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After doing what he needed to do in the palace, Kazuya left the castle with a smile.
Remembering the face Alicia made after hearing his parting words almost made him laugh out loud on the spot.
"Soooooo satisfying! Hahaha!"
Letting out the words he had been holding onto while inside the palace made him feel so much better. The pressure of all the unexpected events that transpired has recently stressed him out so Alicia setting herself up to be ridiculed was something that improved his mood a great deal.
Familiarizing himself with the situations of his early arrival to Edea had taken some time but even with the effects of the events that he had changed historically. Kazuya had finally begun to see a few paths that he could currently take.
"I wonder if she made her decision yet…" Kazuya thought about Nell.
The unexpected encounter with her at Raizer's shop had solved one of the things that he had been worrying about.