Meyer looked utterly lost. Before she could argue, John, who had activated a top-tier soundproof barrier as soon as he arrived, hit her with a truth she had never known. "Do you think the Allied Forces are clean? That they're righteous?"
"What if I told you that Anna Splinter, now the captain of the Special Operations Division, isn't a descendant of the Splinter Family at all? When several noble families allied with the Allied Forces moved to wipe out the Empire's Binote Family, they abducted her from that family. Then they had the Valdren Family spend eighteen years rewriting her mind."
"They kept her in the dark from beginning to end, all to fulfill a strategic objective: turning her into a weapon they could deploy on the battlefield to slaughter her own people."
"Meyer, could you still call the Allied Forces righteous?"
"What!?"
Meyer's eyes flew wide, disbelief filling her gaze.
Even as someone who had returned from the future, she had known nothing about what John had just told her.
In her memory, their operations had repeatedly disrupted the Empire's offensives. Through assassinations and expeditions, they had grown stronger until, with the strength of their comrades and their rapidly advancing Magecraft Technology, they had finally destroyed the Empire.
Afterward, everyone in the division had received honors and rewards for their distinguished service.
The world had finally found true peace.
But while everyone in the division was still arguing over the order of the weddings, countless terrifying white flames had suddenly engulfed the world. Every living thing boiled away and vanished in that eerie fire. Not even Anna, who had reached Origin Tier and touched the threshold of the Supreme Realm, could stop it.
Shock had crossed Anna's face before the flames swallowed her too.
Meyer herself had met the