Angel Descends

Just being watched by Aleister was enough to make Princess Noel break out in a cold sweat.

Those scarlet eyes carried an overwhelming force.

...Of course she knew that Great Serpent and the Sun were in league with each other.

They had not even tried to hide it.

With Noel's ability to read people, discovering this had been effortless. And once the other party learned that she had killed the Sun, they might well fly into a rage and kill her at once in an attempt to resurrect the Sun...

After being shaken by the Sun, Noel had now completely come to her senses.

She had no intention of seeking death.

But neither would she swing entirely to the opposite side simply because she had abandoned that mistaken notion—hiding, lying, putting on an act, and committing every injustice imaginable to conceal her own crimes, even denying the wrongs she had committed and brainwashing herself along with them.

That would be far too ugly.

Wouldn't that make her just like Red Phase and the others? What grounds and what position would she have left to denounce them righteously as a band of rebel traitors?

Although Princess Noel no longer sought death, she was not afraid of it either!

She had deliberately sent Laro away, telling him to find the remaining people... It was precisely so that she could speak the truth openly and honorably before Great Serpent! She knew Laro far too well.

Laro would accompany her into this Promotion Ritual, very likely already carrying the intention to die.

Although that fellow was a jester who laughed, cursed, and did nothing serious every day, his heart was always burning like a raging fire. He would never stand by and watch Asti fall apart...

If that was an unavoidable future, he would