The Death Knight Became an Escort Knight for the Saintess

75. Monument to the Nameless Country

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75.

It was almost noon when the bronze-skinned elf woke up. As soon as he woke up, feeling a throbbing headache and intense thirst, he almost instinctively sought cold water.

He felt his hand, and when the cold touches the tips of his fingers, he exclaims in delight and brings it to his mouth. And when he realized that it was a glass bottle of rum, he cursed himself and put it down. Of course, lightly so as not to break.

As he raised himself up, frowning, clutching his throbbing head, Freiggit wondered if he was still drunk. A knight named Huchi was holding onto his wheel and turning it slowly. The clergywoman was dozing, leaning at his feet.

“…… What?”

His throat was dry, and a sharp voice came out. Zer Peed turned his head and looked at him.

“Are you awake?”

“…… What are you? Did you know you could drive a boat?”

“As you can see.”

“No, crazy! You know how to drive a boat, so why did you come to see me?! It would be faster to just get it yourself and go to the southern continent…… Ah, you guys came as Voltri’s friends…. No, but still… ! This… !”

Death Knight said while gently releasing his steering wheel.

“I only know the basics, because I don’t know the details. I only know the general direction and how to drive.”

“What are you talking about, that’s enough to know everything… …. Where is this?”

At Frey Git’s words, Zer Pied almost turned the wheel he was turning to his left all the way. He asked urgently.

“What do you mean by that?”

“Isn’t this the route to the southern continent?”

“I looked at the position of the stars and found the direction and came down…… ?”

“What? But how did you come to this place? How long have you learned to drive a boat? No, you wouldn’t know these details unless you’d only learned it for a day or two…….”

“I learned about two days.”

Frigit slammed his forehead. He said with a sigh.

“Hey…… I’ve only learned about two days, but I should say that it’s amazing that I’ve brought it this far… What to do…. Come see me for a second.”

Frigit picked up a canteen from the floor and gulped down. He stretched out his hand towards the wheel. Zerfied carefully picked Ecilia, who was sleeping under the blanket at his feet, and put it down again. Frigate raised one arm on his wheel and asked.

“By the way, why is the clergy lady doing that? Are you going to sleep?”

“I fell asleep while talking last night. She woke me up in the middle of the night and told me to go to sleep, but she insisted on staying here, saying that it was better here, so I couldn’t help it.”

At that, the frigate almost slipped off the wheel. That’s because there was a lot of laughter. The Death Knight stared blankly at the sudden burst of laughter.

“Ah, sorry, sorry. I just want to be like that.”

At the words that were hard to understand, the Death Knight tilted his head.

“…… What do you mean?”

“No, just, what. Do you want to see it that way?”

Death Knight blinked at her even more incomprehensible words. But she couldn’t ask. It was because the frigate started explaining the current situation.

“Let’s see… …. We should have turned southwest to get to the southern continent, but now we’re just all the way down south. So we have to turn west again, but that will take a little longer.”

Zerpied asked a question with seriousness in his words. I was worried that it would take more time because of my mistake.

“…… Does it take a lot?”

“No, maybe a day or two? Originally, there was a fast current on the route I was going to go on, so I tried to ride it. Well, I haven’t been out on the open sea much like this, but…. It won’t take too long though.”

Death Knight thought to himself that he was fortunate. It was the same with Freight. It wasn’t as big of a problem as I thought. However, there was one problem that the two men overlooked. After two days, the frigate finally exploded over the issue.

“Stop eating!”

Her saintess Ecelia, who was holding tropical fruits in her hands and chewing her lychee in her mouth, was momentarily startled by the sudden cry of the frigate, and she couldn’t even chew her lychee. Gulp passed

“Yes, yes…… ?”

“Stop eating! How long are you going to eat like that!”

Saint Celia felt her face turn red and carefully put the pineapple and banana she was holding into the wooden box. With her prigit still gurgling, Esilia lowered her voice and spoke cautiously.

“No… just… Because the fruit is delicious… It’s the most delicious thing I’ve ever eaten…….”

“Huh? Oh, right? I arrived the fastest from the southern continent, my hometown, and brought only the freshest ones……. It’s not that important-! Hey, clergy lady! This is too bad! I packed enough food based on that in case it would take a day or so longer than the originally planned amount of time! It seems to be running out already! What are you going to do now!!”

Cilia wiggling her fingers and not knowing what to do, Celia hurriedly cast her helping gaze at her escort knight. However, despite her earnest gaze, Death Knight ‘… The waves are beautiful…… I was just looking at the sea while making a sound like ‘.’ In the end, the saintess fell into tears and bowed her head.

“If you only eat two meals a day, you’ll run out of food! Then you have to starve for about two days!”

“I, I…… If you get enough food from that fishing….”

“I brought fruit, but why did you bring fishing supplies!! My boat is a small ship for transportation, so I can’t load many things!”

“Sorry, sorry…… !”

However, Death Knight did not give up on her duties. It was he who lifted her saintess out of her predicament.

“Wait, Mr. Freight.”

“Huh? Why?”

“There is something there.”

At the words of the Death Knight, Frigate and Esilia turned their heads and looked in the direction he was looking. Frigate frowned to take a closer look. That,

“Isn’t it an island?”

The island floated alone in the middle of the vast ocean. Frigate picked up the telescope and held it close to his eyes.

“Trees…. It is a fruit tree!”

He exclaimed with a smile. There was relief in his voice.

“I lived… …. I really thought I was going to starve for two days….”

“So, are you okay now?”

He smiled and said to the saintess who asked cautiously while looking at her delightful feather.

“Clergy lady, if you eat like that this time, I understand that from now on you will only eat two bananas at a meal.”

The saintess screamed in terror inwardly, and quietly muttered that she would have to cut back on her meals in order not to starve like Mr. Freight said in the future. And Zerfied cried out sadly to himself that two bananas are not synonymous with never starving.

The anchorage was swift. Because the food was running out, there was nothing to shy away from. The island was not very large. However, tropical trees were densely planted, creating a dense forest. Seeing the trees that only grow in the south for the first time, Esilia didn’t know how to lower her highly raised head.

“Only those on the outer side of the island are still young…. I guess I’ll have to go inside to find the fruit.”

At the words of Frigit, the Death Knight and the saintess nodded. They lined up and moved forward. In the foremost stood a Death Knight in case of unexpected danger, in the second a saintess to be protected from the front and back in case of an emergency, and finally a frigate. The deeper we went, the thicker and thicker the forest became. Prigit originally wondered if the forest was this deep.

“Hey, knight-! Are you familiar with it?”

“Of course. If you go this way, there will be an empty lot.”

“…… How did you know there was a clearing here? With a telescope, that… Did you see it?”

Zerpied was taken aback by Frigit’s words. ‘Why did I know there is an empty lot here?’ Come to think of it, did she get lost as she moved forward? No. She didn’t go round or round, although the forest grew deeper and branches, and the protruding roots snatched her ankles.

‘Why?’

Zerpied could not come up with an answer to the question he had posed to himself. Because when he involuntarily turned his body to the left and skillfully struck a bush, a clearing really appeared, as he had just said. It was Death Knight himself who was dumbfounded when those words really came true.

‘Have I ever been here?’

No. He is thus not mainly active at sea. He rarely visits the island. If so, there are many people who can wake you up on a continent, so why are you on such a remote island? The cheerful voice of the frigate interrupted his worries.

“What? There was a real vacant lot, right? If you see it through a telescope, say you saw it, the driver’s eyes are really good.”

The frigate whistled, and when the large leaves or branches that hindered his advance were gone, he strode forward. As he walked out and took the lead, he noticed something unusual.

“Huh? Zeolite?”

At the words of Frigit, the Death Knight and the saint turned their attention there. As he said, a tombstone protruded from the middle of the clearing. But what caught my attention the most was the writing on the tombstone. It was unreadable writing. It was also because the tombstone itself was so old that the writing was blurred, but it was basically written in a language I didn’t know at all.

“This is the first letter I see… …. What is it written on?”

“…… Nation.”

“What?” “Yes?”

At Zerfied’s words, the saintess and the captain looked at him at the same time. Frigate said as if it were absurd.

“…… No, this letter… Can you read it?”

However, the saintess was not that surprised. Her escort knight is a death knight that has been handed down in records since long ago. Perhaps, this language now may also be the language used in the past when he signed a contract and ran it. She looked at the frigate with a slightly bewildered look. How am I supposed to explain this?

“Country…… It’s about.”

However, the worries were easily resolved.

“Country? Oh country? Then it seems that the country is from the days when it existed? Wow, isn’t that really old? It’s been over a thousand years, right? Somehow, I thought it looked very old.

Well, some big cities are said to cherish the record of being a country, so a high-ranking person like a knight might know. But you don’t know why you care so much about it? Without being able to eat. What is the name of that country?”

“…… It just says country.”

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“As expected, those things don’t help.”

Frigit said that and immediately took his attention away from the tombstone. His attention was completely turned to the tropical fruit trees that surrounded the clearing. The saintess was also distracted by turning her head, soaked in her sense of happiness, seeing her surroundings. And at the same time, the two began to show considerable talent for fruit collectors.

When the two of them proved with their own hands that the virtue of a fruit collector is not only in the type of fruit, but also in the quantity, Jerpied was still staring at the tombstone. With a grin, Celia, who was about to return to the ship with her frigate, saw it and cautiously called her Death Knight.

“Uh…… Knight?”

“Hmm? Ah, did you call me?”

“Uh, I’m going back now after picking all the fruit… ….”

“Oh, sorry. I will go back.”

Zer Pied said that and turned her body away. There was no fruit in his hand. It’s not strange. The knight eats through the shadows, but I can’t show it to Mr. Freight.

However, if he had pretended to pick it, there would have been leaves or something on it, but the knight’s hands were so clean. The saintess wanted to ask, but she couldn’t. The knight stretched out her foot with her stride and spoke to her.

“Eggplant, Esilia.”

“Ah… yes… ….”

As the saintess walked along with the Death Knight, the bushes that briefly opened as they walked hid the clearing again.

Biseok, who had woken up after a long time, went back to his original role and began to sleep. In his sleep, the stone dreamed. It was a pleasant, dream of a reunion.