"Wait!"
Jeanne's startled cry rang out as though it had come too late.
It truly was too late.
By then, Fang Li had already connected with the Greater Holy Grail and entered its interior.
"Fang Li..."
Jeanne's worried voice immediately followed.
Shakespeare, on the other hand, widened his eyes and cheered loudly.
"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains! This is truly the act of a madman!"
Jeanne immediately glared at Shakespeare, even raising the Holy Banner in her hand.
"Don't! I surrender! Please treat your prisoner kindly!"
Shakespeare hurriedly raised his hands and made a remark that anyone aware of the circumstances would undoubtedly curse him for.
After all, Shakespeare was English, while Jeanne had been captured by England, slandered in every possible way, and ultimately burned at the stake.
That was hardly what one could call treating a prisoner kindly.
Yet Shakespeare used those words against Jeanne. It was far too malicious a joke.
Come to think of it, Jeanne and Shakespeare did have a certain connection during their lifetimes.
Not that they had ever actually met, but rather that Shakespeare had unilaterally entangled himself with Jeanne.
In Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Jeanne had been portrayed as a witch and a prostitute.
That was because Jeanne had repeatedly defeated the English army. She had been a commander of France, England's enemy in the Hundred Years' War, and was later regarded as a witch by England and burned at the stake. In the eyes of the English, she was no different from a demon.
Thus, English documents available from the fifteenth century onward all depicted Jeanne in that manner, thoroughly vilifying her.
Given the circumstances of the time, along with the rising patriotism of the English people, Shakespeare had likewise distorted Jeanne's image in order to make his plays