The Legend of Carmine

On the next day, with the rise of the sun, a new figure led the Ouran army to the forefront of the war line. As this figure approached the forefront he was face to face with the Lapens army. He saw it was led by Lex. And Lex also could see that Ourand was led by a new man, and he could determine that it was general Nade. He led that day because his right-hand man, Xan had been killed by Armine.

Nade knew that General Armine was wounded by Xan and his absence did not bother him. As the battle continued, by mid-day Lapen's army appeared defeated and outnumbered. And Nade could see that Lex was not as efficient as General Armine in planning and execution in battle, which had led to the early exhaustion of the Lapen army. Therefore, Lex to save his remaining soldier instructed for a retreat. As Lapen started to flee. Nade could not believe his dreams of invading Lapen was so near. So, seeing his goals so near he could not resist it and chased after the Lapen army to defeat them and capture the borders and invade the country.

On the other hand, General Armine had remained hidden with her elite 10 soldiers near the battleground. As Lex started to retreat and take Ouran army away from the battlefield. When they were gone. Armine led her soldier into the Ouran land. As they killed the guards and made their way in. She could not believe the inhumanity of Nade. She indeed saw the wounded soldier on the cell and when she asked why were they in the cell. They said that they are used for experiments by Nade for his pixie dust. She could not believe it. She then instructed half of her soldiers to help them move out. But as Armine and others entered she could see the same deadly scene of dead animals' and humans' skeletons with pink pixie dust.

She was even more determined to destroy it.

So, Armine took a sample of the pixie dust in a cloth without touching it. And set everything on fire. As she and her soldiers were setting it on fire. She found out that the pixie dust had combustible capability so she instructed that to ignited each of the drums of the pixie dust.

On the battlefield as Nade was chasing Lex. Nade's army finally cornered Lex's army and started to battle. During it what astonished Nade was the soldier which looked frail before, they were no longer tired and were fighting ferociously. As Nade was trying to solve this. He could see smoke coming from his camp. When he saw that it started to made sense to Nade and realized that it was, after all, a well-executed plan.

Nade immediately took a portion of the army and left for his camp. When he got there he saw that his camp was already infiltrated by Armine, who had also destroyed his lifelong work. Nade lost his cool and attacked Armine and eventually, Armine injured his right eye. In agony, Nade tried to flee because the troop he had bought was already defeated. And when he turned back to see in the horizon he could see Lapen flag fluttering and was marching towards them. At this point, the reality sank in his mind, and realized how Armine had tricked him into thinking that he was winning the war. This made him confident in his victory and made him chase after Lex. And Armine used this opportunity to destroy his base. As Nade rode in his horse and tried to flee he was tailed by 2 of Lapen's elite soldiers. At this side, Armine was breaking in sweat with the day-long work and combat with Nade because of her shoulder injury.

When the soldiers were closing into Nade. Nade used the very last sample of pixie dust he had on both the soldier and their horses. He hated Armine even more because he had thought with this sample he could test and make the formula again. But he had to use every last bit to save his life. At this point, he had lost everything his life's long work, his army as well as his country's border. He promised to himself that he will avenge it all with Armine. As Armine and her other soldiers reached there the two soldiers and the horses who had been exposed to the pixie dust were rolling in agony and died instantly before they could do anything. Armine saw the power of the pixie dust first hand which gave her the chills down her spine.

When Lex and his army reached there, they set their perimeters and captured the remaining Ouran's army. After this Armine summoned an assembly and announced that the defeated soldier and the prisoners are allowed to return to their homeland. She also stated that the prisoners in the cell including citizens of defeated territories of Ouran, whose family were all tortured and treated as slaves and were also used for the experiment, all of them were allowed to go back freely. However, Ouran's military was vicious because the defeated soldier would be punished with the death penalty if they came back defeated. So, they all begged Armine to let them stay there and start their life and not force them to go back to Ouran. Armine allowed them to stay there but this gave her insight into the level of cruelty and inhumanity of the Ouran military and government.