Chapter 15: The Snake
Order the Church.
Bishop Giraume, dressed in a white carved robe, was saying something to a woman with ice-blue eyes.
"Cornelia, the time of my Lord is coming, remember your mission......"
“……”
The woman he called Cornelia was silent, and her eyes didn't even move for a minute.
"Go ahead, go alone, don't follow the Special Defense Department, and don't clash with the Defense Department."
“……”
Cornelia nodded, and turned to leave the empty Church of Order.
Looking at the back of the long knife at his waist, Bishop Guillome turned and knelt reverently.
"Looking down on the world,
Balance everything.
Watching for the past,
Promise the future.
that there may be light in my eyes,
I will not sleep forever......"
……
The town of Martin is quite a distance from the main town of Duran, and there is no steam train, so it takes about two days to walk.
Fortunately, there was another means of transportation called a horse-drawn carriage, and it took a lot of effort for Rorschach to convince a coachman to take him to Martintown.
"Well, sir, my carriage will stop in front of the fog, and if it goes in, the soldiers will smash it." The bearded fat coachman in the felt hat muttered.
"No problem!"
Rorschach, who had a bag on his back, flipped into the carriage, which was full of dry food he had brought, after all, he had little interest in the food of that place.
"Let's go!" Rorschach greeted.
"Wait, since you're going to make a trip in the direction of Martin, of course you'll have to wait a little longer, don't you mind, sir?" Although the fat coachman was asking Rorschach's opinion, his eyes did not look at him at all, and it was clear that Rorschach's opinion did not matter.
Rorschach stretched out his hands, leaned his head against the car window, and muttered: "Are all black car drivers in the world a virtue......
After waiting for less than three minutes, Rorschach stuck his head out of the car window and shouted: "No one, let's go, now that all of Dulan knows that there is an outbreak of plague in Martin Town, it's too late to hide, what fool will go?" ”
The fat coachman looked back at Rorschach with complicated eyes, but did not speak.
Rorschach froze for a moment and muttered, "Except for me, who else will ...... besides me"
"Martintown, are you going?"
A cold woman's voice interrupted Rorschach's words.
The fat coachman didn't reply to the woman's words immediately, but turned his head and glanced at Rorschach inexplicably, and that look seemed to say: Look, isn't this coming?
Okay.
Rorschach stuck his head back, there are fools every year, and there are especially many today.
"Go, of course go, please come in, please come in......"
The fat coachman let the woman into the car with a smile on his face.
Rorschach glanced at her, and just as a jet-black thing swept in front of his eyes, Rorschach quickly shrank his neck in fright.
"Hey! Sheath, your scabbard! ”
Rorschach pointed to the thing around the woman's waist, and when she turned to sit down, she almost smacked Rorschach's head with the scabbard.
After hearing Rorschach's voice, the woman sat straight across from Rorschach and looked at him and nodded.
Feed...... I didn't praise you for doing the right thing, why did you nod your head?
Quite proud?
Just as Rorschach was about to ask for compensation for mental damages, the woman with the knife suddenly spoke: "Let's go." ”
The fat coachman waved his hand without looking back: "Wait." ”
"Let's go."
She said it again, only this time, her knife was on the fat coachman's neck.
"Hiss......"
The fat coachman and Rorschach shrunk their necks at the same time.
"Okay, good, let's go, let's go......"
He immediately turned over on the frame and shook the reins: "Drive!" ”
The action is smooth, in one go, and at first glance it is an old driver.
The woman took the knife back and sat upright.
In fact, the knife was not unsheathed at all just now, but both Rorschach and the coachman felt a sharpness.
Either way, it's finally on the road.
Although the trip may not be pleasant.
There is an aura between people, and at the first sight of this woman, Rorschach knew that she was completely incompatible with his aura.
The carriage had been running for two or three hours, and Rorschach's ass was jolting a little.
The sound of horses' hooves sounded normally outside, and from time to time there was a shout or two of the coachman, and nothing else could be heard.
In the swaying carriage, Rorschach pondered whether to ask the driver to take a break.
He sat more upright than ever, and although he was face to face with her, he did not squint.
This woman is not allowed to enter, and she has to go to Martin Town, could she be a believer in Kugar?
It would be nice to be able to touch her......
As soon as this thought came to him, Rorschach felt an astonishing chill.
His body stiffened, and when he looked carefully into her eyes, he saw that she was indeed eyeing him.
"Uh...... Hello? Where are you from and how old are you? Ahhh......h......h
“!” Rorschach's eyes widened suddenly, as a cold sword light was coming towards him!
You won't be so grumpy! I just thought to myself!
This woman is crazy! No, the power of that book must be used, or I will die......
Rorschach quickly recognized the form, although ...... The cost of using the strange powers of that book was unusually heavy, but at least it saved your life.
Crazy Woman......
Just as Rorschach was concentrating and preparing to fight back, that terrible and cold sword light suddenly struck something!
"Whew-"
There was the sound of flesh being cut off in the air.
"Knock-knock-"
The sound of two heavy objects falling to the ground sounded.
Rorschach looked at the ground in surprise, his pupils shrinking suddenly.
It's a snake!
A snake nearly two meters long and with a thin arm!
It was cut in two, broken in the middle, and still writhing on the ground!
The snake pupils at the end of its head were scarlet, and when Rorschach looked at it, it jumped up suddenly, opened its hideous and terrifying mouth and bit between his legs!
"Damn!"
Cold sweat instantly erupted from all over his body, and Rorschach couldn't react at all except to clamp his legs.
That's it!
A slender and sharp leg shadow appears!
It instantly stepped the fanged snake mouth out of the air!
"Smack......
Blood splattered, one of which splashed onto Rorschach's forehead.
The half of the dead snake had already been trampled on its head.
And the person who stepped on it retracted his leg in plain boots expressionlessly, tilted his head slightly, as if listening to something.
"Thank you......"
Before Rorschach could finish his sentence, the woman opposite jumped out of the carriage with a knife.
He immediately jumped out after her.
Sure enough, something happened.
The moment he saw the fat coachman, the last trace of luck disappeared completely.
Dense snakes hung on his body, burrowing in and out of his eye sockets, throat, abdomen, and all over his body......
The coachman had died quietly.
There was a faint yellow mist all around, and the surroundings of this carriage were already crawling with snakes of different sizes.