Chapter 36 – Worst Case Scenario (1)

Episode 36 Worst Scenario (1)

“Guardian of Twilight!”

Marianne had the strongest defense from the start.
Thanks to that, we were barely able to protect ourselves from Alberic’s crazy sword dance.

Kuaang! Kwakwang!

The problem is that in the first place, the hero, the author, is shooting wide-area weapons without identifying his or her friends.
It was because Alberic caused more damage to buildings and civilians than the Demon King’s army.
At this level, I could understand a little why Alberic was not given military power.

“Zach, do you know any faces?”

“Doesn’t exist!”

We are rescuing the Royal Knights scattered across the battlefield and carrying them inside the chapel’s defenses.
It is unacceptable for us, as mere civilians, to jump into the battlefield in the first place.
So there is no choice but to move in the name of rescuing the injured.

“Ludvik, are you?!”

“… Neither do I.”

“Ludvik, look at the face of the fallen wizard over there.
Zach, look at the face of the guy who fought Alberic first.
I will disguise myself as a soldier and find those who killed those who confessed.”

Now, there are only a few demon soldiers left and they are on the run.
The Royal Knights have also entered and evacuated the wounded to a safe area.
He could move to some extent without Marianne’s protection.

“Marie, go back to the chapel.
Rebekah in the back seat on the right… Laid down…
Please.”

Marianne fills her big eyes again with her dew.
It seems to come back to my eyes.
Suddenly the world is blurry.
She nods her head heavily and drops her dewdrops.

Took.

I am sad too, but what about Marianne, who has been converted to a monastery since childhood?
… I can’t even guess

I don’t know what to say.
She couldn’t say anything other than give her a firm grip on her arm.

After sending Marianne running to the chapel, I check the faces of those dressed in National Guard uniforms.
Those who slit the carotid artery from behind two witnesses and stabbed them in the chest.
I remember the face clearly.

And I realized it while checking and going around, including wounded soldiers.

“Doesn’t exist…”

Did you already get out?
Or not…

This time, I checked the faces of the Demon King’s corpses.
Also, not there either.

“… It wasn’t hiding in transit.”

The two assassins have been together since leaving the palace.
Since I was even in the middle of the procession, there is a chance that the colleagues next to me knew the face.

… In the worst case, a soldier from the Royal Guard may have participated in this case.

Since the affiliation is the affiliation, identification and career verification must have been essential.
He must have been a verified person.
… As usual, if you investigate, you will be caught soon.
A person with a stable job assassinated a witness of a key case in a cathedral and actively participated in the act of terrorism by the demon king’s army?
Parents, mothers, and wives are all sentenced to death by eight cousins.
… It’s something I can’t participate in anyway.
Unless you’re confident you won’t get caught, or if you’re not sure that someone will look after you if you get caught.

I put my worries behind and returned to the chapel.

“Leader. You worked hard.”

“Is there a harvest?
Zach first.”

I sat down next to Rebekah and wiped the blood from her face.
Her priest and Marianne, who had asked for her, had no choice but to leave her seat because she had many wounded soldiers to treat.

“… A vial of berserk drugs.
There is a little bit left, can you analyze the composition?”

“I have to try. Good job.
Ludvik, what is this?”

I looked at the brooch Ludvik handed me.

“It’s the demon king’s belongings that I remembered the face of.”

“You keep it and enclose it when you send a picture of your face.
It’ll be useful for verifying your identity.
These guys never wore any accessories, but it took a lot of work to find them.”

“Thank you.”

I roughly wipe the blood off Rebekah’s face and her hands, and arrange her hair.
Zach and Ludwig were looking at me like that.

“Sister Rebekah’s days… I’m sorry.”

“… You will feel sorry for these accidental pups in the future.”

Because I will make it
Certainly.

“Everyone draw quickly.
I already painted
Ludwig, collect the pictures and go to my store.”

“Yes!”

Ludvik and Zach draw the face of the demon king’s corpse, which they quickly identified while hiding in a corner.
Both of them were looking for the chief centurion, so we’ll get this done quickly.

While I wait, I write a short letter.

[During the operation to arrest the High Priestess Philip, the Demon King’s Army’s cathedral terrorism occurred.
After confirming the attachment, request identification.]

It will be sent tied to the pigeon leg, so the weight should be reduced as much as possible.
Letter is short.

I gave Ludvik the picture of the demon king’s face and the letter I had confirmed.

“Ludvik.
There is a cage on the 3rd floor of the store to use when sending emergency notices.
Leave right now.”

If you ask Master and Van Dark, you may be able to confirm your tribe or identity.
Ludwig hurries out.

“Zach, what about Alberic?”

“We are pursuing the remnants of fleeing terrorists.”

“It takes quite a while.
Is it because this place is so wide?”

It can be because pursuing is more difficult than subduing.

The moment I was about to agree, an urgent shout was heard from the chapel entrance.

“The demon king’s army is going that way!”

“Everyone beware!”

An idiot soldier desperately breaks through the siege and jumps into the chapel from the courtyard of the cathedral.

“Move!”

When threatened by wielding swords left and right, the priests who were treating the injured hurriedly avoided their bodies.

That Demon Foot Soldier is desperate… Run through the chapel and into the square.

And our eyes met.
Unknown face.
Familiar horns.
And the eyes I’ve seen.
Eyes of those about to die

“That guy…
Deliberately over there…”

Yes.
I’m not trying to run away.
I’m going to the plaza on purpose.
The demon soldier desperately leaves the chapel leading to the plaza.

“Kyaaaaagh!”

“It’s a demon!
The Demon King’s army has come!”

“Avoid everyone!
The demon king’s army attacked the cathedral!”

The plaza was filled with crowds from the moment the Royal Knights came with their school papers to arrest High Priest Philip.
When the crowd wondered at the detonation and screams heard inside the cathedral, the demon appeared in front of them while they were guarding their seats.
Of course you have to panic.

And a figure running across the chapel like a dart.

“Huh!
Everyone, get away from the demons!”

It was Alberic.

“A warrior, a warrior!”
“The hero came to protect us from the demons!”

“It’s Alberic!
Long live Alberic!”

The Demon Foot Soldier runs to the middle of the plaza and threatens people by brandishing a sword in all directions.
Alberic ran straight ahead and pushed the demon soldier back with a splendid sword strike, then stabbed him in the stomach.

“Everybody, are you all right?!
Are you not hurt?!”

“Oh, the hero protected us!!”

“Thank you, Alberic!
His Highness’s son-in-law!”

“Alberic! Alberic!”

The plaza suddenly resounded with the crowd’s chants of Alberic.

“… Warrior Alberic.
I thought you were a goblin.
His political power is also not normal.”

“I guess I was born with showmanship.”

“So someone must have planned to draw attention to Alberic.
Including that Demon Foot Soldier dared to run out to the square.”

The crowd was filled with chants of Alberic and was rising with excitement.

“Everyone!
The war against the Demon King’s army will surely be won!
I, Hero Alberic, will be with you!”

“Alberic! Alberic!”

“Long live His Highness! Hero Alberic!”

“God of the sun, bless the warrior!!!”

Tremendous.
Even if Rumika ascends to the throne and wins the war, will she be able to hear a louder shout than that?
The loyalty and popularity towards Alberic were absolute at this point, to the extent that such a question was raised.

The name of the era was not expected to subside, and in the meantime, someone crossed the middle of the chapel and stood next to Hero Alberic.

“Everyone!
Attention everyone!”

An old man wearing a fancy high priest’s uniform next to the Pope.
Even at his old age, he has a well-groomed body and the face of a very benevolent grandfather.
It was Philip’s High Priestess.

“The demon lord invaded the sacred cathedral and threatened and tried to kill her saintess once again!!”

The crowd was even more excited by Philip’s bombshell remarks.

“God of the sun!
How can this happen!”

“Isn’t peace with the demons impossible?!”

“Kill the demons!”

“God will not forgive those who tried to harm the saintess!!”

High Priest Philip looked back at the crowd with an infinitely warm smile.
Then, he opens his arms and lifts up the flat priest’s uniform like a butterfly spreading its wings.

“Everyone! The demons didn’t just attack the saintess, they invaded the holy temple of the sun god.
Tried to kill the saintess again!
Many people died and were injured.
The sun god was furious with this!!”

… This is where things get really bad.
Since the witnesses and the culprits who confessed are all dead, they are openly accusing even the culprit of the attack on the saintess as the Demon King’s army.

“It’s a big deal. Jacques.
This is going perfectly according to the intentions of the scheming bastards.
Go ahead and get Marianne.”

“I will hurry!”

Zach got up and ran.

Please don’t go with the worst scenario you can think of.
If Marianne, the Saint of the Sun, is put forward, she may be able to stop the crowd from going wild.

While I sent Jacques, the crowd was swept away by High Priest Philip’s agitation.

“Kill the demons!”

“Let’s win the war!”

“War is the order of the sun god!”

“War, never again war!”

“The sun god wants war!”

It is clear that demagogues were mixed in the crowd.
There is no way the word ‘war’ would come out so easily from the mouths of the crowd devastated by a long war of attrition.

Husbands, sons, fathers, brothers who were taken as conscripts.
They die and return, and the remaining family members move from one refugee camp to another as widows and orphans.
The territories and spoils occupied by war are monopolized by the royal family, churches, and nobles, and the lives of the common people do not improve, only requisition.

These are the ones who suffered damage from the war, so they shout war with their own mouth?
It can’t be.

In the first place, didn’t this war start with the interpretation of the Sun God’s scriptures that ‘killing heretics and foreigners is not murder, and plundering the property of foreigners is permitted’.
The war that started in the name of ‘holy war’.
A world where the power of the gods dominates the power of the king.

No matter how much religion embraces the war-torn people again, can their sins be forgiven?
It is also religion that drives the people back to the battlefield.

It’s hypocrisy.
I vomit.
It’s as disgusting as distributing relief supplies to the families of those I killed.
That’s it.

However, the human crowds were steadily moving along with the agitation.

The High Priestess Philip looked at the figure with satisfaction.
He shouted as he lifted his arms higher into the sky.

“Everyone!
To drive out the demons who tried to harm the saintess and saints!
Wouldn’t that be a holy war?!”

At the words of High Priest Philip, the crowd responds by waving their arms in the crucible of excitement.

“”Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary!””

Damn…
There was a reason for terrorizing the inside by bringing even demon foot soldiers into the cathedral.

Holy Religious War.

Now the pieces of the puzzle fit perfectly.

The Templar Knights, who had left their lease for some time and had been marching near the capital of the kingdom.

Alberic remained in the capital without going after the soldiers of Van Dark’s 3rd Corps, saying he was going to pursue the demons.
Hero Alberic, who came to immediately stop the cathedral’s terror.
A very timely appearance.

Catherine, the first princess, was curious about the evidence and witnesses to prove Saint Marianne’s attack and tried to make her confess.

They proclaimed a holy war, so that they could re-conscript the crowd, launching the best business.

Furthermore, since the attack on the cathedral is an extension of the attack on the saintess, even Van Dark, my teacher, and Nene, the Four Heavenly Kings, who were paid to participate in the first raid, will be punished.

The demon army is divided once again, and the human kingdom is united once again.
For whom?

“Everyone!
Let’s pray to the sun god to prepare the temple!
And you will win!
Pray for Alberic, the warrior with us!”

“I will lead!
Down with the demons!”

“Wow! Sanctuary! Sanctuary!”

Jacques brought Marianne belatedly.
Marianne made her way to the plaza and tried to calm her people by announcing that she was safe, but to no avail.

It was as if the holy war had already been declared.
The war, which fell into a lull, began to slide into an all-out war once more.
According to the worst case scenario.
Whatever they want