The Legend of Sun Knight Volume 5, The Third Misdeed of an Undying Lich: “Destroying

Volu 5, Chapter The Third Misdeed of an Undying Lich: “Destroying Other People’s Wealth” — translated by lucathia

After returning to the Holy Temple, I impatiently bid a hasty farewell to the spirit and the poisonous tongue.

“You won’t secretly sneak out of the Holy Temple, will you?” Earth gave a asuring look full of great suspicion as he added, “Judgnt wanted to keep an eye on you.”

“I’m going to my room!” I snapped. “If you’re worried, you might as well follow in!”

Earth imdiately pulled Cloud back and stared at with distrust as he spoke. “No thanks. Cloud, you shouldn’t follow him either. This guy just ripped Ice’s clothes apart. If we head in, wouldn’t we be like lambs entering a lion’s den?”

“…”

You call yourself a lamb? Then there wouldn’t be any lions in this world! I gritted my teeth and enunciated my words, “I’ve said it before. I have absolutely no interest in guys!”

Earth shrugged his shoulders and pulled Cloud away, as he departed with a speed akin to flying.

He actually used Cloud as a shield! If my aim hadn’t been blocked by Cloud, I would definitely have shot an Ice Bolt at Earth. After all, “the Sun Knight doesn’t know magic,” so the Ice Bolt would definitely have been shot by Knight-Captain Ice!

Besides, no one would dare to seek proof from the cold and frigid Knight-Captain Ice.

Furious, I turned around. My stomach imdiately growled. It’s probably dinner ti now, right? No wonder there’s barely anyone around in the corridors. I should go and fill my stomach first, before doing anything else.

I had only managed to walk two steps when I suddenly felt sothing that was brimming with strong, dark elent. Its location was just around the corner of the corridor.

But why would there be sothing with dark elent within the Holy Temple? Hm… Although it could be Roland, the shape doesn’t look like a human. It has four limbs that touch the floor, like so sort of animal, and with that size it probably isn’t a dog… A horse? But why would there be a horse in one of the Holy Temple’s corridors?

Wait? Dark elent? Horse?

“Whitey?” I blurted out.

The mont I spoke, it imdiately pranced away. I looked around. Since it was currently al ti, there weren’t many people in the corridors of the Holy Temple, allowing to hurriedly jog after the unicorn. I called after it quietly, but it didn’t even slow down. Still, I didn’t dare call out to it in a louder voice, as things would be hard to explain if I were to be heard by other people.

Like so, it pranced all the way to the gardens of the Holy Temple, and even dashed into the thickets.

As I called out to it, I extended my ability’s range. Realizing there wasn’t a single person in the gardens, I called out loudly, “Whitey, stop hiding, it’s .”

I walked into the thickets, holy light emanating from my hands as I tried to lure that gluttonous horse out.

“Whitey, want to eat so holy light?”

I pushed aside the leaves, but there was nothing within the thickets, never mind a horse as large as Whitey. Even after I strengthened my sensing, I did not detect anything. But just now, there definitely was… Has my sensing malfunctioned? Or is soone interfering?

“Sun?”

I didn’t turn around. I already knew that the person who had called out to was Roland, so the action of turning around would truly be an unnecessary move. I imdiately opened my mouth to ask, “Do you have business with ?”

Roland didn’t answer when he heard this. Instead, he abruptly rushed forward for the last few steps and gripped my shoulders as he asked hurriedly, “Are you alright?”

“Huh? I’m just looking at the flowers,” I answered in confusion. Why is he so worried?

“…Looking at the flowers?”

Roland’s expression looked very odd. Finally he reminded , “Sun, you can no longer see.”

Shoot! I forgot.

“I, I’m slling the flowers!” I made up. “Reminiscing about how flowers looked like, and such…”

Abruptly, Roland stiffened. His expression was very hard to describe. If I had to put it into words, I would roughly say that it had suddenly beco very, very gentle… A guy who always observes the stiff code of knighthood suddenly showing such a gentle expression truly makes goose bumps rise all over my arms.

“What does it look like?” Roland suddenly asked.

“What?” I was confused. What does what look like?

“The world in your eyes.” After Roland said this, he smiled and shook his head. “No, I should say, the world inside your mind.”

“You should know that this is really hard to describe to soone who doesn’t know how to sense the elents…” I looked around, trying to find sothing I could use as an analogy. When I lowered my head and saw the dirt ground, I had a sudden flash of inspiration. I said, “I know! The elents are like different types of sand. In my eyes, everything looks like it’s built out of sand piled together, like sand castles built by children.”

After hearing my words, Roland furrowed his brows. Quite so ti passed before he finally said, “A world built with heaps of sand… that sounds very terrible, but it’s just the opposite for .”

“Just the opposite?”

Roland said faintly, “Everyone looks full of vitality, full of color, except for , who is built out of sand.”

“That’s not the case at all! You are very good-looking!” I blurted out. When I saw him reveal a doubtful expression, I hurriedly explained. “Because I can’t tell beauty from ugliness, things that have the purest elents look the most beautiful to . Your dark elent is very strong, so…”

Roland laughed. “If Earth hears these words of yours, he’ll once again go around talking about your ‘special inclinations.'”

“… ‘Once again’? Has that bastard already been talking behind my back?!”

When Roland nodded his head in affirmation, I exploded and roared, “That bastard, Earth! My popularity with the girls is already bad enough. I don’t need him making it worse!”

“Popularity with the girls, huh?” Roland smiled wryly and said, “If you want, you can have all of mine.”

“…How many girls are chasing you?”

He raised his hand and started to count. Then, he raised his other hand and continued counting, and counting…

Oh my God of Light! The Church’s education about evil undead creatures is truly a failure! Nowadays, girls go for dead n and don’t even want living n anymore!

“I’m kidding.” Roland stopped his counting and smiled as he said, “There are only five.”

“Only” five… I don’t even have one! No fair! Why does Roland have five won chasing him when he even has his face covered, while I don’t even have half a woman when I am this handso, have such a high position, have a graceful deanor, and am even so white that I shine?!

“What’s not to like about having won chasing you?” Feeling angry, I said, “I couldn’t get together with soone even if I wanted to!”

“Have you forgotten what I am?” Roland asked a little helplessly.

Right. Roland was a death knight. Having won chase him wasn’t all that good of a thing in actuality, because even if he did happen to be sowhat interested, it wasn’t like he could “do” anything to that person. He was already dead. He no longer needed to eat, drink, or go to the toilet, so naturally he was also incapable of feeling desire for a woman.

In a way, Roland and I were truly fellow sufferers. One lost his life, the other lost his sight. Although he lost his life, he was still walking about in the world. Although I lost my sight, I was still using a different way to “see” the world.

“Roland, do you still rember the events behind becoming a death knight?”

When he heard my question, Roland’s expression beca slightly puzzled.

“Today I t another death knight,” I quickly explained, “and I thought that it was strange. Death knights aren’t very common undead creatures, so I thought I’d ask you.”

Hearing this, Roland nodded his head and said, “When I woke up, I only saw Pink. She commanded to sweep the floor and wash her clothes, but at that ti I was very confused, as if I were crazy. For a long ti I didn’t know what I was doing, until that one ti she wanted to pretend to attack you. When I heard your na, I rembered that you were the Sun Knight and might have been able to tell what I should do, so I went. After that, you know what happened.”

The events didn’t sound too different from what Pink had told , but I still felt that sothing was off. Or is it just because I’m currently suspicious of her, so everything seems dubious to ?

“If you’ve finished asking, I’m going to take my leave now.” Roland raised the stack of papers in his hand and said, “I need to give these papers I finished correcting to Storm. He told that I had to give them to him today.”

After I nodded my head, Roland started walking off. When he passed by , I couldn’t help but stop him. “Roland.”

“Hm?” Roland stopped and turned to look at .

I hesitated for a mont before I said, “Promise , no matter what happens, you will never harm the Twelve Holy Knights.”

Roland’s body abruptly stiffened. He stared at without breaking his gaze and said slowly, “You don’t trust ?”

“No, I definitely trust you,” I explained quickly.

After he heard this, Roland managed to relax. He added, “I promise you, I will never harm the Twelve Holy Knights.”

I nodded. Roland turned to leave. As I watched his retreating back, I saw that his steps were still a little stiff. It seed that my question had hurt him after all.

Roland, I really do trust you.

“I just don’t trust myself…” I murmured.

When I returned to my room, I decided to apply a facial mask because I had gone outside today and didn’t want to turn darker.

Although I was currently so white that I shone, I still needed to continue maintaining my skin so that I would remain shining. This was even more crucial now that there was Awaitsun around, stealing our followers with his handsoness that violated all rules. This is why I definitely can’t slack off with my skin maintenance!

“Right, there’s still the problem of Awaitsun.”

As I stirred my facial mask, I pondered about how I should shake off Earth and Cloud so that I could et Awaitsun by myself. However, no matter how I thought about it, I felt that once Judgnt discovered that I had shaken them off, he would probably imprison for a year!

It was probably because the things I had done this year were all a little over the top that he had beco stricter and stricter, and had even learned how to trick !

After stirring, I boiled the water and mixed in the materials for the facial mask, but I still couldn’t think of a way to shake off the spirit and the poisonous tongue without being imprisoned for a year afterward.

I walked to my cabinet and took out the last jar of ingredients – lavender extract. At the sa ti, a small book dropped out of my cabinet.

When I picked up the book, I imdiately recognized it as the small book Scarlet had given . Many necromancy spells were recorded inside. At first, I had thought that this book was the one Pink had given to , and that Scarlet had only retrieved it for , but after reading it closely I discovered that the one given to by Scarlet was much better. There were many necromancy spells recorded inside this one that weren’t in the book Pink had given , such as how to summon a death knight.

I turned to the page about summoning a death knight. Many essential items needed for the ritual were recorded on the page: an intact corpse that had a deep obsession, a gemstone of the dark elent that could be used to replace the death knight’s heart, a location perated with the dark elent so that large amounts of the dark elent might be easily gathered to replace the blood of the…

The book even had an illustration of a very complicated magic circle. Even more complicated was how the book detailed that the blood of an infant that hadn’t been carried to full term was needed to draw the magic circle. The surroundings of the circle even had to be lit up by twelve candles made out of human fat… What the heck?!

I furrowed my brows and murmured, “It’s this complicated? Yet the death knights summoned often don’t listen to instructions? No wonder there aren’t a lot of death knights around. If I were a necromancer, I wouldn’t spend so much energy on summoning a puppet that wouldn’t even listen to !”

Wait a mont!

The procedure is this complicated? I rember that Pink once said…

Knock, knock.

I glanced over and saw that the Bishop of Radiance, one of the Pope’s trusted assistants, was outside my door. Her specialties lay in sealing and support magic. Even so, her support magic might possibly not be as good as mine, but I wasn’t as good with holy magic that had to do with sealing.

I opened my door, making sure my attitude was a bit more respectful. Even though my position was higher in rank than the Bishop of Radiance’s, the current Bishop of Radiance was already an elder in her sixties. I couldn’t look down on my elder just because my position was higher than hers… The only exception is the Pope. After all, he looks like he’s only fifteen, so I treat him like he’s younger than !

“Good evening, Bishop of Radiance. The night is beautiful tonight. Although the light does not currently shine on us, this allows us to achieve a greater yearning for the morning sun that will rise tomorrow morn.”

“The night is indeed very cool and refreshing tonight, thanks to the God of Light’s blessing. Knight-Captain Sun, your necklace has been sealed.” The Bishop of Radiance smiled as she spoke, and then she handed over a necklace, a necklace with a precious gem.

It was the Eternal Tranquility, but it no longer looked like before, when it had been negligently tied with a piece of string. Now it was set in tal, and spells were even carved on the tal that brimd with holy elent. Although the design of the necklace was possibly very beautiful, to my eyes the Eternal Tranquility itself was the most beautiful. Other decorations were not at all important.

Thinking back, I don’t know how long I spent trying to persuade Judgnt before I managed to retrieve it. If I hadn’t dropped my teacher’s na, he most likely would still have refused to return it to .

After all, this was the gem that once made , made … Maybe the gem shouldn’t be in my possession, but it is truly too beautiful! Besides, if I don’t quickly retrieve it, Judgnt might take the gem and destroy it. Then, in the future when my teacher cos to find for the gem, I would be the one destroyed.

The Bishop of Radiance spoke up in curiosity. “Although I do not understand why you want this gem sealed, I can tell you that the gem itself is not wicked. It actually has the effects of calming, exorcising, and sealing.”

“Exorcising and sealing?” Why do I feel like it has the exact opposite effect? Last ti, it undoubtedly made absorb a ton of the dark elent.

“Yes.” The Bishop of Radiance nodded and explained, “To be exact, it is a very good support item for helping with sealing. It is too bad that I do not know how to use the water elent. If this gem were given to a mage who could use the water elent and utilized with a magic circle, the mage could easily seal an entire cave full of the dark elent. It is very beneficial for sealing lands of darkness.”

The Bishop of Radiance looked at , as if she were very much hoping for to donate the gem to the Church of the God of Light… Are you kidding ?! I don’t want to get destroyed by my teacher yet!

I smiled as I said, “My gravest apologies. Sun is rely safeguarding the gem, and is not the owner.”

“I see.” The Bishop of Radiance revealed her slight disappointnt, but after a mont, she smiled and said, “Although it is a pity, I will not push the matter further.”

I hesitated for a mont, but I still asked, “May I ask you a final question? Since this gem has the ability to seal, is it capable of sealing all of the dark elent from an entire land of darkness into a single person’s body?”

The Bishop of Radiance shook her head and replied, “Even if the gem has that kind of capability, there is no one who can absorb that much dark elent. Even an undead creature cannot do that. I’m afraid that just absorbing a small amount would be enough to cause the person to explode.”

So it’s not possible? I was a little disappointed, but I maintained my smile and said, “So that is how it works. Thank you for dispelling the clouds for Sun and allowing him to see the light. To have received such a warm answer makes Sun feel the presence of the light even during nightti. It is as if the God of Light has personally allowed Sun to see His brilliance before Sun, enlightening Sun and sweeping away the darkness within Sun’s heart.”

The Bishop of Radiance wasn’t an elder for nothing. Not only did she finish listening to my superfluous words, she even smiled and said, “You’re welco. Luckily, Knight-Captain Judgnt has already asked a similar question, or else I would not have been able to answer so quickly.”

I was surprised. “Knight-Captain Judgnt made a similar inquiry?”

“Yes.” The Bishop of Radiance nodded.

Why didn’t Judgnt tell ? It can’t be that he hasn’t had ti to tell yet? A little bewildered, I asked, “May Sun ask, when did Knight-Captain Judgnt make his inquiry?”

The Bishop of Radiance looked thoughtful before replying, “Hm, it has been so ti… Ah! That’s right! It was around two to three days after your return.”

So that ans two weeks ago? I put on my smile and said, “Sun is thankful for your gracious ti in helping Sun. Sun is greatly honored, filled with endless gratitude.”

“You’re welco.” The Bishop of Radiance smiled. After giving a bow, she turned and left.

I closed the door and lowered my head to look at the “Eternal Tranquility” in my possession. The gem was surrounded by tal that was brimming with the holy elent. The tal imprisoned the gem’s large amount of water elent, even though it couldn’t prevent so of the water elent from leaking out. Even so, that amount of water elent wasn’t enough to attract attention.

To my side, the water finished boiling. Large amounts of steam burst out from the pot. Because I had spent so much ti talking with the Bishop of Radiance, the facial mask that I had finished mixing had started to dry on the surface.

Still, I could not tear my gaze away from the Eternal Tranquility. It was truly too beautiful. Even though it had been sealed, I could still clearly “see” its pure water elent, with not the slightest impurity in it. It is so beautiful… Ever since I’d lost my sight, I hadn’t considered anything beautiful.

I could not tear my gaze away, could not apply my facial mask, and could not think… If a seal can contain the gem’s water elent, why does my teacher want to safeguard the gem?

The reason he gave for wanting to use my holy elent to cover the water elent isn’t even valid! Even though my teacher was a holy knight and didn’t understand magic, Aldrizzt was a strong mage. He had to have known.

I thought so much that my head was about to burst when I realized that there was soone familiar standing outside. Before he knocked, I hung the Eternal Tranquility around my neck without a second thought and placed it inside my clothes. Then, I yelled toward the door, “Adair, co in.”

After a mont, Adair announced, “Yes, Captain, I’m coming in now.”

After he opened the door to co in, he stood straight and tall in front of like usual, waiting for my command.

I really haven’t seen Adair in such a long ti. I smiled as I said, “You returned early. Did the vacation not please you? I have heard that your ho is a small village. Life there should be quite peaceful, right?”

Adair smiled as well, his entire person relaxing greatly as he spoke. “I was not entirely used to it. I did not know what to do there, so every morning I ran eight laps, and then I practiced my sword for half the day. My mother would summon to chop the firewood after that, and I sotis helped the villagers hunt, carry water, and fix things…”

When I heard this, I said unhappily, “Giving you vacation ti is such a waste. With a personality that knows no rest, one day you’ll die from overworking yourself together with Storm! I’m never giving you ti off again, wasting the ti I could have used to order you around!”

Hearing my words, Adair started smiling lopsidedly, but then his smile imdiately vanished. He looked at , his face lancholic as he said, “Captain, I heard that you…”

After stuttering for so ti, Adair was still unable to voice what he had heard, but I noticed that he kept on glancing at my eyes. I nonchalantly said, “My eyes can no longer see, but that doesn’t affect greatly. I have another thod of seeing. If you only ca to see to talk about this, then you may leave now.”

Adair was stunned for a bit before he hurriedly said, “No, that’s not it. Captain, Knight-Captain Judgnt wanted to tell you a few things.”

“Judgnt?” I furrowed my brows and asked, “What things?”

“On the day you disappeared, sir, you told so things. At that ti, you were even holding the Divine Sun Sword.”

Yet I did not at all rember that I had spoken with Adair. It seed that that portion of my mories had disappeared too. I imdiately asked, “What did I tell you?”

“At that ti, you had just returned from outside, sir. You looked a little out of sorts and said that you were going to go find an old friend of yours…” Adair lowered his voice and added, “But I’d never seen you in such a frenzy before.”

If I had to na the person who was most skilled at reading my expressions, then that person had to be Adair. I followed with another question. “Adair, did you feel I was lying to you at the ti? Tell the truth! This is very important!”

Adair nodded and spoke truthfully. “I think you were lying, sir. I feel that your manner at the ti was as if you had just discovered an earth-shattering truth, like you were about to head off to demand paynt from soone. It was like you had returned for your weapon, about to leave to chop soone up.”

Thank you for explaining things so clearly. I’ll count you as one of the tapeworms in my stomach!

Lowering his voice, Adair said, “Captain, there’s sothing I haven’t told Knight-Captain Judgnt yet. I felt I should report this to you first. At the ti, you also told to find soone to shadow Knight-Captain Hell at all tis. If he displayed anything strange, you wanted a report right away.”

“Roland?”

First Pink, then Judgnt and my teacher, and now even Roland… What’s going on? Is there really sothing wrong with them, or, or am I the one with problems?

Puzzled, Adair asked, “Captain, should we still have soone follow Knight-Captain Hell?”

I fell silent for a good while, but I really didn’t know why I had given such a command before I lost my mories. For now, I could only ask, “During the ti you were away, has soone been following him?”

“Yes, I had Ed follow him.”

“Is there anything odd about Knight-Captain Hell?”

Adair stared at and said, “Ed ntioned a lot of suspicious things, but…”

“But?”

He lowered his voice as he spoke. “Other than the fact that Knight-Captain Hell is a dead person, there is nothing uncanny about him. But, Ed anxiously told that Knight-Captain Hell is very strange. He practically does not eat or drink water, and never needs to go to the toilet…”

“Stop following Hell.” Without any expression, I said, “Also tell Ed that if I hear any odd rumors about how Knight-Captain Hell is very strange, I will let him know that I, his captain, am even stranger!”

I think he already knows that very clearly…

“What did you say?”

“Yes, Captain, I will go warn Ed right away!” After he spoke, he hurriedly turned, about to leave.

“Wait!”

Adair stopped and turned around to ask, “Do you have any other commands, Captain?”

I took asure of him and then asked slowly and deliberately, “Adair, do you like facial masks?”

“Huh?”

“Hell!”

I stopped and saw Storm walking toward . He even had a stack of docunts in his hands. He frowned and asked, “Did you just leave from Sun’s room? Wasn’t Adair the one who entered just now?”

“Adair already left.” I nodded my head and said, “But you shouldn’t go in right now. He’s currently…” I made a rubbing motion over my face.

“Applying his facial mask?” Storm furrowed his brows and said, “It’s okay, I’m used to seeing it. It won’t be any worse than the pink one.”

So the pink one is the worst?

“I’m heading off to find Sun.” Storm passed by , but then he suddenly stopped and turned his head toward . When I thought that I had already been exposed, he smiled as he said, “Oh right, today’s paperwork was done very well. Thanks so much.”

“No problem,” I replied without missing a beat.

I walked until I was around the corner of the corridor, and then I stood next to the walls, sneaking a “look” while eavesdropping.

The sound of continuous knocking drifted over. Storm also yelled, “Sun, Sun, open the door… Ack! Why did you apply your mask to your hair too?”

“Sun” opened the door. His face and his hair were covered by a light purple facial mask. He vaguely answered, “Even hair needs maintenance!”

“Whatever!” Storm piled all of the docunts onto Sun’s hands and coldly said, “Correct these papers. I’m warning you, even though Adair has returned, you’re not allowed to hand these off to him. I already put his portion on his desk.”

“…” “Sun” silently accepted the docunts.

Seeing this, I left without any worries, about to go off to find Awaitsun – Silent Eagle, but then I abruptly realized that I didn’t have a clue about where he was. Just as I was about to randomly find a person to ask, I saw that the person that was walking straight toward was actually Knight-Captain Judgnt!

Oh no, here cos the other tapeworm!

I braced myself to greet him, thinking I would leave as quickly as I could, but then he opened his mouth to speak. “I was looking for you, Hell.”

“Oh?” I stopped, trying hard to maintain my composure. I asked, “Is sothing going on?”

“I would like to ask you to guard Sun outside his door so that he won’t sneak off by himself during the night.”

What the heck?! You actually want soone to guard … Even though I was seething until my teeth smarted, I imdiately promised him on the outside, “Okay, no problem.”

Judgnt and I exchanged gazes for so ti. Just when I thought he was about to see through , he gestured behind and said, “You can head over now. Neither Earth nor Cloud is by his side. I’m afraid that he might already be thinking about sneaking off, wanting to see Silent Eagle by himself.”

As expected of my stomach’s tapeworm! I hurriedly said, “I just left Sun’s room. He’s currently applying his facial mask, so he shouldn’t be leaving anyti soon. Right now, I need to pick up the papers Storm gave . I have to finish correcting them tonight.”

Judgnt nodded and said, “Sorry for the trouble. I will be busy for so ti as well, so I’m afraid that our swordfights every three days will need to be postponed for now.”

So Judgnt and Hell spar every three days. As expected of two extraordinary sword experts, wanting to practice their sword even when they’re so busy. I barged on with my answer, “That is too bad, but there will be ample ti for that later.”

“Indeed.” Judgnt nodded his head as he spoke, “Hurry and fetch your docunts. Sun might already be nearly done with his facial mask. Recently, he has been as white as a piece of paper. He shouldn’t need to take too long.”

Indeed I don’t need to take long, although I actually didn’t even apply my facial mask and let Adair reap the benefits. I nodded, and then I quickly turned to leave without wasting another mont so that the tapeworm of my stomach wouldn’t discover my real identity after staying in my presence for too long.

While walking through the corridors, I felt that sothing was off.

I put great effort into my sensing to examine my surroundings, finally discovering that the gazes everyone threw at were different from usual. Normally, when people looked at , they always focused on my face or my shining, golden-blond hair, but now they weren’t looking at my face but rather at my body… As expected, wearing a skintight leotard is still too outrageous. I really don’t know how Roland was able to beco accustod to wearing this kind of clothing while walking about the Holy Temple.

“Knight-Captain Hell, good evening,” greeted a holy knight who walked over. Behind him, there were several other knights watching. He asked with great respect, “May I ask if you have ti to instruct us in swordsmanship, sir?”

“My apologies, I currently have business. How about so other ti?” I tried hard to recall how Roland normally spoke. Although I was a little worried that I would get discovered, I also didn’t want to leave right away. This was a chance to see if Roland was getting along with other people.

It seems that ever since I had him act as the Hell Knight, I haven’t checked on him much except for that one ti when his vice-captain Tyler didn’t approve of him. I wonder, has he t any more difficulties after that?

Of course, Roland never told about any interpersonal relationship problems… But if this rigid guy truly did co to to complain about matters involving interpersonal relationships, I would probably question if so part of his brain hadn’t been made rot-proof and had thus started rotting.

Elijah had once ntioned that Roland hadn’t interacted with others very much while he was still alive. I wonder if his dispositions changed after death.

“Alright.” The holy knight revealed a sowhat disappointed expression, but then he revealed a hopeful one as he said, “I look forward to the next ti I am able to be instructed by you, sir.”

I smiled as I nodded. It seems like Roland is getting along well with everyone! There shouldn’t be much I need to worry about anymore. Just as I wanted to pull soone aside to ask about Silent Eagle’s whereabouts, I suddenly discovered that the person who was leaning by the window-side looked very familiar, like…

“Ty…re… Tyler!”

The person by the window imdiately turned around. As I thought, it was Tyler, the vice-captain of the Hell Knight Platoon. When he spotted , he shouted, “Captain,” before he walked over with a smile.

It seed that Roland and his vice-captain were getting along quite well. Now I was truly relieved. I imdiately asked him, “Where is Silent Eagle? Knight-Captain Sun wants to ask him a few things.”

When he heard this, Tyler’s expression fell. He said, “I don’t know where Silent Eagle is staying, but he is currently in the Holy Temple’s plaza.”

“He’s in the plaza?” I asked suspiciously, “What’s he doing there?”

“He’s…”

Just as Tyler was about to answer, a commotion arose from outside. Voices and footsteps blended together, and it sounded like the crowd was currently roaring.

“Knight-Captain Ice has lost too! Hurry! Find soone else to co and fight!”

A bunch of holy knights suddenly surged into the Holy Temple’s corridors, yelling loudly all over the place. Their tone sounded furious, which was an uncommon occurrence. Compared to other professions, the holy knights of the Church of the God of Light have always been known for their grace and composure, but now, their fierce expressions and loud shouts made them appear even coarser than warriors.

Suddenly, a holy knight spotted , and his expression of delight was as if he had seen the God of Light. He imdiately shouted, “Knight-Captain Hell is here!”

Once he shouted this, the other holy knights all turned their heads to look at . Their expressions were as happy as if they had discovered the ssiah! A bunch of people rushed over to and even surrounded , all of them rattling off nonstop.

“He really overdid it!”

“He needs to stop and realize that he’s at the Church of the God of Light! Soone from the Cathedral of the Shadow God shouldn’t be running around unrestricted here!”

“That pretty boy! Just because he looks good doesn’t an he can do whatever he wants!”

“Knight-Captain Hell, your swordsmanship is the strongest. Sir, you must go and defeat him!”

All of these complaints confused greatly. Finally, the last sentence was one I could understand. I hurriedly asked, “Defeat whom?”

The holy knights fell silent, each of their expressions full of hatred. In the end, the holy knight who had spotted first was their spokesperson. He yelled loudly syllable-by-syllable, “Silent Eagle!”

? Defeat Awaitsun? With a sword?

While I was escorted to the plaza by everyone, Awaitsun stood in the center of the plaza. With his sword in hand, he radiated an aura so powerful it felt as if he could defeat thousands singlehandedly… However, I could guarantee that if the holy knights in the plaza were to strike, it wouldn’t require “thousands.” It would only take twenty holy knights, and if we were talking about the mbers of the platoons of the Twelve Holy Knights, then at most only ten would be necessary. If we had mbers of Adair’s caliber, then at most only five would be needed for Awaitsun to die a gory death.

Although I really wanted to yell sothing like, “Why don’t we just puml him as a group,” no matter if it were Hell Knight’s identity or my own, neither of us could shout sothing like that in public.

In a battle like this that was held under the na of friendly sparring, a holy knight like could not command others to puml him as a group.

That was why even though everyone looked like they wanted to turn Awaitsun into dust, no one actually rushed in to attack him.

When Awaitsun spotted , his expression noticeably twisted. This made sowhat suspicious. Does he actually know Roland?

Tyler walked over, proud and bullheaded as he said, “Silent Eagle, your swordsmanship is admirable, but please do not think that there is no one in the Holy Temple who can defeat you. Knight-Captain Hell is the Knight-Captain who has the strongest swordsmanship among us. He has never lost in a battle of swords! Do you dare to challenge him?”

Awaitsun only nodded and didn’t say a single word.

The crowd imdiately turned their gaze on . Feeling sowhat awkward, I raised my empty hands and said, “I didn’t bring a sword.”

Tyler imdiately turned around and pulled out the sword at his waist. He respectfully used both of his hands to pass the sword over to , saying, “Captain, please use my sword. Although it does not compare to your precious sword, I believe that…” He glanced at Awaitsun and smiled, “it should be good enough, with room to spare.”

He was right. Even if I held the Divine Sun Sword in my right hand and Roland’s wicked sword in my left hand, while Awaitsun only had a broom, he still would have plenty of room to spare to defeat if we were talking about swordsmanship.

Under this kind of circumstance, I could only accept the sword, but I didn’t know how I was supposed to fight.

As Knight-Captain Hell, am I allowed to use magic? I wasn’t familiar enough with what the Hell Knight was supposed to know. If I can’t use magic, then I might as well just admit my defeat!

I hadn’t even managed to decide whether to admit my defeat or to use magic when Awaitsun rushed forward, his speed quick enough to scare to death. I raised my sword, not at all knowing what to do, and I didn’t even move at all, yet he kept brandishing his sword. None of his attacks reached , yet all of them clashed against the sword in my hand… What in the world is he doing?

As our blades clashed against each other’s, Awaitsun said quietly, “Knight-Captain Sun, it is you, right?”

“…Yeah!”

So he did recognize . I had almost forgotten that Awaitsun was one of the people who had seen in this outfit before.

“Thank goodness. I really didn’t know how to step down from this.” Awaitsun relaxed and said, “If I defeated any more holy knights, I probably would no longer have been able to leave. Even though I wanted to lose on purpose, I couldn’t bring myself to do it… But if it’s you, sir, losing to you is a given, since I have already lost to you before.”

Wait a mont, why is losing to a given? When I defeated you last ti, it was because I used a hostage! Just what is up with the education of the Cathedral of the Shadow God? Is it that as long as you win, any sort of underhanded and despicable thod is okay?

Once he finished speaking, he fell on his own accord, and his sword also flew out of his hands. He crawled up with difficulty and announced to the crowd, “I concede defeat.”