Chapter 33: The Iron Maiden.
Byleth found himself being called to Edelgard's summonings the day before a big march towards the Kingdom Capital of Fhirdiad. The plan was to finally knock the Blue Lions Corp out of the war, and corner the Church of Seiros. As per the usual battle meetings, Hubert and Sapphire were both by her side.
"Ah, Byleth great." Edelgard said, breathing a sigh of relief. "I meant to get this to you before, but, we got caught up in a heated argument with my Uncle."
"That's alright, so, what's the big emergency?"
"It's not an emergency we called you here for." Hubert said bitterly, a crooked smile emerging on his face. "It's more of a...strategy."
Byleth then noticed the map on the table they were looking at. The direct march of the Strike Force was now no longer routed towards Fhirdiad, but instead, towards the Kingdom Fortress City of Arianrhod. A city often regarded to be an impenetrable fortress town that was a symbol of Kingdom Nationalism as it was the one fortress the Empire failed to take during the Kingdom revolt centuries prior.
"You're...switching up our battle plans?" Byleth asked, a puzzled look emerging on his face.
"Indeed." Edelgard gave him an approving smile. "There is a reason that we've decided to switch this up last minute, we'll explain everything right now."
"Firstly." Sapphire said, pointing at two figures. "Two important figures in the Kingdom Lion Corp are stationed there, Ingrid, the Queen of Faerghus, and Rodrique, Dimitri's "Advisor." Both parties are currently stationed there, and would provide a flank if we marched towards the Kingdom Capital."
"And, this is a reason that cannot leave this room." Edelgard firmly stated. "However, our main target is this woman." Byleth looked at a modeled mage with orange hair.
"Her name is Cornelia," Hubert explained, crossing his arms. "She's a part of Those Who Slither In The Dark. We believe that she is somewhat responsible for the experimentation involving Moon's blood. She also happens to be a personal favorite of Lady Edelgard's Uncle."
"We have still yet to locate where my Uncle's hideaway is." Edelgard frowned at the thought. "However, if we strike Cornelia down, we might get a clue from my Uncle."
"This should go without saying," Hubert continued. "However, should Lord Aurdel ask, it was never our intention to kill Cornelia, even though that is literally the only reason we are rerouting our army."
"Understood," Byleth replied.
"Good, now, you and Hubert go round up the Strike Force." Edelgard said.
When both males left, the Empress turned to Sapphire, the blue haired general noted her paler face and thinning hair.
"You know you don't have to push yourself...your lifespan is already shortened thanks to your two crests."
"I know...but...I still have a few more years. I can use that time to reform and rebuild, while trying to find an heir."
"Do you not have confidence that Linhardt's Experimentation will succeed?"
"I'm holding out for hope...after all, I would like to have a normal, peaceful life with a special someone after this war is over. However, that is not my main concern."
Sapphire raised an eyebrow. "Then...what's the deal."
"Sapphire...when this war is over and my uncle is dealt with, there is no need for an army anymore. We aren't going to frighten people into submission, we want to do this peacefully. Everyone else in the Strike Force has a role or life that they can fulfill or go back to when this is over, everyone except you."
The blue haired boy frowned. "I...I suppose I haven't thought about it." he said. "My marriage to Willow is still unofficial...it's just an excuse to give us reason to pressure the Kingdom. So...I don't have any commitment."
"Well...whatever you do decide...I'll respect." Edelgard said with a smile. "You've done so much and...I do owe my life to you since you found me...so, as long as it has nothing to do with holding an army, we should be fine."
"I understand…" Sapphire said. He watched the Emperor walk out of the discussion room as he looked out the window, seeing Moon heading towards Abyss, once again to presumably look for the Spider-haired woman's name again.
"Hmm…" he said.
"Felix...are you sure you're going to be okay?"
The tsundere sighed as he clutched his silver sword, swiftly dodging the strike of a cavalier before slicing the man off the horse.
"I'm...I'm fine." He said to Annette as she smashed Crusher down on an armored knight. "I just feel as though we shouldn't have come." As if on cue, he heard the familiar stern and loud voice that made him groan inwardly, before dodging out of the way as a large gold spear struck the ground where he was standing.
He took a moment to process what had just happened, before feeling a bit of rage in his core.
"Felix...why?!" Both him and Annette turned to face Ingrid. Their old classmate had her eyes pinned on him, a mixture of rage and sadness mixed between them.
"I'm here too!" Annette fired back.
"I don't give two shits about you." Ingrid retorted, she took a step towards them, which Felix responded by backing Annette up as their former classmate drew Lúin out and braced it in a ready stance.
"You've betrayed His Majesty, You've betrayed Glenn, and Lord Rodrigue…" Ingrid snapped, Felix could tell her anger was at a breaking point. "You've betrayed just about everyone."
"So did I!" Annette spoke up.
"You were always a hopeless brat." Ingrid snapped at the orange haired warlock.
"She was far better than you at school." Felix retorted.
"Ingrid, good!" Rodrigue came into view on the back of a white horse from around a corner, making Felix groan inward even further. "You found the traitors we can send in the titans."
"Titans...what do yo-BAH!" Felix turned towards Annette, and much like her, nearly had a heart attack, a large balcony wall opened up towards the stairs leading towards Cornelia's planning room, and from it, emerged a giant golem looking titan, made out of black material. It was taller than the walls surrounding the city, and it carried a shield and giant sword. It took one step forward and it's foot sent a loud shockwave that the two Friends nearly stumbled over.
"What the hell?!" The sound of Caspar's loud shouts from the opposite side of the town.
The titan golem turned its head towards Annette, lifting up its sword. Realizing what was about to happen, Felix quickly pushed her to the ground, falling on top of her as the golem swung its massive sword at her. A powerful gust of wind blew across, making Annette's orange hair stand up as Felix looked down at her.
Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of it, the sword kept going and sliced through four cottages reducing them to literally nothing.
"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS?!" Felix shouted to his father and former classmate. Thankfully for him and Annette, the Titan didn't know to do anything other than a wide horizontal slash, so as long as he kept her pinned to the ground, the would be fine. Unfortunately, he could hear Ingrid and his father moving closer to them.
"You just destroyed people's homes!" Annette shouted.
"It's not like anyone is using them." They heard Rodrigue snap. "Everyone here was drafted to the army. Honestly, we should've just done that from the beginning and-" Felix silently cheered that he knew his father enough to know he was starting to monologue some shit about why he should've listened to that boar prince from the beginning.
"Felix...let me move my arm." Annette whispered, he could feel her small arms attempting to wiggle out of his grasp.
"My father's a damn Holy Knight." Felix hissed at her. "The most your magic will do is give him a small bruise. And you know how irritating Ingrid is. I just need…"
Thankfully, it seemed as though someone finally got their act together, as a loud screech echoed from the town, suddenly, a giant black Kaiju-es looking creature rivaling the size of the golem sprung up from where Moon and Sapphire were supposed to be stationed.
Taking his opportunity, Felix quickly rolled him and Annette out of the way as the giant black foot stomped right next to them, separating them from Rodrigue and Ingrid.
"You can get up now." The two blinked as Sapphire shouted over at them.
Both of them quickly stood up as Moon clawed at the titan, pushing the giant doll backwards. Then, Kaiju-Moon moved his foot, letting both of them reconcile with their former friends and family.
Unfortunately, it seemed as though Ingrid had been waiting, as she came flying in with Lúin, Felix quickly kicked the Aegis Shield up from behind his back and blocked her spear strike with his sword, then caught the shield and pushed Ingrid back.
"Is this what you wanted?!" Felix grunted at her as he felt the scrape of Lúin's spearhead bash against the shield once more. "Is this what you wanted to do with your life? Kill not just innocent people, but your own people?! Throw away life after life in the means of nothing!"
"It's not just nothing!" Ingrid snarled back at him, unleashing a Frozen Lance strike. "Glenn died for his highness. Your own brother died to save Dimitri, and you turn on him?! Turn on us?!"
"MY BROTHER DIED IN VAIN!" Felix shouted, kicking Ingrid back. This time, taking the offensive, having Ingrid block his sword strike with the shaft of the spear. "Look around you! That boar is insane! He could've resolved this peacefully, but NO! He just HAD to believe that a twelve year old girl caused the damn tragedy that killed everyone! Including my brother! Even then, why is he so fixated on killing Edelgard in the first place?!"
Ingrid's unresponsiveness sparked a little trigger in him, silencing out someone's calls for help.
"You don't know! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!" Honestly, even he had never heard himself yell like this, not even at his father after he praised Glenn's death. "You're his wife! THE DAMN QUEEN! AND YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
"We don't need to know the truth...whatever it may be." Ingrid snapped back. Her fury too was at its peak. "Our King knows what's right, I'll follow him until the very end. Unlike you and Annette!"
"FELIX!"
Those sorrowful words caught his ears, in all that time, he had forgotten about Annette. He rolled out of the way of Ingrid's Spear toss and turned towards his father, who seemed to have overpowered her in a swift fight. Something that he did notice was his father's glare, a cold, emotionless soul, just like Dimitri's had been.
"I would've left this to your father." Rodrigue snarled over Annette, who was backing up. "However, you took my only other son from me and now...I'm going to avenge Glenn, starting with all of y-"
Felix never wanted to hear his father again, without even thinking, he charged forward and impaled his father with his blade.
Whatever scream his father let out, it never reached his ears, all he did was impale, drop the sword, and run to Annette.
The orange haired Warlock grabbed onto her lover as she watched with widened eyes as Rodrigue fell to the ground, to her, this was a sight of shock, but to Felix...he didn't seem all that bothered.
"Felix…"
"I'm alright…" he said firmly, holding onto her, pushing close against his chest.
"Felix…"
"It's okay...really, my father was a lost hope anyway…"
"Felix…"
"Annette, let me hold you dammit, I need your comfor-"
"INGRID BAKA!"
Before either of them could react, they heard a loud smash, as they turned their heads towards Ingrid, they saw a large tomahawk lodged into the back of her skull. Their former classmate dropped to her knees, dropping Lúin in the process, and finally collapsed on the ground. Leaving Sapphire standing over her corpse.
"You're welcome by the way." He said sarcastically. "But save your stamina and comfort for the bedroom, this is a damn battlefield!" Both former lions blushed.
"How dare you!" Cornelia snarled as she ducked under Byleth's whip slash from the Sword of the Creator. "This is what you decide to do!"
Edelgard blocked her Bhors X spell with her shield before attempting to strike with Aymr, Cornelia scowled at Edelgard's blocking skills.
"You just couldn't hand him over?!" she snarled.
"You don't deserve to be tampering with innocent lives all over again." Edelgard snapped as she Smashed Aymr against the planning desk as Byleth swiped through a window with the Creator Sword. "What do you even need his blood for anyway?!"
"Go down Cornelia." Byleth swiped through a blast of Miasma from her, letting the Sword's blade slash through the woman's clothing.
Cornelia fell back with a hiss as she casted an Abraxas over Edelgard, unfortunately, the geyser blast was not something she could block and it exploded, throwing her back.
Thinking quickly, Byleth tapped into Sothis's given magic spells and casted a Thunder strike to zap the Agarthan woman. Then, he did a fast slash and launched the woman into the ground.
Cornelia grunted as she laid down. "I...I see…" she muttered, glaring at Edelgard as she pushed herself up in her heavy armor. "I thought we were outplaying you...but it seems...we've only been outplaying ourselves."
Byleth sighed as he watched her close her eyes and stop moving, instead of normal red blood leaking out from the gash in her chest, a lot of purplish black ooze seeped out of her body.
They heard another massive explosion followed by loud klangs of metal hitting the ground, telling them that the Titan had been destroyed as a result of Cornelia's death.
"What on earth even was that?" Byleth asked, referring to the titan.
"Some ancient Agarthan technology if I had to guess." Edelgard said. "My Axe, Aymr, was crafted by them as well...my uncle is a force to be reckoned with."
Byleth nodded as Sapphire and Moon walked in.
"I can't believe Rodrigue and Ingrid were okay with this!" Sapphire said, shaking his head. "They still have civilians here. I can't imagine what was going through their heads when they unleashed that Titan."
"Well...we have no time to reminisce about that." Edelgard replied, sighing as Byleth wiped some sweat off his head. "For now, we should focus on making this place a…" she paused as Moon's eyes widened in a state of horror.
"What...Moon...what's going on?!" Byleth asked.
Without saying anything, Moon pulled out the Orcus staff, the orb glowed blue and, throughout Arianrhod, everyone in the strike force vanished in a flash of pink light.
The 14 strike force members appeared on the outskirts of Arianrhod, at first, everyone seemed bewildered and startled, before snapping back to reality.
"Moon?! What the hell?!" Hubert snapped immediately. "Why would you teleport us out! We needed to occupy the…"
Moon pointed out towards the city, everyone looked forward and watched.
A giant circle of white light suddenly appeared around the fortress city and surrounded it. Then, the circle's started to rise up, like multiple hula hoops surrounding the city.
"What on earth?!" Linhardt asked.
From the sky, a large bright white Javelin frell from the sky, and smashed into the heart of the city, right where Cornelia's strategy house had been created. For a brief moment, everyone stood in silence, then, the Javelin exploded. Not just any explosion, it was more like an explosive volcano of bright white light burst all around, unleashing a massive shockwave.
Moon quickly put up a shield of PSI energy, protecting all of the strike force from the blast. The dust stayed around them for what felt like an hour, before it finally cleared away. When it did, the entirety of the forretress city was gone...like...it vanished. There was a giant gaping crater in the ground and a few houses on the outskirts had collapsed, however, there was nothing left, in all honesty, it looked like a massive meteor collided with the city.
"Holy shit…" Sapphire breathed.
"An entire city, civilians and soldiers included, gone." Moon said weakly. "I'm...I'm sorry I couldn't grab anyone else...but...I got us out of there."
Edelgard placed a hand on his shoulder. "You did what you could." She said, much like him her voice also sounded weak. "We owe our lives to you…"
"This...this had to have been the church…" Dorothea gasped. "No one should have access to something that powerful."
"It's not the church…" Edelgard replied. "No way in hell would they have gotten the Kingdom to approve something like this. Especially while Ingrid and Rodrigue were there."
"All...all of those people…they're just…" Bernadetta whimpered.
"Hubert, this is no time to be messing around." Edelgard snapped. "I require an immediate investigation at once."
"Your majesty, I don't believe that's necessary." Hubert said, a wicked smile on his face. "After all, there is only one person, one place that has access to technology that powerful."
"Your Uncle?!" Caspar seemed taken aback. "But...why would he try to kill us?!"
"Because, we struck down Cornelia." Sapphire said, the realization kicking in. "So, in retaliation, with an already weakened Church and Kingdom, he tried to eliminate us right then."
"Alright, here's the deal." Edelgard said. "If anyone asks, I don't care who it may be. It was not our intention to kill Cornelia. Understood?" All of the strike force nodded in agreement. "Ferdinand, Linhardt, you two assist Hubert in trying to figure out where on earth My Uncle launched this...this thing from!"
The three boys bowed to Edelgard and followed Hubert down towards the crater.
"As for the rest of us…" Byleth said. "I think it is best that we head back."
"Ah, Edelgard, my sweet niece, how are you?!" Byleth looked up from his meeting book at Sapphire and Edelgard as Lord Arundel entered the room. He looked nothing like the man who blocked him from killing his father, but then again, Solon looked nothing like Tomas.
"Hello...Uncle…" Edelgard said, her tone was calm. Clearly, she had spent time faking for this situation.
Lord Arundel rubbed his little chin beard as he looked at her and Sapphire. "I must say, amazing job taking that pesky fortress city." he said. "Rather unfortunate to hear that it was done in vain. Now, may I ask you why you kept your invasion of it a secret."
"Moon scouted out and saw that our current route was springed with a trap." Sapphire replied calmly. "In addition, Rodrigue was expecting us to go directly for the capital, so he sent soldiers to Dimitri to intercept us. We figured we would make a statement to the Kingdom."
"I see," Arundel replied. "So, why did you kill Cornelia. My sources say she was looking for an attempt to betray the Kingdom, and, surely with those Magical titan defenses of hers, she would've been great to have as an ally, would she not?"
"It wasn't our intention to kill her." Byleth said, standing up from the desk and walking over to them. "We attempted to try and reason, but she refused to soothe for peace, in addition, she said herself that she would never surrender to the likes of us."
"I see," Arundel replied, a hint of disappointment in his voice. "Well...in any event, what do you intend to do about the Javelins of light that the Church used to try and destroy you."
"We've launched an investigation into Church Records." Edelgard replied bitterly. "So far, we've found no ancient spells capable of doing such a thing.
"I doubt you will…" Arundel replied, a hint of glee in his tone. "The Church of Serios has a massive history in the world. Such as those two trans-dimensional people. Giygas and...that Salem world women. Who aided the saints in their takeover centuries prior." Byleth noticed Sapphire's eyes widened a little at Arundel's words. "Well, I hope you found a way to prevent it, I'd hate for Enbarr to become the next Arianrhod."
Arundel then looked over at Byleth, "And, as for you," he said. "You've been the professor that has taken care of my niece and once nephew?" Byleth nodded in response.
"Well, my niece spoke very fondly of you," Arundel's face twisted into a smile. "I thank you for making her short time on this earth very special." Byleth felt his eyebrows raise as Edelgard's face turned into a furious glare and her face went red.
"Get out!" she snarled at her uncle.
"With pleasure," Arundel said, a bit of satisfaction in his tone.
"I'll...escort you out," Sapphire said. "Wouldn't want anything happening to you."
Byleth waited for the two men to go out before Edelgard let out a whimper, it was the first time he had ever seen her get upset.
"Edelgard…" he said.
"I know what you're going to say." She muttered, her face was still bright red. "Can we please go talk about it somewhere...more private?"
"Um...sure…" Byleth replied. "Where did you have in mind?"
"Follow me," Edelgard said.
Byleth followed her up the third floor corridor and to the one room up there, Rhea's bedroom. Edelgard pushed open the door and motioned for him to come inside.
"You...you have a shortened life…" Byleth asked as his former student sat down next to him on Rhea's bed.
"Yes...I've known that since the day I was changed…" Edelgard said, though she was unable to cry for him, Byleth could sense the despair and sadness in her voice. "My hair wasn't always this color you know, it used to be a dark brown…"
"I personally think the white hair adds to your cuteness." Byleth replied with a smirk.
"Shut up…" Edelgard sighed. "Just...I've hated my uncle ever since, everything he ever did to me, to all those other people. Who knows how many lives he's shortened with the double crest holders."
"Well...if he inserted a Crest of Flames into you...maybe we could move it out?" Byleth asked, hopefully, he felt a pit in his stomach looking at her. Everything she was working for, and she wouldn't be able to enjoy her future when it was all said and done.
"Linhardt is working on something like that with Lysithea, but, anyway...I want to show you something."
Edelgard stood up and walked over to a dresser, where she opened it, and pulled out a portrait. Byleth had to fight down the urge to laugh, because the portrait, while sloppy, was meant to be of him. There was no mistaking it.
"When...when you disappeared, five years ago," Edelgard said. "I...I wasn't sure I'd ever see you again. But, I didn't want to...forget about you...so...I started painting this...it's ugly...I know, but...when you chose to come with me, instead of stay with Rhea...I...I felt this weird feeling in my blackened heart...and...on the back...I wrote this song...I'm too ashamed to show it to Dorothea, but...it's a message to you."
Byleth flipped over the portrait, and was met with a long vocal song.
The Edge of Dawn, Seasons of Warfare, Song of Hresvelg
Reach for my hand,
I'll soar away
Into the dawn,
Oh, I wish I could stay.
Here in cherished halls,
In peaceful days
I fear the Edge of Dawn,
Knowing time betrays
Faint lights pass, through colored glass,
In this beloved place
Silver shines, the world dines
A smile on each face
As joy surrounds, comfort abounds,
And I can feel I'm breaking free
For just this moment lost in time,
I am finally me.
Yet still I hide,
Behind this mask, that I have become
My blackened heart,
Scorched by flames, a force I can't run from.
I look to you,
Like a red rose
Seeking the sun
No matter where it goes
I long to stay,
Where the light dwells
To guard against the cold
That I know so well.
As the rain falls on the path,
I chase your shadow.
I don't feel a single drop,
Or the ground below
Then you turned to me I
Stopped before I know.
And the lie upon my lips
I let it go
Cross my Heart
Making vows, I know will be betrayed
A sad girl's pleas,
Live only for a breath and then they fade
My dearest wish,
Is that you'll know,
These tender thoughts
That only seem to grow
They are as snow
Melting away
Yet seeking your warmth
If only for a day.
The Blue Moonlight
Cuts across our sight
As pure and clear as a ringing bell
Reaching for us in the night
As the wind calms my thoughts,
I held strong on this terrace
I feel at peace
Carried away by the wind's song
Open the door,
And walk away
Never give in
To the call of yesterday
Memories that made
Those days sublime
These ruined entomb stolen time.
Reach for my hand,
I'll soar away
Into the dawn,
Oh, I wish I could stay.
Here in cherished halls,
In peaceful days
I fear the Edge of Dawn,
Knowing time betrays.
Byleth looked up from the music sheet at Edelgard, her face blushing heavily.
"This...this is what I knew you were from the start." Byleth said. "You did really enjoy your time at the Monastery, with Dimitri, Claude, and everyone else."
"I did," Edelgard replied. "Back when all my siblings were still alive, they used to call me El…" she said. "With my father now passed, there is...there is no one left to call me El...I have no family left."
"Your Uncle mentioned a nephew though?" Byleth said.
"I...I don't remember him…" Edelgard said. "Even then, I'm sure he's dead. But...Professor…"
"Byleth…" he corrected.
"Byleth...I...I want you to call me El...even if it's only for tonight...there's something that I need to do with you before I die."
"What do you…" Byleth watched as Edelgard got up and locked the door to Rhea's room. Then, she took off her helmet, before turning back, and gently pressing her lips against his, pulling him into a kiss that he could sense by her feeling, was not going to stop there.
It was the best night the two of them would have for a long time.
Sapphire kicked open the door to Moon's room, finding his friend pouring over more books from the Abyssinian Library.
"Sapphire, what is it?" Moon asked, without turning to face him. "Can't you see I'm busy-"
"I know the woman's name." Sapphire breathed. "The Spider Haired woman, I know her name."
Moon jolted upright and turned to face him with his widened blue eye, he still couldn't see the silver one covered by his blonde hair.
"What's her name?!" he asked. "What is it?!"
"You said that Cichol kept referring to her world as a Salem world right?" he said. "A grim place with creatures that feed off fear, leaders pretending to ignore, relics of unfound power, fauness that would keep scientists up on night, and a fuck load of dust."
"Yes...it's not exactly what people would describe a Salem world." Moon replied.
"Moon, it's Salem…" Sapphire said. "The woman's name is Salem. They weren't calling the world Salem, they were saying the world is Salem's world. The woman's name is Salem!"
"Salem…" Moon said, his memory suddenly flashed to the spider haired woman holding him up as a child.
"If you ever remembered my name sweet Moon, come to Remnant and face me." Salem said.
That's all for this chapter, I hope you all enjoyed it.
I don't have much time to put an author's notes together, and hopefully this reaches everyone by the 14th, if not, I'm sorry for the wait for this chapter. But we'll probably be seeing large breaks up coming as well.
Either way, let's quickly run it down. First off, The Javelin of Light is a real thing from the games, however, In Crimson Flower, this scene is reduced to a simple Tell-not-show...which makes so sense since they already had a placeholder cutscene for it...but I digress.
Secondly, one thing I love about The Edge of Dawn, is how well it describes Edelgard's character, I always imagine it as like a song that Edelgard wrote for Dorothea to sing, as the relationship ending between them states that Edelgard became a frequent visitor of the Opera Company Post-Crimson Flower whenever it was a screenplay about her life (Written by Dorothea of course). If you've never heard the song, I encourage you to listen to it.
Thirdly, the Chapter count. Following the Siege of Arianrhod, there are only TWO more battles before Crimson Flower ends on a sort of...anti-climatic note. I did promise everyone I would give it an official reworked ending, so here's what I'm going to do. Now, I know I build stuff up, but...I'm not really a Battle-Scene guy...if you know what I mean. So, the final fight with Rhea probably won't meet your expectations.
The following three chapters for the two canon battles, + an added final battle will most likely be shorter than everything that've I've written for this series up until now. I'm sorry...but that's just what's going to happen, as you know, Fight scenes aren't my thing, especially when I don't have incredible powers to work with, seriously, all anyone does in these games is swing a weapon around. There will be a fourth and final chapter that will serve as sort of an...epilogue to this story before we move into the next one.
Surprise! the next installment in Moon and his friends adventures, is taking them to none other than the world of Remnant from the RWBY Web Animated Series by Rooster Teeth! Bet ya didn't see that one coming eh? But...wait a second...I need four characters? and Moon, Sarah, and Erick only make three...and Dyson's dead. Hmmm...I wonder who'll join them on their quest now?
Well, that's about it, if you like this, you can leave a review if you want, or say Nice Chapter, both are greatly appreciated.
Also...fair warning, if you don't know who Edelgard's Nephew is...next chapter's ending is gonna be quite the shock to you, whenever it comes out.
See you all, next time.