New Londo: Hello

"Who the hell came up with this sadistic way of traveling?!"

"Did ancient people from who-knows-how-many years ago really enjoy this sort of thing?!"

Sitting beside the Campfire at Firelink Shrine, Anleisi had a bellyful of complaints she desperately needed to vent. If she did not complain, she was afraid she would suffocate from holding it all in.

Not long ago, while she had just woken up and was still groggy, the giant bird that had suddenly returned to its nest had grabbed her and hauled her away.

She had thought it was a mother desperate to avenge her chicks by hunting down the bastard human who had eaten them. Unexpectedly, the giant bird did not even glance at the shattered eggshells or the spilled egg yolk on the ground. It simply grabbed Anleisi, turned around, and flew off.

Kaius was stunned by its decisiveness. He had only pulled his weapon out halfway, and the enemy had already run away?

Anleisi had wanted to struggle. Even though the giant bird had grabbed her while she was sleeping curled up, leaving her in an extremely disadvantageous position to fight back, she could still have broken free if she wanted to.

But whether she could survive a high-speed crash from tens of thousands of miles in the sky after breaking free was another question entirely.

After weighing many factors, she finally decided to accept her fate for now and stop struggling. Once the giant bird landed, she would show it what cruelty and the Black Hand truly meant.

Then she was dropped into Firelink Shrine.

At that moment, as she stared at the scene of Firelink Shrine—a place that often appeared in recordings of the Holy Light Church's internal condemnation meetings—Anleisi's expression could be described with one word.

Awkward.

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