Former General Is Undead Knight

Chapter 34 Judgment ③

Lambert, who had seen the death of Zebedai, was travelling alone, down the underground passage.

As I walked, I was thinking back to one word I had uttered.

'I promise. If Zebedai were a man like you, I wouldn't kill him. Retreat, Johann'

It is the word hung by Lambert to Johann, one of the four pillars of the Holy Spirit who guards the Holy City of Heinstia, Cardinal Zebedai's men.

It is true that Lambert did not slaughter Zebedai, but it is the same thing because he intentionally killed him.

He would have died in battle, a burning comfort tower passed Lambert's head.

"... sorry, it's Johan. This is how it turned out."

Speaking of Lambert's conclusions, Cardinal Zebedai was not like Johann.

The way Johann tries to pass his righteousness while lost and Cardinal Zebedai reopens as a vengeful ghost is very different.

Because Cardinal Zebedai, the head of the heretical Inquisition, has renounced the primary premise of moving for the Kingdom in the first place, it will always continue to rub off in a decisive place with the heretical Inquisition and the Kingdom, creating the next tragedy.

Johann must have also known that Lambert would draw that conclusion.

So until the end of the day, he was trying to keep Rambal company with Cardinal Zebedai.

Even though I knew so, Johann continued to follow under Cardinal Zebedai, whether he thought that only by doing so could he confront the 'whistle-blowing demon', or whether it was for him, who had reached the Four Holy Pillars, that he could no longer go back, now that it was his death, I no longer know.

Rambale uses the undead's mana-sensing abilities to advance the search for underground corridors.

When he finds the signs of the people in the black coat, he chooses the aisle to run away so as not to encounter them as much as possible.

I wasn't willing to cross swords with the guys in the black coat any more.

The men in the black coat fought for their lives to stop Cardinal Zebedai, driven by revenge.

Now that Cardinal Zebedai is dead, Lambert has no reason to fight them.

But if you see them, they'll come to Lambert.

I wanted to avoid unnecessary bowling with them.

Cardinal Zebedai is dead.

It was the first aim of Lambert, already terminated with regard to the identification of Cardinal Zebedai.

The aim was also to protect the Holy City of Heinstier from the raids of the Eight Wise Men, but now that he has been vandalized all he wants by the 'Worm Kettle', it is arguably a failure at the earliest.

But the battle of Lambert in this holy city of Heinstier is not over yet.

He was directing people in black jackets, and a man from the Euterbe tribe, a flavor of the "whistle blower demon," should still be lurking in this underground passage.

Perhaps the person is also one of the eight wise men of The Whistling Demon.

I could never let him get away with it.

In fact, Lambert had a single idea of who the Eight Sages would be lurking in the underground passage at this time.

It was someone that Lambert had seen face to face.

He wanted me to stay out of it, that's what I was thinking.

I caught suspicious mana.

The opponent also seemed to have noticed Lambert already, but he did not do anything to escape, but rather changed course and headed straight towards him.

From behind the aisle, the tone of the harp sounds and echoes.

Lambert stopped his leg once and shook his helmet left and right.

"... it's off and I wanted it. It's been a long time since I've known anything like this. No, should I be ashamed of myself that I didn't realize sooner than that"

Following the sound, one woman appeared more than at the end of the aisle.

The shiny leather shoes, the flashy clothes, the scarves wrapped around my head all looked familiar with this.

"... at the time I saw how the guys in the black coat were doing, I was wondering if maybe it was you"

The woman's thin pigmented eyes turn to Lambert and are slightly narrowed.

But Lambert knows that his eyes don't show anything.

What moves her eyes is a blind expression of her affection.

The expression that was dared to be made was inorganic, simple, and thus beautifull.

"It's an odd encounter, Master Swordsman. I didn't expect to see you even here."

She jokes and speaks to Lambert in a bright tone out of place.

"Bizarre encounter, huh? You used to say that after that, maybe because you had the same purpose, you'd look at each other better."

After saying so faintly, Lambert quickly erected the great sword he was carrying and slammed the floor of the underground passage.

A shock ran around the area, and the floor that was beaten directly was smashed and scattered.

The Demon Gold "Organ" armor plays the fragment pale.

"That was a funny joke. Bard… again, Arbana the Eight Wise."

(viii) The wise man "The Rose of the Subworld" was the blind bard woman, Albana, whom Lambert faced frequently on the road of his modern journey.

In Lambert's words, Arbana's lips bent small, symbolizing a self-derisive grin.