Book 2: Chapter 8
A chilling light flashed by. Strands of hair from Alice and Nier’s heads floated in the air. The slash wasn’t seen clearly. Actually, it wasn’t seen at all! Human eyes have limits and the slash just now exceeded that limit. The two of them exchanged looks as they watched their hair fall to the ground. They didn’t even detect the slash. If the slasher had wanted to take their lives, what would be on the ground right now wouldn’t be their hair, but their heads.
“Your majesty!!”
The empress stood before them and sheathed her sword. She then took in a deep breath, looked at the two kneeling in a panic before her and said: “You are not to touch my son! You are not to put his safety at risk. Anything that puts his safety at risk must be kept away! Nier! I believe I already ordered you to obey the prince’s orders! Why have you not left yet?!”
She drew her sword!!
The sword that her majesty had not drawn in almost ten years was released for the sake of a man!!
That’s her majesty’s beloved sword she used when she went to war. The reflection of that sword atop the snowy mountains on the steppe on the woods in the valley that appeared at the forefront of the army never disappeared. All the soldiers placed their beliefs in that sword. No soldier retreated when he saw the radiant light of that sword even when outnumbered or when the odds were against him. Ever since the empire sealed Fang Ma Southern Mountain, the empress’s sword had not been unsheathed in over ten years. Everybody thought that the next time it was drawn would be the beginning of another great war. No one expected the sword which determined the fate of the nation to be drawn over a teenager!
Alice lowered her head and shouted: “Your majesty!! Don’t be fooled by a man! This isn’t how you were! Please come to your senses!”
“Am I very strange? Is it strange of me to want to be a good mother?!”
Nier raised her head. She was terrified. She looked at the empress who bit down on her lip hard and eyes were welling up with tears. She’d never seen the empress shed a tear before!