The knights' roars shook the heavens and the earth.
Bathed in this condemnation of thousands, a smile slowly appeared on the silver-haired youth's face.
Such a happy, brilliant...
Chilling smile.
Laughing...
—Why is he still laughing?!
—On what grounds can he still laugh?!
This provocation made the knights even more furious.
Bathed in this towering rage of the knights, Gawain only felt his own momentum continuously rising.
The holy sword in his hand also burst forth with fierce, hot flames.
In the Round Table, who wasn't a stunning talent, who wasn't a peerless genius?
It was just that they were all overshadowed by the brilliance of the Red Dragon's child.
Under this immense pressure, with the support of the crowd, Gawain... he further broke through his own limits!
BOOM—
In an instant, the Sun Knight's aura erupted. The light of his holy sword was stronger and more brilliant than ever before!
Like sunlight sweeping away the night.
The bright, scorching sun illuminates my heart.
At this moment, he was not the three-times Gawain, but a ten-times, or even nine-times Gawain!
"Well fought!
"Your will is my will, your heart is my heart. I have understood everyone's killing intent! I have understood everyone's resolve! Let our spirits become one!
"Son of the Demonic Dragon Vortigern, if you must hate someone, hate that you have aroused this public indignation! This is everyone's contempt and scorn for your treachery, your ugliness, for a person like you...
"—Under the sun, I am invincible! Take this burning sword of my wrath, Gawain!
"This is the final verdict on you, the infamous one!"
BANG—
The brilliance of the sun exploded before Su Shu's eyes.
The Sun Knight raised his sword and roared out the name of his holy sword.
"To expel the evil and filth I see, bloom brilliantly...
"Revolving Sword of Victory—(Galat—"
Amidst the public outrage.
Amidst the curses of countless people.
Amidst the brilliant radiance brewing in the holy sword.
An extremely abrupt, panicked female voice, filled with anxiety, sounded from the crowd of onlookers.
"No, don't do that! Noble Sun Knight... I beg you, stop—"
Su Shu's raised sword paused slightly.
Gawain's descending holy sword also suddenly halted.
The knights' curses also abruptly stopped.
Then, everyone followed the source of the sound and looked at the unexpected guest.
It was not Artoria, who they imagined knew Su Shu.
It was... a woman.
An ordinary-looking, plainly dressed, seemingly common middle-aged woman.
Her hands were calloused from years of heavy labor, and her coarse farmer's clothes were meticulously patched.
Her peasant-like face had no delicate features, and her not-so-fair skin was excessively rough.
She looked... just like a resident of this town.
Among the onlookers, someone called out her name in surprise. It was a very common surname.
"Ada, what are you doing... come back!"
Because the knights had made way out of fear, the woman was finally able to run out from the distant crowd, panting.
Facing the scorching gazes of the people, she timidly shrank her neck.
But after swallowing, the woman still mustered her courage and nervously, stumbling, walked before Gawain, making a gesture of supplication to the radiant Sun Knight.
"What do you want? This is not a place for you townspeople to get involved! That man is dangerous! Leave here quickly!"
Staring nervously at the opponent before him, Gawain's tone was solemn and heavy.
Not harming the innocent was the most basic knightly code.
However, his opponent was the infamous son of the White Dragon. If he were to take the townspeople here as hostages, it would surely be a bloody massacre.
Although, he seemed to have no such intention for the time being.
But who could be sure?
The silver-haired youth just stood there holding his lightless black sword, his hands hanging naturally, his whole body seemingly full of openings.
But even so, the fact that the radiance of the holy sword had been swallowed by him had already given Gawain immense psychological pressure.
...The knights present had all experienced how crazily this guy could laugh and curse. No one could predict his thoughts.
Thus, someone had already begun to organize the townspeople to evacuate in an orderly manner.
The woman had suddenly run out from the evacuating crowd.
"This... this must be a misunderstanding! Noble Sun Knight! I, I recognized that lord. I heard his name, and I finally recognized who he is!"
She trembled, looking at the somewhat stunned Su Shu.
Seeing his handsome, almost demonic face from this distance, her guess was further confirmed.
"Lord Alvin, he, he is... the 'Pale Silver Star'!"
"He saved me and my daughter from the hands of robbers!
"He, he is definitely not a bad person! There must be some misunderstanding here! Lord Pale Silver Star once did many good deeds in the town! He saved many people, he, he even gave us grain..."
The woman spoke incoherently, nervously.
The scene was silent for a moment.
Su Shu looked at this ordinary peasant woman with astonishment.
This was the only person today who had truly shocked him.
Su Shu did not remember her appearance.
He had saved many lives from the robbers' den, but how could he remember every single face?
But she... still remembered him.
She was saved, and so, with gratitude, she remembered her savior's name.
At such a moment of being condemned by thousands, risking her life, risking the hostility of all the knights, this woman ran out and humbly begged the Sun Knight.
Her slightly trembling voice drifted in the wind, causing the brilliant sunlight of the holy sword to seem to fall silent and still.
"Pale Silver Star."
As this word was heard by the people, the townspeople seemed to also begin to vaguely recall the graceful figure of a young knight from the past.
"Alvin, Lord Pale Silver Star... it really is him!"
"He hasn't appeared for several years. I thought the Pale Silver Star had left..."
"His height has changed so much... I almost didn't recognize Lord Pale Silver Star."
"He's actually Vortigern's son... no wonder I never heard about Lord Pale Silver Star's family..."
"He once vanquished many bandits... and even helped the town intercept a tide of Demonic Beasts..."
"But he is, after all, the son of that Vile King..."
"Shut up! When the town was being robbed, it was Lord Pale Silver Star who gave us grain—"
The townspeople began to discuss among themselves.
Their words were like a paintbrush, sketching out the compassion and justice that a silver-haired youth once had.
The roars of the knights gradually subsided.
Hearing those words, they held their swords, their expressions gradually becoming bewildered.
What were these townspeople... saying?
A good person—
How could the son of the Vile King Vortigern be... a good person?!
Gawain fell into a brief silence.
As if in doubt, as if in questioning, he looked sideways at the woman beside him, raised his hand, and pointed at the black knight opposite him.
"...Do you know who he is?"
Gawain said sharply, word by word.
"—He is the son of the Vile King Vortigern!"
As if grieving her misfortune and angry at her stubbornness, his voice suddenly rose.
"Didn't you hear, woman!
"Don't you know who Vortigern is?!
"The entire Britain is in such turmoil today precisely because of the monstrous disaster stirred up by that infamous demonic dragon! Even so, you still want to defend such a person, to speak for such a person?!"
"I, I know, noble Sun Knight, I... I heard everything..."
The woman replied, trembling. She was extremely terrified by the Sun Knight's questioning gaze.
"But he is also... my savior..."
Like a doll whose spring had run out, Gawain's expression froze on his face.
This woman, she didn't understand what the king-selection ceremony represented.
She didn't understand the slaughter and conflict involved.
She couldn't even read.
But she knew, she knew very well what the son of the Vile King Vortigern represented.
Even so.
She still stood up.
She was the only one among these thousands of people who pleaded for him.
"Lord Alvin, he's a good person..."
Her trembling voice drifted in the wind.
Su Shu felt as if his chest had been touched.
Crack. It cracked.
Something seeped out.
It was his deeply buried, softest heart.
The hilt of the Sun Knight's sword was squeezed until it creaked. His holy sword burst forth with round after round of brilliant sunlight.
He suddenly looked up at Su Shu, wanting to question if this was another of his treacherous schemes.
However, hearing the discussions of the townspeople, the countless detailed memories, if one person could be bought, what about... everyone?
"...You should go."
The silver-haired youth's gentle voice sounded in front of her.
"—!"
Gawain suddenly looked up. The other had at some point stood before him.
He suddenly raised his holy sword, holding it defensively before him, but... the ferocious slash he imagined did not come.
The other... didn't pay him any attention at all.
That person, he just squatted down, and with a level gaze, gently, gently took the woman's hand.
"Go back, madam."
Holding her hand in his palm, the silver-haired youth said with a smile.
Though his armor was so black, like the dark night sky, looking at his smiling face, the woman's timid, nervous, and trembling body gradually seemed to relax, becoming calm.
"Actually," Su Shu said with a smile, "this is just a misunderstanding."
"Re... really? Lord Pale Silver Star..."
"Yes. Go and live a peaceful and happy life with your daughter. Everything will get better."
The silver-haired youth's voice was light and airy.
Like a gentle spring breeze, it blew across the mountains, across the forests, across the verdant fields, comfortable and pleasant.
"Today, the town will be as peaceful as ever."
He said with a smile.
"I promise you."
That person, the one who had terrified countless knights, was right beside him now, less than three feet away.
Completely unguarded, full of openings.
One sword strike, and he could be cut in two, right?
...However, Gawain's wrist trembled, his lips moved slightly, and sweat began to bead on his forehead.
He had never been so unable to hold his holy sword.
Until the townswoman, full of gratitude, bowed deeply and ran off, looking back every three steps, her figure disappearing from sight.
That person smiled and watched her go.
And he still, from beginning to end, had not... even looked at him once.
"You... should all be grateful to her."
The knight in black lowered his iron-gray eyes.
His voice had never been so ethereal.
As if afraid of... waking something up.
"I was originally going to kill you all."
Saying this lightly, Su Shu looked up and around.
All the knights, as if facing a great enemy, raised their swords with extreme tension.
The silver-haired youth finally looked away, at the most tense and solemn Sun Knight before him.
Gawain held his dazzling holy sword, his tense nerves as if on a hair trigger.
"But now, I've changed my mind."
Su Shu said calmly, word by word.
"Because I promised her.
"—Today, nothing will happen here."
His voice was very gentle.
Like the hand that was gripping the knights' hearts, strangling their throats, had finally been released.
"Hah... hah..."
The knights began to pant heavily, their eyes full of lingering fear.
The hands that held the holy sword seemed to instantly become somewhat limp.
But he still, trembling, held on.
"Doing good deeds can cover up your sins?
"This is just an exquisite mask, just hypocrisy and false sentiment, just a pseudo-benevolent heart..."
The tip of the holy sword pointed at the expressionless silver-haired youth before him.
The Sun Knight seemed to be using all his strength to roar out.
"—Alvin Pendragon, you are just atoning for your own guilt!"
"Then..."
Su Shu looked at him sideways.
Pityingly, sympathetically.
"—Pass your judgment on me, the infamous one."
His voice fell.
It was as if the sun itself fell silent.
The tip of the Revolving Sword of Victory trembled ceaselessly, like the knight's own heart, shaking violently.
His opponent was a sinner who should be cut down.
When the reason to convince himself of this was finally lost, what was the purpose of picking up a sword?
"I see...
"You've now even lost the courage to point your sword at me?
"You are indeed an admirable knight, Gawain. You deserve my respect, because you still have principles, you still have a conscience."
Su Shu looked up at the high-hanging sun.
The sun was shrouded by a layer of gloomy clouds, giving off a hazy, sickly light.
"Look at the sky, Sun Knight who basks in the sun.
"Your sunlight... has dimmed..."
CLANG—
He could no longer even hold his sword.
The dazzling holy sword fell to the ground, giving off a dim light.
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