Chapter 135: Strange Friendship Grows
[This was a marriage in name only.]
[From the beginning, Guinevere had prepared to submit to her fate.]
[She believed her sacrifice was for the sake of the perfect king, and that personal love was insignificant in the face of greater ideals.]
[But now, Artoria revealed the truth.]
[Learning that the invincible king, revered by the knights, was actually a petite girl,]
[shock and surprise were her initial emotions.]
[The truth was too astonishing.]
[But upon reflection, it made sense. How could the knights serve a woman as their king?]
[The Middle Ages were dominated by male supremacy,]
[where women were seen as weak, precious possessions to be protected by men. Even knights, who upheld chivalric ideals, viewed women as jewels to be cherished.]
[A French knight like Lancelot, who would abandon his duty for a woman, was seen as an oddity.]