This knight is too perfect

Chapter 5: Elegy of Blood and Sword

It was afternoon, the fifth day after Rhine joined the militia.

"Rhine, look, that should be the mysterious noble lady from the capital that everyone else is talking about, right?"

"She's so beautiful. I think she's a thousand or ten thousand times prettier than the widow Daisy in the small town."

"If I could only..."

Ernst looked at the girl sitting on the balcony of the castle, sipping afternoon tea elegantly, and said this to Rhine with an infatuated look in his eyes.

Almost at the same time that Ernst spoke, the white-haired old man who was pouring black tea next to the girl suddenly stopped what he was doing.

Then he raised his head and looked in the direction of Ernst with an expressionless face.

It is obvious that this place is at least fifty or sixty meters away from the balcony of the castle.

But at this moment, Ernst felt as if he was suddenly being targeted by something dangerous.

The inexplicable palpitations made Ernst lower his head immediately and he dared not say another word.

"What a rude bunch..."

The white-haired butler Jeter retracted his "warning" and then lowered his head to continue serving Miss Lilitha.

He had a towel hanging on his left hand and a teapot full of black tea in his right hand, filling the cup in front of Miss Lilitha.

The flowing black tea is not only more viscous than ordinary black tea, but its aroma also has a faint sweetness, which is obviously the result of special blending.

Lilisa picked up the freshly filled cup of 'black tea', ignored the pastries carefully prepared by the maids on the table, and took a sip elegantly.

After a moment, Lilisa put down the teacup and wiped the faint red tea left on her lips with the handkerchief she carried with her.

He did not take a single cent of the exquisite pastries placed in front of him, and clearly had no interest in these 'delicacies'.

"Jeter, did you get any results from the 'hounds' you sent out?"

"Not yet, but I think there will be a result soon."

"Yeah……"

Lilitha looked at the militiamen training in the open space, and her gaze finally stopped on Rhine's silver-white hair, as if she was thinking about something.

Then, she suddenly said, "If possible, let the boy leave the castle as soon as possible. After all, this Thorn Collar gives me a bad feeling."

"I guess the rumors about people from the Holy Communion appearing here are not just groundless."

“And it’s not a good thing for an ordinary person like him to be involved in such an extraordinary event.”

Hearing this, Jet turned to look at Rhine who was training seriously in the open space, and nodded: "Yes, Miss Lilisha."

After explaining these things, Lilisa lowered her head, picked up the book on the table, and began to read it carefully.

The name of the book is... "Elegy of Blood and Sword"

Seeing that Miss Lilitha had already started reading, Butler Jet tactfully retreated to the balcony, leaving Lilitha with a quiet environment.

Against the backdrop of the dim environment of the guest room, the wolf head ring on Jet's left index finger emitted a faint scarlet glow.

Mysterious and weird...

at dusk.

After a day of training, the militiamen excitedly returned to the dormitory outside the castle.

Although the main mission of these militiamen is to protect the castle and the safety of the entire Thorn Territory, they also have another identity, that is, "civilians".

Although commoners are not of noble status, in the Principality of Morton, they have something that Rhine currently desires but does not seek, that is, "freedom".

Therefore, after the training, except for those militiamen who were required to stand guard at night, the remaining militiamen could freely arrange their own time at night.

But for a group of young people in their twenties, night is a good time to have fun.

"Rhine, are you sure you don't want to go to town with us for a drink?"

"You know, relaxing occasionally can also help with training."

Ernst, who had just finished showering and changed into casual clothes, shouted to Rhine, who was still swinging his sword alone outside the dormitory.

Although Rhine had just embarrassed Ernst in front of everyone not long ago.

However, the demeanor shown by Rhine during that "exchange" and the "gentleness" and "politeness" he displayed in the following days made Ernst put aside his prejudice early on.

Even now, Ernst is still the one in the militia who has the best relationship with Rhine.

Therefore, seeing Rhine's almost ascetic life, even though he knew that as a slave of the castle, Rhine was not allowed to leave the castle in principle, he still couldn't help but invite Rhine to join their "party".

But in the face of Ernst's kindness, Rhine put down the slightly heavy wooden sword in his hand and refused with a smile.

"Go ahead, Mr. Ernst. I'll keep the door open for you."

Just as Ernst was about to persuade Rhine, his companion hugged his shoulders, interrupted him and urged: "Let's go, little Rhine said he would hold the door open for us, what are you still hesitating about? Do you want Lord Fergus to come and get furious when he finds out we haven't returned all night?" Having said this, Ernst couldn't say anything more. He could only nodded to Rhine not far away, and then followed the other companions out of the castle and walked towards the town at the foot of the mountain.

Not long after Ernst and the others left, Rhine began to swing his sword in a boring manner again.

After practicing for a while, Rhine suddenly felt something and stopped what he was doing. He turned his head and looked at the bushes next to the dormitory.

But because the sun had completely set, the lights in the castle were not turned on for the time being, leaving the castle shrouded in darkness.

So much so that after Rhine carefully looked at the bushes in the distance for a while, he still couldn't find anything from them.

Finally, Rhine, holding the wooden sword he used for training, walked into the deserted militia dormitory alone.

Shortly after Rhine left, a pair of scarlet eyes quietly appeared in the bushes.

Those were a pair of strange eyes filled with bloodthirstiness, madness and distortion.

It feels as if the owner of the eyes is a beast that has been hungry for ten days, and his eyes are full of desire for flesh and blood.

However, contrary to the crazy look, the owner of the scarlet eyes did not rush out at this time. Instead, he stared patiently in the direction of the militia dormitory, without moving.

At this moment, it is like a patient hunter, watching its prey's every move in the shadows.

Patient and cunning.

At the same time, after entering the militia dormitory, Rhine leaned silently against the wall beside the door.

The wooden sword in his hand was replaced with a real sword with a sharp blade early on.

It was obvious that he had noticed something strange in the bushes.

'What is that? A monster or a human?'

"No, that kind of twisted, weird, and irrational inner voice is definitely not something a human can possess."

Yes, thanks to Knight's Protection: Mercy (Hear All Things).

Although Rhine did not find the dark figure hiding in the bushes, he clearly heard the other party's "voice".

And the pure and undisguised 'malice' conveyed in the other party's inner voice.

Under the effect of the knight's protection, a horrifying scene immediately emerged in Rhine's mind.

A cruel scene of a twisted creature devouring a living being...

Rhine knew very well that this picture was hinting at him what would happen if he was caught by the owner of that voice.

This, then, was the fate that awaited him.

For a time, Rhine felt like it was facing a formidable enemy.

Whispering rustling...

In the quiet militia dormitory, Rhine listened to the sound of bushes rubbing against each other outside the door, and realized that something was quietly moving through the bushes outside the militia dormitory, or... was quietly approaching the militia dormitory.

After an unknown amount of time, Rhine felt the "malice" getting closer and closer, quietly tightened the one-handed sword in his hand, and deliberately lowered his breathing to avoid making any noise.

At the same time, just outside the gate away from the Rhine.

A dark shadow had already come to the outside of the gate, and quietly put his head against the gate, listening quietly to the movements inside the house.

The straight-line distance between the man and the shadow was less than half a meter.

Inside the door was Rhine holding an iron sword.

Outside the door is a monster of unknown origin.

At this moment, time seemed to have completely come to a standstill...

'The iron sword pierced the girl's chest, and hot blood flowed out along the silver-white sword in the knight's hand. The girl's eyes were full of relief, but the knight's eyes were full of sadness, because although he ended the nightmare of the town, he also completely lost his lover. This tragic song of blood and sword, at this moment... fell its final chapter. '——The end of the book
Lilitha closed the travelogue "Elegy of Blood and Sword" in her hand and turned to look inside the room.

The butler Jeter, who always stayed by his side, was nowhere to be found.

But Lilitha didn't care about all this. She put down the travelogue in her hand and closed her eyes silently, as if she was recalling the story she had just read in the travelogue.

After a moment, Lilitha opened her eyes, chuckled and shook her head.

"The so-called tragic song is, after all, just the childish fantasy of some ignorant person."

"The real reality is that the knight will not win, and the nightmare will not end, because the only one who can kill the extraordinary is the extraordinary, not some mortal knight holding a sword..."

After she finished speaking, Lilitha stood up and went into the empty room.

The travelogue that I had just finished reading was left lying alone on the table on the balcony.

"Elegy of Blood and Sword" by Ana Ortiz

(End of this chapter)