That was surely a bizarre reunion between two ex-members of the Band of the Falcon (Guts and Rickert).
Huh, so Roderick's ship has entered the territorial waters of the Kushan Empire? I get that they sailed a lot, but how they managed to sail from the Western Sea to a place that is meant (judging from that nicely done spreadsheet at the end of this chapter) to resemble Constantinople under the Ottoman rule?
Anyway, nice chapter. It was cool to see Daiba, Silat and his tapasa bodyguards once again.