The Year-End Festival gift Shade had given Luvia had not been publicized everywhere, since Luvia worried the other girls would say he was playing favorites. As for what exactly she had left behind on Pilgrim's Path, Luvia had been vague afterward, saying only, "Everyone has their own treasure."
But upon seeing this card, Iluna naturally understood that it was what Luvia had left behind. Yet even knowing that Luvia had abandoned it, Iluna still felt as though she had stolen something while holding the card.
But Iluna was not the sort of girl to dwell on such matters. Since she had lost her leaf, then whatever she picked up belonged to her. Since she had obtained this card—
Suppressing a laugh as she looked at the item in her hand, she thought that Shade's gifts really were unusual. She was not jealous of Luvia; she merely thought that after putting this card away, it might be awkward if Luvia saw it.
[Don't forget that the great battle isn't over yet.]
The voice by her ear reminded her, and Iluna naturally knew that.
"Anyway, I haven't fully recovered yet. Judging by those bells just now, I don't know whether Shade's or Luvia's backup plan was activated. It's fine if I rest for a while before going back."
As she thought this, although Iluna had rarely made plans for major actions herself among the original three, the eighteen-year-old girl was actually someone with plenty of ideas.
Holding that card and looking at the treasures scattered all across the silver-line-like ridge, even Iluna, who had seen countless top-tier relics and divine artifacts, could not help imagining how the Prophets who had come here generation after generation in pursuit of the God of Fate's trail must have felt upon reaching the summit and seeing