How to Live as a Knight After the Ending - Chapter 50
Only Noblemtl
Episode 50. The Witch and the Knight
Ossian looked at Ena with a look of bewilderment.
The fight is over, so I thought you’d just take it with a car.
Just now, when I shouted while suppressing the golden fire, it was more intense than I thought.
Ossian immediately got into the passenger seat.
Anna immediately stepped on the accelerator of the jeep and drove it at top speed.
Now that Martinez was down, the golden fields were gone, so the jeep continued on without any problems.
“Is it okay to leave that there?”
“Who are you? A judge? A monster that melted a steam train after being hit by it, so what if it was hit by a jeep?”
but.
This guy can even grow back his severed arm like a lizard’s tail, so there’s no way he’d die from being hit like this.
Right now, he’s still in the aftermath of the fight, but he’ll soon calm down and recover.
Even knowing that, the fact that Enaga rushed in was the result of the anger of someone who had been chased all along exploding.
“That’s surprising. You knew how to drive?”
“As I tried to make a living, I ended up doing all sorts of odd jobs.”
“A witch?”
“What does that mean? If you’re a witch, you’d probably make a lot of money with location crafting, right?”
“Wasn’t it?”
Anna made a bitter expression.
“Of course, I have made money like that. It wasn’t exactly for the money, it was something I started out of good intentions.”
“You mean the ability to show illusions?”
“It’s not just an illusion. It can show the user what they really want. And it’s not even a complete illusion, you can touch it.”
Anna got paid based on that and showed off the illusions she wanted.
At first I thought it was the right thing to do.
Because by showing that to someone who has lost a loved one, it can help them heal their emotional wounds.
Although the world criticized the power of witches, Ena thought differently.
Even a witch’s power can be of help to someone if used in the right way.
“It was a vain hope. The world is not that easy.”
The most memorable one was a child’s fantasy.
In this world, children also work to earn money.
Delivering newspapers, running errands, and sweeping chimneys.
The most brutal of these was coal mining.
Moving ore through the narrow, winding paths of the mine was much easier for the small children.
Children from poor families had no choice but to work in the coal mines.
And when that mine collapsed, it was also children who died.
The old woman who came to see Ena was a mother who had lost her only child in the collapse of the coal mine.
Anna first showed a vision of her dead child.
I was moved and proud to see a mother hugging her dead child and shedding tears.
But even after that, the old woman continued to come to Ena and beg her to let her see her child.
At first, I did as she asked, but as she kept coming, I decided not to do it anymore.
“Then she reported me to the church. She had delusions that the wicked witch had kidnapped and eaten her child. I can’t forget the way she glared at me and screamed. It was so scary that it even appeared in my dreams.”
Isn’t it funny?
Ena’s expression as she asked that question was filled with sadness.
“It’s nice to see the illusion you want the most, but the moment the match goes out, it disappears like a mirage. It’s literally an illusion that will disappear the moment the wind blows. That’s why it’s short, and that’s why it’s even more intense.”
“Because when you wake up from a sweet dream, what awaits you is an empty and bleak reality.”
“Everyone wants to have sweet dreams, especially when reality is hard and difficult. I thought I was helping them with good intentions, but it wasn’t.”
Rather, the sweet fantasy was like a drug, a swamp that was hard to escape from.
He becomes more and more absorbed in his abilities, and suddenly, only madness and obsession remain, and he begs.
And then he shouts out loud.
The witch made him like this.
“So I tried to restrain myself from position crafting as much as possible and learned what I could do. This driving is part of that.”
“It must have been hard work, but you did a great job.”
“Should I just do it for you?”
Ossian, sitting in the passenger seat, snickered at Ena’s nagging.
Anna couldn’t help but feel curious because the light response seemed to be nothing special.
“What the hell was that?”
“What are you talking about?”
“That’s the cloak that wraps around your body, made of light drawn from the sword.”
“It is a basic quality of a knight.”
As Ossian, I had no choice but to explain it this way.
In fact, the Holy Light Sword was one of the basic characteristics used by the Sky Knights.
“A knight?”
Anna asked as if she had misheard something.
“Are you kidding?”
“If that’s what you heard, then I guess there’s nothing I can do. But isn’t that something a witch should say?”
“No, the witch still exists.”
“Doesn’t the knight exist? Right here, right now.”
Anna asked if that made sense, then closed her mouth.
If you think about it, how could Ossian not be a knight?
He emitted a dazzling white light from his sword and wore a cloak of pure white starlight around his body.
It is not created by magic, by holy law, by mutant powers, or by science.
In a way, it might be something unique to Ossian himself.
If Ossian had named it the power of a knight, then it was a knight.
‘Besides, something about it seems to be true.’
There definitely were knights in the past.
Although it now exists only as a legend or a fairy tale, it is certain that it actually existed.
It is said that they traveled around the world using the stars in the sky as landmarks, doing what they believed to be right.
I also heard that story from my grandmother when I was little.
A story about a righteous knight who defeats an evil dragon and saves a princess.
I remembered that while listening to the story with sparkling eyes, I had imagined that one day a great knight would appear to me as well.
‘You’re a knight.’
Ena, recalling old fond memories, compared them to her current situation and smiled to herself.
In the fairy tale, the knight defeated the evil dragon and saved the princess.
But the knight sitting in the passenger seat defeated the priest and rescued the witch.
In fairy tales, knights ride brave, white horses, but Ossian drives a jeep.
I couldn’t help but laugh at the strange irony.
“But how on earth did you think you could fight the Judge like that? He was a monster known to be the most talented of his time.”
“I’ve fought a lot.”
I’ve played paladins and pvp until I’m sick of it.
Ossian was the type of person who would not avoid a fight if it came to him.
So I kept the PVP window open and waited for approval.
Usually, curious people applied to Ossian for PvP, and the proportion of those with the Paladin profession was particularly high.
That’s because it’s a job that can fight long battles against wandering knights.
For reference, the next most popular occupations were Warlocks and Barbarians.
Ossian’s answer was based on such memories, but Ena accepted it differently.
‘You’ve fought a lot? A knight of the sect? Who on earth is this person?’
But looking at that boring, secretive figure, it didn’t seem like he would answer even if I asked.
“Wouldn’t it be better than that? After all, we ended up becoming enemies with the Vatican. And we even gave them our names. Wouldn’t it have been better to destroy the evidence now?”
“It’s useless.”
Ossian looked out the passenger window.
The sight of the desolate plain flowing by was captured in his black eyes.
“If that young judge is dead, the church will also be on the lookout for him. Then it will naturally become known that he encountered us.”
“That’s right. If we get into the city safely in this car, we’ll be caught.”
“That’s why I saved him. At least he promised not to do anything completely out of line.”
Of course, this was nothing more than a half-assed excuse.
If I had to pick a sincerity, it would be closer to an act of mercy that resulted in an enjoyable fight.
Thanks to this, I was able to use the Seongun Danpo.
“I’m tired. I need to get some sleep.”
“yes?”
“Please drive safely.”
Although he appeared to be fine on the outside, Ossian was actually on the verge of fainting at any moment.
It was fortunate that I got to use the Seongun Danpo, but since it was my first time using the technique, it took up a huge amount of mental power.
If you used it haphazardly, then it wouldn’t matter.
He ran nonstop at full power using the technique he first used to deal with the judge.
The backlash came like a flood now that the fighting was over and tensions had eased.
Ossian immediately closed his eyes and fell into a quiet sleep.
Anna, who was holding the steering wheel, opened her eyes wide in bewilderment at the sight.
Really? You’re really sleeping here?
No. Of course, it was hard. I actually won against that judge.
What about that black one wrapped in starlight?
It was a sword of such high power that it could even cut down the divine pension that the judge was proud of.
No, can I call that a sword?
Isn’t it actually just a lump of heat, with the shape of a sword?
If you fought with that on, it would have consumed a tremendous amount of energy.
Still, doesn’t it feel like something has changed?
This is the client who requested help, so why am I suddenly acting as the driver for the problem solver?
“Hey. Just get up. I’ll get you right away.”
As she said that, Ena’s driving became noticeably smoother.
As if he didn’t want to disturb anyone’s sleep.
*
Ossian opened his eyes when he arrived in Tirna.
Since they couldn’t take the car all the way inside, they left it at a nearby repair shop and the two moved inside separately.
As I arrived at the entrance of the Violet Fox Tavern, I heard a loud noise coming from inside.
Instead of opening the doorknob, Ossian focused his senses on his ears and eavesdropped on the conversation inside.
-Isn’t it time to come back now? It seems like it’s taking quite some time.
-I thought you’d come back soon since you said the tracks were broken, but this is unexpected. You mean you haven’t given up?
-I heard rumors that the scrap metal guys are also moving? Even the evil mafia is said to be involved. Shouldn’t they be cautious and come out?
These were the words spoken by Lorraine, Ronan, and Dioranne respectively.
Then Lorraine’s voice was heard shouting confidently.
-That’s true. I told you that it’s not something that a single problem solver can do. I’ll be back soon.
-Since Ms. Lorraine is so sure of it, I feel like something is not right.
-Ha. Then what, shall we make a bet? Will our youngest succeed or fail in his mission? I’ll bet on failure. Why? Are you scared?
Sigh.
Thinking that someone had told an interesting story while he was away, Ossian opened the door and went into the tavern.
The three people who were sitting around the table and chatting looked at Ossian and simultaneously shut their mouths.
Ronan, who came to his senses first, greeted Ossian with his usual suspicious smile.
“Huh, huh. You’re here, Mr. Ossian. You’re a little late.”
“I was late because I was busy with work.”
“Well, don’t be too upset. The job of a problem solver isn’t always successful. Sometimes you might fail. We don’t care.”
“What are you talking about? I never said I failed.”
“Huh? What is that… … .”
Instead of answering, Ossian stepped aside slightly.
Then, Anna Grunt, who had been hidden behind Ossian’s back, appeared.
The expressions of the three people who saw Ena each changed.
The smile on Ronan’s face disappeared, and his narrowed eyes became longer.
Dioranne looked embarrassed, and Lorraine’s expression was especially readable.
Because it was a sight so shocking that it felt like the sky was falling down.
“The client is Anna Grunt. I brought her back safely.”
As Ossian spoke, he stared at the three of them, especially at Lorraine, who had said that he would definitely fail.
“Uh, uh uh… … .”
Lorraine broke out in a cold sweat and immediately cried out.
“I, I told you so! I said our youngest would succeed!”
“Huh? Just a moment ago… … .”
“Ah! Oh, by the way, I forgot to clean my gun today! I’ll go first!”
Lorraine stormed off as if she wouldn’t allow an answer.
Ronan shook his head as if he was troubled by the sight, and Dioranne banged her head on the table and laughed heartily.
“… … Is this a group of problem solvers?”
Anna Grunt muttered in a weak voice at the ridiculous sight.
Ossian introduced Anna Grunt to his colleagues.
“This is Rona Rolland. I am the broker for this troubleshooting office. Say hello.”
Ronan greeted Ena gently and politely, like a gentleman.
“Nice to meet you, Miss Anna Grunt. Ronan Rolland, broker of Biolse Fox.
It is truly an honor to meet the famous witch I have only heard of in stories.
“It is.”
Anna stared at Ronan intently, then quietly hid behind Ossian’s back.
Ossian asked Ena, who was only sticking her face out.
“Why is that?”
“That guy. He’s so suspicious.”
I couldn’t ask what was suspicious.
In fact, Ossian was thinking the same thing.
“You’re squinting. People like that are always like that. Should I say that there’s something dark inside?
“There must be something hidden.”
Meanwhile, Ena’s evaluation of Ronan continued.
Even though he hides behind my back because it’s burdensome, he says everything he wants to say.
I felt it when I hit the judge with my car, but Ena definitely has a temper
Did.
“Hahaha. You’re an interesting person. When you say that, my delicate heart is hurt.
“I wear it.”
“Wow, you’re lying without even licking your lips”