"Who taught you to use bad words!" Ask was furious.
"You!" adult Mia yelled.
Ask:………………
"I told you it wasn't me!" Ask became furious, "I don't care who taught you the dirty words, and I don't care whether they deceived your heart or your body. In short, you can find whoever did it yourself!"
"Do you think I don't want to?" Mia was so angry that she burst into tears, "Run away! You just ran away! Mi'er and I have been waiting for you for so many years..."
Such a big and beautiful girl, but like a little girl who has not grown up, cried so hard that the Banshee King felt helpless and intolerable, so he floated over to wipe her tears.
As a result, the others rolled their eyes for a while. You didn't come to the rescue when we were beaten by her, but now you come out to comfort her when she bursts into tears? Who's side are you on?
"Are you Mi'er?" The adult Mia was slightly startled and sobbed, "No, you are Minerva..."
"It's me." The Banshee King said softly. She actually didn't know Mia, but she knew that Mi'er knew her.
"Minerva, let me tell you." Then the adult Mia stopped crying, wiped away her tears with all her strength, and said seriously, "Please tell Mi'er. And Mia..."
She waved to little Mia, who looked at Asike hesitantly, and after seeing that he didn't stop her, she walked over cautiously.
"Asker can't be trusted." The adult Mia whispered in a low voice, as if to explain the aftermath, "He is just a scumbag, don't put any thoughts on him."
"Except for Mia, no one else in the team can be trusted. They all have their own thoughts and calculations, and they are not on the same page as Asik... and us."
"In short, Mia, the only one you can trust is Mi'er, Mi'er... the only one you can trust is Mia. You two must cooperate sincerely, and..."
She hesitated for a moment (the tangled expression of hesitating to speak seemed to be carved from the same mold as little Mia), and said in her heart:
"Minerva, tell Honey."
"We must prevent Ask from going back."
After saying that, she suddenly activated her spirituality, cut off the connection with the ability of the ectoplasmic tree, and disappeared from the spot.
Everyone:………………
To be honest, this "Mia from the parallel world" is not very difficult to fight. On the one hand, she has no intention to kill Asker himself, and on the other hand, although she does want to kill other people, except for Sheila who was stabbed
, and no one was more seriously injured.
However, the few words she has spoken since her debut have created a deep crack in the unreserved mutual trust within the Blue Sword Mercenary Group.
"Asker..." After a long silence, Nora spoke first.
"Oh, you don't need to explain." Ask said with a smile, "I won't take her words seriously."
"You have to know that in ten thousand parallel worlds, there are ten thousand Blue Sword mercenary groups. Maybe in that parallel world, Ask is a shameful scumbag, and Eleanor, Nora and Sheila are evil
The betrayer, and Mia is the innocent victim, who can be sure that such a world does not exist?"
"But even so, that's not the reason why we doubt each other or even be wary of each other now. You know, we didn't know each other from the beginning, why can we trust each other now? It was during battle after battle.
The deep friendship cultivated by each other cannot be easily shaken or even hurt by someone casually saying a few words."
"But..." Eleanor came over and said, her voice trembling, "Asker, there is no need to comfort us now. I just want to know, do you really have no doubts about us at all about what she accused?"
"Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?" Ask asked haha.
"Of course it's the truth," Eleanor said seriously.
"Nothing in this world is 100%. Of course I can't make a conclusion. I trust you 100%." Asik said frankly, "Just based on my current past memories and my understanding of you,
I don’t believe you would betray me.”
"Really?" Eleanor stared at him silently, as if she was making some difficult decision.
Then she knelt down on one knee in front of Ask, and the light stream of will in her hand turned into a long sword, which was inserted into the soil under her feet:
"Your Excellency Aske Lepios Achilles." Eleanor lowered her head, stared at his toes, and said solemnly, "You accepted me in Constantinople and taught me the skills of war.
Guide me in the direction of my life. I owe you this kindness and have nothing to repay. I can only devote the rest of my life to you."
"I am Eleanor Maria von Weisbach. I swear in the name of God and my family to dedicate my body and soul without reservation. I will serve as your knight and your sword.
, your shield; to do my best to guard your safety, your glory, your will; from this moment of my oath until the end of my life and soul."
"If I violate this oath, regardless of my motives, I will be shattered into pieces, thrown into purgatory, and suffer eternal pain."
She said it extremely solemnly and seriously, while Ask looked at her oath in confusion, his expression gradually becoming confused:
ha?
"At this time, you should draw out your sword and tap her shoulder three times to complete the knighthood." Seeing him stunned, Sheila reminded him carefully.
"Wait a minute." Asik finally reacted, "Why are you doing this?"
"If I become your knight," Eleanor explained in a low voice, "my relationship with you will be witnessed by God, and I will never be able to betray you again."
Ask:………………
I won’t talk about God’s testimony. If you, Eleanor, have an upright character who will abide by your oath, then even if you don’t take this oath, of course I am still willing to hand my back to you.
If you are a despicable and shameless person, then even if you swear by God and your name, I dare not give you any trust!
So does this knight's oath really have any substantive meaning?
Asker was struggling here, but Eleanor still kept kneeling on one knee, standing with her sword, waiting for the canonization, so the atmosphere gradually became awkward.
Nora, who was stunned next to her, also reacted. She had read Asker's memories and knew that the traditional culture of the Kingdom of Dragon was very different from that of Shinra:
For the Frankish knights with religious complexes, swearing by God, family and one's own soul is the most severe and extreme oath. It is the kind of oath that cannot be broken and is even far better than a soul contract bound by extraordinary power.
However, in the Dragon Kingdom, oaths are closer to the meaning of swearing. They do not believe in the existence of an omnipotent subjective consciousness that will supervise such oaths and punish those who violate them, so they do not value the oath itself so much.
In short, the two people did not communicate on the same channel at all. Out of consideration for her best friend, Nora quietly reminded Asker in the spiritual communication:
"Don't worry about whether it's useful or not. Ellie just wants to feel at ease. Please cooperate quickly!"
These words reminded Asker, so he pulled out the sword from the void, patted Eleanor's shoulder three times, and said:
"Ahem, I declare your oath valid."
"You should announce, 'Accept me as your knight.'" Eleanor felt helpless and couldn't help but remind her in a low voice.
"Oh." Ask quickly corrected his posture and patted her shoulder a few times again, "I declare that I accept you as my knight, Eleanor."
The corners of Eleanor's mouth drooped, revealing a depressed smile, and her mood was extremely depressed. It was like she had prepared a proposal ceremony for a long time, but in the end she only received a careless "Okay" from the other party.
Although the ceremony was concluded successfully, and the two people could be considered to have become closer through the conclusion of the ceremony, what is this subtle frustration of not being taken seriously?