A week went by relatively quickly in the castle, and for the most part, everybody took up their original occupations and duties before the Valm War started. As things were heading back to normal, Lucina and the children were feeling left out because they had not lived in a world of peace since, in their minds, forever. Instead, the children just played in the castle all day, trying to reclaim their lost childhoods. They frolicked around the castle, raced each other in the hallways and laughed boisterously at their silly games of chase. To the other Shepherds and the servants in the castle, they were very disruptive. Chrom told the children to go be loud in the streets of Yllistol or to tone down their voices. Of course, all the children chose to leave the castle and go into the streets to play.

Of course, drama started happening immediately when the children went out of the castle. Inigo was slapped multiple times trying to impressive other girls. He tried to deny everything to the other children, but nobody was naïve enough to believe his excuse that he tripped and fell on his face multiple times. Noire's split personality caused her to get enraged at a local shopkeeper. The merchant, who was a novice at his field, was so scared of Noire's wrath that he was afraid the archer was going to pull out her bow and shoot him. Severa had spent her monthly stipend almost immediately on extravagant dresses and other useless accessories. Even worse, she tried to coax the other children into giving her more money. Lucina attempted to give Severa some money as a sign of reconciliation and goodwill, but Severa was having none of it. The redhead refused to accept the offer, and Lucina tried her best to look surprised. Secretly however, Lucina was actually relieved because she believed Severa was very inconsiderate for wasting money and would have never agreed to help her in any other circumstance.

When Lucina was not playing with the other kids outside the castle, she was simply counting the days before Robin came back while reading over his old tactics books in his old office. Flipping through the pages, Lucina realized how dedicated the tactician was. He had entire volumes of notes on even the smallest factors in war, such as weather, environment, enemy morale, conditioning the opponent, etc. His largest collection was on deception. Flipping through the notes he made in the book, Lucina had the epiphany that Robin used the tactics in his plans in Valm and Plegia. It was deception that caused Validar's downfall, after all. Seeing these books, Lucina thought back to the time she tried to murder him in cold blood. All the knowledge the tactician made in here would have been for nothing had he actually died then. Just looking at all the notes Robin wrote in his two years of peace was enough to make Lucina feel extremely guilty. She had tried to repress her memories of the incident, but it always came back to haunt her somehow. She needed to get her mind off it, but how?

On the other side of the dimension, Robin was still waiting for his time to exit the dark world. He was dying of boredom and was yearning to get out. Even without any reliable ways of telling time, Robin could tell it had been a week. It was just a gut feeling, but over the years, Robin had learned to trust his feelings. It was what kept him alive in many battles, when many enemies were ready to backstab him when he was not looking. His gut instinct actually kept the world alive, having the suspicion that Validar had ulterior motives for giving them the fifth gemstone.

Of course, Robin spent the majority of his time thinking about what Naga said about his daughter Morgan. The Divine Dragon's explanation made sense, and Robin had mixed feelings about his time traveling daughter. Robin realized too late that Naga's statement meant that Morgan was going to appear in front of Chrom and whoever accompanied him, and the ruler will definitely have questions. The Brand in her eye makes her lineage obvious if Chrom is careful to check. By the time Robin realized this in his last conversation with the Divine Dragon, it was too late to tell Naga to change plans. Robin could only hope that Chrom was not going to grill him too hard about his illegitimate daughter. Worst part was, Lucina was the mother.

There was also another problem Robin realized after Naga left. He did not know any rules about being a father, and he was afraid of making a mistake. He had sworn not to become like Cordelia where her child suffered an inferiority complex or Tharja where she was afraid of her mother for using her as an experiment for her hexes. To Robin, he had already messed up by transforming into a monster and manipulating his daughter to do his dirty work in the future. Naga had said she lost her memories again just like Robin did, but how much she remembers was the important part that Robin dreaded to find out. Robin hoped she did not remember the part where her father became the villain and caused the destruction of Ylisse. He hoped she remembered her happier days in her childhood instead of the war before Ylisse was overrun. All Robin could do at this point was hope. If Morgan does remember, Robin knew he will just have to make it up somehow. After all, Robin believes that what a parent did when they make a mistake.

Besides these issues, Robin was actually very excited. Although he got a visual image of his child, he could not wait to see her in person. He was one of the few men in the Shepherds that did not have any children in the future, and he almost felt left out. Robin already felt a warm connection to his child already. His heart melted when he saw many children get reunited with their parents. In fact, one of his motives during days where he felt everything was hopeless was the dream that the children could live in peace without Grima.

A light suddenly shone behind him again. Robin had been expecting Naga's return and could not be more excited. Learning his lesson last time where he was almost blinded by the brightness, Robin slowly turned around, giving time for his eyes to adjust. It was easier to do so this time, as the light seemed a lot more dim that Naga's aura. When everything was clear again, Robin realized there was nobody there, and the only new change in the world was a tunnel of light.

Robin thought about immediately to run across the light, thinking he would be free, but it was then he remembered the invisible wall. He walked forward slowly and had his hands ready in front of him to be feel at the invisible wall, but this time, the wall was gone. Robin thought his finger was deceiving him or he got the position of the invisible wall incorrectly, so he took a few more steps to make sure. After being absolutely positive that the wall was nonexistent, Robin began running towards the tunnel of light to freedom. The tunnel became closer, and he began to close in. He estimated the number of steps he still had before he reached the light. Fifty. Fourty. Thirty. Twenty five. Twenty. Eighteen. Sixteen. Fifteen…. Fourteen…. Thirteen…. Twelve…. Eleven… Ten…

He was about five steps away from reaching the light when a voice caught him off guard, "Thank you, Robin, for everything." Robin immediately stopped, recognizing Naga's voice. He looked behind him but Naga's illusion was nowhere to be found. He did a quick cursory of the environment all around him, but Naga's illusion he saw from a week ago was not there.

"Earth Mother? Naga? Where are you? Please reveal yourself." Robin shouted out into the darkness.

The voice became quieter this time. "I am currently not in this dimension right now. I am communicating to you telepathically in your brain."

"Wait, my brain? So does that mean nobody else can hear you but me?" This time, Robin did not utter any words and instead simply thought the message in his brain. He reasoned Naga could probably hear him.

"Correct, but there is nobody here anyways."

Naga's voice continued in his head. "Robin. Like I said, thank you… for everything you have done. I know the last few weeks had been painful for you, just slowly waiting, but it was for the safety of the world. I was certain you were dead after you stroke the final blow on Grima."

"Yeah… I was surprised too…"

"Robin, I did not want to keep you here like this for three weeks, but I had to. As of now, I am certain that all traces of Grima have been erased from existence. You are free to go without fear of Grima's resurrection ever again. I don't want to keep you here any longer. Let me give you a hand."

As soon as Naga finished her sentence, Robin suddenly felt himself forced to the exit. He did not know how it happened, as he knew his brain did not tell his legs to move. He could only assume Naga used some of her divine powers, and the last thing Robin remembered in this gateway dimension was the tunnel of light getting brighter and Robin getting closer until he touched the light.

Lucina finally heard the announcement she was waiting to hear from Tiki. Chrom had been anticipating the news, and already had plans ready as soon as Tiki told him. He immediately called his wife, his two daughters, his sister, and his trusty Lieutenant Frederick to leave immediately for the fields outside of Southtown. Chrom planned for Sumia and Cynthia was to use their pegasus to fly up in the air and find Robin while Chrom, Lissa and Lucina planned to be the ones looking on foot. Frederick was going to be there to protect the royal family in the case of danger. Although Chrom did not feel the need to bring Frederick along, he had been with Chrom since the beginning that the Exalt felt naked without the loyal knight.

Lucina immediately set out to her room to grab her Falchion and put on proper shoes. She made no emotions when Chrom everybody the time had come to welcome back Robin, but the princess could barely contain her excitement. Robin was going to be back! And she was going to be one of the first ones to meet him again!

Chrom offered his elder daughter, sister, and Tiki ride in a horse carriage, but they declined. All of them wanted to walk, so Chrom let them. Cynthia and Sumia took their pegasus for the mission. Frederick brought his horse, doing his part to watch out for potential dangers.

On the way to the field outside Southtown, the family traveled through a burnt forest. Although Chrom wanted to avoid the forest between Southtown and Yllistol, Chrom made sure to visit the place on his way there this time. The Exalt wanted to see what the area looks like after the big fire there three years ago where the Risen and masked Lucina appeared. The trees in the affected area were all burnt down, with new sapling growing slowly out of the ground. It was just a small patch of grass field with the remains of burnt out trees protruding out like needles. Chrom could not help but feel sad about this place.

"Father! Are you still thinking about what happened here, three years ago?"

Chrom turned to his side to look at his elder daughter. "'You know me too well, Lucina."

"Yes, can you believe how fast this time went by? It seemed like yesterday when I came out of a portal in the sky there to help you fight Risen in this area."

"Yes, the day my life changed forever, probably."

"Father, why did you want to visit this place? I thought you believed this place was cursed."

Chrom could not help but chuckle hearing her daughter's words. "I just wanted to see what this place looked like after these long years. Maybe it's best we keep this place like this. As a memento. To all the horrors we have experienced three years ago. Perhaps we should build a gigantic monument to signify Ylisse's greatness and can be seen from far away as a way…"

Lucina interrupted, not hearing the sarcasm in her Chrom's voice. "Father, I thought you were going to allocate all the funds of the treasury to help rebuild the country. You don't have money to build such a thing. Besides, you can bet the citizens will be mad at you for wasting money."

Chrom closed his eyes and put his hand up to his face. His daughter still had no understanding of humor or jokes. Chrom hoped Lucina would one day finally understand when to not take statements seriously.

As the travelers began to approach the field outside of Southtown, Chrom immediately sent his wife and younger daughter on a reconnaissance mission to scourge for Robin's revived cadaver. Although the request seemed innocent enough, Chrom had other motives. He wanted to be the first one to greet Robin back. He knew the location of where he found Robin in the back of his head. He could probably find it blindfolded starting from the church in Southtown three years ago where the bandit leader Garrick was telling his crew to loot the town.

Upon seeing Southtown in view, Chrom began to run faster he ever had in his life. Not even the time when he was fleeing from Plegia Castle from Validar could compare to his speed this instant. Even with his Exalted Falchion weighing him down, he did not slow down even once. Chrom was so excited that he forgot he could have just asked Frederick for a ride to the fields. Lucina, Lissa, and Frederick watch as Chrom's face became smaller in front of them. Although it was still too far for Chrom to see if Robin was truly there, Chrom was certain his best friend was there. "Just a couple thousand more steps," he told himself.

"Father, calm yourself. You are going to collapse from exhaustion," his daughter yelled behind him inside the carriage.

But Chrom just kept running faster than a rabbit towards the plains, ready to welcome Robin back into the family.