A week later, a garden party invited by Marianne approached.
Julia has been trimming flowers since the evening to make a bouquet to take to the party tomorrow.
Just as they were wrestling with cloth and ribbon, someone's voice came in through the crack in the door.
"It's strange. You said you'd be back by this morning. Maybe something is happening... ."
It was Gabriel's voice. Julia did not stop her hand and listened to the sound of words coming from her.
"Do not worry. It's just that the patrol is taking a little longer than usual. Jeremy is a man who can kill wild boars with his bare hands. What's wrong with you?"
The next voice was that of Paul the gardener. The conversation between the two continued to tap on Julia's ear.
"If you are concerned, I will go to the beginning of the mountain I bought early tomorrow morning."
"Yeah, that would be better."
The conversation, which continued for a while, disappeared across the hallway as they moved.
Julia tied the ribbon tightly and remembered a person named Jeremy in their conversation.
Jeremy was one of the knights guarding the monastery. He was deployed a few days ago as a defensive man at the beginning of the mountain, the border, and was away.
'… Come to think of it, it was said that some knights were missing from the mountain.'
Julia suddenly remembered what Marianne had said in the manor house.
I was kind of worried that maybe Jeremy's not coming back had something to do with it.
The Holy Kingdom was a country with few conflicts with other countries.
Because of the title of a country blessed by the gods, I heard that even common looting is rare.
However, from what Gabriel had heard, a long time ago, there were often monsters that climbed over the mountain.
Many people have been injured as a result of that incident, and since then, they have been focusing more and more on border defense.
It was hard to believe that such a thing had happened in such a peaceful and peaceful land.
Julia struggled to suppress the weak worries that were slowly rising, and finally finished the bouquet.
At dawn the next day, Julia headed to the dining room with a countertop.
I remember that Marianne liked cookies so much, so I decided to bake a little bit.
As she slowly entered the kitchen, Julia found Gabriel sitting in front of the counter.
"Gabriel, are you up early?"
"Oh, Julia. It just came."
Gabriel placed the freshly baked madeleines and various kinds of cookies on the table.
The savory and sweet smell spread throughout the kitchen.
"I tried to bake it to take with me when I go to a party. It's the first party I've been invited to, so I'll have to bring it back."
Julia looked down at the freshly baked and steaming cookies and widened her eyes.
It seemed that he and Gabriel had a connection.
"I was going to make it anyway, but you must have suffered because of me since dawn."
"Ask this old man first. It's not that I don't know that you're not good at cooking."
Gabriel smiled playfully as he closed his wrinkled eyes. Yulia responded with a smile following her like that.
"Thank you. Your wife will love it."
"Go and have fun. Don't worry, you can come here and play for a long time."
Julia nodded her head. She was only grateful to Gabriel, who always treated her like her daughter.
Gabriel wrapped the cookies and bread in a clean white cloth and put it in a basket.
After handed over the basket, Yulia went back to her room and put on a bright winter dress suitable for a party.
Finally, wearing a long coat, she left the monastery with both hands full of luggage.
Soon, Yulia, who got on the carriage, smiled brightly.
"I will go."
She waved a small hand at Gabriel, who had come to see him off.
Soon the wagon that had left the gate rattled and set out on the road.
There was a quieter atmosphere than usual in the monastery where Julia had left.
The priests had just left for the central temple for the annual ceremony, and the monastery was just a few workers, Gabriel and children.
After lunch, Gabriel went to his room to put the children to sleep. Nap time was essential for growing children.
The hungry children quickly fell asleep.
Gabriel, who had been watching the children for a long time, got up immediately.
I checked my pocket watch and it was already past two o'clock.
Gabriel went back to his room to try to embroider, and he rummaged through the basket in the corner.
And at that moment, someone's shriek echoed outside.
"Egumonina!"
Gabriel, startled by the sharp sound, quickly turned his head.
She hurriedly approached the door and grabbed the handle, but someone swung the door open before her.
Standing at the door was Paul, who had left the monastery in the morning at the request of Gabriel.
"Hey, you have to run away! Demons, demons have attacked!"
Paul groaned with a pale face.
Paul, who rode his horse to the foot of the mountain early in the morning, found that the garrison at the beginning of the mountain had been completely wiped out.
There, there were huge monsters that were brutally tearing and killing the soldiers.
Paul saw the scene and immediately turned to the monastery, but it was after the monsters who had already crossed the mountain attacked the whole village.
"Oh, come on! You have to run away with the kids-!"
Paul's eyes, who had been speaking in a hurry, suddenly turned over.
Behind Paul, who had fallen still, a man in black was smiling with his mouth ripped open.
Dark red blood splattered around Paul's body.
The carriage carrying Julia entered the wide road.
It was around that time that the snow suddenly started to fall.
Snowflakes, which had been scattered like snowflakes, grew stronger as the wagon rushed.
Through the small open space in front, the driver's voice murmured.
"This is so… If the road freezes, it will be a disaster."
Julia also looked out the window with a worried look on her face.
I still had to run for a long time to get to the manor house.
The wagon, which had been running slowly on the slippery road, soon entered the entrance of a quiet street.
The carriage, which was running in full swing, at one moment came to a halt, shaking precariously.
The wind slammed her body against the car, and Yulia barely raised her head with a painful sound.
"I, what… ."
Yulia, who was about to ask about the situation, suddenly covered her mouth with her hand.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"
It was because a strange beast appeared from nowhere and rushed towards the coachman.
bang!
The windshield of the wagon, which vibrated greatly due to the rushing beast, was shattered at once.
Julia looked at the shattered pieces of glass for a moment, then looked back at the coachman.
"Sa, save me!"
The coachman screamed and fell down.
The scene that came into Julia's eyes was that of a grotesque beast that grabbed the driver's neck and pierced his teeth.
No, it wasn't a beast, it was a monster.
A huge monster that I had never seen in my life was roaring with blood-red eyes.
"… Ahhh."
Julia looked outside with her trembling body bowed down. Other monsters with similar appearances were seen roaming the streets, running on their two feet.
And between them, a white-haired man dressed in a black robe was walking leisurely.
Julia bowed her body even deeper, unable to breathe. Her thoughts and her circuits seemed to have come to a complete halt in the panic that took over her body.
And in the blink of an eye, a man's voice came from just a short distance away.
"I smell something alive. It smells very, very sweet and delicious."
A creepy voice lodged in Julia's ear.
Then, at the same time as the sound of turning the handle, the carriage's door leaf was torn off in an instant.
The strange-looking man stared at Yulia with twinkling eyes.
"Are you hiding here?"
Seeing the man who smiled creepily with his mouth wide and tilted, Yulia couldn't even scream.
A piece of broken glass was caught in Julia's hand, trembling like an aspen and slowly retreating back.
Without time to think of anything, his body moved first.
"Kyaaaaaaah!"
Soon the man's chirping screams filled the street.
Julia desperately ran out of the carriage, holding the piece of glass that had cut the man's face.
A shard of glass swung haphazardly seemed to cut deep into the man's eyes.
"ah!"
However, unable to go far, Julia stopped.
It was because the monster that had brutally killed the driver a while ago surrounded her.
Julia looked at the demons with a gaze full of fear.
The monsters with their large, crude teeth exposed seemed to rush at her at any moment.
A shard of glass dug into his palm. Blood was oozing out, but Yulia couldn't even feel the pain.
The demons circled around her as if wary.
Unlike the one-on-one attack on the coach a while ago, it was a gesture of hesitation.
Yulia couldn't move a single finger and looked at the red eyes that were staring at me.
The monster, which had been circling around slowly, immediately opened its mouth and flew at her.
"Hey!"
In fear that had risen to the limit, Yulia screamed with her face buried in her arms.
At the same time, he instinctively raised his sexual power to his fingertips.
puck! There was a loud crashing sound along with a vibrating sound.
Julia panted for a while, then slowly lowered her arms.
"Uh, how… ."
In her shaking vision, demons engulfed in flames entered.