When Estelle woke up, she was already eight thousand miles away.

Of course, she has no ancient relics and no special abilities, and she can stop high in the air because she is on a huge flying battleship at this time.

How to describe it?

The Liber royal family has a well-known high-speed cruiser, the El Seyu. It is the pride of Liber and the premier flying ship on the Semria continent.

However, even the airship with a total length of forty-two sub-distances, which made Liber proud, pale in comparison to the airship that Estelle was now riding. Just talking about size, it's like the gap between a young swallow and an eagle.

For the sake of speed, the Elseijo did not carry too much armament, and this battleship, just from the glass of Estelle's room, can confirm eight turrets, according to this size, I am afraid that it is also equipped with combined missiles and main guns, not so much a battleship, this is already an armed ark-level weapon.

Based on its aggressive fiery red livery, Estelle mentally decided to call it the Red Ark for the time being.

Estelle wakes up in the red ark, watching over the little girl with purple hair and a golden scythe. Although she is young, she is also the executor of Joshua.

Later, a man named "The Professor" met with Estelle in what appeared to be a place called the Sanctuary.

To be honest, the ensuing unfolding was completely confusing to Estelle.

The [Professor] actually offered to ask Estelle to join the Society. Because in this way, Joshua will probably obediently return to the association. It sounds like a happy ending. Besides, you don't have to really join the association, it's a big deal to be a spy or something, and I'll talk about it when I see Joshua.

Estelle was haunted by thoughts and didn't know what to do.

[The Professor] didn't force her to make a choice, but told her to go back to her room and think about it.

Now, Estelle sat on the bed, covered her head under the quilt, and her vision was white.

I should...... What to do?

"Estelle?"

Suddenly, a voice came out.

And...... Familiar!

Who?

"Do you hear me, Estil? Haven't woken up yet? ”

The voice began to ask again.

Wait, this voice......

"Big Brother You?!"

"Whisper!"

Yu's voice ordered her, and Estelle quickly covered her mouth. Lift the covers and look around.

Sure enough, there was nothing but hard walls and clean windows.

"Brother You...... Where are you? ”

Estelle lowered her voice, unsure where Yu was.

"Found you."

The sound came again, and at the same time, there was a soft knock on the glass.

Clean, soft hands made an OK gesture to Estelle through the glass.

It's Big Brother You!

How did he get here?!

Surprise and joy welled up at the same time.

"Estelle, listen to me. I'm here to get you out of ......."

The sound of swimming stopped abruptly, and at the same time, Steele's door opened.

With a moon-white robe, pale golden hair, and cold and arrogant purple eyes, Estelle remembered this man, a man named Reinhardt who called himself the Sword Emperor.

Estelle had fought him once, on the balcony of the Queen's Palace in Libel. At that time, Reinhardt assumed the alias of Lawrence, and fought with Estelle, Sherazade, and Kolos at the same time, and still had the upper hand in the battle.

Very terrible enemy.

"Have you calmed down? Do you want to talk? ”

With that, Estelle and Reinhardt began their first meeting.

The conversation revolved around Joshua.

Including Joshua's background, he once had an older sister named Karin, and the relationship with Reinhardt was similar to that of a brother. There are also the hometowns of the three, Hamel was slaughtered under the self-directed and self-staged actions of the main battle faction of the empire, in order to create a reason to invade Liber and so on, all kinds of dark things were exposed.

Estelle finally understood why he had mentioned the name Hamel when he was at the Queen's Palace.

After a brief meeting, Estelle finally made up her mind.

"I'm sorry. I can't accept your offer. I'm not going to join the association. ”

Yes, association, not where Joshua should have returned.

There, there is only one way to escape the heartache and throw more and more into the darkness.

There, Joshua could only carry a sense of guilt and powerlessness and slowly decay.

Looking at the determination in her eyes, Reinhardt smiled. There is no malice, but it makes people feel cold all over. I'm afraid that he has long been accustomed to unconsciously releasing killing intent.

"It's amazing. After listening to my words, were you relieved? ”

He said so and left.

"Don't try to escape, this is eight thousand feet above the ground. You, there is nowhere to run. ”

Lévy's figure disappeared behind the door. Estelle breathed a sigh of relief and went back to bed.

A short time later, the sound of knocking on the glass was heard again on the window. It's very light and won't attract attention. If it weren't for Estelle's silence now, I'm afraid she wouldn't have noticed.

Subsequently, the glass disappeared.

Only a chain remains, floating in midair.

The main characteristics of Yu・Tatsumi's chain: 1. Ignore spatial links. 2. Pulling items through the space void will shatter the items due to the turbulence of the space. 3. Protect the user, no matter how many injuries can be healed before the physical strength is exhausted.

It's not so much an ancient relic as it is, in fact, it's already a treasure close to the Supreme Treasure level.

You has always called his chains the Locks of Space. In fact, the name given by the church is The Eternal Chains. It is also specifically noted that the level of danger is high. Kevin didn't reclaim the chain, half because he didn't want to force him and fight with it, and the other half because of himself. As for believing that Yuki Tatsumi handed over the chains? Kevin wasn't that naïve.

The chain easily shattered the glass of the Red Ark, and one rolled over, staring at the violently howling wind, and rushed into the room.

"Brother You!"

"Alright. We'll have a long time to talk to. Let's talk. ”

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You Tatsumi didn't hide it, and honestly told it all. Estelle, who was already dizzy from all kinds of information, now felt that her head hurt even more.

"That, Brother You...... ...... the hell are you talking about?"

You sighed, it was too difficult for her to accept it now.

"Well, Estell, there are now two options for you to choose from."

"Two options?"

Ignoring Estelle's confusion, You said what she had planned.

"The first one, of course, is that we jump from here. Even if I take one more of you, I'm sure I'll land safely. ”

"Eun."

Are you talking about running away? Eun, I see.

Estelle said to herself, "Got it."

"The second option...... We grabbed Joshua and took him with us to grab a small airship and escape. ”

“！！！ Joshua?! ”