A flash of light passed, and a note appeared in Uchiha Madara's room.
"Joshua, it's Loewe. I want to meet you alone."
Uchiha Madara looked at the note, and his heart stirred.
What Loewe meant to him was obvious. Karin's beloved, the older brother who had always cared for and looked after him... That silver-gray hair of his had once made him feel so safe. Whenever Joshua was bullied by children his own age, he would always run to find that silver-haired brother first. Then he would drag Loewe before those children and shout, "My brother is going to become a bracer someday!"
That had once been his happy past, yet it had also been a past like a nightmare.
It was Loewe who had handed him over to the evil mage, Professor Weissmann. It was also Loewe who had led him down the path of Shura. The days without Loewe had been painful, but the days with him had been even more agonizing...
He knew that Loewe wanted to kill him. The reason? Simply because Joshua was an unruly pawn that threatened Ouroboros and their experiment.
Yet from this letter, Uchiha Madara could not sense even the slightest threat.
He tucked the letter into his clothes. If Estelle saw it, she would certainly stop him from going.
But he had already made up his mind. He could not break this appointment.
Night. Outside the royal capital of Grancel, at the Grune Gate side of one end of the wall built around the city.
Uchiha Madara arrived there and waited for Loewe to appear.
With a sharp whoosh, Loewe appeared before Uchiha Madara.
Their last meeting had been aboard the Glorious. Back then, Loewe had told Uchiha Madara, "If you want to protect something, protect it to the end.