The Death Knight Became an Escort Knight for the Saintess

35. Galleon, Blue Osprey

35.

Befitting changeable weather, it was sunny as if the pouring rain last night had been a lie. The saintess raised her head and looked at the sky, as if the weather of such a morning was strange. The sky was clear without a single cloud. The sky, modeled after the color of the sea, was so clear that it made me dizzy. The saintess, who looked up at the sky with her head up as if it were going to fall back, asked the escort knight a quick question.

“Sir, what did you come out of? The receptionist said at least tomorrow that the ship would be available.”

“Anyway, I think I should ask for a quicker boat. The weather has improved right now, but there is no guarantee that it will get worse again when we are about to depart.”

The saintess nodded her head as she listened to the rational escort knight’s explanation. But her questions weren’t over yet.

“But there is nothing he can do about it, even if he makes a request?”

“I should have paid more. No matter how bad it is, you have to save it by tomorrow to let it go. That way, we can leave quickly considering various variables such as the bad weather.”

However, the plan of the escort knight collapsed miserably from the start. The young dwarven receptionist responded to him with the same attitude he had seen the other day.

“Ah, is that the person who came last time? As for the ship you mentioned, I think it will take longer. There was a storm last night, so a few things happened. So I guess it will take at least four more days?”

Zerpied said, unable to hide his embarrassment. If I waited four more days from now, I would be spending too much time than expected.

“Is there any way to get it faster or to do it? Or if you pay more…….”

The receptionist shook her head before he could finish his sentence. She said in a firm tone.

“As I have already said, the conditions given to everyone are the same because we seek not only you but also others together. Since it operates on a rotational basis, we do not receive extra money. In addition to people boarding, there are many people who are looking for ships to transport logistics. Those things are strict on time. It’s not something you can do randomly.”

As expected, the receptionist’s words were reasonable this time as well. Zerfied let out a low moan. The receptionist looked at him and said.

“If you don’t have a lot of time, why don’t you try to find one privately?”

“In private?”

“Yes. You don’t get it through our intermediaries, you do it yourself. Of course, you should be prepared to pay more than us.”

“Um… ….”

Blinking a few times, the Death Knight nodded her head. No other way came to mind. Still, the receptionist spoke to him in a tired tone.

“Shall I give you my money back?”

–

After leaving the mediation, the Death Knight and the saint walked slowly along the pier. The Death Knight seemed somehow rigid despite his massive body. It was a sunny day, but the saintess felt uneasy as she saw the escort knight trudging at her feet with her stiff face. When she opened her mouth to ask if she was okay, the saintess felt perplexity instead of apprehension. It is because her escort knight has spoken to her without her foreshadowing.

“Gemini.”

“Uh, huh? Yes?”

The escort knight asked her in a very serious tone.

“Come to think of it, yesterday you were afraid of thunder and lightning… ….”

Her embarrassment turned to shame. She did the best she could under the circumstances. She waved her arms wildly and made her wife’s voice with her whole body. It was natural to dye her face a strawberry-like color.

“Wow! Wow!”

But the escort knight did not live up to her efforts. He paused, cleared his throat again, and began to speak.

“…… So about that part….”

“Wow! Please, please stop talking! I was wrong! Because I was wrong!”

“… No, I don’t mean to offend you.”

“Oooh….”

Rather, her solemn attitude made her fall deeper and deeper into a swamp of shame. Tears welled up in her eyes at her rising shame. Still, the saintess mustered up the courage befitting her saintess and asked the escort knight a question.

“Well, then… ?”

“There must be a solution.”

“… Any solution?”

He gave a big nod.

“We will board the boat from now on. It will take at least a few days to get to the eastern continent. As you saw yesterday, the sea is unpredictable. This place adjacent to the sea is like this, so what do you think will happen if you go to the sea?”

Only then did the saintess understand the Death Knight’s words. Death Knight continued her words.

“If you go out to sea, the weather will be even more unpredictable. There is no guarantee that such storms will not rage not only at sea, but also in other areas where we will move. We can’t stop moving every time and wait for the storm to stop.”

Cilia nodded her head softly. However, her reason and sensibility were inherently contradictory, and even though she understood, her face still did not hide her shame. Besides, her bland tone in her Death Knight still made her hover in her shame.

“What did you do before? It must have been not only yesterday that thunder and lightning struck.”

The saintess spat out an answer in her tone that contained her shame.

“…… It was fine before. I mean, she was before she became a saint.”

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Celia whispered her words a little carefully to indicate her own identity.

“Did I mention I grew up in an orphanage? There were her older sisters and her younger brothers as well. Uhm, um It’s embarrassing to think about it now, but on a thunderstorm day, the roles of me and my younger siblings were reversed. Her younger siblings took care of me and her older sister. Her older sister was just as afraid of her thunderstorm as I was. Her younger siblings hugged me and her sister. So she fell asleep in the arms of her younger siblings.”

With her strawberry face, she kicked and laughed reminiscing about her old days. But immediately, her tone darkened.

“By the way… Since then…. There was no one.”

“Nobody?”

The death knight revealed her doubt at the somewhat incomprehensible choice of words by her saintess.

“Yes, nobody. The room I slept in was huge. It’s really amazing. When I first saw that room, I wondered what kind of room it was? I wanted to be able to sleep in that room with the teacher, my older sister, and her younger siblings. In that room… I was alone.”

The saintess shook her head. Her status as a saint seemed to have turned into a dark cloud that poured down heavy rain last night. Because it was a sunny day, her transformation was more prominent. She murmured her dark-cloudy words.

“The room was really nice. The bed was as wide as the room. It was the best of the capital beds I had up until this point. Food, tea… It was really good…. The nuns who brought me food and tea and the drivers who looked after me outside my room while I was sleeping were kind.

But… It would be nice if I could just say thank you… Embarrassing? Well, that’s right. When I talk to you, you keep lowering yourself and saying you don’t know what to do… I can’t keep talking and making it burdensome… At some point, I just bowed my head. Can’t speak Because of the circumstances, no one was allowed into the room but me.”

The saintess took a deep breath.

“Yes… I’m really ashamed to say it with my own mouth… You can’t ask the nuns and knights to sleep with me just because you’re afraid of thunder and lightning, right? They’re not even my younger siblings…. So I piled up a lot of her pillows and slept on them. Every time there is thunder and lightning, I cover my ears with them….

She’s been like that for three years. In a room with no one around. It didn’t matter if I spoke to the only Patriarch and his escort, Mr. Avent. Even if I joked with you, you accepted everything. They were really nice people. I did…. I did… !”

It was a very sunny day. Maybe that’s why it seemed that her rain was only falling where she was. Her eyes looked like they were about to pour down a downpour. The Death Knight called out to such a saint.

“Lady.”

The saintess raised her head and saw her Death Knight. Death Knight was huge. Enough to keep her from the downpour that falls on her.

“Because I am not a younger brother, much less a pillow, I can’t let you do that. But, I can lend you one of her arms.”

A storm was still raging on the saintess. But unlike her previous days, there were fewer frenzied rainstorms approaching her. Because she had an escort knight now. She was finally able to kick and laugh, feeling her composure in the abating storm.

“You have two arms, can you lend me the other one?”

“Oh, that can’t be. The other arm still needs to swing the spear. My name is an escort knight.”

She burst into laughter. A drop of water escaped from the corner of her crooked eye. It wasn’t rain, it was morning dew. Stealing the drops of water with the back of her hand, the saintess spoke to the escort knight.

“By the way, driver. Where are we going now?”

Zer Pied rummaged in his arms with a low, short sound. He soon took out a sack from there. He handed it to Lady.

“This is the money I got back from the intermediary. They said it was taking too much time, so I’m on my way to find out.”

“You want to find out separately?”

“Yes. I’ll see if we can take just the two of us to the eastern continent.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Zerfied approached an orc woman who was drinking rum while leaning on a boat tied to the dock.

“Wait a minute.”

The orc woman, tall and muscular like a sailor, looked him up and down for a moment, then threw her words away.

“What?”

“Can this ship go to the Eastern Continent?”

“The Eastern Continent? Can you go Are you looking for a boat? I’ll tell you when the captain comes. How many are there in total? How much are the supplies?”

“There is no material. There are only two of us, this lady.”

“What?”

As soon as he heard the answer, the orc’s brow furrowed.

“No.”

“Wait a minute, we haven’t even said how much we can give yet….”

“It’s obvious that there is a limit to the amount that two people can give. No matter how expensive it is It’s better to carry a load of supplies than to go to the Eastern Continent with just the two of you. While we are carrying just the two of you, other ships will go back and forth several times carrying dozens or hundreds of people to other parts of this continent. That earns a lot more Got it? That the resin doesn’t fit. Go somewhere else and find out.”

The orc woman shook her hand with her head turned. Due to that stubborn attitude, the Death Knight eventually had to back down. When she was rejected without even being able to put her proper words on, her saintess looked at her death knight in embarrassment. But he shrugged her shoulders casually.

Out of the many, many boats tied to the dock, only one was rejected. There were still many ships left, and it was hard for him to imagine that none of them would agree to their demands.

And as time went by, he hardened his face as he watched that difficult thought gradually become true. As the number of rejections increased for similar reasons, the two of them had to enter the alleyway from the side of the road where people moved a lot. In the alley where bridges were placed in a mess, something closer to filthy water than seawater flowed under the bridge.

Esilia felt even more anxious than before and held onto the hem of the Death Knight’s cloak. Death Knight also covered her Lady with a cloak. Outcasts lay down in that messy alley, and they looked not very well at the two in clean clothes as they passed.

There were even some outcasts there, all covered in robes. Thinking that she had met her eyes with one of them, who was smoking a pipe, Celia – she was wearing a robe, so I don’t know if she actually did – turned her head away.

And Zerfied felt like his mind had turned into a gloomy alleyway. Because he had just been denied a request to board the penultimate boat. The only ship left was that large galleon. As he was about to return there, he had to stop immediately. Because the human ship owner who talked with him started talking.

“Wait, you better not look at that old man’s ship.”

“… For what reason?”

“It’s been a while since I let go of the keys. A boat that has been stuck here for a while. So no sailors. He has a quirky personality.”

Esilia’s worries suddenly jumped ahead. It was hard to guess what kind of temperament she was, to the extent that she would say that a rough sailor is an eccentric. Zer Pied, who had been quietly listening to the shipowner’s words, nodded and turned his foot.

“No, what are you doing? Didn’t you hear me? It’s a ship that’s no longer running!”

“I heard you. But I don’t think you should go.”

Seonju frowned. It was evident that he was changing his assessment of him from somewhat peculiar to crazy. The ship owner shook his head.

“Dude, do whatever you want. It’s none of my business anyway.”

The Death Knight and the saint approached the last remaining ship. The saintess opened her mouth wide. The first time I saw an object called a ship on the dockside, I was surprised, but it wasn’t like this. The grandeur of this galleon was hard to compare with those that were moored along the docks. Even though the thickness of the accumulated time was felt in her wood, it seemed that she was proving herself by making it a part of herself.

As if to indicate the thickness of such time, an old gnome, as old as a pear, was leaning against the pear, blowing rum from a bottle. He had a pipe in his hand. Like an old gnome, he was grooming his long beard. Blowing his pipe, he spotted them and raised his eyes.

“What? What?”

“Let me ask you something. Can we go to the Eastern Continent by this ship?”

The old man immediately got angry at those words.

“What?! So you’re saying that my blue osprey is so worn out that it can’t even make it to the Eastern Continent?!”

“No, I don’t mean that….”

“Go away! I don’t want to mix with bastards who don’t even recognize my belly!”

The old man gave a groan, took a sip of the rum from the bottle, and then spun around. In an unexpected situation, Zerfied had to remain in a daze. Just then, Celia, who had been hiding her body under her cloak, stepped out.

“Me, the old man.”

“Huh?! What?! Didn’t you hear what I said? Don’t go away….”

Esilia smiled.

“But I don’t think this ship will ever make it to the Eastern Continent?”

“What-?!”

“Wait, Gemini… ! What is that… !”

Even if it wasn’t enough to please her, when he said something rather provoking the old man, even Zer Pied was embarrassed and attached her words to her. However, Ecelia continued her words with a smile as if she didn’t care about the reaction of the two men.

“Isn’t it? To be honest, this is the first time I’ve seen a ship… Isn’t this ship too old? If there is a storm on the way, I don’t think I will be able to withstand it.”

Zerpied thought the old man would explode soon. As expected, the old man went wild at those words. But what followed was beyond expectations.

“This… What does a bitch who has never seen a ship know?! I couldn’t even see the ship properly, so I’m talking like that!! What?! You can’t go to the Eastern Continent?! Please tell me that you are wrong!! Instead, if I take you to the Eastern Continent, I will have to buy five hundred barrels of rum!!”

Escelia smiled brightly as she looked at her escort knight. The Death Knight blinked blankly at her and spoke to the old gnome.

“Then how much money… ?”

But what came back was the old man’s fierce cry.

“You crazy bastard-! Do you think I’m doing this to get money?! Come out here by 5am in two days! Otherwise, I will invade where you are!”