Vol 1 Chapter 4.1 (1/2)

39—Legend of Sun Knight Volume 1

Original novel in Chinese by: 御 我 (Yu Wo)

Chapter 4 Teacher’s… Part 1: True Love— translated by lucathia (proofread by Lala Su and Arcedemius; C/E edited by Doza)

“Big Bro Adair!”

Elaro hurriedly knocked. Not long after, Adair opened the door, his face sleepy and puzzled as he looked at Elaro.

At first, Elaro had immediately wanted to blurt out his conjectures, but there was movement inside the room. Only then did he remember that other than Adair, there was another Sun Knight Platoon member in the room. If he remembered correctly, it should be that person who was always full of smiles, Ed.

Ever since the Church of the G.o.d of Light had deployed troops to defeat the Demon King, forcing him to practically live in seclusion in the Demon King’s Castle, no longer rampaging all over the place, the Church of the G.o.d of Light’s reputation had grown in leaps and bounds. The current number of holy knights was at its highest within the past fifty years. Even Adair, who used to have a single room, had chosen a platoon member to stay with him in order to empty out another room.

In the Holy Temple, other than the Twelve Holy Knights, no one else had the privilege to request a room to himself. Even the Twelve Holy Knights-in-training often lived two to a room, unless there were extra rooms they could use.

Even so, Elaro was an exception. He still had a room to himself.

In the past, for Grisia’s convenience to apply facial masks and accomplish other miscellaneous things, Neo had stressed that his student needed his own room. And so, Grisia followed “tradition” and had his student take a room for himself.

When Adair saw Elaro’s hesitant expression, he immediately turned his head and asked, “Ed, have you fallen asleep?”

“…I’m asleep.”

Adair nodded and closed the door behind him. He turned to face Elaro and said, “Go ahead and tell me what is so urgent that you can’t wait until tomorrow morning to come find me.”

Elaro quickly described his “dream” in detail, and then he told him the deduction he had just made. “Big Bro Adair, I believe that it wasn’t a dream, but rather Teacher using telepathy on me! Something really has happened!”

Adair lowered his head to think. Even though Elaro was anxious, he knew that Adair was loyal and devoted to his teacher. He would likely be even more worried than Elaro, so it wasn’t as if he were wasting time.

“I understand now,” Adair finally opened his mouth to say. “The undead creature during the day must have really been sent by Knight-Captain h.e.l.l himself. It was probably a warning! Although I don’t know what actually happened, since none of the knight-captains have returned, I’m afraid that the situation probably doesn’t allow Knight-Captain h.e.l.l many options. His only option was likely to use this method to warn us that trouble has occurred.”

I-Is that so? Elaro stilled, immediately feeling a little upset that he hadn’t been able to make the connection earlier.

“Let’s not wait until tomorrow. I’ll go find Vidar immediately and seek out His Holiness, the Pope with him. Elaro, go and contact… the people you need to contact.” Adair looked at him directly, believing that he didn’t need to spell things out.

“Should I wait until Big Bro checks out the situation before acting?” Elaro really didn’t want to bring such bad news to them.

Adair said strictly, “Better to waste our efforts, than to allow anything to happen! You should know how important the two of them are to Captain, right?”

Elaro s.h.i.+vered. “Yes!”

“You’re really good in every aspect, except decisiveness!” Adair ruffled Elaro’s hair roughly, like he was punis.h.i.+ng him and consoling him at the same time. “It won’t be long before you take over. You should hurry and learn from Captain. Be decisive in your commands!”

Elaro smiled wryly. “I’m just worried that I’ll do something wrong and cause everyone to waste their efforts, or even create a larger mess. That would be terrible.”

Adair’s expression s.h.i.+fted strangely as he asked, “Do you think Captain has never done anything wrong?”

Elaro frowned. “I have never known Teacher to have done anything wrong.”

“Hasn’t he ever told you to do something before, and then once you’ve completed it, you discovered there was no follow-up, and you don’t know what the result was either?”

“Yes…” And many times too. Elaro hesitated for a moment, but then quickly defended his teacher, “But it’s probably because Teacher didn’t tell me what was supposed to happen afterwards. There are lots of things he does that hold deeper meanings—“

Adair purposely retorted, “How do you know that there was a deeper meaning, and not just that he did something wrong but didn’t tell you?”

Elaro froze. Come to think of it, there really were times when he finished doing something and there was no follow-up. Even if he asked Teacher, he rarely received a clear answer…

“Come on, no matter how much you wors.h.i.+p Captain, don’t treat him as if he is the G.o.d of Light. Captain still has his limits.”

Elaro was silent for a moment, but then he said sadly, “I hope that Teacher has not reached his limit this time.”

“I hope so, too.” Adair sighed and opened the door to the room. He shouted, “Ed!”

“Here!”

“Bring me my sword.”

After Adair finished speaking, Ed immediately rushed out. He held a sword in his hand. It was evident he had been prepared.

Adair took the sword and told Ed, “Vice-Captain Vidar and I are going over to see how Captain’s mission is coming along. During this time, you will lead the other platoon members and follow the usual schedule to complete your duties. If anything unexpected happens, listen to Elaro’s commands.”

“Understood!” After receiving the order, Ed rather tactfully turned around to go back to being “asleep.”

Adair patted Elaro’s shoulders and said, “Elaro, do your best. I’m leaving now.”

“You’re leaving right away?” Elaro was rather surprised.

“Of course, there’s no reason to dally. The sooner we clear up the situation, the better!”

After he finished speaking, Adair turned around to leave.

Elaro watched Adair, who had just given him so much sound guidance. He looked rather unruffled and appeared as if he wasn’t very worried over Teacher’s situation, but Elaro keenly sensed that Adair was not as relaxed as his expression seemed to imply.

“Big Bro Adair,” Elaro finally opened his mouth to call out to him.

“What now?” Adair turned his head to look toward Elaro, a light crease between his brows. He looked a little displeased.

Elaro reminded him very cordially, “You’re only wearing pajama pants.”

“…” Adair fell silent for a moment and then shouted, “Ed—“

Elaro stood before the door to a small house. Dawn had only just broken. The morning light spilled across the small garden in front of the house, causing the lavender flowers that filled it to glisten. There were also several different kinds of violets being grown in pots, making the entire garden look rather luxuriant. These two were Charsia’s favorite plants. Although she was only twelve, she was already an expert at managing the garden.

Formerly, there had only been a lawn outside of the house, and overgrown weeds frequently occupied it. It wasn’t until a certain someone abused his power and ordered the holy knights under his command to weed the place at regular intervals that the garden began looking pleasant.

Elaro stood before the door, hesitant about knocking. The morning light grew stronger and stronger, but he still didn’t move. His only thought was to let them sleep until it was fully bright.

He stood there up until the door opened by itself, and a woman waved him in with a smile. “Come in.”

Although Elaro was a little surprised, he tried his best to smile and said, “Auntie Charlotte, why have you gotten up so early?”

“I was waiting for someone.” Charlotte leaned against the door frame and asked with a smile, “And haven’t you shown up?”

Elaro’s heart fell. He knew very well that the one Charlotte was waiting for wasn’t him. If he remembered correctly, every time his teacher returned from a “mission,” he would always, without exception, come to this small house. Sometimes, he would bring Elaro along as well, because Charsia always made a fuss about wanting to play with him.

In what seemed like the blink of an eye, Auntie Charlotte had already lived here for more than ten years! Elaro couldn’t help looking at her. She really didn’t look like a woman who was already over forty years old. At most, she looked like she was in her early thirties.

“Come on in!” Charlotte took hold of Elaro’s hand. “Although the weather has grown warmer lately, it’s still quite chilly at this hour. You must have been standing outside for a long time already. Don’t catch a cold and be like your teacher, falling sick so frequently.”

When he heard this, Elaro felt even sadder. He had once heard the Twelve Holy Knights mention by accident that Teacher had almost never fallen sick in the past. However, as the years went by, his body grew weaker and weaker, and the boundary that separated “then” from “now” was obviously…

“Then, pardon my intrusion.”

He stepped foot into the house. The inside hadn’t changed much, just the decorations made out of pressed flowers had grown in number. This was Charsia’s work, and other than those things, there were also a few objects used for prayer. Those things belonged to Charlotte, who was a cleric.

Almost no trace of Teacher could be seen within the house, probably because he never visited much in the first place.

“Have you eaten breakfast yet?” Charlotte asked in concern. “Are you hungry?”

“Not yet. I’m quite hungry,” Elaro answered honestly.

Actually, even if he weren’t hungry, he would still say he was hungry because Auntie Charlotte’s interest was cooking, and her cooking was superb. As time pa.s.sed, a lot of holy knights began voluntarily coming to the garden to weed it, and sometimes, when they ran over and saw that there weren’t a lot of weeds, they would become very disappointed. It was because after they finished weeding, Charlotte would always cook a delicious meal for them.

Finally, Charlotte simply opened a small restaurant that operated by reservations. It was a restaurant that only served holy knights and clerics—of course, they had to pay. If anyone dared to dine and dash, that person would definitely be killed by the leader of the Holy Temple.

“Sit down,” Charlotte said. “I’ll cook something for you.”

Elaro nodded and quietly sat down to wait. Soon after, he saw an eye-catching small head peeking in through the door…