Kuro no Maou

Many soldiers, mainly cavalry, were gathered in the central square of the village of Alsace.

The Heavenly Horse Knight Squad, which became intact in this battle, is included there.

Their aim was to escape the village and pursue the escaped demons, who are already ready to leave at any time, but still remain on standby.

Because,

"Please wait for the pursuit"

It was because his deputy, Sister Sylvia, stopped Knolls from bravely attempting to deploy.

"What did you just say, Sister Sylvia?

No way, you can't be the one with normal hearing, such as listening to her clarity tone.

What I asked back was nothing more than what it meant to give you a chance to correct your words only once.

"I told you to wait for the chase, if you didn't hear me, it's possible your ears are going crazy, can I even give you a slight recovery (Lesser Heels)?

I haven't heard much of her poisonous language here lately, and it seemed like my through skills were dull.

I was in the mood to compliment myself for not beating her reflexively standing in front of me.

"Are you no longer with the Devil Clan?

If this is the case, I want it to be Ning Ro, who can ‘dispose’ of a busy deputy who has nothing better than this appearance.

The slaughter in Knolls' eyes was real.

Sylvia, however, had no slight or frightening appearance of such a reaction from him, and continued her words with the same chilling expression as usual.

"It is for your own good to obey, Chief Priest Knolls, because this is an order."

"Orders? Orders, stupid, who's in a position to order me here!

Sylvia took out a single seal with a slightly fed up look as his men were shook up enough to hear it.

"Please, read it"

Knolls, who had the seal in his hand to flinch, was momentum that just kept ripping and opening inside, but he saw the red wax there and accidentally stopped moving.

"This is... Holy Cross Seal!?

The symbol of God, the mark of the Cross, is always used for the sealing wax used in the Crusades and, pull it, in the Church.

The seal that fastens the seal now in Knolls' hands was engraved with a different mark of design than the normal cross.

Those who can use this seal known as the Holy Cross Seal for wax have a special significance that is only allowed to be used by the Pope and the Cardinal, that is, only by the four in this world.

And the fact that the Holy Cross seal is used for wax will mean an autographed directive by someone among the four, who can also be called Heavenly Man for the Cross.

Having instantly understood what that meant, Knolls completely chilled his earlier anger, cutting and opening the seal wax with a careful hand.

"A directive under Cardinal Mercedes..."

A glimmer of cold sweat came from Knolls reading what was written.

"If so, stupid...... he said it was the eighth apostle!?

"Why don't you settle down a little, it won't be so rare in the Republic's army, such as temporarily coming under the Apostolic Command"

As Sylvia said in the directive, which Cardinal Mercedes had written, "To enter promptly under the command of the Eighth Apostle if the time comes, and to follow his instructions", in a revolving rhetoric peculiar to the high priesthood.

"That's not what I'm saying! Who the hell is the Eighth Apostle?"

Happily Knolls stares at the red-haired Sister standing in the front.

"No, it's not me."

"Well, what, well, don't surprise me at all -"

My Lord is the Eighth Apostle.

"What the fuck!?

Sylvia instantly stepped back and fled out of range against Knolls, who was stunned by a spit.

Sister Sylvia, you're under Cardinal Mercedes.

"That would be your own delusion."

She wasn't so dumb that she didn't realize what she'd been thought until now.

"My Lord is the Eighth Apostle Eye, he is a runaway man, so there are men like me who carry out ‘chores’."

"Eye? That's a name I heard somewhere..."

Explore the perception of a person with a name that is not uncommon in a republic called Eye, rather than having called the work of a deputy secretary a chore.

"A mere adventurer belonging to a Cypriot mercenary regiment, is the provisional identity of the Eye.

After the first scouting trip to the village of Iles, there was only one surviving adventurer, and that's Eye. "

"Ah, ahhh!? That dumb looking kid!?

"Why don't you be careful what you say, you want to be sentenced to death for disrespect?

"Gu... but I didn't know he was a very apostolic... no, there is also the example of Sir Saliel the Seventh Apostle, is there anything unnatural about it?"

There is nothing strange about it, even if it is a woman or a child, if you think of the figure as far as you know about the Apostle.

At the same time, I recall rumors of the Eighth Apostle.

"I see, the Eighth Apostle... well, then nobody realised who it was, either because it was impossible"

"You seem to understand more than anything."

In the meantime, Noles, who accepted the circumstances, calmly asked his deputy, no, to Sylvia, who apparently reports directly to the Apostle.

"So you're saying that waiting for the pursuit is an instruction from the Eighth Apostle?

"He wants to fight the 'devil’.

Until the duel is over, don't let anyone near you because you're in the way. "

"It would be a shame if you could argue with that abominable black ‘demon’ or take something delicious, but if the Apostle under heaven says so, you have no choice."

I didn't even have to think about the apostle or the devil, which is stronger.

Thinking the death of the demon who slaughtered the soldiers scattered was confirmed, Knolls gave a small grin.

"Now, what do you think… However, after Lord Eye returns, command will be returned to you, so if you want to chase the Demons, do as you please"

Sylvia's dialogue to say to the throw with a voice that doesn't seem very interested.

"If the Apostles went directly, wouldn't the Demons be wiped out?

Yes, Knolls knows that the Apostle has enough power to easily triumph over the entire demonic tribe of the elephant, which is his subordinate, on the contrary.

It is certainly Knolls, who caused so much damage and forced struggle in the defensive battle around Alsace, but I can still be sure that he is not strong enough to fight the Apostle well against him.

"You didn't seem interested in other demons, so you might ignore them and let them get away with it"

"Hey, what?!? Doesn't that make sense?

"So in that case, it would be a good story if you chased it down and finished it.

Why don't you get ready to cross the Lehne now, with precision?

"Gu......"

I don't know if it's stupid to miss the Demons, but in the end, it's no different than what this one does, and Knolls reasonably made the decision that it would be best not to make things rough and get ready for Sylvia as she put it.

"Oh, it's better to be prepared to welcome Master Eye than that, because I've been lamenting a lot lately that I couldn't eat the loco stuff"

"... ok, let's prepare a meal too"

Noles nodded heavily, poisoning himself with his heart that he was a waggy apostle, how about a little apprenticeship of Sir Saliel who would just shut up and kill his enemies.