Chapter 209 – Decisions.
“It’s okay, I’m Rachel, the acting bishop and acting saintess. I’m not a heretic judge!”
When they couldn’t stop their suspicious glances, she eventually introduced herself.
“Isn’t the heretic judge also sneaking in among those acts?”
After hearing her words, Krikaliev whispered to Jeremiah. She wasn’t even whispering, though she was loud enough to be heard by Usher in the corner.
“So I’m not like the Heretic Inquisitor!”
Of course, Rachel couldn’t hear it, so it was only natural that she put her hand on her waist and said it disgruntledly.
“I just came here to get a cure for Black Throat because I thought I needed to be prepared before confronting the Cattsie.”
In the first place, I do not have the right to judge heresy, and even if I do have the right, I have no intention of abusing it, so please know that! After hearing her words, Krikaliev seemed relieved.
“Eh, then what are you here for?”
“Why are you looking sad!”
Rachel, who watched them quarrel with Jeremiah, said.
“Anyway, Mr. Jeremiah. You must have brought the cure she asked for, right?”
“Yes, here it is. But the Cattsy and the others will not disturb the envoy of the Holy Land.”
Jeremiah seemed suspicious that she had come to get her cure.
“Because there are circumstances. Here’s the cost of the medicine.”
After getting her medicine from Jeremiah, she went out because her business was over.
“Whoa, really. He’s a strange person. His voice resembles him.”
Rachel let out a sigh of relief as soon as she got out of her dugout. She just thought she was suspicious. The familiar look she found in him took her breath away. Her clear voice was startlingly like that of the Hateful, but Rachel bit her lip and she grabbed the necklace that was hanging from her chest.
“It can’t be.”
She stood by her own hilldis beanie with her brooding heart. Her tomorrow was the day she had to enter the royal palace of the Catsids as her envoy. For personal reasons, I couldn’t delay here any longer.
“Are you leaving already?”
“Ah, you are from that time.”
When Usher saw her trying to climb into her Hill Dis beanie and asked, she saw Rachel make her weird face.
“Why? What did your master say?”
“It’s not like that.”
Usher was curious that Rachel was a paladin even though she was a woman, so he came along because he thought he might get a hint about her magic. Was speechless.
“Is there anything I can refer to when taming Hildis Beanie?”
Then she sees the Hill Dis Beanie she is carrying and she asks about him. That’s right, she said to Hill Disbinny next to her that the white feathers growing a little, were of the same species as Donard’s. Since Krikaliev was a Branta species, he said it was impossible, so he thought it might be possible with other species. Then Rachel smiled bitterly and approached Usher. Usher, who hadn’t expected her to suddenly approach, was frozen by the fresh fruit scent that touched the tip of her nose.
“Do you want to tame Hildisbini?”
“Yes.”
Then she blushed at the feel of her soft hand caressing her own hair. The clear sky-like eyes of the woman facing her right in front of her and the feeling of her blue hair brushing her cheek as it fluttered in the night breeze made her somehow remind me of her Sif.
“You look impatient.”
Rachel’s words stabbed him in the chest, so she shut her mouth.
“How do you know that?”
“It’s just that, I don’t know what happened to you, but when you’re your age, you like to play, and you don’t seriously try to tame a Hildisbini.”
Then, as if playing a prank on her, she squeezed Usher’s hair so that it wouldn’t hurt.
“If you have difficulties, don’t be impatient and rely on an adult.”
“But!”
I heard Rachel’s words as if she knew Usher’s heart.
“Isn’t it painful? I have to solve it, but I have to do it somehow, but I can’t do anything.”
Usher shut her mouth. That’s because he still did.
“You are still young. There is no one in the world who can do anything alone from the beginning and can solve it perfectly.”
But where is anyone to turn to? Donar and Schiff could not meet, and Krikaliev only became a teacher, but he was still not sure if he was a trustworthy person.
“Don’t be ashamed that you’re helpless now. I couldn’t do anything when I was young either.”
But her words rebuked Usher.
“Don’t mind if someone calls you pathetic for not knowing how to do anything. That kind of person is someone who thinks he’s capable of anything since he was a kid.”
Even as an adult, there are many things that cannot be solved. Rachel muttered bitterly, then lightly tidied up his hair one last time and stood up.
“That’s right. It’s okay to be foolish. At least your teacher doesn’t seem like a mean person who doesn’t even accept a child’s foolishness.”
She climbed onto the Hilldis beanie and waved her hand at Usher.
“If possible, see you next time, little girl.”
Looking at Rachel’s back as she left, Usher murmured.
“…I’m a man.”
Although there was no way his words could have reached her back, who had already moved away.
“As an envoy from the Holy Land, he must be conceited. He is thorough.”
These were the words of Jeremiah, who came out of the dugout before he knew it.
“Well, it’s still the same.”
Usher wondered as Krikaliev shrugged him.
“Did you know each other?”
If I listened to them quietly, somehow they seemed to know Rachel. Especially Krikaliev.
“Should we say that we know each other? Should we say that we do not know each other? It’s ambiguous right now.”
I couldn’t understand what he was saying back. Come to think of it, he was also a paladin, so he must have known him.
“The outsider must have disappeared too. We have something to do by ourselves, right?”
Usher looks at him with a puzzled look, and Krikaliev nods his head.
“It’s a rescue operation for a little girl. Jeremiah. Any information?”
“It was delivered around lunchtime.”
Jeremiah pulled out her parchment and held it up. And when I opened it, a picture appeared that looked like a map of a large building.
“I hope this.”
“It’s a map of the capital. Even so, it’s not a map belonging to the royal family, so there are no secret doors or roads, but you should be able to figure out the approximate route.”
“How did you get these things?”
“It’s just that I was lucky to find him because there are many people I know.”
Even so, I knew that I couldn’t get something like this because I had heard Mediah’s words before. It was said that the map of the territory as well as the map inside the castle were managed more strictly. Especially if it was a map of the territory, but Usher had no memory of seeing a map of the inside of the castle.
“Let’s come up with a rescue plan.”
Nevertheless, Krikaliev continued as if it were nothing.
“Whoa, I guess I’ll end up pretending to be Catsy.”
“Don’t worry. We didn’t get along well with them from the beginning.”
“I’m proud of you. You bastard!”
Watching the grumbling Jeremiah fight, Usher secretly swallowed his tears. So they sat together with the map in the middle.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen it like this, but it doesn’t look like there are too many places to infiltrate.”
Jeremiah crossed her arms and looked down at the map before opening her mouth.
“Why?”
So when Usher asked, he swallowed his saliva.
“Little boy. Have you ever seen Parzu’s castle?”
“No.”
It looked like a huge square structure just by looking at it on a map like this.
“I don’t know if you look at the map, but Parzu’s capital is carved out of a huge cliff and buried inside.”
Jeremiah poked three sides of the map with a small twig.
“It’s as if these three sides are completely blocked.”
Usher heard him and thought of a tall, long cliff that occupied one side of the town.
“There’s a castle in that cliff?”
“Because there’s another village in it. Further inside.”
She listened to him and thought about it, but she couldn’t figure out what it would look like. It’s amazing that there’s another village in that cliff.
“I have no idea what it looks like.”
“You don’t have to know. Entering the village is not a problem. The problem is how to enter the castle.”
If three sides are blocked by cliffs, then there is only one side they can enter. If you went in front, it was obvious that you would be caught.
“How about digging through the wall?”
“It’s not something that can be done in a day or two. It takes too long and the probability of getting caught in the middle is too high.”
It was Usher’s best idea, but Jeremiah immediately shook her head. Guess who else didn’t have such a simple idea?
“Then digging the ground from above.”
“There is an entrance there and the security is strict. Even if it succeeds, the sound is loud and the distance from the target is too far.
Eventually, he thought about it again, but he couldn’t come up with anything that would be a good idea. Then Krikaliev, who had been quietly staring at the map until now, opened his mouth.
“How about flying into the sky?”
I couldn’t understand it at all.
“What kind of harpy are you?! You don’t really think that’s possible!?”
“I think that would stand out too much.”
Krikaliev giggled at Jeremiah and Usher’s words.
“Then have you ever looked up at the sky even once today?”
“It’s not… It’s not.”
When he said that, it seemed that he was persuasive. He made a strange expression, and Jeremiah touched his forehead.
“Anyway, that’s not okay. In the first place, you wouldn’t know, but this guy isn’t even a harpy.”
“Well, that’s all right. And because of the Parzu’s internal structure, it stands out even when flying in the sky.”
Saying that, Krikaliev placed another map next to the map of the castle they had placed. An elliptical map lopsided like a tree ring showed the inner shape of Parzu.
“The only reason I asked for guidance in the first place was to see what route to rescue the ladies from inside.
“Say that first!”
Jeremiah slapped Krikaliev on the back of the head. Usher was also staring at the map with a dejected heart when he heard Krikaliev’s words.
“The plan itself is simple. First of all, I’m going to rescue the little girl.”
“Yes? Then I am.”
It was true that he had asked him to save Belka, but Usher never thought that he would go there himself. He thought that at best he would stop at helping him.
“There was also a little girl named Helena who was with the little girl. You have to save her.”
“Ah.”
His words brought Usher to mind. Did he say that he was the alchemist who made it possible for him to come to Parzu?
“…All right.”
“Huh? You’re quite docile. I knew you would go to rescue the little girl.”
It was as Krikaliev said. Usher felt like going to rescue Belka himself, but he remembered Rachel’s face, who had stroked his hair earlier.
“Please.”
Usher decided to trust him.
– Prick
The sound of bugs came through the night.
“How long are you going to stay away from me?”
Jeremiah approached Krikaliev, who was watching the white night with the moon shining and the stars twinkling and shining. Usher had already gone to bed early to conserve energy.
“Well, do you think they’ll believe me even if I go back?”
The night was getting deeper without a sound.
