Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 7 Episode 4 (section)

===Part 2===

The morning of the last day of the Pilgrimage Festival.

Lux and Krulcifer first headed to the departure place that was the sanctuary as planned.

At the same time, Lisha and others also used horse carriage to accompany them to the sanctuary. When they arrived, they made the offer of cooperation in order to stop the kidnapping plan of the Dragon Marauder.

「I understand. As an allied country, I gratefully accept the assistance of the elites from New Kingdom Atismata.」

It seemed Pope Nias was surprised, but after consulting with the bishop, he immediately accepted.

Although, Lisha and others wouldn’t accompany the pilgrimage of the pope.

The aim of Dragon Marauder was split into two at present.

In the description of the secret message that Dilwy left, it was written that the kidnapping target would be the archbishop or the pope, either of them.

While Pope Nias was carrying out ceremony at the old sanctuary site nearby the Hall, Lisha and others would stand by at the holy capital where the archbishop was staying. It was arranged so that their combat force would be applied as the situation demanded.

Fifty elites of Sanctuary Knight Order, Lux, Krulcifer, and Mel, they served as the pope’s guard just like before. It seemed that it was decided that line up was fundamentally enough.

「I wish to accompany Lux as an aide of a Seven Dragon Paladins but……it cannot be helped with our strategy. Please leave this side to us.」

Celis gave out only a little bit of sign of feeling disappointed, even so she straightened her back and threw out her chest.

When Lux nodded, Philuffy suddenly peered with unblinking gaze at Lux’s face.

「Uwah!? Phi, Phi-chan!?」

「Lu-chan. It’s no good unless you properly sleep at night you know?」

It seemed that she saw through Lux’s lack of sleep in an instant.

Well, one of the cause of it was related to Philuffy though──,

「Also, it’s no good, if you fight while worrying too much you know?」

「Eh……?」

Lux was surprised when Philuffy told him that indifferently with her usual serious face.

Even though he didn’t say anything about Krulcifer and the Ruin, and also about Ney Louches.

She softly caressed Lux’s hair *pon pon*, and then gave him a soft smile.

「If Lu-chan’s feeling isn’t mistaken, surely it will be fine.」

「……Yes. Thank you.」

Even without her knowing the detail of the circumstance, Philuffy’s words mysteriously were able to relieve him.

When his feeling was turning peaceful like that, Lisha finally came last.

「Be careful okay Lux. ……Also, don’t flirt too much with Krulcifer.」

「Ahaha……」

「Come back safely for sure. The safety of his eminence the pope is also important, but you are my knight after all.」

「Yes. I absolutely won’t do anything that make Lisha-sama sad.」

When Lux smiled like that, Lisha averted her eyes just slightly while offering her hand slowly.

After Lux took that hand and squeezed back, he also finished greeting Yoruka lightly.

The preparation of Pope Nias was also finished, and the elites of Sanctuary Knight Order got into the horse carriage.

But, the assistant sister who was usually riding together on the pope’s carriage, Ney Louches came in front of Lux and others.

「Due to Orphel-sama’s command, today I will accompany Xf……, not that, Krulcifer-sama and others dearimasu. Please take care of me. ……Fuu, I almost expose the whole secret completely there dearimasu, good grief.」

After holding up her hand in front of her face with a snap, Ney averted her face and muttered.

Lux and Krulcifer who saw that looked at each other’s face with wry look.

「That’s why your true feeling is leaking all over though……, perhaps it’s a blunder to include this child into the plan. No matter how long it has been since she was last serviced just like she said, she is still a bit too much of a piece of junk.」

「Tha-, that’s cruel dearimasu! Even though Ney look like this, Ney is a child that can do it if she try dearimasu. Ney also hasn’t said to anyone about that plan──muguwah」

Lux and Krulcifer who went pale hearing her words wasted no time to block her mouth.

It seemed the surrounding didn’t hear, so they immediately got into the horse carriage before even more mistake could be made.

They departed to the last pilgrimage location, the old sanctuary site near the entrance of Hall.

Next, would Dragon Marauder came to kidnap Pope Nias just like the information the new kingdom obtained?

Or else, would that be a diversion and instead they would attack the holy capital to suppress the cathedral where the archbishop was at?

And then, would Lux be able to head to the Hall’s archive following Ney’s guidance?

A day where various thinking was interlacing started.

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