The war is intensifying.
Behind that, Quena, who had received a call from Luina, had a private conversation.
"Take this with you."
Ruina hands him a magic item with a rhombus shape.
Quena tilts her head when she receives it.
What is this?
"It's a perfectly cooled magic item." Anything can be frozen. "
"I don't need it." I can fight on my own. "
Quena refuses to accept it.
But Ruina couldn't hold herself while sticking out.
“That's a mistake. We're not going to use this in battle.”
Then what is it?
“We'll freeze the suicide bomb magic items because they'll be in the center.”
"... Are you insane?"
“If I were in their shoes, I would. I told you, this is war. It doesn't mean the other person chooses the hand."
Ruina said without a doubt.
He didn't seem to have any doubts about his predictions.
"Then it doesn't make sense to take it over."
"It's not surprising that you can't think of it. If you have a sound ethic, your brain refuses to imagine or understand."
Quena lowered her eyebrows and expressed discomfort, feeling stunned by Luina's words.
“That's right. It's amazing how we can share the same thoughts.”
“I think I survived because I can think of it like this.”
A shadow is created over Ruina's face.
Knowing that it was a distracting act, Quena could not divert her consciousness away from some magical force.
"You should have stayed away from the Empire like I did."
"Are you serious?" Don't you realize what I was helping you with? "
"... you want me to believe that?"
"Do you remember when our brother died?"
"I know." When my father... the Emperor was weakened. Anyway, you were behind all this, weren't you? "
With Quenna's dislike, Luina leaned down with a frail face.
"Don't you think it's strange?" The Weyra Empire is a meritocracy. And yet, the pinnacle is only determined by bloodline. And I can't believe everyone would believe it. If you think about it for a moment, you'll understand the impossible. "
"You're the one who pinned down the people down there."
"Did you tell me about when I became the Empress?"
Neither denying nor affirming, Ruina asks.
And Quena responded as she looked back.
"You killed the former prime minister and burned down the village."
"It's true that you killed a faction of the Prime Minister. But it wasn't me who burned down the village."
"Huh? You... I told you!" I'm the one who burned down the village! "
"That's why I'm telling you it's a lie."
Ruina said that she was dazed.
"Ahhhh! I'm going crazy talking to you!"
Quena scrubs her head and shakes her red hair. It will be vivid proof that it even looks like a flaming fire.
Ruina, with a similar color and length, smiled and narrowed her eyes.
"Look, this is the only time I'm telling the truth."
"You're lying at that point, anyway!"
Quena pointed and said.
I didn't want to be fooled anymore, and I even felt like I was in human distrust.
But Ruina went on without being pressured.
“I'm telling the truth. I'm telling Zed the truth.”
"Huh, honestly...?"
When I realized it, Quena gave me a parrot.
I told them I meant it.
"Yes...!?"
Quena also seemed to have a pure heart to blush with such words.
Luina smiled interestingly as well.
"That's why I thought it was okay to expose my chest if there was only one other person." And I thought of you, who I cared about a long time ago. "
The mild atmosphere has changed.
Quenna points out contradictions and assumptions with her sharp eyes.
"Look, it's not a lie!" You shouldn't have cared about me! "
“I loved my family. But I didn't put much in the front. It must have been a habit since I was born to hide it. It's a reincarnation technique to live. You'll understand, won't you? That's what happens when you're in the court."
I wonder if there are any verses that come to mind, but Quena is silent.
"The former Chancellor was good for everyone if he kept the woman alive." If he gets married, he'll be a sunny emperor. But I made a mistake. Make the mistake of taking advantage of me. After all, I was in the middle of a fight. "
"Then what did you mean by burning the village?"
"It's for rocking me." I thought that if my status was in jeopardy, I could enter into a marriage and take it away. I didn't have any children, and my inheritance rights were the same as those of you and your relatives. It would have been a simple plan. "
Quena grabs a rough magic item and turns her back.
"... I don't know why you want to be such a good girl, but honestly, I'm not interested"
Without hearing from Ruina, Quena comes forward.
Nerim stood outside.
"Were you eavesdropping?"
"I've been waiting for Quena."
"Isn't that the same thing?"
I don't know.
Quena and Nerim walk side by side.
After a while, Nerim opened his mouth.
"I became an evil sword, and I heard that my country was ruined."
Suddenly what?
"It's been a long time since I was going crazy. I thought about my family. Even if there are many things, I still think the family is a special relationship. There must be some complicated things going on over there. Even if you say goodbye, you feel a lot of loss."
"... because I don't know what he's thinking."
Quena sharpened her mouth.
Nerim shook his head, wondering if there were parts that could not be ceded emotionally.
"You remember this operation, don't you?" Charge the center with me and Quena. Destroy the Magic Squad of the "Disciple of Astaire". Just the two of you.
"What is that?"
"It's not a big job." Ruina's heart is supposed to be Yui. That's all you're allowed to do. "
Nothing like this.
Nerim continues.
"Besides, I was talking about it earlier." Do you realize? If Ruina had become the Empress, the Prime Minister's intentions would have been fulfilled. Then the other bloodlines are just in the way. It would be hard to wipe out a powerful duke's house, a general's house, or a royal family in another country. Quena was an adventurer, wasn't she? Then it wouldn't have been strange to be killed. But I didn't even notice the assassin from Quenna's appearance. It's a strange story, unless somebody's protecting it. "
"I can argue with that as much as I want."
Quena sharpened her mouth.
Nerim lifted his shoulders and shook his head at the stubborn Quena.
"Stubborn."
"It's because his daily behavior is bad."
I think so.
Nerim's cheeks broke.
Irritation makes Quenna laugh.
"Well, but yeah. Maybe I can just listen to him for a second."
"Maybe that's a good idea." If you don't know anything... I'm sure it won't be good. "
Nerim looks up at the sky and says:
I remember the late brave man.
What led her to betrayal?
If I had told you more, the end would have changed.
It's a maze that doesn't come up with answers no matter how much you rebel.
"... well, that's fine. Ruina told me that she could tell only me and Zed." If Nerim was eavesdropping, then Zed and I and you would be the three of us, right? "
That shouldn't be what Ruina wanted.
For some reason, Moyamoya was born in Quena's heart. She still doesn't know who she is.
Ah, you're so hot on the battlefield, aren't you?
Nerim looks at the battlefield as if it blocked Quena's words.
Queena looked at Nerim with dazzling eyes, but she was never reversed. Instead, they are offered their hands.
"Then I'll transfer it." I don't know the space inside, so I'll fly over the royal castle I can see from here. In any case, there are people who use magic everywhere. "
"Yes, yes, let's go."
It's not the air before the battle.
But it's kind of like relaxing in a way.
"-Transference"
Together with Nerim's words, their faces tightened in an instant.
The speed of this changeover told me that they were skilled fighters.