Chapter 69 – That Child, Estelle
Chapter 68
At first, the neighbors helped the star left alone. At that time, the kind-hearted guard who helped her mother and daughter live in the city was especially helpful.
“Did you say stars? You can think of this as your home. So live bravely.”
“…Yeah.”
I was sad that I couldn’t be with my mother any longer, but it felt like the warm-hearted guard man was filling the void.
But that didn’t last long either. The group of Drakan who burned down the village where the stars lived. Things changed when they invaded the city.
At that time, the star’s mother informed the situation, but the lord decided that it was unreasonable to wipe out the Drakan group with only the power of the city at the time, and waited for the hero of the day to arrive.
The lord’s judgment was not wrong. It was obviously foolish to subjugate the most dangerous group of monsters with only the city’s privates.
However, the arrival of the warriors of the time was delayed due to their respective duties, and in the meantime, the Drakan invaded the city.
Her kind neighbors who took care of her star, her guard uncle who took her away. They all died brutally. The city that I thought was safe in front of the overwhelming strength of a high-level monster became a mess.
“…Mister?”
Everything in the young star was confused. The peaceful city became a sea of fire in an instant, buildings collapsed, and people fell down screaming.
And in front of her star lay a warm-hearted guard who looked after her. Blood was still flowing from the open wound on his back.
Seeing that, the star cautiously stretched out her hand and instinctively invoked her divine power.
However, even the divine power that exerts absolute power in her treatment could not bring her dead back.
【 Oi. The guy is dead 】
In her star’s head, a voice gave her practical advice. But she didn’t stop staring.
【 …Oh, you’d better run away. 】
Gradually the sound of her footsteps grew louder. Several footsteps were heard, much louder than human footsteps.
“Keureuk…What the heck, there was a living human.”
【 Oops. 】
The voice in her head clicked her tongue. The star lifted her head slightly and looked in front of her, and what she saw was a monster that looked just like the ones she had seen in the village.
But she didn’t know it was a monster. She just thought she was an odd looking person, she said, crying.
“…He’s not waking up…Help me…”
“What?…Krarak! Hey boy look Are you asking me to help you?”
“Keureuk, you ignorant kid. Have you ever seen a reaction like that?”
A Drakan approached with a thump, thud, footsteps. He looked at the stars with long slit pupils and said.
“Kreuk, kid. Do you want to save that old man?”
“Yes…”
“Kureuk, then how about you die instead?”
“…Yes?”
Byeol had an expression that he did not understand. To such a star, Drakan smiled broadly and said.
“Krarak! You will die instead! Instead of that uncle!”
“…Then does the mister get up?”
“Kreuk, yes! That’s it!”
“…….”
Drakan was fooling the stars by talking nonsense. Just for your own fun. The voice that had been watching the scene said a word.
【 Oi. Ignore that word. It’s nonsense. 】
“Keureuk, what are you going to do? Little boy!”
Byul was troubled by Drakan’s words, but he listened to the advice of a warm voice that always spoke to him.
“…A lie.”
“Kreuk, what?”
“You’re lying!”
“…Kreuk, what is it? He’s a boring kid.”
Drakan pulled out a curved sword. The star who saw this was startled and took a step back from him.
Drakan slowly approached with a face that seemed to have lost interest, and the star wiggled behind her, but she couldn’t run faster than Drakan’s stride.
“Stop.”
“Kreuk, what is it?”
Suddenly!
With a white flash, Drakan’s arm holding the curved sword was cut off in an instant. And the neck of Drakan, who was watching from his side, fell off with a single sword strike.
It happened in a very short moment. The star widened his eyes at the sight. The man with the pure white greatsword glanced back.
Having found the star, he approached holding the sword. Seeing that the star was scared, he stopped his steps.
And there was a woman who followed the man.
“…Didn’t you say you could feel the divine power, Reina?”
“Right. A very powerful divinity here… Oh my, could it be that child?”
She was a woman in a white priestly robe. The priest’s uniform had a sun pattern, which symbolizes Solaria, and a golden cross.
“Hello, kid. Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”
“…….”
Byul was so surprised that he couldn’t speak, but he answered with a gentle nod. The woman called Raina said she looked at such a star and said she was cute.
“He doesn’t cry, he is strong. Still, it’s dangerous here, so let’s go to a safe place over there with you?”
“…The man is…”
Reina looked behind her. There was the man the star said, a guard who had already died.
“…He went to rest for a bit.”
“…Are you taking a break?”
“Yeah, you must have been a bit tired. So let the uncle rest, and let’s avoid it for a while, shall we?”
The stars were not fools. She is five years old, but he has already seen the death of the one he loves the most. But even so, he nodded her head in gratitude for her caring heart.
“Yes.”
#
The ones who saved the planet were Ludwig, the hero chosen by the Holy Sword of Order at the time, and Reina, the saintess of the Solaria Church.
Of course, Reina wasn’t really a saint chosen by God, but she still got along well with Ludwig, and she was an excellent duo.
Raina took the rescued star to the Vatican of the Solaria Church. Because she saw that the divine power she felt from her was not normal.
“Where are you going?”
“I’m going to a place where it’s safe, comfortable, where you can be right.”
“Ugh…”
Where is such a place? The star tilted her head.
“Kyaa, Lou! Look at this! Isn’t it so cute I want to have a daughter like this in the future.”
“To go or not to go, that is up to you.”
“Ah, it’s hard!”
Star looked at Ludwig, blinking her eyes. Ludwig asked the gaze of the stars watching him.
“Why is that?”
Unlike when he spoke to Reina, his tone became much softer. At that tone of voice, Byul summoned up the courage to ask.
“Your brother…Is a warrior?”
“…Yes.”
A warrior. It was a name I heard from my parents one day. He is a wonderful hero who fights monsters and saves people.
It wasn’t that the star recognized the holy sword or anything like that, he just asked after seeing how he saved himself and sliced up Drakan in an instant.
“Hero…”
The star chewed on the name. Reina laughed as if she didn’t know what to do because such a cute star, and Ludwig reprimanded Reina for not trembling at her faults.
Raina asked the star with a cute expression.
“Oh, but what is your name?”
“…It’s a ‘star’.”
“A star?”
Reina blinked once and looked at Ludwig. Ludwig said to Reina like that.
“It happens often.”
“Ah…Yes, that’s right.”
The two noticed right away that Byul was a child not registered in the family register. Both of them were from commoners, so I knew that there were many such cases.
“Um… Do you like the name Byul?”
“My mother built it.”
“Hmm…but, since Byul is a common noun, I can’t register it as a name.”
Byul tilted her head when a difficult story came up. Reina thought about it, then covered the star’s cheek as if she didn’t understand.
“Eh, I don’t know! As long as it’s cute~!”
“Reina, stop bullying me.”
“Lu, when did I bully you!”
Looking at Ludwig and Raina bickering, Byul felt that the two were close. After moving for a long time in a wagon, they got off somewhere.
“Now, we are all here, star.”
The star held Raina’s hand and looked in front of her.
“Wow…”
It was the ‘Vatican’, the headquarters of the Solaria Church, the church with the largest religious influence on the continent.
The stars twinkled in her eyes as she looked at the majestic and huge building where the pure white building rose high. It was a natural reaction since she saw a tall building that she had never seen before.
In pure admiration for her star, Raina hugged her star and said,
“Kyaa~ Isn’t he so cute? Really, why are you so pure?”
“Because I am a child.”
“Lu, not all kids these days are like this.”
“Where are you, sister?”
To her star’s question, Reina answered with a smile.
“Yes, this is where Byul lives.”
“Yes?”
The star widened his eyes when he was told that he would live in this large building.
“Really! From now on, Byul will live here~”
“…Can I?”
“Sure! Shall we go inside? There is someone I need to go and meet.”
“Yes.”
Raina took the star and Ludwig followed.
“Oh, Lady Reina. What did you come for?”
A nun recognized Reina and was delighted. Rayna pointed to her star at the nun and said,
“I found a gem. I thought I should show it to His Holiness.”
“Jewels?”
The nun put on a puzzled face, but Rayna said she would find out later and went on her way.
“Lu, wait here!”
“Yes.”
The star slightly turned her head to look at Ludwig. And gently waved her little hand. Seeing that, Ludwig widened his eyes and greeted him with a light smile.
“…Come back.”
#
The star has reached the highest point of the Vatican with Reina. The highest and most sacred place of the Holy See, its sole inhabitant was an old man with a long white beard.
The benevolent old man was wearing a pure white suit. It was a costume symbolizing the pope, but there was no way the young star would recognize it.
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“His Holiness, long time no see.”
“Raina, why are you here? However….”
The old man’s eyes turned to the stars. Star bowed her head and said hello.
“Hello.”
“…You are a good person.”
“This is the child I rescued from Romanov City this time. What I brought to His Holiness is no different…”
Reina stroked her star’s hair once and said.
“This child seems to have been born with a very strong divinity.”
“…Yes, I knew it at a glance.”
“Oh, you are very good.”
“If you step down as a saint, the next saint will be this child.”
Pope, Fabiano looked at the stars.
“My dear, what is your name?”
Byul, slightly nervous at Fabiano’s gaze, couldn’t answer right away. Just then, a voice came into Star’s head.
【Hey, it’s okay. He serves me, so he will take good care of you. 】
A little relieved by that voice, Byul answered clearly.
“It’s a ‘star’.”
“A star?”
Fabiano looked at Reina. Rayna explained to him.
“You know, His Holiness. Because of the poll tax, I deliberately do not put it on the family register…”
“Well, I understand.”
Fabiano looked at the stars quietly. Fabiano, who was chewing on the name Byul, quietly approached the star.
“Honey, my name is Fabiano.”
“…Grandpa Fabiano.”
When Byul called her grandfather, Raina giggled. Fabiano noticed Reina and looked at the stars again.
“Yes, call it that. From today you will stay and live here.”
“Yes.”
The star blinked. Looking at her, Fabiano smiled and stroked her hair.
“From now on, your name will be Estelle. It is a name that means star.”
“…Estel?”
“Yes, Estelle.”
Fabiano said, stroking his hair affectionately.
“You are our family now.”
Star is
That’s how the name came about.
#
Little Estelle, who was once called a star, ended up living in the Vatican. It was a pity that Reina and Ludwig, who had brought her, could not stay together, but she left after promising to visit once or twice a year.
Everything about Estelle, who ended up living in the Vatican, was miraculous. She didn’t know how the Order lived, the people of the Order, and Fabiano’s beard.
“Estel.”
“Yes, Grandpa.”
“Stop playing with your beard, and today I have someone to introduce.”
“Yes?”
Estelle, who was pulling Fabiano’s beard straight, tilted her head. Fabiano put Estelle down from her arms and stroked her hair.
“Starting today, two teachers will come to teach you. Oh, there you come.”
Fabiano pointed to a place far away. Estelle moved her gaze along her finger, and she saw a man and woman coming this way.
“Are you here?”
“Are you at peace, His Holiness?”
“It’s been a while, His Holiness.”
The two greeted Fabiano. Then, looking at the child Fabiano was petting, he asked.
“This child said…”
“Yes, a child born with a very strong divinity.”
“… Is this cute kid?”
The woman pressed Estelle’s cheek. The soft cheeks went in well, and the woman liked it.
“Oh, how cute. Are you calm?”
“He is such a child. Sometimes I am too precocious to be a child, so treat me like a child.”
“Hmm, is that so?”
Estelle looked at the man and the woman alternately. To Estelle’s gaze, the man introduced himself.
“Nice to meet you, Estelle. My name is Antonio I hold the office of a priest in this papal court. From today, I will be in charge of your knowledge training.”
“Hello.”
Seeing her bowing her head, the woman laughed.
“Oh, it’s cute.”
“Introduce yourself too.”
“Yes.”
The woman was wearing a nun’s uniform. Dressed in a jet-black nun’s uniform, she greeted Estelle with a smile.
“Hello, Estelle. My name is Katarina.”