123. Somehow, I feel drunk
123.
-Charaaaaa – !
The boat, which is small but has a huge experience that is difficult to compare with anyone else, skillfully rode the current and showed off its skill. Zerfied yawned and stared at the old elf who was pulling only the rope of the sail.
It was quite different from Panbano Ong’s way of driving the boat. In fact, it was natural. Because Panvano Ong’s ship was a large gallion ship, and now this ship was a caravel similar to that of the Frigate army.
To be precise, it was of the Caravela latinaCaravela latina Type, and among them, it belonged to a fairly small group. But perhaps because of that, her mobility was astounding. She was even faster than Freight’s caravel, which I thought was quite fast. Even now, at a rapid pace, the pier where she had just been moored was blurring like a mirage.
Someone interrupted Zerpied, who was immersed in such thoughts. Jer Pied looked at it, startled by the movement he felt inside his arms. Ecilia was sticking her head out. The saintess, with only her head slightly sticking out, whispered to him.
“Knight, Knight.”
“Hmm? Ah, it’s okay to come out now.”
Upon hearing that, the saintess wriggled and slowly pulled her body out of the Death Knight’s arms. The old elf seemed to be uninspired by the sight, but only yawned.
“Haam – I was in a place like that. It’s just that I can’t find it.”
At the voice of the old elf, the saintess of innocence suddenly came to her senses. Ecilia played her frantic limbs and pulled herself completely out before she bowed her head to the old man.
“Thank you, old man. Come to think of it, the introduction is late. I am Gemini and you here are Lord Hooch.”
“My name is Erben. Erben Phil Lowwood. And gratitude is something you do for money anyway. As long as I get paid, I have to do my job.”
“But…… , You heard the order of the lord of this city to postpone the departure, but you acted that way, right? .”
Hearing her saintess’ words, Erben slightly raised the corner of her mouth and took out a pipe from her bosom. He lit the pipe with his nimble hands and took a large sip of it as if it were sweet. After savoring the pipe for a while, he suddenly turned the pipe around and laughed out loud as he pointed to the saintess.
“How about it, is it true that I didn’t lie? Retiring a boat that has already been untied? After graduating after learning everything I was taught, how is it different from telling me not to become independent from my teacher and to stay because I have to do chores? Rather than that, would you like to smoke one?”
The saintess, who was giggling at her fairly fresh parable of Erben, smiled and rejected Erben’s offer. And Erben had to fall into a melancholy mood the opposite of when he smoked his pipe. This is because he refused the offer to smoke a pipe even as a Death Knight.
“Damn it…… , I was wondering if there were any kids I could smoke with after a long time…. Write, well, done. Surely you won’t refuse a drink?”
After Erben finished, he chuckled and removed the cloth covering the bottom of the boat. Then a wooden hinged door appeared. The wooden door, which let out a breath that could easily guess its creaking age, soon began to spit out all the things it was hiding, as if there was nothing to hold back. Celia’s eyes widened when she saw the bottles that Erben took out.
“Be, ‘Ben de Ashron’?! Even ‘Grancier Resom’…… ?!”
“Oh, does the young lady know how to drink?”
The Death Knight tilted his head at the unfamiliar name.
“A famous drink?”
“Are you famous? It’s not even famous…… !”
After saying that, Celia gently leaned her body against Zer Pi Ed. The Death Knight, who wanted to know why, soon realized that she was whispering to him.
“It’s not a drink that is often served in cathedrals…… !!”
Zerpied’s bloody eyes widened slightly.
“…… Is it such a precious drink?”
Seeing Esilia nodding her head eagerly, Zer Pied couldn’t help but stand out in his eyes as he looked at the bottles that looked older.
“Since you know this drink well, you won’t be rejected this time. Let’s have a drink.”
“Gwa, are you okay? For those of us who are seeing this kind of alcohol for the first time…….”
Esilia asked in a bewildered voice to Erben who giggled and offered a glass. But Erben said she didn’t even deserve to reconsider.
“What are you talking about? If not at a time like this, who else would you like to drink with? Well, I thought it best and brought it out, but if you don’t want to drink, don’t drink.”
As Erben tried to collect her bottle and glass with a grunting tone, Esilia screamed ‘Ahh!’ And hurriedly grabbed her bottle. And after a while, realizing what she had done, the saintess of innocence had to bow her head with her pure white face dyed red. Apparently, it was an act that lacked her dignity to be considered a saintly act.
Of course, the old elf, who at first glance looked over eighty, did not reprimand him. He just giggled and offered a drink to the saintess and Death Knight.
The saintess of innocence that she received while bowing her head began to sip from her drinking glass, just like her baby cat drinking water. Fortunately, the ‘Grand Chierie Som’ that the saintess was drinking was a drink with a high name for its sweet taste, so her mood was quickly overcome with the alcohol. He looked at it and said with a sigh.
“…… Don’t drink too much, Gemini.”
She was a saint who nodded her head at the death knight’s words, but she had no way of knowing if it was because she understood his words or if she was simply drunk on her taste. . Zer Pied suppressed the urge to sigh again and accepted the glass from Erben, bowing her head in greeting.
And then, Zerfied was quite taken aback the next moment.
It’s because Erben blew the bottle with about two-thirds of the bottle left. Death Knight blinked her eyes a few times as he watched half of the remaining alcohol go down his throat in an instant.
“…… It’s okay… ?”
“Huh? What?”
“Well, shouldn’t we continue the flight? I don’t know how strong the alcohol is, but even if the alcohol is low, if you drink that much…….”
Then Erben frowned while still blowing on the bottle.
“What are you talking about? Are you telling this old body to sail through the night? I don’t have to sleep either. Besides, this area will soon turn into a breezy area, so you don’t have to worry.”
At Erben’s words, Zer Pied turned his head around. As he said, the blazing sun was sinking into the sea and cooling my hot body. The sunset had already gone down. Zerfied looked at the scene with a somewhat strange look.
Obviously, when I started running around the streets and alleys in Primus to avoid the Holy Knights of Purity, the sun was up in the middle of the sky. Suddenly, I began to feel how much time they had been running around avoiding the Holy Knights.
Erben smiled and said to Zerpied, who was staring blankly at the sunset.
“Are you not going to drink anyway? The lady next to you has already had three drinks?”
‘…… ?!’
Zerpied almost turned his head to Ecilia. And he had an intuition that what he feared had become a reality. The next moment, as if saying that it was correct, as if leaning against him as if collapsing, a murky voice from Esilia’s mouth whispered into his ear.
“Nyaaong… ?”
Death Knight was able to ‘drink’ alcohol because Erben covered himself with a blanket anywhere on the deck and went to sleep while snoring, the stars woke up and his eyes were shining, and the saint of innocence stopped meowing and sat cross-legged. It was when he fell asleep with his thigh cut.
The only drinking parties were waves and wind, but he rather thought it was fortunate. Without hesitation, he poured the drink from the glass into the shadows.
Sweetness “Entered” Him.
As the saintess and Erben said, the quality of the alcohol was quite good.
While ‘sipping’ her drink, the Death Knight remembered the time when the saintess rubbed her face against her own thighs. The sight made Erben giggle, but he couldn’t tell if he really laughed at the sight. The old elf’s face had already turned cold and he was looking elsewhere.
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It was at that time that a voice approached him as he was enjoying his drink undisturbed.
“Knight…… ?”
At least, Death Knight almost missed the glass. Zerfied, who barely stopped it, knew that the voice came from below him.
“Esilia? Are you awake?”
The saintess who had just woken up rubbed her eyes and yawned to drive her sleep away. But even so, her eyes were half-closed.
“Why did you wake up?”
“Don’t do that, the driver is drinking alone.”
“…… No more alcohol allowed.”
At his resolute words, Celia puffed out her cheeks and protested, but it was only for a moment. The saintess of innocence, who could not shake off her remaining alcohol, slammed her face into the Death Knight’s thigh. ‘Puuuuu…… ! As she looked at the sky, exclamations flowed from her mouth.
“Wow…… !! There are so many stars!!”
At the words of her saintess, the Death Knight raised her head and looked at her sky. Just as she said, the lights of the stars held onto each other and danced. It was incomparable to when I saw it in the forest of Rephadam.
“I see.”
The Death Knight lowered her head again and laughed. It was because a wavering smile hung over the saintess’ mouth. Death Knight opened one of the two bottles of high-quality liquor that Erben took out to drink more if he wanted to drink more, and poured it into her glass. Then she slowly raised her head and saw her starlight with her saint.
Stars.
Wave.
Wind.
Whispers flowed through them.
“Knight.”
“Hmm?”
Death Knight bowed her head at the voice of her saintess. She said the saintess was looking at him. The saintess’ big eyes widened once.
“Knight.”
“Why is that?”
“Knight… before… what happened…… ?”
Death Knight thought she was a unique question.
“After you drank?”
“Before that… ….”
“Before that… ? … Before I met you? Yeah… As you know, I worked with the contractors to fulfill the contract. Are you curious about that?”
I didn’t hear the saintess’ answer. The Death Knight stopped drinking the cup he was pouring into the shadow. He hurriedly lowered her head. The eyes of the saintess were watching him. His figure fell into her blue and red eyes.
The saintess was asking.
Her job before he met her.
What happened before he became a Death Knight.
For a moment, he barely held back that it wasn’t part of the contract, and that he had no obligation to tell him. He had already been in great trouble because of it. In the fierce battle, it would have been difficult for her to escape without the help of the saintess. If a similar situation arises again, how will she deal with it then? I had to tell you for that.
…… It had to be.
Death Knight roughly opened the last unopened bottle and poured all the alcohol into the shadows. The fact that he wasn’t as drunk today was so terrifying. All that came into him was the bitter, bitter sweetness. He opened his mouth He felt as if he was forcibly opening his locked lips, as if he were opening a bottle of wine that had been locked.
“Later… I’ll tell you…. Someday… please… certainly… ….”
Words came out at will from between the lips that were forced open.
The saintess said nothing. Stars, waves, and wind filled their silence. The saintess slowly raised herself. The saintess, who knelt down and raised her body, stretched out her arms above her. The Death Knight stared at her blankly. She looked herself as she fell into her pupils. She’s straight-eyed and she’s on her own. Without saying a word, the saintess started stroking her waist and the head of her Death Knight, who bowed her head.
Several winds blew, dozens of waves hit, and hundreds of starlights were sunk into the sea, but the saintess’ strokes did not stop.
Death Knight met the eyes of her saintess who was staring blankly at herself.
Somehow, I felt like I was drunk.