Keeper Program

"Many great knights started as servants. As long as you earnestly study the ethics and principles of knights with me, you will definitely be canonized as a knight one day in the future."

Although he couldn't see Katarina's expression, the voice behind the metal mask was serious.

"Uh, actually, I think it would be nice to be a detective assistant..."

"I need your help, Ed. Our abilities are complementary, your tactical acumen, and that magical little mechanical spider—even our meeting seemed destined. You and me, the two of us One can make Silvermist a better place."

To make Silver Mist City better, just the two of us?Ed felt that the eldest lady must have a knight disease in her head.

But thinking about it carefully, this is a good suggestion:

As far as Katarina's current performance is concerned, it is definitely a reliable help.If you encounter a problem that is not convenient for the God Investigative Bureau to participate in solving, you can also ask her for help.

What's more, he has Katarina's character card in his hand.The improvement of her strength will directly improve her close combat ability and "lake" secret script attainments.

"Well, if you insist... I think we could indeed work together."

Ed nodded, reluctantly agreeing.

"In that case, Mr. Edgar Wyccolo..." She raised her long sword, "From now on, I will guide you in your pursuit of knighthood,"

"Kneel down." She reminded softly.

He swayed, and reluctantly dropped to one knee.

"Low your head, lower your head."

She put the tip of the sword on Ed's right shoulder: "May humility be your mirror," and put it on Ed's left shoulder, "May courage be your sharp edge."

"Now, I officially appoint you as my squire-it will be automatically effective when I am knighted. Well, get up quickly."

Catalina supported Ed's shoulders and pulled him to stand up:

"From now on, you need to address me as 'my lord'. I'm not a knight yet, so it's fine to call me that in private."

"Yes, my lord." Ed hummed and fooled, completing Katarina's explanation.

He even had some doubts, whether Katarina knew that she was the so-called "Keeper of the Secret", so she deliberately tormented him like this.But looking at her serious appearance, it doesn't seem like that.

"Come on, Ed, now let's get rid of those evil cave creatures."

She raised her long sword flat, looking irresistible and eager to try:

……

In the darkness, the ghoul priest waited silently.It can wait, it always waits, it is used to waiting, until the face fades away, until the flesh and blood rots.

The years have taken away its sanity, leaving only instinct and the lingering hum of corruption in its mind.

The moment has finally come.The rusty iron gate slowly opened, and a long sword glowing with light appeared in the darkness.

Humans are forever impatient.

It stretched out a rotten fin-like right arm, and dozens of fingers squirmed, shooting nails one by one like bursting peas.

The sweet smell of flesh and blood that I imagined did not come.Nails struck the white wooden shield, or bounced off the sides of the armor.

The servants lying in ambush on the ceiling swooped down.As if the knight had expected it long ago, he raised the long sword and split it in half in the air.

Another servant jumped at the knight, who turned around and pierced his heart with a sword.

The servant did not dodge, and embraced the knight facing the long sword.The smile is weird, as if blissful.

The "Feast" secret text buried in the body made its body deformed, swollen, and skyrocketed uncontrollably, and finally burst like a balloon, and the blood rained with the spines.

The long sword fell to the ground, and the light went out.The knight was knocked to the ground, and the last servant descended from a dark corner and pinned her to the ground.

Bang, bang, bang!In the warm darkness, a nasty gunshot sounded, and a bunch of blood splashed on the servant.

How did he see it?

The eyes of human beings cannot penetrate the darkness, and only the secret text of "eyes" can give them the ability to see the truth.

Surprised, it let out a roar, and the servant let go of the knight's claws, and ran towards the human with the gun.

As for the humans in armor, her flesh and blood belonged to her.

The fin-like appendages drilled into the body, and the unbearable darkness flooded into the body, the muscles swelled and surged, with a warm and itchy pleasure.The Skull Scepter fell to the ground, it was no longer needed.

A nameless movement is played in the ear, and the sound of the feast is erased together with the last ray of orderly thought.

The knight struggled to stand up, but the ground was wet and slippery with blood.

It pounced on it, choked its throat, and bit the steel... It was just a piece of walnut with iron skin, the outer skin was smashed, and there was meat inside...

The room on the side suddenly ignited a fire, orange red and bright.

It hates fire, and it hates light.But it was hungry, and nothing could stop it from swallowing the prey in front of it—

Suddenly, the feast stopped.A broken sword sliced ​​through its neck like butter.

The world suddenly fell, in the familiar darkness, it can no longer see anything, but the hunger has not dissipated.

eat... eat...

The lower jaw twitched, swallowing death into its belly.

……

In front of Ed, the opponent was swimming in the dark like a fish, difficult to catch.

While confirming that the ghoul was charging towards him, he secretly switched the character card to Katarina.

The crow's cane in the left hand acts as a one-handed sword, resting near the left knee with the point forward.

The long tail is on the defensive.In this stance, even in the dark, he can effectively deal with attacks from any frontal direction.

At this moment, Katarina is fighting with the ghoul priest.The opponent was not in a hurry to fight him, but circled and wandered repeatedly, preventing him from approaching the corner.

Seeing that the situation was not good, he rushed to the exit of the room, as if to rescue Katarina.The ghouls followed closely behind.

Turning around with his left hand and swinging the cane, the opponent backed away again, and the pistol hidden behind Ed's back suddenly fired.

boom!The gun flames flickered and missed.

boom!The gunfire just now illuminated the oil lamp hanging on the chain above his head.The shot shattered it all over the place, splashing oil everywhere.

The ghoul's attack came in an instant, but was blocked by the "lake" secret text.In the darkness, only Ed and the monster in front of him knew what happened.

boom!The last shot hit the ground.Sparks sparked from bullets and fragments on the ground.

The flames immediately ignited the dripping oil spots and turned them into raging flames.The ghoul's visual advantage disappeared without a trace.

It howled sharply and wanted to attack again.Ed raised the revolver in his right hand from his waist, and the ghoul dodged to the side.

But the crow's cane slammed on its ugly front teeth, and then a heavy blow hit its skull.

The third stab was barely dodged by the ghoul.It fled all the way to the opposite corner of the room before finally daring to look back at Ed.

Taking advantage of this time, Ed took the time to glance at the situation outside the door - Katarina chopped off the head of the ghoul priest with a broken sword.

This trick is really tried and tested.He could finally concentrate on dealing with the enemy in front of him.

Ed raised his right hand again. Although the ghoul was vigilant, he did not dodge again.

He smiled and dropped the revolver in his hand, and hooked his hands at the ghoul.

Seemingly understanding the humiliation involved, the ghoul finally broke the boat and rushed towards the human who dropped the firearm in front of him.

Ed's cane was not placed in front of him for defense, but placed behind his back.

Just before the opponent jumped and pounced, the cane picked up the brocade on the wall and threw it towards the ghoul.

The wide brocade covered the ghoul's sight. It subconsciously swung its claws to tear the brocade into pieces, but suddenly a silver-white staff tip appeared in front of it.

At the moment of blocking the other party's vision, Ed was already close to him——

I saw him holding the cane with both hands, pushing the handle of the cane with his right arm and stabbing along the way.The tip of the metal staff pierced through the mouth of the blood basin, and broke out of the skull, bringing out drops of yellow and black slurry.

It's obviously not his style to play steadily like Catalina.I don't have such excellent swordsmanship skills as hers, nor do I have that luxurious equipment.

Therefore, don't fight with a cane if you can shoot a gun, and don't show it if you can play tricks-this is his style.

Switching back to Arthur's character card, walking out of the room, Katarina just pushed away the corpse of the ghoul priest.She didn't appear to be injured, only the blood on her armor.

"grown ups."

He stretched out his hand and pulled Katarina up, and returned the long sword "Aomine" on the ground to her.

"Am... am I alright?" She took the sword, as if she was still in shock.

Under the reflection of the diamond light, the whole body of the armor was intact, and even such a terrifying explosion of flesh and blood did not leave even a single scratch.

"Ugin's armor is indeed indestructible, you are right."

It's just that such a fierce battle is indeed too cruel for a young lady who has only practiced swordsmanship in her dreams.

Hopefully this will cure her cavalier disease...

"We won?"

He took out his cotton handkerchief and wiped the blood on the front of her visor:

"Yes, two against ten. How was it, my lord, how was your first adventure?"

"It's not bad, but it seems to be different from what I thought."

She took off her helmet, looked at the cold and ruthless black face armor in her hand, and hesitated to speak:

"I think……"

"It's no big deal, the world doesn't work the way we want it to. Chivalry novels tend to ignore those painful and disturbing episodes in the protagonist's life, if you can see that—"

"I think I should give myself a nickname, 'Black Sir,' what do you think?"

"..."