Bayonetta leaped upward, narrowly avoiding Jeanne's raised rear wheel. Jeanne twisted the throttle and rode along the old brick wall.
The Witch jumped onto the motorcycle and fired her newly repaired guns—Scarborough Fair—at Jeanne, but Jeanne dodged every shot. Then she suddenly leaped backward, toward the falling Pocket Watch.
Defying gravity, Jeanne stood atop the motorcycle, perfectly parallel to the ground. With one foot on the throttle, she sprang from the front of the bike and seized the Pocket Watch a step ahead of Bayonetta. Then she fell, landing neatly in the seat of the motorcycle just as it hit the ground.
Every movement had been so effortless, as though she had calculated every variable in the battle, including where the motorcycle would land. By then, Bayonetta had only just touched down. Jeanne turned the bike around and stopped before Bayonetta, holding up the Pocket Watch for her to see.
Jeanne said, "I have waited a long time for this moment. Yet you forgot your destiny and wasted twenty years."
She tossed the Pocket Watch to Bayonetta, who caught the stolen treasure. Bayonetta looked at it in her hand and said, "Indeed, I don't remember much about any lake. Could you explain it to me in detail~?"
Jeanne opened the silver pocket watch at her collar, which was actually a small mirror. She reapplied her lipstick in its reflection. "Two observers... the Eyes of the World... power over the world."
Bayonetta had heard all of this before, but something still caught her attention—Jeanne's gaze, a gaze as though she were looking at someone she knew well. It felt deeply familiar to Bayonetta, and the person before her stirred more memories than she had expected.
For a moment, she seemed to return behind a black iron fence, looking out at a