Just as Lyra said in her speech, her appearance this time was not to provoke a new war, but to seek that faint, almost illusory possibility of peace through dialogue and admonition.
The Church Knights were not like the private troops under the kingdom's nobles, nor like the mercenaries temporarily hired and thrown onto the battlefield. These people had gathered here for the sake of a single faith, and in essence they had no irreconcilable conflict of interest with the Empire, of course, that premise had to be built upon a certain religious understanding: that the revised new scripture pushed by Hebrew would not be acknowledged by the masses, and that the faithless were ordinary people rather than heretics.
