It's 10 days afterward when I meet Satou-san.
『Today, light hill, your chevalier.』
I was given such letter during food distribution. I couldn't see the other party's face, but is this really from Satou-san?
Light hill is a hill at the edge of the downtown with beautiful reflection of the stars on the great river, it's famous for being a place for trysts between lovers.
I can't go to such place as a miko myself.... But, it's fine if I go just to meet him right?
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"A star seems to have fallen into the great river."
The priest has asked the guards to go with me.
However, the one that waits in the hill is not Satou-san.
"Fuhn? As expected of the princess of the archduke to bring along guards during her secret date~"
When the boy with white hair pulls out his sword, the guards quickly make a wall in front of me. The grandfather's private soldiers that have guarded me from a distant protect me. Due to my kidnapping incident during the attack on the duchy capital back then, they've been protecting me from this kind of ruffians constantly.
"Ahaha, with such few number of small fries, you can't stop me you know~?"
"I've been in the imperial guard since my youth days. You brat won't be able to match me."
Silver flashes glitters, I can hear the sound of swords clashing.
Very slightly after that, the guards have all fallen to the ground. The dumbfounded guards are going to run away while taking me, but the white-haired boy cuts them in a blink of an eye.
"I need to take you a hostage to lure out someone. I will pluck off your feet and hands if you resist, so be obedient okay~?"
He slowly comes to me while shouldering his bloodstained sword. He moves like a weasel who's torturing prey.
"What are you doing on someone's garden?"
Satou-san?
I wonder why, I mistook him for Satou-san for an instant even though that person's voice and height were different. That person who's wearing black clothes is about three fists taller than Satou-san, and his voice is different above all.
He's holding a beautiful sword that scatters blue light in the middle of the night, while overwhelming the white haired boy.
Is that sword a holy sword?
But, his physique is too different than hero-sama. Is he Nanashi-sama who has saved the duchy capital from crisis together with hero-sama?
After some exchange of blows, the white haired boy took some distances away. He's probably going to run. I thought that but--
"O Long Horn, feed on my hatred for the violent power!"
He was going to push the long horn that he had taken from his bosom to his own forehead, but a person with purple hair confiscated that away. Where did this purple haired person come out from?
"Give it back."
The white hair attacks the purple hair, but the purple hair evades the attack casually, and he knocks the white hair down with his fist like he's scolding a little child. The people who have guarded me aren't weak soldiers. To easily overpower the one who has slaughtered those guards like this, he must not be an ordinary person.
"What's wrong Nanashi. Weren't you going to just look from the back?"
『This guy took out something dangerous. I had to disempower him before he could use it.』
This purple haired person seems to be called Nanashi. Why does he has such stuffy voice I wonder? Nanashi-sama produced a rope out of nowhere which moved by itself to capture the boy.
With a wave of Nanashi-sama's hand, the wounds on the dying soldiers disappear.
Is that chantless magic?
『Well then, Miko Sera. I will excuse myself. Please send my regard to head miko-sama. The duchy capital sentries are coming here soon, but please don't approach that white hair."
So he said, and the two disappear like they've been swallowed by the darkness. Thanks to this miraculous encounter, it seems my life is saved.
The uninjured soldiers who have been healed by Nanashi-sama, gets up and captures the white haired boy. I pray for the soldiers who have died protecting me while looking at that scene with a sidelong glance.
However, I wonder why does Nanashi-sama know my name?