Juan looked closely at the eye patch that Sina had handed over to him. The old and shabby eye patch made out of leather hardly looked like it could be an item belonging to a noble. Juan had a feeling that it could be the eye patch of the unfortunate captain of the fishing boat who died in the fierce waves.

“To be honest, I didn’t think you would be that depressed over the duke's death. I remember Duke Henna not being very fond of you,” Juan said.

“I would be lying if I told you that I wasn’t upset when she showed hostility toward me. But Duke Henna is a famous person, and I felt a sense of kinship with her since we are both from the Imperial Army. She was a great commander.”

Although Duke Henna often spoke harshly and acted violently at times, everyone acknowledged her as a competent military commander. Sina could understand Duke Henna occasionally acting out of madness; after all, even Sina herself had a dream about Ossrey and the Order of the Blue Rose just recently.

“Did you admire her?” Juan asked.

“I guess I did. I can’t believe that someone I respected disappeared in just an instant. We couldn’t even find her body… According to the fisherman who lent us the boat, the current flows toward the archipelago in the winter. So there’s a high possibility that her body is either in the ocean or has...