Chapter 100 – Female Knight
“Cheer, vulgar…?”
Kerene’s face hardened. Because she did not know how to hear such an insult from the first man she met today. And that’s only for the insignificant pilot from the agency. It was a huge humiliation for her sign here.
Ceres, who was being embraced by her man named Netoru, also had slightly widened eyes, probably surprised by what he had just said.
Netoru and Ceres.
Seeing her two couples in her eyes, Kerene bit her lower lip. In my heart, I want to wave at that man at least like this, but she wasn’t that reckless.
Suppress emotions that sprout like thorns with reason.
“···Frivolity. Yes, it must have looked vulgar.”
Kerene twitched her mouth, trying to force a smile out of her, then brushed her hair lightly. It was a gesture to show her composure. As a female engineer, she couldn’t afford to lose her composure to a pilot from an institution.
“Well, good. I have no intention of telling people I don’t want to know.
Kerene pulled her chin in slightly, squinting her eyes and staring at Netoru.
“But you… You might regret it.”
Netoru, who stared at her bloody red eyes without avoiding her gaze, smiled and shrugged her shoulders.
“Well. Even if I regret it, it’s my responsibility, I don’t think it’s your concern. What do you mean, is that the end?”
“Eww…”
It’s a disrespectful way of speaking. The sneering look in his eyes is very arrogant, as if he is worried about whom.
At this point, it’s not like he’s a pilot from an institution. Does this man even know who the person in front of him is?
Living here was special. It was because her coupling partners were all aristocrats. That’s why it was not difficult to sort out people from institutions who were commoners during the day.
To be honest, it wasn’t difficult for her to ask her partner for a pillow case. Just as female knights are devoted to and obedient to their coupling partners, coupling partners will also care for them.
“Stop it now… Because I’m fine…”
Did you feel that the atmosphere was getting worse and worse? Ceres belatedly pulled the hem of Netoru’s clothes to dry him. When his eyes met hers, he cautiously shook her head and even gestured to her not to.
Cerene hated Ceres even more.
“I thought about making that proud partner a bad person and living up to someone, but I was still meeting and living with a pretty decent man.”
Could that blond man have completely fallen for Ceres? Otherwise, with common sense, there would be no way to attack the female knight like this. After all, being a man is bound to show all sorts of bravado in front of the opposite sex.
“I’m really glad that you seem to be doing well here, Ceres. I misunderstood. It seems you haven’t been selling yourself to the kids in the meantime. Seeing how well you hold on to a man like that.”
Ceres, who was drying up the four toru, trembled with her body and glared at Kerene with heavy sunken eyes.
“…Now, my sister, stop too. In the next few days, we will be carrying out missions together, so are you going to continue fighting with us like this?”
“Fight? Ceres, don’t be mistaken. What is fighting… This was just a casual exchange between us.”
Was it funny? Kerene glared at Ceres and turned her back after sneering at her. As if there is nothing to talk about now.
Again. Again.
Seeing him disappear after saying his own words, Ceres did not hesitate to catch him. It was because there would be nothing good for him if he continued to fight Kerene.
In the first place, this was something that only he had to endure.
There was no need for Netoru to intervene and make the atmosphere even worse. But even so, I couldn’t say anything to Netoru. Because I know why he did this.
Therefore, deep inside Ceres’ chest, feelings of sorry for and gratitude to Netoru overflowed.
What if something bad happens to this man? More than the fear of Kerene, those worries lingered in my head for a moment.
Eventually, as Kerene disappears across her hallway,
Ceres let out a long sigh and looked up at the four mounds. It was a slightly scolding, yet tearful look.
“I should have endured it for a little while. You don’t know either. What will happen if you get along with the Knights?”
It’s hard to figure out how to solve something when you’re involved in something bad with the nobles. They are proud. In particular, he did not know how to act when his partner, the female knight, was insulted.
There’s no way Netoru wouldn’t know that. It’s because he’s a pilot far from clumsy.
However, Netoru returned to her usual smirk from the cold expression that Kerene was afraid to disappear, and shrugged her shoulders.
“Well, you can think about it then.”
“No···. To think about it then…”
“Ceres. If I had cared about all of that, do you think I would have come to Area 39?”
“···That.”
At Netoru’s words, Ceres shut his mouth. And I see. Why did Netoru come to this place when he wasn’t even a poor pilot?
But still, I’m worried, I’m worried.
“Anyway, I have to go wash my teeth, so I’ll end the story here. I want to wash up a little faster before the convocation.”
But perhaps Netoru himself really didn’t care, he trudged across the hallway in an atmosphere devoid of any tension.
Ceres stayed there for a while, watching his back, then sighed again.
······Please, nothing should happen.
2.
“Is this him?”
“Yes. You’re right. The same species that ate Lord Phalaine in Area 47 last time…”
Berléans raised his head. What was now in front of his eyes was the corpse of a bug that died a few days ago.
An entity that engulfed a village as soon as it first appeared in Area 47. Hundreds of citizens were devoured by the monster on the spot without much resistance. However, it is said that the really stupid commanders were just beaten without doing anything.
I’ve only heard of it so far
It was an overwhelming size when I saw it with my own eyes. Although all that was left was a body that had been cut in two, that didn’t mean that the monster’s sense of awe and aura had completely disappeared.
It is like looking at a huge garden of blood and flesh. Inside the mass of flesh, mechanical devices of unknown working principle were fused in a bizarre form.
He is a guy who walks around, breaking down hard bedrock at once underground. If you attack with that incredible power and mass, most holy cavalrymen will be crushed to death without much resistance.
I don’t mean to defend what happened in Area 47, but seeing the Death Worm in action didn’t make it all the more understandable.
When a monster like this appeared, it must have been difficult to decide what to do with it. Even if you look at the article, you can’t breathe, but what about people from ordinary institutions?
After examining the monster for several minutes, Berléans sighed quietly. He was because of the increasingly bleak reality.
“…How should I do this?”
I’ve been battling bugs relentlessly for years. If you add up all the dead bugs in the whole country of Frangia, it might exceed tens of thousands at best.
But even after killing so many, people still don’t know. Exactly what ecology the bugs have, what purpose they serve, and where they come from.
They were truly an unknown enemy.
Beings from another world whose origins are unknown.
Rather, demon kings and demons who were said to have descended on the continent long ago as a joke were more familiar beings. At least those beings were able to ‘understand’.
But the bugs were not of an understandable nature. Enemies of a concept that did not exist before, armed with weapons of a form that did not exist in this world.
Armed with items completely unrelated to magic, it is possible to project tremendous firepower from several kilometers away, as well as
The monster right in front of you is also an incomprehensible existence.
······Death Worm. A new entity that has never existed before.
“…Is a new species being born from bugs now? It’s really bad.”
The kind of bugs Holy Trooper pilots have been dealing with over the years have always been the same. That’s why I was able to survive until now. Because now I know how to deal with it. At least now I didn’t shudder when a shell fell several kilometers away.
However, it was clear that if a new nonsense like Death Worm appeared in this way, it would interfere with the fight that was barely beginning to form a parallel line.
This would require changing all the strategies and tactics that had been built up to deal with the bugs. Even if he adapts like that, perhaps in the near future, not only Death Worms, but also other new objects may appear.
Bugs that have been stagnant until now have been changed.
It’s like laughing at people struggling.
That fact was quite a shock, and what kind of results it would have for the kingdom of Phrangia, which was barely breathing…
Just imagining it makes me dizzy.
But at the same time Berléans became curious. Who really caught this? Even though he said he used a venereal weapon, it was a huge deal to catch it by himself.
“So, what’s the name of the pilot who killed this?”
“They said it was Netoru.”
“Netoru?”
As I mumbled my name, there was a strange sound in my mouth. Berléans narrowed his brows for a moment and recalled his memory. It’s a name I’ve heard somewhere.
Then he gave a small nod of his head.
“Netoru… Ah···. I think you’ve heard of it.”
