The day he feared most

A feeling of hopelessness engulfed him as he widened his eyes upon being smiled at by a beautiful red-head woman on the B Empire's side. Somebody who matched Audrey's description of the woman responsible for delaying them and causing the escape of Mao, leader of C Empire's Catastrophe. 

"Damn."

The world had been frozen. Even Nike, who had already been making big improvement in his magic level, could not move and could at most move his eyes, albeit he was at least not detached to this new reality. 

"You are Grace."

In such a world, Niccoli blankly muttered a name even though the mic was already placed under his lips. He found it more dreadful how the words did not seem to reach the more than a hundred thousand people beneath the stage. Red-haired and