For You, the Unbeautiful
By the time we escaped the dungeon and made our way into the royal palace, the entire place had descended into chaos.
Run! The palace is collapsing!
The knights! Call the knights back!
Where is His Majesty?! We need to make sure he's safe!
This is pandemonium.
...Though I suppose that's hardly surprising.
Judging by the cracks running across the walls, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole place came crashing down at any moment.
The princess has been consumed by the plague!
All Royal Guard personnel, assemble in the garden!
By the princess, they mean Haydee, right?
Consumed by the plague...?
Haydee...
The garden must be referring to the place we were at earlier.
Captain, do you remember where it was?
...Not really.
Tch... This is bad. I doubt anyone we stop in the middle of all this would give us a proper answer.
...
Hmm...?
Where's that statue going?
We can't communicate with it, but...
It almost seems like... it knows the way.
Let's follow it.
As though drawn by something, the statue strode to a familiar door, threw it open, and froze in place.
...
...
Haydee. The way you look right now...
...It isn't beautiful.
Haydee, dressed in unfamiliar clothes and staring blankly up at the sky from the center of the garden, slowly met my gaze.
Her clothes, hands, and spear were all smeared with blood that clearly wasn't her own.
Haydee, that blood...
...
Instead of answering, Haydee raised a hand and pointed toward one corner of the garden.
The corpses of bloodied palace attendants and knights were piled up high, like a heap of garbage.
Did you do that?
...
I suppose all that talk about you being "consumed by the plague" wasn't entirely wrong.
Captain, I fear that may no longer be our Haydee.
What do you mean?
...I can feel immense Void Force coming from Haydee's heart.
Morcerf's doing, no doubt.
Just as she did to me... No. Perhaps Haydee came first.
It's possible that her memory gradually returning was actually a sign that the Void Force sealed inside her body was beginning to break free.
Either way, the Haydee before us has lost all reason.
If we want to bring her back to a state where she can even speak to us...
We have no choice but to beat her into submission.
...She'll attack us any moment now. Be ready.
...Shut up. My head hurts. Just shut up.
All of you should just... die.