Tap-tap—tap
Using the campfire kit bought from the shop, I lightly lit a fire and was grilling skewers made from the remaining dragon meat.
"How long is this bastard going to sleep?"
I muttered while looking at the knight in silver armor who had fallen beside me, unconscious.
His name was Bedivere, the Knight of Loyalty, Bedivere.
"Haa, since this bastard is so important, I can't just leave him and go..."
I scratched my head and looked at him.
"First, I healed all the external injuries with a Recovery Capsule... but the soul is beyond the scope of the Recovery Capsule—"
Just as I was muttering that, suddenly, the unconscious one twitched and started tossing and turning, then slowly opened his eyes.
"Ugh... where is this?"
Then Bedivere looked at me and around, grasped the general situation, and said to me.
"Did you save me?"
"Yeah, and I even healed your injuries... but I have no knowledge about healing the soul, so I couldn't touch that... sorry."
"No, just healing a stranger like me is more than enough to be thankful for... there's no need to apologize."
At Bedivere's words, I chuckled lightly and immediately handed the dragon skewer to Bedivere, saying.
"Hungry? Here, eat this. I may not look like it, but I'm really good at cooking."
"Thank you for your kindness... then."
Bedivere took a bite of the dragon skewer I offered, and I asked him.
"How is it? Tasty?"
"Yes... it's delicious... very much so... what kind of meat is this?"
"Uh... that? Dragon meat."
"I see, dragon mea... huh? What did you just say...?"
"I said it's dragon meat."
"?????"
Bedivere made a genuinely bewildered expression, and I scratched my head while explaining my ability.
"I have an ability to get items by spending a currency called coins, thanks to that, I can obtain meat like this."
Actually, this meat was obtained by directly catching a fire dragon, but I thought it would be easier to accept if explained this way, and indeed, Bedivere seemed to agree with a fascinated expression.
"....Truly, it's an amazing ability...."
"Well, right?.... By the way, I forgot to ask, what's your name?"
"Ah! I am Lucius.... And you are..."
"I am Kang Yuseong, a passing traveler."
After finishing our introductions to each other, we quickly became close by finishing the skewers and sharing stories.
After eating the skewers and recovering our stamina, we took a proper rest and started moving.
"As expected, it's the Aurora Curtain? It's convenient... but is it impossible right up to the capital?"
Perhaps due to someone's intervention (probably the Lion King), even when trying to move right up to the capital with the Aurora Curtain, the location kept becoming unstable, so we moved as close as possible.
"Fortunately, there's no one around.... Lucius, you can come out now."
"Is that so? That's fortunate...."
Then Lucius, who came out of the Aurora Curtain, looked at the white castle in the distance, the capital, and was momentarily surprised but soon acted calmly.
"Let's head over there first."
"...Yes, let's do that."
As we moved somewhat towards the capital, suddenly the surroundings brightened, and it became daytime, then a person appeared in front of the main gate.
"That person is..."
"Sir Gawain..."
That person was indeed our sun gorilla and potato man, the Noon Knight Gawain.
'By the way, around this time, should they be nearby? Where... ah! There they are...'
Thinking that at this point, Chaldea should be somewhere in this crowd, I looked around and saw Leonardo da Vinci, Mash Kyrielight, and the protagonist of this story, Fujimaru Ritsuka, listening to Gawain.
'The selection is starting soon...'
Then, as the Lion King selected only three people under the pretext of selection, Gawain ordered the purge knights to start executing the remaining people, and seeing that, I immediately said to Bedivere.
"Lucius, you help those people over there."
When I pointed at Fujimaru, Mash, and da Vinci and said that, Bedivere turned to me and asked.
"Then what do you plan to do, sir?"
"What do I plan to do? I have to save those people.... Even if I can't save all of them, I should do my best."
"....I understand, please be careful..."
"Don't worry."
After our respective destinations were decided, I, along with my clones, holding weapons, headed towards the purge knights, and Bedivere ran towards Chaldea.
========================
The website for reading paid chapters is available on my Patreon. The number of chapters on Patreon: 174
Link: patreon.com/UltraMagnus_T