After this journey ended, Riezel had considered that Morgan might not be willing to leave, Percival might not be willing to leave, and even Nokturna and Gareth might not be willing to leave.
Because they had their reasons for not wanting to leave.
But Riezel had never counted Artoria among them.
The reason was simple. That girl had no reason at all to remain in Britain.
"Although you're an indiscriminate do-gooder, you don't have much personal attachment to the fairies, and you aren't as obsessively attached to Britain as Morgan is. So I truly never expected that, when everyone else planned to follow Chaldea to Pan-Human History, you would be the one who ultimately decided to stay."
Riezel looked at the Fairy Maiden standing against the wind and asked with a frown.
"What exactly are you thinking?"
Faced with this question that Riezel could not comprehend no matter how he thought about it, Artoria first lowered her eyes slightly, then raised them again and said one thing.
"I don't want to stay in Britain. I just want to return to Paradise."
Those words inevitably left Riezel stunned.
"Return to Paradise?"
Riezel looked at Artoria in surprise.
"Is that strange?" Artoria said quietly. "I came from Paradise in the first place. Now that Britain has become like this, isn't it only natural for me to return to Paradise?"
In truth, this was something Artoria had been contemplating all along.
If one day she truly completed the Pilgrimage Journey and fulfilled her duty as a Paradise Fairy, what could she do afterward?
After much thought, Artoria had reached only one conclusion—return to Paradise.
That was where she had been born. It was her true homeland.
Once everything was over, if she was still alive, then naturally she would have to return to