episode_0064

73.

Just before Raine took off her clothes and attacked the hero, an explosion shook the room where the hero was staying.

“What, what?! attack?! Who is it at a time like this?!”

Laine jumped up from above the hero and shouted in a panic, and the situation of the other women who broke into the hero’s room with her was not much different.

In their confusion, the voice of one of the women who should never have seen this scene rang into their ears.

“Hero! are you okay?! What on earth is this…”

Barce, who entered the warrior’s room first, stopped talking when he saw the situation inside.

And soon after, Anis and Elise appeared on the scene.

Like Barce, Anis and Elise paused for a moment in disbelief at the scene unfolding in the room. Of the two, it was Elise who came to her senses and moved first.

“Dare to the hero…”

Holy power is most effective in assisting others and healing wounds, but with the holy power of Saint Elise, it was possible to strengthen oneself beyond the level of an ordinary knight.

It’s just that the efficiency was much lower than using divine power on others, so I didn’t do it well, but for Elise, whose mind turned white with anger the moment she saw the hero lying half-naked among the women, such efficiency and all was already there. It wasn’t in my head.

Elise, who had strengthened her body by drawing up all of her divine power in an instant, kicked off the floor and leapt forward.

Although the mace she liked to use was not in her hand, the current Elise did not need any special tools to break people’s bones and crush their flesh.

“Grp, purr…”

A tightly closed fist was stuck under Laine’s chest, and the sound of ribs being crushed echoed in the quiet space.

Raine was also a skilled knight with some experience on the front lines, so she responded by raising her magical power in the end, but no matter how inefficiently she was using her divine power, she could not compare in skill or experience to the saint who had stepped on the threshold of the Demon King’s Castle.

As a result, Laine collapsed with blood foaming in her mouth without even being able to scream properly, as her lungs were damaged by the blow from Elise’s bare fist.

“Ugh, wow! Hit it!”

“What are you just looking at! It’s already ruined! If you want to live, move, hehehehe!”

The woman who was helping other colleagues after seeing Laine fall was grabbed by the collar by Elise’s hand, which had already entered her arms, and she flew through the air and collided with another woman who was watching in a daze.

Elise went one step further and dug into the women, knocking them down one by one with her fists and feet. Drops of red blood splattered on the pitch-black clothes she wore, creating an irregular pattern in real time.

However, no matter how much skill Elise possessed for a priest, she only relied on powerful divine power and was not originally meant to take the lead in fighting, so when the women came to their senses and fought back, she could no longer push her one-sidedly.

The women finally felt relieved when Elise could no longer go on a rampage, but there were now two other opponents in this place who were as experienced as Elise. Moreover, unlike Elise, the targets, Anis and Barce, were supporting roles and did not come forward out of anger, risking inefficiency.

Even though they may have let their guard down, there was no way that even Elise could hold out when Anis and Barche joined in.

The suppression was over in an instant, and right after the women were unable to move their bodies and fell to the floor, moaning, the three women who had created the scene rushed to the warrior’s side.

“Hero! A warrior! How can I, those mean bitches, how can they do this to the warrior? Ugh, I’m a warrior…”

The warrior looked embarrassed when Elise, who had just mercilessly crushed the women in half with her fists, hugged him and cried bitterly, shedding tears, but then he smiled bitterly and patted Elise on the back to comfort her.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Nothing special happened, so stop crying. Pop. That’s right.”

In fact, as a hero who thought it was an opportunity for Laine and other women to attack him like this, he felt resentful that he had to stop in the middle, but seeing Elise crying didn’t make him want to blame them. However, only a feeling of disappointment remained.

“I know how you feel, but stop and look at the warrior’s condition first. There is nothing wrong on the outside, but you never know.”

“Well, yes, that should be it…”

After hearing Anise’s words, Elise wiped away her tears and used her divine power to check if there was anything wrong with the warrior’s body, while Anis looked back at Barce.

After confirming that the hero was safe, Barce stood in front of the window, observing something and muttering.

“I have no intention of hiding it. Did he leave it like this for us to see?…”

“Barce? Is there something there?”

“Huh? Well, that’s not what I’m talking about here.”

Barce opened his mouth to answer Anise’s question, but swallowed his words after glancing sideways at the women who were lying on the floor, unable to move, but not yet unconscious.

“Is it her?”

When Anis saw Barce who was reluctant to speak and asked as if she had noticed something, Barce just nodded as if it was the correct answer.

After a while, when Elise informed them that there was nothing wrong with the hero except for a few scratches, Anis and Barce sighed and entrusted the protection of the hero to Elise and took the fallen women outside together.

It didn’t take long to execute all the remaining participants, including the ringleader, Laine.

Although he did not reveal exactly what happened for the sake of the hero’s honor, quite a few people knew what Raine was planning to do to the hero, and there was not a single person in the castle who wanted to offend Anis, who was angry at him for messing with her beloved hero. There wasn’t.

As a result, the women who participated in the plan to attack the warriors other than Laine were all quickly and publicly executed without a chance to make excuses on appropriate charges such as insulting the royal family and treason.

74.

“Was it really the devil who called us back then?”

Anis suddenly asked such a question to Barce, who was thinking about something that happened a while ago.

“That’s right. Looking at the traces of magical power, he was blatantly saying that he did it, but only those of us who met the Demon King in person would recognize it,”

“Wait, wait a minute? What are you two talking about? Are you suddenly the devil?”

Elise, who heard the natural exchange between Anis and Barce, interjected with an embarrassed expression and said.

“Hmm? Didn’t I tell you?”

“You didn’t notice? Right before the hero was attacked by those bitches, they deliberately made a loud noise to let us know. If you think about the only one who would do something like that, the devil would be the only one.”

“I just thought they did something wrong. Barche, who came first, did something…”

“You came a little late, so you might think that way. I didn’t make that sound.”

Elise finally realized that the sudden explosion of laughter that had caused her to rush to find the hero that day was the work of the devil.

“The Demon King… Are you saying he made a fuss and called us before something big happened to prevent the hero’s power from getting stronger? Since we already know the future, no, we could have prevented it more easily if they had told us in advance. Why wait until something happens and then do something like that?”

In response to Elise’s words, which were full of questions, Barce immediately answered as if she had already thought about it.

“I told you what the Demon King said before, right? This isn’t the first time. Maybe they had told you in advance and things got even more complicated, or they expected it to happen that way.”

“Why? Why do you say that knowing in advance causes problems?”

“I’ve thought about it too, but if I had known in advance, I probably wouldn’t have used the front-line knights at all or wasted time purging them by blaming them for something that didn’t even happen. Even if it wasn’t a big problem, it might have been a little jarring. And….”

Anise hesitated for a moment, as if wondering whether it was right to speak, but eventually opened her mouth.

“Maybe this incident was exactly what was needed. Not only for us, but also for the warriors.”

“Hero, what about you? Like that…”

“The hero is a little, no, not a little, but quite careless in that respect, right? I hate to say this, but honestly, the hero is so defenseless. To put it simply, they don’t know that women are scary.”

Elise couldn’t deny the words she complained as she placed her chin on Barce’s clasped hands. This was because it was a fact that could easily be seen by watching from the side that the warrior had many aspects that were unmanly.

“Now we’ll be busier, and we’ll have to take some measures to ensure the hero’s safety while we’re away, as I said, but once an incident has actually occurred, it’ll be easier for the hero to understand and there’ll be less opposition, right?◦ @◦