora and attacked their backs with hoes and sickles. Eleonora raised the fallen knight's head and screamed, causing the conscripts, who were just farmers, to flee. The remaining soldiers, who were related to the noble house, were killed.
There were many injured and dead in the Kamitafira territory, but it was insignificant compared to the Knight family, who had attacked. Their head of the house and his brother were killed. The heir, who had just graduated from the academy, collapsed from the shock of the damage.
John and his group met Eleonora at this time. Since then, they have been following her to hunt and defeat bandits.
"Miss, we have finished burying them."
"Good work. Shall we go back?"
Eleonora di Kamitafira believes she has been reincarnated into another world. She is acting as a temporary lord until her brother becomes an adult. After that, she plans to leave the nobility and live as a commoner. In reality, she has been reincarnated into a game world called [To You, Lords of the Stormlight], which she knows neither the name nor the content of. She also does not know that war with a neighboring major power will occur relatively soon.
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