Hellerchein and Fafner's Reunion

After satisfying Belisarius Cardinal, Iver suddenly understood these Cardinal Bishops.

So you all actually have complaints, but you've just been bottling them up instead of bringing them up? I wonder if you don't want to mention them or if you're afraid to...

Still, having demands was a good thing—no matter how difficult the demands were, it was better than not knowing what they were.

Although Iver's Previous Life hadn't been in product development, he knew that constantly changing requirements easily made people curse. If a requirement kept changing, the most likely explanation was that they themselves didn't know what they wanted, so they casually made a request and planned to change it later. It was basically like asking someone, "What do you want to eat?" and getting "Whatever" in reply.

After all, "whatever" was always the most difficult dish to make.

"Oh, right. Cardinal Fafner."

Iver also remembered poor little Rhine. The child had been studying nonstop from almost the very founding of Avalon right up to the present. And it wasn't the kind of studying that involved rote memorization, either. He was beaten up every single day.

...Who could blame her? Dragons were a people of adaptation, able to automatically adapt to their surroundings and grow stronger rapidly through life-or-death crises. In this peaceful era, there were no crises to be found, so Cardinal Fafner had begun artificially creating them to force evolution.

That couldn't exactly be considered wrong. After all, the world of the future would indeed undergo tremendous changes. From that perspective, Cardinal Fafner could even be considered far-sighted.

But the problem was that she hadn't done this based on her own judgment.

Rather, she was carrying out Hellerchein's "Last Wish": to raise Rhine into the strongest warrior in the world. Yet even Hellerchein himself didn't know