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064 – Rust Burns Palcea # 3

Black Knight Roland.

He was a man about the same height as me and wearing black armor.

The face was hidden from view by a wolf-shaped helmet.

I heard he is famous for never showing his face.

He was a very suspicious guy.

I’m sure it’s because he has a bit of a bad side to him?

I haven’t seen any good guys among those who cover their faces with masks or helmets.

In reality, Black Knight Roland was a pure bastard.

What is this guy, looking for someone else’s wife when it’s almost 10 o’clock at night?

“Are you Miss Psyche of Agarpe?”

Me and Psyche came down to the first floor.

Black Knight Roland asked her.

“Yes, I am Psyche. What are you looking for me for?”

“I heard that in this incident, you had the closest encounter with that man, Rust. I would like you to tell me in detail what happened back then.”

I’m just asking you to explain the situation.

Psyche told the truth in front of me.

After listening to the story for a while, Black Knight Roland mumbled and said.

“It sounds like Rust is obsessed with your purity and faithfulness, Psyche. It seems like they’re targeting you. This means that there is a high probability that it will appear around you again.”

Roland.

This black tin-head’s head worked better than expected.

Indeed, not just anyone can do the work of the Six Knights.

Isn’t Roland’s intuition better than Sir Parmas, who is said to be a master of strategy?

Roland said.

“Even now, the Blood Crusade is roaming throughout Palcea and committing arson. And they also added this disparaging comment.”

fluttering-.

The following story was written on the paper Roland handed me.

“Nicholas, a lieutenant of the Black Knights, had an affair with Fontina, a married woman from a baronial family? In addition, he committed extramarital affairs with more than 13 married women?”

I asked, pretending not to know anything.

Then Roland nodded.

“The facts are being confirmed. If this is true, he will not escape punishment for breaking the rules of the Dark Knights. Although Nicholas himself denies it.”

Of course he would deny it.

His mistakes have been exposed in detail.

I quietly added a few words to Roland.

“Perhaps it is because of Nicholas that the Dark Knights’ despicable behavior is revealed in Rust’s new work. He sold out his colleagues to cover up his mistakes.”

To cover up an incident, another incident is revealed─.

This was a common occurrence even in the Middle Ages.

If you reveal the incident in a haphazard manner, people’s attention will be focused elsewhere, and the point will ultimately become blurred.

At my words, I saw the eyes of the knights and soldiers guarding Roland behind him change.

“Did that guy, Nicholas, really spread it?”

“Selling out your colleagues for your own survival? Well, he was originally a thief, right? From the beginning, I didn’t like the idea of him taking the position of adjutant over our former knights.”

“Quiet.”

Crash-.

Roland raised his clenched hand.

Roland spoke when the knights fell silent.

“Details will be revealed at trial. Rather than holding a public trial, it would be better to handle matters quietly within the Order.”

“Lord Roland, if Nicholas claims possession by Rust, please call me. Because I know more about Rust’s possession than anyone else in this kingdom.”

“Indeed. I understand.”

Black Knight Roland.

He bowed his head.

Then he turned his head towards Psyche.

“Psyche, this is a letter sent by Friede.”

Friede.

I was startled by the giant’s name.

If Pope Gregory was the sun of the church, Friede was like the moon of the church.

I asked.

“There are people who call Friede a saint, right? Why did such a great person send a letter to my wife, Psyche?”

“I don’t know either. Please read the letter.”

Sze-.

With those words, Roland tried to leave the tavern.

But I knew that there was still a ‘debt’ left between Roland and me.

I asked into his back.

“What are you going to do, Miss Lucy? Are you still holding on to her?”

“She is protected in the reception room of the Great Temple. Since the operation to lure the Walpurgis witches failed, I think they will probably be acquitted.”

“I will be watching.”

“Please do so.”

Roland.

He flew away, his black cloak waving.

Finding form.

The guys who covered their faces with helmets or masks seemed strangely fond of showing off their faces.

Is it because the shame has decreased?

“So, Psyche, what does it say?”

Psyche opened the letter sealed with red wax and was reading its contents.

Psyche trembled at my question and said,

“Tomorrow… .”

“Tomorrow?”

“Friede says he will come to Veneto to see me tomorrow? They tell us to perform a purification ceremony by 11 a.m. tomorrow and then come to Daesinjeon. If it’s a purification ceremony, it means you have to pray all night tonight. I had something to say today… .”

Friede.

That such a big man would come to Veneto, quite a distance from the saint’s capital, Baracán, to meet Psyche?

I have a rough idea of what’s going on.

# # #

Milione.

It was morning when he came back.

“Hey, Millie. Where have you been?”

“I was caught up in a riot and ended up sleeping at a nearby inn. Why!”

It’s an obvious lie.

Last night, the story of Ras of the Whirlpool Mask running around happily beating up witches and the Dark Knights became vivid testimony and heated up the tavern.

Milione yawned.

The guy said.

“But the city was noisy from the morning. In addition to the Black Knights, all kinds of soldiers and knights were spread out on the streets. Are you trying to capture Rust? I wonder if that man will be caught.”

I also vaguely noticed that there were so many troops spread throughout Veneto that Milione was impressed.

That’s right.

I heard that Friede is coming to Veneto.

“If it’s Friede, is it Pope Gregory’s secret concubine?”

At Milione’s question, frowning, the people around her turned to look at us one by one, and Psyche gave Milione a light warning.

“Shh, you can’t talk like that carelessly. And Friede is not a secret concubine, but an “advisor”.”

「Advisor – Friede」.

She was a famous woman.

Most rumors were that she was Pope Gregory’s concubine and that they shared the same bed.

Origin unknown.

Age unknown.

All that is known is that she gives various ‘advice’ to Pope Gregory as befits her role as an advisor.

He also said that he is sometimes in charge of practical work.

Should we call it a secret power?

She was a woman with so many secrets that even I had never met her.

Why does such a woman call Psyche?

Well, time will tell.

Feeling like that at 11 am.

The streets were so organized and tense that it was hard to believe that there had been a major riot the previous day.

A path created by knights and soldiers with swords.

A carriage entered the road.

“Frieda!”

“Let’s see what it looks like!”

“I heard that the three flower women are so beautiful that they give up on themselves!”

“That means the Pope is wrapped in the width of the skirt!”

People were anxious to see Friede.

A woman so beautiful that even Psyche would give up on her?

There is no way there is a woman like that in the world.

Soon the carriage stopped and Roland walked towards it and opened the door.

Sze-.

A jet-black woman wearing black gloves, a black hat, and a veil stepped forward.

She looked like a widow wearing mourning clothes, but not a single ounce of skin was visible.

You can’t see it.

But since it doesn’t look like that, it stimulates my imagination even more.

How beautiful of a woman is it that they keep it hidden like that?

She entered the main shrine.

And then he ran into me in front of the living room.

“Hyde, you cannot enter the drawing room.”

Roland stopped me.

But Friede, the Pope’s concubine, spoke beneath the black veil.

“It’s okay. Psyche is Hyde’s wife. The couple is of one mind. I think it would be a good idea to bring in Hyde as well. It’s a story he needs to hear too.”

His voice was very hoarse.

Since she was the concubine of the Pope, I expected a voice as beautiful as an oriole, but it was strange.

I entered the living room with that feeling.

Psyche and I were sitting side by side, Friede was sitting in front of us, and the knight Roland was guarding us.

Where is Milione? When I was thinking about that, Friede said.

“I’m busy, so I’ll just talk about business. Psyche, your Holiness Pope Gregory has appointed you a Knight of the Golden Plate of the Temple. ‘Virgin Psyche’. That’s what you’ll be called.”

“Yes?”

Psyche was embarrassed.

It was something I had vaguely expected, so I felt the same way.

Friede soon added.

“New Sin Seat Rust. The Pope acknowledged its existence. An order of six knights that was once established to deal with the six Great Sins. They will now be expanded into a group of 7 knights to deal with the 7 final sinners. Psyche, you will be a part of it.”

“My, I can’t believe I’m becoming a knight with a gold plate─.”

Psyche seemed very surprised.

And I seemed to realize something.

“But wasn’t the Gold Plated Knight appointed only to those who took a pledge of chastity? I already have a husband, right?”

“But you are still a pure virgin. Only that purity can stand against the wicked devil of lust. I can feel the providence of the Lord Elohim in all of these places. Thank you for everything the Lord has arranged… .”

It was Friede, praying with both hands together.

Psyche asked her in confusion.

“… Wait. So does that mean I have to keep my vow of chastity in the future?”

Friede continued to speak to Psyche.

“From now on, we will dispatch twenty knights and three hundred soldiers to Agarpe. From now on, Agarpe Estate will pay tithes to the church instead of five trillion.”

Troop shortage problem.

And financial issues.

If Psyche became a member of the Seven Knights, it meant that the two problems that bothered Agarpe the most would be solved at once.

Friede’s words did not end there.

“The Pope is planning to remodel the royal palace on Royal Road and build a grand temple. I may entrust you with the protection of the grand temple that will be newly built in the center of the six horns.”

for a moment-.

What of the six horns?

I knew it was rude to interrupt this conversation, but I had no choice but to ask.

“Lady Friede, I am truly sorry to interrupt you, but there is something I would like to ask you. Do you know what the six horns are?”

“Priest Hyde, I don’t like people interfering with my stories, but I too was a woman from Midvar. Therefore, I will give a special answer this time with the sincerity of a fellow citizen. Sir Roland, the map.”

That Friede was a Midvarian?

I learned new information.

“Look, this is the map of the kingdom.”

Map of the United Kingdom.

It was spread out on a table over a large area.

Soon Friede pointed to an area with his hand.

“Durgien’s Basilica of Florence. The Great Temple of Veneto in Palcea. Temple on the Mount at Argilam. Basilica of St. Patro in Barakán. Seminary of Antioch. Lastly, the underground church of the Cartacom.”

Swish, swish, swish.

6 dots.

When Friede connected it, it took on a strange shape.

It was a star with six horns.

Star of David.

It was the type of pattern called that.

“The star that appears when the great temples built in the kingdom are connected is the Star of Uniger. The secret art of the royal family that all the people of the Uniger royal family, starting from the great founding king Uniger, sought to complete.”

Sze-.

Finally, Friede’s hand pointed to the center of the six stars.

“It was said that its effect was to grant any wish or to bring eternal peace to the royal family. Of course, it may not have been effective, but the Uniger royal family was eventually exterminated.”

Whether it’s a pseudo-medieval secret technique or an effect is none of my business.

What’s important is that we figured out what the centers of the six horns mean.

According to Lucy, this is a human who knows the answers to all the questions in the world.

The person standing at the center of the six horns.

Ruler of the royal capital, Royal Road.

It was a word referring to the king of humans.

The king knows my identity?