The Death Knight Became an Escort Knight for the Saintess

3. The saintess finds life in death.

3.

Everyone has a name. Just as Zerpied is called Zerpied and Esilia is called Esilia. The biggest reason for naming it like this is to make a distinction. In order to avoid confusion with another object in referring to one object.

If Ecilia is called Zerpied, or if Zerpied is called Esilia, a very embarrassing situation will unfold. Conversely, Ecilia is called Esilia as it is, but it would be very embarrassing if Zerpied even calls him Esilia. Esilia is Esilia, because there is only one. Both the former and the latter have one thing in common. That is, they are fundamentally different from each other.

Then, what about an alias other than a name? If a name is created to clearly distinguish an object from all other objects, an alias serves to emphasize the characteristics of that object. Unlike a name that looks similar at first glance but separates the object of reference from all other objects, an alias focuses only on emphasizing its characteristics. Because it only emphasizes the characteristics, it is not very helpful in distinguishing.

Due to this nature, nicknames are only used in close relationships with each other. Therefore, it can be seen that the case of being called by an alias rather than a name belongs to a very special case.

Like Mount Ethelbeyer. Mount Ethelbeyer, which is more commonly referred to as Than its original name, is a mountain with a lot of fog, as its nickname suggests. The only unique thing is that the fog lasts only during daylight hours. Then, when night comes, it gradually becomes lighter, and when day comes again, it becomes thick and foggy. It was not bound by the weather or season. Just as the fog stays for the purpose of resting.

This is the reason why Mt. Fog accounted for the largest share of the elements that adventurers avoided Mount Ethelveyer. Taking a step recklessly in a situation where visibility is not secured is not courage, but recklessness. The second factor was the environment of Mount Ethelbeyer. It was easy to drown in Mount Ethelbeyer, where there are large and small caves everywhere.

However, these traits were very helpful to Esilia in escaping from the gaze of the pursuers. Because of the fog, the pursuing party could not recklessly pursue, and at that time, her saintess rested in her lair. At night, they started moving again, and the burrows everywhere were the best places to hide.

Also, because of these characteristics, no one knew that there was a Zerpied in Mount Ethelveyer. Because Mount Ethelbeyer, which is full of fog and caves, became a narrator only for its characteristics or was used as a tomb for stupid adventurers.

As a result of searching through all the forbidden books in her library, the saintess found out that the place where Zer Pied was last seen was near Mount Ethel Bayer. Half of it was a fluke, but with no further choice, she headed straight for Mount Ethelbeyer. Her pursuers and her patriarch probably thought they had driven her into her Mount Etherbayer. However, it was they who were driven in the opposite direction.

After hiding and hiding for several days, she finally found the Death Knight in a deep vertical cave near the summit. She would not have known it to others, because her sleeping undead energy was so weak. However, she was a saint and was more proficient in her divine power than anyone else, and she was able to capture the feeble energy of the undead, which was the complete opposite of her divine power.

Through this process, the saintess who met Zer Pied had only one worry in her head while moving with him to the place where Zer Pi Ed woke up. Just the question of the name. The eternal enemy of all priests, the undead Zerpied. In addition, most of the records about him were in forbidden books, perhaps because of his record of putting the world on the brink of destruction several times.

There were many words to call him. In addition to the most representative living death, the blue knight of death, the executor of destruction, and the life slayer.

However, even in a forbidden book where all kinds of ominous information is recorded, his full name was described only once, as if he was afraid to include his name, and the rest were all described as his representative nickname, Living Death.

Zerpied was the latter case. If you are called by a nickname more than your name. What the saintess was familiar with was an alias rather than his name. But even so, can I call it that directly in front of the person?

Mr. Living Death?

It was too embarrassing for her to call her future companion Mr. Living Death. But calling his name carelessly is also funny. Less than a day had passed since the Death Knight and the saint met. In addition, calling the person who drove her world to destruction by name came as a considerable burden to her.

Escelia took her deep breaths several times before she was able to speak to Zer Pied, who was walking right next to her.

“I… ….”

“What are you doing?”

“I-I… that… What do you call the side…… Will it…… ?”

“Call me whatever you like.”

“Uh… ….”

To be honest, it didn’t really matter what she called herself. What matters is the performance of the contract. And the title is an element that has nothing to do with the contract. He thought as he looked at the saintess who could not easily call him by twisting her fingers.

1. He now plays the role of an escort knight for the saintess.

2. Since they are bound together by her contract, you can immediately know where she is, but the situation where the saintess calls herself will inevitably arise in a situation where she is constantly next to her.

3. It is against chivalry to ignore the complaints of a contractor who is not someone else.

Thinking it was a reasonable decision, Zerfied spoke again.

“Many of the contractors before meeting you called me a living death.”

But still, the saintess crossed her fingers and said, ‘Uh…… ‘ Was just spitting out the words. It’s an incomprehensible response. She sorted out her own naming problem. What part of what was said is not to your liking? While pondering, he only had knowledge, and he was able to come up with information that he never put to practical use. He added his last words with seriousness.

“Lady.”

The saintess finally responded. But it wasn’t the reaction he expected. Because the saintess burst into laughter.

“Puff… Pooh… Ha ha ha ha! Less, Lady? Ahahaha-!”

He tilted his head. Didn’t knights who escort someone, especially those who escort women, refer to the target like this? No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t figure out why the saintess was laughing. It’s not even erroneous information. In the end, he asked questions directly to clear up his doubts.

“I know escort knights refer to women escorting them like this. Could it be that what I know is wrong?”

“No… no… ! It’s not… ! Ahahaha-!”

Lady. It’s a word I’ve always wanted to hear. Isn’t the word lady the romance of all women? But she never thought that she would hear it in a situation like this, where it wouldn’t be strange if she died at any moment.

Not even from that Zerpied Lim Sedbaigal, who is none other. In a completely unexpected situation, a completely unexpected word was enough to relieve tension. When the tension was released, the bound laughter burst out.

“Ahahaha… ! Nothing, nothing… Ah… ! So, can I call you like this… ?”

Lady, when she heard those words, the word that best matched them popped into her head. In fact, nothing suited the word better in this situation. Jer Pied nodded her head, agreeing to be called.

“Knight.”

Zerpied immediately stopped moving on the spot. She then looked at Esilia in silence.

“Uh… ? Uh… Don’t you like it…… ?”

“No. It’s not like that…… Because it’s too rude.”

“Yes?”

“To be called that way by someone else.”

“Article… Dear… ?”

Zer Pied nodded her head slowly. Knight. Come to think of it, was she ever called Knight-sama after she was in the current state? There is no way. All the contracts he has made have involved violence and war.

Days of idyllic slaughter.

In those days of idyllic slaughter, he was called a living death rather than a knight. All nicknames other than living death are closely related to slaughter.

Driver, I never thought he’d hear that again. No, can I really be called that now?

…… Did I want that?

Death Knight could not answer his own question.

–

“We have arrived.”

Zer Pied raised his hand to announce that he had reached his destination. Seeing her hand, Celia immediately stopped walking. I saw hundreds of corpses floating in her shimmering mist. Seeing the corpses, the events of yesterday flash through her mind in an instant. In that terrifying scene, Ecilia had to shake her body involuntarily.

He twisted his neck so fast that Philed survived for a few seconds even after his neck was twisted. Immediately his neck was crushed and his head fell to the ground. As soon as he saw the scene, Tessien chose to run away.

In one blink, she was gone. And she blinked her eyes again, and this time it was the Death Knight that disappeared. She blinked her eyes one last time before Zer Peed walked in front of her, brushing off her bloody spear.

There was no need to ask whose blood it was.

I was used to seeing the dead. I was used to seeing the wounded. She was a saint, and the saint devoted most of her time to healing her. Some came with her arms cut off, some with burns all over her body, and some even with their heads cut off. Unfortunately, it was impossible to heal him. There is no way to heal the dead.

But she couldn’t get used to the sight of her yesterday. Until now she had seen the death or wounding of others, not her own, but now her death was right by her side.

As the scene of the powerful Philed and Tessien dying in the blink of an eye shimmered, the fear of the living death standing next to him creeped up.

At the same time, the sight of her wiping out two of the most fearsome people she had ever known brought her great relief. Conflicting feelings of fear and relief were present towards him.

Like the relationship between the saint and Death Knight.

“I… What did you come here for…… ?”

After ending the contract, Zerfied said he needed to stop by, so he followed him to the place where he woke him up yesterday, but he didn’t know why.

Exactly, he couldn’t ask him while he was coming.

4 Cubits is almost 4.5 Cubits in height, which is easily exceeded, and covered with armor in the form of Maximilian Armor – even the helmet form was an Ahme that covered the entire face – a kite shield equal in length to one arm. On her left arm, and carries on her back a Partisan three cubits plus half a cubit long—more than her own height—with a spear point that literally shoots out.

The blade of Partizan is also engraved with meaningless patterns, and the width of the blade is the size of the Death Knight’s palm. The two protruding protruding blades are also sharp enough to be used like a dagger. The dark blue cloak across his back looks like it has been torn to shreds at the tip, wriggling like a living skin.

The foot part was also divided into each toe like his gauntlet, rather than usually covering the entire foot. Naturally, the tip of the finger is extremely sharp, just like a finger.

It was hardly intimidating for her to speak out against her. Because of this, it was only after she reached her destination that her saintess was able to inquire about her business.

“Do you remember when I said earlier in the cave that all the blood and flesh produced during the contract process belonged to me?”

“Yes….”

“That’s why I came.”

As soon as Zer Pied finished his words, Partizan was thrust into his shadow. The spear blade disappeared into the shadow, as if it had been stuck in the water rather than a shadow. At the unbelievable sight, Ecilia simply opened her mouth. Right away, he ricocheted something hard with the protruding blade. It was Dark. The darkness that created these hundreds of corpses.

Like a speck in the air, the tiny blackness wriggled like a pulsating heart. In line with that wriggling, the blood and flesh from hundreds of corpses swirled and were sucked into the dark abyss.

It was a scene that the saintess never thought she would see in her lifetime to see her blood and flesh being ripped off as if her bones were being removed. After she sucked the blood and flesh of every corpse, the drop of darkness fell back into the Death Knight’s shadow.

“Then, now that we have finished eating, let’s talk about the contract again.”

Eccilia only blinked her eyes at the weakness of the Death Knight’s calmness, who called the act Meal.

“First of all, I’ve never been an escort knight before, so I’m asking now… Esilia. What exactly am I supposed to escort you from?”

There will be days that everyone regrets. No matter how small or large it is, there is bound to be some regret. And the same goes for Ecilia.

I shouldn’t have hidden in the Patriarch’s closet, at least that day. She was just trying to invite her to dinner. It seems like you’ve been doing too much work lately, so I was just going to say, let’s take a break for a while.

Or maybe she’s been a saint since she was fifteen and has been hiding in her closet since she was playing pranks on the Patriarch, and she’s already gone wrong. She’s an adult, she’s eighteen, but she hasn’t broken that habit. Even though she is a saint, she should have listened to her older sister, Ferrenia, why she is so childish.

The door of the office opened and Patriarch Lepina’s voice was heard. She put her hand on the handle of her dresser.

“So, what happened to the saintess?”

The very next moment, she stopped her hand at her words. A saint? That’s me. Following Lefina’s question, another familiar voice was heard.

“It is going well as planned.”

It was the voice of Lefina-sama’s escort knight, Mr. Avent.

“Take it easy. It’s just the two of us anyway.”

The Patriarch continued with a slight laugh. To her laughter, Mr. Aevent also responded with a slight chuckle.

“Okay, so far, nothing to worry about.”

“We don’t have much time left to plan, so we need to pay more attention. Until the day of the ceremony, there shouldn’t be a single wound on the saintess’s body. Especially when it comes to maintaining purity. I don’t know anything else, but if her virginity is broken, the goddess Rene Le will not be able to descend into her saintly body. Then she will no longer be a saint of innocence.”

She felt like the world was turning upside down. Goddess Renaire? On my body? Advent? What does all this mean? Her hands started to tremble.

“Is it possible for Goddess Renaire to fully descend?”

“…… If the saintess does not become such a vessel, only a portion of her power may descend. Perhaps it is unreasonable to accept God into our bodies in the first place. But it doesn’t matter, if you receive even a portion of the power, that’s already enough.”

“Is the body the only thing to care about?”

“Yes, it doesn’t matter what the saintess’ ceremony is like. In any case, if the goddess or the power of the goddess is captured, the saintess’ consciousness will be replaced and disappear.”

Disappear?

Now she had to feel like not only the world but also herself was being turned upside down. She turned her world upside down, she turned herself upside down, everything she knew was

Invert.

Despite the clear sound of the two leaving the room after the conversation, Celia couldn’t get out of her closet. If you go out, it becomes reality. It’s a dream. I’m having a nightmare. There’s no way that kind Lepina and Aevent would be like that. Yes it’s a dream, it can’t be There’s no way I’ll disappear…….

Disappear……

Disappear? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live?

Disappear? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Disappear?

Disappear? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Disappear?

Disappear? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Live? Disappear?

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Was?

Tears flowed from her trembling eyes. One drop, two drops, countless drops.

Tears soaked everything in her.

There were more and more tears falling to the ground. Even the tears flowing from her cheeks were pure, like a saint of innocence.

“Huh… Whoa… ! Ugh… ! Bar, that’s stupid… ? She is a saint who serves the goddess of innocence… Oh, maybe she should be more than welcome… The descent of the goddess on my insignificant body… Whoa… Hey, you should be happy… I’m so scared… To die… I’m so afraid of disappearing… ! I ran… Because I don’t want to die… I don’t want to disappear…… !”

Zerpied watched her quietly. When she signed her contract, I couldn’t wait for her to burst into tears. So, the Death Knight just quietly watched her saintess. But her tears did not subside. Eventually, the Death Knight opened her mouth. Of course, I know that this is against chivalry. But,

That was such a stupid statement.

“That’s stupid.”

“Huh… yes…… ?”

Tearful red eyes and blue eyes looked at the Death Knight. Her speaking voice is full of her weeping.

“I mean stupid. All living things fear death. There are no living things that do not fear death. Some say, those who sacrificed themselves threw themselves over the fear of death.

It’s just nonsense from those who haven’t died. Their choice itself is courageous enough. A choice worthy of applause.

However, even they are afraid of death. They made such sacrifices because they were placed in such circumstances. No one is willing to make a sacrifice when such a situation has not come. If there is such a person, he must be the one who has overcome the fear of death.

The demon king who directly caused the Holy Demon War, the great devil who fought against the holy knights consecrated by the seven holy spirits, the witch who destroyed the mountain range and caused a tidal wave, the dragon who burned a continent, and all life in the world were annihilated. Even the necromancer who did it, everyone fears death.

So, it is not foolish for you to be afraid of death.

The only fool is you who blame yourself for being afraid of death.”

The saintess burst into tears. All along, she’s been blaming herself. She said that she was here thanks to her goddess, but she betrayed her. She said she didn’t deserve to be a saint. All the while, she blamed herself.

She was telling her that all of her actions were natural. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to be ashamed of, just normal. No one else, in front of her

Death.

She can’t remember how much she cried. She just cried endlessly, endlessly. The Death Knight continued to look at her and adhered to her silence. Her tears were now dry, and after she had let out only her cracked cries and let out all her emotions, everything stopped. Only then did the Death Knight speak to her saintess.

“Are you feeling better?”

“Sigh… huh… Nope… !”

The saintess nodded her head after spitting out her last rising emotion. The spot where the tears fell on her floor is full, but there is not even a trace of crying on her cheek. Ecilia wiped her own face with her hand a few times. With her wiped face, her saintess looked straight at her death knight standing in front of her.

“Please… Please protect me from the General Church of Purity.”

Her voice trembled, but not inaccurately. It was full of her strong certainty.

She is a saint who is hostile to the church she belonged to. Zer Piedd nodded her head at her slightly accustomed sense of paradox by now.

“Okay. But one more important matter remains.”

“…… What is that?”

Esilia stared blankly at Zerfied.

“Period.”

“Period?”

“How long can I escort you?”

“Huh?”

It was a problem I had never thought about before. It was important not to get caught by the General Church immediately. Because I couldn’t afford to think about a specific deadline to protect myself. In the first place, waking Jerpy Ed was like a gamble because she had no other choice. I never thought about anything after that. It was impossible for her to think about issues like deadlines.

All contracts have a period. When he made a contract with the great devil, until he put all the races in the world under his control with the devil. In the case of the witch, until she has complete control over every single element of the continent. Dragon until the world functions reliably as its own rare. Until the necromancer exterminates all life in the world.

Of course, there were contracts that did not specify a specific period, but since the goals were all specific, the period was naturally set. The moment the goal was achieved meant the end of the contract. However, in the case of now, it is very ambiguous to cut and express exactly when. First of all, the saintess’ goal of becoming an escort knight was met.

If you talk extremely simply, you could say that the saintess was escorted from an enemy who had recently arrived and her contract was terminated.

But does that mean she hopes for it? It’s a completely different matter. If it was an issue outside the scope of the contract, I would immediately protest, but if not, it was necessary to accept it as much as possible. It is cumbersome and too inefficient to create unnecessary friction when taking a life later. For Zerpied, it was a specification that such a situation would occur.

Strictly speaking, the contract period was not yet decided, he thought. Don’t you know that living things have a lifespan? Perhaps the saintess wanted that.

“It doesn’t matter. It’s enough to escort you until you die anyway.”

At those words, Ecelia couldn’t hide her embarrassment. Until she dies? She didn’t know if she could, of course, if it was Zerpe Ed. The odds of that were considerable. He is the one who brought about a crisis that almost destroyed the world several times. But that doesn’t mean living his whole life under escort… It is no different from asking him to remain a fugitive until his death.

“No… that… ….”

However, Ecilia could not answer. For her, he was her only hope. When he disappears, she will again be approached by the pursuers of her General Order. She knew very well that it was impossible for any individual to escape the eyes and ears of the mighty body of the General Church.

As she continued to roll her eyes, Zer Pied slowly brought out one of her suggestions. Suggestions to make things simpler, clearer, quicker to life.

“Then I just thought of something.”

“…… What is it?”

“Isn’t it a sure solution if you remove the root of the problem?”

She didn’t know how to react to the appearance of the Death Knight spitting out obvious words. All problems can be solved by removing the root cause. Rather than that, what did that fact have to do with her own situation now? And when we talk about the period, why the hell does the problem come out…… ?

She opened her mouth. Her body started to tremble.

No matter how many different aspects she has in an individual, she will never be as diverse as she is. It’s hard to find an individual who has all of the surprise, bewilderment, fear, and confusion on one face.

Esilia shouted with all of that.

“Are you saying you’re going to attack Goddess Rener’s general church right now?!?!”

Impossible. Overwhelmingly impossible.

It was an idea that immediately popped into Esilia’s head.

No matter how much that Zerpied Lim Sedbaigal. It’s close to impossible. Rather, it is possible enough to run away and protect oneself from those sent by the General Church, this… It’s not just an escort, it’s that you’re going to directly attack the General Church. Howira is defense, which is the complete opposite.

“They say the best defense is offense.”

Looking at Zer Pey Ed speaking plainly, she put her hand over her head. That famous adage didn’t help at all in this situation.

Because the Zerpieds are undead, and the General Church is a group of priests. All undead are vulnerable to divine power. Quite a bit too. This was one of the factors that allowed a group of priests to stand proudly as a armed group.

No matter how much magic you use, no matter how good you are at martial arts. Even if his limbs are cut off, his intestines are crushed, and his head is melted, it is of no use in front of the undead wriggling and attacking him.

However, since the undead turned into a handful of ashes in front of the divine power, there was no group that could follow the clergy in defeating the undead.

At this situation, you’re going to attack the General Church directly?

To attack the General Church, which unites all the Churches, means to turn all the Churches in the world into enemies.

“Suicide! Article… Your role is to escort me!”

“If the problem is removed, it will perform its role perfectly, right?”

“That… That’s right…… !”

She couldn’t find anything to refute at that reasonable statement. But she couldn’t agree to a plan so reckless. How could she say yes when it was no different than going into the midst of her enemies. Seeing her not being able to give an answer easily, Zer Pied nodded her head.

“Okay. Since you don’t seem to want it, then I’ll escort you until you die.”

…… There is no choice.

One side is suicidal, the other a lifelong fugitive. It is a life that must die anyway. The saintess Celia nodded her head. She decides to join this madness. I’ve already done the crazy thing of signing a contract with Zerpie Ed Lim Sed Baigal, and there’s no law that she won’t do it again.

The saintess decided to find her life in her death.