The Strongest Wizard Becomes a Countryside Guardsman After Taking an Arrow to the Knee

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I've been watching Cruz for awhile, showing incredible recovery. Because I was worried.

No matter how tolerant brave you are, I don't think you'll recover so quickly.

"Femu, maybe--"

"Well."

"Wahoo."

Cruz is out of the house, chasing Femme around with Colette.

"It's really easy to recover."

"That's where the brave man is."

"There are limits to brave men."

"... right"

I think Cruz's abdominal pain is almost certainly due to hydra meat.

Why did you have abdominal pain? And why did you recover so quickly?

I had no idea.

Hydra meat should be harmless. I know because I've eaten before, too.

If meat is poisonous, then the Demon Wolves must also be suffering before Cruz.

I don't know what caused Cruz to have abdominal pain.

With that in mind, Luca pulled my sleeve.

"What's up?

"Where did the Four Heavens King go?

"Mm?"

Luca told me that for the first time I noticed Vivi's absence.

I didn't notice because Cruz was sick and flustered.

"Colette."

"What, old man"

Colette running after Femme,

"Do you know where Vivi went?

"Take care of Morphy."

"Right. Thanks for letting me know."

"Eh heh."

Luca brings it on when she hears it.

"Don't you have to go check it out?

"Are you worried?

"... I'm not worried. I wonder what happened to Morphy."

I'm surprised Luca cares about Morphy.

"Luca, did you like cows?

"No, I'm not! I just think if we get busted, we're gonna be in big trouble."

"Right."

Me and Luca head to a warehouse outside the village. That's where Morphy is.

"Oh, I'm coming too"

"Colette's coming too."

Say that, Cruz and Colette come with me.

Colette is in a good mood for a fem ride.

When I went to the warehouse, I saw Morphy lying down.

Vivi is stroking Morphy's nose head.

"Hey, Vivi"

Oh, you're home.

Vivi laughs happily when she looks at me.

"Vivi, how you doing?

"Hmm. Not bad."

"What about Morphy?

"Oh."

Morphy remained lying down and rang quietly.

"I think a cow is something that always stands, is it okay?

"It's okay. This isn't just crouching for me so I can stroke it."

"I hope so."

"Al wants you to stroke Morphy, too."

"Uhm."

I'll gently stroke Morphy under his chin. It's slippery.

It's obvious because it's bone.

"Ooh."

Morphy rings quietly.

Even if it's a skeleton, it seems nostalgic.

"I want to stroke you, too."

And Colette.

Colette and Cruz, who watched it, also wanted to stroke it.

Don't worry about it.

"Wow."

"Yay."

Colette comes beside me and laughs, "Eh heh," and starts stroking.

Morphy is also "humming" her nose as she feels comfortable.

Morphy is a skeleton. You're not supposed to breathe, so your nose can't be ringing.

But I do say hum hum.

"You're like you're breathing. I wonder how it works"

It's magic.

Vivi had a face and a throat.

"Morphy's a good guy."

Cruz stroked Morphy's forehead.

Cruz's stroke is pale and glowing.

"Hmm? Cruz, what have you done?

When I ask, Cruz does it right. My hands remain stroking Morphy.

"You're stroking Morphy, aren't you?

"What's the matter?

Vivi also has his neck strapped.

"No, because it's glowing where Cruz stroked it"

"Huh? Really!

Vivi is surprised to see Morphy glowing.

"Hey, what are you doing? I don't suppose you're doing something bad, huh?

"Oh, really. It's glowing."

Cruz smiles.

"Really. Beautiful."

Colette is also happy to cackle.

"Stop. What if something happens to Morphy?"

Vivi hastily tried to jump on Cruz, but Luca suppresses it.

"Take it easy. I don't feel that bad."

I don't trust you.

"It's okay, see"

"Ooh, ooh."

Morphy is sounding comfortable.

As Cruz stroked Morphy, the light grew stronger.

"Morphy. Doesn't it hurt?

"Also."

Vivi's worries approximated, Morphy seemed comfortable.

Seeing that, Vivi seems a little relieved too.

"I hope so..."

I was confused by the mysterious phenomenon, too.

"What's going on with this?

"It's not a magical phenomenon that Al doesn't know."

"I think so, though."

Neither I nor Vivi know. It may not be a phenomenon that can be explained by modern magic.

"Well, aren't you something brave?

"Really?

Luca thinks for a while. And it seemed like I remembered something.

"In the literature of the Divine Age, I've read about the Sacred Separation of the Brave."

Luca is also a scholar. Specializing in Warcraft and Divine Letters.

Naturally, the literature of the Divine Dynasty reads as many as a mountain.

"Sacred farewell?

"Well, by holiness. Simply put, it feels like a ritual that makes ordinary things holy."

I know the sacrament itself. It is a ritual for priests to make weapons, appliances, etc., sacred weapons, apparatus.

Adventurers undergoing Ghost exorcism quests are commonly asked to sanctify their weapons.

It is the work of God and a miracle that works in a different kind of magic.

"Sacred farewell is what priests do."

"Yeah, but it's not a big deal about their sanctification, is it?

"Indeed."

In the arsenal that the clergy has sanctified, it only works about the junior ghost.

That's a lot weaker than junior magic, too. So in the Ghost Exorcism Queer, the Mage becomes the main force of battle.

"Actually, it doesn't mean that most priests have anything to do with God. Rarely has anyone heard his voice. It's just a ritual that's been around for a long time."

"Seriously."

"Anyone can do the sacrament itself if they have the knowledge."

"Can you do Luca, too?

"You can do that, can't you?

"Did you?"

"So, it is the brave who are said to be the pieces of power that the Holy God has dropped on the earth. The Sacred Separation of Cruz under the protection of the Holy God is a true Sacred Separation"

When I look at Cruz, Cruz...

"Eh heh."

It was lit.

Only a holy sword held by a brave man could kill a demon king. It could be something similar to that.

There is only one man on earth who can exercise his mighty holy power.

"By the way, what happens when Skeleton is sanctified?

"Aren't you going to be a holy skeleton? Holy cow bones? Saint Morpheus, so to speak."

"I see."

Morphy, stroked by Cruz, glowed. And the light shines and converges as the sun.

"Morphy's a good guy."

"Oh."

"What the hell is that?"