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The blight... has manifested.

No!

That's a Fiend.

A Fiend?

No! No, no! Release me!

Stop it!

Sera, we cut through it and the woman!

It'll drink her soul dry.

If we act now, she can die with her humanity intact.

Don't look at me! O Lord, please, save me!

Retinue Priest Malcius!

Damned monster!

Aleks?

Malcius!

No! Get out of my head!

It's begun to feast! Warriors, with—

Forgive me, Veor!

The others have no obligation to save her,

but two have already died while I stood back.

Anyone... save me...

No more casualties!

By my pride as a knight commander, I will not let the people of my homeland...

No! I will not let the helpless die when they're within my reach!

With enough willpower, I can cut through it!

Not enough to critically wound it...

Release me!

Are you all right, Sera?

Y-Your Thundering Voice...

Still, don't try to stop me, Veor.

I...

We'll help you.

But why?

You're willing to risk your life for hers.

How can we ignore that?

Not after you risked that same life to save my sister and nephew.

You earned this debt with your life. We're gonna pay it back, just the same.

Let us honor the risk you took.

I'm sorry... No, thank you.

Do you have a plan?

When I used my Thundering Voice,

I saw what I believe to be the core of the blight.

The warriors will occupy its tentacles, acting as a distraction,

while I will expose the core again with my Thundering Voice.

Understood. Then I'm to destroy it?

Can I entrust you with the task?

Of course.

Let's go!

Right!

Pierce it!

That's beautiful...

We did it—

Sera!

My head hurts...

I feel like I had an awful dream—

Wh-What in the world is this?!

M-My scripture and relics are g-gone?!

Wh-Why?! O Lord, what do I do?!

B-Barbarian!

I'm going to be violated, passed around, and then murdered!

No!

J-Just try and assault a priest like me, and see what happens!

Divine punishment will befall you!

It'll be real bad! So stay away!

I thought she was supposed to be strong-willed.

In any case, I doubt we'll be having a productive conversation.

Wh-Why would I deign to talk with a savage?!

Lady Serafina? Where is Lady Serafina?

Please, smite this barbarian with the hammer of justice! I beg you! Please!

Forgive me, Sera, but if you could speak to her...

What's wrong, Sera?

I-Is this how I acted on my first day here?

Why are you embarrassed?

You needn't compare yourself to her.

Be that as it may...

It's the same as it was in the woods!

Why are you so familiar with this savage?!

He's our enemy!

The explanation for that will come later...

But I hereby declare,

as a knight commander in the 17th Eastern Expedition,

that these people are no longer my enemy.

Excuse me?! Wh-Wh-What are you saying?! I don't understand!

These barbarians have sworn their unsightly vengeance on us

for our holy crusade...

They don't hate us at all.

Why not?!

I'm not sure.

There's no shortage of things that haven't made sense to me in my time here.

So, I've decided to stay until I understand.

I doubt you remember, considering the state you were in,

but the warriors of this land helped me save you.

I'm not asking you to feel as I do.

But I know repaying goodwill with bad

goes against the the teachings of the Commoneras faith, Malcius.

You've fallen into depravity, haven't you?

Despite being a woman, you were the most knightly of knights,

to the point you rose to the rank of commander!

Sera, what... what is she?

She's always had a tendency to place my knighthood on a pedestal.

A-And what is that salacious outfit?

A-A cleavage window, on top of showing so much leg....

You really have been made into a sex slave!

You're completely mistaken, you fool!

You're a part of the royal line of succession, yet have been defiled...

Would you listen?!

I can only wonder what Princess Wysteresia would say,

were she still alive!

Princess Wysteresia...

That...

You may be right.

You think Wysteresia is dead?

Though I suppose that would be the case, given she's been missing for 20 years.

How dare you speak so lightly of her?!

Do you realize that after giving her life to the crusade,

she was named a Saint by the Order of Commoneras?!

I don't know what any of that means,

but if you want to see her, that's a simple matter.

The lady knight who came from the west, 20 years ago, named Wysteresia...

is my mother.

What?!

Honestly?

It makes a modicum of sense that

Princess Wysteresia could be Veor's mother.

Really?

How are you believing this?!

There is no way that savage can be trusted!

I have no doubt he is using the name of Saint Wysteresia to deceive us!

I would've thought that too, a short while ago.

Wh-Wh-Wha...

But from what I've learned, it's something of a tradition

for the warriors of these lands to romance lady knights...

For example, Nyleia, whom we thought died four years ago,

now has a family here.

Veor is also... c-courting me and...

Is it hot in here?

I-I'll have you know I haven't agreed to marry him yet!

But if you were to ask me whether or not

I'm attracted to a man who can defeat me...

If you're attracted to him, why not get married?

I-It's just that my priority is to learn of this land's bounty,

and use that knowledge to save my home, first...

Is this that "nobless oblige" thing? Seems like quite a pain.

Just think for a moment!

Veor said he would let us see Princess Wysteresia before leaving.

Why would he lie about something that could be proven so quickly?

But...

I can understand why you're surprised.

But if you're skeptical as a default,

you'll have trouble understanding this place.

It's been 20 years...

After losing my mother at an early age,

she was like a sister, a mother, and the knight I aspired to.

If she really is alive, I'd be so overjoyed.

This is without a doubt the willpower of an elite knight!

I-It's giving off such pressure!

You who have come from my homeland, Illdoren...

As wife of the great chief, I offer you my welcome.

Lady Serafina de Lavillant.

My son and his warriors have spoken much of you.

It is my hope you will do well by them.

Now, then... that's enough of the high-handed act.

Don't you think, Sera?

That voice... Is it really you, Resia?

Yeah, Sera!

It's been so long! I wanted to see you sooner,

but they said it'd cause my boy trouble and asked me to wait!

So...

When did you turn into such a temptress?!

That's right! This is how Resia used to act!

Legends were told about the free-spirited Princess Knight, Wysteresia!

Mother... I hope you're done harassing Sera.

I'm just trying to make up for 20 years of separation

from my darling, little relative here!

Or is that a problem?

It clearly is!

More importantly, how far have you gotten with her?

I mean... that's...

In accordance with tradition, I'm currently courting her...

Just "courting"?! You gotta be kidding me!

So, Sera, have you seriously not coupled yet?

I am a maiden in both body and soul, dear Sister!

So she's playing hard to get, huh?

I am simply trying to treat Sera properly!

Look at my boy, the fancy-pants gentleman!

Thinks he can keep a girl without giving her anything to hold onto...

Mother, would you please stop talking?!

Um... e-excuse me...

A-Are you Saint Wysteresia?

Oh, and you must be a part of that crackpot cult of liars

that's somehow still around after seventy-eight thousand years...

I'd appreciate you not killing me off without asking me.

We are not liars!

The Order of Commoneras are the true keepers of humanity's history!

Well, whether that's true or not doesn't really matter.

History's nothing but baggage in these parts.

Excuse me. It's nearly time.

Oh, I had almost forgotten.

All right, let's get moving. We can fill in the details once we get there.

To where?

Sera... you and our warriors hunted a true dragon, a rare accomplishment,

along with slaying an accursed Fiend.

Glory is waiting for you out on the beach.

That's...

I'm sure of it. The skull of that dragon I slew.

The life that I took with the help of Veor and the others.

It's been less than half a day, but they've carefully butchered it

and polished the bones...

In the west, such sights of mortality are kept in the shadows...

But here, they honor the creature's death,

leaving not a scrap of of bone or fat,

with its flesh becoming sustenance for the people...

I haven't been here for long, but I can't help myself from feeling grateful.

And...

Excited to eat this!

So good! Morisuberis are delicious!

Sera.

It's good grilled, but even better with sauce.

Really?!

Such fluffy meat with fragrant, sweet and spicy sauce!

If such beasts were native to the capital,

they'd have been hunted to extinction by now!

It's still flavorful when preserved, so it fetches quite a price in trade.

Then it's a part of the village's economy as well?

Other beasts and dragons are good...

but in terms of taste, it truly is the best.

And here we have something that

the fairies from the wetlands brewed from local grains.

It's called "quartz wine." You won't find a finer liquor!

You drink that... and you'll be gone.

Gone?!

I'm alive!

Look at her face! Surely this is some form of blasphemy...

Want some?

Why would I eat such treacherous meat?!

Your stubbornness is only making you look more pitiful.

There's nothing sadder than an empty stomach, you know.

I might hate what the Order of Commoneras stands for,

but I did receive some charity from them once...

Does that mean—

Hot! That's hot!

It was a long time ago.

Now, make sure to chew that properly.

You were fortunate enough that Lady Sera and the warriors were able to save you.

It's good.

Gone...

They're all... gone...

because I insisted on saving Lady Serafina...

I was so convinced it would be easy... that nothing could go wrong.

But I'm the only one who survived...

You really are foolish.

Those dead knights joined you because they chose to.

You should be relieved to have survived.

This is what I hate about you people.

Gotta say, though... it really has been a long time, Sera.

Yes... finding out you're alive... I can't imagine any greater joy.

I'm relieved, too. You're fitting in better than I figured.

And that engagement necklace suits you.

Excuse me? Engagement... engagement...

Necklace?

Wh-What sense does that make?! Isn't it supposed to be a ring?!

The thing is, you'll lose a ring if your arm gets bitten off by a dragon!

How strangely pragmatic....

That said, giving a gift to mark an engagement is a tradition from the west.

They adopted it out of consideration for us.

The standard around here used to be a woman seduced the man she fell for,

took him to bed, and gave him a child

that the community would raise collectively.

Such a... wild approach.

Hundreds of years ago, the eastern forces first broke through the woods...

Every time they were chased off, prisoners of war were left behind.

Some women fell in love with those knights...

And there would always be men who fell for lady knights.

And after a while, concepts like engagement, marriage,

family units and bloodlines took root out here, too.

Trace the family tree of anyone here,

and I doubt you'd find anyone here who doesn't have some Illdoren blood.

Which is why there's no issue with you and Veor being wed.

And don't think I'm saying you've got to marry my Veo.

But if you don't hate him... it's not like the courtship will cost you anything.

You can be honest with how you feel. No one's gonna hold it against you.

But I... I have an obligation

to bring happiness to the people who live on Lavillant lands.

The idea of finding happiness before they can...

Listen well, Sera.

You've been fighting for other people all this time...

But it's conceited to think you can make other people happy,

if you don't even know what it means for yourself.

When she puts it like that... what would happiness even mean for me?

No need to get so serious. You've got plenty of time to figure it out.

You seemed pretty damn happy with some tasty food in hand.

I'd say that's good enough.

My own happiness? I've never even considered it before.

Sera, about tomorrow...

Sera?

Forgive me. Did you need something?

Well, regarding tomorrow's activities...

The Tribal Alliance will be undertaking the purpose for their creation.

A great cleansing.

A great... cleansing?

It's time I reveal one of the great secrets of these lands to you.