Facing Cage's question, Roland found it difficult to answer.
His relationship with Andonara is unclear. Let's say they are lovers, but they have no real relationship. Let's say they are not, and their relationship is quite ambiguous.
As long as Roland is willing, he can take the final step at any time.
So Roland didn't answer, just stood quietly.
After waiting for a while, Cage was a little disappointed when he didn't hear Roland's answer. He turned around and looked at the former and said seriously: "I grew up watching Anna. I am both her swordsmanship teacher and her swordsman." It would not be an exaggeration to say that her uncle is half her father. I rarely stop her from doing anything she wants to do, but why do you think the royal family will let you do this if you take away a queen? "
Because the information flow was too slow, and because the royal family deliberately suppressed the fact that the queen was abducted, Cage did not know that the royal family had allowed the queen to do so long ago.
Roland smiled and said: "The royal family doesn't have to worry."
Cage's eyes widened. He looked at Roland with a suspicious attitude for a while, and finally frowned and asked, "Are you confident or arrogant?"
"It has been three or four months since Andonara came to me." Roland also took a few steps forward, supporting the white stone barrier of the balcony with both hands, and said: "For such a long time, if the royal family really wants to We won’t be able to deal with us that easily.”
Cage patted the stone railing hard: "Your strength is pretty good, I can feel it. As a young man, you are pretty good, but compared to Anna, there is still a gap. Your personal strength alone should not be able to let you down. The royal family stops.”
"What if I am immortal?"
Cage was shocked at first, then silent, and finally understood: "It turns out to be the Son of Gold, so that's no wonder."
No matter how little news there is in Reed Village, there are still outsiders coming. Naturally, Cage has heard of the famous name of the Golden Son.
Let alone ordinary people, even Cage would be frightened if he thought he was facing the Golden Son.
Most people would be afraid of something that could be resurrected if hacked to death.
Roland smiled at Cage, looking very humble.
Cage turned around and leaned against the guardrail of the balcony. He crossed his arms and said, "Since she is with you and is willing to abandon her status as queen and follow you, it seems that she trusts you very much. She trusts you to the core." kind."
Roland nodded, he felt it too.
"So don't let down Anna's feelings for you."
Roland sighed slightly in his heart, and then asked: "Andonara is very strong, but why did she develop such an extremely insecure personality?"
This is also the strange thing about Roland.
Logically speaking, a powerful woman like Andonara should be very confident, high-spirited, and heroic.
A woman shouldn't be like a vine.
Cage thought quietly for a while and said: "My brother Kelso did not inherit much of the bloodline ability of our family. His fighting ability is very poor. Although he has a minor noble status, he lives a somewhat poor life. So he He became a businessman and traveled around with his caravan to make money for his family. His wife and daughter Andonara stayed in their small home in the royal city. They were still poor at that time and could not afford a maid. When Andonara was four years old, When she was almost five years old, her mother suddenly became seriously ill. I don’t know the details of the situation, but I guess she didn’t even have time to find the priest, and there was no one left.”
Roland's heart suddenly trembled.
Cage continued in a quiet and gentle tone: "The small manor was in a remote corner of the royal city. After the death of her younger siblings, the four-year-old Andonara lived in the manor by herself for a month. After a month, she earned Kelso, who had made a lot of money, returned to the royal city, only to see the tragedy in the world."
Roland clasped his hands together and squeezed each other gently subconsciously.
Cage took a deep breath: "Keso saw his wife's body lying on the bed. It had melted into a pile of rotten bones. The wet yellow body was full of maggots. And the body was so thin that it was only skin and bones. Anna slept in the corner holding her mother's clothes, covered in mud and stench, and there were many maggots crawling in her hair and clothes."
"Anna was already in a coma and on the verge of death. If my brother had been delayed for another two or three days..."
"Afterwards, we calculated based on the scene that Anna didn't have enough to eat every day for a whole month. Her younger brother Kelso also found that there were a lot of rotten fruits and stems beside his wife's pillow. Those should be Anna's at the manor. She would pick them out or dig them out from the grass, eat some of them herself, and not bear to eat the rest, so she would put them next to her mother, probably hoping that her mother would wake up after eating them, hug her again, and play with her."
"We can't imagine a four-year-old girl living alone in a manor that is huge for her. How can her mother not wake up, get no response, feel hungry and thirsty, and the whole world will be dark at night, and no one will respond to her, No one came to comfort her, and the mother became more and more smelly and looked more and more strange... I didn't dare to think about such fear, let alone a four-year-old little girl."
Roland looked up at the sky and blinked hard. He felt that his eyes were a little wet.
"After my brother asked the priest to rescue Anna, he buried his wife and then burned the small manor to ashes. With the money he earned, he bought a much larger manor in a wealthy area and hired many servants. Serve Anna. When Anna wakes up afterwards, she is confused. She always comes back to find wild fruits and roots in the grass, saying that she wants to give it to her mother. After her mother eats it, she will sit up and play with her again. But she is in the new If she couldn't find her mother at home, she would always run outside, and she would yell, punch and kick anyone who stopped her."
Roland sniffed and asked, "So Andonara never felt safe afterwards?"
"It took Anna a year to stop looking for wild fruits and roots, and at the same time she gradually forgot about her mother." Cage sighed: "After that, Anna also became indifferent to her father. Originally, her brother was outside Running a business, running around, and spending less time with her daughter. The relationship between the two is not as close as ordinary fathers and daughters. After that incident, Anna will always subconsciously stay away from her father. Although she has forgotten many things But her instinct is still to blame her father for not coming back earlier to save her mother! This situation did not get better until she was twelve years old."
Roland has heard and seen many tragic things in the information society.
But they are all outsiders, or unfamiliar people. Although they will feel sad and sad when they see the words and pictures, there will always be a little unreal feeling in these emotions.
This is just empathy at work.
Because those people are strangers.
But this time it was different. Andonara was an acquaintance of his, a very close friend.
After hearing that such a tragedy happened to my relatives and friends, I felt completely different.
Roland really didn't expect that Andonara, who was obviously very powerful but always a small woman, would have such a tragic experience.
No wonder she was already the queen, but she followed him so easily, just because the royal family wanted to 'abandon' her and he promised to protect her.
A woman with such simple demands.