Eternally Regressing Knight Chapter 609

609. I made a friend.

When Loford heard what the nameless knight had asked, he stopped glancing at him and politely stepped aside to the side to show the knight the pattern on his cloak.
A single line with a step, it represented a wall and an iron wall.

“Can you tell just by looking at this?”

He shows and asks. It was a pattern that was hard to not know. If you ask who the most heated person on the continent is recently, it is the answer that comes out, and although he does not live in seclusion in the mountains and deals with cults and lives with his ears closed, it was still difficult to ignore something like this.

“Border Guard?”

The priest’s warrior blinked once and said. He looked surprised. As he said, it was the symbol of the Border Guard. And here was another symbol that symbolized Encred.
Lawford lifted his cloak and showed it to me.
It was a symbol with a black shape and a line cutting through it. It
meant cutting the magic mirror and was the symbol of the Mad Knights.
One of the nobles of Naurilia asked, “Does it mean that if you don’t like it, you just cut it?”

“Do you know this? They are the only knights of the Border Guard.”

He’s been doing a lot of external work lately and has been able to see the influence he has on those around him, but strictly speaking, where Lawford is now is outside the Border Guard’s territory.
He said it because he thought the other person might not know.

“The Knights of Madness?”

The answer came right away. The original name was Madness, but people called it Madness. Well, it made sense, so that was it.
In some places, they were even called the Knights of the Iron Wall. This was something that Lawford experienced firsthand.

“Yes, this is Squire Lawford.”

Lawford revealed his true identity. His actual skills were comparable to those of a squire, but Lawford remained a squire.
The title of knight originally began as a title, but now it has become a symbol of power that refers to those who use the will.
The status of squire also had a similar symbolic meaning, but it wasn’t that important to him now.
However, it wasn’t that he didn’t have a sense of belonging and pride, so that was it.
A squire of the mad knights.
Lawford described himself as such.
Even if his captain, Encred, said he was a squire, he was a squire until he was convinced and acknowledged it.
Looking at it this way, it was clear that Lawford had madness in him.
And Lawford thought that if he was a squire, he should say this and introduced himself. He said this while spreading his palm to one side.

“This is guest soldier Pel.”

In fact, there can’t be a single soldier in the Knights, but who cares? This one is just a soldier.
That’s how he saw it. Pel accepted the words without a hint of laughter.

“Was a squire inferior to a soldier?”
“I don’t know if it was like that in some remote corner of the wilderness, but not on the continent. Soldier.”
“Huh? A squire talking back?”

As the two growled, the kind-looking giant half-blood smiled and said.

“You can rest assured, brother, that no one will be harmed or injured.”

The first thing that caught my eye was her clearly half-giant physique, but upon closer inspection, she was a woman of considerable beauty. Of course, the woman’s face was not what was immediately visible.

“ah.”

The mouth of the nameless priest of the Order of the Exterminating Cult opened wide. He was unable to continue speaking.

‘The Knights of Madness?’

These are the people who are currently on everyone’s lips. Why are they here? He was full of questions.
What do they want here?
Everyone moves for gain. Even if he, an unknown holy man, didn’t do it, it was only natural that others would do it.
So it was natural for him to have such questions.
And not only that, anyone would want to ask, ‘Why are they here?’
Getting involved in the current fight meant stepping into the civil war of the Holy Nation.
Moreover, the guys gathered outside were shouting that they had received a revelation from God that Noah’s Monastery was a den of demons.
Of course, even if it was something no one believed, if someone with power said it, a small monastery wouldn’t even be able to resist.
Yes, even if they somehow survived with their help, if they failed, they could be treated as the devil’s servants.
It would be a shame to turn their reputation upside down even after all the fighting was over.
That’s why he came to this monastery prepared to give up his life.

“I thought about what I wanted to do before the annihilation of the social order. It was to pray for the wronged.”

With those words, the Nameless Knight left the priesthood and remained in this position.
Even so, he prayed to the moon every day and needed to calm his mind.
It was impossible to feel at ease crawling into a limb knowing that he would die.
His determination felt meaningless.

‘What is this indifference?’

They came in calmly and strolled through the city indifferently. Watching them, I felt a little bewildered.
They were growling and humming to each other, and the gray-haired savage was annoyed, asking why they were doing this in the cold, and the guy next to him asked where the main gate was.
I had no idea why he was asking such questions when he had come over himself.
In the meantime, there was a leopard walking to one side, and a guy walking away, saying that he was wearing the same cloak as the group but that it didn’t matter
. Watching all of this, I felt an indescribable feeling.
Why was it so absurd?
There was only one reason. They didn’t feel a sense of crisis.
That was what made my determination pale. That was why I was embarrassed.

* * *

“I starved for two days.”

Noah spoke with his skinny hands, pouring tea. Encred took the tea and drank it.
Thanks to Marcus in the past, he had tasted good tea and drank it often, so he knew that the tea he was drinking now was not that expensive.
As you can tell from the fact that he had starved for two days, the monastery was not very well off, so could he say that he had managed to get the tea?
However, as Marcus said.

“Is an expensive car a good car? That’s not true. A truly good car depends on who is sitting in front of you and what time it is. No matter how expensive the car is, it won’t taste good if you drink it with someone you don’t like.”

It was something Marcus said to his father as they went to drink tea.
Wasn’t he the one who said he didn’t want to go to an expensive car or something?
Based on that memory, Encred thought the tea he was drinking just now didn’t taste bad. It
was moderately bitter, and the right fragrance and scent lingered in his mouth. It was a dried flower tea, so it wasn’t blended, so it had a strong, thick taste, but the tea taste was good enough.

“I appreciate you coming, but I think you need to know the current situation.”

Noah spoke again. He was serious. He was also sincere.
Encred thought about it on the way to help, and he could roughly predict the reaction of the other person when he arrived here.
A normal person would have thanked him, and now it was time to ask for his life somehow.
He had to do it by kneeling or making a promise he couldn’t keep.
Or he could ask for his life.
He could ask for some people, including himself, to be spared.
But sometimes, there were people who couldn’t be easily measured.
Noah opened his dry, cracked lips. Blood was peeking out between his cracked lips.
The flesh that had dried and cracked seemed like it would split open again if he applied even a little force. His current situation could be seen through his lips.
If he didn’t, it would split open and bleed.

“You have already been branded a scapegoat, so if you stay here, you will be treated as the same child of the devil. Not only those who call the gray thing outside as gods, but also those who come from the Holy Land can see it that way.”

‘There are so many crazy people in the world.’

Encred had such thoughts.
In this situation, how can he worry about others? But the author Noah was originally this kind of person.
He was the author who saved Seiki, knowing that it would end with him losing one eye and one ear, and that it would be death, and death that would come after torture.

“Now that I think about it, Uncle Noah seems like a bit of a sick person. But I was the one who took advantage of that.”

Seiki’s assessment was the same.
What Noah was saying now was this.
It’s dangerous. It could be bad for you.
Encred could see that this author was also crazy.
Noah spoke again. Encred just listened while drinking hot tea. In a quiet listening posture.

“If possible, could you at least save the children? The monks and I have decided to remain in the monastery. Yes, this is a sin of my past.”

He smiled sincerely. It was a smile that showed because he was able to save the child, because he saw some hope in saving them.
The situation was not good. How could his smile be so bright when he said, “Get out of here, but save the child?”
Encred stared at Noah. If he had suffered that much torture and pain, his eyes would have become dull, but they didn’t. His eyes really weren’t like that.
He had lost one of his two eyes, but in the remaining hole, an eye that shined like starlight remained.
It was just a monastery, just a few dozen people.
Wasn’t it a fight with nothing to gain?
Why wouldn’t there be nothing to gain?
Among those who distinguish saints by their divinity, you can save someone who is like a true saint.

Do not abandon your neighbor because he is in need.
Do not push others away to pick up fallen fruit.

If there is someone who keeps every word spoken in the temple without fail, wouldn’t that person be worthy of being called a saint?

“Let’s be friends.”

Encred said.

“……Yes?”
“Let’s talk comfortably and be friends from today.”

He put down his teacup and brushed his hair as he spoke. The dust on his black hair blew away.
Dust particles floated in the rays of light coming through the window. To Noah, they looked like stars in the night sky.
It felt like that, but at that moment, he seemed to see light in the other person. Just
like Encred saw light in Noah.
Noah also saw something similar.
Why did this man come here?
Even if you ask why, there would be no answer.
It was too obvious and simple.
He came to save people.
If the boatman saw this, he might ask, “Are you going to save that damn tomorrow?”
He wasn’t wrong.
In Encred’s eyes, Noah was right, just, and needed by the world. That was all. Even if he did whatever he felt like, there would be nothing to say.

“Let’s be friends.”

Encred spoke again. If you look at his age, Noah would be older. Noah blinked for a moment at the sudden, unexpected remark, then folded his hands respectfully on his legs, smiled, and nodded.

“Yes, let’s be friends.”

Was this a word of comfort? Even so, I was glad.
And the hero, who had come on behalf of God before, spoke on behalf of God this time as well.
The mouth of the one who had been covered in light opened.

“So from now on, it’s a fight to protect my friend. I have a justification.”

Could be treated as a devil.

So what does that mean?

I could be rejected by both the Holy Nation and the Gray God’s forces, and the army gathered before me was a real threat.

Oh, I found out.

“And you still want to fight?”

Someone asks.

“So let’s just say we’re doing it.”

Encred answered inwardly and stood up.
Didn’t you say you starved for two days? You couldn’t starve them any longer.
There were children in this monastery. Children who had almost been exploited in the name of sainthood. And there were children who weren’t. In his opinion, there were many. Considering the circumstances of the monastery, many children lived here.
Noah didn’t discriminate.
There were people in the monastery who sacrificed themselves to save Saint Seiki.
There were also people who watched everything and finally changed their minds.
Fortunately, he said that all the people who were going to betray him knew that they would die while he was here, so they put their shoes on backwards.

“Ah, Seiki asked me to say hello.”

Encrid spoke and went out.
Seiki said.

“Do you think it would be helpful if I went? Or would it just be a hindrance? When I improve my skills a bit, I’ll go with you. Take care. And give my regards to Uncle Noah.”

He said.
He was such a simple-minded kid. Seiki’s words were based on the premise that if you step forward, you won’t fail.
That trust pushed Encred’s back. It was a pleasant push.
It was the first time that Chrys didn’t say he was anxious when he saw him leave.
He was filled with the desire to repay their trust.
He also wanted to give Noah the same relief as those two on his face right now.