Chapter 390 – Light Rocks

000

After the couple’s sparring, the battle maids who were watching it rushed in and surrounded Cleon and Lavita.

Those who did not believe that Lavita lost, those who were interested in Cleon like Lavita, no, those who were more interested in Cleon’s magic sword than Cleon.

With the two people chatting in an instant, Rubera and Eustes miss the timing to approach Cleon.

“Lavita! Did Lavita really lose?”

“Yes, yes. You all watched from beginning to end, didn’t you?”

“Yeah, but…”

The maids looked as if they couldn’t believe something at Lavita’s words her.

To that extent, her skills must have earned the absolute trust of her maids.

Some maids take turns looking at Lavita and Cleon, and calmly analyze the situation.

“It is the teleportation at the end that decides the outcome. The captain’s eyes are absolute, but the attack that cannot be traced with the eyes is still the captain’s natural enemy.”

“In a 1:1 match, it would be, but normally we are around the captain. We just need to be the eyes on the back of the captain’s head, right?”

“Well, I’m not saying it’s wrong. But I’m surprised that there are people other than Ruba who can move like that.”

“Oh, that’s-“

Rubera interrupts the maids to explain something to her, but-

“Wait, wait! Your sword was transformed into a bow earlier!? Is that also the power of a demonic sword!?”

“Pate. It’s rude if you cling to the sword like that.”

“No, you’re stuck with a magnifying glass too. Tiffany…”

When the words were blocked by some maids who clung to Cleon’s magic sword and seemed to be trying to investigate its power of her, Cleon couldn’t even get rid of Galatea in front of them and just put on a troubled face.

[… No, it’s sticky…]

Eventually, when Galatea reached the limit of her patience and murmured, Cleon’s sword glowed and changed its form from a sword to a human form.

“Now, now! Get away! If you cling any further, I’ll sue you for sexual harassment!”

Galatea keeps the maids clinging to her apart with her hands and threats.

After the shape suddenly collapses, the maids exclaim in admiration at the appearance of a beautiful woman who reconstructs and appears next to Cleon.

It didn’t look like it was familiar or surprised.

“As expected of Barisada, the demonic sword can take human form.”

When one of the maids says so, Cleon points to the amour that Lavita is holding.

“It’s the same with the holy sword. Her holy sword is hers, if it had awakened to power, would it be able to take a different form?”

When Cleon said that, Lavita shrugged her shoulders and spoke.

“As I said before, this sword is not originally my sword. Right now, they are just borrowing power because they agree with each other. In front of me, who is not the original owner, they probably don’t want to show themselves differently.”

“There seems to be a complicated situation in that part, so I won’t question you anymore.”

When Cleon said that, Lavita smiled lightly and nodded her head.

“…Kuhm.”

And now, when the situation seems to have calmed down, Rubera once again appeals to her own existence her.

At the sound of her cough, the gazes of the maids around her turned towards her at once.

“…This is it, right? If you interfere more than this, you’ll have to fight with me next time. Everyone.”

She doesn’t even smile, and at Rubera’s voice, which doesn’t sound like a joke at all when she talks like that with an expressionless face, her maids move away from the side of Cleon and Lavita who were clinging to each other one by one, and she slips back to where she was originally. Go back

However, as Lavita was still standing and looking at Cleon with a smile, Lubera talked.

“…Lavita and you?”

“I’d like to talk to Cleon some more. Can’t we?”

With her usual smile on her face her, Lubera let out a sigh and shook her head as she looked at Lavita, who lightly asked her.

“…You are the head of the maids, including me, so you have higher authority than me. If you want to talk, you can do whatever you want.”

“Ah, ah~ Ruba, don’t be upset! I’m sorry! I’ll let you two talk!”

Lavita showed her flustered expression when Rubera spoke with her pouty face, as if she was embarrassed, or that Rubera’s attitude was unexpected.

“Not really, I didn’t pout, but…”

“You never get angry-“

When Galatea tries to say something useless, Cleon hurriedly blocks her mouth her, and Eustes looks at her with a bitter expression.

“…Don’t worry about Princess Amelia. Cleon. Like you, we are shields forged to protect her.”

Then, as if to shake hands, she held out her hand to Cleon, and Cleon took her hand her as well.

With a rustle, Cleon looked down at her hand as he felt something like paper in her hand.

Soon after, Lavita’s eyes met and she smiled at her, then she crumpled the paper she received in her hand and put it in her pocket her.

“Now then, guys~ Let’s clean up the gymnasium that has been messed up with sparring~”

“What!? The captain messed with that man, so why do we!?”

As the sounds of her ballman leap from her men, Lavita holds them back, placing her hand on her waist her.

“Then you’re going to have the customer clean it up? Stop talking! Nora! Get a big broom and a dustpan!”

There were maids who complained about her orders her, but there were no ones who disobeyed her orders her.

“Even though it seems like a fairly free atmosphere, is there some sort of leadership… “

When Cleon spits out pure feelings, he talks about Ruba.

“Yes. Everyone acknowledges the strength of Lavita. This place is more meritorious than most adventurers’ guilds or the military. If a maid stronger than Lavita enters, she will become the new head maid.”

“… The Battle Maid was organized five years ago for Amelia, right? The head maid before Lavita?”

“There is not.”

Cleon nodded her head as if acknowledging her answer her.

For years to come, Lavita will be their leader.

“…Anyway, it’s good that you don’t have any problems with your body, Lubera. You poured so much magic yesterday-“

Fuck! A sound was heard and Rubera’s kick was lodged in Cleon’s shin.

Cleon stiffens for a moment, then she hesitates and steps back, rubbing her leg.

“Ah, are you okay? Cleon.”

“That, yes… I just bet, I was bad…”

Cleon struggled to nod at the voice of Eustes, who seemed to be worried about him.

Rubera looked at Cleon with her cold eyes and talked.

“Yes, thanks to you, I’m safe. The part where I was tied to the wire left a little mark. But thanks to Ferdia’s medicine, my magic has fully recovered.”

“That’s a good thing…”

As Cleon stood up on his legs where the pain had subsided, Ruba spoke with her face blushing a little as if she remembered what happened last night.

“…More than that, what’s more important now is your side. You never know when and where an assassin might appear, but it’s too dangerous to move alone. …At least until right before the march, going with me is -“

Cleon shakes his head at Rubera’s words.

“Lubera, along with the other maids, prepare to escort Amelia. Don’t worry, you won’t be alone for now.”

“… Are you not alone? Couldn’t you beat Galatea with her head?”

At the words of Ruba, who seems to doubt Cleon, Galatea speaks with a smile as if a little irritated, with a tendon rising on her forehead.

“Oh my, I think it’s better to count the number of heads than a woman who drank and stretched out~”

“…”

When Rubera’s expression her turned grim in an instant at Galatea’s words her, Eustes grabbed Rubera from behind and stopped her.

“Zee, calm down Rubera. This is not the time to be fighting among her peers her.”

With Eustes’ attitude her calmer than she thought, Lubera sighed and talked to her, perhaps feeling that her own behavior her was a little childish.

“…I know even if you don’t say that.”

“That’s fortunate… But Cleon. Are you really going out with someone? Even I can’t feel the presence of anyone else.”

“Yeah, it’s meaningless to find out who is where.”

“Oh, oh… Is that so?”

To Cleon’s words, Eusthes also nodded as if she understood.

But as if Ruba is still uneasy, she talks while looking at Cleon.

“Cleon. Considering what happened to you yesterday, the thing you need to be most careful about is the Exiled Church. They might try to throw you into another dimension again.”

“…It’s okay. I’ve also thought of countermeasures against that.”

As Cleon said, she showed Ruba the ring she had put on her index finger her.

“…Ring of Convenience?”

“Yes. It’s something Gray made and Lyla improved.”

The Ring of Benefits, an ancient magic tool that guides the owners of the rings to meet each other.

Previously, when Eustes was kidnapped, it was an object that allowed him to know his location.

“…Who has the other one?”

“Caliburn…If she has it, even if she falls into a rift in another dimension, she’ll be able to follow the ring and come after me.”

Caliburn’s power is the ability to cut through space that is high enough to open a hole in the other dimension and enter it on its own.

Alvein, who could only use that power as the release of divine magic, would not know even if he died.

That power was the most certain ability to counter the ability of the ‘Exile Church’.

“…Things that you can carry with you on a daily basis.”

“Caliburn is our side’s trump card. If the Exiled Church finds out that I usually carry the holy sword, I might be harmed by the neutralization method using the ‘nucleus of the holy sword’.”

“…To think that far. Looking at you now, I’m confused whether you’re being too careful or not enough.”

Cleon responded with a small smile to Rubera’s words to her.

“…All of my own preparations are one thought. From here, the other person and I have to read the numbers. There’s one more place to go. Before that, I have something to ask of Ruba, so I’m here too.”

“…To me?”

Then, Cleon told her Lubera, revealing to her one of her own trump numbers of her.

“──”

Upon hearing the story, the faces of Ruba and Eustes hardened.

“…Seriously, are you?”

“Of course. I mean it. It’s a strategy to prepare, but if you don’t prepare for something like this, you won’t be able to get through today’s long day.”

“…But, Cleon! You don’t have to go that far…!”

Just like Ruba, Eustes seemed to oppose his strategy to her, but Cleon just quietly looked at Ruba as if he had already made up his mind of her.

“…What if you say no?”
“If that’s the case, then I should do everything on my own. But Ruba, you must have the same desire to protect Amelia.”

At Cleon’s words, Ruba clenched her fists tightly and turned to Galatea.

“You… Don’t you stop Cleon when he comes up with such a ridiculous plan?”

“… I am Cleon’s sword, and I share a soul with Cleon. His will is his is my will. There is no one in the world who cares about Cleon more than I do.”

As Galatea said so, she put her own head on Cleon’s shoulder her.

“If Cleon wants to do that, then I’ll be with him. -Besides, I’m sure it won’t end in ruin.”

“…”

Ruba listened to Galatea’s words and quietly closed her eyes.

“Lubera, can’t you-“

Eustes broke out in a cold sweat while looking at Lubera-

“…Okay. But it’s really a last resort. You and I can’t be normal at the point of thinking of something like this as an ‘option’.”

“Yeah… I know.”

While Cleondo does not deny her Rubera’s words, she expresses her gratitude that she understands her own intentions her.

“Then. I’ll go. Take care of Eustes too.”

“… Of course. For the sake of true peace in this royal capital, Princess Amelia will risk her life to protect it.”

Cleon smiled at Eustes’ words.

“Really, you’ve become incredibly reliable.”

“I’m sorry…”

When Eustes’ heart beat loudly, the Mistil Thein hanging from her waist shimmered with light.

Another magical organ inside her produced a large amount of magical energy in response to her emotions.

‘Gee, calm down, Eustes…! It’s such a big deal to receive such a compliment…! Today is an important day for both Cleon and everyone. I can’t show the reality!’

“…Are you okay?”

“Ah! Mu, of course! Come on, Lubera! Let’s go get ready!”

“Now, wait… Hah… Cleon, you… You can survive an assassination, but you won’t be able to escape the women’s pursuit.”

“…”

Cleon heard a curse-like story that couldn’t be laughed off.

Galatea chuckled and swept the back of Cleon’s neck, then returned to the form of a sword and caught it around Cleon’s waist her.

Cleon, unable to shake off the feeling of goosebumps from the part she swept away, quickly left the battle maids’ gymnasium.

001

“His Eminence, it seems that the preparations for the ceremony are complete.

When the guards of the Great Temple said that outside the Pope’s office, Esca, the current pope of the Church of the Holy Spirit’s Protection, answered without opening the door.

“Okay. I’m almost done with my preparations, so please tell them I’ll be leaving soon.”

When her sweet voice her is heard beyond her door, her guard her, who has filled her heart with faith just by sharing her words her with her her, says, ‘Yes! Ye ha!’ He replied energetically, and then returned to the entrance.

Apparently, the pope was praying in his office for the Victory Day march to end safely.

Regardless of the guard’s thoughts, a slight smell of blood rose in the office.

Inside the office, an overturned desk and blood scattered on the ground.

And, the overturned cup and the church’s bible that fell to the ground.

Finally- the figure of a girl rolling on the floor.

He is the paladin who is the exclusive escort of Pope Esca and also her disciple her.

“Ahhh…!!”

The face of Pope Esca, who spits out strange sounds as if he can’t stand his anger her, is not the usual benevolence shown to church members, nor the smile shown to her family-like colleagues such as Lesia and Cleon.

Just looking at it distorted by anger, hatred, and jealousy made my heart tighten.

It wasn’t that she was hideous like a demon, but rather, her appearance was so pure that even though such negative emotions covered her whole body her, it felt like the righteous wrath of God.

In comparison, Vera Stoll, who had rolled to the ground, coughed and barely lifted her face.

Blood dripping from his nose his cheeks swollen red. Disheveled hair.

Still, in her eyes and demeanor her, her admiration her for Esca, the man who made her that way, had n’t faded.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry Mr. Esca…!”

“What!? You didn’t do anything wrong… It’s just that what you’re doing to me is ‘taking your anger out’. Damn old man…! You dare touch Cleon…!?”

Esca’s anger was directed at the person who asked the Exile Church to deal with Cleon – Setos Tromeia.

As a nominal ally, it is impossible to touch him right now.

And, in the current situation where Cleon is being targeted by assassins, he seemed to be extremely resentful of the situation itself, which he could not move himself.

“Cleon… Pitifully… There are so many things to protect around him, he’s pushing himself into the pit of the abyss…”

As Esca grabs her head, tears flow from both of her eyes.

“Colleagues… Friends… All of that is meaningless… In the face of true family… Cleon… Alas, poor child…!”

And she shed tears like that for a long time.

Suddenly, she stopped moving.

After that, Esca turned cold and looked back at Verastol.

“Verastor. You don’t have to escort me today.”

“…What!?’

Verastol reacted in bewilderment at her sudden words.

However, when Esca’s hand reached out and grabbed Verastol’s forehead, a light burst from Esca’s hand her.

“—? Huh? Oh…? ?”

Vera Stoll, stunned by the sudden light, was stunned by the magical storm that hit her head, and she spat out a strange sound from her mouth her.

“You may not need this magic… But its loyalty sometimes gets in the way. Verastol. I command you.”

And quietly, Esca’s lips moved closer to Verastol’s ear her.

“The culprit who put Cleon in danger… Kill ‘Princess Amelia’. You can use this.”

Saying that, with one hand, I put the ‘small bottle of liquid’ into Verastol’s pocket.

“Yes, Pope, Your Excellency. I will… Kill Amel, Leah, and the Princess…”

After saying that in an unnatural way, Esca let go of Verastol’s head.

And quietly, with her hands together, she was talking as if praying.

“…I’m really sorry Cleon. I, too, had no intention of tampering with the people around you if possible… But Princess Amelia is too dangerous for you to get involved with. Politically… And positionally as well… So, I’ll protect you, Cleon.”

Then, she stretches out her hand and faces the stained glass through which light pours in.

There was a picture of a female warrior holding a golden holy sword.

“So- after everything is over, let’s go see Lesia. Cleon…♡”

Esca talks while retaining the ‘maternal love’ that burns her heart her.

She recalls herself taking Cleon’s hand her and meeting her Lesia.

The broken pope wept tears of joy.