Chapter 335 – Duties.

“What’s the point of changing the confluence point…”

As Rachel was relaxing with her procession, she remembered the knight who had visited the place where they were staying the previous day. There was no doubt that he was a knight of the Holy Land because there was one of the knights under his command who knew him, but he had heard that Diana was changing the joining point. As she was struggling because of her, she heard her voice calling her.

“Rahil, what’s wrong?”
“Ah, Is is the older sister.”

When she turned around, her black short-haired woman, Isuga, was watching over her.

“What are you struggling with all alone?”
“I’m a little disturbed.”
“Is it because of Yakaf?”
“It’s okay, it’s not like that.”

Rachel was dumbfounded by her words, which casually stabbed her heart, which was clogged deep in her chest. She met Ysuga while she was evacuating people right before her holy ground collapsed.

“Rahil? Are you Rahil?”

At the familiar voice she had heard somewhere, even the nickname she had called her in the past, Rachel looked back at the place even in the midst of confusion. What she found there were people familiar to her as well.

“Eisu’s older sister? Even Master’s father.”

She, too, knew his acquaintances, for she had originally been with Yakaf. As she approached, she could recognize them. Even though she seemed uncomfortable at first glance, it was noticeable.

“How is this…?”

They lived underground, just as Rachel lived underground, and she never thought that she would even come up to them. In particular, there were people who dismissed it as being stupid to come up to the ground. Said Pizza Isgar, trying to make her impression that she was about to frown at the sight of her Tadeo being supported by Lucas.

“Even we don’t know what happened. The guys from the Pavilion Sector evacuated people saying the Holy Land was collapsing and followed them.”
“Pavilion Sector, are you coming?”

It was a name she had heard too. She was the first to stop them from going up, so she didn’t know that they would tell them to run away. When Rachel looked around, the situation was so confusing that she didn’t look this way. She had been told that she no longer had to harm the inhabitants of the Underworld, but it could have been embarrassing if some of the paladins found out that they were the inhabitants of the Underworld.

“First, get in the carriage. It’s dangerous if we don’t run away now.”
“Wait a minute, but what about Yakaf? Wouldn’t he have come up first?”

Then, at the words of Lucas looking for Jacob, Rachel flinched.

“Master, you are fighting.”
“What? Where the hell? I can’t see anything right now…!!”
-Quguaaaaa!

At that moment, part of the castle standing high in the center of the holy land collapses and everyone shuts up at the sound of the ground shaking.

“No way, over there?”

As Isgar looked at her with her quivering eyes, Rachel could only nod her head in silence. That was the moment.

“What? Are you kidding me? Are you guys preparing to run away, leaving Yakaf to fight alone?!”

That Tadao grabbed Rachel by the collar while crumpling her face.

“Yes.”

She could pull it off if she put her mind to it, but she couldn’t. Because she knew very well why he was angry. Because she was the one who wanted to run more than anyone else towards her Yakaf, who was still fighting the demons of the Tsushima era.

“Tsk, let go of that hand. Get hit. Who’s mad at whom?”
“But Ysuga! No matter how much this is…!”
“Let it go when it’s nice. Don’t you still understand? It was Yakaf who told the kids to run away. Don’t interfere and let go. Bastard.”
“…Damn it!”

In the end, at Isuga’s words, Thaddeo left Rachel’s collar and withdrew. So she put them in one of the carriages and led the procession she had been entrusted with. And present.

“No, what isn’t it? Master~ Master~ I heard you kept following Yakaf while walking around.”

Rachel blushed at the words of Ysuga who brought up her old story in her mischievous voice. It was something close to her black history, no matter how much she didn’t hide that she liked Yakaf.

“Aww, that was when I was a kid!”

She glanced around, anxious to see if anyone had heard, but luckily she didn’t see anyone watching.

“Kuh-kuh, how disappointed I was? I kept bringing only dull kids, but for some reason, I brought a cute girl, and only Yakaf followed me around, which made me feel sick to my stomach.”

As if seeing Rachel’s bashful expression was amusing, Isuga covered her ears with both of her hands as she continued to speak.

“Please stop…”

While talking about her, Isuga, who was staring at her, opens her mouth again.

“Really, even Karp doesn’t have eyes to see. This cute girl clings to me because she likes me. She can’t forget a girl she met in the past and makes me so upset.”

Rachel couldn’t help but laugh bitterly at her words as she spoke as if they had entered and left her own mind. Even in the old days, she understood her heart well, but even though it had been a long time since I hadn’t met her, she was still the same. Still, Rachel had one objection to her words.

“The reason Master rejected me wasn’t because of someone named Leah.”
“What?”

At the startled Ysga’s voice in her voice, Rachel felt proud that she knew at least a little more about her master. In fact, it wasn’t long before she even realized it.

“Master swore. I will live as a knight.”

At that, she realized. The reason he rejected himself wasn’t simply because he remembered Leah.

“Master has always been dreaming. He wants to make the world a better place.”

The reason Yakaf remembered her Leah was probably because she was her first love, but most of all, it was she who instilled her dream of her on earth.

“…Come to think of it, that’s it.”

Isuga also noticed something strange about Rachel’s words. If Yakaf really hadn’t forgotten Leah, he wouldn’t have to stay behind her in her basement. In particular, he wouldn’t have bothered to take the time to reap the kids downstairs and teach them until they were good enough to handle weapons.

“A guy who values ​​efficiency so much, she wouldn’t be weird if he had gone after her alone long ago.”

Yakaf would have followed Leah alone rather than wasting years raising children. Although Ysgar knew him well, he hadn’t noticed until now that he was strange.

“Huh, that makes me feel even more unfair.”

It was a story that Rachel’s jealousy of Leah was wasting her heart. In fact, Yakaf had been rejecting her for a different reason. Even so, it was even more heartbreaking for Rachel that he had no intention of accepting her heart.

“He’s a very bad boy, too.”
“Because it’s true.”
“And you’re a bad girl too.”
“Huh? Suddenly…”

Rachel was puzzled by Isuga’s sudden words, so she approached and whispered.

“You were confessed to by a paladin named Kane, right?”
“That’s it!”

Rachel recalled what had happened not long after the procession was divided at her words. Whether it was her mere coincidence or her aim, it was none other than Kane who led her procession along with her. And she said on the first day Kane called Rachel.

“Sir Rachel, I’ve liked you for a long time. Would you like to meet me on the premise of marriage?”

She knew he liked her, but she never expected that she would confess like this. Also, what is her response to his confession?

“I-I’m sorry. It was so sudden. Please give me some time to clear my mind.”

It was just delaying the answer. She and until now she had not been able to easily answer his confession.

“Are you going to leave me like that for the rest of my life? Is that a bad thing?”
“No. It’s just that I’m still disturbed.”

Rachel shook her head at her Isuga’s words and gently pressed her own chest. Still her heart couldn’t forget her yakaf. Rachel, who had talked with Isuga, was now running toward the junction where she was leading her procession and said it had changed. When she soon finds an island she appears to be a confluence. She could see that she was the last one to join them. She found that there were already many wagons lined up in the clearing on the island, and she could find people wearing colorful armor gathering and talking on the beach.

But to Rachel’s astonishment, she realized that a completely unexpected person was standing in the midst of them.

“Gideon…!?”

When the owner of the holy land was still a harpy, the most powerful of the limbs of Vargazet, whom they fought against, was there.

“Nonsense! Let’s help a harpy? What are you thinking of helping an enemy who slaughtered so many comrades?!”

When Rachel set up a procession on the island and went to the place where the paladins were gathered, the first voice that came out was that of Abner. She thought it was worth it and went on.

“Sir Abner, I know what you mean, but there’s a wizard in Parz…”
“What does the wizard have to do with it?! Right now, there is the devil’s henchman in front of me! But what’s important?!”

He was the one who had fought against the demon lord Bargazzet the longest and the most times among the paladins. Because of that, he was the one who lost the most colleagues and friends. However, Gideon, who can be said to be the person in charge, is quietly watching with his arms crossed.

“There are those subordinates! It’s not enough to exterminate all the harpies and tore off their wings one by one and decorate them!”
“Who told you not to attach personal feelings to the giants? Sir Abner.”
“Sir Rachel, you have arrived.”

When Rachel, who is worse than her, interrupts her and returns her words he used to tell about her past, her paladins turn to greet her. It must have been that everyone was suffering from Abner. Among them was Diana, so I could see her awkwardly greeting her face to face as she silently meditated.

“Yes! Rachel! It was because of you! If only you had agreed to kill the harpy then…!”

Abner looked at her and tried to shout, but couldn’t get her to speak.

“At last, someone you can talk to a little bit has arrived.”

Gideon, who had been quiet until now, walked out and greeted Rachel.

“It’s nice to see you after a long time. I haven’t forgotten the grace of that time.”

When he saw him reach out her hand, Rachel reached out her hand and held it together, laughing awkwardly. She thought that if she met him again, she would really fight to the death. It was because he never thought that he would receive a decent greeting.

“It’s not even grace. I’m just following Master’s words.”

But Gideon shakes his head.

“At that time, Yakaf was not there. Even so, it was you who saved us by following his words. I have no intention of lowering that grace.”
“Ahahaha…”

Still, I thought that this stiff personality was still there. In the past, after Yakaf and Vargazet were destroyed together, they had a meeting about the treatment of the remaining harpies. At that time, they insisted that the majority should kill all the harpies. Needless to say in Abner’s case, Boas and Arun’s master died because of Bargazet, so they regarded the harpies as enemies. It was only the likes of Kayabana and Rachel who objected, but she persuaded them.

Especially since there was a story that Yakaf had asked her to do.

‘Rahil, if I can’t come back, you’ll persuade me instead.’
‘What do you mean! He promised to come back alive!’
‘Hi go. If I had things like that, I would have been fighting against Bargazette long ago. So I won’t ask you.’

Yaqaf thought that even if they won, they would not be able to coexist with the harpies, but he didn’t want to be slaughtered, so he told them to send them to Parz. He said that if you bring the fish from the Holy Land, the Cat Sith will gladly accept them. Fortunately, she was able to convince Boas, Arun, Diana, and a few paladins to save the harpies.

“But what are you talking about, why are you fighting like this?”
“There is a wizard in Parz.”
“Ah…!”

It was Diana who answered her question. If you think about it, it was. Rachel had already met a wizard.

“It seems that the wizard has taken control of Parz. Because of that, they say that those who fled were isolated.”

At Kayaba’s words that followed, she bit her lip. She hadn’t thought to tell anyone.

“So we were discussing whether we should form a rescue team.”

She never thought it would turn out this way. The moment I tried to talk about the fact, albeit belatedly.

“Please let me join the rescue team.”
“What?”

It was Usher who intervened between them.