Amphoreus.
Inside the Cloud Stone Celestial Palace.
"Mm, Tine found Trianne's body..."
Tribbie looked at Phainon with a worried expression. "Under the ravine near the temple."
"Besides Trianne, we've discovered another person..."
"When Tine and Feng Jin arrived, that person was already as good as dead."
"He had endured being cut by a thousand blades and leaped off a cliff thousands of meters high, yet he still managed to carry Trianne's body away from the black-robed swordsman's clutches."
Phainon was somewhat stunned. "There's actually such a warrior? Can we identify him?"
"Mm." Tribbie nodded her little head. "It's... Craterus."
"Him?" Phainon looked momentarily dazed.
Earlier, Craterus had even kidnapped Tine in order to enter Strife's trial.
Who would have thought that he would now be the one protecting Trianne?
Inside an infirmary that looked like a children's toy room, Dan Heng, Feng Jin, Trianne, and Lord Aglaya stood there, silently gazing at the cloth doll on the sickbed.
From its appearance, it was clearly a small Tribbie, though someone had stuffed a little wooden sword into its arms.
At least... that was what Tine said it was: Trianne.
"Who would have thought that we had already foreseen the cruelty of parting a thousand years ago, only to taste it once more today." Lord Aglaya inclined her head slightly.
By now, Tine's body had become a cloth doll. Even forcing the Soul Bead into the doll's chest had done nothing.
It simply lay there in silence, utterly devoid of life.
Clearly, this body was no longer usable.
"Lord Aglaya... I don't understand. The thing that dragged Lord Trianne down wasn't life..."
Feng Jin said sadly:
"She really seems to have become a doll? I don't understand..."
Tine turned around and looked at Feng Jin.
"Don't be discouraged. Trianne has merely