I Became a Dark Knight the Empress Is Obsessed With - I Became a Dark Knight the Empress Is Obsessed With chapter 161

161 – The Calm Before the Storm – (2)

As I headed for the Guards building while bickering with Cora, Uriad had already arrived. With him at the head, Millia, Lautrec, and several other knights stood there wearing armor.

A dark-haired woman looking away with her chin on her chin as if she was uncomfortable with their stinging gaze.

It was Emma, the progenitor of the clan.

Cora hurriedly returned her sword to me as soon as her eyes met Yuri Erd’s, then trotted off to the far end of her barracks.

Since it’s a seed, it’s okay to stay there, but it looked scary after all.

After I sat down in my seat, Yuri Erd finally raised his head.

“You’re here.”

“Am I a little late?”

“No, rather, everyone came early.”

Uriard shrugged his shoulders and continued.

“So, how was the process of Eina?”

“Well, I was hit in the back as usual. It seems to have improved a little, but it was just there. The wooden sword was spicy.”

“It deserves it. Lord Eina’s swordsmanship will not be matched by anyone on the continent. I also learned from being beaten by her when she was young.”

Uriard closed the book and stood up.

Then they checked each and every one of them, and eventually stopped at one point.

He cleared his throat with a confused expression and cautiously opened his mouth.

“That…… Lautrec.”

“Yes.”

“No matter what…… Don’t you think it’s a little out of place to bring a priest from the Order to the Royal Guard barracks?”

Yuri Erd asked with a slightly mysterious expression, and Lautrec nodded as well.

However, I will add it soon.

“I think so too…… It was also difficult to part.”

“It definitely looks like that.”

“…… Worst.”

A pet growling with cat-like eyes open, holding Lautrec by the waist like a handle.

Yuria Enruin was growling.

She wasn’t really doing that towards me.

Her eyes were always on Emma from the moment I entered the room.

Emma’s uncomfortable expression is all because of her.

“Little boy, you seem to be hated, Jim.”

“Yes. It sure looks like that.”

Ema glanced sideways at Yuria. Then, Yuria’s growl intensified. Eventually Emma turned her gaze back to me and let out a sigh.

“Well, it’s not that I don’t understand. At that time, to that child, Jim must have been an enemy of wrath.”

“You mean what happened at the Iscobal mansion?”

“Yes. In that sense, I’ve done a bad thing to you, kid.”

In fact, almost everyone in her position doesn’t like her. Had the stake in her breast not held back her strength, she would have been put back in her coffin.

As if she knew that too, Emma put her chin on her chin with her complex expression.

“Isn’t it okay to apologize?”

“If it was a problem that could be solved that easily…… I would have done it sooner.”

Emma quietly stood up from her seat.

“I think it would be better for this mother to stay out.”

“…… Emma, you don’t have to.”

“No. Isn’t it an important operation meeting? It is important not to give anything to the foreign enemy.”

With those words, Emma suddenly left her room. Looking at her glass side, she let out a deep sigh as if she couldn’t help it either.

It was only then that Yuria let go of her guard, and now, looking at me, she started to growl.

Anyway, he barks, that puppy.

“What…… Anyway.”

Uriard started talking with those words and opened the map.

“The Cult of the Moon has entered the Empire.”

“… ….”

“At the same time, the doctrine was changed. Their faith has reached the level of serving the wise god and denying the Creator. In other words, it now collides head-on with the state church.”

“That means… ….”

“Yes. It sounds like you are assuming an all-out war.”

The thing to come has finally come.

I could only feel that way.

The remaining time until the fourth act is around two weeks. I had to be fully prepared for it.

“I’m researching blood relatives, but the results haven’t been good. It’s because I’m hiding.”

“Anyway, the True Ancestors have all been destroyed, and the rest will be just puppet-like crap.”

“Has there been any word from the rats in the gutter?”

The Mouse King said that if he found out any new intelligence, he would let you know right away, but so far nothing else has been said.

“Not yet. And not a rat…….”

“It’s a rat. Or less trash than that. I have nothing more to say to the dregs that have sunk to the bottom.”

“…… Her.”

I can’t say anything because you’re so stubborn.

Milia looked at me with eyes that demanded an explanation from her, but I responded with a nod of the head.

“First of all, I plan to expand my military budget. The commander also agreed, so the security will gradually be strengthened. For the time being, festivals, markets, and issuance of passes are all closed.”

“It’s super strong.”

“I can’t help it. Four apostles. This is more than the number of apostles the empire has killed so far.”

At those words, Milia took a small breath, and Lautrec put on a puzzled expression.

They also had the experience of fighting with Arwen, so they knew the apostle’s strength.

As for Yuria, she had nothing to say. Because I was shaking like an aspen tree.

“Kh, if you face Cleta, you will kill me… ….”

“Yes, I guess.”

Lautrec sighed and put his hand on Yuria’s head.

It was completely a pet attitude.

“Anyway.”

Uriard said as he presented the new Guard Code.

“We are facing a war. The empire has faced the greatest crisis in its history, and the existence of the continent beyond the empire, no, the world as a whole, is at stake in this fight.”

Uriard’s angry eyes shone faintly.

“So much, everyone, don’t die. This is an order.”

I didn’t ask for more.

However, everyone present, especially the knights who had overcome many hardships, knew better than anyone else how demanding and difficult Yuriard’s request was, not just that order.

I look at Milia while nodding her head.

Act 4, the shadow of her death hangs over Milia.

Sephia, the familiar of Arwen, the apostle of corruption, rushes in and picks up Milia and devours her.

Recalling that terrible CG, I clenched my fists.

“… ….”

I will never let you die.

I made a promise to myself.

*

“Are you done?”

“Yes.”

Emma was sitting on the grass above the hill in front of the guards barracks. She slumps down next to him, and Cora, who has been following me, scrambles over and takes her epaulettes and sword.

Then she tried to run away, so I grabbed her and stopped her.

Cora reluctantly sat next to me with an awkward expression, but there was a subtle distance between her and me.

I asked Emma with a wry smile.

“Vampire grandmother.”

“Why don’t you call me mother?”

“I don’t mean to, can I stay in a place like this when the sun is shining brightly?”

Even though it is late summer, the angle of the sun is still high. According to the media, vampires can’t be active during the day, but Emma didn’t have that in particular.

Then she replied with a smile.

“Jim is the true ancestor. Kazimir I’m not weak like the child’s kin. Rather, it is warm and good.”

“Awesome.”

“If you want, I can make you a blood relative, too. You can enjoy eternal life under Jim’s protection. Are you a little appetizing now?”

“No, not at all.”

Emma licked her lips again as if feeling sorry for her, and she asked me.

“…… So what were they talking about inside?”

“It seems that the Church of the Moon has entered the Imperial Territory.”

“I see. That’s a tricky one. Is it not long before I can face Cleta?”

Cleta.

When I hear her name, my heart is agitated as expected.

She intends to ask Emma for her advice on how to resolve the pact, but she will never tell.

In the end, I changed my mind.

“Yuria, shouldn’t you reconcile with him?”

“… ….”

Hearing my words, Emma let out a deep sigh.

“Now what? It is true that I did something unforgivable.”

“Then pay the penalty.”

“Are you telling Jim to die?”

Emma snorted to herself.

I couldn’t react to the black humor and only scratched my head.

In the end, perhaps Emma was considerate of me, she opened her mouth first.

“I am always prepared to pay for my sins. Being in the coffin and making the stake to seal my power were all burdens.”

“… ….”

“Why? Are you surprised?”

“Honestly.”

When I agreed, Emma came towards me and put her hand on her shoulder.

Cora turns her head away as if she saw it and saw something she couldn’t.

“But, at most, I want to die without pain.”

“Why are you telling me that?”

“Well, didn’t Jim hurt you too? You must ask for forgiveness. If you want to kill him, just press down on this stake. I will humbly accept it.”

I frowned.

Certainly, the original Freed might have held a grudge against Emma, but I didn’t. I understand Fried’s feelings, but I don’t sympathize.

So, Emma smiled slightly as she saw the two figures approaching slowly behind her.

“Don’t tell me, why don’t you talk to that kid in the back?”

“Huh?”

Emma slowly turned her head, and there it was.

“Ah, uhh… …. Wow, nope It’s the worst.”

“Shouldn’t there be something to settle?”

There was Yuria who dragged her by the scruff of her neck, and Lautrec who patted Yuria on the back as if holding her dog’s leash.

“Isn’t there something to say?”

“Yes. It did.”

When asked from behind her, Emma only smiled mysteriously.