Shiroe and Naotsugu attend a meeting with Ein, Malves and Touri. In the occasion, Ein reveals his motives for seceding from the Round Table, affirming that the People of the Land's lack of representativity on the conference's decisions is unaccepted and that four other main guilds are also withdrawing from it. Shiroe also learns from Touri that both the Westlande Senate and Intics are conspiring to begin a war against Eastal and Akiba. Recognizing Shiroe's merits, both Ein and Touri asks for his cooperation, but their conversation is interrupted by Rayneshia, who openly refuses to marry Touri and thanks to Crusty's words of encouragement left to her, asks Shiroe to prevent the Round Table from being dissolved...