The Branded Female Fencer

"... okay, sounds like we talked a little too much. I'm going to go after them, but it's going to be pretty life-threatening. We have to expose all their workshops. So when I die, you're the Archbishop."

"No! I don't care if they say that all of a sudden"

"I won't say whether or not. There is already talk with Miriazal. Of course, with my direct men. If anything happens to me, you'll inherit everything I've created."

"... will it serve me"

"It's not whether or not to serve, it's to serve. Besides, you don't have to do the same thing as me. It's up to you to decide whether to prioritize or help if you encounter the same situation in the future. Those who just stand above must be held accountable for anticipating the consequences of what situation they will call depending on their judgment. Don't forget that."

"Okay."

Power returns to Elsa's eyes. Happy with that eye, Minar nodded small.

"That's fine. You don't have to worry. It's not me who gets hit so easily. There's still so much to do for the church that it rots."

"Nothing in return, is it?

Minar also gets a little stuck in the words for Elsa's worrying inquiry.

"In return. I do not ask for anything in return. That's the same thing again with manadils and drides. They gathered nature and fame and respect, but not what they wanted. I don't need the most of those things, so I just tried not to get together. Our three archbishops have in common in that regard that they consider fame and other accessories, as well as mutual respect. And there's something in return, you know."

Elsa didn't know what Minar was talking about, but Minar never answered again either.

"More than that, I have something to tell you. I was infiltrating and noticed, and I was sneaking up on them earlier, and I heard about it."

"The demon of use?

"My demons are small, they don't even care. We got their names. Give me your ear."

There was already only Eliza on this occasion - no, actually, there was also the 'dog', but he was waiting a little further away - despite which Minar gave Elsa an earshot. The information he gained at the infiltration was such that even Minar was puzzled. Hearing the name of the enemy and what Minar gained at the infiltration, Elsa unwittingly ascends.

"Yes!?

"You have a loud voice."

"Shh, excuse me"

"Don't worry. I'm confused again. But this is the truth."

"If this information is true... Nakahara will perish."

"It may already be too late, because the firemen are up. But it is not we who make that judgment, but the supreme bishops, kings of nations. I'm not worried we can't help it."

"That's true, though."

"More than that, and pass this information on to Miriazal. Don't worry, he'll have a good hand. And their names. Anomaly, Silence, Titania. Titania seems to be a legendary figure, but Miriazal would have been active at the same time. Maybe I know something. Listen to what you have to do. Then I'll go now."

"I will certainly tell you. Good luck to the Archbishop."

"Uhm."

Minar trying to leave that word behind. But when he stopped his leg perfectly, he held his words without looking back.

I'm talking about something in return.

"What?"

"Tea brewed with leaves that can be taken in the Deep Green Palace is pretty good. Next time you hang out."

"... would that be an invitation to a date?

Elsa asked a mean question just now about revenge and all. But the answers returned were even more mean.

"I don't mind if you take that."

"Ha?

"Bye."

Minar, who disappeared. Once he disappears, you can't even detect the signs. Because that's why those three didn't even notice earlier.

The Elsa that is left is only bewildered.

"... then show me about your face, at all. Or is he more illuminating than I thought?

I have no voice to answer. For a moment I thought it was a joke, Elsa, but I didn't feel so bad wondering if it was a true invitation. Around the age there was a difference between parents and children, but Elsa is not the type to care about such things originally.

And Elsa also looked back at Eliza, but already she stood up, using a matching cloth from her leftover luggage, so that the important part could hide. Tremors have already stopped.

"Eliza, it's not okay."

"No, Master Elsa. I'm already sane. I apologize for disturbing you when you said you were in battle earlier. It's a pitiful state where fear has passed its limits rather than the most fearful."

Eliza laughs mocking herself. The face was lonely and never looked like this before entering the cave. Elsa was sad to hear what a look it had become in a short period of time, but she couldn't change what had already happened.

"It's no shame to be scared. Because we're women."

"Yes, is it?

"That's right. The courage of not knowing fear is only described as barbaric. True courage is not like that."

"I don't know yet what the courage is, but there's only one thing I've learned."

"I don't know."

Elsa asks worryingly. Eliza has already had an experience where she can't help but throw away her sword. Elsa would have liked to have done so if we didn't have another story to talk about. I don't even get nervous just thinking about it, such as going towards those people again. Someone will do it even if I don't do it, even Elsa wanted to think so. But Eliza's answer was different.

"I can't leave those people alone any more than the vendettas of those who have died here now, like how my strength is. They will do nothing but harm to the world. I am not as a knight, but as one who lives on this earth, if I do not punish them at all. And for that, it's only a trivial problem, like my fear."

"... that's odd. That's what I thought."

Elsa's thoughts were the same as Eliza's again. Except that I'm a person in the Arnelian Church or something like that, I thought those people had to be defeated at all costs.

Their eyes. It wasn't entirely human. The emotions in their eyes will be each. Having spent his childhood in a slum, Elsa was very sensitive to people's raw emotions, but also to negative ones. Is Titania paranoid, Silence hateful, and Anomaly the hardest but craziest of all?

Anomaly used the word war, but Elsa believes that there is no good or evil in every dispute, not just war. Each is both good and evil. Given that neither is completely correct, there has never been a war or anything like it. That's why she likes the organization called Arnelian Church, which buys and leaves arbitration for war. But I didn't think they would lead others in the right direction, no matter how big a title those people had. Elsa had consolidated her readiness to try to stop them in exercising her powers, knowing that she also had contradictions, but at least only Anomaly had to be punished at any rate.

When the thought comes together, Elsa looks up and looks straight at Eliza. Eliza also answers that gaze.

"Okay, Eliza. Apply to your superiors to make you my exclusive knight. Any objections?

"No, I would have loved to have it from me, too. Please use this life as a weapon."

"Sometimes I worry about dirty things. Can you stand it?

"I will try. If we're going to take them out."

"Then I'll leave my back to you. We're gonna take them out anyway."

"Yes!"

And Elsa and Eliza decided to leave the spot behind. I really wanted to mourn my people, but I no longer even spare that time now. When the bodies were lined up and covered only with a minimum cover, they decided to leave the latter to the nearby church of Arnelia, where they left off.

All the way to Arnelia - spanning the flying dragon that the reinforcements were bringing, Elsa and Eliza run through the sky. Miriazal can do something about it. At least that's what they were thinking right now.

Continued