The blizzard at the summit gradually subsided.

As the flow of time resumed, the girls gradually regained their mobility.

But no one moved.

Sidlifa, who was closest to the bronze dragon, had fallen to her knees in the snow, and the Axe of the North Wind had been tossed aside by her.

In the middle of the night, she suddenly clenched her fist hard and smashed it to the ground.

Snow splatters.

Eleanor unleashed her spear and tilted her head silently, her blue eyes staring at the closed wormhole in the sky.

Good all the way, Captain.

And also...... Definitely coming back.

She looked at the sky above her and muttered silently, tears streaming down her cheeks.

Then he received a punch in the face.

Sidlifa knocked Eleanor to the ground, rolled over and rode on top of her, his fists raining down with ferocity. Eleanor just raised her arms to cover her cheeks, and let her beat her, but she never said a word.

"Don't fight!" Nora and Mia rushed forward, one left and one right, holding the furious Sidlifa and dragging Eleanor away.

"Why!" Sidlifa's face was also full of tears, and with a certain look of resentment, despair, and helplessness, she screamed hysterically at Eleanor:

"Why are you stopping me!!"

Eleanor didn't answer, just stood up with her red and swollen cheeks and spat the blood from her mouth into the snow next to her.

"Don't fight." Miya said helplessly beside her, "I'm going to reprimand you when the head of the regiment comes back......"

Then Sidlifa turned his head and glared at her, with a look of violence and ferocity in his eyes that seemed to tear her apart.

He ...... Probably never coming back. Medea stepped forward, pressed Mia's shoulder, and said with a blank face.

At least for a short time, it's impossible.

"Huh, what do you mean?" Miya still didn't get it.

"Literally." Sidlifa also broke free from the support of the two of them, and stood up straight silently, her chest still rising and falling sharply, panting, and staring coldly at Eleanor.

Nora runs to Eleanor's side and uses the laws of evolution to heal her injured cheek. The knight girl looked down at the ground with a gloomy expression, and let Nora caress her side of the face without saying a word.

"Now he's back." Medea grabbed the gloomy Sidlifa, took a deep breath, and looked at the other girls present:

"Are you satisfied?"

She looked at Eleanor, who was helping Asker, then at Mi'er, who was secretly making a move, and then at Theodora, who didn't do anything the whole time.

"You're satisfied." Medea asked again.

"Medea......" Nora said slowly.

"Nola." Medea said coldly, "Congratulations, you have succeeded. ”

"Now we're all losers."

No one answered her.

In other words, at a time when the differences are so clear that they are almost opposites, any superfluous words are just a waste of time.

"Let's go." Medea looked at Sidlifa.

Sidley Famuran nodded.

"Wait!" The two girls walked away, and Miya hurriedly ran in front of them, "Where are you going?" ”

Medea, however, only glanced at her faintly, and disappeared into thin air at the same time as Sidlifa.

To be precise, it is in the consciousness of everyone that their existence is hidden.

"Let them go." Mi'er said behind her, "After Aske leaves, they won't be able to stay." ”

"What do you mean?" Miya was dejected, as if she still didn't understand, or refused to believe what the girls said, and said with a dry smile, "Won't it? Haha, you don't really think Asker is gone, do you? ”

Still no one answered her questions.

"Nola!" Mia ran up to Nora, raised her little face full of hope, and asked pleadingly, "Nora! Asker is coming back, right...... I mean, it can't be! There's no way he's going to leave us here, is he? ”

Nora was silent, but touched her head with a sad expression.

"But, but ......" Seeing that she acquiesced to this, Miya's face turned even paler. It's like when I learned that the thieves' guild had left me, it was as if the whole person had suddenly fallen into an ice cave from a warm environment, and I couldn't even feel my body's consciousness for a while.

"It shouldn't be......" she said in disbelief, her voice starting to whimper, "Woo, why......"

"Mia." Theodora also stepped forward and whispered, "Aske is gone, you should accept this fact." ”

Miya ignored her, her shoulders twitching slightly, tears running down her delicate cheeks.

"Mi'er?" Theodora turned her head and asked.

Mi'er also sighed, and stepped forward to hug the sobbing Miya.

"Well, then, we're going too." Nora nodded to Theodora, and then said goodbye to the group.

"Wait!" Seeing that the two girls were about to leave, Miya suddenly broke free from Mi'er's embrace and shouted at Nora and Eleanor, "You guys! ”

"You ...... Are you leaving? She asked, choking up.

Seeing that the always optimistic Miya became like this, Nora felt a little guilty and unbearable for a moment, but she quickly relented and whispered:

"Or else? Mia ...... Asker is gone. ”

"But the Azure Sword is still here!" Miya shouted in disbelief, "We, aren't we a team?" Aren't they all mercenaries of the Azure Sword? ”

"Miya, we didn't like to be mercenaries that we joined the Azure Sword." Nora sighed and decided to talk to Miya completely, "It's for Asker's sake to stay on the team." ”

"In the final analysis, most of the so-called Azure Sword mercenary group is not condensed by the team itself. Now that Asker is gone, what's the point of us staying? ”

She helped Eleanor and continued down the hill, "Goodbye, Mia. In the future, if you have time, you can come to Solomon City to find me. ”

"What are you doing...... Treachery! Miya shouted desperately at their backs, with an uncontrollable cry, "You have betrayed the Azure Sword!" If Asker came back and found out about it, he would be very, very angry! ”

"Mia." Miel tugged at her arm and motioned for her to stop venting like that.

"Why is this happening...... until Nola and Eleanor also disappeared behind the slope, Miya sat down in the snow, her hands pressed her face hard, and uncontrollable tears flowed down her fingers, "Why......"

Mi'er sighed helplessly and looked at Theodora next to her.

Theodora is also comforting Peggy, who is kneeling in the snow. The Bloodmaiden didn't speak the whole time, or rather, since Asker disappeared into the wormhole above her head, she had fallen into a certain frozen state of refusing to accept reality, and just sat on her knees in the snow, as if her mind had been completely broken.

"When are you going to leave?" Mi'er asked.

"I'll stay a little longer and leave." Theodora said.

After all, there is an empire waiting for her to govern.

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The believers in Solomon's City, the Lateran Palace, and the square have exploded, forcing even the Pope to come out and give a speech to calm the hearts of the people in turmoil.

Because the hour hand of Giotto's clock had jumped to 10 o'clock in one breath, and it was still vibrating back and forth counterclockwise in 15-minute increments—several elderly believers had already suffered heart attacks and died on the floor tiles of the square.

Back in the conference room of the Lateran Palace, the cardinals were silent.

The analysis of the cause of the sharp turn of the hour hand has also come out: just a few hours ago on Mont Blanc, Aske left this world, and the Blue Sword mercenary group with nine demigods disintegrated.

This, of course, is also in Raphael's calculations. Or from the secret agreement between the Holy See, Zondrik, and the Bronze Dragon, the disintegration of the Azure Sword has entered the countdown.

However, looking at the dial of Giotto's clock, few cardinals were pleased.

If the nine R'Fours that were once organized were potentially unparalleled threats to the Holy See, now they are the eight R'Fours that are scattered and hostile to each other.

Although the threat to the Holy See has been greatly reduced, the danger to chaos in the entire civilized world has increased, which is why the hour hand of Giotto's clock turns.

The cardinals were still silent, secretly thinking about the next strategy of the Holy See and how to deal with the upcoming R4 one, the future Holy Maiden, when suddenly they heard His Majesty Pope Innocent sigh leisurely:

“…… A new era has arrived. ”