I really didn't know anything, did I?
How fun it is to travel without servants or maids.
How scary it is to go to battle for the first time.
How wonderful it is to have someone by your side, encouraging you.
I'm grateful.
Thank you.
What are you—
Having said my thanks...
I'm going to kill you now, okay?
Rokka ~Braves of the Six Flowers~
Listen, Nachetanya...
Episode 11 Counterattack
Hans is safe.
Adlet is not our enemy.
Maura is lying.
The enemy is Adlet. Hans is badly wounded.
Flamie is merely being tricked!
Calm down, Nachetanya!
Adlet-san,
I'm waiting.
For what?
Your repentance.
When someone is caught doing something bad,
they repent before they die, right?
I recall that's what the head maid told me.
Run. She's insane.
I'll head for the temple.
Adlet-san, are you ready yet?
Princess, you know too little of the world.
Not everyone repents.
Then I can kill him, can't I?
I concentrated them too much!
Not even a second's hesitation, huh?
There you are.
Flamie!
I'll handle Flamie!
You finish Adlet!
I won't let you.
Bombs!
Why is Flamie trying to stop us?
Adlet has tricked her.
I'll handle those two.
You run!
Right after I said I'd protect Flamie...
Flamie!
I'll protect you to the end!
I'm the strongest man in the world!
You think you can stop us both?!
Run, Adlet...
I'm sorry, Flamie.
If I get to the temple, I can meet Hans.
Once she sees Hans is safe, Nachetanya should stop fighting.
Hans!
If you're here, come out!
Hans! Chamot!
Hans should still be alive.
Adlet-san!
Who are you looking for?
You were the one who defeated Hans-san...
Wait!
Are you over there?
That won't work!
I finally caught you.
Nachetanya,
I believed you were a good friend...
That if the two of us were together,
we wouldn't need to fear the Demon God.
I can't believe you're still saying that.
You were the one who betrayed me,
Adlet-san.
I didn't do anything wrong.
I didn't try to kill my friends.
I didn't set any traps!
You cannot fool me anymore.
You are the seventh.
It's cold...
I can't stop shaking.
Have I lost too much blood?
Cold?
You are the seventh.
It's useless!
Princess!
Sorry!
Princess, are you safe?
Forget about me!
Follow Adlet!
Why didn't I realize it before?
It was so simple...
Why didn't I notice the cold?
Well done, Goldov.
Adlet!
Actually...
It hurt to even run,
Goldov.
You saved me
by sending me here.
Remember when you,
Flamie, Nachetanya, and I headed for the temple?
This is where we were attacked by the fiends.
What of it?
Kill him, Goldov.
Don't!
Do it, Goldov.
Princess... Maura...
We should get information from him without killing him.
No. He won't talk.
That's right!
We should kill him right...
You're late!
Where the hell have you been?
Sorry! We were looking for you!
We have something to show you!
It can't be.
Hans is safe?
Adlet-san?
Nachetanya...
You really are strong.
What have I done?
Maura, why is Hans safe?
What happened, Adlet?
I'm sorry. I lied.
Maura-san!
Are you okay?
Oh, no. These wounds are terrible.
Sorry for running and leaving you behind.
Shut up. I'll patch you up now...
Adlet is the fake! That is still true!
I will do whatever it takes to win!
No! You tricked us!
Hey...
What do you think it means to be the world's strongest man?
The strongest man in the world has power,
skill, wisdom, heart,
and luck.
The answer is simple.
The strongest man in the world
is me.
Think about it.
Who but the strongest man in the world
could have made it here?
Nya ha ha!
You're an idiot.
You're one hell of an idiot.
Adlet...
Wh-What are you saying?
It's about time
to defeat the seventh.
I'll give you the answer.
I'll reveal the whole truth
about the trap the seventh laid.
No...
We were told a false method for activating the barrier?
That's right.
The actual barrier was activated
only after I'd entered the temple.
That hypothesis doesn't work.
The Saint of Fog
would need a powerful barrier to engulf the whole forest in fog—
There is one Saint
who could instantly create the fog.
Just one.
Impossible!
Before, you told me
that I don't know about the power of Saints.
However...
You Saints don't know about the power of science.
Science?
The power of Saints is greater than that of science.
To you guys, it may be nothing.
But science is amazing...
What do you think normal fog is, anyway?
It's when water vapor in the air condenses into little droplets.
The same reason your breath is white in winter.
The higher the temperature,
the more water vapor builds up in the air.
And if the temperature quickly falls,
the water vapor returns to being tiny droplets of water, floating in the air.
That's what fog is.
I don't understand at all.
The humidity in this forest is always high.
It's right next to the sea, so the wind carries in a lot of moisture.
A sudden temperature drop
will create fog instantly.
But how would you suddenly drop the temperature?
Even the Saints of Ice or Snow would need to erect a barrier!
You can't put one barrier over another, right?
You need to think outside the box, Maura.
You don't lower the temperature.
You raise it.
You can't mean...
The Saint of the Sun.
Yeah...
Riura, who's been missing a month.
At first, I suspected Flamie.
But six months ago, Flamie was defeated by Chamot,
and the fiends betrayed her.
Since then, she hasn't killed any potential Braves.
Could the Sun Saint's power raise the temperature in this area?
It could.
Even now that she's old?
Riura's legs got so weak,
she couldn't leave her wheelchair.
But the Sun God's power
has remained as strong as ever.
First, the seventh and their allies kidnapped Riura
and forced her to help.
They probably took her family hostage or something like that.
Riura raised the temperature in this area.
Probably over the course of a month.
Didn't you think it was strangely hot?
It's gotten a bit hot...
Is this area especially warm?
You know anything, Flamie?
Next, the fortress.
Either the people there attacked, and then pretended to be surviving soldiers,
or they were helping the seventh from the start.
Either way, the Braves were told
about the phantasmal barrier, and given a false activation method.
What if someone had known the real activation?
They would've called off the plan.
But the king who built the temple was extremely secretive.
The King of the Iron Hills is a very secretive man.
No one even knew the barrier existed,
so it was unlikely.
And then?
The seventh used the fiends
to lure us to the temple.
When I opened the door, the signal was sent.
It was probably that transforming fiend.
At that signal, the other fiends killed Riura.
With Riura's death, the sun's power vanished, too.
The temperature dropped quickly, and the forest was covered in fog.
And we fell for it, believing the barrier had been activated.
I felt a chill running down my spine then.
But I wasn't imagining it...
The temperature really was dropping.
The rest is simple.
The seventh innocently approached the altar and,
amidst the confusion, activated the real barrier.
Then, all they had to do
was wait for me to be suspected,
and killed as the seventh.
Wait! What proof do you have?
These are all guesses!
I'm not done talking...
It's fine. Leave it to me.
You just need to explain it.
The final question...
Where did the seventh's comrades hide Riura's body?
It had to be close enough to hear a fiend's cry,
so it couldn't be that far from the temple.
It's a big forest,
but there aren't many places to hide her.
Chamot's here, so if Riura'd been buried, she'd have been found at once.
Nyaa!
Found it!
The best place to hide a leaf is a forest.
So the best place to hide a corpse...
Is in a mountain of corpses.
Flamie, was that fiend among those we fought yesterday?
If we'd fought something this size,
I'm sure we'd remember it.
Why is it here?
Hans!
Nyaa!
Tell us, Maura.
Riura-sama...
This is, without doubt, Riura-sama.
Okay, does anyone still think Adlet is the fake?
This is part of the trap, too!
Adlet prepared it in advance,
to prove his innocence!
If that were true,
he would've shared his theory a long time ago.
Do you know how many times he was almost killed, before making it here?
Well...
I was wrong.
Adlet wasn't the fake.
That's why I told you from the start...
That I wasn't the seventh...
Adlet!
Adlet-san!
That was a close thing.
I had no proof the body was hidden here.
It might have been somewhere else.
At the very end, I had to rely on luck.
But I won...
I revealed the seventh's plan, and I won!
Hey, who killed the old lady?
Probably that fiend.
It killed and ate Riura, then died here.
Wait.
Then who is the seventh?
The seventh...
The seventh is...
Episode 12 The Time to Reveal the Answer
Next time: The Time to Reveal the Answer.