Index was standing on the dark street of Chioggia.
This little waterfront street was in the midst of chaos. The historic banks and bridge had been destroyed, but the questions of "what should we do?" were even bigger. With the people who had seen this terrible situation raising questions, and with many different people voicing answers, more questions were created, and answers get repeated.
The seawater-covered roads that were up to 100 meters away from the canal before flowing back into other parallel canals. As the ship had left, the overflowed water started to flow back into the canal, but some water had flown into houses, especially restaurants and cafes, where the buildings meant to cater to guests were lit up, and frantic sounds of people sweeping could be heard.
Among them,
Index stood blankly at a street, staring in the direction where the ice boat had vanished.
"The 'Queen of the Adriatic Sea'… related to the history of Northeast Italy."
The words she spoke had lots of knowledge behind them.
"Hm, it should be one of those escort ships among the 'Queen's Fleet'."
Her mind was busy scanning through the knowledge of 103,000 grimoires, pulling out the necessary knowledge and removing unwanted information. She started to guess whether these were correct, and continued to hypothesize them in her mind.
If so, the Roman Catholic Church is responsible for this. But why send the 'Queen's Fleet' to attack?...Orsola Aquinas and the Amakusa. Are both of them the reason? If they want to use the 'Queen of the Adriatic Sea', Touma and the rest shouldn't be much of an obstacle.
This time, her mind was thinking of how to counter it.
If the enemy is the 'Queen's Fleet', I alone can't handle it when I don't know how to use magic. No, it's at a level when even a mage can't fight it one-on-one. But if this continues, Touma and the rest… will…
Index looked up.
She looked around before running off in a certain direction.