Reminiscence of the Blue Witch

EP 6's Pre-wedding

Near the end of the 4th game, both Bernkastel and Lambdadelta officially made their appearance in front of a perfectly conscious Battler.

During the 5th game, after Beatrice gave up, Lambdadelta continued the game in her place, Bernkastel added a new piece named 'Furudo Erika' to the game.

At the 6th game, after Beatrice's death, Battler reached the complete understanding of her game and became her successor as the new Game Master.

And mist started to gather itself together at one center before it took a human shape and then dissolved to reveal Bernkastel floating in the air in its place.

She slowly floated down on the ground before glancing in front of her. There was a man wearing a cape sitting on a throne in a chapel fit for a wedding ceremony. The man was none other than Ushiromiya Battler who switched from the Human side to the Witches' of the game, the former detective who became the new player of the Witch side succeeding the position of the late Golden Witch Beatrice as the new Endless Sorcerer.

Yet...

"...Look at how pathetic you've become."

Despite sitting on a throne and wearing a cape befitting for his status as the Territory Lord of this Fragment, his eyes were empty and devoid of light, his mouth barely moving and only muttering incoherent whispers from time to time.

The proud winner of the previous game who managed to steal back victory from both her and Erika was no more, just reduced to a shell of its former self, following the same fate as his Witch predecessor during the previous game when she lost hope.

All of this because of the overconfidence he got from one victory and his wish to settle things in a fair manner. And this was the result he got; his consciousness was sealed and his body invalid, all because of a logic error he caused himself and that was used against him.

"Did you truly expect witches like us to play a game all fair and square? What a naïve boy. Didn't you learn from your lesson at Beato's 3rd game with how she tricked you?" Bernkastel walked towards the man who once humiliated her victory with his unexpected comeback. Though it hurt her pride that Erika lost so quickly, it was good to know that the game she was close to considering as 'boring' was still worthy of some interest.

Still it didn't mean that she wasn't bitter about it. After all, a cat's grudge is known to last over 7 generations. She would never admit it herself, but she was pretty much a sore loser.

"You are trapped in the closed-room you created yourself, without any means to escape, while leaving that chick of a witch you've raised to find a solution to it in your place. A fatal error for the Witch's side, since you seem to be so careful I have never expected you to make one, well it works in my favor so I won't complain about it. In the end, refusing Lambda's help even though she is your guardian may be the reason for your loss."

Lambdadelta is the Witch's, Beatrice's, guardian and Bernkastel is the Detective's, Battler's. Yet when Battler started to take Beatrice's side after the latter dropped as a participant of the game, he made himself the enemy of both Lambdadelta and Bernkastel, who took Erika as the replacement for the role he played up until now: a detective who denies magic.

Even though it was thanks to Lambdadelta that he was allowed to raise up to the rank of sorcerer, and not a temporary title like Bernkastel did with Erika, he still refused her help as a guardian and instead chose to fight against all of them alone, which resulted to Lambdadelta to go to Bernkastel and Erika's side.

He probably was disgusted with the cruelty that Lambdadelta displayed during the previous games when she was Beatrice's guardian and thought of her as untrustworthy due to the particular relationship she showed to have with Bernkastel, probably expecting that the two of them aren't on opposite sides and are instead conspiring together. Well after what happened at the 5th game, no one could blame him for staying on his guard around them and in a way he isn't wrong.