Queen of The Scalpel - Chapter 109

Time flew like water.

Since a large-scale army was going out, they could not leave immediately. They had to recruit soldiers, check their equipment, and establish a supply system.

Nevertheless, the Britia Empire, who is the world’s strongest nation, began preparations for the second round of expeditionary forces.

“Liz, you have to be careful. If you are scared, get back here.”

Chris, who is very worried, said that several times.

“Yes, don’t worry too much.”

“I have to go out with you too.”

Chris put everyone in trouble by claiming he would join her.

Elise, of course, did not want him to go to the war along with her father and mother.

Who wants their youngest son to go to war when their eldest son and daughter are already going to war?

After a long fight, she managed to stop him from going out.

“Well, it’s really coming soon. Tomorrow is the ceremony, right?”

“Yes.”

“It looks like you’re going to have an adult ceremony on the battlefield.”

Chris said out of his upset.

“Coming of age huh? That’s okay.”

It is her third time to become an adult, including the first and second life. So coming of age didn’t really matter for her.

“After tomorrow’s ceremony. Did you prepare your speech well?”

“Yes, I’ve practiced many times.”

Elise is in charge of the speech at the ceremony.

She had a very important and honorable role because she is nominated as the crown princess and is one of the most respected figures in Londo at the moment.

The news of her departure, however, shook Londo, or the whole empire.

[Dame Clarence, the crown princess! Had decided to join the Crimean Expeditionary Force! Being a role model for Noblesse Oblige.]

[St. Elise, the medical woman who had saved Rondo is going to save the lives of our soldiers, we will fight in the expeditionary force.]

Frankly, the Emperor of Manchester didn’t want to use her war participation news as propaganda, but he couldn’t miss this big event in public.

The military also actively spread rumors to recruit soldiers and boost their morale, and the effect is the best as expected.

“For Dame Clorance!”

“For the Crown Princess!”

The woman who will be the first lady of the empire. He can’t believe that Dame Clarence, who saved Londo in a life and death situation, will be in a war of bullets to save the lives of the soldiers!

The citizens were greatly moved.

“Let’s go!”

“Let’s protect the Crown Princess!”

“Let’s defeat the Republicans!”

Everyone shouted fraudulently, and young people were asked to join the army.

Thanks to her, the recruitment is closed early.

So many people gathered at the incredible happenings that had taken place that was filled with large numbers of people, revealing the citizens’ support and popularity for Elise.

It is not long before the day of the ceremony.

150,000 troops from Britain gathered at the port of Barking, near Londo.

It is unusual to see the Imperial Army in their unique red uniform and being lined up in line while they are sobbing. There is no exaggeration that they are the “world’s strongest army.”

Along with the music of the military band, three figures came to the podium.

The emperor, Minchester.

Linden de Romanoff, the Crown Prince of the Expeditionary Army.

Lastly, it was Elise de Clorance, who decided to participate in the war who had the body of a vulnerability, and would become a crown princess.

“Long live Romanov!”

“For the victory of the British Empire!”

The soldiers cheered loudly when they saw them.

“Full attention!”

Marshal McGail, who was appointed deputy commander-in-chief, commanded the troops and paid tribute to the emperor.

“All units, to our Great Emperor, guns!”

150,000 troops moved in perfect order.

“Bang!”

An impeccable ceremony .

The sight of the bayonet hitting the sky without any error is simply spectacular.

Recruiting in haste, these are inexperienced soldiers.

This is because any Britia man must undergo a period of top-level military training.

“Yes.”

When the emperor nodded, Marshal McGail ordered.

“Unit, stop the gun fire, at rest!”

Again, the bayonet moved in a disciplined manner, and 150,000 soldiers looked at the emperor in their rest position.

“Proud soldiers of the Empire.”

Minchester spoke and began his speech.

It is a speech praying for their victory and safe return of the Imperial Army.

After his long speech, Minchester blessed them.

“……and lastly, may God bless you.”

It was then Linden’s turn as the commander in chief.

His speech is as short as his personality.

“I won’t talk too long. We will win. Let the Francois show them what it means to provoke this great empire. With the armies, the proud British army, no matter how many of the vulnerable Francois can jump in. We’ll crush them in just one step. Then let’s come back to our country and hold an improvement ceremony. All the Imperial citizens will raise and remember your names!”

“Wahhh!”

“Long live the British Empire!”

His speech, which boosts morale, is accepted with thunderous shouts.

The last one is finally Elise’s turn.

Wearing an officer’s uniform, she breathed heavily.

‘Let’s not be nervous, Elise. You can do a good job.’

He moved forward on the platform.

And the moment she stepped forward.

“Wahhhhh!”

A tremendous roar rang out. It felt like their intestines are going to leave.

“Dame Clarence! My Lady!”

“Hooray for the Crown Princess!”

“First Lady! My lady!”

Everyone is going crazy about her.

A tender girl who goes to the battlefield for themselves, even though she is destined to be the crown princess.

In everyone’s mind, she is more than just a crown princess, she is a lady who is more precious than anyone else, and should be protected, and should be with them.

“Dear soldiers.”

It was not long before Elise spoke.

Then the soldiers shut up as if it was a lie. They just listened to every word she says.

Elise grabbed her trembling heart.

‘Do I deserve to tell them this?’

Those are her thoughts that had passed through her mind.

She didn’t want to go to war for such a noble meaning and is misunderstood. The reason for her participation in the war is extremely personal.

But,

She had to do something for them to fight for their lives. Because she’s a doctor.

“I won’t tell you anything else.”

That’s how she began to talk.

“Some of you are going to get hurt. There will be people who will die.”

The words made the soldiers solemn.

Yeah, some of them will get hurt and die. That is an undeniable fact.

“I’m coming with you as a doctor, but I can’t promise to save everyone. But I promise you and the Lord this.”

Elise paused for a moment.

“I’ll be there when you’re hurt. I will do my best so that every single person can return to the arms of his family. Everyone.”

Yeah, she can’t save everyone.

No matter how confident she is, she can’t do that.

but

It’s a war for her brother who’s smaller than her cause.

But as a doctor.

“Everybody. I’ll be with you so that no one falls apart alone. This is my promise. May the blessing of the Lord save us and be with us.”

“Wahhhh!”

Her short but heartfelt speech was cheered by the Imperial soldiers once again.

“Dame Clarence!”

“St. Elise!”

“Hooray for the Crown Princess! My lady!”

150,000 soldiers called her in unison.

And at that moment.

The crown prince standing next to her took her hand.

“……?!”

Elise looked back at him in surprise. Why did he?

But soon thought it was propaganda to show the soldiers.

As expected, the soldiers cheered more enthusiastically when they saw the two holding hands affectionately.

“Hooray to the Crown Prince! Hooray for the crown princess! Long live Romanoff!”

“For the victory of the Empire!”

Elise is bothered by her captured hand, but smiles for the soldiers. Her caught hand is somehow hot.

Meanwhile, the crown prince.

“Elise.”

He mumbled inwardly.

In fact, he didn’t hold her hand for the morale of the Imperial Army.

“Why are you driving me so crazy?”

He is just craving for her, and he couldn’t stand it and just caught her hand.

“In the end, I wasn’t able to stop you from participating.”

Although he had tried so hard, her participation could not be prevented because of the emperor’s promise under the name of the imperial family.

With that information, he doesn’t know how much the Emperor Minchester regretted his rash promise after that day.

‘So, there’s nothing I can do about it.’

Linden’s eyes sank deeply.

“I have no choice but to protect you.”

He looked at Elise.

Worrying alone is distressing enough and if she gets hurt, he won’t be able to bear it. His heart may stop beating.

‘If I try to kick her out of the country in the middle, this stubborn woman won’t even listen.’

So there is only one way.

‘I have no choice but to protect her by myself.’

That’s how the ceremony ended.

And the last moment.

Click!

A large lens captures them with a loud noise.

Recently developed, photographers are the first to be published to Western newspapers.

Newspapers reported in black-and-white photographs the affectionate appearance of the crown prince and the prospective crown princess at the ceremony.

Meanwhile, at the height of the ceremony.

A place located deep in the Londo Imperial Palace. A visitor came to the thistle-covered glass palace.

“What’s going on?”

“What do you mean? Before I go to war, I came to see my mother.”

Blonde, golden eyes. A man with a bright face like a flower.

Londo’s greatest playboy and the strongest Ability Knights in the Western Continent.

It was Michael, who is the Crown Prince’s still enemy at the same time.

He is wearing a dark gentleman’s suit and a coat, with a silver sword hanging disparately from his waistline.

“Isn’t it the ceremony today?”

“What’s the point of going there? I’ll hear father’s nagging anyway. I have sent the Deputy Commander instead.”

Deputy Commander.

It refers to the Deputy Commander of the Swordsman’s Corps, headed by the Third Prince. The Knights of the Sword, consisting of all men and women, are the strongest cavalry in the West.

The chief butler of the glass palace sighed.

“You’d better just go today.”

“Why?”

“……You know what I mean right?”

The face of the Third Prince, who is always bright, momentarily darkened.

But it faded a bit.

He then said with a smile.

“Oh my, it’s a son thing. If I don’t see her today, I won’t be able to see her until the war is over. I’ll just go face her.”

“……okay. The Queen is in an unstable condition, so don’t stay too long.”

The chief butler is forced to guide him into the building.

The glass palace, where the First Queen, the mother of the Third Prince and the current queen of the imperial family, is staying, is as small as a mansion.

Though the interior of the palace is well maintained, somehow it felt desolate.

‘Cause no one’s coming but me.’

The Third Prince thought bitterly.

But it was that moment.

“Kyahhhh!”

There was a loud noise that resonated all over! And he heard a crash.

It is truly a surprise, but neither the Third Prince nor the chief butler budge an inch. They are already familiar with it.

It’s just Michael’s expression got a little darker.

“Argh! Argh! Argh! No!”

Standing in front of the room, the chief butler opened the door carefully.

Michael said with a forced smile.

“Mother, your son is here.”

At that moment!

Crash!

Something flew and hit him on the forehead and was shattered.

It was a glass.

“Mother.”

Michael called her, removing the glasses off his forehead and on his shoulder. Like the strongest sword in the Western Continent, his ability automatically activated and he didn’t suffer any injury.

“Mother, I’m here. Mikhail… No, it’s Mil.”

He looked in the room as the middle-aged woman shivering and shedding tears.

Marianne de Childe.

No, she is now Marianne de Romanoff, the current mistress of the imperial family that doesn’t have any empress in the throne.

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T/N: Hey peeps~ It’s Skye! I have decided to TL this once again since I am asked by a reader if I will be able to TL this again. And yes I can. Give thanks to that reader since I can do it on a weekly basis. Anyway, please give much love for this novel once again and let me unfold the uncovered parts in the manhwa through this novel~ Thanks and see ya next week~