88. A strange girl

"What are you talking about, there is no way I am letting you go anywhere near the battlefield!"

"Come on we will be fine, I have ways to defend myself. For now let's just take a walk outside since we don't have any patients left" said Andy and held his hand up in front of Elenor.

Elenor blushed when she looked at his hand and shyly held it and they walked out of the camp together holding hands. Andy made use of this opportunity and used [Healer's mark] on her.

"I-Is that really our strict headmistress? She just looked like a teenage girl in love in front of that boy." said one healer after Elenor and Andy left.

"Do you have a death wish?! Keep your mouth shut!" scolded his senior.

...

As Andy and headmistress walked together hand in hand, many people around the camp glared at them in shock which made headmistress blush even more. She was just keeping her head down and walked wherever Andy took her.

"Thank you for coming here on such short notice" headmistress spoke up after gathering her courage.

"You don't have you thank me for such small things, remember you are my woman now, I will always be there whenever you need me"

Headmistress' heart skipped a beat when Andy called her his woman, she only met him a few days ago but she already fell in love with him. Ever since she was a child no man could ever compete with her in her generation or younger generation, let it be medical field or battlefield, until she met Andy that day when he healed Melty whom even she couldn't heal. That day itself she decided that Andy will be her man, although she didn't think that things will escalate this quickly, but she was actually glad it did. Her heart always skips a beat whenever she think about the night she invited Andy to her home and wore a short bathrobe without any bra to lead him on.

"Andy why don't you take your family and leave this country after a few days? I believe this war is going to get worse soon, things may get really bad."

"What are you talking about, this country has you, what could possibly happen to us! Haha"

Hearing this Elenor didn't feel happy, instead she bit her lips which Andy noticed.

"What is the matter Elenor, is there some issue?"

"No there is nothing, just forget that I said anything"

Andy then sighed and shook his head

'Why all my women so troublesome?' he thought

Andy then took her near a rock and sat down and made her sit sideways on his lap.

"Kyaa~ let me go this is embarrassing!" Elenor tried to complaint but when she looked around there was no one else in this area.

Andy kept a hold of her slender waist with his left hand and gently moved her face towards him with his other hand and gave her a kiss. Elenor's entire body shook for a second but then she closed her eyes and kissed him back.

After a minute they separated their lips, Elenor had completely red face and was taking deep breadths as she looked into Andy's eyes.

"Why don't you tell me what the real issue is now?"

Looking at Andy's determined expression, Elenor gave up and started telling him about the past events.

...

Everyone in the kingdom of Rhodes knew that the previous war between the two kingdoms resulted in a draw with their kingdom taking a slight advantage. But that was not exactly the truth. 35 years ago, previous king of Rhodes decided to bury the truth and spread this false news to not cause any panic in his kingdom.

In the previous war both sides fought each other using their full force which resulted in countless loss of lives. Even many commoners were forcefully recruited to be the foot soldiers in that war.

The battle remained in the stalemate situation for many days, when the previous king of Rhodes made a plan and summoned Elenor's team. During that time Elenor lead a high ranking team which had few high-tier knights and mages in it, many of them were her friends since childhood and studied together in academy. Once they arrived as per king's order, he asked them to infiltrate the Quire kingdom and attack their royal family in their capital city, only that way kingdom of Rhodes could possible win that battle.

To infiltrate Quire kingdom, Elenor's team killed a few Quire soldiers and took their armour and stealthy started moving towards their capital city. Once they reached the location of their royal family they couldn't believe what they saw. All the guards of royal family were already dead and there was blood everywhere. Even their defensive formation around the royal family ground was broken. Most people in her team advised to abort the mission as they didn't know what the situation was inside the royal family grounds but Elenor decided to go ahead with the mission and they entered the royal family grounds.

Once again Elenor's team stood still in their tracks in shock after seeing all the blood and dead bodies of maids and butlers everywhere. But Elenor once again commanded them to continue forward and they entered the royal family's mansion. Even in the mansion there were countless dead bodies of maids and butlers everywhere and there were even some royal family members' bodies among them.

Then they moved forward slowly and entered the throne room of Quire kingdom. There they saw a young girl sitting on the throne fully covered in blood and there were bodies of Quire kingdom's king and queen near her feet. When the young girl saw Elenor she smiled at her which sent shivers down her spine.

"I've been waiting for you fire princess" asked the young girl

"Who are you and where are your people? Why did your side slaughter the royal family?" asked Elenor

"I am alone here and killed everyone myself, I was looking for someone who could play with me, but all of them were so weak that they died in a single attack from me" said the young girl with a sad expression.

"Who are you kidding? You barely look 20 years old, how could you possible do this all by yourself? Which kingdom are you from and where are your people?" asked Elenor, she thought some other kingdom took advantage of their war and captured the royal family grounds of Quire kingdom.

"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not, I was actually born in Quire kingdom only and am all alone. All I wanted was to find someone who could defeat me, but here we are. After killing all of them I stayed here in wait of someone powerful from Rhodes kingdom to arrive. Come on let's not waste any more time on useless talk and have a duel to decide whether you are the one?"

"You want to duel against me?" asked Elenor with a bit of ridicule in her voice.

"Am I not worthy to fight the fire princess of Rhodes?" asked the girl with a cute smile on her face.

"Hmph! I you have a death wish then get down here" accepted Elenor

After the young girl got down from the throne she said

"Whoever wins will get to rule this kingdom" and then moved her right hand behind her back as if she was giving a handicap to Elenor.