Chapter Thirty Six
Two Saints Are Better Than One
I walked across the grassy field scanning the horizons as I lead our little group towards the next town. It been several days since we had departed the Fort, splitting off with Christopher, Mashu, Siegfried, and Amadeus. Christopher had left me in charge of this group of troublesome Girls and so far we had found nothing in the towns except for a few of those Zombie Soldiers, which were quickly dispatched. Jeanne and Marie were a pair of chatter boxes especially the Queen herself. However this time it was particularly quiet behind me, a little too quiet.
"Jeanne, Jeanne! Is everything alright? Why are you making such as scary face?" Marie spoke up breaking the silence. I looked over my other shoulder as my Spear was resting on my right shoulder and saw Jeanne indeed had a twisted expression on her face as if she was fighting with herself mentally. A few more moments passed before Jeanne realized that Marie had said her name.
"Huh?…. Oh, Is It really that scary!?" Jeanne said.
"Ufufu, not really scary actually…. Like you're lost in thought?" Marie said with a chuckle.
"Haa…" Jeanne murmured letting out a long sigh. "Yes You're right. I was thinking about something." Jeanne said.
"Was it about the "Dragon Witch"?" Marie inquired. Jeanne paused for a few moments before nodding her head.
"Yes that's right. It's just as you say." Jeanne said. "Since I was born, I have been guided by God, I always moved forward without turning back. Becoming a spirit, becoming a Ruler. Without a single doubt I accepted this fate." Jeanne explained. "The words of the "Dragon Witch", my soul truly does not agree with what she says." Jeanne said shaking her head vigorously. "My "other self", just exactly… who is she?" Jeanne murmured.
"Mm, just as I thought, you're so beautiful. Very, very, very beautiful." Marie said in her usual chipper tone. I sighed mentally and rolled my eyes.
"Pl-Please Don't tease me Marie." Jeanne said shyly.
"No, it's true. I mean, if I was in your position…" Marie said and paused for a moment. "I would probably accept the words of the "Dragon Witch"." Marie said and I raised an eyebrow.
"… B-But Marie?" Jeanne exclaimed in surprise.
"I don't hold any hate for the people who had me executed. I am 90% sure of this." Marie said and I sighed again mentally. "Only 90% sure? I think I would be 100% sure if I hated someone. I'm 100% sure I hate Christopher." I thought to myself. "But, the remaining percents… perhaps it may be much much smaller." Marie said and pinched her fingers together to try and show the small other percent. "I do harbor a little hatred for my Children's murderers, just for them a little." Marie said and Jeanne let a small gasp escape her lips.
"Because they hated me they killed my children…." Marie said sadly and her hands curled into a fist. "Oh Charles… I feel so horrible." Marie murmured and after a moment her fist unclenched and she looked back up. "That is why to me, when the "Dragon Witch" appears, I think, "Ah, that person is like another me"." Marie explained. "Alter Jeanne has such a convincing aura." Marie said next. "But you're not like that are you Jeanne? That is an amazing thing, a very beautiful thing." Marie said and clasped her hands together. "It's because Jeanne, you truly love humanity don't you?" Marie asked. "When you ran towards the army you saved before, you followed persistently never giving up, even after the outrageous accusations." Marie added and there was a long pause from Jeanne.
"… Yes. I do love them. I finally see now. Because you love them, you do not hate them." Jeanne said nodding her head.
"Yes. That is why France was saved by you." Marie said. "And that's why if you meet the "Dragon Witch", make sure to tell her what you really think." Marie and Jeanne looked up in surprise.
"Tell her what I really think? What should I say…?" Jeanne said at a loss for words.
"Just clearly say what you want to say." Marie said. "Say something like "you aren't me". Or, "I don't know who you are."" Maire suggested and I rose my hand up to my face.
"Lancer if I may ask you something?" Jeanne said looking forward at me and I narrowed my eyes at her.
"You may. Whether or not I shall answer depends on the question itself." I replied and Jeanne seemed undeterred by my response and asked anyway.
"Lancer how would you handle an Alter you? Would you accept what she has to say?" Jeanne asked.
"Why would there ever be an Alter me in the first place?" I asked in return. "An Alter version of yourself would suggest it's the side of you that you never wanted anyone to see or the side of you that you don't understand. I understand myself better than anyone so why would there be an Alter me? Any Alter version of myself would clearly be an imposter." I replied and Jeanne expression suggested she was digesting what I had just said. "If you are truly as Saintly and as Pure as you say you are then the Alter Jeanne is an imposter." I said before I turned and looked straight forward.
"I see…." Jeanne murmured. ""I am certain that you are ah, um? ….. I don't know who you are?"" Jeanne said as she returned to trying to think of replies to say to Alter Jeanne.
"You're making that strange face again but… I'm sorry, was the advice Lancer and I gave you not any good?" Marie asked and Jeanne shook her head.
"N-no….. it was very helpful." Jeanne said. "Next time I confront her, I'll make sure to tell her what I really think." Jeanne said determinedly.
"Yes, I'm sure you'd be able to." Marie said nodding her head. Suddenly Marie's head jolted upwards as if she had realized something. "Ah, it would be bad if we don't contact the others soon!" Marie exclaimed.
"Yes you're right. Shall we then?" Jeanne asked and Marie nodded her head….
Elsewhere in France
I walk with my hands in my pockets looking forward. Mashu was walking close by my side as Siegfried and Amadeus followed behind us. Four had shifted back and forth between Mashu and my's shoulder in the past few days. I wondered how Jeanne and the others were doing wherever they were, we hadn't heard from them in a few days.
"Senpai your face looks troubled." Mashu said and I turned to see Mashu staring at my face. "What's troubling you?" Mashu asked.
"Oh It's nothing really. I was just concerned that Jeanne hasn't contacted us in a while." I replied.
"I'm sure that Jeanne, Lancer, and Marie will be contacting us soon." Mashu said with a reassuring smile.
"Yeah you're right." I said returning Mashu's smile.
"In the meantime We should try our best to find the other Saint. We should be reaching Thiers soon." Mashu said and I nodded my head.
"Thiers…. I believe it was known as a town of cutlery." Amadeus said speaking up. "In fact I see the town now in the distance, it seems it hasn't been completely destroyed yet." Amadeus said and I looked in the distance to see the visible outline of Thiers. Mashu came to a stop and so did I and the others.
"Doctor, do you read any servants in the vicinity of Thiers?" Mashu asked.
"Searching Please Hold a Moment…." Roman said and thirty seconds passed by before Roman spoke up. "I'm detecting two faint signatures of a servant within Thiers." Roman replied.
"Quickly Operatives, try to get in contact with them." Olga barked into our ears. "They could be of assistance." Olga added.
"What if they are hostile Director?" I asked.
"You know the drill Operative." Olga replied.
"Roger that Director." I said affirmatively and then there was an explosion that sent tremors through the ground. I looked up and saw smoke rising from Thiers. "What the hell? It was fine just a second ago!" I thought to myself as I grasped my P90 and held it in my hands at my chest.
"…. Right… Now flames are rising from the town." Mashu said gritting her teeth.
"Four!" Four exclaimed.
"I guess the Party started without us!" I said clicking the safety off on my submachine gun.
"Tch That grinding noise…. How horrible. Oh how horrible…. This feeling, never before such an evil sound, never before such evil magic!" Amadeus groaned suddenly and grasped his ears covering them. "Oh goddesses, lend me your saving hands! What an unsettling premonition, I cannot stop shivering….!" Amadeus exclaimed and Mashu and I had a puzzled expression on our face.
"What's wrong I don't hear anything?" I said turning to Mashu.
"Me neither Senpai. However I suggest we hurry to the Town and find out what's going on." Mashu said.
"Well we're not going to learn anything standing here. Lead the way Mashu!" I said nodding my head.
"Understood! Everyone, follow me!" Mashu said nodding. Mashu rushed towards the castle with her shield raised and I fell in behind her with my gun raised in one hand, and Amadeus and Siegfried followed behind us.
A few minutes later
I pressed up against a wall with my P90 raised up. Mashu, Amadeus, and Siegfried stacked up next to me on the wall and I could hear the sounds of people talking. I motioned Mashu with my hand to move up and Mashu nodded her head and swung around with her shield raised. I swung around the corner with P90 raised against my shoulder with my sights raised over Mashu's shoulder with my finger resting on the trigger. What I found at the other end of the barrel was not what I had been expecting.
"Why you! Why you, why you, why you! You're! Impudent! Far East! Country squirrel!" A long blue haired girl with white wings sticking out of her hair said. This girl was wearing a blue and golden Kimono, white stockings, and a golden ribbon on her back.
"Ufufufufu. Who's really the impudent one? You can't even become a dragon, I am the one who is the true dragon!" A long red haired girl with Dragon horns said. She had on an odd white dress with black and white checkered patterns, black fingerless gloves, a purple bow in her hair, white boots, and a Dragon Tail?
"What the fuck?" I murmured as I wrapped my finger around the trigger.
"Did you really think you won? Elizabeth-san?" The blue haired girl said as she had her fingers intertwined with Elizabeth and the two were butting heads.
"Uuuuu! You can't make me angry! Before I take care of Carmilla, I'll kill you first!" Elizabeth decreed. "You marsh stalker!" Elizabeth sneered.
"I am no stalker. I was just simply secretly watching you from behind to protect you." The Blue haired girl replied innocently, which sounded like a stalker to me. "I am Kiyohime, the woman who lives for love." Kiyohime decreed.
"Your love is a violation of human rights!" Elizabeth decried.
"I don't want to hear that from a pervert with a bloody torture fetish!" Kiyohime sneered. "Anyways this is about you, if you didn't do that then what would've you done?" Kiyohime asked.
"What do you mean by that!? What do you mean by what!? I don't know what you're talking about, please stop spouting nonsense!" Elizabeth exclaimed pushing her head against Kiyohimes.
"…..What? Elizabeth, you're impossible!" Kiyohime said angrily.
"AAAAAA! Shut up shut up shut up! Prepare to die!" Elizabeth exclaimed like a spoiled brat.
"Just go ahead and try!" Kiyohime said pushing back against Elizabeth.
"AAAAAAAAAAA!" Both of them screamed like children as they pushed and fourth against one another.
"Stop! Stop! Stop this madness! Any more would be inexcusable, your voices, these sounds, what blasphemy!" Amadeus exclaimed still holding his ears.
"Senpai how should we proceed?" Mashu said glancing over her shoulder at me.
"With extreme caution. We should probably try and break them up and see if we can't get anything useful out of them." I said and Mashu nodded her head. "It's highly unlikely either one of these girls is the saint we are looking for." I said.
"Of course not! Otherwise it would be the day they feel my wrath! If they were Saints then the world's religions would be flipped upside down!" Amadeus said and that made me chuckle.
"The World's religions are already upside down Amadeus." I replied.
"That's besides the point Christopher! Just put a stop to them already!" Amadeus said. Mashu and I slowly crept forward as I pointed my submachine gun over Mashu's shoulder until we were a few feet from them. The two of them were still bickering and butting heads.
"Please stop….! You two!" Mashu ordered from behind her shield, but they seemed to ignore Mashu.
"HEY! Children! Stop fighting!" I yelled at them and that got their attention.
"Huh? Who are you calling a Child Mister?" Elizabeth said glancing at us.
"We need to talk to you two. So why don't you quit butting heads long enough to talk things through in a calm and reasonably fashion." I said.
"I'm busy. Why don't you come back the day before yesterday." Kiyohime said not taking her eyes off of Elizabeth.
"Ha. Soon you won't be so busy. Until the next Holy Grail War!" Elizabeth said turning back to face Kiyohime with a smirk.
"Pfft. Frill-necked lizard." Kiyohime replied.
"Rat snake!" Elizabeth sneered.
"Beaded lizard!" Kiyohime sneered back.
"Viper!" Elizabeth retorted and the two continued to exchange insults.
"Aah, geez!" Mashu said with a sigh.
"God these are really annoying!" I said reaching behind my back.
"Uh, urrgh… my ears are dying…. These filth…. Ah, no, wrong wrong, that's forbidden, I promised Marie…." I heard Amadeus decree from far behind us. "Anyways, Mashu!" Amadeus said peeking his head around the corner.
"What!?" Mashu called out behind her glancing back at Amadeus.
"It's good that they are the enemy. For the sake of protecting this town, we must first start with cleaning them up!" Amadeus said and Mashu nodded her head.
"Black Mamba!" Elizabeth retorted.
"Lizard!" Kiyohime retorted back.
"Oh geez shut up already." I said unsnapped a grenade off my belt, I infused the grenade with magical energy and pulled the pin throwing it in between Kiyohime and Elizabeth. The two looked down in surprise just before it exploded. The ground shook and a cloud of black smoke appeared where Kiyohime and Elizabeth had been standing. Elizabeth and Kiyohime jumped backwards out of the smoke battered, but not defeated. Well at least they've stopped fighting, the two glanced at us before darting off.
"Damn it now they are running off. Probably to go fight elsewhere. Come on let's go after them!" I exclaimed, but just before I was about to rush after them Mashu put up her arm stopping me.
"Hold up Master! More Enemies!" Mashu exclaimed and I looked forward to see a Mist roll in front of us. Ten Golems rose out of the mist, some of them had lances, others had bows or swords. A loud groan was heard and four or five Zombie Soldiers crept out of the alleyways.
"Just great!" I said raising my submachine gun up as I took aim. "Mashu deal with them. I'll handle the others." I said and Mashu nodded her head. Mashu took off into the crowd of Golems smashing into the first Golem she came in contact with. I shifted my gaze to the Golems in front of me and raised my sights up to the first target and squeezed the trigger, sending a burst of bullets out the barrel. The first Golem collapsed in pile of bones as bullets tore through its spine. I shifted my sights to the next target and squeezed the trigger once more sending and burst down range turning the golem's skull into several pieces as it fell forward in several pieces. I turned snapped to the next target and squeezed the trigger sending several bursts down range as I sheared through the golems, riddling them with bullets until all the targets before me were nothing but a pile of bones. Just as I thought I was in the clear there was a loud moan and I turned just in time to see a Zombie Soldier swing his sword at me. I jumped back out of the way and rose my submachine gun up with one hand and squeezed the trigger. The air filled with gunpowder as The Zombie Soldier slumped forward riddled with bullets.
"RAWR!" Another Zombie soldier groaned as it charged towards me. I grasped my submachine gun with my other hand and took aim, squeezing the trigger. A burst admitted from the barrel and a few bullets tore through the zombies, but it wasn't enough to put it down. I squeezed the trigger once more only to hear the metallic click indicating the chamber was empty. I dropped my submachine gun letting it fall down back to the resting position and reached inside my jacket for my pistol. I quickly drew my pistol just as the zombie was on top of me, I clicked the safety off and squeezed the trigger sending a bullet right through the zombies head. The zombie collapsed at me feet in a puddle of blood. There was the footsteps of another enemy right behind me, I quickly turned around and prepared to squeeze the trigger however I feared I was too late, but the zombie could strike at me a giant great sword pierced through its chest, blood spraying everywhere. The great sword was pulled from its chest and Siegfried was found standing behind it. Siegfried took a deep sigh and rested on his Greatsword.
"Thanks Siegfried." I said.
"It's the least I could do. While I can't fight, I'm not completely useless." Siegfried said with a determined look on his face. I nodded my head at him and I turned just in time to see as Mashu jumped into the air and smashed her shield into the ground crushing three golems beneath her shield. Another Golem approached her from the side and Mashu looked up and swung her foot catching the Golem off guard and it fell down. Mashu quickly stood up and smashed the golems skull beneath her feet. Another golem charged Mashu from behind and Mashu swung her shield over her head and brought it down on top of the Golem. I slid my sidearm back into its holster and I ejected the magazine from my submachine gun, dropping it the ground and I slid a fresh magazine in and pulled the bolt back and rose my submachine gun up taking aim at the Zombies. I squeezed the trigger several times sending several bursts at them, the bullets tore through the zombies flesh and armor and they fell down before they even reached Mashu. Mashu stood up straight with her shield and nodded her head at me in thanks. A loud shriek in the sky caused me to jerk my head upwards to see three Wyverns in the sky, two of them were red and the third one was dark green.
"Just great…" I said gritting my teeth. "I didn't have my rocket launcher anymore. Could Mashu, Amadeus, and I really defeat three Wyverns on our own?" I thought to myself. "Maybe I should use a Command Seal and summon Jeanne or Scathach." I thought to myself looking down at my right hand, where beneath the black glove was Scathach's command seal.
"Master lookout!" Mashu exclaimed and I looked up to see six more Golems rise out of the black mist.
"Mashu you handle the Wyverns, I'll deal with the Golems." I said and Mashu nodded her head.
"I will assist you as well Mashu." Amadeus said and rushed over to Mashu. I turned and faced Siegfried, Siegfried was using his Greatsword to support himself.
"I don't suppose you could lend us your assistance Siegfried. Fighting Dragons is your speciality." I said and Siegfried shook his head.
"I'm afraid not." Siegfried replied, just as I had feared.
"Right well we'll just have to make due." I said turning around to face the Golems.
The Air filled with gunpowder once more as I squeezed the trigger repeatedly sending several bursts of hot lead through the golems as they fell to the ground in pieces. Spears landed all around me as the Lancer Golems threw before being mowed down. I slowly backed up and ducked around a corner. At Least eight more Golems had joined the fight, nothing I couldn't handle, but still annoying nonetheless. I peeked around the corner aiming down my sights snapping to the closest target I squeezed the trigger and the golem fell to the ground in a pile of bones and I moved onto the next target sending another burst his way. I ejected my magazine and let it hit the floor as I ducked back behind the wall. I reached into my jacket and pulled a fresh mag out and slide it back into my submachine gun. I peeked around the corner just as a huge cloud of dust swept through the area causing me to retreat back behind the building and three loud explosions shook the ground violently.
"Do you think Mashu and Amadeus will be able to handle the Wyverns." Siegfried asked, I looked to my side to see Siegfried leaning on the wall next to me.
"I have faith in Mashu and even in Amadeus, they've gotten this far so I doubt three Wyverns are going to pose much of a problem." I said.
"For our sake I hope so. If they fail I will hold them off as long as possible giving you time to retreat Christopher." Siegfried said.
"Try to be a little more optimistic Siegfried, pessimism is contagious." I said peeking back around the corner with my Submachine gun raised. The dust had settled barely, but before I even had a chance to try and assess what happened a golem emerged right in front of me and swung its sword at me. I squeezed the trigger instinctively and the muzzle flashed as bullets riddled the golem and it fell to the ground in pieces with several bullet holes through its ribs and spinal cord. "That was a little close." I thought to myself as I kept my submachine gun raised for more golems. Several more golems funneled towards me and each time I squeezed the trigger dropping them.
"Christopher lookout!" Siegfried cried out and I felt a hand on my shoulder as I was thrown backwards. I hit the ground hard and looked up to see Siegfried locked blades with a Golem. I rose my submachine gun and took aim, but Siegfried was in the way and I didn't want to hit him. Siegfried and the Golem moved back and forth constantly in my sight. I gritted my teeth and waited for the right moment, then I pulled the trigger.
The Golem crumbled to the ground in a pile of bones and its sword hit the ground with a loud clunk! Siegfried sighed a sigh of relief and turned around extending his hand.
"Thank you Christopher, I was suppose to be saving you but instead you saved me." Siegfried said and I grasped his hand. Siegfried pulled me to my feet and I dusted myself off. "If I was a full strength that would have possessed little problem." Siegfried said.
"It's fine Siegfried really. I appreciate the help, if you hadn't stepped in I would have probably lost my left arm." I said patting Siegfried on the shoulder. I walked past him and looked around the corner, the dust had finally settled and I saw that two of the dragons were already down for the count missing their arms and heads. All that was left was the Dark green standing before them. Mashu stood before it with her shield raised as it spat out a fireball that impacted with her shield in a black explosion. Once the smoke cleared Mashu remained unscathed, a few feet behind Mashu was Amadeus with his baton out. Amadeus swung his baton and murmured words I could not hear, a music sheet appeared before him and he waved his baton and several of the music notes lite up gold and I saw above the Dragon several dozen golden portals open up in the sky. Very large violin bows with pointy ends poked out of each portal and with the wave of the baton they all flew downwards impaling the Wyvern from behind. The Wyvern let out a ear splitting shriek as they impaled the Wyvern too the ground. With a flick of the wrist each and every single one of them exploded and I saw Mashu leap through the black smoke with her shield raised over her head. I rushed out of cover to Amadeus with Siegfried limping behind me, once the smoke had cleared the Wyvern's head had been cleaned right off and Mashu emerged from behind it covered in blood. Mashu jogged up to me once she saw me.
"All Wyvern's defeated Master!" Mashu said.
"Good work Mashu!" I said and patted her head. "You too Amadeus!" I said patting Amadeus on the shoulder.
"Yes Thank you, but we must hurry and catch up those irritable little girls and put an end to this fighting before more Wyverns appear!" Amadeus exclaimed.
"Yes I agree with Amadeus! Let's go!" Mashu said and turned around, setting off in the direction the two girls had went. Amadeus, Siegfried, and I followed behind her as we trotted up the stone road.
Once we had reached the top it wasn't long before we found Elizabeth and Kiyohime tussling on the ground. It made we wonder if they were actually planning on fighting? Because it seemed liked they had hardly even scratched one another and instead looked like the fighting that puppies and kittens would do amongst one another.
"Gugugugu…!" Elizabeth groaned.
"….. Muuuuu!" Kiyohime murmured.
"There they are Master!" Mashu exclaimed. "It seems we can't let these two continue otherwise the whole town will be destroyed." Mashu said.
"I don't see how they will destroy the town?" I said raising an eyebrow.
"Not specifically them at their current stage, but the Wyverns they are summoning." Mashu explained.
"Ah I see. Well that's no good. It would be best to deal with them before any more appear." I said and Mashu nodded her head.
"….. I'm afraid that I am at my limits. I'm going to throw up, ugh. I'll have to entrust you guys to defeat them." Amadeus said holding his chest as he took a seat down on a wooden bench next to Siegfried.
"I'm unable to fight, all I can do is silently watch.…. Sorry." Siegfried said and I nodded my head.
"I understand, let me handle this." I said walking up to the two girls.
"Wait Master! Don't go near them." Mashu exclaimed outreaching her hand to stop me.
"Children stop fighting, and if you are going to fight could you hurry up and kill one another. Right now you aren't getting anywhere in your fight to the death." I said looking down at the two girls scuffling.
"What?" Elizabeth said looking up at me.
"Did you say something?" Kiyohime said looking up angrily.
"Um, what my Master is trying to say is that you two seem to fight a lot…" Mashu said before she was rudely interrupted.
"Go away little puppy!" Elizabeth sneered.
"Being reckless is not the same as being courageous, are you a daredevil?" Kiyohime asked.
"Alright that's enough you two!" I said and reached down and grabbed each of them by the collar and picked them up off their feet.
"H-Hey!" Kiyohime exclaimed.
"P-Put me down you brute! Otherwise I'll show you the terror of a true dragon." Elizabeth sneered as I held both them up by their collars dangling above the ground. I looked at both of them and then promptly smashed their heads together.
"Owy!" They both exclaimed as I separated them and held them apart.
"I'm….I'm defeated….. Kyuu." Kiyohime bemoaned as she rubbed the red mark on her forehead and sighed in a sigh of defeat.
"N-not bad…. I'll, I'll let you go this time…." Elizabeth murmured as she rubbed her forehead. I walked over and set down on another bench next to one another. Mashu, Amadeus and Siegfried walked over and we stood before the two little girls as they rubbed their foreheads in pain.
"Now that you've calmed down, will you listen to us?" Mashu said and the two girls reluctantly nodded their heads.
"…. What is it?" Elizabeth asked looking up as she pouted.
"You don't plan on finishing off the defeated snake, or should I say loser snake." Kiyohime said and I flicked her in the forehead. "Owy!" Kiyohime exclaimed as she rubbed her forehead once more.
"Umm, have you seen any other servants?" Mashu asked.
"I have seen some servants who had went mad. Like this person sitting next to me." Elizabeth said motioning to Kiyohime.
"I may be a Berserker, but I am a Berserker that can perfectly understand words." Kiyohime said.
"What." Elizabeth said.
"What?" Kiyohime replied, and I facepalmed. "Geez what kind of cruel joke is this?" I thought to myself.
"…. Ah, I remember. When I was alive, I saw that quite often. Cats fighting. Aren't you going to continue fighting?" Amadeus inquired. "Look, even now their heads are hitting each other going fugyagugogegeogogo! Go ahead make that sound!" Amadeus exclaimed as lighting shot between Kiyohime and Elizabeth's foreheads, Elizabeth turned and pouted at Amadeus.
"I'm not going to!? But that's Shamisen, you're talking about Shamisen aren't you!" Elizabeth exclaimed.
"I don't know how many times I have to say this but let's die together!" Kiyohime exclaimed throwing her hands up and I flicked her once more in the forehead and she lowered her arms and rubbed her forehead.
"Anyways! Have you or have you not seen any other servants besides the "Dragon Witch" or Carmilla?" Mashu asked trying to get us back on track, Elizabeth and Kiyohime didn't say anything but continued to stare at each other with arms crossed.
"Master…. It seems that is a waste of our effort." Mashu said turning to look at me.
"I agree this was indeed a waste of our time. We would have been better off letting them kill each other." I said nodding my head.
"What? How dare you call me a waste of your time!" Elizabeth exclaimed.
"We don't have any use for you unless you're a Saint." I said.
"….. Hmph. Your quick counterattack was not bad. Anyways, a Saint you say?" Kiyohime said tilting her head. "Within this country are deeply rooted teachings of a Saint, there should be someone around here that has some knowledge of a Saint." Kiyohime suggested.
"Well that doesn't really help u…" I said before Mashu cut me off.
"Really!?" Mashu exclaimed.
"Yes, I encountered someone before I met Elizabeth." Kiyohime said nodding her head. "I had a dangerous fight there but, he helped me realize I was a Berserker by using his sword." Kiyohime said. "His true name was Saint George. He was a famous Saint wasn't he?" Kiyohime inquired tilting her head.
"George! There was a famous Saint called St. George….. Yes, he should be able to help us." Roman spoke up affirmatively. "Do you know which way he went?" Roman asked and Kiyohime shook her head.
"Unfortunately, We split off in opposite directions, if I recall he went westward." Kiyohime said.
"West…. That was the direction Jeanne-san's group went. I'll contact them now!" Mashu exclaimed as she withdrew as she pressed her hand to a bluetooth on her ear.
Elsewhere in France.
We were walking when suddenly the sound of something vibrating was heard. I stopped and turned around to look at Jeanne, Jeanne opened the palm of her hand and the bluetooth device was vibrating and blinking blue. Jeanne picked it up with her free hand and looked at it.
"Umm how do I activate it?" Jeanne said with a puzzled expression and I sighed. "Sorry! Mashu never told me how to operate it!" Jeanne exclaimed, I walked over to her and picked it up.
"You put it in your ear and you press this button." I said tapping the big black button on it.
"O-Oh… Thanks Lancer." Jeanne said taking it out of the palm of my hand. She brushed back her hair and put the bluetooth in her ear and clicked the button.
"H-Hello….?" Jeanne asked and apparently she had gotten a reply quickly. "…. Yes Mashu, don't worry. I was able to detect a servant nearby. We're heading to his position now." Jeanne said and clicked the button once more on the bluetooth.
"Lead the way Jeanne." I said nodding my head, Jeanne nodded her head and lead us towards a nearby town.
A few minutes later.
We rushed down the street of the town towards the servant's location passing by several french citizens as they left the town. It wasn't until we came to a grinding halt in front of a large knight with long flowing brown hair, clad in bronze armor with a white cape. At his side was a longsword with a bronze hilt. He rose his hand and Jeanne came to a grinding halt, as Marie bumped into the back of Jeanne and I slowed down keeping my hand on my spear.
"You there stop. Who are you?" The Bronze Knight said, Marie peeked around Jeanne and faced the Knight.
"I am a servant, Rider class. My true name is Marie Antoinette." Marie said proudly.
"…. I see, I also see you haven't turned mad as well." The Bronze Knight said and Marie nodded her head.
"Yes, we are fighting against Alter Jeanne and her Army. We've been looking for you!" Marie exclaimed.
"I see. And is she a Saint?" The Bronze knight asked pointing at Jeanne.
"Yes I am Jeanne D'arc! Ruler Class Servant!" Jeanne exclaimed nodding her head.
"And you Lancer class servant you are…..?" The Bronze Knight said pointing at me and I remained quiet. "Or Do you prefer to remain nameless?" The Bronze Knight asked and I nodded my head.
"Very well then. This town also, was attacked by the wicked dragon and the witch. I was somehow able to stop them but next time would be impossible." The Bronze Knight said.
"…. Well then, why don't we work together?" Jeanne suggested and the Bronze Knight raised an eyebrow. "We need your help to remove the curse on the Dragon Slayer, but because there are several curses, both you and I must work together to remove them." Jeanne explained.
"I see, I understand the situation." The Bronze Knight said as he cupped his chin and nodded. "...the townspeople have already started to evacuate. Once they are all evacuated, let's depart." The Bronze Knight said and the three of us nodded our head.
"Thank you so very much!" Jeanne exclaimed clasping her hands together…
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