97 – Desert Peoples (3)
“Then you’ll be arrested…”
“…Your wife?”
“Then be careful arresting them. They may not be our soldiers.”
“Yes, I will do my duty.”
Since Stella, who could be said to be the commander-in-chief, was in a daze, he ordered the knight commanders to enter as an agent.
As soon as the soldiers listened to my order, they drew their swords and raised them towards the tent.
In preparation for the unexpected, archers and wizards stood by from a distance.
“Then step back.”
“Nuna, hold my hand and follow me.”
“hehehe…”
My wife is still in a daze and unable to come to her senses.
She took her hand and slowly moved it backwards.
By the way, Stella doesn’t show any reaction other than me when she’s sleeping.
Even if it’s her older brother or her older sister.
It seems strange that only my voice can be heard.
The knights stood in front of us as if they were hitting a wall.
It was a reassuring Knights who usually protected us, but today it seems to be even more reassuring.
“It’s an ultimatum! If you come out and surrender right now, I’ll hand you over to the guards and go quietly!”
“…………..”
“Yeah…Then there’s nothing we can do… 3Rd platoon commander!”
“Yes!”
The 3rd Platoon Leader who was waiting next to me shouted loudly and took a very angular posture.
It was more like a soldier than a knight.
“Bring out the intruders inside and arrest them!”
“I’ll follow your orders!”
There was no hesitation for the platoon leader who had been given orders.
Immediately, the platoon members rushed into the tent, sealed the entrance so that the intruder could not get out through the confusion, and began to use their best efforts to apprehend the intruder from the inside.
Is it because the purpose of arrest was to go inside with a club made of leather, except for the purpose of threat?
The sound of threshing was heard excitedly, and the voice of the presumed intruder begging for help came out.
With him, our Stella was just sleeping soundly with her head on my shoulder.
If Stella had had her eyes wide open, she would have been less hit.
“Let go! Let go!”
“Can’t you shut up!”
And after some time, soldiers started to come out with swords.
In turn, knights carrying leather clubs began to appear.
At the end, the intruder came out tied up with a white rope…
But the intruder is a woman?
She’s on top of that and she’s still a very young child.
She looks much younger than Etheria… No…
She looked only under the age of at least 10 years old.
She was also wearing her clothes in rags, with a strange floral ornament on her head.
“It seems to be the daughter of a certain desert chieftain.”
“There’s no such thing as a father to me! Stop talking like that!”
“Be quiet! How dare you talk about safety!”
Ashut shouted in a really angry voice.
Then the girl started to hiccup, perhaps from a surprise.
She looked so energetic… She suddenly dropped her tail.
A normal girl can’t help but be stunned by the knight leader’s roar.
“The person in front of you now is the 99th Saint of the Hellenic Church and her husband, Mama.”
“Seo…Saint Yeha…!?”
The desert tribes living in the desert are all followers of the Hellenes Church.
Because different families are worshiped under the same god, all roots are the same.
Did the person next to me notice that Saint Yeha was there?
Looking this way, she knelt down and bowed her head.
“I have committed a…Death sin!”
“Did you know that?”
“I… I didn’t even know that the saintess Yeha and her consort had come to this city…!”
After that, the captains of the knights began to ask the girl questions close to interrogation.
As for how it felt, they even asked where they bought the panties and how much they paid for them.
As expected, the name saintess is no joke.
She wasn’t even rebelling and fussing until a while ago.
“My father’s mother. What would you like to do?”
“What about your parents?”
“I don’t think what you said earlier is a lie. It looks like you’re already dead.”
“Hmm…Then citizenship in this city…”
“Of course not.”
That would be a bit of a headache.
She started to have a gut feeling that if she handed this child over to the guards, she would never be able to.
In this desert city, an illegal immigrant without citizenship was caught trying to steal the goods of the saint’s traveling group?
The death penalty might be imposed just to set an example.
“If you send it to the guard…”
“My husband will do exactly what he imagines.”
“Boo…Bu-kun Mama! Ha…Forgive me once! Please forgive me!”
This time, the child came up to me and knelt down on her knees, rubbing her hands.
Looking at it now, the knights beat me with a leather club and I have bruises all over my body.
His knees are all charred and blood is flowing.
How sad would Stella be tomorrow morning if she saw a child like this and just ignored it.
And do you have the confidence to be fine even after doing that to me?
“…Brother.”
“Yes, Mrs. Ma.”
“Bring Perry back to heal, and have our maids prepare the bath water so she can wash it.”
“I will follow your orders.”
After seeing Ashut-hyung pick up Perry, he held her forehead and let out a sigh.
Because it was my order as Stella’s agent, everyone did not express any objection or dissatisfaction.
Come to think of it, she was caught before stealing anyway, and I’m thinking that she wouldn’t even bother with this young child.
Because we, the Holy Knights, at least believe in righteousness, loyalty, and compassion.
“My father’s mother. Are you all right?”
“I’m fine…Sister, could you take care of the maids and this child?”
“Of course.”
Seeing the expression of the high priest smiling brightly, I also smiled bitterly.
In that expression, there was an unspoken word that seemed to be well done.
“The saintess will be happy when she wakes up tomorrow morning.”
“Is that so…?”
I brushed Stella’s bangs once, as she leaned on my shoulder and fell asleep.
A beautiful look with smooth white skin and cherry red lips.
It’s so cute to smile and pucker at the touch.
I should go in and sleep.
“By the way…”
A child with no parents and nowhere to go.
I think I have no choice but to reap what has happened like this.
“Now that this is the case, shall we go through priestly training?”
“I think it will be fine. It seems that she has respect for the saintess, so she seems to have been well educated.”
“Are you here, brother?”
“Hmm.”
Looking to the side, Ashut-niisama and Etheria were standing there.
Since Ashut brother couldn’t touch Perry, he had to be brought by Etheria, who has the same constitution as me.
By the way, the white dog sitting on its head.
It looks a bit bigger than the last time I saw it.
“I got Perry here.”
“Thank you.”
I received the ferry, but I felt something strange.
Looking at it now, Perry was sleeping while breathing.
It’s funny to hear it from someone other than the owner, but it’s sleeping there.
Isn’t it that Etheria can kidnap our Perry if it wants to!
“Perry! Wake up!”
“Bung!”
From noble mtl dot com.
Perry woke up in a fright and started licking my face.
As expected, Perry is the one who gives me infinite affection.
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“Boo…Bu-kun mama…”
After receiving Perry’s recovery magic, after washing and changing her clothes, the child began to feel like a daughter of a noble family.
Desert tribes are divided into extremes as there are small tribes of less than 100 people to large tribes of 1 million people.
There is a high probability that this child was the daughter of the latter’s chieftain.
“How old are you?”
“Yeah?! Ah…I’m…7 Years old… This year…”
“7 Years old… Isn’t it the age to learn addition and subtraction in kindergarten…”
Such a child has lost her parents and is wandering around as an illegal alien.
In the middle of the desert, too.
“Do you have a place to go?”
“No… No…”
“As expected…”
There’s no reason to steal otherwise.
After all, it might be better to take this child to the Church Bureau and make her priest.
“Will you follow me if I have nowhere else to go?”
“Boo…Boo-kun mama?!”
“Isn’t it a mess this time because of the lack of female priests? If you become a priest, you will have citizenship of the church
I have a house, I can eat as much as I want, and I get a salary… How would you like to try it?”
In addition, there are tremendous benefits for priests.
She is a desert orphan. If she becomes a priest, she will no longer have to live as an illegal alien, and she will be able to live her life while taking her own salary.
Besides, she’s not yet assigned to hard work because she’s only 7 years old.
She must have accumulated quite a bit of money when she becomes a full-fledged adult.
“How about it? Would you like to change your life?”
It was a word like a drug dealer, but it was sincere.
It’s an insignificant little level of authority, but how can you not say that someone can be saved with this authority?