*Huff* *huff*

.......

*Huff* *huff* *huff* *huff*

Tsk, that blasted thing...

I-It looks like you were able to defeat it somehow...

Just watching you from over here sent chills down my spine...

Oh, the Great Tree is changing!

A huge hole has opened in its trunk!

What could be inside?

...A diary...and a letter...?

And no ordinary letter either...

This is...a love-letter...?

What?! A love-letter?!

Please let me see! Please, please!

Victors of my challenge!

Eeek! It's that voice again!

I am the one who was entrusted to keep the empress's treasure. It was I who built the three paths.

And now you have the treasure in your hands.

That is a love-letter that the empress...no, my mistress "Kazarina," received from her lost lover before her coronation...

...and the diary she used to keep until that point in time.

The day before her coronation she came to pay me a visit.

She told me she would throw all of her emotions away until her country was restored anew.

And thus, she asked me to take these things, her emotions, and seal them away.

I know not why she asked me to seal them and not to destroy them instead.

Perhaps she thought she could come back for them...

...once her country had been rebuilt...

...in order to gain her humanity once more.

But Kazarina no longer lives in this day and age.

And now my mistress is known throughout history as a mere tyrannical empress.

However, I will not stand for it any longer.

I cannot allow others to continue believing that she was a cold-blooded woman, especially now that she has passed on to the next world.

Courageous ones who have passed my test.

I want you to show the entire world that she was once human as well.

Let the kind and lovely Kazarina I knew, the real Kazarina, be known...

......

Tsk...

This story is sort of romantic.

But why did the person speaking go through so much trouble just for the empress?

I mean to devise something this elaborate must have taken quite the effort!

Are you serious? Isn't it obvious?

It's plain to see that the sorcerer fell for the empress!

...!!

What?! What's with you guys?!

Well, it's just that...

...I never pictured you were capable of talking about topics like romance...

I was caught off guard...

As was I...

Psh!

I haven't shown that side of myself yet because I don't have a steady girlfriend right now! That's all!

Besides, I couldn't if I wanted to.

All the girls at Summoners' Hall and the Randall Empire are all a waste of time!

Hey! Hans!

I don't need this mushy treasure crap! You can have it!

It should suit a little shrimp like yourself just fine!!

As expected from Lugina.

It's the first time I ever meet someone whose reputation is actually 100% true...

I'm sure everyone at the Akras Summoners' Hall have their hands full with him too...

Well, I should be making my way back to the Empire now.

Hans, I leave that treasure in your hands.

It is indeed a beautiful treasure, but...

...it's not really the one I was after, so I have no need for it.

Those two completely changed their minds about the treasure the moment they found out what it truly was.

What?! You don't care that much for it either?!

*Sniff* But it's so romantic...

Either way, please retrieve the items and take them with you.

Rhynt is a master historian who knows how to handle objects like these...

...so he should be able to fulfill the sorcerer's request.

Not to mention that Rhynt will be super excited...

...to add these historical objects to his collection!

Oh, what's that over there, Hans?

There seems to be something below the place where the diary was originally placed.

Could you take a look for me please?

I think I saw something glow under there...

......Hans! Isn't that a Sphere?!

To think that there was a Sphere kept with the secret treasure of the empress!

It may hide incredible powers, you know...

Oh, but the Sphere wasn't really included in the details of our mission...

Hans...so you can keep it!

He he. It will be our little secret, okay?

Maybe I should start keeping a diary too, just like the empress!

Well Hans, until our next mission together!