Inside the pilgrim academy, Rico was discussing with Van in an empty classroom as Van leaned against a wall with his arms crossed and his eyes closed.
"Van, please listen to me!" Rico said.
"I have been listening. I have been listening to your crap for the past 3 minutes and i'm getting bored." Van replied, "You knew about their plans and kept quiet, but yet you have the gulls to stand here and say you didn't betray me."
"I didn't! I was only trying to protect everyone!" Rico said.
"Protect everyone?" Van asked as he opened his eyes.
"If i told you what Juni and Garl were planning, you would have gone after them, and if i hadn't stopped their plan… If i didn't convince them to drop their plan of betrayal, they would have attacked.
I… I just didn't want our friendship to break apart. I didn't want to play sides, so i tried to keep everything silent; that's why i didn't tell you in the first place, because if you knew-"