For his part, Claude had come to a point where he was fully prepared to meet Dimitri face-to-face and tell him the truth. He was beyond the guilt and shame, he just wanted it to come out. The whole truth – or at least as much as Byleth would be willing to share – as long as how they felt was out in the open.
He had had enough.
“I’m not frightened of Dimitri,” Claude had told Byleth frankly, and her eyes had been troubled as she replied.
“I’m glad one of us isn’t.”
Claude resolves to bring the conflict against Edelgard’s mysterious former allies to an end.
However, its resolution also means parting ways with Byleth – and he decides that he cannot continue to live a lie any longer.
Worse still, upon requesting that Byleth come clean about her true feelings to her husband, they find out that somebody is listening…
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