Themis is assassinated and shot in the shoulder. The person who swore to protect him asks Charles for help and carries the wounded man from the garden to the forest, stopping the bleeding. During the interrogation, it is learned that Themis was to meet with the Empire's secret organization through the Crown Prince about a drug called Altered Aura. Then Adrian, Catacle's second-in-command, appears and explains the order behind the murder and the lie about the holy relic.