Estio Volume 7
- Episode 2
Ruby opened her eyes in surprise for the second time. It was normal for all living beings to be engulfed in sacred flames the moment they touched the holy sword and burned to death or cut with a single sword. However, Tsuki bit the holy sword Stigmata with his hard teeth and shook it. Because the tiger's power was so strong, Ruby only had to endure to not lose the sword.
When the sword didn't break easily, Tsuki turned to look elsewhere. The moment Ruby tried to use her divine power when she saw the unusually flashing Odd Eye, the black tiger raised his head with its large front paws. Unfortunately for Ruby, a sword-wielding knight, tigers were also good at hand-to-hand combat.
With a dull sound, the helmet he was wearing flew away.
"leader!"
For a moment, the knights shouted, surprised to know that Ruby's neck had been blown off. His eyes were pouring with mourning, but his legs still couldn't move, and no one could run to him. However, it wasn't Ruby's neck that flew away, it was his helmet. Shortly grown blonde hair flew here and there in the strong wind peculiar to Elia.
"Ha, surprise."
Ruby sighed in frustration. At the same time, hot blood dripped down his left eyelid. His neck was not blown away, but instead his forehead was torn and covered in blood. Tiger's claws were clearly visible on her face, exposed as her helmet was removed.
"Did you have a guardian there too?"
With his blood flowing left eye grimacing, the blonde holy knight looked at Tsuki and Estio alternately. The gigantic black tiger was roaring with blades like a mother who had been attacked by her cubs.
"Tsuki, calm down."
Estio lightly wiped the back of the tiger, who was trembling to run back. When his familiar touch touched Tsuki, he glanced up at him. He wanted to calm down a little, and then he glared at Ruby again and roared loudly. After hearing the roar of life, Ruby quickly tightened her tension. But Tsuki didn't run right away.
"...I tried to kill you!"
"Okay. Nothing happened."
"Why the hell are you always so carefree? That naughty bastard was trying to kill you!"
"Tsuki."
Tsuki was more excited than ever because Ruby had aimed at Estio's head with an obvious murderous intention. He was Tsuki, who quietly pursued him like a shadow and gave advice only when it was absolutely necessary. But he couldn't stand still and watch it this time.
The problem was that those who appeared as enemies did not know that they were the guardians of Hwangryong, so they were careless. After all, he was not an ordinary guardian, and Ruby was even a seasoned holy knight who received a holy sword from Shuhanan. He even broke the mind control of the Black Dragon and tried to kill Estio. Even considering that Estio was still inexperienced in power control, he was an absurdly strong player.
If the timing of Tsuki's intervention had been delayed a little, it may have escalated into irreversible consequences. Seeing that, Tsuki was restless and kept choking.
"Thank you for watching."
Estio patted the growling black tiger's head.
"But the author won't hurt me anyway."
"Have you read your mind?"
"Yeah. Not exactly Ruby F. Saint."
The dark blue eyes turned to the side of the giant holy sword with golden divine power.
"I read the will of the sword he was holding."
Paah!
At that moment, Lipe Stigmata returned to her human form again. The shape of his sword disappeared, and gold lumps gathered to take the form of a member of a holy knight wearing a helmet and armor. Lipe, who had completely reconstructed even one of her fingers, stepped gently on the floor.
"Repe?"
Ruby, who had suddenly lost even the sword she was holding, fixed her gaze on Lipe, who had become a human, blankly, not even thinking of wiping the blood flowing from her face.
"You haven't given an order to transform into a human yet? No, hey, Holy Sword!"
The holy sword Lipe Stigmata ignored the dreadful call of the Knights Commander.
With a gun, Lipe ran like a small herbivore and stopped in front of Estio. The Black Tiger, who discovered the approaching enemy, fiercely exposed its teeth as if it would swallow it in one bite at any moment, but Lipe didn't care.
"what's your name."
Seeing Lipe asking for her name at first, Estio was a little perplexed. He knew he had no intention of attacking, but I couldn't read why Lipe was interested in me.
"......? This is Estio."
When I answered, Lipe was overjoyed. He was covered with a helmet, so his face was not visible, but Lipe's excitement was clearly conveyed to Estio. It was the same for Ruby who noticed the sign. Ruby, bewildered by the strange behavior of the Holy Sword, asked with a bewildered voice.
"Ma'am, what are you doing there. Why are you asking the name of the person you need to kill?"
"Life, I've decided not to attack Estio."
Finally, Lipe responded to Ruby's voice. Seeing Lipe revealing her will, Ruby made an impression.
"Who decides?"
"Life has free will."
"Come back. This is an order."
"Life, betrayal."
"How can you be so proudly a traitor in the subject of the Holy Sword!"
Being so startled, Ruby cried out in tears, forgetting even the intention to kill Estio. He could not face Estio without the Holy Sword, which greatly boosts the combat power of the Holy Knight.
"Ha, I'm going crazy. Is there really only one thing left to do now is die."
A little while ago, after exclaiming 'Die!' with great effort, Ruby, who failed due to the absurd reason that the Holy Sword betrayed her, became a complicated mood with a mixture of embarrassment, disappointment and injustice. He thought that the only thing left to do was die by biting his neck by an angry tiger. It was unavoidable because he first aimed at his opponent's neck. Lou Berry, who thought so, closed his eyes tightly and waited for the final blow, while Estio was observing Lipe standing in front of him.
'Why did you betray your side?'
Estio was also like Ruby, who didn't know English. The holy sword Lipe Stigmata made from the bones of the Yellow Dragon suddenly betrayed the Holy Knight, and there was no reason to approach him. Lipe, a strange creature that is both an object and a magical creature, had a very simple thought, and reading his mind only felt pure affection.
As soon as Estio thought that he was curious about his face, Lipe quickly took off his helmet. Like Ruby, clear gold hair fell like sunlight from inside the helmet.
At that moment, Estio saw Lipe's bare face and thought of someone else.
'Loaren...?'
It was a woman who had already died, a girl with the same face as Loaren. But she was a Lipe born from the bones of a Yellow Dragon, so she couldn't reproduce the black hair of a Black Dragon. A girl with her blonde hair and glowing eyes, as if she was made of gold, stood embracing her helmet, smiling all over the room. Her mood was completely different, but her face looked like Loa Ren's childhood.
Estio, who was unable to take his eyes off Lipe's face, finally recalled a forgotten link between Loaren and Shuhanan.
'They were lovers.'
But Estio shook his head again.
'No, you said you shared a companionship ceremony.'
Estio's expression turned strange when he thought about it up to that point. Loaren and Shuhanan were a couple who shared their companionship. So, if Loa Ren gave birth to her child, it was natural for her to be Shu Hanan. It was a one-dimensional truth without reasoning, but as I regarded them as being too distant, my realization was delayed.
Hwangryong Shuhanan was Estio's real father. That is why Lipe, made of the bones of the Yellow Dragon, refused to attack Estio. Lipe Stigmata instinctively recognized the energy of the owner mixed with Estio's blood and expressed his affection for him.
Only other holy knights who did not know this fact could not understand Lipe's sudden action and were confused.
"Go back."
"......Yes?"
Ruby, who had been anxious about when her neck would fall, raised her head. Ruby, who met his cold, dark blue eyes and gazes, swallowed a dry saliva and asked.
"Aren't you going to kill me?"
"I don't kill."
A monotonous answer was heard. The voice was so calm that there was no sense of reality, so Ruby reconfirmed it without realizing it.
"Did I mean to kill you?"
"Yes."
"Aren't you mad?"
"not really."
Estio looked at Ruby, who had a tense expression, with unimpressed eyes.
"All the causes of anger are dead. Ultimately, I don't care because the people I want to protect are safe."
The hunters who invaded Elia were wiped out without leaving even a corpse . Unicorns and Pegasus were injured in the process, but the damage was not great. Sky Island Elia, where young foals burst out crying and good-natured people who are trembling in fear, remain, was filled with peaceful silence.
There were trees still burning in the aftermath of the torch, but the flames were not strong, so if you diligently pour out the spring water, it seemed to be extinguished quickly.
"Go back."
hoo.
The black air current that entangled everyone's body slowly dissipated like a mist. The holy knights, who were free to move, rushed and surrounded the leader Ruby. Despite receiving the wary gaze, Estio calmly said with his hand on the black tiger's head.
"Go, tell Shuhanan. I will go to the Pontifical Elysium on the promised day."
The promised day is the day on which the baptism of the Pope will be performed.
"I have a question for him too."
Standing between the black tiger and the black unicorn, the dark-haired young man turned with his back to the Holy Knights.
"I accept the request."
* * *
doo doo doo.
The sound of hoofs running through the sky gradually faded away. It was the sound of the Holy Knights riding on a golden unicorn leaving Elia.
'Sorry for using the rough method. However, in the future, people who are aiming for Elia and the Heavenly Demon are bound to continue to appear. Heavenly demons are precious, sacred, and therefore money by human standards.'
Before leaving, another holy knight bowed his head and apologized in lieu of the Holy Knights Commander, Ruby F. Saint. The knight's name was Jeanne.
'So it would be safer for the denomination to protect Elijah. Estio... Dear Sir, I've caused trouble with my stupid manager, so we'll step down. We will send priests to replace her soon.'
The holy knights, who politely apologized, rode on horseback, dragging the collar of the commander, Ruby, who seemed unfair. And immediately left Elia without looking back.
Estio did not object to the idea of sending priests again later. As Jeanne said, Elia was already exposed to the world. Although all the hunters who invaded this time died, Estio could easily predict that this incident would not end with their deaths. There are countless people in the world who are aiming for rare pets and wealth. If Estio was not going to stay in Elia and protect it, it was time for a new guardian to be needed in Elia, the Sky Island.
Estio Volume 7
- Episode 2
Ruby opened her eyes in surprise for the second time. It was normal for all living beings to be engulfed in sacred flames the moment they touched the holy sword and burned to death or cut with a single sword. However, Tsuki bit the holy sword Stigmata with his hard teeth and shook it. Because the tiger's power was so strong, Ruby only had to endure to not lose the sword.
When the sword didn't break easily, Tsuki turned to look elsewhere. The moment Ruby tried to use her divine power when she saw the unusually flashing Odd Eye, the black tiger raised his head with its large front paws. Unfortunately for Ruby, a sword-wielding knight, tigers were also good at hand-to-hand combat.
With a dull sound, the helmet he was wearing flew away.
"leader!"
For a moment, the knights shouted, surprised to know that Ruby's neck had been blown off. His eyes were pouring with mourning, but his legs still couldn't move, and no one could run to him. However, it wasn't Ruby's neck that flew away, it was his helmet. Shortly grown blonde hair flew here and there in the strong wind peculiar to Elia.
"Ha, surprise."
Ruby sighed in frustration. At the same time, hot blood dripped down his left eyelid. His neck was not blown away, but instead his forehead was torn and covered in blood. Tiger's claws were clearly visible on her face, exposed as her helmet was removed.
"Did you have a guardian there too?"
With his blood flowing left eye grimacing, the blonde holy knight looked at Tsuki and Estio alternately. The gigantic black tiger was roaring with blades like a mother who had been attacked by her cubs.
"Tsuki, calm down."
Estio lightly wiped the back of the tiger, who was trembling to run back. When his familiar touch touched Tsuki, he glanced up at him. He wanted to calm down a little, and then he glared at Ruby again and roared loudly. After hearing the roar of life, Ruby quickly tightened her tension. But Tsuki didn't run right away.
"...I tried to kill you!"
"Okay. Nothing happened."
"Why the hell are you always so carefree? That naughty bastard was trying to kill you!"
"Tsuki."
Tsuki was more excited than ever because Ruby had aimed at Estio's head with an obvious murderous intention. He was Tsuki, who quietly pursued him like a shadow and gave advice only when it was absolutely necessary. But he couldn't stand still and watch it this time.
The problem was that those who appeared as enemies did not know that they were the guardians of Hwangryong, so they were careless. After all, he was not an ordinary guardian, and Ruby was even a seasoned holy knight who received a holy sword from Shuhanan. He even broke the mind control of the Black Dragon and tried to kill Estio. Even considering that Estio was still inexperienced in power control, he was an absurdly strong player.
If the timing of Tsuki's intervention had been delayed a little, it may have escalated into irreversible consequences. Seeing that, Tsuki was restless and kept choking.
"Thank you for watching."
Estio patted the growling black tiger's head.
"But the author won't hurt me anyway."
"Have you read your mind?"
"Yeah. Not exactly Ruby F. Saint."
The dark blue eyes turned to the side of the giant holy sword with golden divine power.
"I read the will of the sword he was holding."
Paah!
At that moment, Lipe Stigmata returned to her human form again. The shape of his sword disappeared, and gold lumps gathered to take the form of a member of a holy knight wearing a helmet and armor. Lipe, who had completely reconstructed even one of her fingers, stepped gently on the floor.
"Repe?"
Ruby, who had suddenly lost even the sword she was holding, fixed her gaze on Lipe, who had become a human, blankly, not even thinking of wiping the blood flowing from her face.
"You haven't given an order to transform into a human yet? No, hey, Holy Sword!"
The holy sword Lipe Stigmata ignored the dreadful call of the Knights Commander.
With a gun, Lipe ran like a small herbivore and stopped in front of Estio. The Black Tiger, who discovered the approaching enemy, fiercely exposed its teeth as if it would swallow it in one bite at any moment, but Lipe didn't care.
"what's your name."
Seeing Lipe asking for her name at first, Estio was a little perplexed. He knew he had no intention of attacking, but I couldn't read why Lipe was interested in me.
"......? This is Estio."
When I answered, Lipe was overjoyed. He was covered with a helmet, so his face was not visible, but Lipe's excitement was clearly conveyed to Estio. It was the same for Ruby who noticed the sign. Ruby, bewildered by the strange behavior of the Holy Sword, asked with a bewildered voice.
"Ma'am, what are you doing there. Why are you asking the name of the person you need to kill?"
"Life, I've decided not to attack Estio."
Finally, Lipe responded to Ruby's voice. Seeing Lipe revealing her will, Ruby made an impression.
"Who decides?"
"Life has free will."
"Come back. This is an order."
"Life, betrayal."
"How can you be so proudly a traitor in the subject of the Holy Sword!"
Being so startled, Ruby cried out in tears, forgetting even the intention to kill Estio. He could not face Estio without the Holy Sword, which greatly boosts the combat power of the Holy Knight.
"Ha, I'm going crazy. Is there really only one thing left to do now is die."
A little while ago, after exclaiming 'Die!' with great effort, Ruby, who failed due to the absurd reason that the Holy Sword betrayed her, became a complicated mood with a mixture of embarrassment, disappointment and injustice. He thought that the only thing left to do was die by biting his neck by an angry tiger. It was unavoidable because he first aimed at his opponent's neck. Lou Berry, who thought so, closed his eyes tightly and waited for the final blow, while Estio was observing Lipe standing in front of him.
'Why did you betray your side?'
Estio was also like Ruby, who didn't know English. The holy sword Lipe Stigmata made from the bones of the Yellow Dragon suddenly betrayed the Holy Knight, and there was no reason to approach him. Lipe, a strange creature that is both an object and a magical creature, had a very simple thought, and reading his mind only felt pure affection.
As soon as Estio thought that he was curious about his face, Lipe quickly took off his helmet. Like Ruby, clear gold hair fell like sunlight from inside the helmet.
At that moment, Estio saw Lipe's bare face and thought of someone else.
'Loaren...?'
It was a woman who had already died, a girl with the same face as Loaren. But she was a Lipe born from the bones of a Yellow Dragon, so she couldn't reproduce the black hair of a Black Dragon. A girl with her blonde hair and glowing eyes, as if she was made of gold, stood embracing her helmet, smiling all over the room. Her mood was completely different, but her face looked like Loa Ren's childhood.
Estio, who was unable to take his eyes off Lipe's face, finally recalled a forgotten link between Loaren and Shuhanan.
'They were lovers.'
But Estio shook his head again.
'No, you said you shared a companionship ceremony.'
Estio's expression turned strange when he thought about it up to that point. Loaren and Shuhanan were a couple who shared their companionship. So, if Loa Ren gave birth to her child, it was natural for her to be Shu Hanan. It was a one-dimensional truth without reasoning, but as I regarded them as being too distant, my realization was delayed.
Hwangryong Shuhanan was Estio's real father. That is why Lipe, made of the bones of the Yellow Dragon, refused to attack Estio. Lipe Stigmata instinctively recognized the energy of the owner mixed with Estio's blood and expressed his affection for him.
Only other holy knights who did not know this fact could not understand Lipe's sudden action and were confused.
"Go back."
"......Yes?"
Ruby, who had been anxious about when her neck would fall, raised her head. Ruby, who met his cold, dark blue eyes and gazes, swallowed a dry saliva and asked.
"Aren't you going to kill me?"
"I don't kill."
A monotonous answer was heard. The voice was so calm that there was no sense of reality, so Ruby reconfirmed it without realizing it.
"Did I mean to kill you?"
"Yes."
"Aren't you mad?"
"not really."
Estio looked at Ruby, who had a tense expression, with unimpressed eyes.
"All the causes of anger are dead. Ultimately, I don't care because the people I want to protect are safe."
The hunters who invaded Elia were wiped out without leaving even a corpse . Unicorns and Pegasus were injured in the process, but the damage was not great. Sky Island Elia, where young foals burst out crying and good-natured people who are trembling in fear, remain, was filled with peaceful silence.
There were trees still burning in the aftermath of the torch, but the flames were not strong, so if you diligently pour out the spring water, it seemed to be extinguished quickly.
"Go back."
hoo.
The black air current that entangled everyone's body slowly dissipated like a mist. The holy knights, who were free to move, rushed and surrounded the leader Ruby. Despite receiving the wary gaze, Estio calmly said with his hand on the black tiger's head.
"Go, tell Shuhanan. I will go to the Pontifical Elysium on the promised day."
The promised day is the day on which the baptism of the Pope will be performed.
"I have a question for him too."
Standing between the black tiger and the black unicorn, the dark-haired young man turned with his back to the Holy Knights.
"I accept the request."
* * *
doo doo doo.
The sound of hoofs running through the sky gradually faded away. It was the sound of the Holy Knights riding on a golden unicorn leaving Elia.
'Sorry for using the rough method. However, in the future, people who are aiming for Elia and the Heavenly Demon are bound to continue to appear. Heavenly demons are precious, sacred, and therefore money by human standards.'
Before leaving, another holy knight bowed his head and apologized in lieu of the Holy Knights Commander, Ruby F. Saint. The knight's name was Jeanne.
'So it would be safer for the denomination to protect Elijah. Estio... Dear Sir, I've caused trouble with my stupid manager, so we'll step down. We will send priests to replace her soon.'
The holy knights, who politely apologized, rode on horseback, dragging the collar of the commander, Ruby, who seemed unfair. And immediately left Elia without looking back.
Estio did not object to the idea of sending priests again later. As Jeanne said, Elia was already exposed to the world. Although all the hunters who invaded this time died, Estio could easily predict that this incident would not end with their deaths. There are countless people in the world who are aiming for rare pets and wealth. If Estio was not going to stay in Elia and protect it, it was time for a new guardian to be needed in Elia, the Sky Island.
