The party advances along the route to Pallas`s castle, but Celeris stays behind to protect the people. But Hati attacks to get his revenge on Celeris once he sees Koga is gone. Subaru comes back, though, and Celeris tells him the story of how he got the Equuleus cloth. It was a story of the last Equuleus Saint, Kitalpha, who saved him when he was still a normal person.