The battle in the Centaur Palace has come to an end, and Ameruda looked at Rong Doo and Cang Mo who fell to the ground.

(These people...maybe they will become really powerful Saint Seiyas in the future. They forced me to use 80% of my power. It is true that I won the duel of life and death, but they may be surpassed in the near future. Right. Even if it is immature now, there is indeed a great possibility in the future, let me witness your growth!)

After turning around, the roses in the palace have disappeared.

After a while, maybe ten minutes, Cang Mo and Rong Doo slowly opened their eyes.

"Are you awake?"

They were startled and sat up immediately.

"Ameruda!"

"The body should be fine."

They noticed that the heart was stabbed by a rose thorn in their chest just now, and immediately looked at it.

"this is…"

But there are no roses there.

"Are you showing mercy?"

Jung Doo stared at him.

"Who else can do it but me?"

After the white rose thorn in their heart, Ameruda quickly pulled it out and even performed an acute rescue of their heart to temporarily heal the wound.

"Really... did we lose?"

Cang Mo showed a sad expression, which was angry at his own powerlessness.

"If you are not reconciled, continue to become stronger, keep this regret in your heart, and sooner or later you will reach a higher realm!"

The winner said this to the loser, which was funny in a way, and felt like an insult to them, but the two could see that Ameluda didn't speak to them in such a mood.

"…"

"Stand up if you know"

The two of them showed obvious fighting spirit on their faces, and then slowly stood up.

"Come on, I'll allow you to pass!"

After saying that, Ameruda turned around.

"is it okay?"

"Don't make me say it a second time!"

"…we know!"

They looked at each other and nodded, just as they were about to run forward.

"Cangma, Rongdou!"

A voice came from behind, which they were familiar with.

The two looked back, only to see two people rushing from behind, with marks of being stabbed by needles.

"Longfeng, Eden!"

It was them who were recognized by Kali in the battle of the Scorpio Palace and let them pass after stopping the bleeding.

"You two, are you all right?"

"It's okay, we felt the explosion of the huge microcosm on the way here."

Running in front of them, Long Feng replied to Rong Doo who asked.

"Have Pegasus and the others gone first?"

Eden was not surprised to feel their absence.

"Ah, before us. It's time to go to the Goat Palace."

"Goat Palace!?"

Turn around and look.

"He's Ameruda of Pisces!"

It seemed that Eden had known him for a long time.

"Pisces? Why is it here? Isn't it in the last house?"

It is not surprising that Longfeng asked this question.

(...The teacher didn't stay in the palace of the people and horses in the Pope's Palace, that is, he came here by order?)

Eden, the only one who knew the truth, did not tell them the truth.

"It's a long story, it seems that the golden saint of Centaur Palace is not there. Only the holy clothes are still here."

Said and looked to the right.

"That's the Sagittarius Golden Cloth. As expected, it's called the strongest Cloth. Without the owner, the Cloth still has such a sense of sanctity!"

Long Feng, who was chasing his eyes, said with emotion.

Eden has seen it many times in the past and is not very surprised now.

"Let's go, there are only two houses left in the zodiac!"

Young-doo told them this and ran forward. Cang Mo, Long Feng, and Eden immediately followed behind, leaving only Ameruda to stay here.

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"It seems that even the Centaur Palace has broken through, by those young people!"

The top six golden saints here in the Aries Palace have been watching the movement ahead, and the noble said in a happy tone.

"Ameruda is also quite capable. In the face of those people, he was able to suppress them!"

Habinga stepped aside, in a tone that was not very admirable.

"The roses and thorns he unleashed are powerful weapons. If there was a life-and-death battle, those bronzes might have died long ago!"

"You seem to be at the same time as him, don't you? Sheehan!"

Ilyas asked him in a heroic voice, but Sheen's face was a little ugly, and he turned his eyes away immediately, as if he didn't want to be mentioned.

"Don't remind me, it's hilarious!"

"Both of them came to Sanctuary on the same day, and they often competed when they became candidates for Saint Seiya, and it's the same even now."

"Don't talk too much, Endymio. That guy always puts 'beauty' in his mouth. What is beautiful about being a Saint Seiya? Isn't that boring!"

It seems very incompatible, those two people.

"One of you is in charge of "Death" and the other is in charge of "Elegance", so it's no wonder there will be conflicts!"

Elias was only speaking objectively.

"Isn't that great? Just because I have a competitor, I think it's a good thing to work hard not to lose to him!"

"Hey, he's such a nice guy, Shun. It's even better than the rumors!"

"I should be able to take this as a compliment, Habinga!"

"...!"

For a moment, Habinga's face was very bad, and his momentum was instantly suppressed.

"Well... Then again, I didn't expect these bronzes to be able to go to the tenth house, I really want to look at it differently!"

Change the subject immediately.

"The tenth house, the Goat House. The one who guards it is a golden saint who has lived for hundreds of years, and has guarded Athena several times. It will not be easy for the bare teeth to face him, because other than the Pope, He values ​​Athena's affairs more than anyone else!"

The noble ghost next to him continued to watch the state of the Goat Palace.

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It was naturally Guangya and Yuna who came to the Goat Palace first. At this moment, the fire on the fire was still burning, and the fire in the three palaces was still burning. The fire in the Centaur Palace had just been extinguished, and the remaining time was exactly three hours.

"It's finally here, Goat Palace!"

Looking inside, Guangya narrowed his eyes,

"Where the Golden Saints of Capricorn are located"

"…"

Kwang-ya calmed down and ran in, with Yuna following behind. They don't know who is guarding this place right now, but if they think about it, they can predict it. But the two of them didn't have the spare energy. As soon as they stepped into the palace, they were all taken aback and saw a lot of books piled up here.

"this is…!"

"It's a cemetery of books!"

The two had just walked for a while when they saw a white-haired man kneeling in front of them, and a stone statue of a woman in front of them. There were two fires burning on the surrounding stone pillars, and the stone statue was obviously the appearance of Athena - Saori Joto.

The man was wearing a long cloak, which was the same design as the Palaestra costume at the Saint Seiya school, but in a different color. He raised his right hand as if to grab the stone statue, but his eyes showed a very sad look. Then he closed his eyes and put his hands on his chest, making a gentleman's salute.

This man not only has white hair, but also has a lush white beard. At first glance, he looks like an old man.

That's... Light Fang and the others they knew.

After noticing the footsteps behind him, the man turned back.

"Finally here? My students!"

After he finished speaking, he turned around and stood up, and both Guangya and Yuna were shocked when they saw his appearance.

"You... are you?"

"Principal! Why are you here?"

This person is the headmaster of Palaestra - Ionia.

Guangya's face looked upwards, startled again.

"The image of Athena?"

"Do you care? There is a statue of Athena here!"

"…"

He turned to look at the statue.

"That's love... This is love, my sublime love for Athena!"

It's a bit hysterical to talk about "love" at such a young age.

"Love?"

"What does this mean? Compared to this, why is the principal here? Could it be..."

"It's the 'could it be'..."

Ionia answered with closed eyes, turned around in front of Bare Tooth, and raised both sides of the cloak with both hands.

"Capricorn Cloth!"

He waved his hands, and a golden light flashed out from the inside, followed by a golden armor on his body. Except for the hood, there was no shadow of the past holy clothes at all, and his posture became completely different.

There are two horns on the hood, a green gem in the middle, and the cloak seems to be buckled by something. His body is tall, over two meters, almost the same size as Habinga.

"I am the golden saint who knows the "wisdom and intelligence" of all "everythings", Ionia of Capricorn!"

Guangya and Yuna were both shocked, their eyes widened.

"The principal is... the golden saint!?"

Only then did they remember the fact that Eden had mentioned his identity before, and for a while they forgot.

"I retired from battle for a time, and Athena was resurrected as a golden saint when she founded Palaestra!"

"So...you've met Athena...Saori-san before?"

"Yes, I am very grateful to her. Athena specially recruited the old me to be the principal. And I am happy to accept it. This is my honor and my love for her!"

"What kind of love? How stupid!"

Guangya was also very angry after hearing it.

"Then, I have to say it so you brats know the truth of my love for Athena. In my language..."

Then he started talking about his past.

—I have been protecting Athena from the distant past. Entrusting the mission to the next generation of Saint Seiya, he took off his holy clothes. Then, a new Athena was born into this world, and the child who had a pure universe that had never existed before was exactly what Saori Shiroto looked like when he was young.

—My heart has decided that I will protect this Athena in the future. I created a place of practice for Athena and received a large number of disciples. He is about to cultivate a saint who abandons his own interests and desires to protect Athena first.

—During that time, that adult has grown up beautifully, and started to shine in the world as Athena. However, that adult suffered a lot because Athena suffered a lot. I feel very angry, there are so many Saint Seiyas, why can't I protect that lord? I made the disciples carry out more severe and cruel cultivation, only the ordinary small universe could not save Athena.

-However, tragedy happened. The disciples who couldn't bear the harsh practice rebelled. I couldn't forgive the disciples for despising Athena's atrocities. I committed a great sin, killed them with my own hands, and took the initiative to enter the end. in prison.

—I don’t know how many years have passed since then, I wrote a book thinking about what a Saint Seiya is in prison, and I used this to hone my mind and my body and mind. However, one day, a miracle happened to me, who was supposed to be decaying here. That lord… Athena appeared in front of my eyes.

It was thirteen years from now, and Yusei, who had ended the battle with Mars, accompanied Saori to Ionia, and Saori told him very honestly.

- I asked you to come here because I have something to do. I want you to once again cultivate a Saint Seiya who guards this earth.

Ionia fell to her knees then.

- Please put on the golden holy garment for me again.

After reaching out, he handed him the Saint Cloth Stone of Capricornus in his hand. Ionia reached out to hold her hand and took the Saint Cloth, and agreed very gratefully.

"The Lord stretched out the hand of redemption to me, who was so sinful, and that sentence saved me from the mouth of death, because of the power of the Lord's love, and then I put on the golden holy garment again... This is me All of my love for Athena. Even now, I still dedicate everything to that sama, to that beautiful sama... Love to Saori Shiroto, a woman..."

"…Love!?"

Guangya thought to himself how much this word meant to him.

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Yusei and Saori, who were watching the battle of the Zodiac, were naturally watching all this, and they told Saori about the new generation of golden saints from the battles in the Scorpio Palace and the Centaur Palace. And what Ionia said in the Palace of the Goats was also in my ears from the beginning.

Saori was fine, but she didn't listen to her expression.

And Yusei couldn't help showing an unhappy expression on his face. He had been very angry with hearing him talk about his love for Saori from the beginning. , In fact, it is normal for a woman to be loved. Since Saori is a goddess, it is normal for a man to fall in love.

He would not have been angry for such a trivial matter, but Ionia said it boldly to the two young Saint Seiya that was touching his scales.

Saying such words is an insult to Saori. Although it is out of good intentions, as Athena, who has maintained her holy chastity since the age of mythology, such words are disrespectful to her in a sense, and Yusei's anger is also for the sake of her. this.

(Ionia, the old guy, if it weren't for his protection of Athena through the ages and his contribution to the sanctuary, if you say this, you will be cut into pieces.)

He who became a betrayal in the original work wouldn't have let him be a Golden Saint if it wasn't for Saori's sake. Although he said that he did not betray with his intervention, he was really upset.

Ionia also said something similar when he recruited him to the Pope's Palace more than ten years ago. Yu Xing, who was still a teenager at the time, saw that he was very old, but always talked about his love for Saori, and let him say something similar. He was so angry that he almost killed him himself.

Although a strange old man, he was spared because of his intelligence and excellent ability. However, Yu Xing transferred him to Palaestra far away from the sanctuary as the principal, and said that he could not return to the sanctuary without special permission, which also contained some of his selfishness.

But Ionia failed to understand his idea, and thought that he wanted him to cultivate Saint Seiya seriously and not be distracted by other things.

After so many years, Yu Xing has also matured. After that incident, he has forgotten about it. Seeing that he has worked so hard, he no longer cares about anything, and occasionally asks him to come back.

Ionia had long admired him. Speaking of You Xing, almost no one in the Sanctuary did not know his deeds. Because he saved Athena and this land several times, Ionia respected him no less than Saori. Basically, he followed any orders, and as long as he didn't tell Saori, Yusei wouldn't hate him.

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"About Athena's fate, I once asked the Pope in the sanctuary. The adult who is Athena's agent on earth has very high wisdom and excellent ability in everything. I have kept this in my heart for a long time. the question he asked himself at the Pope's Palace."

In the Palace of the Goats, Ionian's words are not over.

I still remember what happened back then, and I said it to Yusei, who was sitting on the throne in a black pope costume.

"Do you have any doubts about Athena's suffering and fate?"

"Yes, Pope! I've been in prison for so long and I still can't figure it out, it's been bothering me. How can I save Athena? Save her from her fate..."

Underneath, Ionia, who was wearing the golden robe, knelt on one foot.

"Athena has suffered a lot in order to protect love and peace on earth. I don't understand the problem, and the meaning of the existence of the Saint Seiya is not..."

Yuxing stood up and walked down from above.

"Ionia, you who know everything, but you have a stubbornness on this issue, but it is too ridiculous. Since you don't understand, then I will tell you to free Athena from her fate and not suffer from it. Any pain is impossible"

"...!?"

However, this answer made Ionia's eyes widen.