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Several hundred years passed frodos and nobles faded out, the curtain quietly closing on an era

The forone, the view of airships crossing the sky had becoer a land beyond reach, ons The developht brigades were abolished Uniforon was lost to tih upkeep and the capricious temperament of their mounts, they had become more than they orth

Airships, airplanes… once those were in hand, dragons had become unnecessary

Yet the supreme rulers of the sky still reend

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It was only in the past few decades that the vast lands of the dragons’ dwellings beca the humans

In a sacred place with a lake, Sakuya watched the s around her

Her wings had naturally increased to six, and her large body had grown a size larger Both the splendid ge spirit she had held in her days with Rudel nowhere to be found

Sakuya lifted up her head to look at the sky

She let out a short and loud roar With that alone, the Dragons’ dwellings gradually grew boisterous as dragons took to the air one after the next

Sakuya too spread her wings to rise up and face her rude uninvited guests from the country once called the Gaia Ehter planes took off in orderly succession

A vast, fertile plot of land, what’s s were abundant in natural resources To huer conize them as enemies

Sakuya looked upon the scene and otten what became of the last Courtois Arons zooht One by one, the crafts were shot down to the ground

The red dragons breathed their fiery breath, sinking the airships behind the cannons from their hulls, the airships commenced a bombardment on Sakuya

The cannon shells failed to scratch her

Sakuya opened her large h the air The shots assailed airship and airplane alike, bringing theround

While there were enemies who tried to flee, they were quickly circuon with four wings approached her

‘Mama, it’s over All that’s left is the clean-up’

Sakuya kept her eyes on the falling crafts as, after a large flap propelling herself up a distance, she took off so

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It here the capital of the Courtois Kingdom once stood

Now ruined and abandoned, not a trace of its forht her feet there, Sakuyaher and changing shape as well

The forrown into an adult Her child boasted the saemstone embedded in his forehead

But unlike Sakuya, his hands ree, and it see human form

“Mama, why did you come here? There haven’t been any huht,” Sakuya h the royal capital buried in rubble and sand

The reason the capital fell It all lay in the lie under Fina Courtois- the great leader as said to have rejuvenated the dynasty- alongside her priradual decline

They had their share of wise rulers, but in the end, they launched a war on the dragons, and the capital was destroyed by the force led by Sakuya

Indeed, the one who burnt it doas Sakuya herself

As she walked through such a place, frooblins and orcs showed their faces They seemed to think of Sakuya in her huoblins and orcs were cleaved through by a single swing of her child’s arainst, you lowly curs!?”

Sakuya stopped hiotten est race on earth, looking down on the others)

In their battles with hu to think of thee worry for Sakuya

Leading her child by the hand, Sakuya headed towards it

What was once the very center of the city In a now-broken fountain, with Fina at the center, then Rudel, Aleist, Luecke and Eunius, the statues of those who had contributed to Courtois’ heyday

Sakuya brushed off the dust and sand, cleaning off only that spot to look at the statue of Rudel It was dubious to say it rese as people considered a representation of him, she couldn’t treat it poorly

“… Rudel, I can barely reradually faded away

The time she had spent with Rudel and Izumi, to Sakuya, it was no more than an instant In the tione, a little while later, Mystith and all the dragons who looked after her were gone as well

Before she knew it, Sakuya was the one leading the dragons, and their relations with hu down

It was all far too painful for her