Chapter 50 – Angela the Moon Knight (2)

Chapter 50 Moon Knight Angela (2)

“Sister Rebekah… He went to the sun god.”

“… I beg your pardon?”

Awkward silence came suddenly.
The couple of priestly nuns hardened with very awkward expressions.

“Marie, what do you mean?
Wasn’t Rebekah with you in the cathedral?”

“Yeah, that’s actually…”

Marianne explained everything.

“Oh my god… Such a thing…”

Sister Jesse did not know how to close her gaping mouth.

“The demon raid is also an attack, but the bleeding was too much due to the overuse of Hero Alberic’s wide-area skills.
By the time I went, I was already bleeding too much…
But even if it wasn’t… , If I had gone a little faster…
I could have lived…”

Marianne bowed her head.
Sister Jesse comes to her side and strokes her back.

“Marianne.
Sorry for asking a heavy question.
Then, I think that your coming here has nothing to do with this.”

Priest Bill, who was talking with his arms crossed with a serious face.
Before he knew it, he rolled up the sleeves of his priestly uniform, revealing his fairly solid forearms.

“Yes, I just escaped from the cathedral.”

“… What?!”

“Chief Philip, he detained me in the dormitory building.
The escort knights are also together.”

“… !!!”

It tells the story of Count Abubakr’s escape in the midst of a commotion to save Sir Thomas.
Except, of course, that I intervened.
I changed it to a story about asking me to accompany you as an excuse to thank you.

“… Then, did you say that the saintess did not come with me because she was thankful, but because she was driven away?”

Surprised expression acting, I do well even when I see it.
Of course, if you live for two hundred years, you will be smirking.

“Yes.
I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you earlier, Kamyu-nim.”

“Marie, you have suffered so much…
Phillip, that sneaky old woman, actually, he’s never touched our nuns once or twice, right?
I too have been molested several times…
I knew that one day he would blow things up.”

Sister Jessie’s calm confession made Bill, her boyfriend, clenching his teeth.

“It happens that this evening is Friday, so we are having dinner with the knights, including the war priests and nuns.
Can you go over there and tell me everything you said today, Marie?
I want to help Jesse as much as I can.”

Hierarch Bill said with a firm expression.
Looks like Marianne has a stomachache.
It’s hard to find a colleague who speaks out like this in an extremely conservative religious group.

“Then. However much.
I would like to recommend that you visit the barracks until this evening and attend a lot.
Can you guide me?”

“However much!
Mr. Kamu, I’m sorry we were so absorbed in our discussions.”

“No.
Sister Rebekah and I do a lot of relief work, so we are close.
He’s my friend.
… I will do anything to prevent his unjust death and the conspiracy that threatens the saintess.
Please let me go with you.”

Everyone nodded at my words.
Because at this moment, I am also sincere.

* * *

Before dinner, Bill, Jesse, and I walked around the barracks with Marianne, saying hello.
Marianne was like a battlefield idol.
There is not much interaction except for the knights who fight together, so it is different from Angela, the ‘Knight of the Moon’, who is the target of envy from a distance.

“Oh, hello.
Aren’t you the one who was injured in the leg on the Northeast Front?”

“Stop, saintess?!
No, what are you doing here!
Hey! Everyone come out!
The saintess is here!”

“What?! Marianne! Do you remember me
This is Jeril that the saintess put together the spilled intestines!
Thanks to you, I am still alive!!”

“Ah, did you use all the ointment I gave you at that time?”

“Sure!
Even the incision scar is like this by applying it all over!
It was a bit scarred, but it stuck well.”

There was also a soldier who was so excited that he opened his stomach and showed a cracked scar.

“This is Jed!
The saintess put all those protruding eyes into her optic nerves, so I can still see them!”

“Jed, long time no see!
Are you following the instructions not to rub your eyes after washing your face?
Are you washing your hands well?”

“Oh yes!
Is it possible!”

There was also a soldier who turned her eyes over her darling.

Also a zombie maker.
How did you fit the guts, how did you put the eyes in?

In this way, from knights to her soldiers, there were a lot of people who had been cured by Marianne or who had the healed as their colleagues.
People who have worked and been treated very closely together.
A bond that cannot be seen from those who engage in politics by snapping their fingers in the distant capital.
That binds them
In the royal castle of Amity, I had to start with selecting a supplier of healing herbs and fight with the low-level enforcement officers.
When she comes here, there are so many people cheering her on.

… It’s hard to believe that I volunteered for the special lease to assassinate the demon king because I wanted to be special.
Well, people who don’t support it don’t show off in front.

“Today, I will attend the dinner at the Parade, so everyone please come.
I have something to tell you.”

“Sure!
We will definitely meet!”

They are busy appealing for support here and there.
Not much time left until evening.

Marianne even met and greeted the leader of the Knights of the Light Blinger, and she was received with great hospitality.
The captain of the knights held on to him so much that he almost couldn’t get out of the barracks.
Even such Marianne couldn’t knock on her single barracks, and that was the barracks of Angela, Knight of the Moon.

“Saintess!
What a pleasure!
Oh, Angela-sama told me not to let anyone in…
I get scolded a lot if I do.
I’m really sorry…”

She told her servants, but she told them not to let anyone in, and they only saw her troubled.
Hmm, too hard to contact.
According to Master’s report, she only shows up when fighting really hard, and at other times, it was seen that she didn’t mix.

It seems that you have already sent a message for a similar matter and have been scolded several times.
Marianne and those who seemed to know her didn’t even dare to tell Angela the news.

Time passed and it was evening.

In the middle of the garrison, a banquet was being held at a wide outdoor table in the parade ground, mobilizing alcohol, meat, and fresh fruits and vegetables for the first time in a long time.
There seems to be no problem with distribution.

“Come on, pay attention!
We have a special guest today!
A comrade who shared blood with us, ‘Saint of the Sun’
Welcome Marianne!!”

Marianne, neatly dressed, stepped onto the platform in the middle of her parade ground.

“And! Saintess!
It suits me so well because I wear plain clothes!”

“Just give me one date!”

“Yeah, you bastard!
What is your habit of talking to the saintess?!”

“Hooray for Zombie Maker!
Long live Marianne!”

“Kyaaak!
Heal my broken heart!”

Tsk tsk, that girl is mine now.
Be ashamed of yourself.

Loud noises subside,
Marianne quietly opened her mouth.

“It’s been a while, Northerners.
And the Knights of Light Blinger.
I am Marianne of the Cathedral.”

“And! When are you coming back?!
Please come back!”

“Blue.Soon.Sexy.Mary.Anne!”

“I love you. I love you. I love you!”

“Hey soldier!
Aren’t you quiet?!”

No matter how much the knight commander calmed them down, cheers and mischievous words came out from here and there.

“I missed you so much.
I always wanted to be with you guys.
But I wanted to end the war more than that.
That’s why I secretly volunteered for the special assignment to assassinate the demon king.”

The momentarily dumbfounded knights and soldiers.

“Wait, wait.
You said that the saintess participated in the assassination operation of the demon king?”

“With the hero Alberic, the great magic love, that elf ranger…
I didn’t think the three of us went… ?”

In a whispering atmosphere, she spoke calmly.

“For some reason, only those three were revealed to be participating.
Each has their own position, so I won’t reveal more.
I just want to say that there were two other participants besides me.”

The crowd’s whispers grew louder.

“Look, who would organize a party without a healer?
Didn’t I tell you that the saintess would have gone 100 percent?
You were suddenly hired around that time?!”

“Then Alberic, that minuscule, ate the feat alone.
Aren’t you married to Princess Catherine?
Fuck that bastard, I recognized him from the time he was fucking rude.”

“Well, even if you are unlucky, your skills are certain.
I won a lot thanks to him, so I don’t see it badly.”

“Who are the other two?”

Marianne continued to speak loudly as a way to calm the crowd.

“Everyone, I thought the war would end if I killed the demon king.
But it wasn’t.
It’s been almost a year since the demon king died, and we are still fighting.
The fact that I came here is because I am being chased by someone.
The ones who send us to battle, politicize behind the scenes and drive us to our deaths!
Because they hate me.”

“?!?!”

At Marianne’s words, everyone is in a daze, as if cognitive dissonance is coming.
Even the knight commander standing under the podium looked at Marianne with an absurd face.

In a firm, loud voice, Marianne spoke of what she had been through.

After the assassination of the demon king, the position of the high priests would be narrowed, so they were not participating in the assassination operation of the demon king.
That there was no compensation whatsoever.
Efforts to reform.

A raid on the way to the refugee camp.
Being captured by the betrayal of the mercenary sent by High Priest Phillip and the paladin Chris.
And the Demon King’s army appeared to destroy the evidence.

She is cornered, but manages to capture some of her culprits in the confusion and manages to escape and return to the cathedral.

He accused High Priest Philip of conspiring with the demon army inside the cathedral to commit terrorism.
Going to the cathedral accompanied by accomplices and witnesses arrested with the Royal Knights.

And when the royal knights read the king’s edict and entered the cathedral and talked about being attacked by the Demon King’s army, sighs erupted from all over the place.

“If the demon king army invades the cathedral,
Where are we going?!”

“Even the high-ranking people must be fooling around with the demon lord!”

“Demon King’s assholes!
You must kill them all!”

Hero Alberic arrives alone in the attack of the Demon King’s army and fights,
Rebekah, her friend, her nun and many others died.

The demon who escaped alone was killed by Alberic in front of people in the square.
High priest Philip, who appeared at the right time, proclaimed a holy war by exceeding his authority.

After the funeral, protesting to investigate those who had conspired with the demon army, being imprisoned with escort knights, and escaping after twists and turns and coming here.

Not only soldiers, but also officers and knights did not know how to keep their mouths shut.

“… So, as long as the Demon King’s Army, the High Priest, and the high-ranking people communicate, we will continue to fight as the high-ranking people want.
Farmers cannot sow seeds,
Fishermen cannot cast nets,
The woodcutter will be conscripted with an axe.
When we go back to our hometown, we might all be bankrupt and homeless.”

Then, a shout came from somewhere.

“Then let’s leave the demon king’s bastards alone and run away, is this it?
Let’s fight quickly and win and go back!”

At these words, the knight commander also came up to the podium and responded.

“Holy Lady, please stop coming down.
Now you are destroying the morale of our troops.”

Yes.
But it doesn’t matter.
Because it’s not our army.
Well, take a peek, Marie.

I’m rooting for you
Marianne said firmly.

“Do you know why I was always on the battlefield, gentlemen?!
I did it because I wanted to protect you!
For my colleagues right next to me!
Not for those who play us chess there in the safe capital, but for you!
There are those who will send pursuers after me.
I’m here to ask for your help!
Please protect me now!”

While the commander of the knights was idly by Marianne’s remarks about bombing.
Shouts broke out first from the warlord priests and nuns.

“Number of animals! We’ll protect you!”

“Dirty High Priests!
What have you done to us?!”

“Marianne!
You are our friend!”

As the priests and nuns responded, cheers erupted from the knights and soldiers.

“Number of animals! Number of animals! Number of animals! Number of animals!”

“Let’s fight together! Holy Lady!”

“Dirty upper heads!
How many years have you been fighting?
The Demon King is also dead, when will it end?
My wife and children are starving at home!!”

“Let’s fight!
Let’s protect the saintess!”

Now the knight commander couldn’t figure out how to calm the commotion, so he just shouted.
However, there is no way that a single individual’s voice can be heard in the turmoil of so many people.
I look at the scene from under the podium and smile inwardly.

OK, I’m getting confused.
Right in front of me is the Four Heavenly Kings, ‘Genocider’ Khan.
It is not only the enemy that divides us.
We too will divide the enemy.
By using the truth.

A very abstract statement asking for support for the saintess.
The question of why we fight.
This is not just a political maneuver.
This is the reality that people here face.
Since the Holy War has been declared, they cannot go home until the area targeted for the Holy War is occupied.

Their lives devastated by the long war.
An offensive that does not end even if the Demon King dies.
Tiredness here.

Now, if you contact Khan, crush them, and catch ‘Moon Knight’ Angela…

Again and again.

Someone came up on the podium without hesitation.
A woman wearing silver light armor and a blue cape, and her blond hair that looked like melted gold was neatly tied back.
A cold beauty, wearing a thin sword on her waist and coming up with her sapphire eyes shining coolly.
A person I hadn’t seen before even walking around the garrison today.
Curiously, she only came up on the podium, but everyone looked at her as if possessed.

Again and again.

Only the sound of her footsteps on the podium echoes.
Like the cold full moon floating in the silent night sky.
She looks down on people.
As if it was natural

“Why is everyone so noisy?”

Red lips opened from her icy face,
As if cold water had been poured on it, everything became quiet.
Even Marianne and the knight commander are silent.
I was just looking at her face.

“What we need to do is clear.”

This. I was mistaken.
Just because this woman is in the barracks,
Because there is no contact with others,
It is by no means less influential.

“Fighting the enemy and winning, protecting the comrades next to me.
Any confusion?”

Rather, there are people who have greater influence because they are not seen often.
Those who see it often give a sense of intimacy, but those who see it rarely give a sense of intimidation.

“I also participated in the Demon King Assassination Operation.
I endured even if there was no reward.
It’s my job to protect you guys.”

It’s awe.

If Marianne is like warm sunlight, approaching and embracing everyone brightly,

“Whether it’s the Demon King’s Army or the High Priestess.
I won’t stand it if you try to kill my comrades.”

Angela is the existence that quietly illuminates them like the moonlight.

“They say they cook soup with hounds after hunting, right?
I will fight
No one can see us as hounds.
We are not dogs
It is human.”

That’s why she is a ‘knight of the moon’.
Angela Valentine.
My second goal.

That was our first meeting.