They had left the forest.
The moment they did, they spotted a horse carriage being turned over.
"Get down!"
"Gueh!"
Eris had immediately gripped Cliff's head and thrown it to the ground.
As for herself, she was crouching and confirming the situation.
"..."
There were 6 people standing there.
One person was a knight in full body armor.
The knight was standing with their back to a tree, and had their sword in a guard.
In the area were men dressed from head to toe in black.
There were 5 of them.
The black clothed men were surrounding the knight.
In the area were three corpses.
All of them were wearing armor.
They were wearing the same armor as the surrounded knight.
The men slowly tightened their encirclement around the knight.
The difference in fighting ability was already clear.
Though this was the case, why wasn't the knight escaping?
The knight had their back to a tree, and looking carefully, a girl could be seen crouching by the base of the tree.
Her expression was brimming with anxiety and despair, and her face was wet with tears.
"Eris-san, that armor means that the knight belongs to the Order of the Temple!"
Cliff informed Eris in a whisper.
Eris's heart was beating fast.
The Order of the Temple.
She had heard of it.
It was one of Milis's three knight orders.
The elite group in charge of defending the country, the Order of the Church.
Spreading Milis's teachings around the world, making known their power, and doing mercenary-like work, the Order of Instruction.
Finally, the branch in charge of heresy inquisitions, their name a synonym for passing judgement onto heretics, the Order of the Temple.
Respectively,
The Order of the Church wore white armor.
The Order of Instruction wore silver armor.
The Order of the Temple wore blue armor.
Though the knight was a long way away, their sky blue armor could be seen.
There was no mistake.
The one who was now cornered was a Knight of the Order of the Church.
"You bastards! You know who this lady is, don't you!?"
When they raised their voice, it was understood in an instant.
The cornered knight was a woman.
The men looked at each other, and then abruptly broke into laughter.
"That's obvious."
"Then why!?"
"It goes without saying, right?"
"You bastards! Are you with the pope's faction!?"
Eris couldn't understand their conversation.
However, she understood that the black-clothed men seemed to be bad guys, and wanted to kill that girl.
Eris placed her hand to the sword at her waist.
Cliff questioned it.
"W-, what are you planning to do, Eris-san? However you look at this, it's bad. That girl is the shrine maiden said to be one of the candidates for next Pope. In other words, those black-clothed men are definitely an assassination squad employed by the Pope of Milis. They're all skilled. Even if it's us, we don't have a chance of winning..."
Eris hadn't even wonder why Cliff knew so much about this.
All Eris was focusing on was the fact that if Eris couldn't save the girl now, she'd be killed.
Also, Eris was a member of 『Dead End』.
If she abandoned a child, she wouldn't be able to face Ruijerd. Rudeus would always say that as well, and would lend his hand to others.
"Let's just stay unnoticed, and let them do it."
"It's too late. We've already been noticed."
Eris understood.
One of the men had noticed them when she had pushed Cliff down.
She didn't know what the man was thinking.
However, whatever the case, Eris planned to take the initiative.
"You can just keep hiding here, Cliff!"
"E-, Eris-san!"
Eris drew her sword and at the same time leaped towards them.
In an instant, the black-clothed men had spread out.
However...
"You're slow!"
Eris's steps were more nimble than the men had anticipated.
Sword God Style Advanced Rank 『Soundless Longsword』.
As a technique below that of the longsword of light, it was a technique whose swing didn't leave a single sound.
Thanks to Ghyslaine and Ruijerd, Eris's skill in swordsmanship was improving considerably.
The sword entered one of the men from the shoulder, easily bisected his ribs, and perfectly split him in a cut that ran diagonally from the shoulder.
Without being bewildered by the sensation of cutting someone for the first time, Eris turned her sword towards the next opponent.
The men moved to surround Eris.
However, Eris's movements were even quicker.
She had been lectured quite a bit by Ruijerd on what to do when surrounded by multiple opponents.
Many types of monsters like to swarm their enemies.
It was a theory that involved killing them before you were surrounded.
"Haaaa!"
In the blink of an eye, one of the black-clothed men had been cut down.
A tremble ran through the men.
Eris's rhythm was irregular, and after preliminary movements that they couldn't grasp, her slashes came flying.
Because her attacks were difficult to deal with even when the men devoted themselves to evasion, they couldn't do anything else while defending.
However, the men were professionals.
Sacrificing one person, their encirclement was complete.
Two of the black-clothed men leaped in towards Eris at different times.
They were fast.
However, they weren't as fast as Ruijerd.
Their cooperation wasn't to the level of the Pax Coyotes on the Magic Continent either.
They were lukewarm.
"Those guys have daggers soaked in poison! Be careful!"
The knight protecting the girl had shouted that, whilst moving as well.
A slash from outside the encirclement killed one of the men.
When the woman moved, whilst predicting the movements of the men, Eris found an opening in their encirclement.
'I can win.'
Eris had confidence.
Whilst thinking this, she cut down another man.
There were two left.
"Retreat!"
One of the men had yelled this, and in an instant the two had turned around and made to escape.
However, Eris wasn't a naive girl who would relax near the end.
In a flash she had caught up, and slashed into one of their backs.
His upper and lower halves separated, and he fell with his entrails scattering about.
The other man was nowhere to be seen, and had disappeared beyond the plains.
"Hmph!"
Eris snorted.
She sent the blood on her blade flying with a swing.
Eris appeared as she usually did.
However, her heart was beating loudly.
Thinking about it, it was the first time she had fought a human for real, and it was also the first time she had killed a person.
Moreover, the enemy had daggers coated with poison.
They were weapons that could cause a fatal wound with just one cut.
There wasn't anyone like Rudeus or Ruijerd to protect her back either.
Though she had jumped towards them without a thought, had it not been for that female knight, Eris might have died.
However, Eris didn't reveal any of those thoughts.
She returned her sword to her scabbard, and turned towards the female knight.
"Sorry. One of them escaped."
The knight was a little taken aback by those words.
After all, though she was a girl who hadn't yet reached adulthood, she had passed through a life or death battle and looked excessively calm.
Without taking off her parrot-like helmet, the knight raised a fist to her abdomen and expressed her thanks in the proper manner for a knight of Milis.
"I humbly thank you for your assistance."
"As long as the child is safe, it's fine."
Without returning the courtesy, Eris remembered her own speaking style, and had spoken in a blunt manner.
"I am Therese Latreia of the Order of the Temple. I assume you're an adventurer, but could I ask for your name?"
"I'm E-..."
Eris had thought to give her real name, but stopped.
That's not it.
Rudeus wouldn't have done things like that.
"『Ruijerd of Dead End』. Though I look like this, I'm a Supard."
Hearing 'Supard', Therese's expression had become stern.
Though Eris didn't know it, the Order of the Temple was calling for the expulsion of the Magic Race.
Naturally, Eris didn't exhibit the characteristics of a Supard.
That's why Therese's expression loosened.
Because Eris had not given her real name, but the name of a race that the Order of the Temple was not comfortable with, Therese had judged it to be implying that Eris hadn't wanted to become mixed up in this incident any further.
Though she had saved someone of importance, she didn't desire thanks.
Therese had thought well of this attitude.
"Is that so? I understand..."
Therese had taken a long look at Eris, who was staring intensely with her arms crossed, and committed her face to memory.
After that, she whistled.
When she did, a single horse came running from inside the forest.
The horse which had escaped when the carriage was overturned had returned as practiced.
She placed the girl on the horse, and got on as well.
"If you ever have any trouble, remember the name Therese of the Order of the Knights!"[9]
Therese had left those words, and rode away on the horse.
Eris silently saw her off.
Like a scene from a fairy-tale, the mounted knight rode away and was seen off by a fearless, red-haired swordsman.
The youth who had been hiding and unable to stand, did nothing except continue to watch them.
They had left the forest.
The moment they did, they spotted a horse carriage being turned over.
"Get down!"
"Gueh!"
Eris had immediately gripped Cliff's head and thrown it to the ground.
As for herself, she was crouching and confirming the situation.
"..."
There were 6 people standing there.
One person was a knight in full body armor.
The knight was standing with their back to a tree, and had their sword in a guard.
In the area were men dressed from head to toe in black.
There were 5 of them.
The black clothed men were surrounding the knight.
In the area were three corpses.
All of them were wearing armor.
They were wearing the same armor as the surrounded knight.
The men slowly tightened their encirclement around the knight.
The difference in fighting ability was already clear.
Though this was the case, why wasn't the knight escaping?
The knight had their back to a tree, and looking carefully, a girl could be seen crouching by the base of the tree.
Her expression was brimming with anxiety and despair, and her face was wet with tears.
"Eris-san, that armor means that the knight belongs to the Order of the Temple!"
Cliff informed Eris in a whisper.
Eris's heart was beating fast.
The Order of the Temple.
She had heard of it.
It was one of Milis's three knight orders.
The elite group in charge of defending the country, the Order of the Church.
Spreading Milis's teachings around the world, making known their power, and doing mercenary-like work, the Order of Instruction.
Finally, the branch in charge of heresy inquisitions, their name a synonym for passing judgement onto heretics, the Order of the Temple.
Respectively,
The Order of the Church wore white armor.
The Order of Instruction wore silver armor.
The Order of the Temple wore blue armor.
Though the knight was a long way away, their sky blue armor could be seen.
There was no mistake.
The one who was now cornered was a Knight of the Order of the Church.
"You bastards! You know who this lady is, don't you!?"
When they raised their voice, it was understood in an instant.
The cornered knight was a woman.
The men looked at each other, and then abruptly broke into laughter.
"That's obvious."
"Then why!?"
"It goes without saying, right?"
"You bastards! Are you with the pope's faction!?"
Eris couldn't understand their conversation.
However, she understood that the black-clothed men seemed to be bad guys, and wanted to kill that girl.
Eris placed her hand to the sword at her waist.
Cliff questioned it.
"W-, what are you planning to do, Eris-san? However you look at this, it's bad. That girl is the shrine maiden said to be one of the candidates for next Pope. In other words, those black-clothed men are definitely an assassination squad employed by the Pope of Milis. They're all skilled. Even if it's us, we don't have a chance of winning..."
Eris hadn't even wonder why Cliff knew so much about this.
All Eris was focusing on was the fact that if Eris couldn't save the girl now, she'd be killed.
Also, Eris was a member of 『Dead End』.
If she abandoned a child, she wouldn't be able to face Ruijerd. Rudeus would always say that as well, and would lend his hand to others.
"Let's just stay unnoticed, and let them do it."
"It's too late. We've already been noticed."
Eris understood.
One of the men had noticed them when she had pushed Cliff down.
She didn't know what the man was thinking.
However, whatever the case, Eris planned to take the initiative.
"You can just keep hiding here, Cliff!"
"E-, Eris-san!"
Eris drew her sword and at the same time leaped towards them.
In an instant, the black-clothed men had spread out.
However...
"You're slow!"
Eris's steps were more nimble than the men had anticipated.
Sword God Style Advanced Rank 『Soundless Longsword』.
As a technique below that of the longsword of light, it was a technique whose swing didn't leave a single sound.
Thanks to Ghyslaine and Ruijerd, Eris's skill in swordsmanship was improving considerably.
The sword entered one of the men from the shoulder, easily bisected his ribs, and perfectly split him in a cut that ran diagonally from the shoulder.
Without being bewildered by the sensation of cutting someone for the first time, Eris turned her sword towards the next opponent.
The men moved to surround Eris.
However, Eris's movements were even quicker.
She had been lectured quite a bit by Ruijerd on what to do when surrounded by multiple opponents.
Many types of monsters like to swarm their enemies.
It was a theory that involved killing them before you were surrounded.
"Haaaa!"
In the blink of an eye, one of the black-clothed men had been cut down.
A tremble ran through the men.
Eris's rhythm was irregular, and after preliminary movements that they couldn't grasp, her slashes came flying.
Because her attacks were difficult to deal with even when the men devoted themselves to evasion, they couldn't do anything else while defending.
However, the men were professionals.
Sacrificing one person, their encirclement was complete.
Two of the black-clothed men leaped in towards Eris at different times.
They were fast.
However, they weren't as fast as Ruijerd.
Their cooperation wasn't to the level of the Pax Coyotes on the Magic Continent either.
They were lukewarm.
"Those guys have daggers soaked in poison! Be careful!"
The knight protecting the girl had shouted that, whilst moving as well.
A slash from outside the encirclement killed one of the men.
When the woman moved, whilst predicting the movements of the men, Eris found an opening in their encirclement.
'I can win.'
Eris had confidence.
Whilst thinking this, she cut down another man.
There were two left.
"Retreat!"
One of the men had yelled this, and in an instant the two had turned around and made to escape.
However, Eris wasn't a naive girl who would relax near the end.
In a flash she had caught up, and slashed into one of their backs.
His upper and lower halves separated, and he fell with his entrails scattering about.
The other man was nowhere to be seen, and had disappeared beyond the plains.
"Hmph!"
Eris snorted.
She sent the blood on her blade flying with a swing.
Eris appeared as she usually did.
However, her heart was beating loudly.
Thinking about it, it was the first time she had fought a human for real, and it was also the first time she had killed a person.
Moreover, the enemy had daggers coated with poison.
They were weapons that could cause a fatal wound with just one cut.
There wasn't anyone like Rudeus or Ruijerd to protect her back either.
Though she had jumped towards them without a thought, had it not been for that female knight, Eris might have died.
However, Eris didn't reveal any of those thoughts.
She returned her sword to her scabbard, and turned towards the female knight.
"Sorry. One of them escaped."
The knight was a little taken aback by those words.
After all, though she was a girl who hadn't yet reached adulthood, she had passed through a life or death battle and looked excessively calm.
Without taking off her parrot-like helmet, the knight raised a fist to her abdomen and expressed her thanks in the proper manner for a knight of Milis.
"I humbly thank you for your assistance."
"As long as the child is safe, it's fine."
Without returning the courtesy, Eris remembered her own speaking style, and had spoken in a blunt manner.
"I am Therese Latreia of the Order of the Temple. I assume you're an adventurer, but could I ask for your name?"
"I'm E-..."
Eris had thought to give her real name, but stopped.
That's not it.
Rudeus wouldn't have done things like that.
"『Ruijerd of Dead End』. Though I look like this, I'm a Supard."
Hearing 'Supard', Therese's expression had become stern.
Though Eris didn't know it, the Order of the Temple was calling for the expulsion of the Magic Race.
Naturally, Eris didn't exhibit the characteristics of a Supard.
That's why Therese's expression loosened.
Because Eris had not given her real name, but the name of a race that the Order of the Temple was not comfortable with, Therese had judged it to be implying that Eris hadn't wanted to become mixed up in this incident any further.
Though she had saved someone of importance, she didn't desire thanks.
Therese had thought well of this attitude.
"Is that so? I understand..."
Therese had taken a long look at Eris, who was staring intensely with her arms crossed, and committed her face to memory.
After that, she whistled.
When she did, a single horse came running from inside the forest.
The horse which had escaped when the carriage was overturned had returned as practiced.
She placed the girl on the horse, and got on as well.
"If you ever have any trouble, remember the name Therese of the Order of the Knights!"[9]
Therese had left those words, and rode away on the horse.
Eris silently saw her off.
Like a scene from a fairy-tale, the mounted knight rode away and was seen off by a fearless, red-haired swordsman.
The youth who had been hiding and unable to stand, did nothing except continue to watch them.
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