The cutting edge of the dagger Noin is holding leaves a thin line on the neck of a man who looks like a commander. Then I realize - this man is not wounded and immobilized by the sword or the struggle.

　His hair, and the water dripping on the bed and floor. The pained voice I heard the other day means - that he was drowned in the water 'in this room'.

'Are you going to fight me?　Your magic has some advantages against me, but I don't want you to think you can win with it.
'Provoking our Dr. Glass is suicidal. If you were a water mage who sided with Zirconia, I'd kill you right now.

　As Presha-san said, she has a center of gravity that allows her to spear out at any time. The smile disappeared from his face as if Noin also felt that Presha-san was not just a person.

　-- on the contrary, he appears to be pale. I've seen a lot of patients, and I can tell a certain amount about their mental state by their breathing and minute tremors.

'...... Presha, please keep it down. If this mage tries to deceive us, I can realize it now.

　His Highness Astina says it matter-of-factly, but his words are cold - like a blade of ice.

　As a general leading an army, His Highness feels remorse for losing so many soldiers. I'm not sure if it's a good idea for me to say that I'm a good fit.

　That's what I would think, too. Why did he betray his country and help Zirconia invade? If it weren't for Noyn, the soldiers would not have died.

'From Your Highness, I can sense magic ...... you taught them magic ......?'
I can't answer that question right now. I can't answer that question right now, because you and I were in different classes, and we didn't have any connection, only that we were at ...... the same academy. But we can't just let what you're doing go by the wayside. If you betrayed your country, you will pay for your crimes.

　Noin doesn't say a word, she listens to me.

　Then she moves - she drops the dagger in her hand and raises her hands.

'...... I had to do that then. If that sounds like an excuse, I'll let you cut me down here.
How dare you suggest that ...... betray our country and then swagger on!

　Noin looks away, as if he can't bear to look away from Presha-san's tremendous anger head on.

　His Highness Astina put her hand on her sword and without a minute's notice, she is relative to Noin. In front of the two strong men, Noin no longer had to be nervous to even move a single fingertip.

You're going to be able to have a look at it and you're going to be able to see it. I'm sure you're aware of the situation. If you were ordered to sneak into Zirconia by someone you couldn't possibly disobey, you'd have to cooperate with ...... Zirconia or your position would be in jeopardy.
'Whatever the circumstances, when you're complicit in Zirconia, it's a betrayal.

　Presha-san said, stifling her anger. She still seemed to think that she had to avenge Noin here.

　Noin closes her eyes in the face of the killing spirit - the look on her face is resigned.

'When someone broke into this fort and I found out it was a mage, I knew it was someone from Laiseneire. I was originally called by this man ...... General Alejandro's second-in-command, to Vale.
Are you going to start making excuses for ......?

　Noin smiled faintly when asked by Mr. Presha - and shook his head a little.

'Guh......!'

　No one here would have ever imagined what happened next.

　Noin holds her mouth and sputters blood. And then I realize - the moment she tried to speak, a magical power arose in a part of her body that was not hers.

'Don't tell me that you were inhabited ...... 'Underworld Spirit' and sent to Zirconia with it ......?
"...... You must be laughing at the ...... grades I left behind in the academy, 'they' only saw the grades I left behind in the academy as how useful a pawn I was. I didn't even realize that, because I found myself becoming a great enemy of my country.

　After Noin finishes saying it, she sputters again. The evil magic power that can be felt from her chest - it is due to the 'underworld spirit' that exists to consume and curse people, unlike the 'spirit' that contracts with mages and lends them power.

　Underworld spirits do not live in the spirit world, but in a different world called the underworld. In the current Silvana Academy, it is forbidden to learn about the magic circle used to summon the underworld spirits and the marks used to hold them in humans, and the books written about the underworld spirits are forbidden and placed in the sealed archives.

　However, the divine tree Euselisis is wary of the existence of the underworld spirits as an enemy to the spirits. She warns them - that a being that is harmful to all living things dwells in the body of the Noin in front of her.

'...... Did you side with the enemy because you don't want to die yourself?　If you think that's inevitable, then I can't forgive you at ...... and I still can't forgive you.
'When it's all over, you can kill me. I'll never run away ...... I want to die the way I want to, at least at the end. I'm going to show Alejandro, Vale, and all those people who saw me as a 'woman' who would do anything I said, that I'm not a tool.

　Who sent Noin to Zirconia - if there was someone who had become a court mage and had an underworld spirit in her.

　The 'court mages' that I admired were no longer a group of people who served the royal family and used magic to protect the country, but rather, they were people who would use any means to reach their goals.