The eldest son of the Walton family immediately responded to Isabel Walton, smiling and saying, "Admit defeat when you don't get the first one." What would you do if I had armor? ”

"I'll do it." After Isabel finished speaking, she released the blade of the sword with her left hand, raised the wooden sword with her right hand, and slammed the end of the hilt towards Ernest's forehead.

Ernest glanced up at the end of the hilt of the wooden sword with both eyes, and said with a smile, "Isabel, you're only going to knock me out when I'm in armor, and then what?" ”

Isabel didn't speak, just put down the wooden sword in her hand, walked behind Ernest and said aloud, "I'll kick you down immediately and then attack your unarmored crevice." ”

"What if I'm wearing a seamless full-body plate armor?"

"Ernest, you're just a would-be knight, do you have the money to buy full-body plate armor?"

Ernest smiled as he looked at Isabel who had walked back in front of him and said, "It's coming." The lord said that he would recommend me to the king on New Year's Day and canonize me as a knight. When I officially become a knight, I won't have the money to buy full-body plate armor. ”

Isabel sneered, "I heard you right, is that what Lord Carlisle said to you?" ”

"Yes, I mentioned it when I talked to you in Lord Darcy's castle."

"Ernest, do you think His Majesty will forgive the fact that Lord Carlisle and his army participated in the rebellion? Then, as if nothing had happened, Lord Carlisle continues to be his castle lord, leading you and the others to guard Carlisle Castle? ”

"Rebellion? Isabel, why do you think it's a rebellion? I will not allow you to use that term to slander the Prayer Parade movement. ”

"Are you commanding me? Ernest, an army of tens of thousands of northern nobles, knights, sergeants, squires, clergy, and a large number of peasants, occupied a military castle and went around capturing women and children as hostages to coerce His Majesty into agreeing to the terms of the leader. You want to tell me, isn't this a rebellion? ”

"This is a petition and demonstration to His Majesty the King! This is to tell His Majesty that my companions and I must eradicate those evil ministers for His Majesty! ”

Isabel walked to the stake on the side of the school yard with a wooden sword in her hand, leaning on the stake with her arms folded and looking at him coldly. As soon as he spoke, Ernest felt that he had spoken too harshly to his family, and that he had made himself look like a religious fanatic.

So he came to her with the wooden sword in his hand, with an embarrassed look on his face, and said gently, "I'm sorry, Isabel, please forgive me for being disrespectful to you. ”

"Ernest, did your lord and other leaders ask His Majesty the King to forgive everyone in their agreement with His Royal Highness the Duke and the Duke of Norfolk?" Isabel ignored her brother's harshness towards her, and tacitly accepted the other party's apology, focusing on the other party's eyes and questioning.

Ernest Walton heard a lot about the content of the peace talks from his lord, Viscount Carlisle. The first clause of the agreement was for His Majesty the King to agree to forgive all the rebels. At this point, he looked at Isabel silently, and recalled, "Yes, there is this." ”

"Very well, you didn't admit that this was a rebellion just now. So, tell me, why did the leaders of the pilgrimage movement ask for this clause to be added to the agreement? ”

As Ernest thought about it, he felt more and more that her words were right. He wondered why all the leaders, including Viscount Carlyle, had to include in the agreement a clause asking His Majesty to forgive all if they did not think it was a rebellion.

"Isabel, I... I can't explain it to you. ”

"Ernest, I don't want to talk to you about the cause and purpose of this pilgrimage, which is attended by tens of thousands of people. Now, I just want to know what you are going to do if His Majesty is not going to forgive everyone? Isabel said as she walked over to the stake and began to practice her swordsmanship with the wooden sword in her hand. Ernest then stood on the right side of the stake and stared at her and pondered, and after a long time he uttered the words: "I will bravely bear the blasphemy against God, Jesus Christ, and His Majesty the King and receive the punishment I deserve." ”

At this moment, Isabel raised her right arm and held the wooden sword flat in mid-air, stabbing Ernest in the throat without any protection like lightning. When the tip of the sword was less than an inch away from Ernest's throat, the tip of the sword suddenly hovered in midair.

Then, staring at each other with wide eyes, he gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Bastard, since you are willing to bear the hanging that His Majesty has prepared for you and your companions, why don't you kill you now!" ”

"Isabel, kill me. As loyal as I am to His Majesty, I will fight for the Catholic faith, for my loved ones and for my homeland! ”

"Isn't everyone who participates in the pilgrimage for the sake of faith?" Ernest roared hoarsely.

Isabel was so angry that she wanted to kill the crazy religious fanatic with a single sword, but she still just shouted, "Enough!!" You want everyone to know that you're a rebel? Very well, you can go to the top of the tallest main building of His Highness's castle now, and before this time has planted His Highness's Duke heraldic banner, and tell the others loudly that you will die for the Pope! You will die for the Church of Rome!! ”

For a moment, the voices of the two men who spoke one after another alarmed several servants passing by. Isabel squinted at the confused servant and said coldly, "Get out of here!" ”

After both sides calmed down a little, Ernest threw down the wooden sword in his hand and sat on the ground, his eyes becoming a little confused: "Isabel, what is wrong with me?" Isn't that how everyone here lives? ”

Isabel let out a long breath and crouched down in front of him to stare at him, "Ernest, you're not wrong. You just have to mentally replace the Pope with His Majesty the King and the Church of Rome with the Church of England. ”

"Without the Pope, without the Church, is it still the Catholicism I believe in?"

"Of course, Jesus Christ will still show us the way from the darkness to the light."

I don't know how long it took, but the sky was still so bright. Isabel stood up, touched Ernest on her calf a few times with her toes, and said, "Hey, knight-to-be, let's go back." ”

Ernest stood up, picked up the wooden sword again and looked at her: "Isabel, what did I come to you today to talk to?" ”

"Why did you forget what you talked to me about?"

"It's just that I just talked about the issue of faith, so I forgot about it. Do you know? ”

Isabel shook her head amusedly: "I only remember that you and I talked about why my father got the appointment decree from His Majesty the King. ”

Ernest patted his head with the wooden sword in his hand, and suddenly said, "That's right, this is the problem I talked to you about before. ”