Flare, a legendary priestess and former chief Executioner of the Faust Church, wielded peerless magecraft to purge Lost Ones threatening global stability. Her legacy intertwined with Menou when she discovered the orphaned girl amid the ruins of the Sword of Salt calamity—a cataclysm that annihilated Menou’s homeland and numbed her psyche. Dubbing the child "Flarette" as her chosen successor, Flare molded Menou through merciless combat drills, etheric discipline, and tactical pragmatism, transforming trauma into lethal focus. Though Menou lacked innate magical reserves, Flare honed her precision and adaptability, weaponizing meticulous planning and acrobatic prowess to overcome limitations. She tempered these skills with austere ethics, teaching Menou to bear the psychological toll of executing innocent Lost Ones as a grim duty to avert greater disasters. Flare’s fearsome prestige within the Church cemented Menou’s authority, yet her uncompromising doctrines sowed enduring conflict between Menou’s professional ruthlessness and latent empathy—most evident in her fraught dynamic with Akari. While Flare’s eventual departure left Menou to operate independently as a senior Executioner, her teachings linger in every calculated strike and moral calculation. The Sword of Salt’s shadow persists as Flare’s cautionary parable, reinforcing the Faust Church’s cyclical burden of sacrifice. Her mentorship remains a double-edged inheritance: a framework for survival and a mirror to the paradoxes of righteous violence.