"So that was how it was. I understand now. La Signora, gather everyone."
After Shen Fei and Aozaki Touko's battle ended, Lord El-Melloi II immediately stepped in. Though his title of "II" sounded rather awkward, he was still one of the Clock Tower's Twelve Lords, theoretically holding equal status to Barthomeloi.
After listening to Reines and Shen Fei's accounts, personally examining the Golden Princess's corpse, and making a circuit around the Twin Towers, he seemed to have found the answer.
Before long, everyone gathered in the Tower of the Sun's main hall. The young man with bright golden hair, Atram Galiasta, had been glaring furiously at Lord El-Melloi II from the moment he entered.
He had prepared for today's operation for a long time and paid an enormous price for it. Had he succeeded, those costs would naturally have been worthwhile. But he had failed.
First, the storm clouds summoned through a ritual by numerous Magicians, clouds meant to enhance lightning magecraft, had been dispersed by Gray's Noble Phantasm. Then, just as he had finally defeated Byron and was about to achieve his goal, Lord El-Melloi II's other two students, Flat Escardos and Svin Glascheit, suddenly appeared and knocked out every one of his dozens of subordinates.
More importantly, Svin had called him a magecraft user. To someone who considered himself a proper Magician, that was the greatest insult. Magician and magecraft user differed by only one word, yet they were worlds apart.
If Lord El-Melloi II had not promised to give him an explanation, Atram would likely have continued fighting. As a magician, Atram was quite powerful, especially after spending a fortune to purchase that primitive Baghdad Battery. It was that ancient battery which had allowed him to pierce the Yggdmillennia Family's bounded field.
As the Yggdmillennia Family's head