The Peerless Kobold - Chapter 84
The Special Forces of the Templar Knights exist only to extinguish Alvesta of the Black Rain, chasing the white-masked monster during the period of its appearance. They are always wiped out whenever this monster appears but is it because there are a lot of overzealous believers that this unit is still around to this day?
In any case, it was bad form to keep the Cardinal waiting, so the grey-haired Head Mage hastened his steps and headed to the next location.
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Together with Ernesta and her troops, we left Easteria forest and walked through the grasslands for a while and headed to the place where their camp was set up. There were more than a dozen squires accompanying the Knights there, and they seemed to be preparing dinner while keeping watch over their supplies.
With my sense of smell, I picked up the aroma of freshly made soup. However, seeing as it’s made on the march, it’s probably a simple meal.
“We’re not that familiar with your eating habits, but are you alright with pea soup? There’s also some reconstituted dry beef and some bread, but…”
“Guu, guuon.” [Yes, we’re fine with it.]
“… Guua, gaoaan guaoaon.” (… But it’s too unsettling with all these humans around.)
“Wafua, gaoaau~” (That’s right, there are so many humans around~)
Compared to Blazer who is always vigilant of his surroundings, Ax is relaxed even at times like these.
“Wau, guruo kuruua guoaruu, gaaguoun woauuu.” (Well, they’re not so different from the cat people anyway. Although I must say, they smell strongly of iron.)
“Kuu, kuruan garuou.” (I, I think so too.)
Maybe it’s because they have been dealing with the little project involving the cat people of Lucua village who look similar to humans, Lancer and Dagger did not seem wary of the humans either.
Meanwhile, I left the management of the pack to Knuckle and Buster.
Just to be safe, I instructed them to take everyone to the abandoned settlement that the goblins previously occupied near Lucua village and hide after we left.
I have been told that it was where Knuckle, Smith, and the other floppy-eared kobolds’ previous pack used to live in, so I entrusted them with leading the way.
If I did not make a “pledge” with Ernesta, then I would have been thoroughly bewildered, but… My pledge required us to accompany them to the Royal Capital to confirm and present the outcome of the negotiations to the King. After he agrees to our terms and likewise makes his pledge, then we will assist in defeating the Black Rain. Meanwhile, Ernesta’s pledge entailed eliminating any human that will try to harm us during our cooperation in their operations.
The price for violating either of the pledges is the loss of sight.
Not letting me carry out the pledge one-sidedly might be her way of showing her sincerity, but… it seemed too forced to begin with.
I glared at Ernesta’s back disapprovingly.
“… Then, I’m going to have some food brought to you in a while. Glen, has their tent been prepared?”
“Yes, we have already set up two tents for them.”
“We have already prepared a place for you to stay, so shall we go? After dinner, I will be distributing some of our weapons to you as promised.”
As she said this, she turned around and we followed her as she walked ahead and led us to the tents prepared for us.
