Chapter 153 – 153 – Henry #3

153 – Henry #3

Meee-.

Meeeee-.

The barn full of sheep was full of the smell of animals and was noisy.

Qarring-!

Flash-!

Crumbling-!

But it was better than outside when it was raining.

“Will it stop when morning comes?”

Spring rain falling hard.

After looking out the window, Henry the shepherd lay down again on the straw bales he had spread on the floor.

Sheep flocked to Henry’s side.

Meee-.

Meeeee-.

Henry endured the slightly chilly night by hugging the fluffy fur of the sheep.

Henry was a shepherd who took care of the old man’s sheep.

When I was alone and chilly like this, I felt like the sheep were protecting me.

A relationship that protects each other.

The sheep and Henry were family.

“You guys know what? You’d be really surprised to know who I met today at the cemetery on the hill. I still can’t believe it. He was a gorgeous person. “It was just like an angel in heaven!”

Meeeee-.

The sheep did not respond to Henry’s words.

It was natural.

Because sheep were sheep.

“I wish you could talk like a human and talk to me.”

Henry felt a little lonely in the fluffy fleece.

In fact, shepherd and loneliness were the same word.

Henry was well aware of that fact, but he could not get used to this loneliness no matter how much time passed.

“Friend─.”

Henry recalled that the saint he had met during the day had said that she had come to Agarpe, this insignificant shepherd’s village, to meet an old friend.

What does it feel like to have a friend who is close enough to come a long way to visit you?

Zek-.

It was time for Henry, who was lying on the floor, to open his fist into the air –

Meee-.

One sheep was noisy and noisy.

“What. You. What’s going on?”

It was a black lamb.

Hyde.

The sheep that the saint had given that name was scratching at the door of the barn.

Do you want to go outside?

Boom boom, boom boom─.

At that time, someone knocked hard on the barn door.

Henry was surprised and felt nervous and slightly excited at the same time.

A long rainy night.

It was the first time someone came to him.

“Who are you?”

Whiooooo-.

The only thing that could be heard outside was the sound of strong rain and wind.

Henry asked, holding on to the staff in his hand even more tightly.

“Who are you?”

Hwiooooo-.

All I could still hear was the sound of wind and rain.

Henry cautiously extended his hand toward the barn door.

Rumble, Giik-.

The door opens and outside—.

“What. “There is no one.”

I definitely heard someone knocking on the door.

Was it his own illusion?

Maybe a rock or tree branch was blown by the strong wind and hit the door.

“But. There’s no way anyone would come visit me.”

Henry’s friend was the shepherd Banson.

Banson was a top shepherd employed by the prestigious Baron Voltaire family and was popular for his good personality and handsome face.

Although it was only a little bit, he was able to use ‘Auror’ and was able to chase away the wolf by himself.

Even now, I’m sure he’s been invited to some banquet hall or party and is sheltering from the wind and rain.

“…”

In comparison, Henry was an ordinary shepherd.

No.

Strictly speaking, it’s slightly… Slightly better than normal. It was just a little bit lower.

He was an orphan from a very young age and was picked up by a so-called village elder, so he could barely feed his mouth.

He was also a weakling with no talent for magic, auras, or divine powers.

“Still, I’m lucky.”

There were many people who fell to their deaths on the streets.

There were many people who were bitten by animals or captured by the terrible and fearsome “Blood Crusade.”

Blood Crusade.

Thinking of its existence gave Henry goosebumps.

“They capture people and do unthinkably horrible things to them…”

They said it was a devil in human form.

It was also said that he wandered the streets wearing red robes, digging up graves and performing blasphemous worship with corpses.
Of course─.

It was just a rumor.

“Not even a Blood Crusade would come to a rural area like this.”

Giik-.

Henry closed the door because it felt like rain and wind were rushing into the cabin.

No, it was the moment I was about to close.

Meeeee-.

Lamb Hyde escaped through the open door.

Henry was surprised.

“Hey!”

Lambs were precious.

That black lamb was the old man’s favorite sheep, so if it disappeared, it was clear that Henry would lose even this cabin.

Hwiooooo-.

Crumbling-!

Weather with strong lightning.

Henry grabbed a thick wool cloak and a cane and headed outside into the wind and rain.

Meeeee-.

Meeeee-.

A lamb’s cry heard from afar.

After following it for a while, we arrived at a hill.

The hill where I met a beautiful woman in the afternoon as the sun was setting.

Pot-.

Paaaaat-.

Puuk-.

The hill where the graveyard and tombstones exist-.

Someone was moving around in the dark, with strong rain and wind falling.

Pot-.

Push-!

Fuuuk-!

Someone was digging the ground with a long shovel.

No-.

To be precise, they were digging a grave on a hill.

“… !”

Henry was very embarrassed and held the cane in his hand tightly.
Flash-.

At that very moment, lightning lit up the world and Henry noticed that someone was wearing blood-red robes.

‘… Blood, Blood Crusade… !’

In this world, only the Blood Crusade wore red robes.

A person like that is digging up the grave of “Psyche Agarpe” On a hill!

Digging up a grave was a terrible crime, and digging up the grave of a person called an angel like “Psyche Agarpe” Was even more blasphemous!

“…”

Henry-.

He hid under a nearby tree trunk and clutched the flute-shaped necklace around his neck.
It was a flute used to chase away wolves.

If you blow it as hard as you can, people will notice the commotion and show up.

So I did that.

Piiiii-!

Crumbling-!

Ssaaaaa-.

However, the sound of Henry’s flute was drowned out by the strong spring wind and rain.

Henry, who was embarrassed in many ways, looked at the tombstone again.

“… !?”

The red robe that had been digging the grave just now had disappeared.

How on earth did this happen?

It was when Henry came to his senses and took a deep breath.

Meeeee-.

A small cry was heard right in front of Henry.

Henry turned his head, and in many ways it seemed like his eyes were turning upside down.

The red-robed monster.

Because he was holding a lamb in his arms right in front of his nose.

He said.

“Who are you? Take off your hood and reveal your identity! Before my fist hits you… !”

When I listened carefully, it was a woman’s voice.

It appears that he was a woman, not a man.

However, the threat was as scary as a lion.

“Please, save me. I am an ordinary shepherd. I just came out to the wind and rain to find my lost sheep! Please save me!”

Zek-.

Henry took off his hood.

Then I felt the woman tremble.

Was there silence for about 5 seconds?

“… If you wander around carelessly at this late hour, you could run into a scary monster like me! Etch! So, hurry up and take this useless little lamb back! Into the arms of family! Etch!”

“…”

She was a woman who sneezed a lot.
I heard that the Blood Crusade are all “Monsters” Without blood or tears.

It seemed that even the monster caught a cold in such strong rain and wind.

Zek-.

The woman who placed the lamb in Henry’s arms said.

She said, “Don’t tell anyone what happened today. Because if you do, you will know a pain more terrible than death due to our “Blood Crusade”!”

Hetch-.

Making a strange sneezing sound, the woman in red robes carried a heavy piece of metal.

Huuuuung-!

Henry noticed that it was a weapon called a ‘sword’ or a ‘knife’.

I thought it was too big and massive for a person to wield.

After swinging the thing with one hand, the woman quickly disappeared into the darkness.

“Is it really a monster…? .”

Henry.

He headed towards the grave that had just been dug up.

Contrary to what we thought would be a coffin or a corpse inside the tomb, there was a small box placed inside the tomb.

“…”

Zek-.

When I opened it, there was something inside.

It was a book.

# # #

Tweet, tweet-.

The morning was so refreshing that it was hard to believe that it rained last night.

However, people’s expressions were not refreshing.

“I heard the Blood Crusade showed up last night!”

“You left something like this in front of my house!”

“Oh, it’s terrible!”

People were noisy.

They talked loudly about the gunmen who appeared last night and the books they left behind.

“What’s this. “Non-virgin”? “What on earth is this about?”

“I don’t know. I don’t even understand what it’s about. It’s really terrible.”

Blood Crusade.

They said they often scattered books containing blasphemous stories among people.

It was a banned book among banned books, containing actions and words that no one could understand.

“On the day the saint visited the village…”

“Could it be that those evil monsters were targeting the saint?”

“Ruler! “I will take back the books that the heretics scattered!”

In charge of security in Agarpe Village

Bronze Knight Balhajak.

He appeared and took the forbidden books of the Crusade from the people.

Henry was watching it.

He also greatly felt the presence of the book hidden in his chest.

Zek-.

Henry took out a book from his chest.
And then he handed it to Balhajak.

“I also acquired this book yesterday…”

“Huh? What. “Despite”? “This is a type of book I’ve never seen before.”

Slurrr-.

Bronze Knight Balhazak frowned after opening the book.

“There are some very terrible stories written there. Shepherd Henry. Have you read this book? If so, maybe you should come with me and talk to the priest. You may have been deceived by the Crusade.”

“No. “I never learned to read.”

Henry was so blind that he could not read.

The world would have been a little more enjoyable if I could read letters.

Henry thought so, but now he felt fortunate that he was an illiterate person who could not read.
Otherwise, he would either have gone crazy like the people who often go crazy after reading the Crusade’s books, or he would have been taken away by the knights and interrogated for various reasons-.

“Really? Did you really not read it? “If you’re lying, I won’t just let it go.”

Knight Balhajak.

He frowned sternly.

At that time, Banson appeared.

“Oh my! Sir! This friend Henry is the most ignorant and stupid person I know! How can someone who can only count up to 30 know letters?”

Is it because of Banson’s cheeky smile?

Balhazak frowned.

“Is it. Ruler! Then hurry up and publish a book! Today is the day the saint visits the village! “I can’t show something blasphemous and terrible in front of a saint.”

The clanking knights and soldiers put the village in order.

Banson said while looking at that.

“That Balhajak guy. It’s hard to be in shape when a saint comes. Rather, look at this─.”

Zek-.

Banson took something out of an alley where no one could see.

It was a book.

“You, that—.”

Henry was surprised.

However, Banson laughed.

“If you sell this ‘non-virgin’ to a wealthy person in the city, you can make quite a lot of money. “There are luxury merchants who specialize in buying only the items handled by the Blood Crusade.”

Hehe-.

Banson was in a good mood at the thought of touching money on the day he went to the city to sell his flock.

Palak-.

Banson finally turned the page.

He could read, but the contents of the book were completely incomprehensible.

“What is sex? What the fuck? “What is a vagina?”

There were only stories in the book that I couldn’t understand.

Since it was a book written by madmen like the Blood Crusade, it was, in fact, a natural story.

Banson asked.

“Henry. Even though you can’t read, you know more than you think. He also taught me how to see the Big Dipper. Do you know what sex is written here?”

Banson asked.

In response to his question, Henry just tilted his head.

“Perhaps it is some kind of extremely terrible and blasphemous ritual? I don’t know either. “That’s just what crazy people think.”

“Is it. Ruler! Anyway, let’s go too! I laid a mat on that hill! If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to see the procession of the saint’s carriage!”

Banson.

He tapped Henry on the shoulder.

When Henry and Banson run-.

The bronze flag that was watching from afar bowed its head towards the man.

“We are monitoring as usual. There doesn’t seem to be any problem.”

Jalang-.

At the words of Knight Balhajak, the platinum cross necklace hanging around the man’s neck shook.

Balhazak felt a sinking feeling in his stomach that the only platinum knight in the kingdom was with him.

It’s already been a year since this strange report.

Balhazak couldn’t hold back any longer and asked.

“I… Lord Archibald. Why on earth would you have Henry under surveillance? He is an ordinary person who cannot even read… Still, he is a good young man…”

Alter Archibald, the kingdom’s only platinum knight.

The only human in the kingdom who can use “Auror” And “Holy Power” At the same time.

A man who is by far the best and strongest among all knights.

He just watched the shepherds disappearing into the distance.

And then he opened his neat lips.

“Lord Balhajak.”

“Yes.”

“You. Do you know what a ‘fuck’ is?”

“… No. Although I heard the Crusade making noise… “It is definitely something terrible and blasphemous.”

Balhajak.

It was when he lowered his head and was lost in thought.
Alter said.

“Henry. “He is without a doubt the most ‘fucking’ man in the world.”

“… Yeah? What is that…”

“Keep monitoring. And his every move. Report to me everything from the food you eat to your small gestures and yawns. Don’t miss a single detail.”

Ssurre-.

Alter opened his narrow eyes.

“He must be lying.”