Waguri remains standing there in the field of beautiful flowers until she hears the sound of something. It was the sound of a spell. She suddenly turned toward Edward and blocked the spell, which came from the sky.
She looked at the sky, and then, with a smile, she consumed that spell, which was in red, and threw it back like a ball.
That ball goes into the sky, and then it blasts into the air. The air ripped open as if someone cut through it. And a woman who seems to be 30 years old steps outside.
As she walks in the air, her red crimson hair flows in the air. Her crimson red eyes with a cross mark look at Waguri.
She didn't show any emotion and landed on the ground near Waguri. Waguri put her hand on her left shoulder and smiled, "Yanyue. Took you long enough."
She narrowed her eyes toward Waguri and stared straight into her purple eyes. "Shut up, and tell me what the hell you're planning to do with Louise."
Waguri pushes her hand from her shoulder and moves toward the opposite side of her. "Take that, boy, and go to Hyacinthia; he is Louise's brother. And as for me, I'll not leave her alone."
She raised her hand in the air and opened the space portal. While stepping into the portal, she looked back at Edward and whispered, which he could only hear, "I promise you, Edward, your sister will be safe in this plan."
Edward turned his head toward her while drawing and smiled, and didn't speak a word. Then Waguri leaves the place, and the portal closes.
Yanyue looks in anger, and she overreacts to it, but then calms herself and goes near Edward. "Hey, boy, what are you doing?"
She looked at the art book in Edward's hand, where he was drawing the landscape he was sitting in.
She smiled and then sat beside him while continuing to stare at the art book. Edward didn't answer at all and kept his focus on his drawing.
In Velgravia, the prison area of the palace…
Princess Louise sits on the cobblestone bench built with a walk-in prison while cuffed in chains. The guards were guarding the prison area completely.
She looked at her own personal guard, who couldn't even stand up because he was bound with chains on the ground.
Louise speaks up while staring at the ceiling of the prison, "Hey, why did you choose to be loyal to me while other guards turned their weapons against me?"
That guard laughed and whispered with a smile, "Hahaha, well, that's a long story, but I'll tell it to you as short as possible, princess." He turned his eyes toward the guards who were guarding the prison.
"It's because you are the daughter of Queen Victoria. She saved my family. And now, only because of her, my family can live freely in the Caelvara empire. She was… too kind for this world."
Louise started staring at him with a shocked face, and then, as he finished speaking, he looked at Louise and, with an awkward face, said, "Princess, why that kind of face?"
Louise coughed and then looked again at the ceiling while saying with a gentle smile, "Ohh, Mother, why were you always like this?"
She narrowed her eyes around her as soon as she heard the sound of a snap. She finds out that around her, everything has been stopped.
The guard she was talking to, the guards who were guarding the prison, and every single thing stopped.
After narrowing her eyes, she finds out that her handcuffs have been opened, and as they open, they fall on the ground. She is shocked and stands up quickly. "What's going on?"
She took some steps toward the prison door and tried to look outside, but before she could reach it, a space opened in front of her in the air, which gave her a little jumpscare, and she backed off some steps really quickly.
That space widened a little bit more, and then someone's foot came out of it, and as it stepped, it stood still in the air, and after some time, Takeda Waguri came out of the space, while her purple hair flowed in the air.
She was floating in the air like a goddess, in front of Louise. She looked down at Princess Louise with a serious face. "A royal blood in prison of criminals—what kind of father is he, putting his own daughter in prison?"
She stepped on the ground and stood beside Louise while facing toward the guard, who was staring at the ceiling but stopped without any motion or action, like time had stopped him.
Princess Louise looked at her and moved toward her. "What happened? Why isn't anything moving?" She seems confused but also a little terrified. She acts as if she knows, but she doesn't know what is really happening.
Takeda Waguri looks at her while putting her hand on her neck. "I stopped time.
Right now, every part of the cosmos, including this planet, has been stopped; the only ones who can move are I, other maidens, and you."
She raised both her hands in the air in front of her while staring at Princess Louise.
And as Princess Louise was about to speak, she stopped, making her face go pale after seeing her own clone forming in Waguri's hand.
Waguri completes the manifestation of Louise's clone and then puts her hand on the clone's chest. "Wake up. Beat your heart. Open your eyes. Move your hands and limbs. Flow your blood."
As she speaks, the clone opens its eyes and looks at Takeda Waguri. After a short time, it starts moving its arms and legs and starts moving in the prison.
It looks like Princess Louise in everything—same brown hair and blue eyes, and even the same dress.
Takeda looked at Louise and then put her finger on her lips. "Shh, don't speak right now; let me complete everything, then let's get out of here. You will have plenty of time to ask questions."
She removed her finger from her lips and then moved toward that guard, bound with chains on the ground.
She touched his forehead. "You don't belong to this royal family drama; go live your life as a normal citizen in Caelvara with your family."
As she spoke, the guard's body started fading away in the air, making Louise nervous. As she moved in a hurry to stop Waguri, she spoke up to ask, "What the heck are you doing, you witch?"
Waguri awkwardly narrows her eyes toward Louise and whispers, "Didn't I tell you to shut up? Sigh…"
She looks at her while moving toward her, "I rewrite his past, future, and present. From now on, he will never be known as a royal guard but as a citizen of Caelvara."
Louise sighed in relief, then sat on the cobblestone bench in prison. As she sat to rest for a while, Waguri held her hand. "Stand up, you brat, we have way too much to do…"
She looked at Louise's clone and whispered, "You sit in her place with cuffs and do as her fate was written."
That clone nodded and put on the cuffs and leaned in close to Waguri so she could lock the cuffs. Waguri locked the cuffs, and after that, the clone sat on the cobblestone as Princess Louise sat.
Waguri opens her space portal again and enters it, with Louise following her. They both step into the space portal, and it vanishes.
In the space portal, Waguri snapped again, and the time, which was stopped, started flowing again, and everything came back to its senses.
The guards who were guarding the prison start moving and guarding the prison, and for them, it feels like nothing happened.
In green fields between tall snowy mountains…
The open ground was too vast, and on it, from place to place, were many small lakes, and far from the mountain, a river was flowing. The ground was covered in greenery, and the mountain was covered in snow.
Many kinds of animals, like deer, horses, giraffes, zebras, and elephants, travel or stay in groups in that field. Far from the wild animals, some herders were herding domestic animals, like cows, sheep, or goats.
The air cracked open as a space portal appeared on a cliff where the whole beauty of that area was seen in one sight. From that portal, Waguri and Princess Louise step out.
The moment Princess Louise stepped out, her eyes shone like a diamond as she saw the beauty of that land. But then, after some time, she sneezed because of the cool breeze in the atmosphere.
Waguri snapped the moment she heard Louise's sneeze, and a warm wool coat appeared on Louise's shoulder. "Wear it, girl. Otherwise, you will catch a cold."
Louise nodded and then put the coat on. She then moved a little further to the cliff to see down, and then she found out that under that cliff a waterfall is falling into a river, which is going on its way as the cliff is on its left.
She leaned back as the fear of falling came to her mind. "Hey, what is this place? It's too… beautiful."
Waguri smiled as she put her hand on her witch hat and took it off, then put it on Louise's head. "My pretty girl, this is the Indus Valley, one of the most beautiful and refreshing areas of this world."
Louise's eyes still narrow around the area, while the Waguri's hat covers her head.
She whispered while staring at the snowy mountains and the river near those mountains in front of her, "Why do we come here…"
Waguri closed her hand and went near Louise, then she put her hand on Louise's shoulder.
"Girl, do you know this is where your mother was born? She was the daughter of Iris. The strongest warrior of this land. And as for why we came here…"
She looked at the clear blue sky and continued, "So you can meet your true origin, and you can understand yourself and your powers. You will meet Anastasia, who is the leader of this whole Qinghai Empire."
Louise listened with interest to Waguri as she examined the beauty of that place with all her interest.
As they were both talking, suddenly the sound of a horse came from behind; Waguri turned her back after hearing the horse's sound.
She closed her hand while standing still, staring at the way a white horse was coming, and on it a young woman riding, her white hair flowing as the horse ran, and her yellow eyes staring at Waguri and Louise.