Seiran looked at me as if I had lost my mind. He looked at me with a smile of unbearable irony, and that led me back to another memory. - What kingdom would ever be foolish enough to go and save another and thus sacrifice its own for a lost cause, for a jewel that others will covet just as much, and will continue to do so indefinitely? It was I who this time looked at my lover with my luminous and so revealing eyes as the certainty came into me to seize me completely. - But someone did come to do it, didn't they? It was no longer a question. And Seiran didn't have to answer for me to know that I was right. But he did anyway, perhaps in the same form. - Yes. Someone did come. Or more precisely, two people. And he laughed mockingly, I suppose I don't need to tell you what those two peop

