I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way? Ch 30

Earl Terejia has approved of my plan to deal with the fire moths. Wooden pipes containing salt water would be issued, and a civil militia would be set up.

Since there wasn’t enough salt water for everyone, we also distributed wooden pipes with poisons that would work on the fire moths. We also made sure to add sand into the salt water to make sure that the villagers wouldn’t try and use the salt water for their personal use. There was also the fact that we discovered fine grains would solidify the moth scales during the experint in the garden. However, we weren’t able to find sothing that would replicate the effect of salt dissolving the wings and causing holes in them.

Since there were more fire moths than could be taken care of by people, I used the idea of pesticides from my previous life, and instructed the villagers to spray salt water on the fields and near the entrances to the forests, so that the fire moths wouldn’t go near the crops. Although I don’t rember the details, I do seem to rember that salt can be used as a pesticide in my previous life.

“I’ve received my first task from the earl! Starting today, you’re going to be learning the spear from , Elida-dono!”

“It’s Eliza, Claudia-dono.”

I had just finished the plans on dealing with the fire moths, and was working on docunts regarding transporting the necessary goods to the villages, when I was ambushed by Claudia, and I was forced to stop working. Well, these docunts have to be completed by the day after tomorrow, even though this is sothing that the earl asked to do, I don’t absolutely have to finish them today. After all, refusals never get through to Claudia. Since it’s useless, I’ve learned not to waste my energy struggling.

“Ahh, my apologies. Then, Eliza-dono, let’s go to the training grounds!”

Claudia grabbed my wrist, and started dragging around while humming.

“The training grounds? For the soldiers?”

“Yep.”

“I have a different training ground from the soldiers. Since there’s a wide empty space behind the house, I use that.”

Normally Claudia would forcibly use the soldiers’ training grounds and play there, but I don’t go there. After my three months of training concluded, I haven’t been back to the barracks or their training grounds. That’s because I’ve had to either show up in front of the citizens of my domain, or accompany nobles lately. With my own soldiers’ negative feelings towards , I had to placate them, and get them used to . I should have cultivated my relationship with the soldiers more, but after leaving the barracks, but considering my position, I haven’t been able to go back to the barracks.

“……I see. I wanted to show you the growth of that child entrusted to .”

Even Claudia knew at least so common sense as a noble, and she nodded ekly. She doesn’t completely lack common sense, now I know she’s not completely unmanageable. As a house guest that’s entering my domain’s army, we’ve allowed her to freely go in and out of the barracks and use the training grounds there as she liked.

“Ratoka, eh.”

“Yes, Gunther said she’s finally beginning the food gathering for herself this afternoon.”

At the sa ti that Claudia joined the army, Ratoka was placed as a soldier in training at the barracks, and she’s now going through the exact sa basic training that I did. That is, getting beaten up all morning by Gunther, polishing tools and cleaning with the other soldiers in training until noon, and doing an endless amount of marching training after lunch. After that, she would have to forage for her own dinner by herself.

“I’ve never hunted before until I ca here, but it’s really so fun! The food I catch myself tastes amazingly delicious.”

Claudia seems to be getting excited over so mories about hunting. I felt a sense of danger, so I gently tried to pry Claudia’s hand off my wrist. She didn’t budge.

“When I first went up against large beasts with my spear, I realized for the first ti that this was indeed different from practice! In order to outmaneuver and defeat enemies with hostile intentions, I must train my intuition!!”

As she shouted and rose her fist to the sky in a display of her determination, Claudia seed to be sparkling. Probably without realizing it, her other hand was also raising mine to the sky and she was using all her strength to grip with.

It hurts. Soone, please save .

“Since that’s been decided, Eliza-dono, let’s imdiately go do so special training behind the mansion!”

I don’t know if it’s in answer to my wish, but Rashiok who was taking a walk nearby, approached Claudia and gently nudged her back with his front foot.

“Noo, it’s an enemy attack!!”

She perford a splendid high roundhouse kick, and I could even hear the sound it made in the air. Although Rashiok was able to duck it, if it had been anyone else from the mansion they probably would have taken a direct hit. Well, since nobody was behind Rashiok, luckily that kick didn’t blow anyone’s head away.

“……Oh, Rashiok! I’m so sorry!!”

Claudia hurriedly began apologizing to Rashiok, and was breathing hard, and Rashiok t my eyes as if to say, really? This took Claudia about five minutes or so.

Finally, with Rashiok coming along as well, the spear training behind the mansion began.

Claudia had regained her composure on our way here, and with a very calm expression, she began teaching the advantages and features of the spear.

“Although the sword is basically the main weapon for nobles, in actual battles nobles use spears more often. Do you know why?”

“Since the sword is required for ceremonies and rituals, nobles are taught ceremonial swordsmanship. However, in actual battles, the spear has longer reach, and being a two-handed weapon, the spear is more advantageous than the sword.”

“Yep, that’s it. Now that chain mail is the main type of armor, swords are rather useless. You have to pierce through it. For that, the spear is more suited to the task due to its shape. Of course, the difference in reach is critical in actual combat as well. When attacking from horseback, swords can be blocked even by helts.”

I felt strange at seeing Claudia actually being serious, and nodded. It seems that there’s going to be a very high possibility of actually being in battle in the future. Since I’ll be riding, I want longer reach.

“First, you’ll have to rember the feeling of manipulating a rod-shaped weapon. Gunther’s spear practice probably only focused on thrusting the spear.”

For infantry with no knowledge of martial arts, they would only receive training on standing in formation and thrusting the spears for basic training. However, since I’m a commander, Claudia said that I need to truly master the spear and be able to use it for self-defense.

I nodded at Claudia again. Since this has to do with improving my odds of survival, I’m going to take this seriously and learn the best I can.

“Then, start with your form.”

“Yes!”

Although I gave a spirited reply, three hours later I was regretting it slightly.

When Claudia said to start with my form, she didn’t an to start with the basic training that Gunther had do before. The proper form was completely different from what I had been doing up until now, and that one word before training started was the only word I was able to get in, I was almost ntally exhausted to the point of being unable to speak.

With three hours of practice swinging, my training concluded for today.

……I had been slightly excited to learn martial arts seriously for the first ti today, but my inner child was fully exhausted, crushed, and thrown away sowhere.

End of Act 1, Part 2