Raising Paladins

Episode 2. stand upright (1)

‘How did this person come all the way here?’

The Temple of Dawn in Meirium, a small city in the easternmost part of the Empire.

‘Tira’, the youngest and apprentice priest there.

She stared at the man lying on the bed.

‘What was he thinking when he stole the money from Hanson’s gang?’

If it’s Hanson’s gang, it’s a gang of fists who hold on to Meirium’s fruit market.

The leader, Hanson, is so influential that even the chief of the peace can’t do anything about it.

Stealing Hanson’s money bag?

It’s the same as ‘Please kill me quickly’.

‘Did you bring it for nothing? Everyone is having a hard time… … .’

You may face retaliation for helping the Hanson gang and the Chuckin people.

But Tyra’s worries are more fundamental than that.

It was because this place, the Temple of Dawning in Meirium, was tilting as the world tilted and might close soon.

If the senior priest finds out that he brought in a new sick man, he will be given a disgrace.

‘Because I still couldn’t leave it alone!’

A man who was stuck in a gutter, struggling to breathe.

If left alone, he might have stopped breathing.

No matter how poor the circumstances of the temple were, the apprentice priest could not turn a blind eye to those who were cornered.

Of course, other members of the family may have slightly different thoughts.

“Um… … .”

The man opened his eyes with a groan.

“Are you awake?!”

Tira’s face was reflected in Carlos’ narrow eyes.

Tira’s voice is as cheerful as a baby bird chirping.

Hearing that brings back a series of memories.

‘It’s the kid who stopped the fight.’

When you are humiliated by thugs in a back alley.

There was a voice begging him to stop beating him.

Maybe it’s this girl.

“… … fuse?”

“uh? How did you know?”

how do you know

Carlos frowned and looked at Tira’s hood.

A yellow bandana that covers the ears, hair, and even the nape of the neck, leaving only the face exposed.

In the middle, the pattern of the Dawn Bridge was embroidered.

The figure of the sun rising halfway from the horizon.

Carlos pointed at it with his chin.

“The Divine Mark of the Dawning Church.”

“oh! You know the Church of Dawn! Rejoice!”

Tira smiled brightly again.

Her eyes are softly curved and she smiles brightly.

If I hadn’t become a priest, the men would have cried quite a bit.

Of course, there was something much more important to Carlos than the appearance of a trainee priest.

‘Are you happy to know the Dawning Bridge?’

Is that something to be happy about?

The most powerful tribe in the Cron Empire is the Cult of Dawn?

Even foreign spies who threaten the empire are known to the Dawning Church.

Rather, it would be much faster to find someone you don’t know.

“Why do you look at me like that?”

Tira widened her eyes.

It was because Carlos was staring at him with a face full of questions.

“that… … What’s going on at Dawning?”

“Isn’t there anything particularly great about it?”

“But why… … ?”

“yes… ?”

Carlos sensed that something was going wrong in the conversation.

what is it

That attitude of acting as if people didn’t know about the Dawning School from the beginning.

Then all of a sudden

I realized that I hadn’t checked the facts I needed to know.

Where are you and when are you now?

Since the Shinto shrine is right in front of you, this must be a temple.

So when was important.

“Who are the followers of the Sun God cult serving?”

“Yeah… … You are Saint Andrea.”

“How old is Andrea?”

“Andrea is 14 years old. obviously.”

Jump!

Carlos raised his upper body, completely white.

No, I was trying to get it up.

“Ouch!”

Intense pain felt in the ribs!

My back just stopped.

Startled, Tyra presses him on the shoulder.

“You can’t move yet! It’s going to be a big deal!”

“O’clock, fourteen years old?”

“yes?”

“just now! Did you say Andrea 14 years old? Aren’t you 9 years old?!”

“… … yes.”

Unfortunately… … .

This man really seems to have gone mad.

Tira looked at her pitifully.

Then he put his hand on his forehead and murmured softly.

“May the sun god bless you… … .”

Then he clenched his fists and met Carlos’ eyes.

“I must! I will treat the sick! You can! Let’s go!”

“what?”

“Even if you lose your mind, the sun god will never give up on you! Just seeing me and coming to the Temple of Dawn makes it clear! It must be that God sent me to the market to take care of you! We are here to help! Cheer up! Even the sick are with us! Let’s go!”

“Oh, aja?”

It’s ridiculous.

I’ve never been crazy, and I’ve never been abandoned by a god.

even bewildered

It wouldn’t be wrong to say that I received God’s blessing on my body.

That’s why the whole situation was difficult.

“What happened to the Cron Empire? Have you ever been ruined?”

“Are you all right? His Majesty the Emperor is also well. I heard about it from a priest who went to the capital during the Name Day Festival last year. The relationship between the temple and the imperial palace is still good.”

“It’s fortunate… … .”

When Carlos defeated the Lich King.

The saint he served was Andrea the 9th.

Of course, it would be a better expression to say that he served, but as a best friend.

But now that I’m 14, if that’s true… … .

‘I skipped over 200 years!’

Jump!

“Really!”

Tira managed to hold down Carlos, who was about to get up again.

Red blood oozes out of the bandage, probably because of the extreme movement.

“Ahh! I don’t even have enough bandages!”

Tira made a fuss, then opened the door to the hospital room and quickly disappeared.

Carlos looked at the ceiling of the hospital room, where spider webs had settled down.

Then he murmured.

“Why did you send me here?”

He died in a bloody battle with the Lich King.

And with several black magic shards stuck in his heart.

After that, I had a conversation with the dim light as if I was dreaming, and when I opened my eyes, I was in this situation.

Carlos boasts that no one is more devout to the Sun God Church than he is.

However, this situation is hard to believe.

It wasn’t just that I was revived, it was because I skipped 200 years in time.

Ho da da dot!

Tira came running with sweat on her forehead.

I started first aid by pressing the bleeding wound.

But her behavior was strange.

“What are you doing now?”

No matter how you look at it, a man in his early 20s speaks like an old man.

Tyra felt suspicious about that.

But what mattered was the wound.

“It treats you. And sew open wounds again.”

“Why sew it?”

“Yes? If you leave it alone, the wound will open, that’s right!”

A very natural thing.

But everything is strange to Carlos.

‘Can’t I just heal with divine power?’

Carlos examined the bandaged body.

The skin on the stomach that had dried up and stuck to it.

Severe wounds sustained here and there.

It wouldn’t be strange if he died soon.

However, unless it was a curse or black magic, a proper priest could fix this within 5 minutes.

No matter how young Tyra is, this is wrong.

Carlos gave Tira a serious look as she sterilized the needle.

“Hey, how many levels have you learned to heal with divine power?”

“I beg your pardon?”

“Sacred power treatment! Healing the sick with the power of the sun god! If you are a priest of the Dawning Church, of course, it is the divine power treatment that you can learn and use!”

“… … The sick person is having a lot of headaches right now. So you’re talking about something that disappeared 200 years ago, right? Now, even if you search all over the Cron Empire, there is only one person who can heal with divine power. It is only Andrea XIV, that is, the saintess.”

“hahahaha… … .”

The young man laughs like an old man.

Tira frowned.

Does getting hit hard in the jaw show those symptoms?

There seemed to be a lot to write down in today’s ward journal.

“You are a very interesting friend. Divine power treatment gone? Even 200 years ago? Heh heh! One of the funniest jokes I’ve ever heard! If you go a little further, will you say that holy swordsmanship and holy magic are all gone? huh? ha ha ha!”

“How about that?”

“… … what?”

“Sacred swordsmanship and divine magic have all lost their pulse. To put it bluntly, the skill itself that handles divine power is actually put into practice. Some scholars and historians say that it happened because of the anger of the sun god, but in fact, as everyone knows… … .”

Carlos jumped up again before he knew it.

He stopped breathing and stared into Tira’s mouth.

That gaze was so burdensome that Tira leaned back slightly.

“Why, why do you look like that?”

“continue! What does everyone know?!”

“ah… … It is just a part of the claim that the pulse was cut off by buying the wrath of the sun god. Both the priests and the people think it has been like that since the end of the war 200 years ago.”

“War? 200 years ago?”

Coincidentally, it was roughly the same as the time Carlos himself skipped.

goosebumps on the arm

A cold sweat broke out on the back of his head.

“You know the war between the sun and the moon, right? If you are a citizen of the Empire, even a child knows this. The war in which ‘Holy Sword Carlos’, the Paladin of Dawn and the last paladin, defeated the Lich King’s undead army stationed on the Plain of Thetis.”

Carlos finally heard his name from Tira’s mouth.

he trembled.

The shock of the fact that he has become a figure in history… … .

I also have a bad feeling that something is firmly out of place there.

“Thetis Plain? I killed that rotten skeleton in Crescent Canyon?”

“Yes?”

I was so embarrassed that I forgot even the dignified tone of the supreme paladin.

However, after seeing Tira’s reaction, she quickly shook her head.

“Oh, no. Can you tell me a little more?”

“hmm… … Anyway, in that war, all the 12 captains of the knights led by the Paladin of Dawn were killed. It was a very noble sacrifice.”

‘What are you talking about?!’

Tira clasped her hands together and looked up at the sun outside the window with a faint gaze.

“It is said that the 12 Knight Commanders, staff members, high-ranking knights, and high-ranking priests of the Knights who followed them were seriously injured or killed. As a result of the shock, not long after Andrea 9, who was a saint at the time, fell ill… … .”

Tira paused for a moment, feeling choked up.

“Since then, the sacred tree in the temple of the sun in the capital has gradually withered. In order to handle divine power, you have to get permission from the sun god through the divine tree, right? But that became impossible, so now no one can handle the divine power. It’s really sad and unfortunate… … .”

Tira finally sheds a tear.

but this moment.

The most unfortunate thing in the world was Carlos himself.

‘How the hell did this… … .’

Everything about history is wrong.

I have no idea where to start using my hands.

He eventually got up from his seat.

I let go of the frustration that had accumulated in my chest.

“Not the Plain of Tethys! crescent! Seconds, W, Moon- Gorge! There I stabbed Durandal into the Lich King’s lifevessel! It was not the 12 knight commanders who died, but the 4 knight commanders and members! The remaining 8 knights were luring the undead legion from the plains of Thetis! That’s why Bonje took advantage of the opportunity and hit the Lich King’s headquarters with Choi! But why did all the kids who went to Thetis Field die in battle? What? What the hell happened?!”

Carlos’ wounds burst and he bleeds profusely.

Tira stared blankly at her with bewildered eyes.

Eric, the priest of the Temple of Dawn in Meirium, passed by the hospital room just in time.

He looked at the hospital room and clicked his tongue.

“Tsk tsk… … Another madman came in. There is no medicine for that.”

He wiped the hospital room doorplate with his sleeve.

[Exclusive room for high-risk paranoid patients]

[Be sure to lock the door!]

The Paladin who saved the world from the clutches of the night!

Carlos was now treated as a madman in an instant.