101 Knight's Duties
The helicopter landed in front of the mansion deep in the Alps. Under the pilot's reverential gaze, Roy hugged Athena and came down from the helicopter.
"Lily, go to the bathroom and prepare hot water for me. I need to take a shower."
Roy lowered his head and glanced at his body that was almost totally stained red with blood, while ordering Liliana.
"Yes, Lord Roy!"
Liliana happily nodded and took long hurried gaits, ready to go to work.
"Wait a minute, Lily."
"Anything else, King?"
Liliana paused her steps, turned around and asked.
Roy didn't speak, he just pressed his fingertips on the delicate face of the sleeping figure in his arms.
Poke-! Poke-!
Athena who was disturbed in her peaceful slumber, nudged her posture, and her small palm slapped away Roy's hand while she remained asleep, though incoherently murmuring something along the lines of 'stupid human' and 'this goddess'.
Glancing at his fingertips that was not carrying a trace of dust, her face was pristine proper, he just continued, "Forget it, it's okay! Go ahead, Lily."
Liliana dumbly titled her head a little sideways in confusion but still hurried to prepare hot water for Roy to freshen up.
"A god's body is really convenient. There is even an automatic cleaning function, unfortunately, Campiones has no such ability. What a convenient..."
Roy whispered.
In between their clashes, Athena was smacked up and down by his <Holding Onto The God>, as she was beaten and rolled all over the floor. Her body was supposed to be dirty even if her immortality healed her injuries.
But as soon as their battle was over, Athena's body was as clean as if she had just taken a shower. He could only sign on the passive innate characteristics of the gods being so practical.
"King, why didn't you kill Athena?"
Erica looked at the harmless looking goddess in Roy's arms warily, and asked after hesitating for a while.
"Killing a Heretic God is just to usurp one of their powers, but compared to the power gained, if a powerful goddess becomes my subordinate, the benefit is obviously on my side."
"I understand what you mean, don't worry, Erica. The Gorgon Stone has been handed over to me by Athena, her power is under my control, so it is impossible for her to make some sneak attacks or assassinations."
Roy is not the kind of person who is absolutely rigid. Feeling Erica' worries, he also patiently explained to relieve her, and at the same time stretched out his left hand to materialize the Gorgon Stone by concentrating the divine origin scattered evenly in his body.
Seeing the real deal in his hand, Erica breathed a sign of relief.
When she and Liliana were rushing to him, their high altitude position allowed them to see what remained of the stupendous battle, or in this case, rather a lack of one.
A section of the mountain system of the Alps was directly flattened and turned into a flat ground. If this appalling scene were to be enacted with modern weapons, then it would surely take a few nuclear bombs to do so.
What kind of beings are the Godslayers and the Heretic Gods? They are simply disastrous monsters that can destroy the world harnessing a humanoid form.
....not her king, though.
She was very thankful that they came to stay here, away from the human inhabitation, in the Alps.
Otherwise, the destructive power that can flatten the mountains and plough the entire grasslands and can even change the whole topography of the map will surely blow down the population numbering of humanity.
If it happened in Rome, let alone the city of Rome, even half of the Italy had been turned to ruins.
The Devil King On The Earth and the Disasters Of The Sky, the Campiones and the Heretic Gods are worthy of these names.
"K, King, you m-made Athena surrender?!"
It was at this time she came to realise what audacity was actually happening here, thinking of Roy's words, her beautiful eyes widened, and her mouth took a cute 'o' shape with a dumbstruck expression.
Something that has never happened in the long history was repeatedly happening in front of her eyes, one after another.
Every time the Campiones and Heretic Gods appear together in the record, they will always be fighting, and the ending will always be the complete defeat of one side.
A Heretic God surrendered and a Campione allowed the Heretic God to surrender, she, no, nobody has heard something even roughly similar to such stupefying context.
"Umh, the word surrender cannot exactly describe the situation, Athena and I can be probably regarded as allies now, but in this relationship I'm at the dominant side. When Athena wakes up, don't say about surrendering or anything similar in front of her. This tsundere goddess is too prideful, if she hears it, such words will definitely not bear some good fruit."
"Also, from now, Athena is expected to live with us. You can find some excellent maids from Italy to take care of this goddess and tell them to be more respectful to her. Well, we will just stick to doing our being a host thing nicely."
While talking to Erica, Roy walked to his bedroom, gently placing the goddess in his arms on the soft mattress, and covered her with a thin quilt.
After thinking about it, he took a big teddy bear plushi from Liliana's doll collection in his room and stuffed it into her arms that let Athena loose the hand that was holding on to his neckline.
"How dare I be disrespectful to Goddess Athena, but when I think about living with a goddess in the future, I feel like I'm still not awake. Hah!"
Erica, the famous Italian 'Crimson Devil' who loved to tease others, let go of her knightly hold and languidly leaned in his arms, rubbing her forehead on his chest and said with a wry smile.
Even for a prideful knight like her, she felt her head was in a mess at this time, she was confused by the sudden revelation that she was going to live with a Heretic Goddess.
"You will get used to it, Erica."
He tightened his hold around her waist and ruffled her blonde hair as she hummed in contentment.
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In the expanse of steaming mist, a looming figure washed away the blood stains on his body as the red blood flowed with water to be washed away along the sewer.
"Fortunately, my physique has been greatly improved now. If this was my previous body, by estimation, I would have to spend a year in an ICU ward or even die before reaching the hospital."
Almost all of his blood capillaries were ruptured, and blood overflowed from the pores. The amount of bleeding was visually shocking, but even so, healing this kind of injury didn't even need his intervention.
As long as the head is not chopped off or all the internal organs are not mauled at the same time, the Godslayers can recover by their body's innate self-recovery.
Suddenly, a pair of snow-white arms encircled his waist, and a warm body hugged Roy from behind his back.
"Erica, why did you come in?"
Roy asked with a smile, grabbing the thin arm around his waist, he didn't need to look back to know who had announced her presence.
"Master Roy, as your exclusive knight, I have the obligation to solve all your needs."
Erica, the little mischievous devil, tiptoed leaning on his back and whispered in her sultry voice.
Corner of his lips rose, "Erica, you have become naughtier."
"Lily! Why are you shy, come in quickly!"
Erica suddenly half-exhaustedly yelled at the door, amidst the steamy mist, a silver-haired girl stood in front of the door, stuttering shyly: "I-I am sorry to disturb you, King."
With that said, Liliana slowly treaded near them with a face more steaming red than the steaming environment.
Both, Roy and Erica chuckled as Liliana's face reddened more, thinking that this child is really stupidly cute.
Roy certainly knows why the two girls came to find him. He shook his head and smiled:
"Then do it according to your ideas."
Erica and Liliana, who were provided with the 'instructions' showed different reactions, one blinked mischievously with a snicker, while another quickly lowered her head.
The two knight girls bowed down to carry on with their 'duties'.
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