Leaving the city of Caanster and heading north, the temperature is getting warmer. Looking down at the ground from the air, it is still the land of the Kingdom of Relia. As long as it is the territory of the Kingdom of Relia, it is difficult to see the phenomenon of war. Whenever he saw this, Aegie always thought of King Luff.

He's such an amazing guy who can run the country so well. Aggie really admires Luffy, and Luffy is also the character he chases. Sometimes he doubts his ability to do what he can do.

What Luffy said to him when he appeared after killing McCarron, he now remembers very well. The only one worthy of Kate is the king, and if you want to become the king, you have to create a new Kenos Empire! If the Holy See wants to kill you, it doesn't matter if the Holy See is destroyed, as long as you have the ability.

Edge had always felt that Luffy had shown him the way. This is quite similar to the belief he has always held onto, that he wants to return to the Kenos Empire, expel foreign enemies, and revitalize the country. In a sense, his idea was similar to the idea of recreating a Kenoan Empire.

That's exactly what he was going to do. Now that he has returned, he no longer has the sadness of parting with Kate and Leah, but is excited and can't wait. Those damned foreigners, the invaders who are wreaking havoc in their own land, must be punished severely, so that they have their lives to come and not to return!

Whatever the reason, Aegie has no mercy for the invaders.

The first place to go is naturally the Forest of Mist. Although the period of time when he was injured by Sora and exiled to the Kingdom of Relia was less than a year, Aegie felt that it was a very long time. A lot has happened in less than a year, and he is not what it used to be. But more than that, he was worried about what happened to the villagers, and the little beauty of Anne, whom he missed so much.

Flying over the mountains, Aegie saw a familiar place on the ground: the southern mines of Aniyar and the small town of Obel Stone. At this point, it is the territorial extent of the Kenos Empire. A year has passed, and I don't know what the situation is like in the Kenos Empire now.

Landing on a flat ground outside the mines south of Aniar, Aegie looked at the crumbling stones and mining equipment, and couldn't help but think of the battle with Sora. It was here that he was severely wounded by Sola and exiled to the kingdom of Relia. Now that I think about it, I should thank Sora for being so ruthless in the first place.

If it weren't for her, he wouldn't have been exiled to the Kingdom of Relia. Then I won't become as strong as I am now, and I will gain friendship and love.

Naturally, I think of Kate for this. Because of Kate, he does have a lot less of a crush on Sora. These are the effects that Giroud would love to see.

Leave the southern mines of Anial, and come to the small town of Obel Stone. To Age's surprise, there were a lot more people here than before.

Later, after inquiry, he found out that it was the fight between him and Sora, and Sora put that big move and destroyed the mine and the town. The domineering landlords are gone, and so are the mercenaries. The remaining slaves rebelled, and the landlords, unable to take care of them, let them go. Then they stayed in the small town of Obel Stone.

In other words, most of the people living in the town now are slaves who have escaped.

It may be because of the same origin, we all know that life is not easy, and the slaves living here are very united. Their lives are very harmonious, and so far they are living a stable life. But they seem to realize that stability will not last forever. So they had simply piled up some stones outside the town to form a rampart for defense.

But when they saw Edge, they resisted. There was no doubt that Aggie was a stranger to them, and it was inevitable that Aegie was not a foreigner who had come to plunder.

Seeing them like this, Aegie spoke in a standard Kenos Empire accent and explained to them. However, they still did not completely relax their vigilance, and even the people of the Kenos Empire have become bandits, destroying their conscience and plundering their fellow people.

They were so guarded that Edge was helpless, and he didn't intend to stay too long, so he left the town after a casual look. He couldn't wait to return to the Forest of Orus, to visit the villagers he cared about, his family.

Little could he have imagined that when he returned to the Forest of Aurus, he would have a nightmare.

The village had been destroyed and dilapidated, and there was no sign of any villagers.

When Aegie saw this, he went crazy and ran to the place where he had been in the village, and looked at it over and over again. But...... The result was still the same, the whole village had been destroyed and ruined. He even found a number of graves in a nearby place. There were one cross after another.

For a moment, the corners of his eyes moistened. These graves belong to the villagers, right?!

He counted, and it was 33 in all. He remembers that when he left the village, there were 35 villagers. Now there are 33 graves, so there should be 3 more villagers alive.

What about Anne? Did anything happen to Anne?

Immediately remembering Anne, who he was most worried about, he went one by one to look at the names engraved on the cross in front of the grave. After looking at the 33 graves, he found no name on Anne. In other words, Anne didn't die, did she?

Anne didn't have an accident!

Whether it's true or not, Aegie is adamantly convinced. He owes Anne so much that he doesn't pay it back, how can Anne just die?! He frantically searched the area around the village, and throughout the Forest of Orus, once again. But until he found Night, he couldn't find Anne.

Finally, he returned to the graves of the villagers, leaning against an uncle next to him, and there was an indescribable sadness and resentment in his eyes. When he had just gone to look for Anne elsewhere in the Forest of Aurus, he saw some armor with the coat of arms of the Bhikshuno Empire. At that moment he knew that the Forest of Aurus had been attacked by the enemy, and that the villagers had probably been killed by them.

Age's fists clenched, and he swore that he would not forgive the damned Bhikshu Ye Empire's invading army.

Regret, guilt, resentment...... After being troubled by this emotion for quite some time, he stood up, and went to worship the 33 graves in front of him one by one.

After the prayer, he carefully remembered the name of each villager. There are 33 names on the tombstones here, and there are three people whose names are not. They are Anne, Charlotte, and Dia. Maybe...... Ageie thought that Anne, Charlotte, and Dia weren't dead. If nothing happened to them, where are they now? What is the situation?

Age's main concern now is to find Anne and them. Whatever happens to them, be sure to find them!

Judging by the names on the tombstones, Aegie knew that the people who erected the monuments for the dead villagers should be Anne, and they were right. Only they will be so familiar with the villagers. They must still be somewhere in the land.

"Giroud, can you sense something?" Desperate to find Anne and the others, Aegie asked Giroud, who was lying lonely next to him.

Giroud is equally sad that something like this has happened. It liked Anne very much, and in the short time after it was born, Anne was mostly with it, playing with it, talking with it, and other things that he missed even more. Now that Anne's whereabouts are unknown, it also wants to find Anne as soon as possible and amuse Anne, a naughty 'bad girl'.

However, it did not find any scent of Anne in this area, and perhaps Anne had left the area. It could only shake its head and tell Edge that it hadn't found anything.

But Agi won't rely on Giroud's power alone. He was going to inquire about the nearest village, the little village of Vichy. He thought that if an enemy army had plundered the place before that, the inhabitants of the small village of Vichy would have known something.

Now that it was getting late, he would rest first. When he woke up the next day, he immediately went to the village of Vichy to ask.

The next day, however, as he was about to leave for the village of Vichy, two men appeared in front of him. The two men wore the brooch of the Holy See cross on their chests. They were the investigators of the Holy See, and they tracked down Edge. At this moment, I came to kill Age.

Age recognized the brooch of the Holy See and saw that it was someone from the Holy See, and he knew that naturally those two men had been sent by the Holy See to kill him, because he had killed McCaron.

In the face of the two investigators of the Holy See, he did not retreat in the slightest, but laughed evilly.

He was looking for someone to vent his resentment, but he didn't expect the papal investigators to appear! He was going to kill them, absolutely!