Almost at the same time as the Capes headed with Crypto to the Imperial Capital, in Caputo, the king's capital.

When the sun also began to set, Ivy, having finished her work, was about to leave the castle and return to her quarters' private rooms.

When it comes to work, I'm just bypassing three people these days: Enops, the Defense Minister, Gilido, the High Priest, and King Rex, who seem to enjoy talking about Orihalcon.

That's it - no, rather, that's why Ivy's mind is dwindling day by day.

Ivy is entrusted with the Knights Commander.

That is not only strength, personality, but also to say that a strong patriotism was recognized.

She had to accept that, too, no longer.

"This country is over..."

I didn't want to believe it.

But it is no other that is proving it, its own memory.

Stepping into the quarters, you encounter your men just at the entrance.

"Good day, Captain."

"Ah... ah... oh, good day, Rayna"

Hearing Rayna's voice, Ivy shook her body in shock.

There is fear in my eyes.

I've already given up on kings and cabinet members.

But she hasn't accepted the familiar transformation yet.

The changing appearance of Raina, who was particularly bright and nostalgic, had done Ivy a great deal of damage to her heart.

"Orihalcon is still a great substance today, what do you think of the captain? Don't you think Orihalcon is a great substance?

"Yeah, right."

"Right! Good. The captain also understands that Orihalcon is a great substance!

Rayna stands up quickly with her hands on her reddish cheeks.

Ivy looked at her like that, pulling her cheeks together.

Pollution is getting worse every day.

People will always feel better, their temper will get rough, and conversations will no longer be established.

The figure is no longer a different creature from a person.

And the anomaly had begun not only to the spirit, but also to the flesh.

Ivy came all the way in front of her room listening to Rayna.

Why do you feel long only in hard times?

Ivy felt the journey from the front door of the dormitory to his own room tripled or quadrupled.

But I'm done with that hell.

When I put my hand on the door knob and tried to say goodbye to Rayna...

"Captain, would you like to talk more?

She was a strong force and held Ivy's wrist.

That too, with so much grip that you can't even shake it off with Anima.

Raina is an amateur in battle, holding Ivy's moves would have made it easy to get her hands off me, but she was so menacing that she felt too scared.

"Sorry, I still have work to do"

"I'm fine, because Orihalcon is a great substance"

Conversation not established.

He won't even let go of my hand.

As it is, Ivy won't miss it until she shakes her head vertically.

Troubled with his troubles, he grabbed his lower lip and decided to go out and exercise his strength.

"Ha ha!?

Quickly pay off your feet on the spot, upset your balance, and wave your gripping hand down that gap.

Raina tries to grab her ankle while rolling.

Ivy kicked that hand away too, opening the door a little and sliding his body into the gap.

And when you close the door immediately, lock it.

"It's... terrible, Captain. I can't believe you did this."

"I told you I have a job, I'm not letting you go. It's Rayna's fault"

"I don't care about work, let's talk more with me, Captain. I have so much to tell you."

Chatter, chatter.

Rayna talks through the door as she turns the door knob.

"Shit."

You still won't give up - Ivy accidentally pounded her tongue.

That meant that you no longer recognized Rayna as one of the same Knights.

"Captain, Captain, why? Why aren't you listening to me? Funny, Orihalcon is a great substance. Isn't this strange, Captain!

Gah, gah, gah, gah! Don't, don't, don't!

Rayna repeatedly slams the door knob and even slams the door out hard.

Ivy sits the door on her back.

Because of fear, there is a slight sweat seeping through my back.

Even on the battlefield, when I engaged that Xynia, I never felt this strong fear.

Is it ever so horrible that what you see is that the normal routine is made to degenerate while retaining its shape?

Ivy closes her eyes.

All I can think of is my dear best friend, the look of Planus, who has remained sweet lately.

Just think of that smile, and I can realise that I still have my routine, my heart is at ease.

If even she had been contaminated, Ivy's heart would have been so broken.

After a moment, I might have taken Orihalcon into my body myself.

"Hey Captain, can we talk more about Orihalcon? Great substance, hey, great substance? Captain, Captain, Captain!

Sounds even more intense.

And...

chatter chatter...... bakie!

Ivy made her body jump frighteningly at the crushing sound she heard from her back.

"Ah... it's broken"

Rayna, suddenly calmed down, said calmly.

Apparently, while the door knob smashed the trees around it, it broke.

"I'm sorry, Captain, I'll get someone to fix it. Even though austerity and expenses are tough... I wonder what Orihalcon can do because it's a great substance..."

With such a whine to herself, Raina finally walked away from the front of the room.

"Ha-ha-ha..."

Ivy exhales loudly, embracing her own knees and burying her face.

I just don't hear a sound, that's all my heart gets healed.

Humans who take in Orihalcon improve their physical abilities as pollution progresses.

That's probably because their bodies are getting closer to using Anima.

In other words, of the king's capital - no, all the human beings of the kingdom are transformed into animators.

"I'm done with this country. But... is there an escape route for us? Oh... Pranas, why don't you come soon..."

After work, it was customary for Planus to visit Ivy's room at night.

Now I just want to see her face.

Pranas was no longer the only thing supporting Ivy's breaking heart.

◇ ◇ ◇

"Ha..."

Meanwhile, a lab in Pranas in the castle.

In that room adjacent to the lab, Pranas was sighing with Oracle Stone glittering.

We haven't heard back from the Cape since Haylos told us he was on his way out.

It was only a few hours after Gui went out that Pranas got that information from Ivy.

I didn't know how much the output was improving thanks to Orihalcon, but I was thinking that in just a few hours there would be no attachment to the Empire...

"That sound must have definitely encounted..."

Just before the contact was interrupted, a voice was heard from Oracle Stone.

That was undoubtedly laurel's.

I hear that Subtilitus, a less brilliant anima, has demonstrated an impenetrable strength when it comes to just putting on a back booster, not to say rampant.

I mean, if Anima as good as Haylos used the power of Orihalcon - I couldn't imagine how threatening that would be for Planus.

"Oh, I can't help thinking about it anymore! Now you should see Ivy's face and be healed! Yeah, that's how it's decided!

Pranas said in a damned mood, unpacking early, putting his face in the lab and saying hello to the researchers, he left the castle and headed to Ivy's waiting quarters.

The quarters are eerily quiet.

The summoners, more than half of whose companions have died, have been completely depressed and now only a handful participate in the training.

Besides, the laurel, who was a leader, was shut down, and when he thought he finally came out, he was fed the contamination of Orihalcon, and at the end of the quote, he was forced to go out as an experimental platform.

There is no longer a single thing to support their hearts.

But even in it, there was only one person who remained the same.

Hey, Planus.

It's Senichiro Mizuki, a man approaching from the back of the hallway in his quarters.

"Mizuki... you look great today"

"Although it would be each other. So, what happened to the laurels? I heard you went out."

Ivy said he was contaminated, too.

"I thought you had painfully returned from the back booster test, a state of incarceration for visiting apologies at the clinic. At the end of the sentence, he was drunk of suspicious powder, brainwashed and treated like a guinea pig? It's a miserable life, if you live in Japan, you have to be summoned - you've been promised a winning life."

Mizuki said with a mean grin.

It's like blaming Planus for "it's your fault”.

But she doesn't flinch.

"If you're complaining, tell the king who gave me information about the curse for the plan"

"No curse?

"It was used in the world a long time ago, that's already a powerful group of magic. I have information in the Bible. The kingdom was driven, so the king asked the Archbishop to give up only the knowledge of metamorphotic magic from different worlds in order to increase his strength. So, he said I used it."

"The Bible was such a terrible thing."

"Well, even when it comes to amazing magic, I'm about the only magician you can handle in this world. Everybody just relies on Anima, because they don't have the magic knowledge."

Human beings with high magic power, most of them become animators.

Anima users did not need to use magic or anything that required cumbersome arithmetic, and thus the technology of magic was becoming obsolete to the greater use of anima.

In the meantime, Planus is undoubtedly one of the world's leading magicians with a fairly high standard of magic compared to other animators.

"By the way... how does Mizuki know about the Bible?

Come to think of it, that's a strange story.

Planus doesn't remember telling Mizuki about the scriptures, and Ivy shouldn't have been in contact since Planus and Mizuki joined hands.

Then his side is not so many.

The source was fulfilled - and as Planus stared at the water tree with suspicious eyes, he stuck his hand in his pocket and retrieved a card the size of which would fit in his palm.

"This is the Bible."

"What are you talking about, the Bible is a book, isn't it? It's such a thin card..."

"When I push it, it comes out like a table of contents?

When the water tree touches the surface of the card with its index finger, a line of letters is reflected in the air.

"This is an ancient letter...... then really scripture......?

"Hiha, what do you say, isn't that great?

"But how do you do this!? The Bible should be kept important by Gratianism!

"If you use the power of anima, it's a little, well, it cost about three people."

"You, no way -"

"Hey, it's the iron rule to consume from weak people. It doesn't help to keep him alive anyway. It was easy to use, huh? Well, it was down from the beginning, and now we're down by three, so there's no problem."

"Did you use your own students?!?

To the angry Planus, Mizuki rather laughed proudly and showed him.

"Thank you first, you got the Bible and you did it, didn't you?

"How can you be so strong if you can't even read it, if I say here I'm going to cut my hand off with you, it's going to be just a toy, right?

"Then we should settle down with each other."

It's no use expecting goodness or anything from this man.

Pranas exhaled lightly and when he calmed his feelings, he reached out to the scriptures held by the water trees.

Mizuki reveals the scriptures in a light manner.

"The amount of information in the Bible is enormous, it takes a little while to decipher"

Even when it comes to deciphering, Planus is also a specialist in ancient language translation.

It would include some interpretation, but on the spot, you should be able to go ahead and read the book.

"Why don't you tell me, too? How to kick the Orihalcon, where even stronger powers are."

"Yeah, because that's the promise. I'm not going to break my promise of give-and-take."

"Then be good."

"I mean, are you okay? If the Bible was lost, Gratianism would be searching for it with all its strength."

The name of the Bible is not Dada.

It is a substitute that is inherently sealed in the back of its home base, untouchable by anyone.

If you were to steal it out, it should be only a matter of time before the investigation reaches out to its mastermind, Mizuki.

But there was no sense of crisis in the water trees.

"Sin can only be pushed against others, nothing to worry about"

"You seem to be good at working around it."

"Hihi, you did well when you were stuffed in white. My student could be sacrificing another one or so, but you don't have a problem... Huh... I'm sleepy, and I'm going to go to sleep and wait for the fruit report."

Mizuki yawns and leaves the scene for her room.

Pranas turned his heel back to Ivy's room as he glanced at his back with a sincerely contemptuous eye as he missed the scripture in his hand.