Father. Sidlifa exclaimed.

"Huh?" Robert was surprised.

The boy never seemed to have called him "father" since he returned. In other words, this is the first time......

"Do you know how my mother died?" Sidlifa asked in a low voice.

"Sally?" Robert was slightly stunned, while William, who was next to him, slowed down his horse and showed a thoughtful expression.

"She died in the raid of the lord's tax collectors." Sidlifa looked at the ground and her tone seemed a little ethereal, "That night, I was outside practicing my tomahawk when I suddenly saw fire and smoke over the village. ”

"When I returned to the village, I found samurai wearing nose guards everywhere, slashing and killing the people of the village...... Like livestock, wielding a butcher's knife as if slaughtering livestock, there were stumps, severed arms, and pools of blood everywhere. ”

"My mother was chopped to the ground to save me, and she hugged the murderer's legs. I had no choice but to flee in the direction of the sea, not daring to turn back, and I didn't even have the courage to remember the face of my mother's murderer. ”

"Sidlifa." Robert soothed her, "I'm sorry I wasn't with you at that time......"

"I'm a coward." Sidlifa interrupted.

Medea's voice sounded in her mind through the law of manipulation, but Sidlifa, as if deaf, said in a low but firm voice:

"If only I had just looked back. At least for the rest of my life, I will know what the enemy looks like. But alas, I didn't. ”

"So, I hate myself for being cowardly."

"Cowardice...... William also sighed in a low voice, as if recalling something, "In this world, cowardice is the norm, and courage is the exception." ”

"We don't care what most people choose, we just ask our own hearts." "Even if I used my age as an excuse, I really didn't dare to look back...... Just like those villagers who were cut down, even if they were slaughtered like livestock, they did not think of rallying a crowd to resist. ”

"Later, I became a pirate."

"It's like the Norman warriors who slaughtered my village, only this time I picked up the butcher's knife myself. We patrolled the sea routes frequented by caravans, robbing merchant ships and killing those who dared to resist. Watching them fall at my feet wailing, weeping, and dying in despair, I thought that this would be a way to shake off the shadows of the past and wash away my humiliation and remorse. ”

"But it's just self-deception."

The triumphant procession was still advancing, but the atmosphere around them seemed to have changed somewhat.

Sidlifa held the reins of her horse with one hand, and rested the other hand on the axe of the north wind at her waist. Robert and William seemed unaware, but the spirituality of the demigods had been secretly extended.

"Of course, every sin has to be paid." The horse under his crotch trembled uneasily, but Sidlifa, still calmly holding the reins of his horse in his left hand, continued, "During a break in a port city, we were ambushed by the local guards. Because they had been drunk in the tavern the night before, they didn't even organize an effective revolt. ”

"The nobles who led the guards tried to force me to submit to his filthy demands with their lives...... I didn't agree. In the end, they all died, and I was the only one who escaped. ”

"I understand that you have suffered a lot in the past." Robert sighed and said, "It's time to choose a more stable life." Good girl, at least in the Outville family, you can find a husband who can protect you. ”

"You know what? Father. Sidlifa chuckled, "Mother once wanted me to marry a nobleman. ”

"Then she should be happy for you." Robert frowned and said, "Even if Ottwell is not as famous as those on the mainland, it is also the most prominent family in Sicily. ”

"But she died in the end." Sidlifa said.

"Father." After a long pause, she continued, "I hate my cowardice. ”

"I know that in this world, people are not equal, and some people are born with wealth, power, status, and strength, and then they are used to taking what is most dear to others. They killed my mother like an animal, kidnapped my companions and demanded that I be subservient, and threatened me to do what they had to say or take my life. ”

So I often wonder, what is the meaning of the existence of God and Emperor in this world? If God really upholds justice, then why not save the people who were slaughtered? If the emperor really promotes justice, why not punish those who are unscrupulous? ”

Her tone was still low, but there was a certain resolute strong emotion in it, which gradually spread out like a murderous aura. Behind the three of them, the horse carrying the young Norman warrior suddenly stopped, as if there was an invisible line of fire ahead, and he stopped his hooves in place, refusing to continue no matter how whipped and scolded by the samurai.

The whole team was disconnected here, and the horses in the back were constantly stopped in fear, and the horses ridden by the two demigods and Sidlifa in front of them began to tremble as they walked forward tremblingly.

"Sidlifa!" Robert raised his voice suddenly, sternly, interrupting Sidlifa's growing momentum and spirituality.

"So, father! As you said, the Normans had neither faith nor law. The only thing they believe in is their own will, and the weapons they can hold with both hands......"

Sidlifa also looked up, her pale blue pupils filled with a frozen chill. The young face that was extremely similar to Sally, but it made Robert feel extremely strange at this time:

"Father, I'm also a Norman, descendant of the Vikings."

"After the death of my mother and companions, I vowed never to submit to anyone's will again. Because of the cowardice and powerlessness of the past, I have escaped twice, and now I ...... Sidlifa of Helsingør! Never run away from it for a third time! ”

"If God compels me to convert, I will kill all his priests; If the emperor commands me to submit, I will destroy his kingdom. I swore that I would go forward at all odds according to my own will, slaying down any obstacle that stood in my way until I died of exhaustion...... Until then, no one wants me to bow my head! ”

"Whoever is a lord!! It's a demigod!! ”

She suddenly pulled out the axe of the north wind, and roared with all her strength, and the sound resounded like thunder in the sky:

“…… Or my father!!!! ”

Robert suddenly reached out and grabbed Sidlifa on horseback, and there was an invisible force rippling with the power of the law on the back of his hand. Sidlifa slashed back with a tomahawk, and the ice-blue streamer on the blade skyrocketed, as if it was about to freeze everything.

Immediately afterward, Sidlifa's figure suddenly became shorter.

At the same time as the ice blue streamer rose, the war horse under her crotch was cut in two. The front half of the horse was still standing, and the back half of the horse quickly collapsed downward in the blood waterfall. Sidlifa rolled on the spot, avoiding Robert's Law skill.

She threw the Axe of the North Wind with her right hand, aiming at William, who was holding the reins of the horse next to her, and with her left hand, she had already shot a beam of lightning that stuck to the roof of the building next to her, and was about to pull herself up.

Robert had already jumped off his horse to restrain his daughter before she could fly away, but soon another figure came out of the crowd, covered in an extremely dazzling white light, and stopped in front of him like lightning.

"Your opponent is me!"