35. At the founding festival (10)
“… Judah?”
When she called her name, Judas suddenly came to his senses.
Unfamiliar feelings flew away.
She took a quick step back.
It was because her body smelled unpleasant.
“… Yes. Miss.”
“Are you okay? What’s wrong, where are you hurt?”
“No. It’s okay.”
For a moment, she couldn’t understand why Elijah was unfamiliar.
Anyway, it’s not something to worry about right now.
Judah reported what happened to her.
“The monsters also appeared in the northeast, but there were our personal guards there, so we suppressed them.”
“Really? That’s fine….”
Clock, click.
The sound of heavy armor hitting the floor.
Her armor rattles against each other.
A group in golden armor approached them.
The sun pattern on the shoulder.
It’s a little different from the Bebel family.
The sun engraved on the golden breastplate is embossed as if it would protrude, and the extending beam of light is sharp.
Unlike the gentle blazing sun of the Bevel family.
It was the pattern of the empire.
And the golden armor is the symbol of an imperial knight.
“You are very quick to respond.”
Elijah gave a slight sarcasm.
The imperial knight simply saluted steadfastly.
“Thanks for the help. Princess Elijah.”
“Not really. It’s not because I didn’t want to be thanked.”
While they were talking, Judas returned her armor.
It’s a bit dirty, but I can’t help it.
There was no way to wipe this place right away.
When she took off her armor, her body felt lighter.
There was no unpleasant smell.
“If you’re not rude, you two. May I ask what you have been doing around here?”
“Are you suspicious of the two of us now?”
“Not a suspicion, but a legitimate investigation….”
“Hmm?”
Elijah did not answer with a subtle smile.
The imperial knight’s claim is true.
They had the right and duty to inquire into what had happened.
However, Elijah rescued her strange sense of incongruity.
Feeling impatient.
I deliberately reacted sharply to get a reaction, but the opponent was overly flustered.
What the hell are you trying to hide?
“What is good. There’s nothing I can’t talk about.”
Elijah reluctantly opened her mouth to speak.
In the meantime, Judas watched the imperial knights from a distance.
To be precise, the giant in the middle of the crowd.
‘Wow, look at his size. Are you human?’
At least 2m tall.
It seems to be 50cm even if it is 2m as a rule of thumb.
It’s not just height.
The wide-open appearance was like a huge gateway.
‘Has there ever been a human that big? There are no giants or anything like that here…. If it was that big, it would be quite famous, so why is it that nothing is known about it?’
As if he was tired from rushing, the giant shook his body.
To the extent that I could hear the uncomfortable breathing.
‘Almost no monsters….’
That moment.
The giant and the eyes met.
No.
From the time Judas took off her helmet, the giant had been paying attention to Judas.
We just met eyes.
‘… What?’
A sudden sense of incongruity.
I didn’t even have time to think.
“Kreurreuk… ! aaagh-!”
The giant began to scream.
As if in agony, I grabbed his head and struggled.
“Kuheugheugh-!”
“Hey, hey! Calm down!”
Imperial knights approached to stop them.
It was useless.
When the giant swings his arm, it flies like his sheet of paper.
“Kuheusss… !”
The giant stopped struggling and glared straight at Judas.
Goose bumps ran down Judas’ spine.
“My lady! Blood….”
The moment I tried to avoid.
Her mouth was tightly shut.
“Ouch….”
A heavy pain piercing through the abdomen and crushing the body.
The giant rushed in an instant and crashed into him.
I didn’t even have time to recognize it.
He flew away and crashed into the wall of Giudecca.
“Kuheughhh-!”
The giant held his head again as if in pain.
“Yuda-!”
Elijah let out her scream and used the teleport on him.
“Ah, how, how…. Yu, Yuda… ?”
A body drooping with its back against the wall.
“No, no….”
The trembling hand of Elijah reached Judas.
Judah struggled to hold her hand.
“Okay… there…. It hurts so bad… But….”
Elijah swallowed her saliva and glared at the giant.
Eyes wide open.
The irises are dyed with crazy fire.
The magic has already been prepared.
It’s just that I couldn’t decide how to kill him.
Should I burn it with my armor on?
Or should I melt it down to fit inside the armor?
Or else, at all, I’d rather this whole city….
“My lady.”
Judas hugged Elijah by the waist.
She fell and fell into his chest.
“I’m fine.”
“I….”
“Calm down. The opponent is an imperial knight.”
“… ….”
“I don’t know why he did that, but if you kill him, you will be in trouble.”
Even Elijah knows.
No.
Elijah knows better than Judas.
It has to be.
Still, Elijah had a hard time controlling her emotions.
It wasn’t because of the crazy fire.
This emotion she feels now.
Rage and intent to kill.
She was all her own.
But….
Elijah looked up at Judas who embraced him.
She puts it like that, and smiles as if it’s okay to be relieved.
She doesn’t even smile…. Laughing at times like this is against the rules.
“… Huh. Okay.”
Elijah leaned his face on his chest and healed his wound.
Even though it wasn’t anger caused by mad fire, her heart sank as he hugged her.
Why are you doing this?
It’s strange.
It’s too, too strange.
By the way, I didn’t hate it.
So, I decided to stay a little strange.
“Hold on there!”
A number of imperial knights stuck together and subdued the giant.
The giant’s helmet was torn and rattled.
It is because Judas slapped her with her elbow the moment she was hit by them.
He didn’t just stand still.
The dangling helmet fell from the wild rampage.
Her face is revealed.
‘… Uh?’
Judah is holding Elijah.
Elijah was hugged by him.
She looked at the giant’s bare face.
Eyes with the whites fully exposed.
It wasn’t that he was swollen, his eyelids were cut off.
The egg whites stained red.
The skin was covered with red eczema.
Even the bare head was also full of scars and eczema.
Drool flowed from his tightly closed mouth.
Glaring at Judas with the face of a rabid beast.
He was used to the face of a giant.
It has changed and changed a lot, but the feeling of childhood remains.
Very trivial, but….
‘… Envinyl?’
A candidate who was from the same Giudecca as himself.
I don’t know about Judas, but I wanted to be like Judas.
He appeared in front of Judas, grotesquely strengthened.
In a way I never wanted.
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It was difficult to control the rampaging giant among the knights.
In the end, I had to borrow the power of the Imperial Magicians.
Geist, the leader, came and hurriedly took the giant back.
It was an urgent situation, so even though Elijah was watching, he couldn’t help it.
Seeing that response, Elijah was convinced.
The imperial family deliberately delayed the response.
After that, Judas and Elijah briefly testified to the royal knight.
It was not a situation for either side to ask deeply.
The prestige of the imperial family has been shattered.
Monster escape commotion in Giudecca.
It was the emperor’s own play, but it came out with an erratic result.
The original purpose was to stir up public sentiment, but Judas and Elijah quickly suppressed it.
Before the Imperial Knights were even deployed.
Even the northeast gate was blocked by Elijah’s bodyguards.
As a result, it was an accident that only raised Elijah’s honor.
It was evening after the investigation was over.
After Elijah congratulated the guards who were investigated together, he released her to rest freely.
Only she and Judah were left.
“My lady. Earlier that…. Is it envinyl?”
“Yes. I think so. Then they kicked me out of the training camp.”
The incident where Envinil tried to stab Judas during training.
Afterwards, Elijah gave instructions to her subordinates.
Take him out after punishing him appropriately.
At that time, I didn’t know that the imperial family was an enemy yet.
“No way, I thought the imperial family took it. It’s my guess, but it seems that he strengthened his body with black magic. Maybe it was used as a kind of test subject.”
Elijah felt traces of her magic in Envinil.
A type of magic that forcibly strengthens the body.
There is only black magic.
“If the imperial family….”
“I don’t know the details, but he was trying to strengthen his troops with black magic. Maybe releasing the monsters, maybe it’s a self-made play. You must be busy fixing things up.”
That said, she’s freed herself to gather her material and attack.
In fact, the main objective is not the empire.
The Bevel family.
The Empire, the Bebel Family, and the Moonsin Church.
The intersection of the three will be gathered together and exploded.
“Are you okay where you got hit earlier?”
“It’s okay. I got well soon.”
“… Okay.”
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Elijah clearly remembers the moment her own sanity was cut off.
It is terrifyingly clear.
Then she tried to kill her opponent, herself.
But she didn’t.
Judah stopped.
It’s a contradiction.
Her own possessions.
Her own stuff.
My article.
Mine.
Obvious species.
Judah.
He cannot give orders to himself as the master.
He also had no reason to follow those words.
If you want to do it, do it.
However, Elijah obediently obeyed Judas.
She accepted the reversed master-servant relationship. She
She couldn’t say no.
If this is the case, it’s no good.
This is really strange.
I can’t push this strangeness away.
The two of them walked side by side at night.
The night of the foundation festival was lively and dazzling.
Colorful lights twinkle everywhere.
The streets were full of people.
The accident that happened during the day became a good story to talk about.
There were virtually no civilian casualties.
It was something to be happy about.
In commemoration of the founding day, it is said that God took care of it.
Everybody got drunk and had fun.
The way back.
Elijah asked Judas.
“Festival, do you still want to see more?”
The two went out to watch the festival today.
Judas led by accident, but that was the original purpose.
Judas asked back.
“What about the young lady?”
Because Elijah, her master, was more important than her own doctor.
“I….”
Elijah hesitated.
It’s not a big deal.
Usually, I would have made the suggestion lightly.
For some reason, her throat tickled.
Hesitantly, she looked up at her Judas and smiled.
“… Huh. I want to see more.”
A bright smile.
You still have the innocence of a child.
Judas noticed a difference in her face that she hadn’t seen before.
Slightly shy.
That must be because of the colorful festival lights.
“Then I….”
“No.”
Elijah said firmly.
“I can’t answer that.”
“Yes… ?”
“I want to hear your pure thoughts, not follow me.”
“… ….”
“How are you? Do you want to go to the festival together with me?”
Judah hesitated for a while.
This is an ordinary question.
As usual.
She’s like this.
Because she used to jump in and out of her own mind.
By the way.
What feels oddly different is….
She’s also her own fault.
Judas also answered with her light heart.
“Yes. I want to see you too.”
“Then, let’s go see it. Festival.”
Elijah replied with a smile.
A corner of her heart tickled.
She also felt a dangerous sense of crisis that would not work if this happened.
Complex feeling.
Something so strange, tickling, warm and hot that it’s hard to explain.
Judas and Elijah decided to put that strangeness aside for a while.
Just thinking that it’s just the two of us now.
“… ….”
I decided that.
Neither of them knew where to start.
A ridiculous figure standing still after agreeing to watch.
Judas was about to say something, but a crowd of people piled past.
“Careful.”
Judah hurriedly took Elijah’s hand and embraced him.
Don’t get caught up in it.
It’s an environment where it’s easy to get swept away by the crowds.
Since we have necklaces, we won’t lose each other.
“Are you okay?”
“… Huh.”
Elijah answered with her head bowed.
Judas, realizing her rudeness, tried to let go of her hand.
“Sorry….”
“Don’t let go.”
Elijah hurriedly grabbed her hand and pulled her away.
He fixes her hand.
To make your fingers interlock, with your interlocks interlocked.
Just like the saying, don’t let go.
As if not to fall again, tightly bound.
Elijah speaks, still avoiding her gaze.
“… Don’t let go In the future.”
Judas swallowed the question that was filling up in her throat.
Then she just smiled.
“Okay. Miss.”
A sense of distance so close that her shoulder could rub against her.
The two men and women started watching the festival with their hands clasped.
