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Schwarz, the years I spent studying in Victoria weren't just for show.
There, I studied the most cutting-edge science and technology pertaining to Catastrophe and Originium research.
Things that seem to fall within the realm of the divine to you, may well be a fact of reality for me.
Everything that I've learned, as well as everything I believe in, tells me that I am right.
Milady, you did not go to law school.
Huh...?
What is Rhodes Island trying to do at the City Hall?
Searching for evidence to use against Cronin.
Hmm?
Cronin may be slimy, but he's not stupid.
He's a Catastrophe Messenger. There's no way he doesn't know about the volcano's situation.
I'm sure he's hiding the truth for his own benefit, and as long as we can gather the evidence secretly...
I think Rhodes Island will confront him directly, so that whole secret search is unlikely to succeed.
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It-it's fine! Since you're not there...
Milady, I want to know why you're doing this. If you give me a reasonable answer, I won't go after Rhodes Island.
...This is something I have to do. I don't believe that my father is such a cold-blooded person. He would never stand by idly and let this happen.
My father loves this city more than anyone else. And I know that better than anyone else.
Do you still hate him?
Why would I? If anything, he should be the one who hates me, because my birth took my mother's life...
But he never resented me.
What I hate is how he arranges everything for me and never tells me what he's planning.
It may seem like he's protecting me, but the end result is that I only end up ignorant and helpless.
Just like right now! It must be Cronin's fault; he must have hidden the truth about the eruption from my father.
That's the only reason he ordered Cronin to stop me! Would you call that hate?
Eruption?
What Cronin said was, you were going to reveal Master Doykos's secrets, so that he would be dismissed and put on trial.
What?! No, what did my father even do in the past?
Don't worry about it.
...Hmm, I see what is going on now.
So Cronin wasn't even under my father's orders when he tried to capture me. Phew, that about clears things up.
Schwarz, if I really wanted to do something like that, I would have gone through legal channels.
Everything that I'm doing is also for the sake of this city, my hometown.
I understand. Milady, you're not concerned about the past, or about social standings.
I feel the same way as you. As does your father.
Phew... No matter what others think, I'll always trust you and my father.
Even if there's a conflict between our goals, I trust that we'll be able to resolve things between the two of us.
That's why I believed that you'd be here. We both understand this city well.
That's why you'd come to stop me.
Come to think of it, it doesn't really matter who the mayor is, right? I'm sure that's what my father would think. What he cares about is this city.
That's why I know he'll agree with me.
Schwarz... wouldn't you agree?
You've grown, milady.
