"Phew... you're back"

The five of us were back on the ground. Looking back, I can see the Fifth Labyrinth, but it's already a mushroom there. At the bottom, Eve was right, there was nothing. What that woman was saying was crazy, but it didn't seem to lie.

"Hmmm. I knew it felt good out there..."

"Ugh... it's cold..."

"Hmm. You're a doll, but you have five senses. Aria is really strange."

"Hey, Marie. Don't look at me like that! I'm scared of something!

Marie and Aria seemed completely unraveled, and the two were talking amicably. I'm glad I didn't do anything to kill people in this labyrinth. I relieve myself and put it in my mouth.

"Speaking of which, El. Did you notice the structure of that labyrinth?

"Hmm? Ah. In the end, that was split vertically into two layers. So, every ten layers seemed like a mechanism that wouldn't open without destroying each other's demons."

"I see... so that was a labyrinth you couldn't tread on if you were alone"

"Even so, it's suspicious that it was working technically because someone was treading on it first. Seems like that's the only one who knows everything."

"That was Eve. Are you Elle's sister?"

"Was my face me?"

"... you're certainly neutral, so you can go with a woman."

"... I'm also allergic to affirming myself, but that woman looked too much like me. I'm pretty sure it has blood ties. But..."

"Can't solve the fact that we're using humans as experimental tools...? Well, I haven't seen it in person, but I'm pretty sure you're not a decent person as far as I can tell about what Aria did there, and the corpse that was embedded in the ice."

"It's something I don't want to admit. I can't believe that's my sister."

"Ma, you'll be careful the next time you see him. I don't know what you're gonna do."

"Right..."

I talked to Rafe and the women were having some excitement with the three of them. Even so, Aria was just messing with me, as usual. But yeah, maybe Aria's just happy doing it and laughing. The future of committing suicide just like that was also easy. Still, Aria decided to live. I'll take care of it responsibly until the end... I can't say anything, but I want to do everything I can.

And we decided to stay in an inn in the Igal Republic for only one day. I didn't have to rush home that far, and I'm tired, so I decided to take a break.

That night. As I was sorting out and writing in my notebook about what had happened so far in my room, the Phee one came alone.

"El, do you mind now?

"Ah......"

I look up from my notebook and invite Fee into my room.

"Elle had a tough time... the..."

"No, I'm good about me. More than that, sorry."

I bow my head. I've always wanted to apologize. That's because I made the choice of saying I was abandoning Fee.

"Oh, no! I don't apologize, but! 'Cause that was the best thing I could do then and... Aria would die alone, wouldn't she?

"Right. But Aria is actually..."

"It was Doyle, wasn't it? Sounds different to Homuncles though."

"You're a doll of human consciousness, to be exact"

"... Phew. I wonder what a labyrinth really is."

"So is the labyrinth, but who the hell is that woman?

"Sister, what is it?

"Ah. But when you think about it, there are things that don't fall on your heart."

"What?"

"I mean who the hell am I..."

"Elle was taken from the orphanage, so to speak."

"Oh. But I guess I'm not just an orphan. Suitability until abnormal against alchemy. And a different human being to call her sister. And he was a magical man. So I wonder what magic has to do with me again."

"I thought Elle was special, but I don't think it's magic..."

"I'm surprised, too, but I'm sure you'll think of it from the circumstances"

"Are you okay? Who is that sister..."

"There will be no reconciliation. The next time we meet, we could be killing each other. That woman had the awesomeness to do it when she did. And they see humans as experimental animals. It would be self-evident to think about killing me."

I only have one piece of information that I haven't told everyone. That means that woman is drowning on me. I tell Aria not to say that either. It's hard to say for myself, and it's embarrassing... because I think I need to face that obsession myself more than I do.

"Ma, if anything happens, I can help. And even if I make you a real family..."

"Hmm? What? I was thinking."

"It's nothing. Yo! You asshole deaf!!

And, throwing up the discard dialogue, Phee left. Totally noisy one.

The next day, early morning. I feel the inn bothering me. We're stunned to hear what's going on.

'And I need to buy some time...'

That was the word Eve was saying that still caught me. Buy time, which means there was a reason you wanted to keep us in the Fifth Labyrinth. I wasn't thinking deeply. But it was uncomfortable, and it remained in the corner of my head. And what I heard in this inn, and even that murderous atmosphere when I was in the kingdom before. Serena and Fred also made it clear here why they were in a hurry.

We hurried back to the kingdom. But it's a long way to go. It would take nearly two weeks if it were normal from the Igal Republic to the Kingdom of Canovaria. We could travel in about a day using metastases, but we still wasted that time.

It was not a long time. Was this why she wanted me to stay in the Fifth Labyrinth for so long?

Yes, evil in my heart doesn't change itself.

"This is..."

The next day.

We finally saw the kingdom in its sight. But it's not the kingdom I know there.

It's burning. The kingdom is engulfed in flames like a fiery fire. And screaming and yelling. Every grudge is echoing.

The place you are now in is the King's Capital. I don't know what's going on except for Wang Du, but you can undoubtedly assume that almost all Wang Du is consumed by the sea of fire.

"Errr! Let's go!

"Ahhh!

Me and Fee, for now, to the association. Marie, Rafe and Aria broke up on the spot by saying they would rescue a living human being.

"Ugh..."

"Oh my god... how could you..."

Us rushing through the king's capital. We don't use metastases to see if there are any living people yet. But there were hardly any living people there. The first material, Prima Materia, is completely falling out of the falling human being. Plus the peculiar smell that occurs when you burn people. The protein was full of burning odors.

What the hell is going on? And are all my family, friends and students safe?

Please, please. Please, guys, please stay alive...

All I could do was pray.

"Nah... the association..."

"You're completely destroyed... probably a blast. I'm sure it's from the wreckage."

Alchemy Society. Though it was good to get there, there was no building there that I always watched. It's completely collapsed. It remains well after the bombing, under which people are underneath and dead.

Oh... this while they were taking time in the Fifth Labyrinth... this is what happened...

"... El, hold on. At a time like this, we have to try to be calm."

"... oh, right. Sorry."

Yes. I'm not the only one who's hard. Instead, Fee, who spends 10 years longer in this kingdom than I do, is the one who's having a hard time. I'm not the only one who can be beaten by this reality.

Such an arrow tip, I find the face I see. That's... Serena.

"Serena!!

"Errr!!!? I'm back!!?

"What the hell happened!!?

"It's a coup!! The mastermind is Princess Alice III...... ugh!

"" Nah!!?

I don't believe it. There's no way Alice would do this.

I don't know the division. What the hell happened to this kingdom... Alice?

Thus, on August 8, 1994, a coup d 'état arose in the Kingdom of Canovaria. At the same time this was… the beginning of a long battle.