The Death Knight Became an Escort Knight for the Saintess

78. Such-and-such relationships

78.

Freygit looked at Ecelia with a rather absurd look as she was eating rambutan, lychee, dragon fruit, banana, pineapple, and mango placed in front of her with a happy expression. If this was her first dinner, he would have been somewhat understanding. All the food they had was thrown out by the tornado.

However, they already had a late dinner. It’s also pretty hearty. In response to Esilia’s request to try the most representative food of the southern continent, Freygit traced her memory and guided the saintess and Death Knight to a restaurant here in the port city of Rad Pell that was reasonably priced and tasted good.

Fortunately, even after several years, the place was still in business. From the saintess’ point of view, it is clear that the restaurant must have been seen as close to a utopia.

A dish made by cooking a whole red king crab shell, adding spices and steaming it with rice, and eating crab meat together. A dish made by mixing pork with the southern continent’s unique seasoning. A dish made with soft rice, corn and chicken stir-fried in a lot of oil.

It wouldn’t be too strange if these dishes were a meal for three people. However, the last one was for Frigate himself, and the first two were purely for Esilia.

“Mr. Is the driver okay? You don’t seem to be eating as well as before, do you?”

At Frigit’s question, Zerfied held up two large pineapples he had bought at the fruit market on the way. Of course, that was quite a lot, but it was nothing compared to the amount the saintess ate. In fact, he seriously doubted that the spirits of the knight and the saintess had been switched by a magic unknown to him.

The look on the saintess’ face as she mumbled as she scooped an armful of rice with crabmeat in a large spoon and brought it to her mouth was simply happiness itself. She wondered if she had ever seen her look so happy while sailing with that clergyman. And it was the same with Zerpied. She was the happiest expression of a saintess’ face since she left the Eastern Continent.

Celia asked Frey Git as she savored her food, raising the corners of her mouth.

“Did I say the name of this food was rice? Try it first! It’s not stretched like cotton, but it’s so soft even though it’s clumped together…… !”

“This is a food that is often eaten in the eastern continent rather than the southern continent. Haven’t you tried it? The eastern continent produces a lot of rice, wheat, and barley, so rice is the staple food.”

The answer to that came from elsewhere.

“In the Eastern Continent, there were few opportunities to eat their staple food. A lot of things happened so I couldn’t hear from the restaurant. I usually filled my stomach with food sold on the roadside.”

“Sorry. I think the food there is better than the food from my hometown.”

The saintess, who had finished eating the crab meat-filled rice and was stretching out her fork for the pork, stopped her hand abruptly. Not only did her hands stop, but her mouth, which was mumbling and chewing, also stopped moving. The saintess said in a voice so serious that it was difficult to believe that she had been wearing a happy expression just before.

“…… Does it taste better than this?”

It went beyond the camp and even created a sense of coolness. The two men’s bodies flinched at her words. The frigate managed to suppress the moment when he was about to hear an example.

“Huh? Uh… Me, I mean that Rice or wheat in the southern continent has a bit of a dry feeling, perhaps because of the temperature, so I personally find the rice in the eastern continent to be more sticky and glossy. ….”

Frigit was speechless. Frigate had never seen Gemini’s expression like that. No, she had never seen such an expression in her life. If she dared to translate it into words she knew, that would be the expression of someone who witnessed the destruction of the world.

A thousand years ago. Did the death knights who ravaged the world with the necromancer Blitod, and those who witnessed death live look like that?

Frigate, who thought about something else for a moment at the shocking expression on his face, quickly focused his thoughts on the current situation. However, no matter how much I looked at it, I couldn’t figure out why Gemini was making that expression. The elf hurriedly looked at the knight asking for help.

Frigit gave up on resolving the situation. Huchi was also making the same expression as himself.

Zerpied had experienced many things while driving for a long time, so he could not ignore the warnings sent by his honed intuition. And according to his intuition, the situation now had considerable seriousness.

Suppressing the cry of her intuition to get out of her seat at any moment, the Death Knight cautiously asked the saintess who bowed her head before she knew it.

“…… Gemini, is there anything you don’t like?”

“…… I couldn’t eat….”

“… What?”

“More than this… They say it tastes better… I couldn’t eat…… !”

The saintess who raised her head looked as if she would burst into tears any moment. She could see a clear liquid dripping from her large eyes. Death Knight was not the only one who felt a sense of crisis in such a situation. Freight, too, felt the years of experience as a sailor sounding alarm bells.

Two men struggled to appease a woman.

Frigit preached how delicious the food of his home continent was. If he had been full, he would not have started wandering, but he was about to develop a sense of homelessness. The face of the saintess was able to regain her peace only after he made a promise to go to the eastern continent again if he had a chance to eat it.

Of course, that serenity came at the expense of the pork for dinner and the fresh tropical fruits we bought on the way to the inn.

While watching the fruits sacrificing themselves holyly in the mouth of the saintess inside, he had to finish his thoughts about the unprecedented crisis situation that was about to happen before coming to the inn.

“You haven’t slept yet? Go to bed early Gemini, you too. He must be very tired from taking us all the way here today. Besides, I plan to leave as soon as it is bright tomorrow.”

It’s because Zerpied, who said he had been out for a while, has returned. In his hand were several rather large canteens. Frigate, who was about to ask if the food was ready, stopped asking.

The place they go is a deep jungle. No matter how much food he prepares, it is certain that it will soon go bad due to the high temperature and humidity. It would be better to procure food there and prepare plenty of drinking water.

Instead, the elf decided to ask another question. Before asking that question, Frigate glanced at Ecilia once. The clergywoman had eaten all the ‘snack’ before she knew it, and was dozing on the spot with her knees bent. Seeing her Ecilia dozing off, Zer Pied carefully lifted her up and carried her to her bed.

“You know.”

At the words of Frigit, Zer Pied turned his head and looked at him.

“What happened?”

“Well, nothing special, just…… Why are you sharing a room with me?”

At the elf’s question, the Death Knight slightly tilted her head as if it was difficult to understand.

“What do you mean by that? You and I are together. Do you feel uncomfortable sharing a room? But it’s late at night, so there won’t be any room left…….”

“No, no, it’s not that it’s particularly uncomfortable…… It’s because I don’t think you guys will be uncomfortable.”

At the words of Frigit, Zerpied put on an expression that was even more difficult to understand. The one who was taken aback by Zerfied’s reaction was the frigate. Eventually, not knowing how to communicate what he was thinking, he unfortunately began to gibberish his disorganized thoughts.

“Uh… No, I mean, if you’re in a room with me, isn’t it uncomfortable to spend time alone? I-I mean, what do you mean you’ve been with me for a few days? So I think it’s definitely necessary to spend some time alone. Oh, or is it that you haven’t gotten to that kind of relationship yet? Maybe it’s because the other party is a priest… To…… ?”

She was about to ask if she hadn’t slept with her yet because she was her clergyman. His long, pointy ears flapped madly up and down.

Frigit raised his eyes slightly with goosebumps and looked at Zerfied standing by the bed. He was looking at himself as he was, with his brow furrowed without even moving. He originally had sharp eyes, but the elf thought that those eyes would tear him apart now.

Freigit felt as if his ears were going to fall off, and he managed to squeeze the words out of his parched mouth and put them together.

“…… I guess I’m sleepy I have to sleep now. Good night, knight!”

Frey Git threw his words out, then turned and threw himself onto the bed that had been set aside for him as well. It was an escape at an incomparable speed compared to when he ran away from a tornado. The frigate ran towards the bed, buried his face in his pillow and wrapped himself in the blanket at the same speed, confining himself to the bed.

The break with the world he attempted was pathetic.

If Freight had been as close to Zerfied as Ecilia was, he would have known that Zerfied had no negative feelings about his words. A Death Knight’s frown is a habit he shows when he’s worried about a situation or doesn’t understand it properly.

The reason he frowned this time was the latter.

‘Sure… such a relationship…… ?’

Zerpied couldn’t figure out the meaning of that word he heard so often in this contract. It was clear that there was a common meaning when everyone said that they were like that, but it was difficult for him to even guess. Maybe it’s an idiom?

When Death Knight tried to talk to the elf to ask him a question, the frigate had already gone into bed. It was a sudden sleep, but he thought it was worth it. He went through a lot of trouble bringing them to the southern continent today. You must be very tired, and it is very late at night.

Zer Pied lay on his bed next to Ecilia, pondering very seriously what the hell his “Between” Meant.