Chapter 150 – The Road to Reunion

The place where the saintess is staying was a fortress built in the past when humans were divided into several kingdoms.

Humans united into one empire gave up managing the fortresses of the old era, and most of them were occupied by bandits, homeless people, or other races.

Some fortresses with good accessibility from existing cities or villages were used by the Goddess Church as facilities for training and training paladins, and the fortress where the saint is now is one of those places.

Looking around from the hill overlooking the fort, it seemed that we had just arrived. I could see tired-looking humans entering the fort in rows.

“As expected, I see Paladins tired of the forced march. Has the saintess gone inside already? I can’t see it.”
“See that? She must have brought her binoculars with her when she came this way. The scope magnification for medium and close range is so low that I can’t see anything.”

As Yuna was summoned, she shook her head as she gazed at the fortress through what was supposed to be a scope attached to the gun she had brought.

“What else did you bring?”
“I’ve got night vision goggles and a stun pistol as a sidearm.”

Yuna shows off her pistol strapped to her waist, and the electrodes from it tingle when properly inserted into a person’s skin. She does and she passes out from being electrocuted, she kindly explained. I was happy to see Yuna’s kindness in actively following my thoughts of not seeing her blood, so I stroked her cheek.

She raised her eyes like a cat and looked at Yuna, who was actively rubbing her cheek against the palm of her hand.

“Contractor. You don’t have to call the Red Army.”
“Why?”
“There are more men. You’re not calling me to fight for strength, are you? There are quite a few kids who haven’t even held a knife in her hand. Why don’t we just sneak in at night and only target the saintess?”

Hearing Shia’s words, she continued to fidget with Yuna’s cheek, while she turned her gaze to the fort. The degree of her magical and physical protection was far too embarrassing to compare to that of the first time she had visited her saintess before.

A paladin tired of fatigue. It seemed like it would be easy to go as Sia said if you use your carelessness called a safe area.

“Good. Shall we wait until night then?”

After the plan was decided, he decided to eat with the priests who followed him. It was worth going in and out of the smokehouse to see them eating the carefully prepared beef jerky.

As the darkness descended on her, Shia summoned her spirits around her and instructed them to watch over them for the safety of the priests waiting in her carriage.

She told the priests, who treated the spirits like dolls for the first time, that they would pick them up in the morning if they slept comfortably in the wagon.

Yuna explained that she had something called night vision goggles on her forehead, which she explained was an object that allows normal humans to see at night as well as during the day. Lightly dressed and all prepared, we stood side by side on the hill.

“There are only a few people on guard. I can do it as planned. Sia. Where is the saintess?”
“I don’t know here. It’s not covered in fog like last time, so I think you’ll find out when you get closer.”
“Okay. Well then… Shah!”

She hugged Yuna, who was standing next to her, like her princess. Her startled Yuna immediately wrapped her arms around her neck and came close to her body. And when she bent her knees, this time Sia leaned on her back and clung to her.

“Then I’ll go quickly. Yuna, be careful not to bite her tongue.”
“Hey, wait a minute!! Are you going to jump out of here? Really? Even if you look roughly at this hill, the 15th floor apartment is-“
“I’ll jump!”
“Kya-ah—-!”
Hee hee!”

After the run-up, he kicked the ground vigorously. My feet fell off the ground and my body, tied to the ground, found a moment of freedom. However, as if he could not forgive such a rebellion, the ground pulled and a terrifying wind wrapped around his body.

Thud.

When I jumped off the hill and landed on both legs, I heard a heavy sound. Of course, the people in the fortress were so far away that they couldn’t hear. I received the shock as much as possible with my legs so that there was almost no shock to Yuna and Sia, but only the ground was slightly dug, and of course my body was fine.

“Uhhhhh. Let’s just go down normally. Huh? Or use a climbing rope…”

Yuna said as her body trembled with water in her eyes. If she was to see such a cute figure, she wanted to do it again. So, when she didn’t answer and stayed still, Yuna made her cry.

“I’ll drop you off.”
“…No.”

When I looked at Yuna, wondering if she was such a fool, she lowered her head with her face flushed red.

“Everyone, my legs are weak…”

As she quietly looked at Yuna, her tears welling up, Sia responded with her joyful voice from the nape of her neck.

“Ah, Contractor, my leg suddenly loosened too. So the contractor must take responsibility and go to the fort in this state. Yes?”
“Okay. I’ll walk slowly this time, so don’t cry. Understand?”

Yuna asked who she was crying for and wiped the area around her eyes with the back of her hand, then she put on a sullen expression. Sia just continued to look happy as if this situation was fun.

She walked slowly through the meadow with her cute, charming and timid lovers. An incomparable number of stars shone in the sky compared to Yuna’s world.

Yuna, who seemed to have calmed down, admired her as she looked up at the sky while holding her in my arms.

“I must have brought my night vision goggles. I didn’t know the night was so bright. To the extent that the moonlight and starlight create shadows.”
“You hardly ever went out of the cathedral at night, did you?”
“Huh. I didn’t have time for that because I was learning the language of this world from Shia.”

Even though we continued to communicate through translation magic, the fact that she dared to learn the language was such a happy story that it tickled her heart. Turning her head slightly to look at Sia, she giggled, but didn’t tell how much she had learned.

“Then I will erase the translation magic. Can you tell me once?”
“Uh? Now?”
“Now.”

Let’s unlock the translation magic. Yuna tried hard to explain something with her bewildered expression, but she couldn’t understand it because it was the language of her world. Did he realize that he had really erased the translation magic by seeing me tilting his head? She pursed her lips.

When the conversation was cut off, the crunching sound of stepping on the grass echoed around. After several tens of seconds passed, Yuna moved her small lips as her face turned red.

“…I, I adore you…”
“Are you young?”
“I like you. But the pronunciation is still clumsy.”

Yuna shook her legs up and down, expressing shame with her whole body, then closed her eyes tightly and continued her learned words.

“You… Are my star. In the future, forever… I want to be with you.”
“…”

As the tickle in her chest became unbearable, she felt her blush like Yuna’s. Sia put her lips on my shoulder and suppressed her laughter hard.

“Hee hee, hee hee, that’s what I learned in a few days. Did you study hard? As an adult, I learned the language of a world beyond another country and beyond. For your favorite contractor.”
“…Know. Really. You have to shake my heart to be satisfied.”

I used translation magic again and kissed Yuna on the forehead.

“Thank you for working hard for me. Yuna’s feelings were conveyed well.”
“…I’m embarrassed! Ugh!”

He turned around so that I couldn’t see his face and shook his legs wildly. I thought she wouldn’t show her face for a while, so I decided to leave her alone until she calmed down after giving her a kiss on the cheek or the nape of her neck.

Maybe it was because of the cool night air, or maybe it was because he had decided to be serious about saying such an embarrassing story, but by the time he got near the fortress, his face had turned slightly red.

“From now on, it’s a distance where it’s easy to see that something is moving with the naked eye. I will move to the grass.”

Hiding in the shadows of the trees and the tall grass, I got as close to the fort as I could. However, a fortress was originally a place where the surroundings were cleanly emptied so that they could hide and not approach within the reach of the bow.

The same is true of this fortress, and the distance of a few hundred meters is only covered with grass. There was nothing to hide.

“I’m going to use invisibility to access it. If you’re a saint, you might notice when this amount of mana is used. So, I will move quickly from now on.”

Shia, too, stopped her playfulness and focused her mind on finding the location of her saintess. Yuna held her non-lethal weapon, a suppression pistol, ready to fire at any moment.

As soon as she used her invisibility magic, she ran through a meadow with nothing but grass. In an instant, she closed the distance to the wall of her fortress, using the distance she ran as a help close, bending her knees and kicking her to the ground.

She was carrying the weight of two people on her body, but thanks to her long help, she was able to barely land her foot on the edge of the fort’s walls.

“Yes?”

A paladin who had been wandering around, perhaps hearing the sound of feet hitting the wall, looked in the direction we were standing with a windbreak lantern. The paladin, who was watching her carefully, tilted her head.

“Did I hear you wrong?”

As her paladin turned her around, Yuna carefully lowered her suppression pistol, which was pointed at her. Now it was time to escape the intruder alarm and break into her saintess’s room.