"Clang!"
Amid a crisp clash of steel, the pure-white Replica Sacred Sword slashed down like a flash of light, crashing heavily against the sealed Holy Sword Shien had hurriedly raised and sending dazzling sparks flying.
The Imperial Princess named Capeline had somehow darted in front of Shien and struck with her sword, creating this scene.
"You reacted in time?"
Capeline's elegant brows rose slightly, and a trace of surprise appeared on her valiant, beautiful face.
Although Capeline had not used her full strength in that strike just now, she had attacked while wielding the Replica Sacred Sword. An ordinary knight would not merely have failed to block it—they likely would not even have had time to react before being cut down.
"I see. So the rumors that you earned Roxie Lusti Mitra's favor were not entirely a joke."
Capeline said this, causing Shien, who still held up his Holy Sword, to raise his brows as well.
"You know Roxie?"
Shien asked the question instinctively.
Yet that question brought an unexpected reaction.
"Of course I know her." Capeline's face turned cold, and she even seemed to grit her teeth as she said, "Even if I forgot every important thing from the seventeen years of my life, I would never forget that woman."
Those words revealed astonishing fixation and hatred.
Shien immediately narrowed his eyes.
It seemed this Imperial Princess had some history with the Princess of the Kingdom in his home that ordinary people did not know about.
Though that history did not seem particularly pleasant.
"That woman didn't come?" Capeline stared intently at Shien and said coldly, "Did she know I was here and dare not come? Or is some trivial border affair beneath the Kingdom's most outstanding genius in a thousand years?"
Hearing that, Shien was displeased.
What, just