I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way? Ch 176

“Ah……”

At almost the exact sa ti, Ratoka also noticed that the slave soldier boy was missing his right leg, and both of us exclaid in unison.

……Co to think of it, this is the first ti I’ve t soone who’s missing an arm or a leg. I haven’t been on the battlefield for long enough, so I haven’t seen enough injured soldiers yet.

The slave soldiers would have already been inspected for weapons before locking them up in here, but they were just wearing ragged cloths that were unable to conceal anything. Consider how thin and weak they all appear, I doubt that our soldiers would treat them violently.

When they were captured, I heard that they put up almost no resistance, and I suppose that throwing an injured slave like this boy into a unit consisting of only young slave soldiers would be only natural. As I was thinking so, the boy who was now standing seed to be in pain, standing up with great difficulty.

“Do you, want, sothing?”

His voice was listless and dry. While he had an accent, he was speaking in Arxian. I hid my surprise.

“How and where did you learn the Arxian language? I recall that Nazric never had any interactions with Arxia.”

I answered him in the Nazric language, and it was easy to tell that the boy was stunned. Although his expression didn’t change much, his eyes indicated that my words stirred so emotions deep within him. For an injured slave soldier like him to be unreasonably forced to join a scout unit, it was evident that he was exhausted as would be natural, but I could also tell that he’s the type to suppress his emotions. aning, he’s the sa type as .

“…………”

He seed lost for words, and desperately kept squinting his eyes. It would appear that he’s carefully considering his words. This is sothing that isn’t possible for ordinary commoners. Now then, just who is he? This boy.

“……I’m, probably not who you think I am. While Nazric indeed never had any direct contact with Arxia, it’s actively traded before with other countries that in turn trade with Arxia. For us smaller southern countries, the developnt of the huge northern country of Arxia could influence our very fates. My country Nazric desperately studied knowledge about Arxia. This information was drilled into us. I learned Arxian in class as part of that knowledge……”

I nodded in response to the flood of information that suddenly ca pouring out of this boy who seed only slightly older than . As I took a step closer, the boy seed to shrink back in fear of . I thought for a mont on what to do, then I ntally snorted at myself because I had already decided what I should do already. I will do it just because I want to, although it could be said that it wouldn’t be very noble-like of .

Fortunately, this ti it was very clear to just what I should do.

“Elise, go to Ergnade and report to him that I’m removing a prisoner from the dungeon. Gunther, please give him so of our provisions, and make sure he receives so food. Also, summon Oscar over to .”

As I abruptly ended the conversation with the boy and gave brief, direct orders to my two subordinates behind , I could tell that everyone here was looking at with various feelings. In the captives’ listless eyes, I could finally see another emotion.

Being surrounded by , Oscar, Ratoka, and Claudia, the boy from earlier who may have been feeling pressured by all of us seed to have cald down after eating so food we gave to him, but when I asked him what his na was, he choked up again. He said earlier that he wasn’t who I thought he was, aning that he wasn’t a noble or royalty after all, so why was it that he had so difficulty saying his own na? Seeing that I was furrowing my eyebrows, he hurriedly explained things to .

From what he told , Rindarl forbade their slaves to use their nas, and called them by numbers instead. If soone was found calling others by their nas or using their own na, they would be punished severely.

It’s an inhumane slavery system. I thought back to my battle at Ritox Plateau late last year. Considering the fact that I impaled and burned Rindarl prisoners of war to death back there, should I really be lecturing Rindarl about what’s inhumane?

“Well? In the end, what’s your na supposed to be?”

Ratoka interrupted from behind, saying he couldn’t believe such a ridiculous story, but I told the boy to ignore Ratoka, and with a bit of a bewildered expression, he answered that his na was Vanita.

“Ok then, Vanita. I think you understand that I need to find out so information from you, so first tell what you have to say about Rindarl, and how it was that you ca to be here.”

“We…… because I have so knowledge about Arxia, I was brought here. We were sufficient as scouts, and if we were captured and killed, I heard that it would lower Arxia’s morale.”

I also found out from Vanita that the scout unit consisted of slave children brought from various different places. And, everyone had so friends or relatives that were also enslaved, whose lives would be forfeit if a slave betrayed Rindarl. Before they departed, there was also a rumor spread around that a few of them were real Rindarl child soldiers infiltrating the slave unit, spying on them, so while the slave children were on their way to Arxia, none of them, including Vanita, had considered betraying Rindarl at that ti.

“Before you departed, do you know where their main forces were located?”

“I don’t know the direction because there were no landmarks…… I was brought to a building that they constructed with stone walls, and given instructions there. Before then, everyone had been together, with their family mbers and friends that are now hostage. After that, we were blindfolded, put on horses, and we arrived at so forest, then we walked all the way towards this black iron fortress that we could see from the forest.”

“What exactly was your group ordered to co here and find out?”

As scouts, they’re still far too young, and as far as I can tell, none of them have even received any military training. Well, there’s the possibility that a few of them have been trained as scouts before, but either way, they should have been given so specific mission, instead of being sent here aimlessly just to lower our morale.

Vanita took a good look at . Then, with fear in his voice, he spoke up again.

“……Our job was to see if there was a black-haired, red-eyed child here. A demon that drinks people’s blood, we were supposed to find out if Earl Kaldia was currently at Fort Jugfena.”

His voice left quite a deep impression because he was clearly being serious, while Oscar, Ratoka, and Claudia suddenly looked at .

-After thinking for a mont, I shook my head slightly. For the ti being, let’s trust this boy’s words.