To the City of Muscle The bedridden Arche remains behind on her team's mission to Rahatluk, which they infiltrate as merchants to defeat its battle-obsessed ruler, the Oración Seis general Corpus. Chica stows aboard the team's wagon, desperate to reunite with Emero, whom she believes will agree to Ten's invitation. When the team discovers her, their arguing over whether or not to look for Emero prompts her to search on her own, but she is quickly captured and imprisoned by Corpus' guards. Corpus, who is eager to challenge Avrion's Farmagia following their defeat of Manas, is disappointed to learn that Chica was uninvolved and violently rebukes her for her submissive behavior...