Triumphant Return

Hey, Teach.

Claude?!

Settle down, will you? You're the victor, after all.

I could have escaped, but I decided to say hi to Teach. Nothing to worry about.

Derdriu has fallen and the Alliance has collapsed. There's nothing I could do to turn things around at this point.

You want me to drop my guard around someone who evaded detection by my soldiers? Impossible.

Did you really risk coming here just to say hello?

I did. But mostly I wanted to say good-bye. I'm leaving Fódlan.

Why are you leaving?
Lend us your strength.

Lend you my... I knew I liked you, Teach!

I daresay Fódlan would be a lot more peaceful without me around. Right, Your Majesty?

It's as you say. So long as you remain here, the faction of the Alliance that is against the Empire will continue to support you.

Too true. It's best if I leave this place altogether. I'll just have to find some other way to pay back my debt to you.

All I ask is that you go easy on the Alliance. After all, no one there would dare defy you now.

And please, treat my former classmates well. I've asked them to cooperate with you if I lost.

Wait... Did your scheming include a plan for if the Alliance lost?

Heh, you think too highly of me. It just seems that way now.

Outside of Derdriu, most of the Alliance is unscathed and ready to join your superior strength.

In all honesty, I was hoping to become a supreme ruler and lead Fódlan to peace myself. But... that won't be happening now.

Claude...

Good luck to you, Edelgard.

Claude leaves the scene

We crushed him in battle and yet... He really is difficult to understand.

Derdriu is ours. The Alliance has collapsed, and their leader has fallen.

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We lost a worthy opponent.

I agree. However, if Claude had lived, the faction of the Alliance that is against the Empire would never have stopped fighting us.

Did we really have to kill him?

If Claude had lived, the faction of the Alliance that is against the Empire would never have stopped fighting us.

To keep the bloodshed to a minimum, he had to be taken out of the equation.

However, now that it's over, I can't help but wonder if he was in complete control of that entire situation.

What will become of the Alliance without him... He must have taken that into account.

Without the rule of House Riegan, and with most of that territory left unscathed, the Alliance will undoubtedly ally itself with the Empire.

The citizens' lives will be saved from ruin, and no more blood will be shed.

Perhaps that's what he wanted from the start...

That sounds like Claude.

Of course, if his plan here in Derdriu had worked and I had lost my life...the opposite would have come to pass.

The Empire would have rushed to the Alliance without further conflict.

No matter how the battle unfolded, Claude secured the shortest, most peaceful outcome possible.

Hubert enters the scene

Caspar enters the scene

Lady Edelgard, Derdriu is now completely under our control.

Petra enters the scene

As planned, the Alliance's affairs will now be overseen by Count Bergliez.

Caspar

My father is coming here? First west, then east... You sure keep him busy.

Should the others return to the monastery and prepare to face the Kingdom?

Yes. Thank you, Hubert.

Thanks to all of your efforts, our battle with the Alliance has reached its conclusion.

However, we still can't afford to be careless. We must now join the battle against the Kingdom.

With the strength of the church on their side, they will prove to be a formidable enemy.

More than ever, your support is invaluable. We'll need it in the days to come. But for now, let's enjoy our triumphant return!

Caspar

Let's get to it!

Dorothea

I'm so happy that the end of the fighting is near. Too bad there's still more violence to come...

Petra

The Kingdom and the Church of Seiros are worthy for fighting. I will crush them into very small pieces!

Petra is alive & recruited
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Linhardt

Crushing wouldn't yield a lot of pieces, but I guess it would get the job done.

Linhardt

With the professor, we can't lose...probably.

Bernadetta

Oh no, are we fighting Lady Rhea? But she's scary! And she'll be really angry!

Bernadetta

But no way she can stay in her spooky beast form all the time...right?

Bernadetta, Dorothea is alive & recruited
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Dorothea

If she could, she would have come and attacked the monastery as many times as she wanted.

Ferdinand

It may be wishful thinking, but perhaps it is a power that she can only access when the situation is dire.

Ferdinand

But whether she is the archbishop or the Immaculate One, we cannot be stopped!

Ferdinand

Half remains but half is finished... We are certainly moving forward.