"Is it someone from the Inquisition?" Yulia looked at Constance beside her and asked in a low voice.

"I'm not sure, but there's **." Constance Dante replied by looking at the vanishing headlights in the distance, and turned to leave. The chief of the guard was a subordinate of the Inquisition lurking in the kingdom of New Brad. Otherwise, the other party would not have insisted on searching this place at that time.

"You seem to hate that Highness?"

"Why hate? I'm not her subject, and how she doesn't matter to me. Constance Dante did think so in his heart, but he was a little uncomfortable, and the naivety of wanting to change this world of beasts and cannibalism made him unhappy.

"Is it because it's like His Royal Highness the Knight King back then?" Behind him, there was a smiling voice from Preskas, and the man had come back at some point, and beside him was Alyssa, who had been missing all day.

"So you see her like you were ten years ago, don't you?" Preskars took off his coat and smiled. Yulia walked up quickly, took the yellow coat and put it on the hanger.

The two looked at each other in silence, and Cons, Dante, instead of answering Preskas's question, passed by the other.

・・・・・・

Due to Preskas's care, Sophia did not return to the academy but stayed here, and today Sophia seems to be a little tired and falls asleep early. And the lights in the room are still on. Unlike those children, Sophia grew up sleeping with fluffy toys until she had grown into a slim girl, and she had to keep the lights on to fall asleep. Constance Dante stood quietly outside his sister's room, watching Sophia fall asleep, and closed the door.

"Sister control is not a good habit, she still has to marry and leave you after all." Preskars quipped.

"That's why I have to protect her until someone deserves my trust." Constance Dante could not hide the tiredness in his eyes, but it was still not decisive, it was his scales, he had long forgotten the past, but someone dared to threaten Sophia's happiness, and he did not mind picking up the butcher's knife again.

"But sometimes, girls are either living an ordinary life or being happy. Didn't you consider that child's feelings? Preskars asked, raising an eyebrow.

"For us, plainness is a kind of beauty." Constance Dante replied to Preskas's question in a cold voice.

"Maybe it's just your own thoughts." There was a kind of violence in Consit's eyes and words today, and Priscas did not continue the subject.

"Then let's start the [Black Cross Project] today!" The middle-aged man gracefully gestured to Constance, Dante to go downstairs, and the two slowly walked to the secret door at the entrance to the basement.

The two walked into the huge testing ground beneath the villa, and everything was ready.

Constance Dante finally knew why Prescas called the project the Black Cross, and in the center of the huge proving ground stood a black cross, but it was by no means a religious decoration, and a large and complex machine connected to the black cross. And the cables under them stretch like intertwined tree roots.

But in people's eyes, the connection pipe like a black snake makes people shudder even more. I didn't expect the machine from Plushenko to be assembled so quickly.

A group of men in white coats were standing by the instruments carefully adjusting the electric valves, but what deserved Cons Dante's attention was the crowd of people whose faces were hidden in the dim light on the elevated platform above.

"Who are they?" Constance Dante looked straight at the crowd below, and the eyes of those people were so rebellious, like a god looking at the people of the world as ants, it was indifference on the clouds.

"Put this on!" Preskars himself put on a silver mask and took out a black mask to Cons, Dante, and said softly: "Some of those people are Arthur's people, there are also people from the New Brad Kingdom, and their subordinates may also have the Holy See, the Crescent Moon lurking subordinates, my funds come from many sources, and I also said that I only think about the relics of the resurrection god." So you have to hide your identity, or I won't be able to save you. ”

"Really?" Constance Dante sneered and put on the mask, the mecha developed by Prescas was supported by the forces against the Holy See, but it didn't matter to Consitor Dante now, because the country he once wanted to protect had been destroyed, and now he himself was just protecting the last person he cherished.

The crowd in the dim light stood with their hands behind their backs, and Priskas didn't seem to like them leading Constance-Dante to the center.

"Preskas, we've been waiting for a long time. Can we finally get started? A cold look in the crowd was projected.

"Actually, if you don't come, I'll start too, so that it will attract the attention of those people. Aren't you satisfied with the results of my previous experiments, do you need to do this? Preskars said coldly, although he was wearing a mask, the people on the high platform could feel his displeasure.

"You misunderstood, Professor. You are our collaborator, how can we be rude to you? In the dark, a man dressed as an officer took off his hat and apologized, "It's just that this plan is so important that we have to intervene." ”

"Professor, you should know that what we need most now is time. Sooner or later, the Great War will begin here, and what we need is precisely the weapons that can fight it. On a high platform in another place, a man said in a deep voice.

"So we hope you can start to expedite the planning process."

"I don't need your reminder." Preskars remained cold-voiced.

"Now that the neural articulation equipment and test drive riders are ready to be used as a platform for experiments, we don't want to waste time and money, Professor." On the high platform, the man's voice also became cold and hard. "Now that everything is ready, let's start it all. Let's see if the test drive rider you find doesn't disappoint us. ”

Constance Dante's shoulders twitched slightly, and he could feel the moment when his gaze shot like a sharp arrow. It seems that the man was more curious about Cons Dante than about the development of the mecha. And Preskars also felt that the atmosphere was wrong, and everyone's eyes were actually focused on him at the beginning.

But the more this happens, the more Priskas can't let the people on the high platform be curious about Constance Dante.

"Let's get started!" In the darkness of the crowd, I don't know who gave the order, the experimenter dressed in white took Constance Dante to the black "cross". And Constance Dante walked up without resistance.

Priskas's face turned blue under the mask, but he didn't have a seizure and walked to the lifting platform. The command table above is the center of this experiment, and he still needs to lead it.