The Death Knight Became an Escort Knight for the Saintess

8. Death Knight and Saint feel each other’s warmth.

8.

Esilia wondered if she had misunderstood the escort knight. As she looked at herself without saying anything, Jer Peyed spoke to her again and again, as if thinking similarly to her.

“From now on, we will head to the domain of demons.”

“…… Are you serious?”

Instead of answering, the Death Knight nodded her head. Seeing her steadfastness in that movement, the saintess stopped trying to ask the question again. Instead, she asked another question.

“Do you know what kind of people demons are?”

That was a stupid question. Ecilia herself was well aware of that fact. There was no way that Zerpied, who had been active with the Great Devil, did not know what kind of race the demons were. However, it was hard to believe if she didn’t ask, so she had to ask the question like that.

“Of course, they are the most repulsive race. Those who return to the logic of power. There is a saying that if you separate the demons, they are divided between themselves and their pride.”

As expected, he knew exactly about the demons. But it was just basic information. The saintess sighed and asked the Death Knight again.

“Did you know that among demons there are people who believe in holy spirits?”

“…… Do you mean that demons believe in the Holy Ghost?”

It was a completely unexpected question for Zer Pied, so she had to answer a beat late. Ecilia said she wasn’t talking like a sigh, but a real sigh.

“Not that many, though. After the Great War of Life and Death, among the demons, those who believed in the Holy Ghost appeared.”

“Doesn’t demons prefer demons rather than holy spirits?”

He implied facts based on past experience. Clearly, as far as he knew, demons were people who revere power. Those who believe that the rules of the holy spirits that are close to order are boring to them, and only serve as restraints that limit their ability to become stronger. Most of the demons were more free and simple, and there were many who believed in demons with instant power. Ecilia nodded her head.

“Still, many demons still believe in demons. However, the power of the demons is… Its nature is close to destruction, not close to healing, right? Still, they revere strength, not stupidity.”

It is natural for a life-and-death war to exterminate all living things, but the demons were not an exception. That fact was information that Zerfied knew better than anyone else. Because he fought alone on the northern front as the main axis of the life-and-death war. The demons, who were proud of their strength, attacked him all at once, but they had to leave a huge scar on their pride. Wounds that will never heal. After repeating the process, no more demons appeared. So I thought they simply hid in the depths, but didn’t they?

“I thought you were reclusive.”

“It is true that I am reclusive. It was in the middle and late stages of the Great War of Life and Death that demons began to believe in the Holy Spirit. At first, the demons who believed in their own strength and fought head-on began to recognize the reality little by little.”

Other races suffered a lot of damage because they were in the middle of a life-and-death war of destruction, but the situation was a little different for the demons. Originally living in the northern part of the Central Continent, especially in the northern part, where other races other than the demons hardly even approached, they were slightly out of the danger of a life-and-death war. The reason they suffered similar damage to other races was because of their unique characteristic of thinking that breaking through an obstacle directly rather than turning around increases strength.

In a way, it is natural. Even in the crisis of witches and dragons, they fought hard, but they survived. The location of their residence played a part in enduring them, but the strength of the demon race itself was also a factor that could not be ignored. Furthermore, the demons were once the parties to a war against other races, such as witches and dragons.

“They put strength first, but not stupid. Since I realized that I couldn’t even strike the knight on my own, I looked for another way.”

“Is there another way to secure their divine power by believing in the Holy Ghost?”

“Right. For the undead, the divine power of the holy spirit is a threat that cannot be compared with anything else.”

Zer Pied nodded his head. The closest thing he knows to order in existence are the Holy Ghosts. And the closest thing to chaos is the undead. Demon gods are also quite close to chaos, but their nature is similar to destruction, not death. If that were the case, the Holy Demon War in the past would have ended with the overwhelming victory of the Holy Ghosts without needing to happen.

On the other hand, the nature of the holy spirits was similar to that of life, and to the undead, which were similar to death, it brought a crisis of annihilation. Focusing on this, the demons came up with a plan to gain strength in other ways.

“So, a few demons who came up with that plan came to the south to believe in the Holy Ghost and gain divine power… As you’ve heard, the situation in the South wasn’t too good either. They succeeded in securing divine power in the south, but it became difficult to return to the north… I was able to return only after the life-and-death war was over. And some of the demons who secured divine power settled down in the south.”

“You mean that some of the demons who returned to the north still believe in the Holy Spirit?”

As she was about to nod, Celia twisted her shoulders at the coldness she felt at the nape of her neck. The cold didn’t come just once. More and more coldness came over her. Ecilia looked up at her. The sky was filled with hazy clouds.

“It’s raining.”

Simply, Zerfied dismissed the situation, and began to wrap the remaining meat in leaves. I sealed it well to keep foreign matter out and put it in the bag. Originally, I was thinking of storing it after drying, but now the situation is not good.

“I’m moving, it’s hard to avoid the rain under a tree.”

Zer Pied knelt before his headless horse. Escelia smiled once at him for giving her knee to make it easier for her to ride. Actually, Zer Pied was calm, as if she had done what was natural for her.

The rain was getting stronger. He wriggled her cloak to cover the saintess in front of him, but he couldn’t stop all the rain from her. She didn’t get dirty, but the wet stains grew on her clothes.

“… I’d rather change locations.”

Zer Pied spoke her briefly and before her Essilia could react, he lifted her up and placed her behind him. The enlarged red and blue eyes represented her emotions. It was already quite some time later when she remembered what she could barely say about her situation. She could do nothing but look at that broad back and her shoulders right in front of her vision.

It may sound like a paradox, but it was the sound that caused the silence of the Death Knight and the saintess. It was because it was difficult to say a word because of the heavy rain. It didn’t pour fast, but the rain that fell was thick. The saintess had to hold onto her cloak that was wrapped around her. Rather than the soft cloth of a normal cloak, it felt like rough leather.

The saintess, who had difficulty opening her eyes due to the pouring rain, closed her eyes and slowly leaned against her body. The leather cloak wrapped around his back was warm, and the armor that touched his cheek was cold.

–

“…… !”

She heard something in front of her and Eccilia awoke. Her ears were still full of the sound of rain. Still, the reason she was able to pick up the other sound must have been because the source of that sound was right in front of her. She asked her own escort knight what she said out loud.

“What?!”

“… Oh!”

I still couldn’t hear it well. In the end, her saintess had to take off her cloak and listen to her. Throwing her body forward, she could only then hear the sparse voices.

“…… Oyster… !”

Escelia looked at where Zer Peed pointed with her chin. It was quite small to be called a cave, but I saw a rock cave where several large rocks were built to create free space. The Death Knight, who conveyed her opinion, immediately moved there. Upon arrival, Zer Pied carried her saintess inside her lair. Fortunately, the size itself was not too much for two people to enter. It was just the right size for the two of them to enter.

Celia shuddered, probably because she was exposed to the cold air even for a short time during her transfer. Because of her northern location, the air was colder than where she lived. And then, since she had come to the rain, the present coldness she felt was far from what she normally felt.

As if to disprove that, Esilia, who pulled over her cloak, only trembled. A rare white breath rose from her mouth and then subsided.

“Whoa… ….”

Zer Pied stared blankly at her, then shook her head. It didn’t help her that she was pulling on her own cloak in the first place. His cloak was soaked with water and damp. There were trees before, but now it was a plain with only short grass except for the rock cave. Even if there was wood, it was obvious that it would get wet and not be of any help in starting a fire. The escort knight pondered for a moment about her situation, which would endanger her.

Several methods came to Zerfied’s head, but there was only one that could help.

“Lady Esilia.”

“Yes…… ?”

As she knelt down on her knees and shivered, she turned her head to look at him at the words she called her.

“I think the two of us should hug each other.”

“…… What… ?!”

It was before she even spit out her words.

The Death Knight slowly began to take off her armor.

The act of Has the meaning of . In such a part, it was unreasonable to say that Jer Peed had ‘taken off’ her armor. Because it was close to the exact opposite of . The act was rather similar to being absorbed. If we were asked to suggest a meaning closer to absorption than absorption, we would mention reduction. Certainly, the scene in which the hard armor was distorted and formed into a single shape was not unreasonable to call it a reduction.

The armor has changed from an angular shape to a more docile shape full of curves. No, back Right after that, the armor disappeared as if it permeated the form.

Pale skin, as if bathed in moonlight. As if proving that the huge armor had been restored, a body with strong and solid muscles. Circuits drawn like tattoos of the same color as the armor are squiggly engraved on the body and wriggling. Perhaps because of the pale skin, the circuits looked more prominent. Lips slightly bluish due to lack of blood. A sharp chin line like the tip of a helmet and a high nose bridge. Bloody eyes blazing from even sharper eyes. The slightly shorter length of hair neatly covering it, also the same color as the armor.

“Esilia.”

Finally, a low, thick voice, as if coming from hell, testified that the person in front of her was Zerpied Lim Sedvaigal.

Esilia could not answer what Zerpied called her. Zerfied, who was in the form of a body rather than armor, was also Zerfied. When he wriggles those strong muscles and moves them slightly, and when he frowns weakly. When he pursed his slightly parted lips. Besides that, every moment he moved, she had to first accept her idea that she was not seeing a body, but a work of art.

To have so many nicknames related to slaughter, he has a calm and calm appearance. If it weren’t for those piercing eyes and those blazing bloody eyes, no one would suspect her even if she saw him and not her and claimed to be a priest.

His appearance was truly overwhelming.

Because of that, Esilia had to respond in the same way that those who have experienced overwhelming sex often take.

She did her best not to pass out.

By the time Escelia was able to do what she could still call an answer to his words, she had already come closer to his face than before.

When she realized it, she felt like she was choking and she even started having hiccups.

“Yes… Eh… ?! Hey?! Hehe… ! Hehe… !”

Seeing this, the Death Knight’s eyebrows frowned even more strongly. The Death Knight gestured towards herself in her praiseful tone and said.

“Come closer.”

“Okay… are you okay… ! Hehe… !”

Zerpied couldn’t understand Ecilia’s actions because she said it was okay, and her body trembled even more than before. My body was shaking like that and even hiccups, but it was hard to know what was okay. Jer Peed said to her with a sigh mixed in.

“Come closer. You need to stick together so that your body temperature can rise.”

“No… that… ! Oh, clothes… ! Dressed… In the state… Do… ! Then… !”

He tilted his head slightly. Anyway, since the armor and cloak were all part of him, there was nothing uncomfortable about his movement itself. However, instead of maximizing defense power, the armor form was greatly affected by the external temperature because of its unique metal-like properties. Now that the outside was cold, it was natural that the armor was also cold. And that didn’t help Ecilia’s body temperature rise at all.

At her word, she took a look at herself. But still, there was nothing strange about it. Now that he has returned from his armor to his physical form, his body itself is completely exposed. However, only the upper body was properly exposed, and the lower body was still in an armored state. He knew very well how disrespectful it was to show off one’s body without even asking his partner’s consent.

“Esilia. This condition is most conducive to raising her body temperature. So come closer.”

“I-I really… really… ! Hi! Hehe… ! It’s okay, it’s okay… !”

Ecilia insisted that she was fine now, even backing her up. Seeing that he didn’t look okay at all, Zerfied sighed. I couldn’t understand why she was so vehemently denying it when everyone could see that she was shivering and hiccups from the cold.

In the end, he decided to use some coercion. It goes against her manners, but his role is to escort her. And leaving her exposed to the cold was not at all suited to her escort. So he made a reasonable conclusion that escorting her should take precedence over common courtesy. Having concluded, he immediately put his ideas into practice.

Zerpied grabbed Esilia’s arm with a little roughness and pulled her.

Escelia said she couldn’t say anything, and she was dragged away by him. In the first place, there was no way she would be able to withstand Zer Peed’s power, but the moment she was captured by him, she could not think of any will to resist. She couldn’t figure out why.

Seeing a man’s body without a thread for the first time in his life? Or because of the idea of having to have physical contact with a man you’ve never had? Or maybe it was simply because I was fascinated by his overwhelming physical appearance.

But most importantly, when Esilia came to her senses, she was already in the arms of Zer Pied. Zerfied’s body did not feel any warmth. It wasn’t exactly Every time my heart beat, warmth enveloped my whole body. When the pulse is gone, the warmth is also gone. Naturally, Zerfied’s warmth was transmitted intermittently to her body. The feeling of stability stopped her hiccups and the trembling of her body.

“Look. We’re facing each other, so things aren’t getting any better.”

She couldn’t bear to say that her tremors and hiccups weren’t caused by the cold, so Ecelia chose to keep her head down without saying anything. She had a hard time showing it to her escort because she couldn’t tell what expression she was making.

Zerpied stared blankly at his lady, who was still with her head bowed in his arms, then looked away. She couldn’t remember how long it had been since she came into contact with something alive. The warmth of a living thing he had felt for the first time in a long time was not familiar to him. He watched the world as it rained while slowly accepting the strange feeling.

Perhaps, if it was an ordinary contract, he wouldn’t be killing someone right now.

To escort someone is to completely protect that target from an approaching threat. It was a contract with more complicated and dangerous contents than simply killing them, but the only thing that came to them now was the raindrops that were pouring down as they chased them. And even that happens outside the cave, so in reality, only each other’s warmth is everything.

A wonderfully quiet and peaceful time.

Apart from the first contract, in a time he had never experienced, Zerfied enjoyed the falling raindrops to his heart’s content.

–

He blinked his eyes once. It was because the raindrops stopped. Zer Pied, who had stretched out his hand toward the saintess, withdrew it again. Lady’s breathing was regular. She was already the saintess who had fallen asleep for the third time today, but he didn’t bother waking her up.

Death Knight had already heard from her saintess that she had suffered for several days without sleeping or eating properly to find him. It was easy to infer that even if it wasn’t just him, he wouldn’t have been comfortable living on the run for several months. At least she couldn’t spend two days comfortably after waking him. In this situation it would be more appropriate to leave her to rest than to wake her up.

That’s why the Death Knight carefully picked up his lady. Quickly converting to the armor type, he was careful not to make the characteristic metal-like sound. I didn’t know if the lady who heard that sound would wake up. He sat Celia in front of him and slowly drove the headless horse.

Lightdrops fell through the clouds and spread over his armor. The smell of soil subsided by the rain jumps up in surprise at the sound of horses hooves. The smell of earth was full of pulsating life. Lives that grow themselves in the rain. What he cannot fully possess now. No matter how strongly he holds on to it, no matter how many times he brings it in, it always slips through the cracks. It would be a lie if I didn’t miss it. Although he has no regrets, he occasionally reminisced about those days from which he could no longer go back.

Nostalgia and memories that everyone has.

For Death Knight, that was life.

–

A gale passed them once. As the strong wind pulled her hair, the saintess woke up with surprise. Her cloak flapped around her.

“Are you awake?”

Behind her, her low cry ran through her. Esilia raised her head at the voice she had become somewhat accustomed to. Above her vision was the chin of her Death Knight. Due to the great difference in her height, from her saintly point of view, her head seemed to be floating in the air. He lowered her head slightly, and blood ran through the cracks in her ultramarine helmet. At that moment, remembering the figure of the escort knight who had removed her armor and looked at her, her saintess blushed slightly and swallowed her saliva.

Gulp – .

In case he heard her swallowing saliva, the saintess lowered her head again. The saintess couldn’t even answer the Death Knight’s words properly, and only moved her head up and down.

Zer Pied saw the saintess with such a figure and turned her gaze forward again. She seemed to be acting a little more than she did before going to sleep, but it must be because she didn’t finish her sleep anyway. Deciding to let her awake for a moment, he glanced at her toward the sun.

At some point, the blazing clone was almost collapsing toward the horizon. She still has some time left before she collapses, but in a few hours she will be completely dead. And that meant he had to find a place to spend the night. Zerfied said to Ecilia.

“Lady Esilia.”

“Yes?”

Now successfully completing her escape from her past memories, she looked at her escort knight with a more placid expression. Zer Pied gestured toward her bag.

“Look on the map for a place to stay tonight. Still, you know better than I do.”

At his words, Ecilia turned her head and looked around her. Seeing how the sun was tilting little by little, Esilia quickly unfolded the map from her bag. She tilted her head as she pointed out where they were now with her thin, white hands.

“What are you doing?”

“Um… How big is the town in front of you? Village? It seems like there is…….”

” What do you mean by ‘similar’?”

“This map is outdated and does not reflect the latest information… Originally, it is not marked well except for very large villages. Cities are less likely to disappear, but there are quite a few cases where villages and villages are attacked and disappear… Or, there are cases where they were simply formed with the same intentions and then disbanded shortly thereafter… So the map doesn’t show much other than the big towns.”

“So you mean there is something on that map right now?”

“… That is… Only the location is listed, but the name is not listed.”

She frowned slightly as if it was difficult to reason any further.

“Because I don’t know everything either… I only know what I saw in the book… Sorry.”

Death Knight shook her head as if it was nothing. She said that she never came out of that ‘capital’ city, so it was only natural that there was information she didn’t know.

Esilia let out a small sigh.

She had quite a bit of familiar information in the central region where she lived, but as she climbed up to the northern part of Mount Ethel Bayer, more and more things she didn’t know about increased. All the information she knew consisted of things she had seen in her books. She had very little firsthand experience of the world. She still thought she had crammed in as much information as she could, but it was clear to her face-to-face that she still only knew a fraction of what she knew.

Escelia’s position as a saint and her residence in a cathedral that holds a library full of information, the reason why her level of knowledge is not significantly different from that of others is also why she was because she was a saint. She had to devote most of her time to healing the wounded and studying etiquette. Considering that it was late in the evening after she had finished all of her work, it was rather remarkable that she had accumulated this much knowledge.

But she wasn’t satisfied at all. If she had known things were going to turn out this way, she should have read more of the book, even if it was overdoing it. Or, no matter what, she had to hold on to her map, which she originally had. She only focused on heading towards Mount Ethel Bayer, and it was a mistake that she didn’t look properly in that direction. Her map, which she had seen so much, eventually wore out and tore when she was in the mountains.

Come to think of it, she might have just been lucky to have come this far. The central provinces were densely populated, and there was no great difficulty in moving from village to village. The distance between the villages widened the further they headed towards Mount Ethelbeyer, but it was close to a miracle that nothing happened except for encountering a pursuing party while arriving.

In the end, I didn’t do anything with my own hands. The saintess laughed at herself.

Her escort knight’s words came to her as she was alone in blaming herself.

“Then is there anywhere else I can stay?”

The saintess blinked her eyes and returned to the map with her concentration. Her fingers quickly run through her map. Diervan, a large city in the north. It was a place she knew well because her name was known for a reason similar to the town of Charcot, which is the closest to Mount Ethel Bayer. Because it was one of the cities closest to Rephaim Forest, which served as the boundary of the demon territory. Among them, Diervan was the largest.

From what the escort knight said, it was clear that Diervan was the next destination. Clearly, she said she was heading to the domain of demons.

There were several villages located on the road to Diervan, but the other villages were too far away. The nearest town was the only one. The saintess shook her head.

“No, everyone is too far away.”

“How far is it to that nameless village?”

“Well… 30 minutes? 1 Hours?”

“Okay. Let’s speed it up a bit.”

A strong wind blew at the same time as Zerfied’s words. The saintess had to roll up the escort knight’s cloak and hold on to it.

–

-Dagdak.

The headless horse’s hooves hit the ground hard. The headless horse spun around in place. Ecilia could fully understand the feelings of the escort knight felt by the headless horse. She didn’t say anything, but she could feel the embarrassment of some of the escort knights. She seemed to understand roughly why the town had only a location and no name.

The village is – ,

There was no one there.