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Incubus Banishment Vol 2 Chapter 14
🕑 Added 2022-10-05 08:43:44 +0000 UTCChapter 14 – Flag of Strong Woman Appearing
Alicia and I were unable to take off our eyes for a while from the church notification that Rouge-san showed to us.
After all the person who was described in that paper suited Alicia’s characteristic to a tee.
The meaning of it was very plain.
The church was looking for the Sacred Knight Alicia.
But……what was the meaning of this?
I could understand if this country――Spermaria Kingdom was searching for Alicia. The Sacred Knight would become the symbol of the national power. It would be a disaster if such person got recruited by another force.
Even discounting that, Alicia was also a daughter of Blueaiz House, a prominent family even in the capital.
No matter how laid-back……placid Blueaiz House was, there was no way they could explain Alicia’s disappearance using something like a note 「Going to a training journey」 forever. It wouldn’t be strange for pursuers to be sent seriously after Alicia soon.
But that wasn’t the case with the church.
Even if Holy Knight was a Gift that symbolized the church and Sacred Knight was even further above that, the church=holy theocracy had no right at all to take away the Sacred Knight from their home country.
If the person who received the Gift strongly desired it, it might be possible for them to move to the holy theocracy in the form of studying abroad or the like, but even that would be carried out under strict agreement between the two countries as a diplomatic transaction. Anything else than that would be out of the question.
That could be said as only natural when the strength of holy knight type Gift that was even said as the pillar of the national defense was taken into consideration.
No matter how I looked at this, it was strange that the church was searching for the Sacred Knight separately from the kingdom.
Furthermore according to Rouge-san this wanted poster was apparently circulating only among church related people.
In other words the church was pursuing Alicia secretly so the kingdom wouldn’t find out about it……even a greenhorn like me who had just obtained my Gift could smell just how suspicious this was.
There was also what Sister Claire said about the [church’s corruption]. I couldn’t help but feeling distrust toward the church’s influence that I had unconditionally believed until now.
「……From your reactioon, it looks like the person who the church is looking for is really you just as I thought. I already heard about how you two had some kind of circumstance, but to think it’s something this major.」
「Tsu!?」
My shoulders jumped in shock.
Dammit.
Certainly the way we reacted was no different than confessing that we were currently being pursued.
I hurriedly tried to make excuse but I immediately noticed.
Rouge-san intentionally showed this wanted poster to us. On top of that she had been making preparation to continue the penis sale.
In other words Rouge-san planned to overlook us from the start.
「……Why?」
I judged that there was no more need for me to keep secret from Rouge-san who already decided that it was us who the church was looking for. I confronted Rouge-san about my suspicion.
「Most of the times someone who is being pursued by the church is either a criminal or a heretic. In the first place, getting in the way of the church will not give you any benefit at all and only risk, so why are you helping us……」
「There’s something reeally strange going on with the church for these several years.」
Rouge-san puffed out smoke from her mouth while answering my question.
「Most of the common priests are still good-natured people like usual, but there are more and more really disgusting bunch occupying the higher ranks recently. It’ll better for me to turn a blind eye to what those guys are searching for. ……Thaat is what my instinct is telling me.」
Rouge-san said such nonsensical thing while the corner of her lips rose up.
「What’s moree I’m a genuine Merchant. I will sell anything except my valued client.」
「……Thank you very much.」
I bowed my head to Rouge-san who was smirking while blowing smoke.
She said 「Well, forget about it」 and waved away my thanks, then,
「I guess there is no need to ask but, you two are going to leave this city riight?」
「Yes, we will. We need to hide somewhere……」
Our stay here had been pleasant that we extended the length of their stay here against our better judgment, but from the start we didn’t have any intention of staying for too long in one place while we were eloping.
Thanks to Local Wife we would be able to meet with the people of this fortress city anytime now. There was no more reason for us to continue staying here.
We had to move right away, so that I would be able to continue answering the feeling of Alicia who followed someone like me just so that she could be together with me.
After all the only choice for someone like me who was banished because of my disgraceful Gift to be able to continue staying together with Alicia was by running away.
Not to mention that the church was searching for Alicia for an unknown reason that felt disquieting. We needed to go to a place where we would be able to hide ourselves better.
But in that case there was one problem.
「Our only choice is to run away but……there are churches everywhere. Where should we go?」
If the capital sent pursuer after us then in the worst case we could just head to another country, but if our opponent was the church then that option wasn’t available to us. The church of Romalia religion also existed in this fortress city Gretona. And even small village usually had a priest stationed permanently there.
「Aaa, that’s certainly troubling. If you want a place where there aren’t many churches then demihuman country like elf, dwarf, or beastman country will be better, but those countries are really far from heree.」
「That’s true……」
Furthermore direction-wise we would have to get near the holy theocracy’s sphere of influence to get to those countries, so the way to there would be really scary.
Although we would be able to feel quite safe once we reached those places, the way to there would be really risky.
This matter really troubled my mind. Then,
「In that casee, the remaining prospect I can think of is……this recommendation also has its own share of trouble but……I thiink your only choice is the dungeon city Sankrid that is located at the border of Spermaria Kingdom.」
「Eh, dungeon city?」
I strongly reacted to those words that I had just listened to the other day.
Rouge-san seemed to think that I was asking a question. She explained to me the reason why she picked the dungeon city among the places where we could hide.
「Sankrid is filled with brigades, large scale adventurer parties that are formed for exploring dungeon. Buut at the end of the power struggle there, three brigades came out as influential forces in that city. Thoose brigades are controlling the city right now, both on the surface and also behind the scene, turning it into one of the few cities where the church’s influence doesn’t reach. A loot of people also comes and goes from the dungeon city, so that place is really convenient for a wanted person to lay low.」
But……Rouge-san continued with a low voice.
「Like I mentioned just now, the dungeon city Sankrid is a lawless city where three brigades are competing ruthlessly against each other. Twoo of those brigades, the empress brigade and battle princess brigade are especially high-handed. Youu risked catching their attention if you go there and who knows what they will do to you in that casee. Weell, it’ll still be better than getting found by the holy theocracy, and with the strength of you two there won’t be any problem but……your opponent will be organization. It dooesn’t change how risky it will be there. I knoow I’m the one who mentioned it to you but, I really can’t recommend that you go to this place.」
「I see……」
I considered Rouge-san’s words.
Dungeon city.
Certainly it was just like Rouge-san said, there would be a lot of risks if we went there, but I thought there would also ne merits to make up for it.
The dungeon city was relatively near from here. And the route to there would have far fewer monitoring from the church compared to heading to the demihuman nations.
On top of that if that place was a large city where a lot of people kept coming and going, that would make it a perfect place for hiding just like Rouge-san said.
Besides there was another merit for hiding in a place like Sankrid that had a large dungeon――.
「Erio……」
Alicia who had been staying quiet until now called my real name.
「……I want to be together with Erio forever. But……I don’t want to be a burden who keep needing to be protected.」
And then she said this with a serious expression.
「……I’ll also become strong with you at the dungeon city.」
「……tsu」
The merit of dungeon city.
There we would be able to fight inside a dungeon that boasted vast amount of space without needing to worry about other people’s eyes.
In other words Alicia who had to work behind the scene until now to hide her status as Sacred Knight would also be able to gather combat experience there and grew rapidly, just like me.
Alicia herself was wishing for that.
The church was targeting Alicia for some reason, so it was essential for her to power up in every aspect.
There was no better place than Sankrid for us right now to hide.
And most of all, that mysterious nun had given me an [advice] as though she had known that this would happen. I got the feeling that I mustn’t ignore her advice――.
「Rouge-san……we’re thinking to head to the dungeon city.」
I made that decision even knowing the risks.
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「……Ehehe. I had forgotten it a little recently, but if I get stronger then I’ll also become able to push down Erio……I have to level up a lot at the dungeon city……」
Alicia seemed to mutter something suspicious, but I decided that I hadn’t heard anything.
