I Became a Retired Warrior Who Suffered NTR in the Novel

43 – Heretic Inquisitor

With the full support of the dwarves, we returned to Argen Kingdom.

After that, the preparations to deal with the Necromancer Guild were proceeding without a hitch.

“After concentrating mana in the hand, when the concentration is to a certain extent, all you have to do is change the attribute from nothing, which is the original attribute of mana, to fire.”

I saw Clara learning something from a red-haired man at the parade ground in the palace…

The dragon we met in the Dwarven Mine is that red-haired man.

My name is Kaleif.

Of course, it’s not his real name, but a pseudonym…

After coming to the royal palace, he was adapting well, and as his main job, Clara’s magic teacher, he was teaching with a sense of responsibility.

Edwin also heard what was going on in the dwarf mines, designated a villa left in the royal palace, made it his personal villa, and attached maids and gardeners to it.

“You see what I mean?”

“Yes! Master!”

“Then, shall we practice right away? Ice man there?”

Kaleif gestured toward us enjoying refreshments on one side of the parade ground,

It didn’t take long to learn the identity of the ice man he was talking about.

“You mean me?”

“Then there is an ice man among them.”

“……”

Confirming herself as herself once again, Irene got up from her seat with a trembling expression on her face, and she approached the place where he and Clara were.

“Here is our princess practicing magic. I’m going over there and blocking it.”

“….. I am not an ice man, I am Irene.”

“Okay. Ice man.”

“……”

At Kaleif’s response, Clara was laughing while concentrating, covering her mouth as to what was interesting.

Irene, who could no longer argue with the dragon and no one else, moved away and prepared to use her magic.

“Now, use the magic as I told the ice man over there.”

Clara was concentrating on gathering mana in her hand as Kaleif had told her before, and then attempting to transform the element.

“Good. You’re doing great. A little more… a little more…”

The mana in Clara’s hand was slowly burning red like fire,

Then, as Kaleif told me, I was aiming to fly to the place where Irene was.

“Shoot straight!”

Roaring!

Her fairway-sized fireball flew straight to Irene, and Irene, who watched it, spread an ice barrier in front of her and prepared for her defense.

Chiyiyi

The fireball that reached the ice was extinguished as it was, and the ice melted and water flowed where the fireball had been.

“Good. Very well done. Next time, if you compress more mana than today, more powerful magic will come out.”

“Really!?”

Clara, who had succeeded in his magic for the first time, was running around with joy on the spot, not knowing what to do.

Irene looked at Clara and then clicked her tongue and returned to where we were sitting.

“Good job. Irene.”

“I had a hard time. Irene.”

When Edwin and I told Irene that we had worked hard on her return, her face relaxed slightly.

“By the way, Carlos. Where’s Lucia? Haven’t you seen her before?”

Feeling empty, Edwin looked around her and was looking for Lucia.

“Ah .. She went to see the refugee camp.”

“To a refugee camp?”

“Yes. Because among the refugees from Erupe Kingdom, there are people who need more treatment.”

“Alone?”

“No. Earlier, Clara also attached a few knights of the Royal Guard.”

“Ah…”

At first I tried to follow, but…

She couldn’t keep up with Lucia because Clara dragged her to watch her practice her magic.

Irene also woke up late, so she couldn’t bear to follow Lucia.

As Clara said, it is also the Kingdom of Argen, which is relatively safe compared to other countries.

There are guards guarding the refugee camp with the knights she gave her, so it’s no big deal, but…

In a corner of my heart, I felt regret that I should have followed him anyway.

“Hero! Warrior! Did you see what I was doing!?”

Clara, who returned to her seat before I knew it, clung to me and explained the process of using her magic.

In contrast, Kaleif quietly approached and sat down to drink tea.

“Yes. Saw.”

“If I work harder, I can join the warrior party, right? Yes?”

“Yes…”

Still, since you’re trying to do your best…

I answered to give hope, but instead of encouraging her to cheer up, Irene, who was next to her, snorted.

“Your Majesty.”

While Clara and I were talking, a magistrate came running from the palace and whispered something to Edwin, then stepped back and waited for his answer…

“That’s a headache.”

“Why?”

“The Heretic Inquisitors have entered our kingdom.”

“The Heretic Inquisitor? Why?”

“It’s the same every time. Saying they came to kill the heretics, etc. Saying they came to catch her witch…”

As for the Heretic Inquisitor…

I have heard of their notoriety since before, and I am well aware of it.

Comprised of high-ranking Paladins from the Great Shrine, they roam the continent,

It was a legal murder group that arrested everyone under the charge of blasphemy, tortured, and even murdered.

I’ve seen them a few times when I was in the Eritre Empire, but they are people who unnecessarily ask for too much faith or blaspheme even the slightest word, and they will reveal their will to kill.

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No matter how much it was me, they were the ones I wanted to avoid.

“Why are they here?”

“They say they came here to catch heretics… But they said they wouldn’t come inside the royal capital, so is it any good?”

“Where are you going if you don’t enter the capital?”

“I heard you went to a refugee camp? They must have come to catch those who fled among the refugees from the western part of the Bonamana continent.”

“Hmm…”

Looking at the atmosphere Edwin is talking about, it doesn’t seem like a big deal…

I don’t know why I’m so anxious that they came.

“What’s wrong, Carlos?”

“I just… Felt reluctant…”

“Don’t worry. It’s always like an annual event.”

A refugee camp…

At the refugee camp near the capital, there were only refugees brought by our party from Erupe Kingdom…

There is Lucia, who is doing healing work there…

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No way…

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A refugee camp near the royal capital of the Argen Kingdom.

The Heretic Inquisitors were wandering around the refugee camp looking for clues about the water saint until the guards who went to the palace to get permission returned.

From what I heard in the refugee camp in the kingdom of Erupe, there is a saintess of the water in the party of warriors.

The Heretic Inquisitors did not unconditionally believe their words.

It is because the refugees could tell lies to survive or to hide the identity of the real water saint.

Even if there were real water saints in the warriors’ party, there was nothing to be afraid of because they had the mission of heresy being death…

“His Majesty has given permission on the condition that I do not enter the capital.”

The guard who went to ask for permission from the king returned, and before he finished his words, the Heretic Inquisitors ran into the camp and began to search indiscriminately.

“Bring all those who know about the water saint!”

According to the law promulgated by the Great God Temple, no kingdom on the continent had the authority to block the heretic inquisitors from entering,

Considering the fact that the kingdom of Arjen has recently had a rough relationship with the Great War, he first showed the minimum example with permission from the king.

“Kyaaa!!”

“Save people!!!”

The indiscriminate assaults and murders of the Heretic Inquisitors continued, and the guards who saw them wanted to impose sanctions, but

With the king’s permission already gone, there was no way to punish them.

Meanwhile, Lucia, who was providing healing services to the refugees, suddenly saw the noisy refugees and stopped the treatment and looked around him.

Among the refugees trying to escape the heretic inquisitors, the heretic inquisitors in white armor were approaching Lucia.

“Lucia-sama, we’ll find out what’s going on.”

One of the palace guards assigned by Clara approached the Heretic Inquisitor to find out what was going on.

“Who are you?”

“We are the Heretic Inquisitors, messengers of the Goddess. Who are you blocking us?”

“We are the knights of the royal palace guard of the kingdom of Argen.”

“We only need to arrest those related to the water saint. If you interfere with us, you will be executed for blasphemy, so don’t stop it.”

The knights of the Royal Guard, who confirmed their identity as the Heretic Inquisitors, had no right to stop them, so they decided to take a step back and watch.

Unexpectedly, a monk tried to get closer to Lucia, but she blocked it again with her body.

“Who is that alien species?”

“That is Lucia, a member of the warrior party. Stop talking!”

“Hero.. Party member?”

At the mention of a warrior’s party, the Heretic Questioner hurriedly ran somewhere, as if he had found something suspicious.

After a while, another Heretic Inquisitor, Priest Joseph, rode a white horse and wielded a white mantle.

“Did you say it was a warrior party?”

“Yes.”

The Heretic Inquisitors, who were talking amongst themselves, began to gather one by one and surrounded Lucia as if besieging it…

“Did you say Lucia, the warrior party?”

“Yes? Yes… I am Lucia…”

Priest Joseph started to open his mouth again when he saw the patients gathered near Lucia.

“If you do not tell the truth from now on, we, the messengers of the Goddess, will execute you on the spot with the authority of heresy inquisitors. Be sure to answer the questions…”

When the word execution came out of the priest’s mouth, the extremely nervous knights of the Royal Guard turned their hands to the swords at their waists.

This was the same for the Heretic Inquisitors who were watching.

“Are you the water saint who came over from the refugee camp in Erupe Kingdom?”