Hearing Bedivere's question, Sherrichard suddenly wavered and stopped.
She turned to look at the werewolf youth: "Mr. Bedivere, you are such a keen person. How did you reason about this?"
"It's very simple. I don't think Kana can recruit a big shot like you without a special reason." The werewolf young man blinked, trying to get rid of the dust stuck in the corner of his eyes, "You and she don't seem to have a deep relationship, but You are willing to listen to her instructions and come to be my witness in this trial, obviously not to sell favors to Kana------I even suspect that you are selling favors to Prince Said. So, rule out After eliminating those extremely low-probability options, the only one left that is more believable is the possibility that you and [Nichiren] are related."
"Your analysis is almost correct." At this time, Snow Lion had recovered from the previous surprise, and returned to his usual calm and calm appearance, and replied:
"Okay. You caught me. I do have something to do with [the Sun God's Sun Disk]. It should be said that the entire Lion Tribe (Soris Tribe) has something to do with this Sun Disk. After all, thousands of years ago, it In fact, it is the national treasure of our Kingdom of Solis, but later it was given to ancient Egypt as a gift symbolizing the friendship and peace between the two countries."
"The Kingdom of Solis?"
"Haven't you heard of it? This kingdom still existed twenty years ago? It was on the island now called Madagascar."
"It still existed twenty years ago, which means...?" The werewolf young man was a little afraid to continue reasoning.
"The country was destroyed, of course." Sherrichard described this fact almost emotionlessly and in a cold tone, as if it had nothing to do with him:
"Before that, the Kingdom of Solis was an independent, isolated, neutral and peaceful country.
Unlike the orcs in the Underdark, the Thoris tribe has always been responsible for monitoring human activities in Africa to prevent human activities from having too great an impact on the natural world. Similarly, the Thoris Kingdom sits on a rich and fertile land, where There are artificial sun devices left by ancient people, which do not require a real sun to provide sunlight, so the Lions are not as deeply affected by the World Wall as other orc clans in the Underdark.
However, the lions of the Kingdom of Solis have been accustomed to living peaceful lives for a long time, and they have become stupid for peace. They are unwary of humans and generously welcome every guest who visits the kingdom. Humans are much more dangerous than they imagined. Darkness is much more greedy.
Just that night twenty years ago, a human coalition composed of African countries invaded the island of Madagascar, destroying this beautiful and peaceful country overnight. Human beings, their nature is greed. They only covet the Kingdom of Solis. With the treasure inside, you can destroy an entire country without any reason."
Bediwell swallowed.
"But in my opinion, the peaceful and stupid lions deserve it. A country doesn't even have a decent army. It just declares itself to be a neutral country. This is not enough. It also has to distribute its wealth to help those poor and backward people in Africa. The country. This is inviting people to commit crime - it's like opening the door to those poor and crazy thieves and shouting, "My family has money, please come and rob me".
People in the kingdom seek death like this, so they deserve to die."
Bedivere was silent for a while, not knowing how to respond.
"...Then what?" he asked.
"Nothing happened. The Kingdom of Solis was destroyed and its land was divided. Today, most of Madagascar is a colony of South Africa. This rogue country also sent the largest number of troops and looted the most fiercely in that war.
A country." Sherrichard hummed: "Otherwise, do you think that such a remote and poor country can have such rapid development in national strength in just a dozen years?"
"Well..." Unintentionally turning over the dark history of African countries, Bediwell couldn't help but feel heavy: "What happened to the remaining lions in Solis Kingdom?"
"Most of the young and middle-aged men were killed in the hastily organized self-defense war, even the king of the year was no exception. Most of the remaining people in the kingdom were old, weak, sick, women and children, and the survivors were less than the original population of the kingdom.
One percent of the population. The less than a hundred lion men were all captured and sold as slaves. The result can be imagined."
"...Does that include you?" Bedivere asked tremblingly.
"Including me, of course." Sherrichard replied still without emotion: "But I am probably the luckiest person among all the prisoners of war.
Although I was taken to the slave market to be sold, an unknown fate awaited me. At that time, Prince Said’s mother, the previous head of the family who was a descendant of the Egyptian royal family, immediately took a fancy to my temperament and cultural accomplishment, and took me
Buy it.
For a long time after the kingdom was destroyed, I served as a royal maid in the prince's palace and as a tutor to Prince Said. When the prince's knowledge was so rich that I no longer needed to teach him, that is,
Seven years ago, they tore up my bond of sale, freed me from slavery, and returned me to freedom. Ah... descendants of the Egyptian royal family. They are really a group of noble and decent people. In this
In this ruthless world, it would be difficult to find the same family again. If I had not been rescued from the slave market by the queen, what would I be like now? I don't even dare to imagine."
"So, Mr. Leopold also..." Bedivere asked tentatively.
"The child's situation was much more miserable than mine. I heard that he was sent directly to a certain research institute and was tortured like an experimental animal. Leo has pure royal blood of Solis in his body. He was originally
Our hope for national restoration. But that child is actually broken both physically and mentally."
"I've heard a little bit..." Bedivere hummed. All the clues were connected. Leoport must have stayed in the same research institute as Elaine before, and was later killed by Si.
He was rescued by Daddy Finks. It was precisely because he and Elaine shared hardships as children that the Golden Lion boy was so dedicated to the White Bear. It could even really be regarded as a kind of love.
"Please don't tell that Mr. Elaine what I just said to you." Sherrichard suddenly added.
"Well, why?"
"Leo hopes so much. Mr. Elaine seems to have forgotten Leo's existence at all, but Leo hopes that Mr. Elaine can remember everything by himself instead of learning the truth from others. He hopes that Mr. Elaine can remember everything by himself. He hopes that Mr. Elaine can remember everything by himself."
Mr. Lane can recall the days of adversity with him. If he cannot do so, everything will lose its meaning."
"I understand." Bedivere sighed. Bedivere was not incomprehensible to the lion boy's thoughts.
No, it should be said that he felt the same way. The whole world had forgotten Bedivere once. Everyone he knew treated him as a stranger from that day on. He could tell everything and let some of them
Awake. But he never did this.
If friends cannot remember him, they will never remember him. Even if they are forced to remember him, everything will lose its meaning.
Did Leoport approach Elaine with the same idea? If so, how much courage did he have to confess to Elaine, who was a stranger to him?
"After I escaped from slavery, I heard that there was a Sphinx in Egypt who was sheltering homeless orcs from all over Africa, so I tried to seek refuge with him. I didn't need to do this, I just
With a glimmer of hope, I thought that my father might have rescued other lions from the Thoris tribe, so I went to contact the Sphinx father. As you can see, I met Leo."
"And dad thinks highly of you and even made you the CEO of the Cairo Hotel?" Bedivere asked.
"Yes. I originally just went for an interview, hoping to find a job in a hotel or something. I never thought that Father Sphinx would directly entrust me with the important task of CEO and adopt me as his
The adopted daughter. I think I am really the only lion-man who has such luck after the Kingdom of Solis was destroyed."
"Then Father Sphinx, he is also...?"
"No, he is not from the Kingdom of Solis, I can be sure of this." Sherrichard denied instantly: "My family can be considered a family that has some blood relationship with the royal family of the Kingdom of Solis. My father has always been in the kingdom.
As the high priest, I would have inherited the priest's duties after my father's death, but of course that would only be the case if the kingdom was not destroyed. As a priest family, we know all the nobles in the kingdom——
--It is not a very big country in the first place---and among the people I know, there is no such person as Father Sphinx. There is no record of it even in historical materials hundreds of years ago.
Father Sphinx, or the family he belongs to. He is a... lion-man who exists completely separate from the Kingdom of Thoris. That is a very strange thing."
"Um, why?"
"The lions of Solis Kingdom are very united, Mr. Bedivere." Sherrichard chuckled softly: "Whether they are wandering around doing business or developing outside the kingdom for other reasons, they will not really
Abandoning their homeland. On the day they received the news that the kingdom was attacked, countless lions who had already left the kingdom rushed back to defend the country - although their efforts were all in vain, and they all died tragically one by one in the end.
."
Bedivere understood the implication of Sherichard's words. When the kingdom was destroyed, Father Sphinx did not come to save the country. Although he had a lion face, Father Sphinx might not be from the Kingdom of Thoris at all.
He may even be a completely different creature from body to heart, not a real lion.
"Not to mention these unlucky things, Mr. Bedivere." At this time, they were very deep into the canyon. The surrounding wind and sand gradually weakened with the change of geographical location. The snow lion girl walked to a cliff and knocked on it with her hand.
Knocking on the hard rock wall: "We are here."
As she pounded, there was nothing there, but a crack suddenly appeared in the hard sedimentary rock wall.
Accompanying that crack came out the sunshine as warm as day. (To be continued)