In this crossover anime, Yoshikage Kira longs for a peaceful life.

Until the girl turned around and plunged the sword into his heart.

Yoshikage Kira walked to her side and asked softly:

"Any thoughts?"

The girl stared blankly at the three Saxon corpses, hesitated for a moment, and then answered truthfully:

"It's simpler than I imagined."

That's for sure.

Although Artoria's strength is slightly inferior to that of Sir Hector.

But those who fight her on a regular basis are all true knights, and only these people can spar with her and achieve the effect of training.

But these Saxons had neither rigorous training nor the courage to fight to the death.

It would be very easy to kill them.

Artoria didn't feel much discomfort from killing, perhaps because Sir Hector had already told her that she would face these things, or perhaps because a nightmare had already revealed the scenes of killing to her in her dreams, even battlefields littered with corpses.

Regardless of the reason, the girl's demeanor was remarkably calm.

“These aren’t all of them. Let’s mount up and go find the rest.”

Kira Yoshikage gently wiped away the blood splattered on the girl's face.

"Ah."

Artoria nodded slightly. She didn't ask Yoshikage Kira how he knew that these people weren't all of them, nor did she ask him why he knew where the rest were. She simply followed Yoshikage Kira's directions.

Deep in the forest, in a clearing where the surrounding trees had been cut down, there was a campsite made up of numerous tents. A fire still burned in the center of the tents, and a pot of tender and succulent meat broth was simmering, making Eltoria swallow hard upon smelling it.

There weren't many men in the camp; it was mostly women, with a few children as well.

The women and children were surprised and astonished by the two strangers who arrived at the camp on horseback, but not much afraid. The few men also looked surprised, but their expression quickly turned to excitement.

Especially when he saw the girl's face clearly, he revealed a cruel smile and was about to rush forward.

call!

Artoria dismounted and went to meet the charging Saxons.

Just like before.

None of these people were a match for her.

When the first Saxon fell to her sword, the expressions on the faces of the others immediately turned to astonishment.

When the second Saxon also fell to the sword, their expressions finally turned wary.

As more and more people collapsed helplessly in pools of blood, their expressions finally turned to fear.

But by then, there weren't many people left.

puff!

Artoria drew her longsword, letting the blood splatter out and stain the earth red.

The girl looked up at the camp before her; there were no more men there, all of them dead by her sword.

So, the girl instinctively turned around to look at Yoshikage Kira, who was slowly walking towards her, wanting to ask what to do next.

"Aren't you going to continue?"

Yoshikage Kira asked.

"Huh?"

Artoria was slightly taken aback. "But there are no enemies here anymore."

"Why not?"

Yoshikage Kira pointed to the people in the camp who were looking at them with terrified expressions. "Aren't there still many people here?"

A fleeting look of surprise crossed Artoria's face, followed by a hint of pity:

"Teacher, these are all women and children..."

Yoshikage Kira stared at those people, his eyes utterly cold:

"Aren't you their enemy? To them, even women are their enemies. And vice versa, to you, even women are your enemies, aren't they?"

"I'm sorry, teacher."

Artoria raised her head, looked into Kira Yoshikage's eyes, and said firmly:

“If they picked up weapons, I would consider them my enemies. But they were unarmed, so I couldn’t draw my sword against them.”

"A knight?"

Kira Yoshikage saw many things in the girl's eyes: honor, etiquette, humility, perseverance, loyalty, pride, and piety, but ultimately these could be summarized in four words:

Chivalry.

Because that's what she was taught from childhood.

Yoshikage Kira does not adhere to the so-called chivalric code, but he also does not look down on those who do.

“Well done, Artoria.”

He smiled approvingly and gently stroked the girl's long hair. "You have held fast to your principles and even resisted tyranny for them. This is the honor a knight should have."

"teacher."

Artoria breathed a sigh of relief, a joyful smile spreading across her face. So, her teacher was just testing her?

Although the teacher couldn't ride a horse, she was indeed a true knight. How could she be the kind of person who would kill even women and children?

A woman with short brown hair and two scars on her face that could disfigure her bravely stepped forward and cautiously asked:

"Lord Arthur, are you Lord Arthur?"

"You know me?"

Artoria looked at the approaching woman with surprise.

"Yes, yes, sir."

The woman's face lit up with joy, and she quickly nodded, saying:

“I am Sir Hector’s serf. My husband and I went into the forest to hunt and gather berries a few months ago. My husband was killed by them, and I was also taken to their camp by these damned bandits.”

Artoria's eyes held a hint of pity as she softly asked:

"How many other people here have had the same experience as you?"

This forest does not belong to the territory of Hector, but the territory has a long tradition of hunting in the forest. Hunters regularly go into the forest to hunt, and women also gather berries at the edge of the forest.

But ever since these foreign peoples entered the forest and gradually encroached on the lives of the British people, Ectoria has basically given up on entering the forest.

Even if Sir Hector wanted to organize a force to encircle and annihilate them, these damned alien races could use the complex terrain of the forest to deal with them, or even take advantage of the territory being undefended to raid it.

Therefore, before this, let alone annihilating the foreign tribes, they couldn't even save the women who were killed or abducted by them.

"Most of them are."

The woman hurriedly replied, "They were all like me, abducted from various noble territories."

After a pause, the woman hurriedly reminded her again:

"Lord Arthur, you must run! Many of these barbarians are still hunting outside. They might be back soon, and if you are discovered, they will surely kill you!"

Artoria tried her best to calm the woman down:

"Calm down, how many of them are there in total?"

"There should be over two hundred barbarians in this camp. They always act in groups because they are afraid of being surrounded and attacked by nobles and knights. There are also many people on guard around the perimeter of the camp, probably around twenty..."

The woman paused slightly at this point.

Right, where are the people on the perimeter? Why didn't they issue a warning?

"teacher."

Artoria looked at Yoshikage Kira. He was the one who killed most of them, and he was the only one who knew the exact number of these Saxons.

Yoshikage Kira quickly gave a precise answer:

"If there were only this many people, then we must have killed them all."

The initial group consisted of just over a hundred people, which theoretically should be half the number of people in the camp.

But the rest of them had been destroyed by bomb carts on their way here.

If they hadn't arrived in time, there probably wouldn't be many people left in this camp.

The woman was overjoyed upon hearing this and hurriedly asked:

"My lord, could it be that Sir Hector has organized soldiers from his territory to besiege them?"

"That's it."

Artoria stammered, trying to brush it off. Now that things had come to this, she couldn't bring herself to say that she had just stumbled upon these barbarians by accident and then accidentally killed them all. She also said that saving them was just something she did as a matter of course.

"So, does that mean we...we can go home now?"

The woman was overjoyed, and tears of excitement streamed down her face.

More and more women gathered around, and they all heard the conversation between the two, their faces beaming with joy as if the clouds had parted and the sun had finally come out.

"Ah."

Artoria nodded slightly; she had no idea what kind of torture these women had suffered in the barbarian camp.

But one can imagine that it must have been a very difficult period.

Yoshikage Kira gave the order:

"Gather everyone together and have them assemble in the center of the camp."

"Yes, Sir Knight."

The woman quickly responded to him and went to gather the women and children in the camp.

Yoshikage Kira walked to the other side of the camp, where the largest tent in the camp was located, with scattered wooden crates placed outside the tent.

Artoria followed in Kira Yoshikage's footsteps and frowned when she saw the neatly arranged wooden crates in the tent.