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Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo Dorei Majutsu (Light Novel) - Volume 12, Chapter 2: Trying Out Being the Head of the Holy Knights - Part 4
Volume 12, Chapter 2: Trying Out Being the Head of the Holy Knights - Part 4
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There is a relatively large chapel──that was the information they had, but if anything, it felt like a chapel that had history to it.
It was old.
Built with wooden pillars and mud walls, and with even its roof made of dirt, it was a building that was rare even in the Lifelia Kingdom.
Rem spoke her impressions.
「……This structure, it was no longer used, even a hundred years ago. In other words, it’s either older than that……or it was purposely built with an old construction method.」
A woman wearing a priest outfit came out from within that building.
「It is said that about three hundred years ago, Saint Kurasa built this temple in order to help the native people of this land.」
She was a Dwarf woman.
Due to her racial traits, her height was short, and her chest was big.
And then, she had dog-like ears and tail. She had lop-ears like that of a labrador.
「Welcome, to the Earth Temple of Towa.」
「Ah, um!」
The guards that guided them here were about to say something, but she gracefully nodded, and stopped them.
「These people, are alright. Please return to your duties.」
「Ah……Understood!」
The two bowed their heads very deeply, then ran towards the gate.
Rem asked a question.
「……Do you know about us?」
She usually had a composed tone, but she had an especially calm voice. At times like this, she was generally cautious.
The Dwarf priest tilted her head.
「No. However, today, an important guest will come──that is what I felt I heard when I was making my morning prayer.」
「……Was it an oracle?」
「It wasn’t anything as grand as that. The High Chief Priest-sama is the only one able to hear Kami-sama’s honorable voice after all. Tidings on the wind, I suppose that is what you can call it.」
「Tidings on the wind?」
Shera tilted her head.
As a phrase, it means a rumor from an unclear source but……
She prompted them towards the inside of the chapel.
「Please, although I cannot give much hospitality, I shall prepare you some warm milk.」
「Waーi!」
Shera followed her without any wariness.
Her speech and conduct were slightly suspicious, but there was no one else they could turn to.
Following Rem, Diablo also went inside.
The earth-made chapel didn’t have a normal interior either.
Rather than the inside of a building, it was more like a cellar.
The wooden pillars supported the earthen parts of the ceiling, and chairs were placed in between the pillars.
There were no windows that allowed light through, so candle were lit even during the day. But even so, it was fairly dark.
「Please sit wherever you like.」
Leaving those words behind, the Dwarf priest vanished into a door at the back of the building. Before long, she returned holding a tray.
What was in the wooden cups, was warm milk.
Shera and Rem accepted them.
「Waa, thank you so much!」
「……Thank you.」
And then, she also presented one to Diablo.
「Here, have some. It is goat milk (chichi).」
「Umu.」
Having “chichi” told to him, he felt like his gaze was going to subconsciously go to her chest, but Diablo consciously kept it to just her hand.
Even though he was about to introduce himself as the Head of the Holy Knights after this, if he were to do nothing but look at a woman’s chest, he wouldn’t have much persuasiveness.
Rem looked around.
「……Are you the only priest in this chapel?」
The Dwarf priest nodded. Placing a hand on her large chest, she introduced herself with a gentle voice.
「That is right. I am called Lilitana.」
「……I am Rem Galeu. This is Shera. The both of us are Adventurers. And then, this person here is」
Diablo showed the silver Holy Symbol.
Lilitana opened her eyes wide.
「That is, the Head of the Holy Knight’s……!?」
「Umu.」
「I did not think that you would come to a small town like this one……Pardon me.」
She knelt down to the wooden floor, and put her hands together in front of her chest.
*Muzumuzu* His back became itchy.
When he acted as a Demon King, challengers would show their hostility and ready their weapons. Although Diablo had to use a provocative mouth, he would be fine if he thought about the fight.
The Head of the Holy Knights was different.
Being revered, he was required to behave as a righteous person.
──Can I do it? Can someone like me, make the speech and conduct of an adult with such a status?
He was nervous.
Fortunately, he was able to leave the discussions to Rem.
「……We, for certain reason, have antagonized the King. We have no intention of aggravating the matter, but we need to make contact with our companions that remained in the royal capital.」
「EHH!? You antagonized the Lifelia King!?」
「……We would like to entrust you with an oral message to the High Chief Priest Lumachina.」
Letters would be opened at the checking station.
They had no choice but to have the priest go all the way to the royal capital’s grand chapel.
Diablo opened his mouth.
He was asking a favor.
Like the Head of the Holy Knights. Like the Head of the Holy Knights. Like the Head of the Holy Knights.
「Be delighted that you can be of use to me! To this Demon King Diablo!」
His long and deeply dyed habit couldn’t be taken out so easily.
Lilitana froze up.
「D, Demon King……!?」
──GUWAaaaaa!? Don’t count that one! One more time! One more time! Could you let me redo itー!?
Due to the fact that he had been desperately doing his Demon King act up until now, subconsciously introducing himself as a Demon King became a habit.
Sweat that came down like a waterfall wet Diablo’s back. Things became troublesome.
Rem and Shera were shaken up and going 「Awawawa」.
「Th, that’s not it.」
「You’ve got it wrong!」
However, explanations any more than that didn’t come out from those two.
Lilitana unblinkingly stared at Diablo.
「A gentleman who is just as I had heard……You are the real Head of the Holy Knights-sama, aren’t you.」
「Fua?」
He unconsciously raised an idiotic voice.
Lilitana spoke.
「I, heard a story from Head Chief Priest-sama──That the current Head of the Holy Knights “acted as an eccentric Adventurer that introduces himself as a Demon King, but is actually an incarnation of Kami-sama”.」
Doesn’t that, exaggerate the setting a bit too much?
Before, Lumachina explained the matter about Diablo to the believers──that is what he was told, but that made him out to be quite a dimwitted person.
The truth is, I’m a shut-in Gamer from another world though?
Since he couldn’t say that, Diablo fixed his seated posture.
「Hmph……I am not God, I am sure that I told Lumachina that several times though.」
「Fufu……She had mentioned that you said as such as well.」
Shera breathed a sigh of relief.
「Haa～, thank goodness she believed itー」
Rem asked a question.
「……Speaking of the High Chief Priest, it is the most prominent position of the Church. A regional priest, shouldn’t be someone she can be able to slowly have a long talk with. Just who are you?」
「I am a normal priest. It is just……The current High Chief Priest, when she was still in her infancy……she was brought by her parents on a pilgrimage, and visited this land.」
Diablo felt like he was going to reflexively react to the word “pilgrimage”.
However, the pilgrimage in this case wasn’t about going around to different places which had become a context for anime, but about its original meaning──a journey to pray in order at important religious locations.
Lilitana spoke sounding nostalgic about the past.
「I, felt that Lumachina-sama was a person that was close to God, and brought her to the grand chapel.」
「……You did!?」
「She was a person divine enough that anyone could tell just by looking at her after all.」
Thinking “Was that really the case?”, Diablo tried recalling.
When he first met Lumachina──
She had her priest clothing ripped off by Holy Knight Geibalt’s mushroom Summoned Beast, and was naked to the point that he even saw her “little girl”.
He reflexively felt like he was going to blush.
Certainly, he did also feel that she was divine, but it probably wasn’t in that sort of meaning.
Rem nodded.
「……When Lumachina……ah, no……when the High Chief Priest-sama offer her prayers, I certainly did feel power that could reach the heavens.」
Shera also agreed.
「Yup, yup! Light went *buwaaaah* and stretched to the sky after all!」
Lilitana put both of her hands together.
「Lumachina-sama is able to convey Kami-sama’s honorable voice to us, and that is how she became the sacred High Chief Priest-sama. It is just, when I heard that she had gone through so much trouble due to that, it pained my heart. It seems that you had saved her from her dilemma……so current Head of the Holy Knights-sama, I have nothing but words of gratitude towards you.」
「Umu.」
Diablo folded his arms and nodded.
He decided that he would no longer say anything unnecessary.
Lilitana made a suggestion.
「I, am quite well known at the checking stations from here to the royal capital. If we are together, even if it is the Lifelia King’s orders, I am sure that we can go as far as the royal capital’s Grand Chapel. How does that sound?」
Shera clapped her hands.
「Waah! That’s much better!」
Indeed, rather than entrusting a verbal message with her, it would be better for them to go to the royal capital.
Once they joined up, he would use 《Transfer》.
Rem was cautious.
「……If that really is the case, it would help us very much. However, would the soldiers at the checking stations go along with that?」
「They, show respect to the priests of that region.」
「……I’m sure they do.」
「It is because the local church is the foundation of their livelihood after all.」
If they were to show disrespect, it wouldn’t only make it difficult for them to live there. If things were done poorly, they could have their lives targeted by those with deep piety.
Rem nodded with a convinced face.
「……If it is a person that the High Chief Priest has selected, then I’m sure that you would be treated as special by the neighborhood priests. It should be a position where it wouldn’t be strange for you to be affiliated with the Cardinal Institute.」
「There was that kind of talk as well, but I did not want to be away from the Earth Temple of my birthplace.」
Could they really trust that?
Even if she doesn’t have any ill will, there was no guarantee that the priests of a checking station town would absolutely cooperate.
No matter what a priest says, there was no guarantee that there would be nothing but soldiers that would allow suspicious people to pass through.
However, he couldn’t think of any other methods.
「I allow it, Lilitana. Guide us to the royal capital.」
「I shall definitely accomplish it, Head of the Holy Knights-sama.」
