The half-raised cup in the veiled woman's hand froze abruptly, neither admitting nor denying it, and the black eyes stared at the man in front of her.

"Take me to say hello to your father."

"Don't bother Your Highness." The woman said lightly, and both sides tacitly changed the topic.

"I don't want to have too much to do with you, but the Holy See wants or asks that the 'bones' to be handed over to the Crusaders for safekeeping." Elenore said indifferently.

The teacup that was put to his lips was put down by Esther again, and the man sneered, "The Holy See is really explicit." But alas, I can't control this matter, even if I command the military department, they can't agree, let alone my uncle. ”

"I'm just warning you that these things are not for you to touch, and there are taboos that even the Holy See is told. I am only representing the Holy See, and your reply does not mean anything to me. They will go to receive it tomorrow. With that, Elenor got up and prepared to leave.

"It's brutal." Ether smiled and shook his head.

Looking at the woman's distant back, Esther suddenly asked coldly:

"Knight King, is you really dead?"

"Who knows?" The woman didn't look back, just left intriguing words and disappeared from Esser's sight.

・・・・・・

"Your Highness・・・・・・"

"Is there really no way around it?" Ann Roste looked anxiously at the kingdom's chief physician, Landureth, hoping that the other party would give her the answer she hoped for.

"The child had received a blow to the head, and although his signs of life were stable and fine, he may have a confused memory. And ??????" Landureth stopped talking. "This child seems to have mental problems of his own, and it may not be temporary, it may always be like this."

"How so!" Ann Rosette covered her mouth and said in a silent voice, she didn't expect things to turn out like this.

"Sister Ann Lost?" The princess's long skirt was gently pulled, and the girl asked curiously as she lay on the bed.

"Sophia, do you remember Constance Dante-kun?" Ann Lotter's smile was reluctant, but she tried her best to reassure the sensitive little girl.

"Constance Dante ・・・・・・" Sophia, with a bandage on her head, seemed to be thinking and shook her head blankly.

"It's just that she unexpectedly trusts Your Highness, maybe it's because of you at first sight."

"Maybe."

Constance Dante-kun, I'm really sorry. I didn't expect it to be like this.

When Ann Lost's arrival in Findel was in ruins, it was there that Ann Lost's found Sophia, who had passed out in a coma, wounded but unharmed. But when the girl woke up, her memory seemed to be half erased, and she forgot everything, including the person she had cherished most in her life.

"How's Diana?"

"The burns are severe and can take a long time to heal." But Landureth's face was full of solemnity, the extensive burns caused by high-energy fuel were enough to be fatal, and now in addition to protecting the wound from infection, Landurethis could only do his best.

"Can I go see her, then?" After all, Diana was injured solely to protect her.

"I guess it's okay." Landureth nodded, "It's just that Miss Diana still needs to recuperate a lot, so that it will help her heal." ”

"Then I'll leave it all to you."

・・・・・・

The devastated city was on the verge of collapse, and compared to a decade ago it was a joke, the catastrophe of Constantinople nearly brought it to ruin.

"The Rastines have today, too." In the lower city, the Herod mockingly looked at the heaps of ruins. Although they surrendered, most of them became second-class citizens of the kingdom and were oppressed, and the contradictions between the two sides never eased, although they did not resist like the inhabitants of Findel, but they were more likely to gloat at the disaster.

Some of Herod's boys picked up the wood scattered on the ground and went back to make a fire.

But the roar of the steamer from outside the Golden Horn caught their eye.

The fog rolled up, the sea split the waves, and after the undulating waves, the iron-framed battleship slowly sailed. And the white-gold cross flag fluttered in the wind.

The timber in Herod's hand fell to the ground, and he was so frightened that he couldn't speak, and hurriedly ran behind him.

It is the Holy See, which is the battleship of the Holy See [Sea Fortress], and only warships of this class can pass through the storm strait during the flood season, without fear of dense reefs. The Great Army from the West is approaching.

On the battleship, countless soldiers lined up, looking like black walls from a distance, and the neat military posture and solemn expression made this army exude the atmosphere of killing.

Even when they were still babies ten years ago, the boys knew the horrors of the Crusaders who sacked the great city and enslaved the Roman heirs.

The Herodians had more hatred than fear.

"It's ironic that the second time I've come here, I didn't expect New Rome to be in tatters!" Standing on the deck, the general in black military uniform looked at the dilapidated Theodosius wall and the depressed city on the coast, and sighed slightly.

"Since the sacked Constantinople, in addition to losing the grain areas of the East, the trade circle has also been divided between Genoa and Venice, do you think it is still the new Rome of the past?" The red-clothed priest beside him sneered slightly. This time, the Holy See sent nearly 40,000 men to the East, but no one expected that the vanguard would be severely defeated in Constantinople.

"Even so, the Herodians clinged to their pitiful pride that we were barbarians." As commander in chief of this military campaign, Marshal Neo had participated in the Fourth Crusade, and it was clear that he was familiar with the land.

But that doesn't mean the conquest of the land was the right thing to do. It is tantamount to stupidity to point a butcher's knife at one's own compatriots. The cardinal next to him was Austin, the Archbishop of Canterbury from Normandy, who had a tense relationship with the Holy See and was appointed by King Lionheart to have conflicting political views with the cardinal. Especially for the expansion of the East, Normandy has always opposed the Orthodox Church, which is also a branch of the Holy Church.

"If you really feel about these religious theologies, then you shouldn't be here, because wars between nations are never about religion or culture, but about wealth, resources and land. Just like His Royal Highness the Lionheart is not just fighting those heretics for the sake of eternal fame? I don't think he's a devout Christian. Marshal Neo said without hiding his sneer.

"There is no so-called justice, no so-called public trust, no so-called piety, there is only the exchange of interests. And we are just going to the East to fight with the Crescent Nation for world dominance!

The steel-armored giant ship cleaves the waves, like a dragon in the sea, it comes with war, and in the east, the horn of disaster is being sounded.