The CP is in the Empress's compound recounting how he came to owe SL and NL. The Empress asks if he regrets letting SL go, telling him that now it's too late. She then comforts him, saying the debt is only 1,500 green crystals since she doesn't think SL is gutsy enough to appear in front of them and demand it. The CP mentions NL will collect on her behalf since she and NL are intimate, but is talked by the Empress into believing NL is just playing with her. The Empress also assures him that she can get the Emperor to dismiss the debt with NL by regarding it as a joke between brothers.