On the second day after Seiya vanished at the end of the Flaint Mountain Range, an Integrity Knight clad in full red armor descended upon Rulid Village atop a dragon.
The visitor called himself Deusolbert Synthesis Seven, an Integrity Knight of the Axiom Church. His purpose in coming was to take away Alice, a sinner who had violated the "Taboo Index."
His adopted son had only just gone missing, and now he heard that his daughter Alice had also become a criminal who had violated the "Taboo Index." Casch was utterly devastated.
Yet he also understood clearly that, in the Human Realm, the Axiom Church was everything. As her father, there was simply nothing he could do to save Alice at this moment.
Seeing Alice about to be taken away, her childhood friends, Kirito and Eugeo, naturally tried their hardest to stop it.
However, one of them was far too weak and was pinned down by the villagers before he could even act, while the other had barely formed the thought of stopping them when a sharp pain shot through his right eye.
Alice herself, however, showed no intention of resisting the Integrity Knight's arrest.
Instead, she stared blankly at the broken sword in her hand and said, "You're right. I am a sinner. If it weren't for me, my little brother wouldn't have died..."
As Alice was taken away by the Integrity Knight, Seiya, far away in the Dark Territory, slowly opened his eyes amid the scent of gardenias.
He soon realized that someone had been carrying him the whole time. The gardenia scent he had smelled came from that person's hair.
"Your body was worn down to that extent. Even your durability had nearly fallen below the danger line, yet you woke up after only a day. You