Not long after leaving Garfiel's location, Fang Li ran into someone.
"Wasn't that a bit too much?"
Sylvia seemed to have been watching from nearby all along. She spoke to Fang Li as he approached, sounding helpless.
Fang Li merely shrugged.
"For a simple-minded type like him, if talking doesn't work, you can only use a more violent method. In short, beat some sense into him."
As he spoke, Fang Li lowered his gaze to the petite girl standing silently beside Sylvia and gave an indifferent smile.
"Miss Ryuzu won't blame me for going too far, will she?"
In response, Ryuzu could only smile bitterly.
"This old woman knows that Garfiel's obsession has existed for far too long. Ordinary methods could never make him understand."
Ryuzu spoke with both heartache and a sigh.
"This is fine. Now, Garfiel can finally calm down and properly think things through."
Presumably, Ryuzu had never imagined that Garfiel had concealed such a painful past for all these years.
Regarding Garfiel's insistence on preventing the liberation of the "Sanctuary," Ryuzu had always believed it stemmed from resentment toward the outside world after his mother abandoned him.
Unexpectedly, Garfiel did not hate the outside world. He feared it.
Witnessing his mother's death had been the greatest blow to Garfiel.
"But it is time for us to look ahead." Ryuzu spoke as though she had come to terms with it. "This 'Sanctuary' has truly reached the time when it should be liberated. I was already certain of that the moment I saw Lady Emilia."
If nothing else, if Emilia truly became the kingdom's ruler, it would mean an unprecedented change in the status of human and Demi-human mixed-bloods.
At that point, there would no longer be any reason for this "Sanctuary" to exist.
"In any case, leave