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Guardia Castle can be visited before the [[Millennial Fair (Chapter)|Millennial Fair Quest]] is complete and [[Marle]] is transported to the past via [[Lucca]]'s [[Telepod]], but the characters in the party will urge the player to leave the location and approach the Fair. If Crono is alone, the Guards throw him out. Otherwise, Castle Guardia is first visited in 600 AD, where the player finds Marle, imitating her ancestor [[Queen Leene]] and inevitably unwinding her own birth. Prior to the rescue of Queen Leene, Crono, Marle, and Lucca return to the Present, and Marle's identity as Princess Nadia is revealed, she invites her new friends over for dinner. Crono escorts Marle back to the castle and Lucca returns home. Upon their arrival, Crono is accused of kidnapping the Princess and attempting to seize or terrorize the Throne. A trial is held in the Prison Towers following the accusation, and the [[Judge]] imprisons him regardless of the verdict. He escapes thanks to Lucca. [[Fritz]], imprisoned due to the injustice of the new judicial system, can be rescued from the guillotine at this time. He returns to his father's shop in [[Truce]] and rewards the player with five [[Mid-Ether]]s as thanks. [[File:Execution.jpg|thumb|Crono on his way to execution.]]

[[File:RainbowShell3.png|thumb|The [[Rainbow Shell]] in the Vault.]]At that time, The King is accused of harboring the Rainbow Shell and refusing to unveil it during the [[Moonlight Parade]], as an ancestral will demands, thus concluding that it must have been sold. The will is likely forged. Either way, The King was not aware of the heirloom's presence among him possessions. To relieve him of charges, Marle and two others retrieve a shard of the shell from the vault, after defeating several [[Naga]] and [[Viper]] trapped in the basement. Two [[Viper]] named [[Dumb]] and [[Dumber]], reveal that the Chancellor, as in the past when Queen Leene was kidnapped, is Yakra in disguise (this time his 13th descendant). Because the guards outside the courtroom doors refuse the princess access to the trial, she jumps through the giant stained glass windows, provides the evidence to the court. Shocked and all too eager to avenge his ancestor for the embarrassment at [[Manolia Cathedral]], [[Yakra_XIII|Yakra XIII]] returns to his true form and attacks the players. Defeating him springs an intimate cut-scene between Marle and her father, where he tells her the true story of her mother, Aliza's death; she did, in fact die, peacefully. Marle calls her father "daddy" for the first time in many years and their relationship is repaired, as Leene advised in the letter she attached to the shell. [[Melchior]] appears sometime shortly after, offering to craft powerful weapons and armor from the heirloom.