After winning the tournament, Leina takes her solo leave, leaving Claudette as the de facto ruler of Gainos. Tomoe has returned to Gainos and starts a journey with Aldra. At the Vance castle, various nobles living nearby are not too happy that Leina won the Queen's Blade tournament and have formed a joint army to attack the castle. Elina manages to hold off the invading forces long enough for her father to escape, but she is defeated by Echidna (who was hired by the nobles) and captured. Having collected her reward and having nothing better to do, Echidna sticks around and teases Elina by tickling her for a while using her pet snake, but Elina is adamant that Leina will come and rescue her. Elina remembers that she and Leina were very close after their mother had passed away, but as the sisters grew up Leina became more distant.