The battle outside is intense, and yet the nominal leader of the Crusaders is left alone, playing chess in the courtyard of Galata City's residence across Golden Horn Bay—it reveals quite a boldness.
"Your Majesty, I've just seen that those Latins are about to take Constantinople; how can you still be sitting here?"
Olos tried to speak several times, but couldn't resist asking.
As a loyal retainer and protector of the Anglos family, he had endured the most difficult years of exile with Alexios, his loyalty was beyond doubt. But now they were about to retake Constantinople, and he harbored growing unease.
Compared to the Greeks, those Crusader nobles were more crude and real.
They had just over thirty retainers under them, not enough to earn the respect of the Crusaders, and they weren't even allowed to attend military meetings.
He doubted the reliability of the Latins and whether they would hand Constantinople over to them at that time.
