Although Fang Zheng was quite depressed about being called "Little White," he soon had no time to dwell on it.
Because according to Princess Emeraude, something truly terrible had happened to this world!
At first, Princess Emeraude had indeed begun praying as Fang Zheng instructed. As Cephiro's "Pillar," she naturally had to fully and directly sense Cephiro's current condition. But during this process, Princess Emeraude noticed a problem—some parts of Cephiro seemed to have been eroded by something.
At first, Princess Emeraude thought it was because she had been immersed in grief these past days and had failed to pray for Cephiro. So she hurriedly calmed herself and tried to eliminate the strange erosion.
But... at that moment, the problem appeared.
Those parts eroding Cephiro's world actually counterattacked Princess Emeraude as if they possessed their own consciousness!
This gave Princess Emeraude quite a fright. After all, she was Cephiro's Pillar. Every flower, blade of grass, tree, and plant in Cephiro was sustained by her will. There should have been no possibility of anything resisting her!
Then her head began to ache violently. At the same time, Princess Emeraude sensed that some "thing" had invaded her soul!!
No, rather... it had been inside her body all along.
"I only understand now... what exactly happened..."
Holding White Wolf, Princess Emeraude murmured to herself.
"I think I understand everything now. Back then, I seemed abnormal, as though... as though something had been controlling me. I loved Zagato most of all, but I also loved this world. Those two things clearly didn't conflict, yet at the time, it was as if I had been bewitched and could only choose one of them... I-I don't know what happened..."
"How could something like this happen?"
After hearing Princess Emeraude's account, Precia, the three heroines, and even