The Death Knight Became an Escort Knight for the Saintess

23. The Night to Count the Stars

23.

Escelia felt as though she would lose her mind at a shock that was greater than her shock as her face fluttered as if screaming.

She looked at the saintess who couldn’t put more meat in her mouth and only her eyes were wide open, and Death Knight added her amplification. She wasn’t even an elf, but for some reason she felt ashamed of herself.

“… I understand that it may feel a bit bizarre. But they had good reasons. Orcs living in the plains had the characteristics of a nomadic tribe, so endurance to run for a long time was an essential condition. Of course, since men generally have more muscle mass and greater endurance than women, Orcs naturally formed a patrilineal society.

The elves, on the other hand, didn’t need that because they live in the trees of the forest. As long as you live by jumping from tree to tree, you need a nimble body rather than a large body that gets in the way of branches. Women are more advantageous than men, and the elves have established a matrilineal society. It wasn’t unusual for the elves to kill all the women and rape the men.”

The images of the elves she had met so far flashed through her mind. When she healed others as a saint, there were so many urgent situations that she didn’t have time to check whether they had companions or not. So she remembered the elves she had seen since meeting the Death Knight.

If you include the unpleasant memories of her, which she doesn’t want to think about, there were a total of three elves she met, and there was only one female elf among them. And Miss Lunea, the only female elf, and her widowed husband, Boon Krasim Jinneman, are an orc… ….

Celia put her hand on her ground with one hand on her head as she became dizzy. Feeling like she’d collapse if she didn’t do anything, she reached for the meat in front of her eyes and picked it up with her skewer.

Celia was barely able to keep her sanity and put a piece of her meat into her mouth. Following the flavor of the savory meat that spread in her mouth, her mind gradually regained stability.

“Um, um, um…. Okay. There must be a reason….”

But seeing her saintess, still with her eyes trembling violently, unable to make eye contact with herself, Zer Pied felt the need to quickly escape her story, which caused her mutual embarrassment.

“… Come to think of it, today’s Orcs speak fluently.”

The saintess slightly tilted her head at the words that aroused her curiosity. In a situation where the story shows signs of escaping, Zerfied felt relieved.

“Ancient orcs had molar teeth several times larger than today. Since it was a plain inhabited by many dangerous creatures, I had to eat raw meat without even having time to light a fire, and because it was such a dangerous place, I had to drive away the enemy with a unique threat called a ‘battle cry’.

The molars were the organs that aided in its battle cry. But there was one side effect. It was because of the molar teeth that the unique breathing sound was interrupted when talking, but what was the breathing sound like…….”

Zer Pied cleared her throat for a moment and cleared her throat.

“Chwiik! Chwik! Chwiiik-!”

… The escape attempt was successful. As she blankly looked at her escort knight for a moment, Celia burst into laughter.

“Ahahaha-! No… Ahaha… ! No, that, puh huh… ! What is it. Knight… !”

After thinking about it for a while, Jer Pied decided to escape, and she decided to push through to the end. As he explained, he imitated an ancient orc.

“Orcs, Chwiiik! Chwiik when talking, chwik! In this way, chwii profit-! I said How can you look at it! Chwiik, chwichik with few breath sounds peculiar to this! Chwiiik said that it helped to threaten! You can do it What a profit! Accompanied by breath sounds, ideal drunkenness-! When facing the enemy, at least chwichichichiik! Even if it’s not a threat, it’s embarrassing! I could have given you.”

…… Escape was successful. Now that the mutual embarrassing has changed to one-sided embarrassing, he is the only one who feels the embarrassing. Ecilia even showed her tears, grabbed her navel, and rolled her across the ground. Zer Pied thought it was fortunate that the clothes she was wearing inside her now had the blessing of innocence engraved on them. Or else I should have thrown away those clothes.

He stroked the back of his neck for a moment and then cast his eyes to the opposite place, not Lady. Anything was fine, so I wanted to look a little farther away. Bite your lips tight and exhale! Oops! The saintess, who had made a loud noise, cleared her throat and tried to hold back her laughter.

Of course, hard work is not synonymous with success. When you look up. The saintess finally failed to hold back her laughter when she saw the precious Zer Pied, whose usual seriousness was hard to find, an escort knight who threw his eyes carelessly into the distance and swept the back of his neck and openly expressed embarrassment.

Jer Pied watched the autumn scenery of the eastern mountains casually, using her holy maiden’s elegant smile as a song.

After a while, Saint Ecelia straightened her disheveled clothes and straightened her posture. Returning as a saint with a graceful appearance, Celia cleared her throat and informed the escort knight that the performance of her song had ended.

“…… Hmm, the scenery of autumn leaves is beautiful.”

Seeing the figure of the escort knight trying to make the embarrassing incident just never happen, she had to try hard not to burst into laughter again. This time, the saintess did not let her laughter burst out again, and Zer Peed’s eyes wandered around the distant autumn scenery. She said, instead of bursting out with a pang of laughter, she showed off her big smile.

“This is amazing. I think I’ve never heard of such historical knowledge from a driver. Really… It was strange, um, interesting.”

After speaking as softly as possible, the saintess looked at the escort knight. Fortunately, the escort knight didn’t carelessly throw his eyes into the air again. But he was staring at the saintess with her blank eyes.

Zerpied sensed a certain homogeneity in her words. Death Knight was embarrassed because she felt a sense of kinship in a situation she had never experienced before. After a few strokes of her chin, she could tell that it was what she said that made her identify, not the situation.

“…… It’s my first time too. To have a conversation with someone like this.”

“Uh… yes?”

“… Come to think of it, I’ve never shared…. My former contractors didn’t pay much attention to such historical knowledge. Some were already familiar with them, and frankly, most were more interested in serving their own purposes.”

Listening to the Death Knight’s words, the saintess who wore her big red and blue eyes several times smiled and said.

“As expected, we are a very big first for each other! It’s the same as the escort knight that you’re trying for the first time, and the lady that I’m trying for the first time? This is a bit odd. Well, that’s why it’s like doing a lady. It’s like the driver had a conversation about this, and to be honest, it’s the first time for me too.”

“You’re a saint, so you’ve never had this kind of conversation?”

“Uh…… Can a class to acquire knowledge be considered a conversation? Rather, wouldn’t it be a little closer to one-sided eloquence? I was only taught, but I don’t remember having a discussion about these things. Come to think of it, I took a very high-quality but low-quality class. Bringing a good teacher and all you have to do is talk a lot…….”

The driver stared blankly at Esilia as she sat in front of her, chewing on the meat again, puffing out her cheeks and complaining about her past lessons.

It’s a very big first.

Certainly, after meeting her, everything was full of new things. A contract as an escort knight that I had never done before, and the target was none other than a saint. She walked around the city and made a wish at the fountain. She was chatting with her now that she had the knowledge she knew. Death Knight once again recalled the thoughts that had arisen in her den.

If it was an ordinary contract, he would still be killing someone.

It was such a big first, he chewed on the words to himself. The Death Knight lifted her helm and looked at her. He looked straight at her, and to get her word out.

Zerpied smiled and said quietly to the saintess.

“I see, we really have a great first time for each other.”

Cilia stared blankly at Zer Pi Ed, then quickly blinked her eyes to regain her senses. The saintess gave a big smile at the bash, and she answered him vigorously.

“Sure!”

The late afternoon sunlight shattered the leaves and scattered them over the Death Knight and the saintess.

–

The leftover meat was wrapped in leaves and stored in a bag. I filled the canteen I bought at Diervan with water, and moved the wide stone that served as a stand to its original place. It wasn’t even 6:00 PM yet, but since it was in the mountains, the sunlight gradually lost its power, and it was shattered into smaller pieces than before, making it impossible to see the saintess and the Death Knight properly.

Perhaps tired from walking all the time, the saintess lowered her head while watching the Death Knight clearing her seat. Yesterday, when she had just entered the eastern mountains, she wanted to ride a horse, but the experience of riding a horse for a short time in the beginning had only the effect of reviewing her memories of Mount Ethel Bayer.

When she finished her tidying up and turned her head to her saintess, she was asleep, leaning against her rucksack. Zer Pied sat down beside her, carefully removed her backpack and wrapped a cloak around Esilia. When the thing she was leaning on disappeared, she naturally leaned her body against him. Zerfied looked at Ecilia for a moment, then turned his eyes to the scenery around him, now accustomed to it.

The last sunlight of the day bounces off the surface of the stream and scatters it. A few pieces of sunlight, which were first crushed by the leaves and divided into small pieces, floated along the babbling stream. Seeing the sunlight flowing through the waves, several white-headed and concave-eyed birds came to the streamside and pecked the broken pieces of light with their beaks.

Zer Pied blinked her eyes for a moment. A gust of wind caressed his cheek. Soon the wind lost interest in him and began to caress the colony of foliage. The trees cheered by blowing away their maple leaves violently at the soft caress of the wind. He captured the feast of maple leaves dancing in all directions. Indeed, it was a castle.

After the performance of the maple leaves, the sky that was colored with water as if the performance was ending came into Death Knight’s eyes. In distant places, the stars shine brightly. He opened his eyes slowly. Before he knew it, his gaze was taken by the water in the sky.

When was the last time you looked at the distantly shining stars like this? The memory of the past, which slowly raises his head, made his head dizzy. The Death Knight exhaled slowly and began counting the stars in the sky slowly in his mind.

It was the first time I looked at the stars like this, since I saw stars first born.

–

“What does this Look like?”

It was the third day after moving along the eastern mountain range.

Seeing Ecelia walking briskly beside her humming a few of her maple leaves in her hand, Zer Pied asked her about her sudden thought. Escilia felt perplexed at her sudden escort knight’s question. Her question was something she had never thought of before.

“Huh? Uh, well? Isn’t it a forest made up of giant trees, as the name suggests?”

Esilia felt ashamed. The answer was too stupid for her to think about. Even with such an answer, Zer Pied did not waver, and asked the question again with her kindness, which made Ecelia even more embarrassed.

“Isn’t this tree too big? Is it about this size?

It was a question asked while tapping a large oak tree nearby with the back of his hand. Esilia pondered as she looked up and down the giant oak he pointed at, which seemed to exceed 60 cubits. As for , She had only heard of the name, but did not know anything about it.

Unlike the elves living in cities or villages, the elves living in the great forest had a strong resistance to ostracism, and most people did not dare to visit that place at the eastern end. She had to answer with vague guesses.

“This tree is huge enough, but… Still, wouldn’t it be a lot bigger than this if it had to be attached to a giant tree?”

She spread her arms outstretched and personally showed the extent of the expression, ‘Oh, how amazing’, but because of her small body, it didn’t touch Zer Pied that much. She lowered her head at the sight of the escort knight staring blankly at her. Scratching her cheeks in embarrassment, Ecilia answered.

“… I’ve only heard the name of “Giant Forest”… Sorry. But it must be taller than this tree. Maybe twice as much as this tree? Otherwise, there would be no way to say giant tree, right?”

–

On the afternoon of the fifth day after her trip to the south, her saintess Ecelia looked at the fallen leaves in front of her feet and was convinced that her guess was correct. And she also realized that her own guesses were completely wrong. Seeing a leaf the size of her own torso, Ecilia slowly raised her head. She blinked her eyes. Zer Peed also looked up at her tree with a similar feeling to her saintess.

A rough estimate of the height of the tree in front of me seemed to be 300 cubits.