To be honest, Riezel had been quite troubled by Meiliuqina's current condition.
It was not as though he had not tried to persuade her, but it had been completely ineffective.
That made sense. Even Percival, who was as close to her as a real younger brother, had failed to persuade her. Riezel was an outsider, and not even a particularly close one at that. On the contrary, he was someone who had opposed her time and again. No matter how he tried to persuade her, the effect would surely be cut by more than half, right?
Especially since he had personally sent Aurora away, scattering even her soul like ashes on the spot. Riezel had not chosen to hide this from Meiliuqina, so she knew about it as well.
Under such circumstances, the fact that she had not treated him as the enemy who had killed her beloved and had merely become depressed and despondent already showed that she was sensible.
But... this could not go on, could it?
Just as Meiliuqina spotted another Abyss Creature approaching and prepared to fly over, Riezel spoke up to stop her.
"What exactly are you thinking right now?" Riezel asked helplessly. "You are not really planning to keep this up forever, are you?"
"Is that so bad?" Meiliuqina answered with a question. "What my personal will is does not really matter much to you, does it?"
"I do not know how I should live anymore, or what meaning my existence will have from now on."
"So just treat me as a weapon and use me however you please."
That seemed to be the conclusion Meiliuqina had reached.
As a filthy existence formed from the tail end of the Dragon of Albion, she had originally been an inexplicable being without consciousness, soul, or heart.