"Anne... sister?"
Angel froze for a moment, then immediately reacted.
Bernadette Gustav, the eldest daughter of Emperor Roselle standing before her, had been born two hundred years ago. In terms of age, she was older than the vast majority of people still living.
But the Queen Anne's Revenge was a ghost ship from the Fourth Epoch, and Anne had lived for a full two thousand years!
Let alone calling her sister, calling her grandmother would actually have been quite appropriate... Of course, if Anne truly possessed human thought, such a form of address would probably cause a great deal of trouble.
The only possibility was that Bernadette had known Anne in her young-girl form since childhood and had therefore always regarded her as her "sister."
After steadying herself, Angel nodded and replied:
"Yes, I saw Anne two months ago... and her Queen Anne's Revenge in the Spirit World, an ancient Ghost Warship."
The two sides were clearly old acquaintances, so she did not conceal the existence of the ghost ship.
Sure enough, joy appeared on Bernadette's nearly expressionless face instead of surprise or confusion.
"After he fell, Anne and her ghost ship disappeared. She carried the Judgment card and could not be divined or tracked by any means, but there were never any reports of her appearing Above the Five Seas. Considering their relationship, I once thought that Anne had left me forever as well."
Her indifferent gaze softened considerably, as if she had fallen into some memory.
"He" should have been Emperor Roselle. As far as I knew, the emperor had already become an Angel before his fall, but his daughter clearly regarded him as her father rather than an emperor or lofty Beyonder. That was why she used "he" instead of "He" to refer to him... Moreover, Bernadette