After Cecilia's treatment was finished, the other soldiers and knights came back.
They had brought back Cecilia's horse and the priest.
The priest was just unconscious because he had overused his mana. All he needed to do was rest up and he would be fine.
As for the horse…it had a broken leg.
Anyone that took care of horses knew that this was basically a death sentence for a horse. It would be very unlikely that it would recover from this and even if it did, it wouldn't be able to run like it did before.
The smarter thing would be to put this horse down to save it from suffering.
But Baroness Rose wouldn't allow that to happen.
She had heard from the men how this horse had protected Cecilia and fought with her against the Goblin General, so she wouldn't let them repay its valor with cruelty. She made sure that the horse got the best medical care that it could get.
Over the next few days, everyone was kept busy even though the monsters had already been driven away.
That was because there was a lot of cleaning up to do.
The monsters hadn't held back at all as they threw their rocks at the town.
While the soldiers and archers had done their best to block as many rocks as they could, it wasn't as if they could stop everything. There were plenty of rocks that had gone over their heads and landed in the town.
The rocks that fell had destroyed several buildings, so they now had to clean them up and rebuild them.
Normally, this would be the collapse of one's family with the amount that it would cost to rebuild, but Baroness Rose said that all of the construction costs would be paid for by her.
This had gone a long way to increase her popularity with the people of the town, though it didn't need an increase in the first place since she was already very popular.
But that did mean that there was a lot of work that had to be done so that the town could function again.
So over the next few days, I had been running around ragged doing things for the town.
During this time, Cecilia and the priest had both woken up and were showing signs of recovering.
However, there were some people that didn't wake up and there were many funerals that were also held during this time.
The priest had wanted to get up for each and every one of those funerals, but I was able to convince him to lie down and rest in the end. I was actually the only one that was able to do so.
The clerics had tried, but they hadn't been able to stop the priest.
So they had no choice but to ask me to stop him.
If it wasn't for the Mark of God, I most likely wouldn't have been able to stop him.
But because I had this Mark of God, he listened to me and stayed in bed. Though there were many praises that he said while I was there…
It really made me wonder just what this Mark of God was…but the priest wouldn't explain when I asked him about this.
The other thing that happened during this time was that Baroness Rose held a celebration feast for everyone after the cleanup was done.
This was a feast that was hosted by Baroness Rose, so everything was paid for by her. Once again, this increased the popularity of Baroness Rose, reaching a point where the townspeople were even ready to worship her.
But this was something that the town needed since there was an air of sadness that lingered over them.
The people needed a way to grieve over the dead and a way to celebrate the fact that they had survived.
So everyone cut loose on the day of the feast and just focused on enjoying themselves.
That included Cecilia and the priest who had recovered enough to join.
The reason we had waited this long in the first place was because we wanted to wait until the people who had been injured in the fight had recovered enough to celebrate with us.
There were those that were seriously injured and would take several months to recover, so we couldn't wait for them. But we tried to wait as long as we could so that those that suffered slight injuries could join in the celebration.
The ones that were the most popular were Cecilia, the priest, and Baroness Rose.
As beautiful women, it was natural that Cecilia and Baroness Rose were popular.
However, the priest was also very popular as the one who led the clerics.
The clerics had done a lot during the monster wave to heal people, so the townspeople all had good impressions of them. Since the priest was the one that led these clerics, he was the one that everyone respected the most.
But those that tried to get close to Cecilia and Baroness Rose…had ulterior motives.
They all came over with drinks and tried to get the two of them drunk so that they could take advantage of them. Even though I was by the side of these two, they completely ignored me and still tried to take advantage of them.
So I couldn't ignore it anymore and stood up for the two of them, telling these people to back off.
These people were soldiers of the town who were still single, so they were quite strong and didn't back down from me telling them to back off. They even stepped up to me, as if they wanted to suppress me with their pressure.
One of them who was the leader came forward and said, "What are you going to do about it then? Are you going to fight us if we don't back off?"
I was about to say something, but before I could, one of the knights came forward to push this person back as he said, "This is a celebration, don't take it too far."