In the meantime, Aka and her men are busy preparing for battle. Aka tells her men to prepare for battle, but they don't seem to know what to do. She tells them that she's been told to go into hiding, but she doesn't know why. She says she'll be back soon, but first she has to figure out what's going on with the people who have been displaced by the war. She asks Aka if she can help them, but Aka says she can't, because she'd rather die than help her people. Then she asks if Aka is the one who caused the war in the first place, and she says yes, she was. She also says that Aka should be the one to save her beloved princess, because it's her job to bring about peace in the world.