"What?" Luigi gasped, suddenly anxious. "What danger?!" "You live in the Mushroom Kingdom, right?" He nodded. "And your brother is 'the hero of the Mushroom Kingdom?'" "Yep. Quite famous," he grumbled, spiteful of his twin brother's excessive popularity in spite of what Mario had just told him. "The Mushroom Kingdom… The Crystal of Oblivion…" She continued her horrified mutterings whilst Luigi stood utterly confused. "Eh, Glace? Glace? Earth to Glace!"
"Y-Your brother… I think I understand why he's been kidnapped…" She shook her head slowly and looked up at him, hands folded behind her back. "I've heard of the Ember Kingdom… They're my kingdom's worst enemy. And as you described the 'weird cloak people,' they sound like Ember soldiers. Particularly, ones trained for enemy abduction. We've been at war with them for years. Or at least, Cold War. Basically a bunch of back and forth angry chitchat and spying. Oh, the amount of Ember soldiers our military apprehends at the border. But then rumors began to fly around that the Mushroom Kingdom, situated between our kingdoms, had the Crystal of Oblivion…"
Luigi interrupted her. "The Mushroom Kingdom sits between your kingdoms?" "Yes. A common Mushroom citizen can't easily enter either kingdom due to a special force protecting our kingdoms. When you walk across the border, you teleport unknowingly across the kingdom to land with the same visuals. It essentially creates an illusion that the kingdoms don't exist to foreigners. This protects us from invasion. You have to be blessed by magic to enter either kingdom." Luigi just gave her a dumbfounded look. "Well, okeydokey…" "It… is… really confusing. Magic is complicated."
"Okay, just say what you'd been saying about that Crystal of Something…" "Of course. The Crystal of Oblivion is an ultimately powerful crystal capable of destroying entire kingdoms. A blood-red gem believed to be embedded in the crown of the Mushroom Princess…" "Princess Peach? Princess Peach has a crown with two blue jewels and a red jewel, and she's heir to the Mushroom throne… And my brother's love interest…" Luigi said. "Mario and Peach are really close friends, and I'm dang sure he's madly in love with her…"
"That could be why…!" Glace clutched her dress's collar. "Both our kingdoms desire the Crystal to end the war by destroying the other! But the Crystal cannot be taken forcibly. It has to be passed over by a royal family member. So, if Mario is close friends with the princess, he must've been kidnapped as a bribe for the Crystal. And I must admit, neither Ember nor Frost treats captives well…" She glanced up and noticed Luigi looked dizzy. "Luigi?" "Mario… captive… Crystal… Ooh..." "Luigi, are you oka-" And before she could even finish her sentence, Luigi comically fainted on the grass.