A Cursed Relic: Before Battle

Constance
Ahahaha!

Yuri
What is with you? Finally coming apart at the seams from all those late nights spent researching, huh?

Constance
Ahaha! For once, your sharp tongue misses its mark.

Constance
My elation is too powerful for your petty sniping to have any effect!

Constance
Not long ago, the church reached out to me. They bade me travel to House Gerth, escorted by the knights.

Constance
During the Dagda and Brigid war, you see, Houses Nuvelle and Gerth fought side by side.

Constance
Yet we were the ones who suffered wrack and ruin, while they kept their Foreign Ministry position.

Constance
I cannot turn back time to change that, of course.

Constance
But I would relish the opportunity to give Duke Gerth a proper tongue-lashing!

Yuri
I guess that is one of your pastimes, isn't it? Anyway, seems the church has business with House Gerth.

Constance
The church wishes to obtain a Hero's Relic thought to reside in House Gerth's collection.

Constance
The delicate negotiations of acquiring it fall to me, due to my connection with the duke.

Yuri
I thought they were all returned to the descendants of the 10 Elites by the church ages ago.

Yuri
House Gerth has no ties to the elites, and I don't think the head even has a Crest.

Yuri
Odd indeed for them to have a Relic.

Constance
There is talk that the Relic fell into his hands during the Dagda and Brigid war.

Constance
The Church of Seiros was displeased to learn this.

Constance
They feel the Relic should belong to them and have made that plain to House Gerth.

Yuri
I believe the Relic was found in a foreign land where it was mistaken for a marvelous, but benign, treasure.

Yuri
Then it was probably gifted as recompense to House Gerth, as part of a reconciliation.

Yuri
Who can say why it had landed on foreign shores to begin with, though.

Constance
You seem rather well-informed on the subject.

Yuri
Eh, I caught wind of some of the story, which piqued my interest.

Yuri
I did some digging and drew conclusions, like I tend to do. So what you've got is what I think—nothing more.

Yuri
Anyway. Constance. If you're headed to House Gerth, so am I.

Constance
What game are you playing here?

Yuri
No games—this time. I just want to get a gander at that shiny Relic they're keeping hidden away.

Constance
I haven't the authority to prevent it, but if you must accompany us, I should like the professor along too.

Constance
The more eyes watching this snake, the better.

Yuri
I think you've confused a snake with a bird. You coming, friend?