Night.
Ange and Dorothy's room.
Ange is tossing and turning in her sleep. She sees the day of separation from Charlotte, when she got into the street because of the confusion. After a quiet life in the castle before that. At the end, a meeting with the chamberlain and a conversation about the game of chess.
Ange continues to sleep peacefully. Dorothy woke up feeling a little worried.
Morning, the garden near the academy.
Everyone except Chise and Svyat were sitting at the table. Dorothy sipped her tea warily, then asked.
— So, Ange, is there anything you want to tell us?
Ange, as if nothing had happened, began to inform.
— Today we are going to the royal house.
— A-a-and?.. — Dorothy waited.
— Provide protection for the princess. — Ange continued.
Dorothy was angry, but she didn't show it.
Svyat and Chise were having another training session. During a very long duel, Svyat began to make mistakes and it seemed like he was about to lose. But at one point, something happened, which is why the guy made a hard lunge and almost blew Chisa's head off, but fortunately she managed to put a block and fell off by inertia. The saint was confused, but he helped his friend up. Chise complained.
—What was that? You almost decapitated me, yes it would have been a good end to the fight and a great punch, but you did it as if you didn't realize it.
Svyat came to his senses and answered.
— I do not know, I just felt that I was starting to lose, and then... — Glory grabbed his head. —I think my brain is hurting, like he's...
Svyat felt sick, and Chise took him to a nurse. After that, he felt better.
Svyat, Chise, and Dorothy were sitting in the room. Chise asked Dorothy what they were waiting for.
Dorothy, turning away from the answer.
— I don't know. Ange is more secretive than usual today and it annoys me. — Dorothy turned to look at them —What happened to that cripple?
— He's been possessed by a yokai. — Chise explained unhurriedly.
Svyat in a tired voice.
— I'll take that as a compliment, but if it's not polite, then I'm covered.
—That's nice. — Dorothy said irritably.
Beatrice came into the room. Dorothy immediately asked if she knew where the princess was now. Beatrice replied in the negative.
Dorothy stood up and started talking.
— Okay, okay, let's all just calm down now.
He is also Svyat in a tired voice.
— You're the only one who's nervous.
— Shut up, Glory. — Dorothy was saying shrilly, taking out a bottle of wine.
Ange and Charlotte enter the room.
The Princess asked.
— Miss Dorothy, are you going to drink? But then how will you take us to the meeting?
Dorothy raised her voice.
— And I'm not going to take anyone until they tell me what's going on.
— Miss Dorothy, what do you mean? — Beatrice asked, worried.
Dorothy lowered her tone, but began to gesture emotionally.
— So first, in the middle of the night, I watched Ange tossing and turning in her sleep, afraid of something, which means that the reason there is impressive, then only Ange is enlightened in the task, ignoring me, and clearly not telling us something, and now they make us wait here...
Beatrice tries to approach Dorothy.
— Miss Dorothy, you should calm down...
— I'm calm! — Dorothy pulls the bottle away from Beatrice, hitting the mechanism on her neck.
Beatrice falls, her voice distorted. Dorothy realized and immediately rushed to help her. Everyone looked worried. Ange helped fix the mechanism. Dorothy, feeling guilty, said in a low voice.
— Get ready, I'll go check the car.
Dorothy leaves. Svyat, still in a tired voice.
— And I told you, your wine is stuff.
Ange heard this and threw a cloth at him, completely covering his face.
Dorothy went to the garage. In it, she saw Steve digging in the car and smoking a cigarette. The mechanic was unscrewing something and, accidentally hitting the piston of the engine, dropped the key and along with it another piston. He shouted out emotionally.
—That's lousy shit! — hit a tire after that, but when he noticed Dorothy, corrected myself. — Oh, I'm sorry, I wanted to say "terrible assembly of parts."
Dorothy got into the next car and said uncertainly.
— Tell me how you apologize so easily, even if it's not your fault.
Steve dusted himself off and reached for another cigarette.
— I have reasons why I can't forgive myself, that's why I apologize for the little things. And even without this, just asking for forgiveness for your mistake is not so difficult, it is difficult to forgive yourself after that.
Dorothy relaxed a little.
— Thanks.
— For what? — asked Steve, surprised.
— For fixing cars here alone.
— Hm... You don't pay enough anyway.
The team went to the royal house.
There was deathly silence in the car. Svyat wanted to say something, but quickly changed his mind.
Dorothy walked alone in the castle while Ange and Charlotte chatted with the guests. Svyat and Chise were discussing which of the nobles looked more like youkai.
— The one with the belly, and the shell behind the suit.
— Yeah, he's also drinking like crazy. And there's another long one.
— I thought I saw this one, but I don't remember where, it gave me goosebumps.
The chamberlain entered the hall, greeted the princess and headed towards the Saint. Winston kindly offered to talk about the Duke of Aquitaine.
At this time, Dorothy approached Ange, Charlotte, and Beatrice to apologize. Beatrice accepted the apology, and Ange decided to tell her what she had seen in her dream.
The chamberlain began to talk about the family tree of the royal family, Svyat thought about it. Suddenly, a sharp, piercing scream sounded, which deafened everyone. When she recovered, she ran to see how Svyat was doing. She turned into another hall and saw the bloody body of the chamberlain and Svyat huddled in a corner. He was holding his sickle and hammer in his hands, which were covered in blood, and the kid himself was shaking with empty eyes.
The whole team quickly left the house.
There was a tense but still deathly silence in the car.
The next day, no one said anything, only occasionally Chise asked Svyat about what had happened, but he remained silent.
In other cases, they shied away from him. Ange would immediately change the subject or leave, while Charlotte avoided the boy altogether.
In the afternoon, towards evening, Svyat found Dorothy on the roof of the academy, while she was smoking a cigar. The boy stood next to the girl, she shared a cigarette and asked.
— So what are you going to do?
Svyat by lighting a cigarette.
— I... I don't know, I've been in a lot of shit, but that's it. After taking a drag, Svyat continued. — I feel like a useless kid again.
Dorothy sighed.
— Do you know why you're still standing here instead of somewhere in the ground? Because they consider you necessary and trust you. And these are not management words at all.
— Well, what should I do? — Svyat asked tensely.
— First of all, apologize, then fix the problem and take into account the lesson from it, and how you do it is up to you. — Dorothy explained.
Svyat with a small smile.
— Thanks for the advice.
Dorothy threw away her cigarette.
— I just shouldn't have taken Steve's cigarettes, they're obviously sedative.
Night.
Everyone sleeps in their rooms.
Svyat went outside with a guitar and sat down in front of Ange and Dorothy's window. The kid started singing "A Ray of the Golden Sun." Charlotte, Ange, who was awake, and a smiling Dorothy were watching him. At the beginning of the last verse, Ange jumped to the Table with the help of a key ball and stood in front of it.
Meanwhile, the chamberlain's body was found in the royal house. A car pulled up, and someone got out. The butler spoke to the stranger.
— Thank you for coming as quickly as we could, we are already looking for the culprit, and as you know, we could not stop you in ignorance, Prince Richard...