Episode 131
the next morning.
One day was enough for those with exceptional skills in the first year to unwind from the woe of travel.
Before leaving the mansion, Elin gave Maria a white helmet separately.
He said that it was one of the five great gods of the hero, and that the descendants of the warrior would rent it as a condition of coming here, and asked him not to use it unless there was nothing special.
The white helmet, as its name suggests, was painted white all over, so it stood out, so she agreed.
Received detailed information about the demon contractor and supplies, Allen left the city with Maria.
The Lupinus family gave one as a guide to them as they left the city.
‘Rather than acting as a guide… There must be a sense of surveillance or protection.’
It doesn’t make sense for the Lupinus family to not be able to solve this problem directly, so it would be correct to just give them a chance to experience the real battle.
Eliza’s intentions were mixed there, and she summoned herself.
“Ahahaha, let’s do well for a few days.”
The person who followed as a guide introduced himself as a knight belonging to the Knights of the Rupinus family.
“This is Liam. I am currently one of the senior knights of the Knights Templar.”
A large middle-aged man with a simple face could not stop smiling even when he met whether he was originally like that.
“Nice to meet you. This is Allen Reinhardt.
“Maria Caritas.”
He did not show any dissatisfaction with Maria’s brief remarks. Rather, he urged Allen to let her horse go.
“Originally, as you get older, you want to be younger, don’t you? Ha ha ha ha.”
“•••I am okay.”
“It’s always okay, so please feel free to call me.”
He has a good personality and is friendly.
He’s probably the kind of person to be friendly with everyone in the Knights Templar without making enemies.
They rode on horses provided by the Rupinus family, and were going to the place where the last traces of the demon contractor were found.
While running at a moderate speed, Allen opened his mouth.
“Sir Liam, so do you have any knowledge of the demon contractor to pursue?”
Liam nodded his head as if he had nothing to think about.
“I’ve been involved in chases a few times, so if you know, I know.” “Then can you explain it to me?” “Yes, of course you should.”
Liam readily agreed as if nothing had happened.
Allen was already familiar with the information he had received from the Rupinus family. However, he could not miss the vivid information he had obtained from the field.
“First of all… the demon contractor we’re looking for isn’t very well-known. It could be said that it’s been corrupted recently.”
If not, wouldn’t we have dealt with it?
He smiled for a moment as if he was happy, but as Allen waited without a word, he quickly resumed the conversation.
“My real name is Rainer. I am 24 years old. The place we go is also a mining village two days away from here.”
A faintly shimmering village could be seen over the path of the canyon.
Allen had already seen a village similar to that place over and over again on his horseback.
“That must be the mining town where he was born. As you know, the Lupines are not famous for their ore, are they?”
The kaleidoscope, which Allen accidentally found at the last festival, was also one of the local specialties.
“That’s why there are so many mining villages…, I guess Reiner is one of the residents of that mining village.”
Allen was puzzled by the uncertainty in his words.
“Are you guessing?”
“that is….”
Liam seemed to be embarrassed with a smile for a moment, but answered Allen’s eyes with a complicated face.
“As the canyon is wide and there are many mines, some have gone out of our sight. Perhaps he was exploited in an illegal mining village.”
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“When we found out, all the inhabitants of the mining town had already been sacrificed to the devil. After that, he slept as if he had disappeared.”
Allen nodded at his words, which did not differ from the information received.
‘There’s nothing special about the information… .’
Why did Eliza have to call him here?
“And then…”
Liam spoke up to that point, and seemed to be contemplating whether there was one problem.
“Any other unusual thing…?”
“Huh. It’s not confirmed for now.”
He swallowed a few saliva as if recalling a memory, and then proceeded cautiously.
“We found a few victims during the chase that appeared to be his work, but… we weren’t sure if it was really his work.”
“Why, is that so?”
“Because they were all crazy.”
As Allen listened to what was remarkable, he explained in detail as if he was going to say everything after he had said it.
“Usually demonic contractors wish to gain power from demons. They sacrifice humans for him. Their means are so vicious that they follow a policy of killing demonic contractors as soon as they see them.”
Just like before the return where Allen was killed by Julius.
The basic guideline for demon contractors was to kill them when they were discovered, like Estodor, who made a magic mirror.
“However, all the victims we found were insane as if they had gone insane. However, their bodies were intact with no wounds anywhere.”
“So you mean you can’t be sure it’s his?”
“Yeah. I’m sure it’s his thing, but he hasn’t shown much movement with the usual demon contractors, so his priority has been lowered a lot.”
Allen nodded,
‘I’m just out of my mind… . Did you just steal your soul? There would be no reason for the devil to
It was definitely something special. cow
Even if his mother didn’t fully understand why he was going after the demon contractor, that circumstance alone was reason enough to hold him back.
“Then let’s speed it up. It’ll take a week to see all his tracks. Hey!”
Liam took the lead and increased the speed of the horse.
Allen followed him and speeded up, too. Maria held the reins to match their speed.
Two days passed like that.
Maybe it’s because I’ve been camping more than I thought?
Contrary to what Liam had feared, they arrived at the mining village inhabited by the demon contractor without any major problems.
A bitter wind swept through the old building.
Although it had only been used for a few weeks, the appearance of the mining village was gloomy, as if it had been neglected for years.
The bloodstains scattered here and there and the collapsed buildings seemed to show the true image of that time.
“Then, you’ve come all the way here, how are you going to search?”
There is no way that the Rupinus family had not already searched this place.
If so, there must have been a reason for coming here again.
“I intend to use this.”
He smiled as if not to worry, and carefully pulled something out of his arms.
It looked like a small piece, but it was emitting a soft light, so it didn’t look like an ordinary object.
“Is it a relic?”
“Oh… you know. That’s right. But if it’s a real relic, I can’t use it. This is a fragment of a relic.”
It looks like this, but reacting to evil traces will help a lot.
He smiled and took a piece of the relic and moved on. Then he turned his head again to see if he had thought of something.
“Oh, and Maria-sama has something to help with the search that Elin-sama gave me…”
Maria was a trained horse, so she was staring at the horse she was riding on to see if it was better not to reject her.
Without answering Liam’s call, she looked at Allen.
The white helmet is also comparable to the relic, so he must be asking whether to answer or not.
‘Wait, then… .,
Allen felt the presence of the marble in his arms.
One of the five great gods of a hero different from the white helmet, the heavenly eyes.
I haven’t used it since the last relic practice, so it shouldn’t be too much trouble to track down a demon contractor.
‘But if you find it right away, you get suspicious.’
Even my mother wouldn’t have expected this.
So he would have accompanied the knight with the relic fragment and even lent Maria a white helmet.
Otherwise, he would have called Allen Hall or used some other means he was not aware of.
Allen first nodded to Maria.
“Yes, I can’t reveal it… but there are things that Elin-sama has entrusted to me.”
“Hahaha, okay? Well then, that’s good. I’ll search over there, can you please explore this place?”
He showed that he did not care much, even though the family had given them something separately.
Rather, he smiled and walked away.
Allen, at least for his consideration, must have been commanded by Sir Liam that he was his mother’s or some other 0|
guessed it
No matter how considerate they are, there is no reason for one of the three generations of knights to lower themselves like that.
“Haha, then we’ll meet here again around sunset time.0
With those words, he headed to the other side of town.
Allen, who was left alone with Maria, pondered for a moment.
‘To light the heavenly eyes or not:
Even though Maria had never met her mother, she guessed the relationship between him and the Lupines.
So, does she know that Allen has celestial eyes?
Allen looked into her eyes for a moment, then pulled the marble out of his arms.
“Maria, do you know what this is?”
“.••Uh” o.
She nodded slowly, and pulled out a helmet from the small subspace.
Although there are no special decorations, the white helmet itself resists evil powers and blocks mental attacks.
“Like this one.”
Maria was not surprised to see the heavenly eyes.
‘Also.’
It was clear that she could feel what Allen did not.
“Did you know?”
“I knew.”
“Since when?”
“From the beginning.”
“then….”
Allen recalled her personality and did not ask for nothing. It would be better to say it outright.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Should I tell you?”
“No, it’s called the descendant of the hero. Can’t you claim that the warrior’s spirit is yours too?”
There was a question in her eyes as to why she really had to.
Allen smiled bitterly at that.
He revealed his hand to her strange obsession with him, and to knowing that he had not reacted in any way.
“No, if I had thought from my point of view, it could have been.”
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She nodded expressionlessly.
Allen wasn’t very happy with his guess, though.
In the end, I was just guessing and thinking about her reaction.
Nobles don’t show their sincerity.
Even though it was the same as the norm, in front of her innocence, I had this thought.
If there were such a person in the world, I thought that there would be no need for conspiracy or heartbreak.
‘It’s impossible because it’s ideal.’
After brushing off his thoughts, he started a search with her.
I wandered around the search range and wondered if something would come out, but there were no traces of it because it had been several weeks.
The white helmet also showed no reaction.
‘Are you late?
The bloodstains were already dark enough to fall off.
So, when they finished their search within their scope, Allen spoke up.
“Then Maria.”
“Can you protect me for a moment?”
She just nodded her head at the sudden request.
UQH o’.
Allen caught the heavenly eyes in his arms and focused his consciousness on the beads.
Then, with a feeling of being awakened, he saw himself below.
For a moment, Maria’s head turned upward, and then she tilted her head and looked forward again.
Allen was skeptical.
‘No matter how much they are called the descendants of heroes, that ability… what?’
Does it have anything to do with the past she hides?
Allen let go of his thoughts.
The white spots on the beads are quickly turning gray. There was no time to waste.
‘A place to look for.’
from a place, not a person.
If the conditions were too detailed, the demon contractor could have noticed.
The disadvantage of this orb is that it has a wide search range, but it is easily noticed by the target.
‘A village near the present location of the Demon Contractor Reiner that exists within the eastern canyon zone.’
If you approached it, it would have reacted to a relic or a warrior’s spirit.
As the thought spread like that, a place popped into Allen’s head.
As soon as I found the location, I stopped using the Celestial Eye.
Maria looked back.
“it’s over?”
“Yeah. Let’s go back.”
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I figured out which way to go.
Now it’s time to pretend we’re looking for clues with Sir Liam and adjust our direction.
Allen raised his head at the voice he heard.
“Are you done-!”
At the end of the line of sight, Liam had a bonfire waiting for them.