Ankoku Kishi Monogatari (WN)

◆Dark Knight; Kuroki

「The castle seems to have become quite noisy, Fairy Tamer-dono.」

Said Frutin as he looked at me.

Since I didn't tell him my name, he ended up calling me the fairy tamer.

The undead started to make a ruckus once they discovered that the prisoners had escaped.

They might be in hot pursuit right now.

「It'll be for the best if we manage to escape but…」

I replied without looking at Frutin.

Frutin, Mardas and three other prisoners had escaped from the castle.

Naturally, I explained the real situation to them. They readily agreed to take on the role once I told them the truth.

They told me that they came to this land fully prepared to die anyway, thus they readily agreed to take such a role while leaving some damage to the undead.

I prayed for their safety from my heart.

In the end, no one but Zarxis knew of the real matter of these fat men.

Thus I really prayed for their safety from the bottom of my heart.

Before long, the noise had settled down.

It seems the number of undead in the castle had thinned down.

「Yes. Let's go, shall we?」

I nodded to him.

From the white hooded personnel, I knew that the vampires were currently absent from the castle.

Now was the best time to move.

「Yeah. Frutin-dono…」

I replied while turning my back at Frutin.

We were currently masquerading as the white hoods.

Frutin and co were pretending to be those who were late in escaping.

In short, they were tied, buck naked. They might not be tied up in "V" letters anymore but, looking at naked men didn't make me feel any better either.

That was the reason why I spoke to him while averting my gaze like this.

Tibel didn't say anything and just made a fed up look on her face.

Upon a closer look, she pinched her nose too. It seems she really hated those men.

I quietly apologized to Tibel in my heart.

Though there were other people with white hoods around us, they were under Tibel's control.

And we had confirmed that there was no undead around.

The other white hoods and us who didn't chase after the escaping prisoners stayed in the castle.

It was more logical for the undead to go after the escapees rather than the slow moving modified humans.

The white hoods that returned nodded to confirm the situation.

Yup, all the undead had left the castle.

Frutin wore his attire and armed himself.

The prisoners’ armament was kept by the white hoods.

He instantly exuded a sense of dignity once he wore his attire.

It was as if his previous embarrassing naked posture was a lie.

「Let's go, boss.」

Mardas spoke with a grin on his face.

He held an ax, naked.

Looking at his beast tattoo, it seems he was the berserker of Thors.

The berserkers never wore armor. Rather, they were proud of the fact that they fought without any protective equipment.

It was as if they said that only cowards fight with armor.

Some of them even fight buck naked.

Mardas and the other three seemed to belong to that naked faction.

It seems Mardas and his comrades were caught together.

I saw the naked as*ses of three fat old men.

Though I respect their creed, I didn't want to see it myself if possible.

Alas, I couldn't tell them that.

I mean, they were volunteering themselves as bait to buy me some time.

It seems they planned to sacrifice themselves, too.

Though I thanked them for that, this felt like some sort of punishment game for some reason.

Frutin led Mardas and co, and I also followed them.

The reason why Frutin was appointed as the leader was due to his ability to sense the undead.

We climbed a long staircase.

The men were climbing in front of me. Alas, they seemed to have a hard time due to their weight.

Not to mention that I ended up seeing something dangling between their legs.

Dammit, gimme a break from this punishment game already…

The moment I retorted so in my mind, Frutin suddenly stopped in his place.

「What's the ma—?」

Frutin suddenly raised his index finger to his lips before I finished my sentence.

It was the hand signal for "Be quiet".

There was a door at the end of the staircase.

It seems we had arrived on the 1st floor.

Due to Frutin's hand signal, I realized that there were undead before us.

「Fairy Tamer-dono, we will rampage here to lure the enemy. Use that chance to proceed ahead. Do you agree with me, Mardas-dono?」

「Yeah, let's go. Ketsuno. Anaga. Moro.」[TN: Ketsu no Ana Ga Moro-> translate it yourself.]

Mardas and his comrades nodded together.

I got this feeling that I shouldn't combine those three names.

「Yes.」

「Leave it to us.」

「Yeah, this is an opportunity for men like us.」

Spare me from the last one please…

「I understand. Be careful…」

The men laughed when I said so. These were the faces of people prepared to face their death.

Those were the faces of true men.

Frutin enchanted Mardas and co's weapons.

It was light magic to allow them to fight ghosts with ethereal form.

「Here I come.」

「OOH!」

Frutin and co rushed at once with weapons in hand.

I looked at their last stand from the gap of the door.

「DIEDIEDIE! ALL THE KIN OF THE RULER OF DEATH SHALL DIE!! THIS IS THE HAMMER OF JUSTICE!」

The tip of Frutin's bat-like mace shone.

As I thought, Frutin seems to be blessed by either an angel or god.

Frutin along with Mardas and co defeated one undead after another, the way they fought was befitting of veteran brave warriors.

Then I suddenly found stairs on the side.

The undead were coming out from that place.

A while later, no undead came from that staircase anymore.

It seems all the undead had already been taken care of.

I guess they didn't need my assistance.

「Okay! Let's go Tibel!」

「Yes, Kuroki-sama! We can finally say goodbye to those oily huma~ns.」

Tibel replied happily.

Wow, she must've hated them so much.

I left the door, moving carefully along the wall toward the staircase.

I ended up being chased by specters along the way, alas Mardas took care of them for me.

「Thanks.」

I thanked Mardas and ran forward.

I felt no enemy presence ahead of us.

Where are Wendy and the others I wonder?

According to the information from the white hoods, they seem to be kept on the upper floor.

I kept moving forward until I arrived at the place where the white hoods stood.

Wendy and co must've been kept inside the innermost room guarded by that man.

「Uhm, what's the matter?」

「Sleep.」

The white hood fell asleep immediately once I used sleep magic on him.

And when I entered the room behind that man, I arrived in a spacious room.

The room had a high ceiling and its floor was covered with a beautiful carpet.

There was something like a birdcage hanging from the ceiling.

「Who are you?」

The white hoods inside the room looked in my direction at once.

There are three of them.

It was no big deal for us.

Tibel and I used magic at the same time and put them to sleep.

And then, when all of them fell asleep, a loud voice resounded from the birdcage.

「Tibel-chan! Kuroki-san!」

When I looked up, I saw Wendy calling out to us from the birdcage.

「Wait a minute, we're going to save you immediately.」

I looked around the room and found a lever.

The birdcage started coming down when I moved the lever.

Once the birdcage landed on the floor, Wendy and the children looked at me.

Their eyes were shining brightly as they looked at us.

The birdcage itself didn't seem to be that sturdy.

If that was the case, destroying it was a simple matter.

When I tore the lattice of the birdcage, Wendy and the children ran up to me.

「Thank you Kuroki-san! And Tibel-chan too! Thank you for saving us!」

Wendy jumped at Tibel.

「H-Hey, let go off me!」

Tibel tried her best to get away from Wendy.

The children ran up to Tibel.

「Cool! It's a real fairy!」

「Yeah! She's real!」

「Her wings are so beautiful! Hey, can I touch your wings?!」

「Big sis Wendy is telling the truth.」

The children were frolicking around Tibel immediately. Tibel sure was popular.

And since glowing dust fell from her beautiful azure wings every time she flapped there, it made her even more conspicuous.

She would attract attention very naturally just by appearing.

Tibel wasn't very happy about that though.

「Hey! Get away from me little humans!」

Tibel flew backward to escape from the children.

The children looked rather dejected in seeing that.

Alas, they knew that they couldn't force Tibel since the latter hated it.

「It's not like I want to save you kids, boss wanted to save you!」

Said Tibel with a pouting look on her face.

Surely, Tibel didn't feel like she wanted to save Wendy.

She just goes along with my choices.

Alas, that seems to be a trivial matter for Wendy.

「But you still came to save us. Thanks, Tibel-chan…」

Tibel started to cry as she thanked Tibel.

Even I couldn't help but be touched by her innocence.

What a beautiful scene. It felt as if the suffering of having to see the a*sses of those old men from before was a big fat lie.

「Well then, Wendy. Let's get out of here, shall we?」

「"Hiccup". Yes… Everyone, let's escape from this place! Lily, gather everyone.」

「Okay Wendy. Thank you, Old man.」

「O-… Old ma—」

I was quite shocked when the girl named Lily called me an old man.

Well, I might look like an old man for kids of her age though.

Alas, I didn't really care about it.

「Well then everyone, follow m—」

At that moment, I felt someone's presence approaching this room.

「Fairy Tamer-dono! Are you alright?!」

The one who came was Frutin and co. Mardas and his buddies were also coming with him.

It seems there weren't too many undead left here.

Maybe they followed me after they defeated all the undead they could see.

But they came at the right moment.

「You came at the right moment, Frutin-dono. Please escort these children to escape from this place.」

Frutin laughed when I told him so.

「I see, they were the children who got kidnapped by the vampire huh. Leave it to me. What about you, Mardas?」

「Count me in.」

「Yeah, I love kids.」

「Hehehe, worry not. We will escort them to a safe place.」

「Yeah, leave it to uncle.」

Said the old men with refreshing smiles on their faces.

Still, I felt something bad would happen if kids and old men walked side by side.

If this was Japan, I would call the police for sure.

「Well then, let's go…」

The moment I said so. Tibel suddenly flapped her wings.

「Bad ne~ws! Strong presence is coming this way!」

And then, the next moment.

Something huge crashed into the room.

「KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!」

「What's the matter.」

The kids and the old men seemed to be paralyzed in fear.

I looked at the new guest when the dust had settled down.

It was the bow of a sky ship.

「Fufufufu… It seems they arrived at the last moment. Bring those children to a safe place, they're innocent.」

Someone stood on the bow of the ship.

A chill ran down my spine as soon as I saw her.

It was a woman clad in a red dress.

Her pupils were bright red, and the left one was much bigger. One of her arms turned into a talon.

「Zaffrada…」

The daughter of the reaper, the Goddess of Plague and Decay, Zaffrada.

Dammit, I didn't make it in time.

I felt cold sweat flowing down my back.

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