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The first few chapters were fun and then it just turned into a completely nonsensical string of events that were just there for the sake of being edgy. The ending also makes no fucking sense, why did the princess freak out when she saw the leg? She already knew he was dead, and the last dialogue from the other knight also made no sense.
Completely terrible dialogue too for most of this, I just sort of finished it out of inertia because the chapters are so short, what a waste of 30 minutes
There are 2 diferent translations and i doubt any of them are 100% fair to what the autor meant.
Princess freaking out can be taken as she realizing the Black Plague has reached the palace or just a reaction to her withnessing for the very first time in person, at any rate he was shocked because of the foot not from him being dead.
And the last knight dialogue its just an exposition of current situation and why he decide to just leave. Again both translations are very different, specially on page 5 where one states the reason he is leaving as the goverment being in the hands of a "strange boy" (refering to the useless Princess that worries more about chasing someone that offended her honor instead of focusing on the plague and the state of the country) while the other translation randomly mentions the slave being the reason out of the blue.
In that same 5th panel at the bottom they show the dead cat he refered as Pluto, this autor made a lot of winks to medieval culture and Roman mythology, in this case Pluto is the god of the underworld, wealth and the dead, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hades. If you are really interested just google "Bubonic plague cats" and you will go down on a rabbit hole explaining how the church ordering the extermination of cats due to assosiating them to demons or something led to an increas of rat population and the wide spread of the pest itself.
With that being said you can take that he killed the cat cause of church mandate (he was a knight after all and the sword the he uses has a catholic cross shape that references to the church), or he saw he was infected with the plague (the way he looks at the cat before killing him is similar to the way he looks at the commoner before leaving him to die for himself), or he just didnt want to live for others (as he says at the end, to focus on keep living for himself). At any rate the death cat panel is a nice last wink to the reason he is leaving (the spread of the plague under the useless Nobility making the kingdom fall appart).
And at last when he says "farewell slave" or "see you soon slave" it could either refer to the fact he knows she will eventually die besides her master with the rest of that town and that she will see her in heaven (there is also the chance that his bagged eyes and his goodbye refers to him knowing he is sick and soon to be dead hence the "soon" translation in one of the translations).