Chapter 532 – 532. The Search for the Missing Platoon (1)
“…”
Cha Han-seong, who had suddenly grabbed Erin’s hands and begged for a favor, seemed very urgent.
“Hey! Hey man! Calm down!”
No matter how urgent it was, it was her companions, the knights of Artia, who stopped him from taking Erin with him and starting somewhere.
“Oh, this is… I’m sorry. Miss.”
The members of Artia, who apologized to Erin without hiding their troubled expressions, separated their junior member Cha Han-seong from Erin and apologized.
“Oh, no…”
Erin was a little embarrassed, but he shook his hand and said it was okay.
I was more concerned about Cha Han-seong’s impatient attitude than the rudeness he had done to himself in a hurry.
– Senior… Help seniors!
The moment he heard those words, what came to Erin’s mind was Eira’s face.
She asked the Arthia knights, hoping that this ominousness that filled her heart with her cold imagination was not real.
“What happened… Ayra, what happened to her sister… ?”
“…”
The Knights of Artia, who were trying to stop Cha Han-seong from Erin’s question that immediately hit the mark, put on a troubled expression and sparing their words.
Conscious that the attention of the people inside the temple was pointed at them, they pointed to the exit of the temple again.
Erin noticed that the glances of the knights meant that they wanted to talk quietly in a deserted place, not here.
He gave a small nod of his head and immediately looked at Agnes, who was accompanying him, and asked what he was going to do.
“I will stay here. When you’re done talking, come get me.”
Agies chose to part with Erin and remain in the temple.
As a result of moving his gaze to the hospital room inside the temple, he judged that caring for critically ill patients was his top priority.
Agies, who was showing the attitude that he would completely leave it to Erin to decide what kind of judgment and plan to make after hearing the story, was faithful to his role as a priest.
It is also a field that does not suit her aptitude, but it also means that she completely trusts Erin, a disciple of Eun-hyeon, who was the leader when she was a member of her team.
“… Yes. All right.”
Erin nodded her head.
In any case, it was also necessary to remain here in order to directly prove the identity of Agnes to the priests of the temple.
“I’ll be right back as soon as I finish talking.”
“Okay.”
Agies must have agreed, so Erin again turned her head to the Artia Knights, including Cha Han-seong, and beckoned them to go outside.
Cha Han-seong and the knights, who had been observing the surroundings with a hard face, immediately followed Erin out of the temple.
And the place where they arrived was the building of the lodgings assigned to the Artia Knights.
“Drink.”
“Oh, thank you.”
Sitting at a table in the living room and being served coffee by one of the members, Erin bowed her head slightly and thanked her.
As her bitter taste flowed into her mouth with warmth, it had the effect of loosening her tense body and releasing her tension, but she did not forget her original purpose.
She immediately glanced around the living room, and Erin immediately realized that Eira was not in her quarters.
She, who has the most intimate relationship with herself inside the Knights, made Eira think that there must be a story behind why she did not welcome her visit even though she visited, and that story was never welcome. I was also certain that it would not be news.
“… What about Eira-sister?”
“That is…”
Finally, the moment to answer Erin’s question came, but none of the knights in her quarters were willing to open their mouths.
“Senior and one platoon… We are in a state of distress right now and cannot find whereabouts.”
The Knights of Artia, currently dispatched to the border of Mograf, are a company-sized composition consisting of a large number of newly joined knights and a small number of experienced senior knights.
Requesting support from the frontier was a very threatening task for them, but it was also an opportunity to train the newly recruited members and develop them as knights by gaining experience through engagements with demon beasts.
Eira’s role in this dispatch was as a platoon commander who led a platoon of new knights, and as a middle manager who supervised and supervised the new knights.
“The purpose of this dispatch is to form a total of four platoons and have them gain experience by subjugating monsters and undead on the front lines outside the frontier in rotation.”
After receiving Cha Han-seong’s words, the senior article continued to explain.
While supporting the troops on the border of Mograf, at the same time, the new knights who had just joined to gain experience and grow to the next level, they could say that this dispatch went smoothly in its own way.
Although they are new knights, all of them passed Artia’s famously strict entrance exam and passed the apprenticeship period and officially became a member of Artia.
Because of the support of the priests of the Temple of Vesta, the border of Mograf, which faced another crisis due to their activities, gradually washed away the anxiety and regained stability.
“In the midst of everything going smoothly, the current situation is that Eira’s platoon, which was deployed this time, has long passed the scheduled return date.”
Originally, she should have returned immediately three days ago at the latest, but not a single knight in her platoon, including Eira, was able to return to the border of Mograf.
In the midst of a smooth dispatch, it was the first variable that started to creak.
“That’s why there are a lot of conflicting opinions within Artia’s members right now.”
With the opinions of those who wanted to organize a search for Eira’s platoon and search for her right away, and those who wanted to wait and see what happened.
“There is no time to be like this!”
Cha Han-seong, who clearly shows his nervousness, expressed without hesitation that he wanted to join the search team right away and go find her Eira.
“So calm down.”
What stopped Hanseong Cha once again was the voice of a man who came into the living room.
“Boo, vice-captain… !”
Directly below Riod, the leader of the Artia Knights.
Cain, who holds the position of vice-captain, is currently in charge of commanding all the Artia Knights organized in this dispatch on behalf of Riod.
Having risen to the position of vice-captain at a young age in his late 20s, he is one of the few knights within the Knights whose skills have been recognized by Leo.
‘Wow…’
Erin admired inwardly.
Instead of the light attitude he usually showed at the Arthia Knights Headquarters, he overwhelmed the interior of the dorm with his charisma, armed with a sharp sense of coercion like a sharp blade.
“It’s not that we don’t want to go rescue Ragoeira and her members.”
Her ability to read the emotions of others, Erin didn’t have to fathom Cain’s inner thoughts.
“Vice-captain! But…”
“Even if we unreasonably organize and launch a new search party, if even that search party goes missing without any news, do you plan to organize a search party by squeezing out the remaining members after that?”
“…”
Cha Hanseong, unable to find words to refute Cain’s point, kept his mouth shut with a resentful expression on his face.
“Aira… And the new members who have just joined are also members of the Artia Knights and our colleagues. It’s not like I’m just going to throw it away.”
Although he did not dare to say it, Cain and all Artia members admired the kingdom’s strongest knight, ‘Riod Olivion’, and joined him because they wanted to follow him, and all of them were knights selected by Riod.
Also, it is a fact that everyone knows that Eira is the daughter of her father, whom she admires so much, and joined her father’s knights.
No one disliked the image of a female knight who, like them, longed for the kingdom’s strongest knight and spared no effort to become like him.
If Eira goes missing and she makes her return to Pernin, what kind of face will she have to look at Riod?
But even so, hesitating to form a unit to search for Eira’s platoon is not just watching this situation because her life is precious.
“Don’t forget that the purpose of this dispatch is to support the Mograf change.”
It is the duty of knights who have sworn allegiance to the royal family to carry out their duties no matter how many injuries and sacrifices are dangerous.
Cain knew very well what choice Riod would make as a knight commander in this situation, even though he did not know what Leo would be like as a father when he heard the news of his daughter’s disappearance.
It is also the same as the party in her workplace.
As the vice-captain of the Knights of Artia, she suppressed her personal emotions as much as possible and prioritized carrying out the mission of the Knights.
“But… But then the senior…”
Cha Hanseong muttered as he clenched his fists.
Cha Han-seong’s rationality says that his superior, Cain’s order, is correct as a knight, as a knight who protects the kingdom.
However, his sensibility could not understand the order of his superior.
“Then, the senior and the new knights organized in the senior’s platoon… Are you giving up on everything?”
Cha Han-seong asked in a trembling voice, and Cain frowned and shook his head.
“… I didn’t say that.”
If a search party is hastily organized and sent without proper information, and even the newly formed search party goes missing again, it will not only cause damage to the Knights of Artia itself, but it will be bad for the territory of Mograf, which has barely begun to recover. May have an impact
‘If at least one person had come back and explained what had happened…’
At least Cain wouldn’t have been this frustrated.
The composition of the platoon itself was composed of new knights, but the platoon commander who leads them, Ai, is a highly skilled person among the members.
He has excellent discernment and has no hesitation in judgment, so he has a very quick decision.
At least as he has an excellent eye for grasping the level of danger faced by his platoon, when an uncontrollable situation suddenly strikes, Eira sets the survival of his platoon members as the top priority and leads the Mograf Territory and the Knights of Artia. It must have taken the canonical steps to disseminate information about the danger.
Cain was waiting for the moment when Eira’s evacuated platoon members returned to Mograf territory.
However, it is not only Cha Han-sung who keeps having anxious imaginations in his head, but also Cain.
Is it right to send a search party right now, before Aira and all of her new knights die?
Cain, who was careful not to make a hasty judgment and suffer further damage, was literally in a dilemma right now.
Should we organize a search party once again or not?
In a situation where neither of these things could be done, someone’s hand was lifted up to break the heavy silence.
“Yeah…”
Erin, who had been quietly listening to her current circumstances, finally opened her mouth.
“Can I do that search?”
“… Miss?”
“Yes. Oh, but the help of the other knights is fine.”
Cain slightly frowned at Erin, who calmly said nonsense.
“… That’s not allowed.”
“I’m not even the Knights of Artia, am I?”
“…”
Erin’s refutation of Cain’s words was very confident and unconcerned.
But her Erin’s objection was very valid.
Erin, who was not a member of the Artia Knights, had personally moved to find Eira and her platoon, but there was no justification to stop it.
In fact, Erin doesn’t want any help from the Artia Knights, so Cain doesn’t have to worry about her risk.
“Even if the young lady is the nobleman’s pupil, she cannot send her alone.”
It was a fact that Cain also knew that her Erin possessed her skills that overpowered most of her knights, and that Shinsu was able to handle the unknown power.
Even if she was an adventurer of the gold rank, going alone to a place where unknown danger existed to the extent that one platoon of knights went missing, to Cain, seemed like a foolish guest who was close to giving up her life.
“Ah… That’s it. Actually, I’m not here alone.”
“… What?”
“Really someone stronger than me is going to accompany me, so you don’t have to worry too much about Cain. So… Ayra, her sister and her new knights search. Can’t you leave her to me?”
