Chapter 38 – Saint and Demon Sword Wielder (1/2)

CHAPTER 38: SAINT AND DEMON SWORD WIELDER

I wore the prepared black clothes quickly, and clad my body with a mantle. I hid Eleanor under the mantle, and stuck a normal longsword over that.

It looks suspicious at a glance, but I faced Melissa in clothes that she wouldn’t know it was me.

「He is?」

「His name is Kristos」

Delfina introduced.

「He wearing that for a reason, and he cannot talk, but he is the strongest warrior that I know of」

「Fu〜n, you really emphasize he is the strongest」

「If you saw how he fights, I am sure that you would be convinced」

「Is that so」

Melissa’s reaction was poor.

Well, that’s about it, even if she was told world’s strongest, there would also be something wrong being convinced with that.

「I got it, I’ll borrow him. How about the equipment?」

「It is gathered. To the front」

「Is that so, you have my gratitude. Payment will beーー」

「At your convenience」

Delfina said that.

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With Melissa, and ten of her subordinates, we moved together.

Her subordinated was different from what came with her in the mansion, they were all men, but they are wearing the same design of armor that the girls wore at that time.

Everyone rode horses and moved through the night roads. As fast as the time that I went to save Helen, we moved swiftly through the roads.

It had become midnight, and we arrived at a small village.

「Saint-sama, this is Rintos」

「Un」

Melissa and her subordinates went off their horses, and I also went off and followed them.

Seeing that I was following, Melissa looked towards me, and said.

「Kristos……right?」

I nodded without words. She would find out when I let out a voice, so it was set that I couldn’t talk.

「It’s alright if you follow, but it’s okay if you don’t do anything」

Following what Melissa said, her subordinates said further.

「As she has said, rather, you should move back and not be on our way」

I somehow felt malice. The men’s eyes were cold, and I could clearly feel their hostility.

They probably do not like an outsider like me.

But, the ones with hostilities was only the subordinates.

「If it became dangerous, you should just come to my side」

Melissa said.

When she said that, her subordinates looked at me with discontent, and looked at Melissa with eyes of admiration.

『To be kind to an outsider, as expected of Saint-sama. I guess』

Eleanor’s voice echoed inside my head.

I agree with her opinion right now, but……can you just behave right now.

It hadn’t been found out right now, but Melissa said in the mansion that “evil” was emitting from Eleanor. If it’s possible, it would help if you behave.

『Yes, yes』

Eleanor said with an unwilling tone.

I followed Melissa and the rest from their behind.

The party entered the village, the most splendid house…… we went to the most splendid house in a village with a hundred people.

And the old man who came out from there saw Melissa, and kneeled with emotions.

「Thank you very much, thank you very much. To think that the Saint herself would come. With this, our village is saved」

「The outbreak of tree spirits of Kuroki, where is it?」

「It is at the forest east to our village」

「Only there? Is there anywhere else」

「It is only there. But their numbers……it’s ten times that usually comes out every year」

「I got it. I’ll tell you if it has ended, until then, do not come near to the forest」

「Yes!」

Leaving the village chief that was emotional, we went towards the forest east of the village.

I was thinking what was the tree spirits Kuroki, but I knew it as soon as we arrived to the forest.

Immediately in the entrance, one was there.

Transparently glowing, its roots were like feet, and it was like a tree that could move.

Instinctively, I almost said “Disgusting”.

Melissa’s subordinates using their weaponsーーwielded the weapons Delfina prepared and attacked the tree spirits.

Behind them, Melissa clasped her hands and made a praying pose.

In this instance, it was the first time I felt her like a “Saint”.

Closed her eyes and made a pose, in a different kind of the tree spirit in the forest, she released divine light.

Melissa’s subordinates attacked the tree spirit with ten of them.

In the middle of that, one of them received an attack. The tree spirit’s branch, the branch that was like an arm, he was hit from the side of his face.

His body glowed, and Melissa’s body also glowed.

In Melissa’s face, a red, swollen mark appeared.

This is……don’t tell me.

「You shouldn’t worry」

Melissa said to me.

「I am more durable than normal people, and I heal fast too」

When she said that, the weal on her face went back.

Without 30 seconds passing, it disappeared as if nothing had happened.

I remembered what I heard from Delfina.

She was executed continuously for seven days, but in the end she was okay, that story.

That was……maybe, it is real?

When I was thinking of that, Melissa’s subordinate received an attack again.

This time the nape of his neck was hit, and blood splurged from Melissa’s neck.

That also healed very fast, the wound disappeared, and left her collar red with blood.

That was……nothing fun to see.