How to Save Humanity After Transmigrating into a Villainess Princess? Chapter 373 : Caroline's Past

"Sigh..."

After sending away the knight who had co to deliver a ssage, Ileina, sitting alone in the tent, let out a long sigh.

Dorothy said that today there were several young knights who couldn't learn the essentials of exerting force no matter how much they practiced, so she would train them late into the night and sleep directly in the Elasia knights' camp.

And Elashia was still having a quarrel with her and hadn't returned yet.

Having finished handling all of today's military affairs, Ileina felt for the first ti in a long while the loneliness she had experienced years ago when she was in Elasia and the Holy Kingdom hadn't yet fallen into trouble.

Master wouldn't return tonight, and Elashia was currently outside sulking. In the large commander's tent, she was the only one remaining...

...

Elashia, who was currently observing knight training at the Elasia knights' camp, was also filled with conflicted feelings.

She knew that everything Ileina had said earlier was for her own good, and was all based on rational considerations...

But whenever she thought that the idealistic Ileina might be hindered because of her... she just couldn't accept it in her heart.

"Hey, Empress Elashia."

Caroline, who had just finished a eting with her subordinate second-level officers, walked straight toward Elashia with a smile.

"Miss Caroline?"

Elashia, who only noticed Caroline's sudden appearance beside her after coming back to her senses, turned her head away sowhat embarrassedly.

"I knew you'd be here."

She sat down beside Elashia without any sense of distance.

Looking at Elashia who was sowhat embarrassed to look at her, Caroline smiled and asked:

"What's wrong? Is Empress Elashia still angry at Lady Ileina?"

"I'm not angry at her..."

Hearing Caroline's words, Elashia beca even more embarrassed...

"Hahaha... I understand."

Caroline raised her wine-red eyes to look at the stars in the sky.

"Ah... looking at these stars in the sky... I suddenly rembered sothing quite embarrassing..."

"Hm?"

Elashia looked at Caroline strangely.

"What is it?"

Caroline smiled and made eye contact with Elashia.

"That... should have been a night nearly ten years ago..."

"At that ti we were engaged in a great battle with the Blood Clan on a plain..."

"That guy Adeline was the commander responsible for this battle at the ti, while I was the captain of a Holy Tribunal Army unit..."

"The situation then... should have been over ten thousand of us against twenty thousand Blood Clan troops..."

"Because we were really at a significant disadvantage compared to the Blood Clan in terms of forces, we were at a disadvantage on the battlefield and the battle line might collapse soon, so as a high-level combat unit commander, I ca up with an extrely risky strategy..."

"The Blood Clan places great emphasis on military formation order. To ensure their formations don't fall into chaos, they're willing to sacrifice almost anything..."

"So, with the situation already sowhat chaotic at the ti, I imdiately decided—to order all the Holy Tribunal officials under my command to abandon their armor and form a spear formation to charge into enemy lines in a suicidal manner..."

At this point, Caroline's face gradually showed a hint of pride.

"Then... we charged into the Blood Clan military formation like headless flies."

"Both the Blood Clan commander and Adeline, who was observing the battle situation from the command tower, were stunned—throughout history there had only been breakthrough tactics, but charging into heavy encirclent was a first."

"At that ti, my short-range communicator kept ringing... I was very clear that it must be from Adeline, she definitely wanted to order to break out quickly."

"But at that ti there was a strong... how should I put it, probably a commander's intuition, that told —only by doing this could we win."

"So, not only did I not command the Holy Tribunal officials to retreat, but I also led them in crazy charges left and right within the Blood Clan's military formation..."

"Then... ti passed like this for several hours."

"The Blood Clan's military formation was shattered by our charges, so overall we finally gained the advantage in the battle situation..."

"However, because the battle situation was really too chaotic at the ti, plus it was nightti, leading soldiers in left and right charges through the Blood Clan army, I really couldn't distinguish my location..."

"Under this almost reckless fighting thod, my Holy Tribunal official unit of over five hundred suffered more than half casualties. I was very clear—if we continued charging around like this, we'd all die here."

"Finally, having lost contact with the main force, I had no choice but to lead my remaining... probably less than a hundred n, and charge into a small mountain."

"Then... we continued fighting desperately under Blood Clan encirclent, holding out until Adeline achieved victory on the front lines..."

Speaking to this point, Caroline placed her hand on her stomach with so lingering fear.

"I rember very clearly at that ti... due to prolonged fighting, I had almost lost my reason and sense of pain..."

"It wasn't until reuniting with the main force led by Adeline, eting with Adeline who pounced on like she'd lost her mind the mont she saw ... that I realized—not only were there just a few brothers left beside , but my body had almost no intact places left..."

"Especially the abdon... at that ti you could even see my intestines from above..."

"I can still rember that scene now... Adeline scread for a dic while rushing toward ..."

"But..."

Caroline showed a sowhat awkward smile.

"At that ti, knowing only that we were about to win, I directly pushed Adeline away and demanded she quickly organize the army to pursue the scattered Blood Clan forces to expand our victory."

Caroline suddenly laughed with so nostalgia.

"Then... Adeline cried directly."

"Seeing her, who was usually so ruthless, suddenly cry, I was instantly at a loss... then could only obediently accept her companionship and treatnt..."

"Then this battle ended with our pyrrhic victory..."

At this point, Caroline's expression gradually beca serious.

"After that battle ended, Adeline angrily asked on the sickbed—why I had pushed her away at that ti."

"And I... actually didn't know either."

"Later, under that guy Adeline's coercion, I thought for a long ti... before finally understanding this matter."

Caroline said seriously to Elashia:

"Since getting to know Adeline, I've always served as her companion and achieved countless military exploits for her..."

"When we were Holy Tribunal officials together, she and I cooperated to kill a Blood Clan general on the battlefield, making the front page of the Holy Capital newspaper at that ti."

"When we were squad leaders together, she and I worked together, one real and one feint, during a great battle we crossed a thousand miles to attack the Blood Clan's logistics team, causing nearly ten thousand Blood Clan troops to run out of supplies..."

"And when she was finally promoted all the way to marshal, I was also her most capable general..."

"Even that stubborn tsundere had to admit at the military annual eting—I was one of the people she couldn't live without in her life."

"So... precisely because I knew I was very important to her, I couldn't accept being a burden to her, not even a little bit."