"El-Melloi actually pulled off something this big. I underestimated them." Inorai had come out as well.
But both of them knew that El-Melloi had absolutely no motive to kill the Gold Princess.
There was a chance that the Gold Princess could reach the Root.
That meant any magus could be a suspect.
But El-Melloi alone was impossible.
In fact, because of their arrival, the Gold Princess's path to the Root had already been closed off.
Izelma's efforts were destined to come to nothing.
Yet the master and disciple on this side chose only to watch.
This had never been their business to begin with.
On the contrary, they wanted to see how things would develop here.
"Still, the attacker probably never expected a Lord to be here," Aozaki Touko said.
"That's hard to say. If they have sufficient reason, then I would have no grounds to stop them either," Inorai said.
"Like right now?"
"Mm."
The three from El-Melloi were surrounded on all sides.
The situation seemed rather dire.
But Aozaki Touko was more concerned with that pumpkin carriage.
Without a doubt, it was the pumpkin carriage from Cinderella.
But why?
Aozaki Touko felt as though there was something wrong with her memories. There were things she could not recall.
Yet when she saw that pumpkin carriage, a faint competitive urge rose within her.
"And the fact that the Gold Princess has already died... Lord Balor doesn't seem very surprised, does he?"
Aozaki Touko noticed a crucial point.
Though all sorts of things had already happened, Lord Balor alone did not seem particularly panicked over the Gold Princess's death.
It was as if... he had known about it all along.
That made things even more interesting.
Could this have been a frame-up from the start?
"Please remain calm."
Just then,