Roddy had been in the midst of explosions and fierce battles since he joined the battlefield, and he had no image to speak of: half of his brand-new priest's robe was still hanging on his body, his arms and upper body were scorched black by Goethe's last "shadow shock", and his hair was even more messy.

Since leaving Hollier a few days ago, Roddy's stubble is messy and dusty, and he does look like a "weird uncle" in his 30s.

Roddy had imagined countless scenes of meeting Nephi again, perhaps in the form of fame, wearing cool gear, or wearing the white robe of a bard, and getting acquainted with her favorite image - every fantasy, Roddy would have a kind of longing and nervousness of first love, but he didn't expect that he would "meet" the girl he liked in such a bad way.

But as long as Nephie survives safely, it doesn't matter if Roddy's image is ten times worse...

"Uncle, do you have a lot of pain?"

However, no matter what Roddy thinks, in Nephi's eyes, he is just a strange and tough uncle... It's not good to look when a woman is crying, it's even more ugly when a man wants to cry, the uncle in front of him is not as strong as a human on the battlefield just now, but at this time he seems to be extremely weak... Naifi was too young to understand how much happiness and emotion was contained in his expression.

"No... It's okay. Roddy took a deep breath slowly, looked away, looked at the crumbling room next to Nefi, stretched out his hand and said, "It's dangerous over there, can you come here first?"

After saying that, he realized that his arms were all scorched black, and immediately retracted a little crampedly, trying to squeeze out a smile: "My name is Roddy, and I have no malice." ”

Just like when he first met Mrs. Camilla, he was unreasonably nervous.

"I know you have no ill intentions, uncle, my name is Camilla. ”

Nephie stepped out from behind the wall, her face a little pale, after all, the battlefield covered in blood and corpses still had an indescribable impact on her. Neffi took a few steps, but walked over to Roddy's side and said loudly, "Big sister!"

Roddy then realized that Sally had come behind him.

He looked back and found that she, who had once been extremely weak, now had the ability to control the battlefield. Looking at her face carefully, Roddy felt that she had changed drastically from before.

After the long blonde hair was cut short, Sally's body was more heroic than before, and the stubbornness and strength between her eyebrows were even more than before, and after the melancholy that had always enveloped her in the past was swept away, she actually made Roddy feel like a goddess statue who had gone through countless hardships in the wind and rain, with indescribable charm.

But before he could think more, he found Sally open her arms and threw herself into his arms...

Greedily smelling the familiar breath on Roddy's body, listening to his powerful heartbeat, Sally's arms tightened fiercely, for fear that he would suddenly disappear in the next moment.

"You bastard..."

The fist slammed down on Roddy's back, and Sally cried: "Let you go to some snowy mountain! Let you find the undead! Let you lie to me!"

Roddy coughed straight after being hammered, and the expression on his face was even more complicated... I just met the woman I liked-oh no, girl--but in the blink of an eye, I was so desperately held by another beautiful woman, this...

He was thinking about the question of "how to pursue Nephie in the future", but when he saw that Nefi was still a little girl who had nothing to do with the world, he suddenly felt... Having this kind of thinking yourself seems to be no different from "crime".

She doesn't seem to be fourteen yet, does she?

Roddy swallowed, a little confused for a while: a few years later, the eccentric Nephie haunted him, but looking at the little girl who was looking at him with curiosity on the side at this time, he felt very awkward in his heart.

Although they are the same person, history has completely changed, and when she grows up, will she be willing to accept a completely different version of herself from her original image?

The huge confusion made Roddy's head suddenly chaotic.

"Dead wood, you don't say a word..."

Sally withdrew half a step from Roddy's arms, grabbed his hand to check the wound that had healed for the most part, and after confirming that he was okay, she wiped his cheek with the sleeve of her robe very affectionately, and then remembered her identity as a "priest" and "captain", looked around with a blushing face, and quickly cast a few healing techniques and shields to hide the slight weakness of her heart.

Love is not allowed in the sect.

But after confirming that no one was looking at her, she breathed a sigh of relief, remembering that she had not yet introduced herself to the little girl in front of her who had saved her life, and said gratefully: "Thank you for the action just now, Camilla, my name is Sally, the priest of the 'Rosicrucifer', if it weren't for you, maybe we would have lost this battle completely." ”

"No thanks, Sister Sally, I didn't expect to see you again. Neffi had known Sally earlier, so he naturally leaned towards her at this time, and then looked up and asked, "Is this uncle your knight?"

Neffie likes to listen to the stories of the bards: I have the impression that the princess in distress always has a knight on a white horse to save her... So when she saw Roddy in Sally's arms, she replaced "boyfriend" with the word "knight" - Sally understood what she meant, but she was not much shy at this time, and grabbed Roddy's arm and said, "That's right, this guy is my knight." ”

Sally was immersed in incomparable joy, and didn't notice Roddy's somewhat strange expression at all: "Roddy, Camilla is very powerful, I met her once in Green City before, I didn't expect to meet here, just now in the house..."

Sally briefly recounted how Neffy had saved her in the house, while Roddy stood dumbfounded, knowing for a moment what to say.

History has been completely messed up, Nata, the "mentor", has become her "apprentice", Sally, who was originally dead, has now become a priest of the "Rosicrucian", and she has also met Nefi's mother Camilla, and has a "master-servant" contract relationship with her...

Compared to these events, Sally and Nephi knew each other before themselves, which didn't seem to be an unacceptable thing.

But...

"Camilla, if your house is destroyed and you need our help to rebuild it, I'll apply with the bishop, what about your parents?"

Nefi, who was already a little pale, shook his head and replied a little lonely: "I haven't seen my father, my mother went out a few months ago, and it may be a long time before she comes back." ”

Nephie's expression made Roddy's heart tingle, when she first chatted with Nefi, more than six years had passed since the year 589, but she was still waiting for her mother's return...

"That—" Roddy swallowed, thinking for a moment, but in the end he didn't say anything about his acquaintance with Lady Camilla.

Completing the task is important, but if Sally is full of joy, Roddy suddenly says something like "I was just entrusted to pick up Nephie, and it's just easy to save you", I'm afraid the consequences... Disastrous.

It's a feeling of underbeating when you think about it.

He rubbed his eyebrows, saw that Nephi and Sally in front of him were looking at him, and changed his words: "... That idiot on the front line may not be able to turn the tide of the war, we are not safe now, and we must shift positions. ”

He turned his gaze to Sally: "That dead guy looks like he should be the commander, so I'm afraid this place will be carefully searched by the enemy, we better inform all the villagers to leave here, and Ka... If Camila doesn't have a guardian, it's best to come with us. I know the route to evacuate safely. ”

"But I still have the books my mother left behind—"

"Find the carriage, take it all, I'll call someone. Sally and Neffie are also "friends in life", and when they heard her say that they were living a lonely life, they felt even more sympathetic, and immediately decided, "Camilla, will you go with Uncle Roddy? ”

Naifi looked at Roddy, whose hair was scrawled like a chicken nest, and hesitated for a moment, but said aloud: "Sister Sally, I... Shall I follow you?"

Roddy, who has been classified as a "dirty weirdo", silently covered his cheeks...

At the same time, the situation on the frontal battlefield finally took a turn for the better because of the efforts of Roddy and Sally.

Because of Goethe's death, the fierce "Shadow Guard" in the Viper Cross team disappeared in an instant, and the front of the front suddenly did not advance with these more than 300 powerful soldiers, and the entire siege was almost immediately disrupted!

When ordinary commanders besieged the enemy on the plains, they often adopted the tactic of "encircling three and one" to prevent the enemy from counterattacking, but Goethe was obviously prepared to "wipe out" this team with absolute superiority. However, because of the reinforcements called by Roddy, the resistance in the encirclement at this time has exceeded the extent that the "Pit Viper Cross" team originally expected - it can even be said... If it weren't for the strong suppression of the "Shadow Guards", they would simply not have been able to maintain the encirclement from being torn apart.

So at this time, when the "Shadow Guard" suddenly disappeared, the front of the "Rosace Cross" that had been compressed to the extreme immediately rebounded in full force, and opened a breakthrough in one go!

At this time, they no longer have any morale at all, and they belong to the "mourning soldiers" in the real sense... They can't escape, they can't hide, they have no choice but to fight. Under such circumstances, when there was a sudden breakthrough in the front, all the soldiers immediately instinctively rushed over...

On the battlefield, where the casualty rate was more than half, the soldiers of the "Rosicrucifix" spontaneously formed a breakthrough team and began a mass escape.

They did not hesitate to flee into the jungle to avoid being pursued. The besieging "Pit Viper Cross" team immediately organized a team to chase and kill, but the three groups of teams did not chase far before they all received the order to recall.

The soldiers returned to the main camp and asked blankly what had happened, and the answers they could get... But they were collectively dumbfounded.

Their supreme superior, Cardinal Goethe of the Pit Viper Cross and a strong contender for the next pope, was attacked by a fleeing squad and was defeated and killed.