Chapter 54 – The Battle Begins

Episode 54 The beginning of the battle

… What?
My body stiffened.

“To a place where no one knows us… We can’t just disappear together… ?”

No. I will avenge my parents.
I will avenge my brother.

I will take responsibility for the holy war caused by humans.
I will protect my people.
Hypocrites in the cathedral, I’ll grind them all.

I should have answered right away.

Just in case…
I really didn’t know, so I thought about what to say from the moment I met Rebekah, and even practiced it.

So I had to refuse right away.
Could tell
I could promise right away.

I did… I did, but the words didn’t come out of my mouth.
The words on my lips just linger.

“…”

The earnest voice of her in my arms, rides my body and shakes my heart.

I can’t quite say it out loud.
After such a short silence,

Pod!

Marianne suddenly fell from my arms.
Then, staggering in a drunken state, she whispers to me and sticks out her tongue.

“Lol… Just joke.
Are you surprised?
Kamui is an idiot.
Hehe.”

Then, with her hands behind her back, she spins around.

“I must have been too drunk.
I’ll go in soon and sleep well.
Good night, too, Camus.
See you tomorrow.”

With her back to me, I can’t see her expression.
Her back.
Trembling slightly
Is it drunk or…

Marianne raises her soundproofing screen and clears her crates blocking her path.

She then disappeared with a terrific pace.

“…”

I also move cautiously.

Marianne’s mental control was clearly at stake.
I do not manipulate, suggest, or hypnotize such content.
Did not walk at all

Joke? Sincerity?
Couldn’t it be that the magic isn’t running rampant in a direction I don’t know about, like when Rebekah did?
No.
Rebekah was broken, so she was like that.
Or has the holy woman’s unique powerful mental barrier been restored?

… Am I paranoid?
Cant check it
However… If there is nothing wrong after checking, what should I do… ?

No matter how mind-controlled she is, her ego is maintained.
To betray her former comrades and agree to rule over them at my behest.
It’s not something that the saintess of the sun makes up her mind easily.

Rebekah, who can hold her heart, is not by her side…
What if Marianne gets ruined too?

“Under…
What are you thinking about right now, me?”

Aww, really.
I’d be thinking about something like this

* * *

“Ugh…”

Tweet.
I woke up to the sound of birdsong in the morning.

After sleeping under a blanket in the wagon, her body ached.
In the end, her thoughts were complicated and she could not find the tent she had been guided to.
So I came to my wagon, which I was accustomed to, and fell asleep.

“Captain, are you awake?”

“Uh… Okay…
Did you sleep well? Zach.”

“Yes. However… What the hell are you wearing on your face?”

Jack’s expression is truly bizarre.

“What? … Uh?”

My face is covered with Marianne’s apricot-colored panties that I took off yesterday.

… Let’s see, I tossed and tossed her hair before going to bed yesterday…
Annoyed, I fidgeted and sniffed Marianne’s panties to relieve her stress…
I think I fell asleep…

“Under… I can’t be the captain.”

Jacques turns around and hastily takes out his pen and writes down on his parchment.

“Hey hey hey!
What are you doing now?”

“What is it, I’m reporting it to my superior.”

“I am your direct supervisor!”

“I have to report to someone higher up.”

“… No! Master, no way!!!”

Ludvik walks in while I’m playing hide and seek with Jacques from the morning.

“Hey, great… It’s a lively morning.
Aren’t grown-ups ashamed of each other?”

“No, Ludwig!
That bastard is messing up the reporting system!”

“It’s the captain’s face that’s messed up.
Did you decide to wear panties instead of an iron mask?
Take it off right now
If a woman with big breasts sees it, she will try to kill me.”

Oops!
The smell of Marianne’s flesh calmed her mind, so she kept wearing it on her face.

“Kuhm!
Okay, was everything okay yesterday?”

“There was.
Just before.
There must be chaos in the camp by now.
The messenger has entered.”

“What is it?”

“Yesterday early in the morning, the Demon King’s army made a surprise attack on the rear.
Maybe soon they will know.
That Genocider Khan came directly.”

“… The battle is imminent.
Get ready to depart.
To leave anytime.
I will go to the campsite.”

“Yes!”

I changed my clothes, touched my hair, and even washed my face in a blink of an eye.
A quick walk to the campsite.

Khan’s berserker unit is unique in that it has fewer attack mages than normal units.
The proportion of drugs and auxiliary magic is higher.
Since the proportion of wizards is small anyway, we are trying to cut off supply by using the ‘cursed land’ we passed through in the rear.

In the cursed land, mana is fixed and magic is not used.
Berserkers, who have an advantage in pure combat power, have an advantage.

“Quickly!”

“There!
Bring a box of boots and a box of blankets!”

“Have you got your shield?
Why is this the only arrowhead?”

Entering the garrison, it is noisy.
The movements of the soldiers are as bustling as worker ants.

Through the gap, he searches for Marianne.
Where are you?

I met Bill and Jesse,

“Number of animals?
Uh, I was here a while ago.”

“I didn’t tell you where you went,
Didn’t you go to the bathroom?”

They are too busy and don’t know where they are.
I went to the bathroom, and I went to the place where we shared affection yesterday, but it’s not there.

No way?

When the sun rose, I was able to find my tent that I had been guided to yesterday.

Upon opening the tent and entering, Marianne is rummaging around inside the tent.

“Ah! Camu-sama!”

“Marie, I was looking for you anyway.
I got lost yesterday, so I slept in a wagon.”

“Ah, that’s right. I was worried.”

“Thank you. But what are you looking for?”

Even while talking, he looks like he is looking around without a break.

“That, that… I lost my panties yesterday…
I guess, that… I must have lost it while doing that… “

Marianne is very anxious.
Oops…
This.

“Someone seems to have picked it up, so what?
If a stranger writes something strange…”

A familiar person used it for something strange.
I’m so sorry, Marie.

“Here it is.”

I handed her a pair of rolled apricot-colored panties from her pocket.

“Ah! Kamyu-nim took care of it?!
I’m really, really happy… !”

Marianne snatches my panties from my hand.

“Yeah, that yesterday… I was afraid to ask something.
Oh, did you not get anything on your dress yesterday?”

“Yes. Thanks for your consideration.
That… It must have been hard to bear… “

She blushes and puts her hands behind her back and twists her body around.

Today, she is wearing a dark blue long dress.
It fits well.
No, it doesn’t suit anything.
Because the completion of fashion is the face.
He is also tall for a woman.
Good proportions, good body.

“Yeah, it was hard.
Oh yea, we need to get ready to depart.
Yesterday, the Demon King’s Army raided the rear.”

“Is it so? All right. I just want to say hello.”

Since I only stayed for one day, I didn’t even unpack.
All you have to do is take your bag and leave.

Marianne walked out and south of her garrison.

“Weren’t you going to Bill and Jesse?”

“Greetings to the Knight Commander, I will see my friends at the end.”

I went to the knight commander’s tent, and the guards saluted.

“Saintess, how are you!”

“Did you sleep well?
I came to see the knight commander.
May I see you?”

“Wait a minute please!”

The guards go in and out to deliver the message.

“Please come in.”

Upon entering the tent, a map is placed in the middle of the table and several people are arguing.

“There must be a small number of troops who raided the rear.
There are lakes to the east and mountains to the west.
You cannot bypass our large force through our guards!”

“It was not a rear base that would collapse with a small force.
How many people are there?
The facilities are also good.”

The knight commander sent a glance to wait a moment.
Marie and I went to a corner of the tent and sat down on chairs.

“Captain, we must protect this place.
What appeared in the rear is simple disturbance.”

“No, Captain.
The rear base actually collapsed.
There are no civilians to be supported behind it.
If you have the Blasted Lands behind you and don’t have a supply base, you won’t have enough supplies even if you’re guarding it.
You must retreat behind the cursed ground.”

Amidst the arguing staff, the commander of the Knights presses his temples.

“Well, if you retreat to the rear, there is no terrain that is as effective for defense as this.
It is a series of low hills and plains…
Where did the ambush enemy go?”

“It is gone.
Like smoke
Only the agile soldiers were selected and detoured.
If we build the rear supply base again…”

The staff are talking, but someone opens the tent and comes in.
It was the moon knight, Angela.

In bright daylight, his appearance shines even more.
Legs straight out. Slim waist.
Tight buttocks and thighs exposed under the tights.
Her face is small, her eyes are cold, and her gait is imposing.

Blond hair in a neat round shape.
The untied bangs strangely covered her left eye, making her look even more mysterious.
Its eyes shining blue like sapphire cool its opponents.
What would happen if I crushed that strong woman over there?

Breaking it down is going to be fun.

“Welcome, Sir Angela.”

“There is an outsider during the strategy meeting.”

She looks back at me and at her Marie, casting cold eyes.

“Ah, I called because I have something to ask of you.
Holy Maiden, Herbalist.
Come here.
You guys just wait a moment.”

The staff step back for a moment and cross their arms.

“Holy Lady, as you may have heard, we were attacked by the enemy.
The enemy’s offensive is fiercer than expected right now.”

Ah, the sea I was worried about.
It is fortunate that I consulted with Marie before coming here.

“I feel like borrowing a cat’s hand right now.
By the way, the strongest healer of mankind is here.
Can you help?”

“Of course.”

Oh oh! Thank god!
A positive atmosphere spread among the staff members as well.

Haha! Thank you for accepting so readily.
From the knight of the moon to the saint of the sun.
It’s a combination that can’t be beat.
Like a spear and shield…”

“However, there are conditions.”

“?”

The knight commander is bewildered.
Isn’t that obvious?
It wasn’t an official compilation, and I was framed in the cathedral, but to risk my life to help me for free.
This leader, he’s the type to think what’s comfortable for him.

Most of them would have expected this from the title of saintess.
Infinite mercy, inexhaustible consideration.
Marianne must have been exhausted too.
Maybe ‘I want to be special’ means that I want it to be difficult for everyone like Angela?
At least so you don’t expect help for granted.

“There are two conditions.
First, I am committed to treatment in the rear.
It does not take on the magic defense of the front.”

“Hmm… But that…
Hey, which Four Heavenly Kings belong to the unit that appeared?”

“Since the rate of berserkers was high in raids on the rear bases, I think it must be the 2nd Corps troops.”

“If it is the 2nd Corps of the Demon King’s Army, it is under Genocider Khan’s command.
The corps commander probably… Was it Balak or him?
Well, I understand, saintess.”

It’s like a bad guy.
After confirming that the opponent is not a wizard, but a warrior-oriented organization, he agrees.
He probably said that if Van Dark from the 3rd Legion had come, he would ignore it and send it to the front.
If she refuses, how can the saintess abandon her comrades and turn them into bad people?

“The second is important.
Please be my escort knights in this temple.”

“?!”

Escort knights in the temple.
In addition to the Knights Templar, a guardian priest must accompany each expeditionary force organized and departing.
Since it is a war, a male priest usually accompanies them, but very, very rarely, a nun accompanies them.

“As I said in advance, I think finding the demon king’s snitches is also a holy war.
Become my escort knights and help me.”

The escort knights must not leave the guardian priest or guardian nun.
Until the temple is over.
In other words, if you swear to become Saint Marianne’s guardian knights, she must follow Marianne around.
Or persuaded

But, since last night, it was clear.
There is an introvert.
He even mentioned the real name of High Priest Philip.

Marianne is saying that she will use the Light Blinger to pressure the Cathedral.
I’ll help you, you become my army.

“… That’s a difficult word.
The next pope will be elected soon, aren’t you making too many enemies?”

“I already have enemies, does closing your eyes make a difference?”

“It’s a bit like the military interfering with the affairs inside the cathedral…”

“Doesn’t the royal family and nobles gather and make a declaration every papal election?
We are already intervening.”

Marianne’s tone is unobtrusive.
You already have an enemy, what are you hesitating to intervene already?

The knight commander doesn’t want to get involved in political issues.
No, I want to join the winning side.
The winner will be seen as High Priest Philip.

“Ha, that is a bit difficult.”

“Then it would be difficult for me to help.”

“Does the saintess help by measuring things?”

“It is not a title I received because I wanted it.
I am not even a formally organized military chaplain.”

“Doesn’t the others and the sun-god want it!”

“The combatants who said that looked down on me for sucking honey in the rear and sexually harassed me.
The knight commander said the same thing to the nuns here.”

“Muh, what! Such an accusation… !
The saintess, you are not like the saintess of the past… !”

“Then, starting today, I’m just going to be a nun.”

“Under!”

In the middle of a fruitless verbal fight, the messenger jumps in.

“Urgent news!
I see the flag of Genocider Khan ahead!”

“What?!?!”

“You mean the Four Heavenly Kings descended directly?!”

The knight commander and staff were surprised as if their eyes were popping out.

It’s still too early to be surprised.
For another messenger has come,

“Report!
The personnel who were clearing the rear supply base were attacked again!
Enemy troops, including many berserkers!
There are about 300 people!”

“It is not a mere disturbance.
Demons have a much higher individual combat power than humans.”

At Angela’s cold words, everyone turns to her face.

“It’s not a disturbance, Captain.
It is a siege.”

It’s like pouring cold water on it.

Bang!

“Damn!”

The knight commander hit the table with all his might.
Man, the power is good

“I will go to the rear.
Whatever you decide, you must break the siege and maintain the supply lines.”

“… Are you all right, Sir Angela?
The vice-captain is going there himself.”

“There is no time.
The one who will come through quickly must go.”

“No, but… There is a compartment in front.
Who among us will take over the Khan… Ha.”

There are few people who can take on Khan one-on-one.
There seems to be no one here except for Angela.
Light Blinger is also known as a great elite knights,
Aren’t there characters like that?
Is it group combat?

“I will give you 50 knights and 200 foot soldiers.
Crush the enemy in the rear as quickly as possible and come back.”

… Didn’t you hear that demons have high individual combat power?

“Captain, giving Sir Angela more strength… “

“Khan came directly!
The front is also tight!
Sir Angela, I’m sorry, but this is difficult.
I know it’s a difficult request, but I have no one to trust but you.”

“It’s okay. Because I am strong.
I’ll crush it quickly, and I’ll come back and take care of Khan.”

“Yes, yes!
Moon Knight!”

The captain approached and tried to pat her on the shoulder, but Angela ducked behind her and dodged it.
The captain scratched the back of his head, perhaps embarrassed.

“Hmm… Saintess.
All right.
I will accept that condition.
However, I will not express my support for the saintess at the high priest meeting.
Because we are the Noble Knights…”

“All right.
I am also a nun, so I am not interested in the High Priestess position.”

Since a nun is a woman, she cannot be a high priest.
Perhaps the knight commander was mistaken.
It seems that he thought that if he had the achievements of Saint Marianne’s level and the achievement of assassinating the demon king, it would be possible to become a high priest.

“Huh, good.
There are unexpected reinforcements, so it’s worth it.
Ah yes, the herbalist.
Everything in the wagon you brought will be requisitioned.”

“All right.”

“There is no reward because it is a conscription.
Consolation money…
I can’t guarantee it, but I’ll find out.”

Ugh it’s frustrating.
If you refuse, the soldiers will rob them all.

“… Yes.
I brought strength-strengthening pills and medicines, so take them with you.”

We’ll lose it anyway, so let’s show condescension.

“Oh, is it because he is also the saintess’s colleague?
You are dedicated!
Thank you!”

Thank you dear.
It’s all mixed with hypnotic stimulants.
You thought it was free?
I’ll swallow this whole army.
The price is your life and the lives of your men.

“You’re welcome.
And all the mercenaries who accompanied me rode horses.
If you fall, I want to help Angela and participate in the rear battle.”

“Hey, this one!
You’re great for a merchant!?
I was going to ask for a word, but you’re even going to fight me!
Twenty hussars is a great force!
Got it.
Sir Angela, take them to the rear.”

“Then I will depart.
Herbalist, come to the east gate.”

“Oh! Sir Angela, come.”

Angela steps out of the tent.
The knight commander said that we should have a strategy meeting, so Marie and I followed suit.

“Marie, I will attach Jacques and Ludvik, so stay with me.
Don’t get caught up in the battle.
I’ll tell Khan, but they’re berserkers, so they’ll get out of control.”

“Yes, got it. Who is Camus?”

Marianne is going with me to her group outside her priority camp south.

“I will take twenty mercenaries and go with Angela.
I have work to do.”

“I understand, Kamyu-sama.
Take care of yourself.”

“Number of animals.”

“Yes?”

Before going to the party, I tell Marie in advance.

“Remember.
Humans will lose in this battle.
I’m preparing to get out without getting hurt.”