Chapter 83 – Today is a meat party!!!
Episode 81
Delphi, the capital of the kingdom of Apollo.
It was a famous city as the capital of the Apollo kingdom, but it was also a very famous city in another sense.
It was the city where the Vatican, the headquarter of the Solaria Church, the most religious group in the entire continent, was located.
Perhaps because it is a church that enshrines the goddess of the sun, the Vatican was also established in the capital of the kingdom of Apollo, the closest country to the sun. As a result of that influence, even in the Apollo kingdom, other religions were not suppressed, but Solaria was designated as the state religion.
And now, the citizens of Delphi rushed to the streets to hear the news that the sun goddess would return to Delphi.
“Didn’t you go with the hero from the Mars Empire?”
“You must have been listening for a while.”
“I heard that the hero who is with the saintess did a great job in subjugating Amon-class monsters this time.”
People waited for the return of her saintess, sharing the news they had each picked up. And finally, a chariot painted with the emblems of the Solarian religion entered the Delphi highway.
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“It’s a saintess!”
“Holy Lady!!!”
“May the grace of Solaria be with you!”
The citizens of Delphi, mostly followers of the Church of Solaria, welcomed her return with a warm welcome. Estelle, the Saint of the Sun, who was riding in her carriage, responded by extending her hand through the window of her carriage to greet her.
The carriage sprinted along the main road amid cheers from the citizens. Some citizens questioned the appearance.
“You must be busy.”
“Sure. Normally, you would have shown her face at least.”
“Is something wrong?”
Leaving behind the worries of the citizens, Estelle took her carriage to the Vatican.
“Saint, we have arrived.”
“…Good job.”
Estel got off the carriage and went straight into the Vatican. As if she had no time to meet anyone, her priests, priests, and nuns all bowed their heads as she watched Estelle hurriedly walking away.
Estelle answered the greeting with a slight bow of her head, and she headed to an office in the Vatican that no one else could access. The paladin guarding the door of her office saw her Estelle and instead of blocking her approach, she greeted her with her courtesy. Estelle opened the door to her office without hearing her answer after a brief knock.
“Your Holiness!”
“Oh, Estelle. I haven’t told you to come in yet. You have guests.”
Estelle glanced at the first guest. Her appearance seemed to be that of a high-ranking aristocrat in the kingdom of Apollo, but she couldn’t afford to care about that.
“I’ll talk to you later, Lord Covert.”
“Yes, yes… Solaria’s grace be with you.”
“The grace of Solaria will be with you.”
The man cautiously went outside, and Estelle saw that the door was closing and strode towards the old man in front of her eyes.
The head of the Solaria Church, Pope Fabiano, saw Estelle coming to me, sweeping her long white beard. Estelle sat down in her chair and said.
“…Why did you invite me, Grandpa!”
“Grandpa, you should call him Holy.”
“What are you saying when no one is there?”
“Heh heh, he was so calm when he first came, but somehow he grew up to be such a tomboy.”
Fabiano said that, but it didn’t seem too bad to be affectionately called his grandfather.
“The reason I called you?”
“Yes.”
“Isn’t it obvious? Something like that because the hero might be dead.”
Estelle’s eyebrows twitched and moved. It wasn’t Fabiano who wouldn’t notice that minor change.
“Why is that? Wasn’t that something you were considering to some extent?”
“…Our hero is not someone who will die so easily.”
“I guess so. You can tell just by hearing the news. You’re doing a great job.”
At Fabiano’s words, Estelle slightly nodded her head.
“But Estelle, you don’t even know where he fell. If the hero landed in a place safe enough to survive on his own, he would be lucky, but that may not be the case.”
Fabiano spoke kindly, but the content was very realistic and harsh. Estelle didn’t want to hear it all the more because everything he said was what she thought maybe he was.
“…Grandpa, stop it.”
“If you fell into a dangerous place like the Glacier Mountains…”
“Grandpa!”
Estel jumped up from her chair and said.
“Abel is not going to die like that!!!”
Estel was surprised even after shouting herself. Growing up from an early age, she had never been annoyed with Fabiano, who had taken her away. Maybe so, she tried to apologize right away to Estelle.
“I’m sorry…I didn’t mean to shout…”
“…Now you’re acting a little more appropriately for your age.”
Estel looked at Fabiano with a little surprise, and he smiled warmly and sympathetically.
“Sometimes you have to grumble and live with it.”
“…I didn’t mean to.”
Fabiano pulled out a chair and reached over his desk. And she said, gently stroking Estelle’s hair.
“…Seeing you call me by name, it seems you were the ideal hero you’ve been waiting for.”
“…Yes.”
“If you’re such a hero, I don’t want to lose either. It’s a situation where there are few heroes in this generation, but losing a hero in such a situation is a human loss. But I called you because I was thinking realistically. Because something can happen that you don’t know about.”
Estelle gave her a slight nod. Seeing that, Fabiano asked.
“Estel, would you like to participate in the search?”
“Yes?”
“We are going to conduct a search operation towards the Glacier Mountains this time. It’s dangerous, but as I said earlier, it’s because losing the power of being a hero is bigger. Originally, it was difficult to search deep, so I was only going to look around the mountain range… But if you stick with me, the story will be a little different.”
Fabiano pulled out a piece of paper from a drawer. And he said as he handed it to Estelle.
“It is a map of the Glacier Mountains. It’s okay to take it with you and explore as far as you can. But, don’t overdo it. There is no guarantee that there will be a hero in the Glacier Mountains, because monsters live there.”
Listening to Fabiano’s warning, Estelle politely accepted his guidance. And Estelle bowed her head.
“Thank you, Grandpa…”
Fabiano smiled benevolently as he looked at Estelle with eyes as if he were looking at his granddaughter.
“Yes, the search starts at 10:00, so you better go quickly.”
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Me and Celine diligently went down the mountain after that. If you see that the weather is getting hotter, you must have come down the mountain.
Of course, Celine said to be careful even after going down the mountain completely. Because the Glacier Mountains are not a single mountain, but a collection of several mountains. He said that after a short period of flatness, mountains may appear again.
It would have been fortunate if we had moved to a mountain close to the Apollo kingdom, but if not, as Celine said, we might have to climb another mountain.
…Please don’t do that.
“Celine, Celine.”
“Yes.”
“Can I eat that?”
“…Hero, that is a weed.”
…f*ck, I’m hungry. The belly skin will stick to your back.
We ran out of dry pork jerky, and we haven’t eaten anything for almost the whole day now.
Celine is also weak against hunger, so she must be very hungry. Maybe she didn’t want to bother me, she wasn’t showing off at all.
“Celine, let’s eat something and move.”
“There is nothing to eat.”
“So we have to find it. I will starve to death as I go down to find it.”
“…I see. The warrior is right.”
Eventually, she decided to go hunting. Like when she hunted snow pigs, Celine and I moved in search of game to eat.
However, even after moving for a while, the prey did not appear easily. They say that wild animals have a good sense of humor and hide when people approach them, but they don’t come out like this.
“…Uh.”
Then a cute little creature came into our field of vision. It was a rabbit, a large-eared animal with brown fur.
“It’s a rabbit. I can fill my stomach in moderation.”
Celine was already watching that she was going to eat a rabbit. I think I’m drooling a little bit.
…Hungry is the same thing for me, so I understand. To be honest, he’s cute and sleeps, and now he only sees meat.
I immediately took out the holy sword. Quickly before the rabbit reacts…
“Hero, the rabbit runs away!”
“Yes!?”
When I looked up at Celine’s urgent voice, the rabbit was really running away.
Where are you going!!!
“Celine, I need to go quickly!”
“Yes?…Kyaaak!”
I ran with Celine carrying it like the last time. Celine said with her butt like her last time.
“Wait a minute! It’s too fast!”
“Again, her ass speaks….”
“Don’t say anything strange!”
“But rabbits are so fast. If you slow down, you will miss it.”
I heard that most wild animals are much faster than humans, but that rabbit is also that fast. It was cute to see her running away using her hind legs, but now that she was hungry, seeing her so fast was annoying.
The rabbit quickly jumped into a hole. When I saw that, I thought it was a windfall.
“Celine, that must be a rabbit hole!”
“Yes? Really?”
Celine seemed to like it too.
f*ck, I’ve been through everything. Today is a meat party!!!
As I ran to the rabbit’s burrow with happy imaginations, the moment I blinked and opened my eyes, the accident stopped. I only blinked for a second, but the landscape in my field of vision changed.
“… Huh?”
Why is the floor…
As soon as Celine made a gasping sound, I slammed my face on the floor and my vision turned black.
#
Quaang!!!
“Kyaaak!”
Celine, who was carrying Abel, rolled on her floor. It was because Abel, who was running with her, was crushed by something on her and fell to the ground.
Abel’s face was smashed into the ground by something that suddenly appeared, causing a cloud of dust. Celine coughed into the dust and tried to look around.
“Ugh… What the heck is this…”
The moment Celine raised her head to check Abel’s condition, the dust from her body flew away in an instant and a fist appeared in front of her eyes.
There was one with four arms on her. It stood on two legs with slender limbs like a human, and a transparent membrane that looked like a cloak fluttered on its back. There were four small eyes staring at Celine arranged in an X shape.
“…A monster?”
The monster hit Celine’s stomach with her fist.
“Kuk…!”
Celine fell over in front of her, unable to even hold on to her stomach. She sighed and stared at the fallen Celine, then opened her mouth.
“…Secured.”
Seeing someone talking to someone in the air, as if a modern person is talking on the phone, Celine looked at it with her eyes gradually closing and thought about it.
‘…Why…Don’t kill me…?’
That was Celine’s last thought.
With that thought in her mind, Celine lowered her head and passed out, and her monsters wrapped around her. She then went up to Abel, and she kicked the holy sword that was clutched in his hand and knocked it off.
The monster who glanced at the Holy Sword, kicked by her foot and spun on her floor, threw the fainted Abel over her shoulder like Celine and kicked her floor and leaped.
Then the thin, transparent membrane on the monster’s back fluttered and flew naturally into the sky. Like a superhero out of nowhere.
“My queen. I will return now.”
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At the place where the monster left with Abel and Celine, someone walked through the bushes.
The walker stared at the holy sword of order thrown to the ground, then held it lightly with one hand and muttered.
“…Abel.”
Glittering amber eyes looked up at the sky where the monster had disappeared.