The story ends here.
Everyone present fell silent as they watched Edelweiss calmly recount everything.
No, it wasn't silence.
It was shock.
Because aside from not mentioning her own identity, Edelweiss had basically revealed everything she could in that account.
But after saying that much, how was it any different from revealing her identity outright?
Especially when it came to the young man Edelweiss had mentioned. After hearing about his deeds, who in the world today wouldn't know who she was talking about?
At the thought of that person, everyone present was plunged into shock.
Even Arisugawa Nagi, who had remained silent from the beginning, began to murmur.
"I never imagined that someone had actually been by that person's side all this time..."
It was indeed something very few people knew.
The fact that a woman had always been by the side of the one hailed as the World's Strongest Blade-Breaker had never spread.
Even more unexpected was that the two people hailed respectively as the World's Strongest Blade-Breaker and the World's Strongest Swordsman had been together for ten years, spending eight whole years side by side.
And the truth behind that earth-shattering battle two years ago, both its cause and its result, had actually been this.
In the end, that person had abandoned Edelweiss and left alone.
"But that wasn't his fault. It was mine."
That was what Edelweiss said.
This wasn't blind self-reproach. It was simply the truth.
"With his strength, if he had truly lost his temper, the three great powers would have been wiped out long ago. If someone capable of fighting the entire world alone had really wanted to eliminate all trouble, all he had to do was slaughter them. Everything would have been settled."
'The Alliance'?
'The Union'?
The Rebellion Army?
At that point,