Nephrites' brother Jade, who suffers from an extreme sister-complex, imprisons Satou. Satou is broken out by Peridot the elf Elder who believes the elves need to re-join the outside world. She sneaks him into the temple where the Wind Ring generates the barrier by drawing power from the petrified bodies of Nephrites' parents. After kidnapping Nephrites, Peridot assures Satou that Nephrites is stronger than she seems. Jade secures the ring, reasoning Satou can’t take it via marriage as long as Nephrites still hasn’t removed it from her mother’s finger. Satou is able to show Nephrites he is just an ordinary man who stumbled into his position due to falling in love with Hime. She admits she is curious about the world, so he offers to show her but won’t force her to marry him. She tries to stand up to Jade but is forced to obey him. Peridot reveals Nephrites' aunt should have inherited the ring, but when her human lover was murdered to keep him from inheriting the ring by marriage she fled the kingdom after cursing it to be destroyed. The ring was passed to her younger sister, Nephrites' mother, whose fear of the curse grew so great she and her husband made Nephrites promise never to leave the kingdom, then sacrificed their lives to create the barrier.