Stahl, Gaius, and Sumia all got up first thing in the morning. Sumia hardly said anything to the two – she just told them to follow her. And follow her they did, to the Insurrection-sympathetic town. It took them a while to get there – and when they did, they found not Henry, but the Archanean Empire.

Indeed, they could see a battle raging on between the Archanean Empire and what appeared to be the Insurrection. Sumia grinned. "Finally." She said, before riding into the war-torn town. Stahl and Gaius looked at each other before following her.

As they ran into the town, Stahl and Gaius saw a figure with green-brown hair and a goatee that they vaguely recognized. It was one of the bandits they had encountered over their time in the war against Grima – but they couldn't pinpoint who it was. Many of the bandits they had encountered seemed interchangeable. However, Sumia seemed to know who it was.

"Ruger," She said, before looking to see that Stahl and Gaius were confused. "He's one of Captain Libra's top men."

"Ah." Stahl said, before he heard a familiar voice again.
"Well, well, well!" the voice shouted, and the three turned around to see three Archanean soldiers and a lieutenant all staring right at them. "If it isn't Sumia. The Queen will be pleased to see you again."

Stahl stood there for a moment before glancing down at Sumia. "We'll take care of him. Go help Ruger."

Sumia nodded and ran to combat some of the other Archanean soldiers alongside Ruger, who shouted "For Libra! For the Insurrection!" Stahl and Gaius looked back at the lieutenant, who only smirked.

"You two realize who you've been traveling with, yes?"

Stahl only let out an 'erm', so Gaius answered for him. "Trust me, we wouldn't be traveling around with her if we didn't know who she was." Not even a second passed before the lieutenant and his soldiers charged towards Stahl and Gaius, and the two charged right back.

He didn't stand much of a chance, though. Stahl and Gaius quickly slayed two of the three soldiers soldiers, and together equipped with lances, were able to dodge the lieutenant's lance easily. Gaius and the lieutenant locked lances, the former being able to knock the surviving soldier's lance out of his hand. Stahl slayed the final soldier, but the lieutenant was not going to give up, though, and he tackled Stahl onto the ground, only be stabbed to death by Gaius. They stared at his body for a moment before getting back into the fray.

Sumia, meanwhile, was proud to finally be fighting alongside the Insurrection. She felt satisfaction as she helped Ruger and his men take down the Archanean soldiers. She turned to see three soldiers and a mage cornering some of the townsfolk, and she charged towards them, impaling and slaying every single of them. Ruger briefly looked at her with a face of approval. But then he froze - and Sumia could hear cracking sounds coming from him. "No, no!" was all he could yell out in pain before collapsing to the ground, dead.

She looked up at one of the rooftops, and her eyes widened at the sight of Henry.

Neither the Archanean Empire nor the Insurrection seemed to notice him – yet. But then more and more of soldiers from both sides, as well as civilians, began to either get engulfed in purple flames or feel the cracking of their skeletons. The fighting stopped, and soldiers and civilians looked up, their mouths agape at seeing the white-haired anarchist.

"This war is as pointless and meaningless as all the dozens of others that have ravaged these here lands!" Henry shouted, in and chilling and enraged tone Stahl and Gaius rarely if ever heard from his counterpart. Henry chuckled to himself. "The world is doomed to burn. Why not ignite the flames now?" He said in a much quieter voice before he resumed breaking and burning the town.

"Retreat! Retreat!" could be heard from soldiers on both sides, and everyone began to flee. Sumia ran up to the two with a concerned look on her face.

"We're going to have to leave again! Let's get on the horses!"

Stahl looked up at Henry with a glare on his face before looking at Sumia. "No. Not this time. I'm not leaving innocent people at his mercy."

Sumia had an exasperated look on her face. "We can't fight Henry! He's too powerful!"

Gaius pondered it for a moment, before he thought of the possibility that he could urprise-kill Henry, and the remembered the spell the other Henry had placed upon him. He looked up at the building, his eyes widening when he saw that Henry was no longer on the rooftop. He, Stahl, and Sumia all saw Henry down in the streets, eyeing some of the civilians.

The civilians all screamed and tried to run, but Henry froze them where they were and engulfed them all in purple fire, grinning as he relished their bloodcurdling screams.

"We might have a chance." Gaius said to Sumia, in an attempt to quell her. Just as he said that, Henry began to spread the purple fire across the entire town. And then several children – none of whom could've been older than 10 – darted past Henry in an attempt to flee the town. Henry froze them where they were – and Gaius, realizing what was about to happen, charged towards Henry. Stahl tried to follow the redhead, but Sumia stopped him.

The children cried, wanting the nightmare to end. But Henry only grinned and pulled out a knife from his pants. He slowly slid it on one of the kids' foreheads – just barely soft enough that no blood came out, not that it mattered. The young boy let out a horrible scream of both terror and pain. "Don't worry, boys and girls. It'll all be over soon."

His smile at the thought of what he was about to do would've haunted Gaius if he saw it, but he charged towards Henry from behind, ready to impale him in the chest just as he had done with Lon'qu.

But Henry turned around and froze him, his grin morphing into a smirk. "Well, well, well…I remember you. I do regret not being able to finish you off earlier. Oh well, I can make up for that right here, right now."

He formed a fist with his right hand and tried to crack Gaius' skeleton…but he couldn't. He could only let out a simple 'huh' before he tried again. Gaius couldn't help but notice the irony. He had been saved from one Henry by the other.

"This…this is a complication." In his confusion, Henry let go of his hold on the kids, and they used the opportunity to run like hell. Henry let go of Gaius and looked to some of the other citizens to try and test out his powers. He froze the citizens in place and engulfed them all in his purple fire. He laughed gleefully as he watched them go up in flames – but he was left further confused by his situation with Gaius.

Stahl used the opportunity and charged towards Henry, managing to get a nice jab in the face. Gaius began to pound on Henry as well – it wasn't like there was anything Henry could do to him. Sumia, along with many of the surviving civilians, just watched in complete shock as Gaius gained the upper hand on the anarchist that plagued the nightmares of so many.

Stahl had an idea and dashed off – Gaius wasn't sure what he was planning to do, but he was focused on taking out Henry. After delivering a few good kicks and jabs to Henry, the anarchist himself kicked Gaius in the chest and pulled out his knife.

"Ain't no harm in trying to kill you the old-fashioned away, I guess."

Just before Gaius could see if Henry's knife would actually do anything, Stahl came riding in with his horse. "Come on, Gaius!" he yelled to the redhead. Gaius was confused, but he trusted Stahl enough to get on the horse. "We're going to try and lure him away from the town." He whispered to Gaius, who only nodded – he didn't have anything better, so he decided he would just roll with it.

The horse dashed its way out of the town, and Henry stared at them with a death glare. They weren't going to get away – not again. Stahl and Gaius were going to keep charging away until Henry neared them, which wouldn't be too much longer. Before they could head off into the woods, the horse froze in place, and Stahl and Gaius got off just before the horse engulfed in flames. A poof of purple smoke appeared a few feet away, and there was Henry.

"You two and your friend got lucky last time. But there's no lesser anarchists to deal with this time," he said letting out a small but sadistic cackle.

Gaius grunted and charged towards Henry, landing in a more punches and kicks, before impaling him with his lance. But to his and Stahl's shock, this did not kill Henry. It certainly injured him, but he was able to remove the lance with himself. He coughed violently as he did so.

"Don't…don't fret yourselves. I'll be able to heal from this real soon."

He turned his head to face Stahl, and grinned. "Let's see if you'll crack, shall we?"

He froze Stahl and place, and the latter could only look at Henry in horror. He could then feel his bones on the verge of cracking – it was a level of pain he didn't think anyone could feel, and all he could was scream in agony while Henry watched with glee.

Gaius wasn't going to let anything happen to Stahl, so he snatched Henry's knife while he wasn't looking and began to repeatedly stab him in the chest with it. Henry began to bleed excessively, but he only smirked.

"I'll figure out a way to deal with you," Henry uttered holding his chest as he did so.

Stahl breathed heavily, relieved that the pain was over. "Why…why do you like to cause so much pain and suffering like this?"

Henry turned to face Stahl, that smirk still glued to his face. "As I grew up, I realized what a joke the world is. Look what we got here now! We have the Thorn Queen in power, but those people who told you that Captain Libra is pure and heroic…they're full of shit. He's not the saint everyone thinks he is. He's a jackass who will turn out little better. So why not let the world burn?"

Just then, Henry could feel himself get impaled in the chest again, and he turned around to see Sumia sporting a death glare at him – she had finally worked up the nerve to join Stahl and Gaius. "You speak lies about Captain Libra! He is indeed a saint – and he will make the world better for everyone!"

Before Henry could remove the lance from his chest again, Stahl, Gaius, and Sumia all began to pound on him violently – and even with the healing abilities he had given himself, he was too weak to fight back. Gaius threw him up against a tree and decked him in the face twice, and Henry began to cough blood.

"I-idealistic fools…" he muttered, before demonic howling and growling could be heard in the distance. Everyone knew what that meant – firewalkers were coming.

The trio began to slowly back away, before darting back to the town when half a dozen wolves emitting red fire jumped out from the trees. Luckily for them, the wolves focused their attention on the bleeding Henry, and he felt their ungodly powerful teeth. This was not something his healing abilities could save him from.

Gaius took a look back to see that the wolves rushed off back into the woods – and that they had finished off Henry. They found themselves near the burning village, where many of the survivors simply stared at the three in awe.

"They…they just killed Henry…"

"I can't believe it!"

"Henry is finally dead! Praise be all!"

"Thank heavens there's still heroes in this world!"

Sumia herself looked at Stah and Gaius with a look of approval on her face. "Not bad. Not bad at all."

Stahl couldn't help but rub his neck sheepishly.

Cherche gulped as she accompanied Vaike, General Sully, and Lieutenant Phila to the royal castle. She didn't like that she would be seeing Queen Cordelia for the second time this week – her first encounter with the Thorn Queen left her deeply unnerved. But she had been ordered by General Sully to come with her, so she felt she didn't have a choice.

They entered the royal castle, and Queen Cordelia and King Frederick stood there, waiting for them. "You requested us, my Queen?" General Sully asked.

"I did," Queen Cordelia replied, sporting that cold look on her face that Cherche still couldn't get comfortable with. "Word is, sympathy for the Insurrection is growing down by the Midmire."

General Sully raised an eyebrow to this. "The Midmire? But that's down south. Most support for Captain Libra has been up north."

"Yes, yes, I do know how strange it is. But we must still burn it down the ground."
Cherche jumped at this. "B-burn it down?!" She blurted out, covering her mouth. Queen Cordelia let out a death glare towards her.

"Do you have a problem with that?"

Cherche gulped again. "W-well, as General Sully pointed out, the M-midmire is down s-south. T-they won't really affect the war. I-I just don't think we need to slaughter any more innocents like this. I'm just saying, there has to be a better way to handle this!"

Queen Cordelia let out a disgusted 'ugh' and Cherche didn't like where this was going. "It does matter that sympathy is growing down there. It's quite simple, really. If we let sympathy stay in that one town, then sympathy could grow through the entire south. And we wouldn't want that, now, would we?"

"N-no, my Queen."

"Exactly," Queen Cordelia replied, before turning her head back to everyone else. "Sully, Phila, prepare for the attack on that town."

"Yes, my Queen." General Sully said, before she walked away with Lieutenant Phila and Vaike.

Cherche was shaking too badly to even move – she felt her Queen would stop her in her tracks if she tried to do so. King Frederick walked up to her and placed his hand on her shoulder. "You've dug yourself deep. Just…prepare yourself for this wretched bitch's fury," he whispered before walking away.

She felt sweat dropping from her face as Queen Cordelia quickly approached her until she was only inches away from the knight. As the Queen looked down at Cherche with a look of barely collected contempt, Cherche could only let out an 'uh.'

"Come with me, woman. There is something I wish to show you."