For the rest of the day, everything went well.

Carefully blended by Rosa...... After the teaching, Dungar had been much quieter. Although I still often bared my teeth with him, as long as I touched my head, licked my face, and scratched my chin, I would quickly calm down after patting my hair. Her relationship with Ellie seems to have returned to what it used to be, at least on the surface.

If the knot could be untied so easily, it wouldn't be called a knot. Xinlos could see that although he hadn't been in front of his father, Ellie had always been obsessed with it.

The little girl may think she's hiding it well, but you're eating two fewer honey candies a day than before! You stupid girl!

Faced with this problem, Sinloth really has no choice but to wait for time to dilute everything. After all, it's just a child, and it may not take a few days to completely forget about it.

Probably......

I don't know what the reason is, Shanaiduo has been getting more and more diligent recently. Although every time it's an excuse to play with Ellie...... But Sinloth wasn't a fool, was she really ......

These days, the outside of Rennes has become particularly lively, and the regular army of Britania and the conscripts from all over the country are training together. The previous drake attack had caused panic in the city, even though Governor Allen had publicly executed some of the low-level drakes who had unfortunately failed to return to the Demon Realm. In such a time when the hearts of the people are scattered, only a strong army can give confidence to the panicked people.

Under the pressure of the army, some people will also settle down.

Of course, this also includes the Doge's distrust of the levies. It is hoped that through joint training, some of their combat effectiveness will be increased to some extent - during the decisive battle between the Imperial Navy and the main Norman force, some Imperial nobles fled from the battle, which was actually a major reason for the defeat of the Empire.

Since they are training together, Xinlos is naturally not exempt from vulgarity. And he was waiting for Desmond's men to arrive.

On the evening of the Fourth of May, heavy rain, Rennes Pier.

Torrential rain poured down from the sky, and the whole world was enveloped in rain. It's night again, and it's raining heavily. Even the best eyesight of a person cannot see anything through this rain curtain. But it was in such weather that Sinloth and the butler stood on the dock, quietly waiting for something.

No amount of an umbrella would be of any use in such a rainscreen. It's just that this kind of common sense obviously can't be applied to the master and servant. The umbrella in Claude's hand blocked a small part of the rain, and the rest of the rain fell crookedly under the influence of some strange force, as if an invisible membrane was protecting them.

The little white rabbit blinked its big black eyes and licked its little paws. The rabbit sat on the Count's shoulder. There was a faint white light from his body - the Sun Avatar was using kinetic control techniques to affect the rain curtain. As a divider of the ontological soul, as long as Sinloth can do it, it will naturally do it all. It's just that compared to the body of the waste wood, even if it is the same magic realm, consumes the same amount of magic power, and the rabbit with EX-level accuracy in the attribute is still far stronger than the main body when casting spells.

The recovery ability of the sun incarnation is so strong that it is terrifying to death, and a few days ago, it was still shrunk in the body, and the rabbit that looked like it was about to hang up, only after a few days, it began to jump alive again. I don't know how much stronger it is than that scrap wood body. Sinlos didn't pay attention to the rabbit on his shoulder, he subconsciously fumbled with the two crown-shaped hair ornaments tied between his hair, and stared at the endless rain curtain in front of him.

The crown that should have been given to him was obviously the same as his own Abyss Crown, and he really had too many questions in his heart about this mysterious Abyss Crown, but he had repeatedly helped him. It's just that these two crowns are too mysterious, and even magicians don't know where they come from.

And the only guy who knew for sure was curled up in his hair and pretended to be dead.

This bastard isn't cute at all, it's still his cute Nanoka...... Speaking of which, according to the summons, Nanorka should have arrived a long time ago. However, Sinloth never activated the path prediction to observe the situation at sea. As it is now, empty your head and stand in the rain, thinking about nothing but pure waiting. It was also a good experience for him.

"Sir, someone is coming."

At this moment, Claude whispered in Sinloth's ear. In such a rain curtain, nature sees nothing. But since becoming an immortal, Claude has become unusually sensitive to the breath of life. Even through this endless rain, it still can't stop his perception.

"Is it Wren's city guards?"

"Not really. There are only two people. A person with a strong breath of life should be a knight. And the other one...... The weak are not like adult men. ”

After the night attack of the dragon beast, the number and scale of the night patrols of the Rennes City Defense Army were suddenly raised to the top. In such an important place as the docks, it is not surprising that there are city defense troops. It's just that since it's not a city defense army, who will it be in this weather?

There shouldn't be many people like him who are idle and go crazy on a rainy day - Nanorka is coming to Rennes, not to mention raining, even if it is the Last Judgment, it still can't stop Daddy from picking up his daughter!

But no one else would do such a stupid thing.

The rabbit on the Earl's shoulder stretched, and his black eyes turned golden in an instant. Feeling the image coming from the incarnation, the count's face suddenly became extremely strange.

"Somalina?"

……

On such a rainy day, Sinloth was presented to the daughter of the governor who had been completely drenched in soup, and her conjoined baby-like follower Benganina. The female knight wearing the helmet tried her best to hold the umbrella, but unfortunately, as mentioned earlier, in such a large rain curtain, the effect of holding the umbrella was really not good.

Somalina's long dress was mostly wet with the rain at this time, and her slightly curly beautiful long hair hung weakly on her shoulders. The aristocratic girl seemed to be unable to endure the chill in the rain, and she hugged her shoulders in her arms, her face unusually pale. Despite this, the girl with a delicate box in her arms did not stop moving forward.

The drooping hair blocked her eyes, but Sinlos could still feel the deep depression and loss in the beating woman.

The white rabbit burrowed into the body at once.

Somalina and Gnaina obviously didn't expect to meet acquaintances at such a moment and in such a place. The two didn't know what to do for a while, so they froze in place.

"Sir?"

"Now that you've seen it, let's go say hello."

Although it may be regarded as a psychopath by the other party, since you have seen it, it is not good to leave without saying anything. After all, the other party looks very bad now, and when the woman goes crazy. In fact, there is not much sanity to speak of.

"Good evening, Miss Somalina."

“……”

Compared with the two young ladies who were drenched in soup, the master and servant who had no wetness on their bodies were particularly conspicuous. The two groups of people stood together, and the contrast was incomparably stark in an instant.

“…… Good evening."

Somalina looked up. A slightly bitter smile appeared at Sinloth. The aristocratic girl's eyes were full of sorrow, and she didn't care about any etiquette, so she just nodded slightly at Xinluos, and quickly disappeared into the rain with the guardian knight.

The white rabbit climbed up the earl's shoulder again, and the rabbit looked up with golden eyes. I looked at the rain curtain in the distance.

Somalina came to the beach with the delicate box in her arms, and she didn't know whether it was tears or rain, and the noble girl's face was blurred at this time. She shook her head, rejecting Gnaina's advice. She stared at the magnificent sea in front of her for a long time before she opened the box in her arms.

The box contained white sheets of old and new paper, covered in handwriting, which looked like an unbound diary. As soon as the aristocratic girl opened the box, the raindrops wet the fragile paper.

Before the birth of white paper produced in Desmond, in addition to the mainstream parchment, in fact, the top of the empire used another very special kind of paper. Its quality is even compared to white paper. It's only a little bit worse. However, compared to the almost inexpensive white paper, the special paper that needs to be processed layer by layer to produce is only circulated in the small circle of the governor because of its high cost.

Somalina is deeply favored by Governor Allen, and it is not a lie.

The aristocratic girl stared blankly at the paper in the box, until the paper covering the top had been dissolved by the raindrops, and she woke up like a dream. Somalina let out a long sigh, closed the box, and with all her strength, threw it into the sea in front of her.

After doing this, Somalina was relieved. She looked up. Let the raindrops fall on her face. The aristocratic girl lifted the corner of her skirt and strode towards the Doge's palace under Gnaina's worried gaze.

I never looked back again.

The gold in the rabbit's eyes faded in an instant, and it returned to its previous black again.

It looks like I want to throw away this box and say goodbye to the past...... For a young woman like Somalina who likes art. Whatever she did, Cynroth wouldn't be surprised—wouldn't it be quicker and better to throw it into the fireplace if she really wanted to destroy something?

"Claude, go get that box up."

"Yes, sir."

The black-clothed butler smiled and lifted his glasses. The next moment. The darkness of the abyss tore through the rain curtain. When Sinloth looked back, there was no butler.

……

[Somalina's box: The box is full of bits and pieces of Somalina, which carries not only her past, but also her girlish heart longing for love. 】

It's an amazing thing.

Although it had been expected for a long time, the gossip for a while, and the fact that he had really picked up such a thing still made the earl's mood a little delicate. Since it was the personal belongings of the governor's daughter, it naturally could not be anything ordinary. The box is very heavy, and I don't know what material it is made of. The surface of the box is depicted with gold as a cute little angel, which makes people feel good at a glance. The box was so tightly packed that even if it was thrown into the sea by Somalina, the paper inside was not affected much except for a slight wetness.

Sinloth hesitated, but did not read the contents carefully. He closed the box and handed it back to Claude, who was drenched in water.

"When I got back, I threw it in the fireplace and burned it."

"Yes, sir."

Claude did not question Sinloth's neurotic act of fishing and burning for a while, but took the box with both hands and stood silently behind the earl.

Claude's skills are very fast, Rao is so, and it still takes a lot of time to fish for the box. For some reason, Sinloth's originally laid-back mood suddenly became irritable. He looked at the endless rain curtain and couldn't help but whisper a complaint.

"Why haven't you come yet......?"

Perhaps in response to Sinloth's words, right now. A large black shadow tore through the rain curtain and appeared under the count's eyes.

"It's ......"

The rain blurred the image of the black shadow, and only a slight outline was revealed, judging from the appearance. This should be a warship. But its volume ...... It's too big!

Even in the Imperial Navy, the current main warship is only fifty meters long. The naval flagship may be a little larger, but it definitely won't go too far. But the black shadow in front of him that was slowly sailing into the harbor, judging from Xinluos's eyesight, was definitely more than one hundred and fifty meters!

the groove. A sailboat of one hundred and fifty meters?

Because of the particularity of the warship, the larger the volume of the warship, the technical requirements of the craftsmen, the operation level of the seafarers, and the solidity of the materials will be geometrically improved. In this era when white-knuckle warfare and rockets were the main means of attack, the sheer size of the ship meant that it could carry more soldiers, which would certainly give it some advantages. But the sheer size of the hull, not to mention the demanding technical requirements, is a cause for concern alone.

Being bulky inevitably means clumsy movements, and war is never a one-man show. No matter how strong an individual is on the battlefield, if there is no help from comrades-in-arms. That's only death. With its hull three times that of the Empire's main warship, it probably won't work well with other ships unless it's also from the Adriatic Queen's fleet.

Speaking of which, whose ship is this? Could it be the black technology of the imperial royal family?

As Sinloth was thinking, the entire dock was already boiling. Even if it is covered by heavy rain, it is obvious that such a large warship does not want to hide itself. The huge black shadow in the distance, even if it didn't do anything, still gave people a strong and incomparably oppressive feeling.

"Enemy attack!"

The dock, which was originally empty, suddenly seemed to explode, and countless people appeared from everywhere. They had never been notified that such a huge ship was coming. The nightmare of the previous dragon beast attack had not completely dissipated from everyone's heads, and the soldiers were sensitive. Now that such a big thing has appeared strangely, it is no wonder that the port soldiers are so excited that they directly sounded the alarm of the enemy attack.

Amid the terrible sound of the horn, some of the sailors shouted and took up their weapons. An array was formed in the rain screen. More sailors ran frantically towards their ships amid the curses of their centurions. The port of Rennes, which was originally asleep, woke up in an instant because of the visit of a warship.

War is on the verge of breaking out!

"Damn it, get out of here now!" The centurion who braved the rain cursed loudly, waving his arms. Motioned for the two men dressed as nobles to leave the port. The centurion came out in such a hurry that he wore only a rudimentary piece of leather armor. The rain continued to run down his cheeks, blurring his vision. Faintly, you can only see the coat of arms of the eagle dragon and the snake dancing together on the cloak behind the other party.

"Do you hear me, leave immediately!"

The man dressed as a butler turned his head, held his glasses, and grinned at him. Although there was a smile on the handsome face, there was always an inexplicable coldness that could not surround the man's body. Even a centurion who has experienced a hundred battles is trembling in the face of such a smile, and his hands and feet are cold.

Maybe it's because it's raining too loudly, or maybe it's not paying attention at all. Ten seconds later, the man who stood in the heavy rain without a single drop of rain on his body finally turned around. Between the fluttering black hair, the man smiled harmlessly at the stunned centurion.

"Calm down, the other party is just a boat. Even if the opponent is the Queen's fleet, we can easily defeat it. The black-haired man calmed the nervous emperor ** man while looking at the black shadow that was getting closer and closer behind him.

"What's more, this is my ship......"

"Your ship?"

When the man turned around, the centurion involuntarily used an honorific title. The man did not answer, and just as the centurion did not know whether to believe him or continue to mobilize his men, a bolt of lightning suddenly split through the thick clouds overhead, and at once the whole of Raynes Harbor was reflected as day.

The black shadow was instantly torn off its disguise, revealing the true identity of the warship. On the ship's huge mast, a flag depicting the Imperial Eagle fluttered in the wind.

Imperial Eagle? It's really my own people...... But what did he mean by his ship?

The appearance of the Imperial Eagle Banner calmed down all the soldiers, and although it did not disperse the formation because of this, it still made them breathe a sigh of relief. Think about it, no matter how strong a warship is, it is impossible to attack the capital of Britania like Rennes alone.

It's true that they are too careful, but where did such a big ship come from? It is said that Venice's shipbuilding technology is unusually developed, could it be that His Excellency the Doge purchased a new type of warship from Venice?

No matter what the soldiers thought, the officials of the port jumped on the huge warship without hindrance. And when the warship was dragged by the small boats and headed for the harbor, everyone could be sure that it was just a false alarm.

Just then, a dark shadow leaped up from the bow of the ship and flew straight towards Sinloth.

"Your Excellency, there is danger!"

The centurion, who was standing behind Sinloth and was shocked by the situation in front of him, saw this, and hurriedly drew his short sword, while reminding Sinlos loudly.

But the Count didn't hear it, he looked up at the black shadow in the air that was flying towards him quickly, and the Count opened his arms.

"Charluru !!"

Rumble!

What fell into his arms was indeed the warm fragrant nephrite...... No, why is it so heavy! The shadow landed accurately into Sinloth's arms, smashing him into the bluestone floor. The hard bluestone could not withstand this powerful impact, and was shaken out of layers of cracks. The Earl, who was pressed by the black shadow, was bleeding from the corners of his mouth, and his eyes were full of disbelief.

"Tirpitz, why have you gained so much weight!" (To be continued.) )

PS: The second goods are actually quite bitter, and the complete North House is only tens of thousands of tons, so don't want him. But the tonnage of a certain ship that is destined to come out, but has not yet come out is ......