144. Memories I Don’t Want to Remember
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“Did you two even fight? Why are you so silent?”
In the late afternoon, it was the voice of the gold dragon that broke the silence of the group who hadn’t said anything. Both the Death Knight and the saintess could see that there was no special suspicion in those words.
In the first place, it had only been a day since Esthenes and I met. It’s not a special relationship that will harbor suspicions. However, the appearance of the two men and women flinching at her own words was enough to infer that something was going on, even if they were not in a special relationship.
“Hmm? What, did you two really fight? Yesterday, he acted like he would kill me if I did anything.”
Jerpied quickly added an additional word to Esthenes’ words, followed by an exclamation of surprise and interest.
“…… Absolutely, nothing happened. And it’s not like ‘as if’. Because I was really going to kill you if you did anything.”
At those words, Estenes lowered the corners of his slightly raised mouth and began slowly twisting her long blond hair with one hand. He seemed to choose his words carefully next time. It was a pretty natural reaction. If you hear such words, it won’t be easy for accidents to lead flexibly.
“…… I know, that’s what it says. If I joke badly in front of you, my throat will be blown off, not my tongue.”
Esthenes let out his words with a sigh. Death Knight also wanted to sigh. But she sighed in relief. She’s been a bit drastic, but somehow she’s managed to bring the subject back from what it was just before. He opened his mouth to be more certain.
“Rather than that, the sun will be setting soon. Is it okay to move at this time of day? Last night I saw you fighting to protect Lair.”
Esthenes nodded his head. He didn’t show much surprise. Because he knew he would spy on him anyway. Moreover, he was the one who pointed out the cave in an easy location.
However, he gave a somewhat absurd expression to the Death Knight’s question.
“Hey, you mean moving in the middle of the day? Do you think that makes sense? There are also nocturnal polyps, but most are active during the day. Do I need to advertise to my competitors that I emptied my rares during the day? Lets think. If you also crossed the mountain range and came all the way here, when were you attacked by dragon species more during the day and night?”
At the reasonable gold dragon’s point, the Death Knight nodded. Seeing that, Estenes shook her head slightly, then removed his hand from the surface of the rarer he was touching.
“Looks well hidden.”
Esthenes raised the corner of his mouth in satisfaction. As she said, the entrance to Lair was blocked with stones. At first glance, it looked like a shallow cliff piled with stones, one of many parts of the mountain range, rather than a place with a cave. Zerpied, who had been watching the form quietly, asked a question.
“I saw yesterday that the other dragons seemed to know the location of your rare. No matter how well you hide it, if you know the location, isn’t it of no use?”
Esthenes’ head turned left and right right away. In her seemingly light-hearted movements, there was a certain confidence that she couldn’t hide.
“No. Rather, you will be deceived because you know. If I get close to you like yesterday and I don’t show any reaction, they’ll think I’ve moved to another place after destroying it on purpose so as not to pass it over. Well, when I come back, I’ll know I’ve been tricked…… , It’s none of my business.”
Then, with a smile, Estenes patted his hands as if satisfied.
“Then let’s go.”
It was then. Ecelia, who was watching the scene from behind the Death Knight’s back with her face sticking out, carefully raised her hand.
“I… By the way…….”
“Huh? What?”
“Is Miss Esthenes guiding the knight and me with that figure…?” … ?”
It wasn’t too difficult to find out why Esilia asked such a question. Esthenes was now taking on the form of an elf-perhaps an elf with a little ear, but not a little more guinea-human, she thought Esilia.
Although he was tall, about three and a half cubits tall, he was not as slender and muscular as the troll Fay I met at Diervan. It was a little thinner than the elf Renemier, closer to the sky than the muscles.
Escelia cast her gaze over to the Aindelph Peaks. Still, the peak of Eindelph was proud of its lofty height, befitting its nickname. It was absolutely not a place for a woman with a sky-high body to go up carelessly.
It didn’t matter as long as she was carried away by the knight, but Miss Estenes didn’t.
…… In fact, it wasn’t that her knight couldn’t take her at all. Carrying herself in one of her arms and her in the other is enough. But isn’t that why the knight couldn’t lift a shield or a spear? Then, in case of emergency, the knight could not protect himself.
Yes. That’s why. It was for this rational reason that she came to this conclusion.
…… Never, never! It’s not because I feel strange that her heart gets crumpled when I imagine the scene where that woman is hugged by the knight!
Concluding that, Esilia stared intently at Estenes from behind Zerpiede’s back.
Contrary to her thoughts, she wasn’t looking at her normally, but rather, rather strangely, taking the form of glaring at her, but fortunately or unfortunately, Estenes didn’t seem to realize that.
Esthenes wasn’t angry, it was because he had an absurd expression on his face.
“Maybe it’s because they’re a party, so the two of them take turns asking unique questions. What I cast the Polymorph spell was-“
“Polymorph magic?”
“Shape transformation magic. It is a magic that can transform into an object only when you know the exact structure of the target. …… By the way, I know you’re curious, but I hope you finish explaining everything?”
“Ah, ah! Sin, I’m sorry…… !”
“Yes, good. The reason why I cast polymorph magic is because my body size is significantly larger than what I am now. No matter how well I hide my rares, if I move in the form of the main body, those who aim for my rares will inevitably notice.”
Seeing the holy maiden of innocence eagerly nodding her head after hearing her own explanation, the gold dragon put on a satisfied expression.
“Because of this, we will fly to Eindelph Peak after a little further away from here.”
“I see! It’s flying!!”
The saintess, who nodded her head eagerly while applauding her, had to repeat the words after a while.
“…… Are you flying? How? Do you use magic?”
Esthenes tilted her head slowly. There was no absurdity in her gaze as she looked at her saintess. However, a strange, inexplicable gaze pierced her holy woman. The gold dragon, which had been skimming over her saint for a moment, burst out laughing.
“Of course, I will ride with you.”
The saintess could not ask any more questions.
–
The twilight of the Amurtat Mountains was displaying the most demeaning expression worthy of the name twilight. The last sunlight of the day caught on the edge of the high peak of Eindelph. The sunlight looked dangerous as if it would pass over at any moment.
At first glance, it even looked pitiful to see the sunlight staggering and pouring down clusters of light brushing against the rock wall and crumbling into the air.
The cluster of lights that fluttered in the air was scattered by a huge radiance. The majesty of the light was great. Its wings, which seemed to have been spun with golden threads, gave off its grandeur. Needless to say, the golden scales that extended from the wings and the horns that marked the apex.
Adorning yourself with the fragments of stone statues, and thus evoking yourself into twilight
The gold dragon flew towards the setting sun.
Apart from the rival dragons, it seemed like everyone would admire it, but it was clear that their thoughts would change a little if they looked closely.
“Wow! Wow! Wow!!”
Because there was an element that didn’t go well with the grandeur of a woman’s voice. The Death Knight had to hold her tightly thanks to her holy woman who kept looking around her and looking around her head.
At first glance, the scene of Death Knight flying on a gold dragon that seemed to exceed 70 cubits was enough to evoke a rather strange feeling. Of course, it was for a somewhat different reason that Zerfied felt strange.
“Flying against the background of the twilight, it makes sense.”
“Really? Why did you think that?”
“It is a relatively dark time compared to the daytime, and your golden scales have a good color to blend in with the sunset light. It is the least exposed condition.”
“Oh, did you recognize it right away? You have good eyesight, yes.”
“…… I flew like this a few times with your grandmother.”
“…… How was your grandmother?”
At that, the Death Knight tilted her head.
“Didn’t you actually see it?”
“I was too young at the time. I’ve seen it, but it’s blurry. Come to think of it, I think I remember seeing you riding my grandmother……. Anyway, it was my mother who met my grandparents in person. It was at the end of the war when I was born.”
“I remember. At the time, Lair Farah was on the defensive, and her children were concentrating on producing her descendants because of the need to preserve her species and strengthen her power.”
“It was not long after I was born that I heard that her grandmother had passed away. It must have been less than three weeks.”
Zer Pied nodded her head slowly.
“At the end of the war, I was mostly focused on producing troops. …… There was no difference between before he died and when he met him. It was calm and unnecessarily hilarious.”
“Not much different from what her mother told me.”
“…… Because she was such a dragon.”
Esthenes was about to nod her head in agreement. In front of her eyes was the middle of the peak of Eindelph. Death Knight glanced at her and looked at the setting sun. Still, unlike the previous battle where her whole body was covered, about half of her had already disappeared for a long time.
Esthenes’ huge golden body landed on the middle of the peak of Eindelph. Even then, the saintess, who had been intoxicated with the sight she had never seen before, ‘the view of the mountain range from above the dragon’, thought ‘Huh? Uh uh?!’ She knew she had landed.
Although Esthenes was considerate of them and lowered her body height, her dragon’s height was still on the high side for her saintess. While she was contemplating how she could get down well, it didn’t matter much to her Death Knight. In the first place, she wasn’t even thinking about how the saintess should go down.
I just had to hold her and jump down.
So, it was only natural for the saintess to bury her face in his chest and scream ‘Hunyaaaaagh?!’ Due to the Death Knight suddenly pulling her down.
Esthenes, seeing the two of them get off her, began flapping her wings slowly. Seeing this, Zerpied asked.
“Are you going?”
The saintess, who had lost her mind at those words, hurriedly shouted.
“Go, go?! Already?!”
But Esthenes was already floating in the air.
“Yes, the night will come soon. It means you have to fight the defensive battle you saw yesterday again. I spent a lot more time than I thought, flying undetected. By this point, even my competitors might realize I’m emptying their rares.”
Death Knight bowed her head at those words.
“…… Thank you for driving me here.”
At the Death Knight’s words, Estenes twisted the corner of his mouth.
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“If you think so. Next time we meet, it would be nice if you would ask me a little more gently. Then we’ll take you on a more comfortable flight. Grandmother’s friend.”
“I will consider it according to the situation.”
Esthenes shook her head and slowly turned her head to look at one place. There was her saintess staring at her intently. Her golden dragon met her eyes, and the saintess hurriedly bowed her waist.
“I don’t know for what purpose you are with ‘living death’. To be honest, I wanted to ask why the cleric and the death knight were accompanying you, but when I first met that death knight and you, it wasn’t the right situation to ask a question. But ‘living death’ won’t carry you around for no reason. You are probably a ‘contractor’ just like your grandmother.”
Watching the saintess nod her head carefully and seriously, the gold dragon nodded her head.
“…… I hope you don’t have false wishes like the necromancer. In the current situation in the world, there will be no one but the priests who can prevent ‘living death’.”
After that, the gold dragon flapped its wings even more. Twilight seemed to fall from its wings with each flap. The flapping of her wings caused the saintess to close her eyes tightly. When her saintess opened her eyes again, Esthenes was already part of Seokhun and was on her way away.
Zerpied, who watched the scene for a while, spoke lowly.
“…… Then, let’s go.”
–
The peak of Eindelph, like the three mountain ranges, was composed of grayish-colored bedrock. Therefore, the sight of the twilight lights falling and flowing down the peak gave the saintess a rather strange feeling. It seemed as if a rock called Eindelph peak stood tall above the river of light. The saintess, who looked at the bedrock soaked in brilliance for a moment, smiled and said to the Death Knight.
“Knight, Knight.”
“Why is that?”
“Do you remember what I said earlier about the ‘Arms of the Twelve Knights’?”
“You mean the one we talked about in the jungles of the southern continent?”
“Yes, that’s right! This is the place I was talking about back then. The top of the peak of Eindelph.”
Death Knight stopped her feet. His posture, which had just stopped in the position he was about to take a step on, looked oddly bizarre at first glance. It might have been because the twilight light was falling on him unevenly.
When the death knight suddenly couldn’t hear, the saintess tilted her head and looked in the direction where the death knight was. Because she thought that he, naturally a knight, would show interest in the story of Mugu.
And the next moment I forgot what to say to the saintess.
Death Knight was making an expression he had never seen before. She tried to interpret the expression somehow, but she couldn’t. She couldn’t even describe the look on her face.
As if it is impossible for someone who has never experienced a situation to fully understand it forever. The emotions that Death Knight was expressing were things she had never experienced.
The saintess intermittently called Death Knight.
“…… Knight?”
“……… Hmm? Ah sorry What did you say? Thinking of something else….”
“There are twelve knights’ weapons at the top of this peak… ….”
“Ah, that’s right. It was.”
“…… Knight?”
“… Hmm… ?”
“Are you okay…… ?”
“It’s okay. More than that, let’s go. More than those weapons, we came here to find the earrings Lylepara left behind.”
“Yes… ….”
Following the Death Knight’s footsteps again, her saintess moved her steps carefully. The way Zer Peed stepped out of her looked somehow unnatural. It was as if she was looking at someone who had never put her foot down.
With each step she took, the summit got closer and closer. As Zer Pied drew closer, he had to fight back the urge to scream. Because it could be an illusion. Because there is no guarantee that it is correct.
1, 000 Years. No, it’s been a lot longer than that. She said that the reason she is doing this now is because of the illusion that Leternia showed her. Rather, if you go and face it, if you just face it, everything will be fine. It will…….
He moved her steps with a shudder. Now it’s normal to take just one step. I’m going to go check it out for myself.
From what I’ve heard, there are twelve arms. It’s just that the situation at the time, created by chance, was just matched similarly with really coincidental elements. I repeated myself.
My stomach is rumbling. If I lose my guard even a little, I feel like my consciousness will turn into vomiting and spill out.
He stepped on the bump and took one slow step.
The light of dusk fades dimly over the summit. As if leaving a will, the sun crumbles and scatters the last light of the day.
A bizarrely thick light descends to the top of the peak. Like fallen leaves, the halo that has fallen is scattered when it touches the armor embedded in the ground. And that fact made one thing clear.
The appearance of arms similar to, but not identical to, his own memories.
The appearance of the weapons his comrades had.
The wind blew. The yellow grass that rose from the cracks in the rocks grazed.
“Knight?!”
At the sudden scream, the saintess hurriedly ran to the Death Knight. Death Knight was sitting hesitantly. She was crying an incomprehensible scream as she covered her face with her gauntlet. She intermittently said, ‘No… ….’ Was the only thing that could be heard. I didn’t know what the rest were saying.
“Knight!! Knight!! Can you hear me?!”
But to no avail. Death Knight still howled. Her tears did not flow. Because he’s not alive That’s why he was crying like he was about to explode. He seemed to vomit his emotions. The saintess embraced the Death Knight.
“Knight… ! Please… ! Please…… !!”
I don’t know when the crying stopped. She couldn’t even figure it out herself. Just, the last light of the day, dyed in deep red and disappearing, was faintly caught in my eyes. The Death Knight, who was staring blankly at it, knew that he felt something in his arms. He blankly turned his head there.
“Knight… ….”
Esilia was holding her tightly.
“… Ecilia… I am… I am… therefore… ….”
The saintess didn’t say anything. She just hugged the Death Knight even more. After holding her for a while, she whispered softly.
“Knight… Are you okay… ?”
“…… Any.”
“Can you move… ?”
Death Knight nodded her head.
“Can you go into the cave… ?”
At the word cave, the Death Knight looked blankly at her everywhere. As she said, a rock cave appeared on the outskirts of the summit. He nodded her head.
“I’m glad, go in and rest.”
He rose from her seat with the help of her saintess.
“Not yet… yet… Earrings of Lyle Para….”
“I got it. So hurry up and get some rest.”
Esilia grabbed the Death Knight’s hand and dragged it. It was a unique scene. A small, fragile woman leading a large, armored man. Men, like children, were so easily drawn to women.
After entering the cave, the Death Knight sat with her body leaning against the wall. In fact she was close to collapsing. Because she didn’t have the strength to stand. She entered and sat down on his lap, and the saintess slowly stroked his body. Her clear voice blends into the rustling sound of stroking.
“Knight.”
“Esilia… ….”
Here… What happened… ?”
The troubled Death Knight nodded her head. The saintess slowly met her eyes with the Death Knight. The Death Knight’s eyes were shaking and shaking.
“Could you tell me…… ? I am… I want to help the driver….”
The Death Knight’s nod stopped. Should I tell you? Should i face it? That terrible? Someone inside clamored. Don’t do that I’m still afraid to face it. The corners of the Death Knight’s mouth trembled. Both of his eyes trembled at the same time.
The self reflected in the saintess’s eyes was trembling.
However, the saintess’ red and blue eyes were straight. She didn’t flinch
The shaking stopped.
The Death Knight did not tremble.
He nodded.
“Esilia… ….”
“Yes.”
“Do you remember I said before that the moon does not emit its own light but reflects the sun’s light?”
The saintess nodded her head. It was not long after she met the Death Knight.
“There was a reason I had to know that.”
Death Knight twisted her mouth.
“I personally witnessed the moon being formed.”