Hasty Funeral

After receiving a satisfactory answer from the Machine God, Leon returned to the surface.

It was still that enormous hollow. When Leon returned, Artoria was holding Morgan's cold hand, her eyes red at the corners and faint tear tracks lingering on her cheeks as she said her final goodbye.

"Brother, you're back."

Artoria held her wooden staff, suspending Morgan's body in midair. Upon seeing Leon, she hurriedly wiped away the glimmering tears in her eyes, only rubbing her eye sockets even redder.

Over the past two years, her relationship with Morgan had improved greatly. Now, seeing her royal sister die with her own eyes, her heart ached. Looking at Leon, she also knew that, as her royal sister's husband...