13. Nothing is over.(3)
The shoulders of the soldiers who were moving at the sound of the strings breaking also flinched and trembled.
“… … .”
As if talking to herself, Kariel licked her lips and switched strings.
Luke, a knight in black armor who glanced at him from the front row, asked the saintess, Alessia, who had just come to his side.
“It will take more than half a day. Do you plan to go on foot?”
“Some of them are for training, aren’t there any horses you can ride right away?”
“Is the wagon invisible?”
“Then the horse is having a hard time?”
“… Is it thoughtful or unnecessarily sentimental?”
Luke turned his back and looked behind him.
Including the number of people operating the wagons, the number is about twenty.
A small village within the territory asked for help with the monster’s appearance, and since he was able to afford it just in time, Luke personally brought some of his entourage.
There were vigilantes in the village, but even if wild beasts were chased with them, it would be difficult to deal with monsters.
Occasionally, outrageous talents come out of remote villages, but that’s an exception among exceptions.
“Thanks to that friend, it was fortunate that there were no casualties.”
“I?”
When the saintess pointed to herself and asked,
“… Of course, Alessia-nim was also helpful.”
“It’s kind of like treating it as a bonus.”
“It can’t be.”
actually.
While I can afford that, the fact that… Could it be because of this woman?
In the past, there was only one saintess.
A symbol of the Order, an apostle of God, fulfilling its voice and will, literally a messenger of God, and at the same time a child whom God himself watches over with affection.
However, at one time, the church suffered measles due to this problem.
At that time, the situation was overturned, and the pope, who was colluding with the demon king at the time, was thrown out.
It was to break down the symbolism of the saintess and make it accessible in a more friendly form.
… One of the achievements of Ermina, who was called not only a saint but also a virgin at the time.
So, the existence of a saintess, as before, no longer meant a unique one.
There are six saints recognized by the church right now.
Alessia ranked fourth among them.
“Thanks to you, isn’t it pitiful for me to be dragged around under the pretext of being the director of leeches?”
“But isn’t it wrong that all of this is for the church?”
“… It’s just that I’m bothered.”
Alessia tilted her head to one side with slanted eyes.
“Isn’t it a virtue for priests to be diligent?”
“Only give those to the pigs.”
she was adamant
“When you’re working anyway, you can’t smoke even if you want to be lazy, right? You just have to be sincere at times like that, and you can’t stand it if you do it one by one.”
“Is that so?”
“What are you talking about! hey? There is a reason for all of these clergymen and priests who worked hard for no reason to become perverts and renegades later on. Wouldn’t it be much better to back down before becoming stubborn? When imperfect people try to act perfect, they all have mental defects. how is it? Am I wrong?”
“… … .”
Quite blatant.
Although it is very different from hostility and hostility.
“In that sense, that child is also the product of that sacrifice.”
It’s a face, look at the eyes.
“… Is that what a kid that age will look like?”
On that point, Han also deeply agreed with Luke.
Although I was amazed at the ghostly skill of stopping the monsters with the village vigilante.
… Aside from that, that boy was very melancholic in his mood and expression.
Also, even that of the villagers who were expressing their gratitude seemed quite unfamiliar.
An unspecified small number of monsters appear frequently.
Rather than the aftermath of the current demon lord’s invasion, these are the scars of an invasion that took place in the past.
Sudden magical protrusions are formed in various parts of the continent, and when they accumulate, they burst out and form monsters.
Originally, it is checked and processed periodically, but there are times when the cycle is sometimes wrong.
just like in this case.
Perhaps if he hadn’t been lucky enough to pass by the village, they would have run into a group of rooks who were just coming to rescue them on their way to evacuate without even asking for help.
Or, it may have run away in a different direction and reached the saintess, leading to another salvation.
“Your body movements aren’t that of a human.”
“okay?”
The saintess joined late and was unable to witness it, but everyone praised it highly.
Although her healing ability during the stage of recovering injured was truly overwhelming, most of them were seriously injured before Luke or Ruel arrived.
Fortunately, nobody died.
Therefore, isn’t it a case of heaven taking care of it?
… If that’s not the case, it doesn’t make sense for the prey to fit together like this.
After completing the apprenticeship, the reason we set out on the journey together was because we had the same destination.
“There’s also St. Cariel’s Day, right? There will be a lot of crowds.”
The patron saint of Baronense.
One of the 11 Guardian Knights of the Berg Empire.
A time when chivalry hadn’t even been established yet, a time when the remnants of the demons and savages calmly ran across borders and borders.
Loyalty and faith, and even faith fell to the ground in the age of disbelief.
At that time, to save the people suffering from the plague, to protect the sick and the naked people who even the lord abandoned.
An existence that single-handedly confronted hundreds of savage troops.
And the hero who drove it to the point of dying.
It was he who was said to have uttered the title of a knight, not a warrior, and preached the mindset of a knight.
Although it was 300 years ago.
A contemporaneous person with Iland, who was said to be the strongest and first knight in the Empire.
Saint Kariel, although he was far from the strongest, his compassion for the weak, his dedication and courage for it, and the spirit of sacrifice that resulted from it, finally reached the status of the Knight Age.
The fact that the hero Rueld and Saint Ermina named their first child Kariel.
Wasn’t it all because I bought that part highly?
“It is not uncommon for a wandering person to find his way through the saints and sages of old. Isn’t it because we follow Irenice’s teachings because we don’t know the way, so we follow in his footsteps, and we want to believe that we’re on the right track?”
“If you say so, you are quite a saint.”
“Look at this impious man?”
By the time the bickering two calm down.
Ding!
Kariel started playing the lute again, as if the replacement work had been completed.
There are times when it’s calm, and there are times when I play songs that are full of excitement and make my heart pound.
“Where did you learn that?”
Alessia stood next to Kariel this time.
Of course, since he was on a horse, Kariel had to keep his eyes down.
“Alone.”
“A gypsy, what a minstrel? Didn’t you learn from the demons?”
“Yes. I’ve seen them a few times, but I’ve never had a direct conversation with them or learned how to do them.”
I didn’t even have time for that.
Kariel, who swallowed the back talk, blankly played the lute.
In a demon lord expression, the state of consciousness has deteriorated and combat training beyond this will have a negative effect, so no.
… Thanks to that, he is now playing the lute even in his dreams.
This is bound to improve your playing skills.
In addition, the demon king taught me how to play the guitar, but the structure was different from that of the lute, so it was another fun.
Especially that, the magical power guitar.
It really felt like a product of the devil.
“But you never ask. disappointingly.”
“Yes?”
When Kariel was confused, Alessia smiled.
“Why am I following you? Aren’t you curious?”
“… … Should I be curious about that?”
“… … .”
Suddenly, people have nothing to say.
It’s not indifference, it’s… how to say
“Then you talk to yourself.”
Alessia snorted with a pouty expression.
“At the time the demon king invaded, those who quickly lost their pretense with the demon king and joined humanity, you know?”
“… Yes. roughly.”
Kariel glanced at the air, but he turned his gaze back to Alessia.
“Many of them have strange skills or abilities. And among them… The remnants of the past left on the land, ah, is it confusing to say this? That’s why, there are people with the ability to glimpse even a small part of things like memories.”
“is that so?”
“And, as you know, there are still many opaque elements in the history of the age of distrust, right?”
therefore.
“It’s not what the Vatican wanted, but it seems that they asked for help first, saying they wanted to help.”
“… Why?”
So, the remnants of the demons want to know the past history of the saints of the Church of Irenis, but since they don’t know the details, they want to use their abilities to dig it out. does that mean?
“It’s good for the church to be able to spur research on saints, and for them… Is it helpful for your work?”
“Work… What?”
Kariel again glanced into the air.
“After the war, their activities were strictly limited to artistic, technical, and commercial activities.”
“… … .”
It was a part that was simply pointed out in the academy class, so I knew it.
“But, don’t you know? That’s why I was dispatched to supervise it.”
It was unfortunate that I was around here.
Alessia sighed with a gloomy face.
“But it’s a festival day, so if you do well, you might be able to catch a good guy.”
“… … .”
“Notice! That’s what you’re talking about! I even proposed to you earlier! Have you already forgotten?!”
“Yes? Me? to me?”
No, you mean that? isn’t it a joke?
Kariel, puzzled, had to listen to her nagging, not her nagging.
What can I say though?
… It wasn’t a bad feeling.
Unknowingly, to the point where I had to desperately stop the corners of my mouth from rising.
damn, it felt good.