Marin sighed. "Rose didn't want to go back to the Imperial Army in the end. Since we're both Ignis People, we came back together. I don't even know any Sky Knights in the Transcendent Realm, so I was glad to have her protection. But this side got caught up in war, so I couldn't go home for the time being, and she suggested we go stay at her home on Olin Island first."
Olin Island, the Empire's 'Dragon Ascending Land'—before the Holy Speriel Empire started stirring up trouble, not many people knew about it. The reason Dorothy knew about it back then was because it lies not far from the Giant Garden.
"I lived a farmer's life for a while, and then the Empire came to conscript again. Rose knew what would happen if we followed them to war, so she tried to persuade the villagers not to trust them."
