Why has it come to this?

"A title for you, and even lands prepared for you—everything is ready. Do you see? All the land and people spread before your eyes will belong to you."

A breathtakingly beautiful and elegant woman, whose long golden hair shines so brightly it almost hurts to look at, gazes at me as she speaks.

"Did I not tell you, Swen? You are mine. For you, I can give anything—wealth, honor, power... If you so desire, I can even give you the surname 'Eingart.' You understand what that means, don't you? Lin Brans, Baranga Yuri Aesheus—they cannot offer you as much as I can."

She looks directly into my eyes...
As if staring at something so utterly precious.

"Even if that’s not enough... you can never, ever escape from me. You will be with me forever. From the moment we first met... this was destined. Fufu...♥"

Why?

With a low voice, she laughs as she looks at me. Then, as if she has turned into a young girl, her eyes sparkle as she asks the same question she always has.

"So... tell me now, grant me your [Prophecy of the Inner Eye]. I, Serpina von Eingart... will I be able to grasp this world within my hands?"

Whether I want to or not, once the question is asked, the answer inevitably begins to form.

I rack my brain and sink into thought.
Can she truly become the unifying monarch who will bring this era of chaos to an end and seize this world?

The answer comes so easily it’s almost ridiculous.
Well, my intelligence stat is 100, after all.

And so...

I have no choice but to give her the same answer I always have.

"...My lady cannot seize the world."

Not yet, anyway.