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The crater smoked. Nene cautiously looked into the depression, then she turned back around after a bit.
“It feels so weird… Did the Founder really save us?”
“Basically. I don’t know if she really meant to.” Jhin sat on some debris.
Next to him, Sisbell was also perched on other rubble as though it were a chair as she stared at Mismis, who was on her side.
“Sisbell, how’s the commander?”
“You don’t need to worry, Iska. She’s in shock, which is very normal for people who have awakened as mages. But it is a little unusual for someone to fall unconscious so suddenly.”
“I see…”
He let go of a sigh that had been waiting in his lungs. The nerves he’d had since coming to the eighth checkpoint had finally subsided slightly. The women farther off likely felt similarly.
“Lady Alice, I may be late in asking this, but why are you here?”
“Rin, you should start out by asking, Are you all right? before anything else, considering you’re my attendant. By the way, I’m completely fine.”
“I knew you’d say that, so I simply skipped the question.”
Alice patted the dust off her clothes. Rin, who stood behind her, seemed somewhat glum. “Didn’t you want me to stay in the Empire, Lady Alice?”
“I was worried about you. The Founder awakened and was going to attack the Empire. So I left the palace. But what’s going on…?”
Alice gave the two symbols of the Empire and the Sovereignty, who were standing with their backs against the fencing, a dubious look.
“I thought you were just going to stand back and watch?”
“The whole thing was an eyesore.”
“So have you rethought destroying the Empire?”
“I still plan to do it.”
“But the villains in the Empire might have disappeared. I’ll wait at the Lord’s office, so come and see me to talk.”
“You think I would really fall for that?”
“You don’t have anything better to do anyway.”
She had a hard time simply accepting it. Lord Yunmelngen and the Founder Nebulis, who were supposed to be sworn enemies, were having a conversation as though they were friends. Undoubtedly, Alice didn’t understand what was happening.
……Right, Alice is the only one who doesn’t know how they’re acquainted.
……We saw what happened a hundred years ago using Sisbell’s Illumination.
The Founder and the Lord were old acquaintances. However, they had parted ways a hundred years ago. Alice was likely watching them with apprehension because she thought they were enemies who could start fighting at any moment.
“Seems like a waste of time…,” the suntanned girl said bluntly. She got up from the fence. “Yunmelngen, I won’t forgive the Empire for what it’s done. However…”
“However? What?”
“It seems I have an opponent I need to crush before the Empire. I’ll go prepare.”
She turned around, her back facing Lord Yunmelngen. In that one moment, Iska thought he saw her glance his way.
“I hate this place. I don’t want to be here.”
She was acting like a sullen child. After making her feelings clear, the Founder Nebulis disappeared through a space rift.
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