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Volume 12, Chapter 2: Trying Out Being the Head of the Holy Knights - Part 6




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One week later──
Diablo’s group was able to safely pass through three checking stations.
The time was noon, and the weather was nice.
The sun was shining overhead, and it was weather what would make one sweaty just being in the sun. It wasn’t as much as Faltra City, but it seemed that this area had a temperate climate.
There was still about half a day left until they would reach the royal capital. There was no longer anything that could obstruct them.
They would probably arrive at dusk.
Rem was in a good mood.
「……Lilitana, you really are a wonderful priest. You could even say that you’re the model of what a priest should be.」
「No, such a thing is.」
She was being bashful and hiding her mouth with her hand.
Shera also praised her.
「It’s amazing, isn’t it! Lilitana-san, your prayer songs are really good, and even your cooking is amazingly delicious!」
「If you were able to enjoy it, then that is great.」
She’s like a mom──is what Diablo thought.
Indeed, she is excellent.
Since there weren’t any battles up until now, he didn’t know about her abilities as a Healer but……
The beauty of the melodies of her prayers, they were by no means inferior to those of the High Chief Priest Lumachina’s.
Since it seemed that she taught Lumachina the basics when she was a child, that is probably only natural.
Lilitana had no agitation even when she was surrounded by soldiers, and she confidently conversed with even the supervisors of the checking stations.
As for the local priests, it wasn’t on the level of being “well known”, she was idolized by them as if she were their teacher. It seemed that whenever there was a difficult problem that they couldn’t solve, they would go to her place to consult her about it.
Lilitana was a woman that was idolized as a holy mother.
Rem spoke.
「……If that’s true, then a person like you really should be elected for the Cardinal Institute.」
She cast her eyes down.
「Those words are more than I deserve. However……it is because I am a Dwarf.」
「Ah……I see. The Grand Chapel is in the royal capital. The racial discrimination is considerably deep-seated over there after all.」
Diablo remembered.
「Come to think of it, the Cardinal Institute from when it was controlled by a guy called Bishos, it was nothing but Humans, wasn’t it?」
Lilitana assented.
「Yes. And that is not all. Even Lumachina-sama……If she wasn’t a Human, she surely wouldn’t have been chosen as the High Chief Priest even if she had all of that talent.」
「Such a foolish thing.」
Hearing Diablo’s words, Rem also showed her fangs.
「……Seriously.」
Even Shera who usually didn’t get mad had taken offense.
「That’s terrible!」
Going “there, there”, Lilitana soothed them.
「No matter who they believe in, what they believe in, or what kind of world they desire, every person is different. What is good and evil and what their likes and dislikes are different things……and that is something that cannot be helped.」
「……However, I feel that racial discrimination isn’t something that should be allowed though?」
「It might not be right. However, it is also a fact that people who possess that sort of sense of values are in the royal capital. Causing Lumachina-sama to go through hardship by me being near her, is not something I desire.」
Indeed, that sort of trouble could happen.
The previous Cardinal Institute, which was Bishos’s group, was slaughtered by the Royal Palace Knights. It seemed that they had a connection to royal authority, and were silenced by the mastermind.
Lumachina nominated a new Cardinal Institute, and Lilitana was invited to join as well, but she declined it.
She was worried about he birthplace, and about her race.
「Somehow, it’s sad……」
Hearing Shera’s words, Lilitana shook her head left and right.
「It’s fine. Above all, the stiff lifestyle of the royal capital doesn’t match my nature. My refusal of the invitation to the Cardinal Institute wasn’t just about my race and the Earth Temple. I also had my own reasons.」
Her cheeks were flushed.
Rem tilted her head.
「……Your own reasons……is it?」
「I, am no good. I couldn’t endure it.」
Lilitana turned her eyes to the outside of the canopy.
That expression, it wasn’t her usual composed look, and somehow felt like she hungered for something.
Diablo asked a question.
「Do you have some sort of desire? Speak without hiding it.」
Rem also nodded.
「……That’s right, Lilitana. What reason is there to be reserved about it?」
「Eh? Is that alright?」
Shera pitched forward.
「What, what? Do you have something that you want? Do you have something you want to do?」
「Erm……I suppose you could say, I want to do something……」
「Isn’t fine if you do it then?」
Without even hearing the details, Shera was easy going about it.
Rem asked.
「……Would it be better if I stopped the carriage?」
「No, there is no need for that.」
「……In that case, all the more reason for you to say it. Don’t you think there is no need for reserve?」
「Y, yes.」
*Chirari* Lilitana turned her gaze towards Diablo.
Her eyes shook.
「What is it?」
「No……um……it might soil your eyes though.」
「Hmph……I am a Demon King. No matter what you do, know that I will not perturbed.」
Hearing those words, she expressed a smile as if she had been liberated.
「Thank you very much! Well then, excuse me──」
While saying that, Lilitana placed her hands on her priest outfit.
Rem and Shera had their eyes go round.
Even Diablo was at a loss for words.
Lilitana had, *zubotto*, taken off her clothes.
「Wearing clothes on a hot day, is something I, absolutely can’t standー」
──That really is, something impossible when living in a city, isn’t it!
Diablo consented to that from the bottom of his heart.
It seemed that she wasn’t wearing underwear from the start. She had become completely naked.
Appropriate for a hard worker, she had a lean figure, but being a Dwarf woman, her chest was abundant, and drooping a bit.
Beads of sweat were rising to the surface of her skin.
──Why did you strip!?
He was about to shout that, but it seemed that this was her “desire”.
Diablo didn’t want to be denied for having a “personality different from others”, nor did he want to deny others.
That is why, he didn’t deny her.
But, he was greatly troubled as to where he could place his eyes.
Lilitana thrust both of her hands up.
「Kuu～, this feels so good! This wind! This sunlight! This sense of freedom! Ahh, being nude really is wonderful, isn’t it!」
Rem replied with a dumbfounded voice.
「……Is, is that so……I don’t understand though since I don’t undress in front of others.」
She didn’t deny her, but she also couldn’t hide her disturbed voice.
「Fuwawaー」
Shera blushed and placed both of her hands in front of her face.
However, she firmly looked at her from in between her fingers.
Those reactions from Diablo’s group, Lilitana might have liked them. She went into an even better mood.
「Ufufufufu……Even people’s gazes, it’ll become a habit if you get used to it, you know?」
「……No, I’ve had, enough of that.」
Before, Rem walked through the Dark Elf village in the nude──she had done such a thing. It was a Ritual Magic though.
Her body had reacted quite a bit from that.
This feels like it could become a habit──that is what Rem herself probably felt as well. Right now, she had hardened her expression.
Lilitana made a sarcastic laugh.
「Ahah……Having everyone clothed and me being the only one who undressed, it’s a bit embarrassing, isn’t it.」
「……Even if everyone undressed, being nude outside is what’s embarrassing, and it wouldn’t be just a bit.」
Rem coldly declared that.
On the other hand, Shera nodded as if she were convinced.
「True, it’s lonely doing things alone, isn’t it!」
「……Hold on, Shera!? What do you plan on doing!?」
「My chest also hurts.」
「……In that case, you could at least leave it at removing some buttons on your chest, right!?」
「Here we goー!!」
Shera’s bulges that they hadn’t seen at all recently, were released with a bang.
As if to take back these past few days, *burun burun*, they swung a lot.
「Aaaahー, this is the bestー!!」
「It feels good, doesn’t it, Shera-san!」
「Yup!」
If they weren’t nude on the main road in the daytime, it would have been a harmonious conversation though……
Rem’s face went pale.
「……This is a main road that is close to the royal capital, you know? Even though there is no telling when someone will see you.」
Lilitana’s cheeks were flushed.
Fidgeting, she rubbed her knees together.
「Nnu…Oh Rem-san, are you suddenly abusing me verbally?」
「……I am only expressing the facts.」
「Then, next, Rem-san too.」
「Let’s strip, okay? Rem.」
Even Shera urged her.
Rem raised her voice in amazement.
「Are you stupid!? I am holding the reins……I’m the one steering the carriage, you know!」
「Then, you can Head of the Holy Knights-sama to do that. Ah, or could it be, Head of the Holy Knights-sama, will you be stripping?」
Before the talk went in a strange direction, Diablo sat on the driver’s seat.
Lilitana and Shera, the bulges of both of their chests, they were going *burun burun buon zugya~n*, and he couldn’t take it any longer.
He stole the reins from Rem.
「Hmph! Since I will look after the carriage, just leave it to me!」
「Diabloー!?」
Going “Then, with that being the case”──Rem was brought to the back.
In the past, when Rem and Shera were bathing in the river, Diablo had his back towards them, and was unable to peek over at them.
That didn’t change even now.
It might be possible if they were to suddenly strip right in front of him though.
The courage to gaze at the girls as they played in the carriage, was something he really didn’t have. Diablo gripped the reins, and only glared forward.
──Uuuugh……I, haven’t changed at all, have I.
He could hear Rem’s coquettish voice.
「No, you can’t……Ah, if you strip me……Ah, aah……!! Outside, like this……even though we’re not even bathing!? Nn, hyah, nnnnh」
There was also Lilitana and Shera’s voices.
「Ara ara……Rem-san, you’re amazing, aren’t you.」
「Waah! You’ve already turned out like this, Rem!?」
「D, don’t……」
「It is fine, you know, Rem-san. Kami-sama will also allow it. People are naked the moment they are born after all.」
「That’s rightー. Things that feel good, are good things, you know. Rem.」
「No……Don’t……This sort of thing……is……is going to become a habitttttt～～～～～!!」
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