1v8

The Dungeon fell silent again, in a frightening way.

Just then.

"No."

Semir, the only member of the Royal Guard to escape the prison disaster, cut in coldly:

"If your only goal was to wake the king, why didn't you go alone, carrying the Legendary Anti-Magic Weaponry, and assassinate the so-called Calamity Queen?"

At that moment, Semir was cold and resolute, seeming no longer like the former Royal Guard.

Tales' heart stirred.

He recalled the catastrophe that had befallen the Radiant Star Royal Family during the Year of Blood, as Gilbert had once recounted it to him, and could not help frowning.

"Why use such an extreme method?"

Sakrael said nothing.

Semir continued pressing him:

"And why did you put the entire Radiant Star Royal Family on your elimination list? Why refuse to stop until every last one of them had been slaughtered?"

Sakrael's lips trembled.

The color drained from his face as he stared blankly at Semir.

"That's right." Talding joined the conversation, his face deathly pale:

"You know, even the most innocent consorts and royal descendants, even Her Highness Princess Constance, so lively and innocent—even they..."

He bit his lip and could not continue.

Sakrael looked at Semir and Talding for a long while.

At last, he sighed.

"That was not my intention."

Watching this, Tales felt conflicted, but then he thought of another question.

"Then whose intention was it?"

The Prince's words drew everyone else's attention.

"You haven't told us the whole truth."

Tales raised his voice:

"Tell me. Those people who worked with you back then to assassinate the king, the people who intended to overthrow the Starfall Kingdom—who exactly were they?"

Most importantly...

"What were those people, those Calamities, conspiring about with His Majesty Eddie back then that brought about such a catastrophe?" Tales asked