Akranus Presin
The first knight commander of the National Knights, he was also hailed as the King of Knights by future generations.
Although he did not participate in Patrick and Saint Elisa's crusade against the Demon King, he led the army to contain most of the Demon clan's forces on the front line, which gave the hero a chance to achieve feats.
It can be said that the world respects Acanrinas no less than Patrick.
And he is also the person that all knights will kneel down and swear an oath to when they join the order.
Eve is no exception. Akanrenas is a being that she has always admired in her heart. She has been listening to the stories about the great knight king told by the old knight Lake since she was a child, and her heart is full of longing.
This is one of the reasons why she firmly refused the royal marriage for her and became a knight instead.
It was precisely because of this that she was completely abandoned by her father.
The Talis family does not need a dirty knight princess. If you are willing to follow my arrangement, I will allow you to bear the name Talis.
These were the last words King Taris said to his fourth daughter.
After resolutely refusing her father's request to marry a duke, Eve was kicked out of the palace, and even lived in a dilapidated mansion at first.
With only one knight beside her, Lake, she has since become a being who only does dirty work.
The outside world also "affectionately" calls the fourth crown prince the Beggar Princess.
"You...what did you say? Master Acanrenus, how could you be an alcoholic..."
At this time, the morning star in her heart was said to be useless by the girl in front of her, and Eve suddenly became a little angry.
"well."
Shalia sighed again. She didn't know how many times she had sighed in the past few days. Talking to humans was always so troublesome.
She couldn't help but think of the time when she formed an adventure team with the brave man named Patrick hundreds of years ago.
"Arkanrenas would have felt incredible knowing that he had become the faith of so many people."
She slowly walked to the bed and sat down.
"Please don't judge the King of Knights arbitrarily. How could you possibly know him..."
Originally Eve wanted to say, how could you possibly know what kind of person Acanrinas is.
But she suddenly remembered the statues Hal had shown her before in the forest.
Those statues were completely different from the ones I had seen in human cities.
Then she slowly changed the sentence to another question.
"...Miss Shalia, I have asked you before, but you did not answer me directly. I want to ask you again now. Did you really participate in the crusade against the Demon King more than five hundred years ago?" War? With...Hero King Patrick and Saint Elissa?"
"That's right."
Shallya's tone was brisk, and this time she admitted very simply.
On the contrary, Eve couldn't accept it.
But before she could speak, Shalia had already spread her fingers and counted them.
"Let me think about it, the human hero Patrick, the saint Eliza, the werewolf Harix, the giant king Duke, the time witch Antokana, um, by the way, and the elf princess Levi Koyom, the Queen of the Yahe Dragon Tribe.”
"...In other words, humans have really erased that period of history..."
Erased that period of history?
Although Shalia has just woken up, she is not sure where her former comrades are now, but judging from the current situation of the werewolves and elves, humans have done more than just erase history.
It seemed that he understood the meaning from Shalia's eyes.
Eve slowly lowered her head.
"...Lake told me that all elves are evil, all beasts are greedy, and only humans are noble and sacred, so humans will shoulder the fate of this world."
"If humans' so-called shouldering of destiny will stifle the destiny of other races, then I think there is no difference between humans today and the demons five hundred years ago."
Shalia's words suddenly seemed to wake Eve up, making her feel extremely excited.
The demons five hundred years ago were as powerful as humans today and controlled everything in the world. They oppressed all living beings and slaughtered living beings.
And now humans seem to have embarked on this path. So five hundred years ago, someone could stand up and stop the demons. What about now?
She slowly turned her head to look at Shalia, with a guess in her mind.
"Miss Shalia, I take the liberty to ask."
Shallya turned her eyes slightly and looked at the girl.
"Are you... a demon?"
Although most of the martial arts practitioners in this world, that is, warriors, cannot use magic, and their magic is their own fighting spirit, this does not mean that they cannot feel magic.
The demon spirit veins flowing in Shalia's body are very chaotic now, but Eve can feel that this is a terrifyingly powerful magic power.
In addition, after hearing the conversation between He Wen and Sha Liya before, He Wen seemed to have sealed Sha Liya's power, and now less than one-tenth of it is displayed.
So she asked the current question.
But it's strange... Even the demons shouldn't have such powerful magic power.
"So be it."
Shalia nodded.
Eve didn't pay attention to Shalia's ambiguous answer, but instead realized something.
"That is to say...if you are really a demon, did you betray your country back then?!"
As if she knew Eve would ask this question, Shalia nodded without any hesitation.
"Maybe that's it."
"Why... is it for justice? For love? Or... or for this world?"
Phew.
Shalia covered her mouth and laughed. This was the first time she laughed so happily that Eve was a little at a loss.
"I, I'm talking to you seriously!"
"Hahahaha, sorry! Sorry..."
Shalia covered her stomach and lay down on the bed with a smile. She opened her hands, sighed, and said to Eve while still lying down.
"You are really cute. You always say some very innocent and childish things as if nothing happened."
"I...I am childish! I, I am an adult! And I am a decorated knight! I..."
"Okay, okay, don't worry, I didn't mean to laugh at you, I would rather say... I envy you."
"......you have not answer my question yet."
Eve turned to look at Shalia who was lying on the bed.
"Hmm... maybe it's boredom."
"...?"
Eve was really confused now.
A demon, such a powerful demon, betrayed his own country, his own people, and his own demon king just out of boredom?
"The Demon King is too boring, and his ambitions are too great, and... I have a personal grudge against him, so I can only talk about it here."
Shalia looked at the low roof, seeming to remember something from the past.
"how about you."
Then she asked the question and threw it back to Eve.
"I?"
Eve looked at her doubtfully.
"Yes, if it is for what you just said, to implement justice, to protect the world, and... for the man you love, are you willing to betray your country, your people, and your king? "
"...! Hey! I, I don't, don't love him! I, I and him, I...I don't!"
"I didn't say who it was, and you only denied it. It seems that the master is really important to you."
"You, you, shut up! Shut up!"
