Three days after the disastrous raid against Windbloom, Mashiro is forced to join refugees fleeing from their homeland. Nina now serves as the Meister Otome of Nagi. Getting to know her exiled people better, Mashiro learns the painful truth about her leadership qualities as the poor people of Windbloom, forced out by Nagi's occupation, threaten Aoi for her loyalty to Mashiro. Aoi refuses to tell the mob where Mashiro is, falling off a cliff instead, and a grief-stricken Mashiro flees.