I Was Chosen as the Saint’s Husband

255 – Part 2, Episode 83, the scale has become too big.

In fact, a swordsmanship competition is not something grand.

An uneventful competition where the priests and members of the Holy Knights within the church headquarters compete against each other to strengthen harmony.

Still, there are advantages to winning an award as it is done by the Holy Knights.

There are things like promotion benefits and prize money.

And it seems that this tournament will be giving away swords with small amounts of Styx and Mithril.

Of course, the knights are turning their attention and training hard.

Perhaps that’s why the priests participating this time are a little intimidated.

How could it not be scary when the knights of the Holy Knights, whose swordsmanship skills are clearly superior to those of the priests, do that with their eyes on fire?

For your information, I am not interested in swords.

I ordered a sword with 50 to 60 times the amount of Styx and Mithril that goes into that sword.

Even if I win, I plan to give it to the second place winner.

Even the proud members of the Holy Knights would not refuse it because it is too big of a prize to refuse.

Boom! Boom!

With that in mind, he was swinging a stone sword made with earth magic.

This thing weighs roughly 30kg, and it seems like something that weighs this much is fun to swing around.

In general, I have become a body that I cannot be satisfied with anymore.

“Now that I think about it… it was exactly around this time in my past life.”

After I was chosen as a warrior, the world suddenly became rapidly chaotic.

At first, the prevailing thought was that the world was in disarray simply because of the increase in natural disasters and wars.

But, after that guy showed up, everything changed.

[Chaos] tried to end the world.

What was scary about that guy wasn’t that he was trying to invade the world by leading demons like a demon king.

The thing that scared me the most was digging into the minds of people who were weak-minded and taking control of them.

My whole body still trembles when I think of that time.

“cold…”

I guess that’s all for today.

Because tomorrow is the day of the swordsmanship competition.

Don’t overexert yourself, rest well, and do your best.

The rest of the time, I play with Luna.

“It’s Luna~”

I completely disassembled the stone sword and returned it to nature, then called Luna inside the house.

Naturally, my cute daughter heard me calling and started running this way.

I can’t believe I can already run around like this.

It seems that a child grows much faster than I imagined.

“Daddy!!”

Luna hugged me as soon as she saw me.

When you pick me up and hug me, I feel so happy that I feel like I’m dying.

Ah, but I’m drenched in sweat right now.

Isn’t it too dirty to hug Luna in this condition?

At that moment, I handed Luna over to the nanny who followed Luna and came this way.

Luna’s lips were pouting, but she smiled when I gently stroked her head.

“Dad will wash you and give you a hug, so just wait a moment with the nanny. Then I’ll wash up and come back.”

“Yes, master.”

I feel sorry for the nanny every time.

By the way, recently, as children have grown, the number of cases of bringing them in has decreased…

They said they gave permission to bring any child, but they said they were sorry and declined to bring the older child.

Also, did you say it was okay that you would soon be moving into a children’s room run by the church headquarters?

Soon, our Luna will be there too, so we will become close friends, right?

Maybe we’ll meet again after a long time and become best friends.

“Isn’t it… Have you already forgotten?”

Basically, children easily erase things from their memories.

Well, we’ll become friends again soon.

By the way, what time does the nursery end?

From what I remember, it ends before the nanny leaves for work.

Then the child has nowhere to go.

Let’s tell the nanny later after you wash up.

It’s okay to let Luna play at home until I get off work.

***

Quite a few people came to watch the sword fighting competition hosted by the Knights.

There are people who came simply to watch, but surprisingly, it seems that there are also knights who took time off to come and participate.

Among them, there are people who take up positions in areas quite far away.

I wonder why on earth you came all the way here.

But why?

Isn’t everyone equally interested in swords?

Come to think of it, one of those swords was supplied to each unit.

You may have swung or used that sword once.

Naturally, you would have learned about the excellence of swords using mithril and styx.

If you could own it with your own sword…

“In a way, it’s natural to be flocked like this.”

Dave spoke instead of me.

Of course, I couldn’t keep my mouth shut because so many people were participating in the event, which was only supposed to last one day.

I thought there would have been a lot of participation if around 200 people participated.

If you combine all the people here right now…

At least 1000 people?

The operating tent is also in chaos due to the unexpected number of participants.

“All…Captain!! Anyway, isn’t that too much?!”

“…Still, I can’t help it!”

“yes!?”

The adjutant was dumbfounded by the leader’s words that there was nothing he could do.

I can’t help but be embarrassed.

Because that one word meant that we would push forward like this.

“You can’t send back your colleagues who came from far away!”

“Yeah…that’s true!”

“Hurry up and ask for help from the knights… no, the priests! Quickly!”

“Ah…I understand!”

In the end, the adjutant nodded to the leader’s words and ran towards somewhere.

There are probably cardinals in that direction.

What is the purpose of doing that?

Are we going to make it bigger here?

I’m a little excited.

Actually, in my case, it’s like a debut, so it would be better if there were more people.

Plus, it would be much better if there were a lot of people from outside.

Many people will see it and spread the word.

After that, the adjutant of the Knights in charge of operations returned, had a conversation with the leader, and then disappeared somewhere.

Although the participants were wondering what was going on, they started exercising among themselves to relax their bodies.

It’s scary… these people…

Still, it’s orderly, perhaps because it’s knights and priests.

If this wasn’t a knights’ swordsmanship competition, there would have been an uproar already, right?

I think there were people who were angry and asked why we didn’t start sooner.

*

About 20 minutes later, not the Templars but the priests.

So, senior priests came and cleaned up this place.

Due to the increased number of people, it seems that priests from the Knights Templar are trying to organize things themselves.

“We’ll be accepting applications for about an hour from now!”

“If you do not apply within one hour, you will not be able to participate, so please make sure to apply!”

oh?

I thought they were going to announce that it would be postponed until tomorrow because it was crowded today, but suddenly an announcement was made that applications would be accepted.

It looks like they are planning to proceed today as there will be some people who came on vacation.

But what are you going to do by gathering 1,000 people in one place?

This parade ground isn’t that big.

I wonder if we can do this in other places as well…

If there are 1,000 people, 2 people would have to fight 500 times, right?

Or are you trying to do a real battle royale?

As I waited with my arms crossed for a while, several large tents were set up.

As I went there and waited in line, I saw priests who I thought I had seen many times before, taking applications.

“Huh? Elvin?”

“Garco. What are you doing here?”

His name is Garco.

A colleague and classmate who received priest training with me.

Even though he was an intermediate priest, he had been brought here to accept applications for the competition.

“Ha…don’t talk to me.”

“You speak first. But what do lower-ranking priests do, so you’re here like this?”

“It’s like this because the low-level priests are busier than the mid-level priests.”

“Well, now that I think about it, that’s right.”

The lower-level priests are quite high-quality personnel.

In a way, it’s natural for newbies to put in the effort.

“So? Our hero is going to participate in the swordsmanship competition?”

“Can’t I do it?”

“It’s not impossible. My name is Elvin, my affiliation is a priest…”

My classmate wrote down my information in detail.

It seems that it is possible to apply for participation with information that is not even considered personal information.

“Oh, that’s right. Did you hear the rules of the competition?”

“Rules?”

“The use of magical power is prohibited. For your information, you are a hero, so you cannot use sacred power.”

“Ah. That’s natural.”

If I activate my holy power, I can destroy the Holy Knights within 10 minutes.

Since magic power is enough, it makes no sense to leave those two free to use.

“Well, that’s all you need to know. This is a participation badge, so wear it.”

“When did they make something like this?”

“We are making it now. The lower-ranking priests are working hard right now…”

“I know roughly what happened.”

The low-level priests are working hard to create these badges, and the mid-level priests are being brought here to receive applications.

Why is our church headquarters so good at manipulating people?

They are merciful to believers, and treat priests as slaves.

“But are you really going to be okay?”

“You said it’s okay.”

“Yes… Even if you get seriously injured, you will be okay because the saintess is by your side.”

Garko doesn’t trust my swordsmanship until the end.

It seems more like that because there was a record of him being kidnapped not long ago.

Look forward to it…

Because I’ll show you what a real munchkin is.