Hi, I'm the holy knight, my name is Sin, and I'm still a knight.
　I'm still a knight by status, but...

　In the holy city of Sanctum, the soldier who protects the saint is given the title of holy knight.

　It's easy to get confused with the job title of a holy knight in terms of status, but unless you're a heroic person from another world, it's not that big of a deal.

　And it's not easy to become a holy knight - a soldier of the saint's guard in Sanctum.

　You have to pass a battle ability and aptitude test, as well as loyalty to the saint and faith in the creator god. And even if you pass the test, you have to go through a lot of tough training afterwards.

　After that, I could finally become a saint's bodyguard. And last month, I finally became a holy knight to protect her.

　I was so happy.
　The saint is so beautiful.
　I've admired her since I was little.

　I swore to the Creator that I would definitely protect her, even if it meant giving up my life.


　The job of a holy knight is not only to protect the saint in the Holy City, but also to guard her when she goes out of the Holy City.

　She travels around the world once every three months and saves people with her miraculous works. I think it's a very noble thing to do.

　This was my first time to escort a newbie holy knight. I didn't have any problems on the way to and during my stay in each country.

　On the way back, when we arrived at a place where you can see the holy city's outer walls from a distance, we were attacked.

　About thirty bandit-like men attacked us.

　In contrast, there were ten holy knights guarding the saint, including me, but normally there's no way we'd lose even if there were a hundred mere bandits.

　If it was just bandits.

　Those bandits were extraordinary.

　One of the thieves didn't hesitate to attack the senior holy knight and bite him on the neck even though his arm was cut off by the senior holy knight.

　The first clash killed five of the senior holy knights.

　The bandits didn't seem to feel any fear, and even though their limbs were gone, they attacked us like puppets being controlled by something.

　If we crushed their heads or cut off their heads, they wouldn't come back, so the four seniors and I managed to defeat about twenty bandits.

　There are eight bandits left.

　At this rate, we'll be able to protect the saint.
　Just as I was thinking that...

　Senior players began to fall one by one.

　The weapons the thieves were using seemed to be coated with a powerful poison, so even a casual attack by the thieves would have been enough to kill them.


　I'm the only holy knight left.
　But I'm going to protect the saint.

　I don't mind saying it myself, but I'm pretty strong. Even if we were to take on the nine seniors who were on this expedition with us, we could probably win.

　I can see the opponent's magic power, so I have the magic eye.

　The stronger guys all use the magical power inside their bodies to attack us. Their magic moves faster than their bodies. In other words, if you can see the flow of magic power flowing through your body, you can see what they're going to do next.

　This method can't be used against those who attack without moving their magic, but most of them aren't very strong, so there's no way we'll lose.

　I've been training myself to death since I was a kid to protect the saint, so I'm not going to lose.

　That's why I've been able to take out ten bandits on my own without snatching the enemy's attackers. I didn't have time to protect my seniors, though.

　...I'm sorry.


　There are only 8 bandits left.
　I can defeat 7 of them.

　The problem is the boss-like guy at the end of the hall.

　He's the only one with a different kind of magic than the others. I've never seen anything like it before, and it's an amount of magic that would never be seen by a human being.

　Maybe it's just that he's a demon.
　I had heard about it, but it's a crazy amount of magic.

　With ten of us, I think it's enough to take on the boss.

　I think this magician is controlling the bandits. I can see the boss's magic power entangled in the thieves' heads.

　He had his men attacking us, and he wasn't moving yet.

　Then, we want to take out all of his men, and then somehow draw him to the boss, so that the saint can escape.

You go get the saint. I'll deal with this one.

　The boss just stood in front of me.
　........this is bad.

　The despair that takes the form of a human is right in front of me.

　As if the boss has decided to fight me, the magic power in his body is rapidly increasing.

　You can't take your eyes off the boss.
　Probably, the moment I look away, I'll die.

　The bandits slipped through the sides of my motionless body and went to the carriage in which the saintly woman was riding.


Holy Lance!

　A spell was released from the carriage and the four thieves were pierced by it and disappeared.

　That's the magic of the saint.

''Shin, you must run away!''

　Before I knew it, the saint got off from the carriage and ran up to us and said that.

　Her voice was a little shaky.
　I'm sure she knows that this bandit's boss is no ordinary person.

　Even so, she glared at the boss and pointed her rapier at him.

　I was glad to see that she remembered my name, even though I'd only just been assigned to this team, despite the critical situation.

It's our mission to protect her.　That's why I'm running.

　My demon eyes could sense three bandits with daggers walking soundlessly behind the saint-sama.

''None!

　We cut down the three bandits.

　With the saint keeping her eyes and rapier on the boss, he was distracted and I could move.

　The battle situation was a lot easier now.
　All that's left is to free the saint.

　It's absolutely impossible for me to defeat this boss, a demon, right now.

　Even a saint could have defeated this boss, even a demon.
　I mean, if I still had the holy magic given to me by the Creator God...

　The saint who had been using miracles to perform miraculous deeds all over the place didn't have much holy magic left.

　I think that's why the demoness attacked us in this place.

　But the holy city is right in front of us, so all we have to do is stop the demons, as long as the saintly woman runs away.

　We can't beat the demons, but we can stop them.
　I have the magic eye.

　The ability of the evil eye isn't just about being able to see the magical power of others.

　The other ability of the evil eye is the ability to stop the time of what you see with your evil eye.

　Well, while you stop time for one second, you lose ten days of life.

　With this magic eye, the rest of my life expectancy is listed on my status board.

　Skill: Magic Eye, lifetime of 3050 days

　My life expectancy is about ten years left.
　I've used up a lot of my magic eye, so I've lost a lot of time.

　Even so, if I use all of my remaining life span, I should be able to stop the demons for five minutes.

Saints, we'll stop the demons. I want you to use that time to run as fast as you can to the Holy City.

　Once you're in the Holy City, even a demon can't touch you. If I can live long enough to enter the Holy City until the saint enters, I'll win!

Sin, you're not going to...

　The holy knight can't hide anything from the saint, so of course she knows about my magical eye.

　And I think she must have noticed what I'm trying to do.

I don't think I'm the only one who wants to survive after my seniors risked their lives in this fight. I will definitely protect you, saint. For the sake of the seniors, I want Seira-sama to run away!

　It's the first time I've called you by your name.
　Well, since it's the last time.......it's fine, right?


Hmm, I don't know what you think you're going to do, but don't you think you can get away with it?

"...?

　Suddenly, I was called from behind, and when I turned around in surprise, there was already a witch who was there.

　As far as the magic power is concerned, it's almost as powerful as the one that was there from the beginning.

　And there's only one object that can stop time with my magic eye. And it takes a few seconds to switch between them.

　It's over.

　There are two demons in front of me that can only be stopped by the magic eye in exchange for life.

I'm sorry for calling you out. I want to make sure that the saint who could be an obstacle to the upcoming demon king-sama is eliminated here.

Yeah, fine. And this guy who takes down your marionette by himself should be eliminated sooner rather than later.

Yeah.

　The two demons started talking with me and the saint between us.

　The demon king will come back, they said.
　They're planning to kill us for sure, so they're not very cagey.

　Well, there's no way to tell the Holy City about this.


　The two demons have begun to gather an enormous amount of magic power in their hands. It's so much magic that you don't have to be a magician to see it.

　That magic power was becoming a spherical mass above the demons' heads. It was a mass of malice and death.

'Farewell, saint and proud knight. Your loyalty and the strength of your soul, I don't hate you.

　I don't enjoy being praised by a demon.
　I mean, I'd rather let it go than praise it.

　The demon's hand has been swung down.
　Death is imminent.

　In the end, I'd have to be a knight and use a saintly shield...


　That's strange.

　There was an explosion, and I'm pretty sure the magic that the demon released exploded.

　I'm still alive.
　And the saint is still alive.

　When I opened my eyes, I saw a translucent dome covering me and Saint Saint-sama, which prevented the two demons from attacking us.

　When I looked at her, she shook her head, so it doesn't look like she has a saintly ward.

　To begin with, even a saint couldn't prevent the two demons from attacking her without the support of a priest.

　Then who is responsible for this warding...

　To tell the truth, we already knew the answer to that question.

　In that ward, besides me and the saint, there was another person - a young man with black hair.