A Knight Who Eternally Regresses

"I ask of you, Father in the Heavens."

Audin knelt and quietly raised a prayer.

In that moment, he saw Enkrid’s absurd head turn.

Then came the chase, the charge, the sword strikes, the scrolls, the spells, and the explosions that made him doubt his own eyes.

Kyaaah!

As soon as he saw it, Esther leaped forward, but Audin did not try to stop her.

She was not a leopard who could not care for herself.

Then Ragna stepped in.

The clumsy knight, who often lost his way, ran straight toward Enkrid.

His steps seemed unusually light.

"Jealous?"

That blond, clumsy soldier running ahead?

"Traveler Teresa asks, when do we fight?"

Like a sheep thirsty for battle.

Still, Audin did not turn away from his thoughts.

"Untouched fruit is said to be sour when plucked; the Father said, 'Waiting ripens the fruit and the heart; I wish to give you something good,' and so he told us to wait and endure."

"Endure, yes."

Teresa quietly knelt beside him.

Yet, she was not small compared to the other soldiers. Audin was no different.

Two bears silently waited for the right time.

"Learn patience, and then move forward."@@novelbin@@

Audin silently whispered a brief blessing toward Teresa and continued his prayer.

"What is the shepherd of the Mad Platoon, the mad sheep, doing now?"

The scriptures say to help the weak and powerless. As a shepherd of the sheep, the Lord instructed to protect and lead them.

It seemed that Enkrid was doing just that.

He had saved a child, and somehow, he had cut through the ominous something wrapped around his body and made it explode.

"Father."

As he silently recited his prayer, the beasts of the maw began to lift their heads from afar and soon started charging toward them.

Dust, yellow as the earth, rose under the dark sky.

"If the beasts break through, we’re all dead! Block them!"

At Graham's shout, the heavy infantry platoon charged out.