Hospital Knights

As priests of the Silent Temple, they had hammered faith into the skulls of quite a few heretics with chains. But being on the receiving end seemed to be a first for them.

All they could say was that the effect was certainly impressive. Their gazes darted away whenever they looked at Gwen. The sight of Gwen swinging her chain so fast it left afterimages had clearly been burned into their memories. Who knew whether they would have nightmares about it?

Ignati, too, gave Nini a long look.

He had once spotted Banshees from afar in the Northern Territory. The situation had been urgent then, so he had not asked much about them.

Here, however, they Buriers were merely guests, so it was naturally inappropriate for them to interfere too much.

The people of the Silent Temple knew little about Banshees. Limited by the range of the Symbiotic Pact, there were never many of them stationed in the Northern Territory during battles. They rarely truly took part in combat, and Theus had never positioned them as a primary force on the battlefield.

Thus, although the Silent Temple had gathered information on the Expeditionary Force, it had been limited to the mortal troops. They knew very little about transcendent creatures like Banshees.

What they knew now had all been hammered into them by Gwen.

So when the Buriers saw Nini, aside from their instinctive wariness, they also carried a measure of fear born from Gwen.

"You're... ah, a transcendent creature from the deep sea, then..."

"She has no Pollution on her."

Nora interrupted.

"Not only does she have no Pollution, none of the Banshees do. The Pollution in Castel... never mind. Go see for yourselves."

The Buriers exchanged glances, then all looked toward Nora. Her words truly sounded strange.

Pollution was