Interlude: The Spectator A Certain Place at the Altar-Dryfe Border There were currently three battles happening at the Altar-Dryfe border. Though the battle between Chrono and Tom — and then Kashimiya — had ended, the battles sparked at the peace talks had only just begun. The combatants on those other battlefields probably weren’t even aware of the deadly fight that had just taken place. However, there was one who watched over each of these raging conflicts. Kashimiya and Chrono’s fight is over. Switching view. Hiding in the shadow of some trees, a man scribbled something on his notepad with his eyes closed. He was the thirtieth in Altar’s kill rankings — King of Light, F. The man who’d fought Ray on the Love-Duel Festival was yet again looking down upon everything. As expected, The Unbreakable’s fight was one to behold, but there are many others worth seeing, too. The sights observed by his Embryo, Zodiac, were projected directly into his eyes. His left was focused on a single battle — the one involving Ray’s group — while his right swapped between several of them. The first was the now-finished duel to the death between Kashimiya and Chrono; the second was the martial dance between the two princesses; and the third was the clash between the machine god and a giant kaiju. F could see so many rare occurrences merely by being in this place, at this time. In fact, there was so much to see that it was actually beginning to make him anxious. On top of that, there was one thing that he was completely missing out on.
Due to a connection of his, he knew about the assault on Altea that was happening right now. However, the capital was far from the Altar-Dryfe border. That put it well beyond the range of his Zodiac’s remote control, so he could only observe one of the two battlegrounds. F had prioritized Ray — the one who’d beaten him and left an impression he himself had yet to fully make sense of — and followed him here to the border, but he definitely found it unfortunate that he couldn’t see Altea too. The capital has more people, though. I can only hope that I can catch a glimpse of what’s happening there through someone’s recording. He considered Zodiac’s observation to be the best and most optimal way of gathering material, but if something was too far away, then he had to resort to inferior methods. “Hm...?” Suddenly, something strange appeared before his right eye, which was currently fixed on the clash between Shu and Behemot. It was a monster that looked like an eyeball that had somehow sprouted wings. F already knew about a creature much like this. If that was the same kind of monster, then it was probably doing the same thing as F right now. ...Mr. Franklin. “The Weakest, The Worst” — Dryfe’s infamous mad scientist. One of his creatures was watching over the Altar-Dryfe Border just as F was. Was he doing it from a distance, though? Or was he actually...? He silently pondered it for a moment. F had noticed Franklin, but had Franklin noticed F? He didn’t think that it mattered much, in the end. He was merely a spectator who wouldn’t be caught up in any of these battles. F simply shrugged and went back to his observations... And that’s precisely when it happened. An event that could only be described as earth-shattering... To be continued
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