Queen Mab.
Based on the information Naoki knew, she was a powerful fairy born after all the remaining northern fairies gathered all their strength, and she possessed the protection of Albion the Dragon. Her strength was sufficient to confront Aesc directly. Among the other five great clans, only the Fang Clan leader, Wryneck, could match her.
Such immense power allowed Mab, for the long-held hopes of the northern fairies, to launch the Summer War that nearly changed Britain's structure.
Unlike the southern fairies who treated humans as slaves, the northern fairies led by Mab did not view humans as slaves, but as companions living together. In fact, under Mab's leadership, there were even fairies who fell in love with humans.
From various perspectives, Mab was a kind-hearted fairy extremely rare on the British continent filled with trash fairies, no different from an endangered species.
However, when Aesc, relying on her status as the Savior, walked unimpeded towards Mab's reception room in the deepest part of Edinburgh—
"You've got some nerve showing your face here, Aesc. Do I allow you to enter? Get out."
Queen Mab, sitting on the sofa with an appearance almost identical to Queen Medb from Pan-Human History but looking more mature, immediately ordered Aesc to leave.
Aesc frowned slightly in confusion: "It seems you really dislike me. Do you not want to see me that much, Mab?"
"Why would you think I want to see you? Have you forgotten what you did sixteen hundred years ago?"
"Mocking you and your husband? You're still not over it after sixteen hundred years?"
"Aesc, hold back a little." Naoki quickly pulled Aesc's sleeve. "We came here not to provoke. We shouldn't open old wounds like this. Speak more kindly and gently."
Kindly? Gently?
"I see. Mab, regarding that matter back then—"
"Wait a moment."
Lowering her long legs from the sofa, Mab firmly interrupted Aesc. She shifted her attention and gaze to Naoki and Melusine. After sweeping her eyes over them for a moment, she first nodded slightly towards Melusine.
"Albion the Dragon... I never expected to meet you in this form."
"Ah, you're the child born back then?"
Melusine seemed to recognize Mab too.
Naoki asked: "Melusine, you know Queen Mab?"
"No. This is our first meeting. But I've sensed her birth long ago. Her body also possesses part of Albion the Dragon's power."
"That is the protection from the Boundary Dragon. I can recognize your identity because of that protection power too." Queen Mab still looked at Melusine with slight surprise. She knew the situation in the Lake District. Albion the Dragon, who had become remains, could still appear in this form.
(Then, this man whose hand is being held by Albion the Dragon...)
Mab looked at Naoki: "Not the little one from the Wing Clan, nor the indestructible iron block, and that precocious blue-haired child isn't here either... Is this your new Fairy Knight, Aesc?"
Aesc shook her head: "Totorot and Ector are in Londinium. I didn't bring them on this trip. Grimm left me long ago, I'm not sure exactly where he is now—As for him... he is Natsukawa Naoki, Naoki, my savior."
Savior?
Mab's eyebrows furrowed tightly, then she laughed uncontrollably, as if she was being joked with: "Hehehe, after not meeting for over sixteen hundred years, you've started making jokes, Aesc? You, who have become the savior, are saying he is your savior?"
"I'm not joking, Mab." Aesc said seriously, "Compared to a useless savior like me who until now cannot save this island, he is a savior who can truly save this island—I should have told you about the original origins of this British Isle."
"Events from over ten thousand years ago? The White Titan?"
Although they had conflicts, Mab was the strongest fairy on the British Isle besides Aesc and Wryneck, and also the fairy most likely to become Britain's ruler. Sixteen hundred years ago, one reason why Mab retreated, besides her fighting spirit being destroyed by Aesc's verbal attacks, was the ancient secret from ten thousand years ago that Aesc told her.
The Ark of the Stars ten thousand years ago, the White Titan that destroyed the world....
"Back then, because the Holy Sword wasn't forged in time, our original world was destroyed. The savior who should have saved the world at that time didn't appear. But now, another savior from Pan-Human History has come."
"From Pan-Human History?"
Mab's eyebrows raised, and Naoki also timely produced his Holy Sword.
"Nice to meet you, Queen Mab. I am the third-generation Bearer of the Star Holy Sword from Pan-Human History, and also the first-generation Elemental Spirit born from the Planet itself. Just call me Naoki."
"Currently, I have accepted Aesc's request, and as her friend, I will help her save this British Isle."
The Holy Sword Bearer from Pan-Human History who doesn't exist in the Lostbelt.
After observing Naoki from head to toe once more, Mab asked: "Save, huh... Aesc, you always say you will save this island, save the fairies. Have you found a method this time?"
"I will push humans to launch an armed rebellion against the fairies behind the scenes, and build a Fairy Nation where humans and fairies coexist—just like your Edinburgh here."
Aesc frankly revealed her plan.
Mab continued asking: "Will that completely avoid the calamities?"
"Address internal problems first, then external ones. The purpose of my actions is to stabilize the Fairy Nation. Permanently resolving the calamities is a matter for after that."
"What's your opinion? Man who claims to be the Holy Sword Bearer."
"Essentially, just eliminate all the fairies first." Naoki very seriously voiced his true thoughts.
This statement immediately made Mab fall silent. Aesc, as someone who knew, accepted it quickly because from the beginning, the two of them had understood each other regarding this issue.
Mab asked further: "Aren't you a savior?"
"I will be Britain's savior, be Aesc's savior, but will not be the fairies' savior. After all, almost all fairies in this world deserve to die. I don't think they are worth saving."
Naoki laughed: "The reason I'm not conducting a large-scale massacre of fairies right now is, on one hand, because fairies immediately revive after being killed. To kill them until they can't revive would take an extremely long time. I don't want to waste time and effort."
"On the other hand, it's purely because Aesc wants to save the fairies, and I'm just respecting her wishes."
"Personally, I have absolutely no intention of saving these fairies who deserve to die. If fairies commit wrongs before my eyes, I won't hesitate to kill all fairies on this island."
"—Except for a few that I know."