「Three years after the Battle of Dewensen.」
In an underground icy lair reconstructed beneath Montero City by the desert sea coast, a series of tapping sounds emerged, growing from rhythmic to seemingly impatient.
In the dim and lightless depths of the lair, Attilicia lay as still as a corpse. Finally, he struggled to turn over, as if breathing his last:
"...I'm not seeing visitors," his voice hoarse, low, and decadent.
The visitor outside the lair did not urge him, but instead turned and asked:
"Has he been like this for the past three years?"
Another voice, somewhat helpless yet sorrowful, replied:
"Yes, Uncle Attilicia, he seems unable to accept the fact that your father is gone." That was the voice of the Silver Dragon Princess Alicia.
Gone, not dead. Without an actual death, there could be no rebirth.
David Uthos, the Red Dragon, seemed to have completely disappeared from this world ever since he sacrificed himself to bring down that crimson star.
