Aking from his coma, Constance Dante slowly opened his eyes, revealing a blank ceiling. The frail young man struggled to move his neck, only to see a familiar pale yellow appear in his field of vision, which was a strand of the girl's hair.

Constance Dante found that he had returned to his room at some point, and was lying on the bed, while Sophia was lying on the side of the bed and watching him, and the girl was sleeping soundly with a woolen blanket draped over her body.

Constance Dante looked out the window and saw the bright sunlight shining into the room through the thick curtains, and it was nearly noon. The room seemed to have been cleaned, the bright corner was filled with the faint scent of flowers, and the silent room was only the sound of Sophia's even breathing.

Sophia didn't even go to the academy. Instead of waking up his sleeping sister, Constance Dante struggled to remember last night's experiment in bed.

Succeed? Or failure? Somehow, Constance Dante had no idea what had happened yesterday. The last memory in my mind is the door, and the girl's face. And everything in the door is not even remembered by Constance Dante now, but the shock that brought him at that time left a deep imprint on his heart.

"Awake?" Suddenly the whisper of a man outside the door sounded, and at some point Prescas was standing there, looking at Constance Dante.

In the slightly cold air, the atmosphere seemed to be inexplicably tense, and the two just looked at each other in silence.

In the end, it was Prescas who broke the silence and looked at Sophia, who was asleep, and said to Constance Dante: "Since you were rescued, this child has not slept and has been guarding you. So I asked her for leave. ”

"How's the experiment?" Constance Dante also spoke, but his first words were to ask about last night's nerve bonding test.

Slightly surprised, Priskas replied to Cons, Dante: "It was very successful, we had a breakthrough. Although there were some twists and turns, it was very rewarding. "Preskars knew the pain of the test, and whoever it was, the excruciating pain of an electric shock was definitely not something flesh and blood could bear.

"It seems that someone didn't want this experiment to be successful at the time?" Although he was not impressed, Constance Dante still clearly remembered the sudden increase in the electrical current of the nerve connection device, and it was for this reason that Constance Dante was forced to the brink of a nervous breakdown.

Seeing that Constance Dante also guessed, Prescas did not hide the facts, but said indifferently: "Although I have a cooperative relationship with those people, they don't want the test drive rider to be my person, so they ・・・・・・"

"I hope I'm dead or gone, and someone from theirs will take my place." Constance, Dante helped Preskars say what he didn't say.

Preskas nodded and said calmly, "Yes, that's the price that has to be paid. Now that you are the first knight in my hands, it is like going back to ten years ago when you were in the spotlight of all those in power. If you want your sister to live in peace and security, you have to get back to the chessboard of power."

Hearing Pliskas's answer, Constance Dante said indifferently: "That means you have brought me back to the starting point." He had done everything he could to completely abandon his past, hoping to escape the established vortex that would once again swallow him and the people he wanted to protect, but as the man said, fate could not escape from it.

Is the only way to end this tragedy is to fight against the current?

Constance Dante quietly got out of bed and hugged his sister to the bed and covered the quilt, while Sophia was still sweetly falling asleep, Constance Dante looked at the peaceful face, as if the strife in this world had nothing to do with her.

Rest assured! I'll watch over her. Sister Anna!

Instead of waking his sister up, he walked out of the room with Preskas.

And the girl who had been sleeping heavily on the bed suddenly opened her eyes, and Sophia whispered softly under the quilt: "It's all Sophia's fault, I'm sorry, Brother Constance." ”

・・・・・・

Constance Dante changed into a white coat, and until this point, the wound on his back was still causing Cons. Dante to feel a lot of pain.

"Do you want to continue experimenting today?" Constance Dante asked.

"No, not today. Yesterday's results were sufficient, and the machine still needs to be commissioned. Next time, you'll be able to get behind the wheel of a new ride. Preskars was confident, the data they obtained last night was enough for him to control the strength of the nerve current, and the next step was to fine-tune the data and transform the mecha, but he still needed the assistance of Cons Dante.

Soon, the ultimate mech, independent of the Holy See and the new Roman system, will be created, and the data provided by Constance Dante will help Prescas control the current strength of the nerve connections so that they don't turn against the knights.

Preskars looked at Constance Dante and thought for a moment, but still asked the question in his heart: "What did you dream about when you were out of control?" "According to the accounts of the outflow from the Holy See and the new Roman Empire, from the mouths of those test drive knights who lost control and had a nervous breakdown, the description of nightmares was obtained.

"The deepest depths of fear and the sin of one's own heart." Constance Dante knew what Priskas wanted to ask, but he only gave him this brief answer.

"Fear and sin?" Priskas chewed on the two words. The realm of the spirit is not explained by mechanical theories, and even he cannot understand what Constance Dante experienced in his dreams.

"Nikita, can they really get out of here safely?" Constantine, having gone through everything of yesterday, already felt that Constantinople was like an intricate chess game, and anyone who fell into it, if he did not have enough strength, would be torn apart by this maelstrom, and his bones would be gone. Except for Sophia, Consitine only cared about them, and not only for the sake of Herod, but Consitine owed them an explanation. Whether it was Vivien's sister or Bercys's brother, they all died at their own hands.

Preskars apparently didn't expect Constance Dante to ask this question, and after a moment's pause, he replied, "You don't have to worry about that, they are safe and can get out of here in the near future." What happens next doesn't affect them. ”

"Things?" Constance Dante asked.

"Both the kingdom and the Holy See are ready to move, and something big will happen in the city soon. And everything will be stormy. Preskars said quietly. Now, everything is temporary, like the oppressive calm that precedes the storm of the Storm Strait.

The calmer it is, the more earth-shattering the tyrannical storm becomes, leveling everything.