[It's not often Flora wants to roll her eyes, but this is one of those times. Not at Saber, but the circumstances; even she's not so naive, sometimes.]

If they do, it'd likely only to be done to keep it out hands that aren't theirs. If both sets of monarchs are evenly matched as I suspect they are, the sigils could be the tipping point for whoever has them.

[Put simply, they're too valuable to destroy.]

But I'll be careful. It helps that I'm one of the heads of the magical r&d team, my curiosity is far less likely to be suspicious.