As Malenia led Ranni and her party back to the Haligtree, they happened to run into Zhao Si riding out.
Zhao Si was already prepared to go make trouble for Mohg.
The two groups came face-to-face.
"Heading out?" Malenia asked.
"Yeah." Zhao Si glanced at the carriage.
Ranni was looking out from inside, and her gaze met Zhao Si's.
Ranni felt a flood of words rise in her heart and clog her throat.
She could neither speak nor shout.
Her heart felt numb, her whole body cold, her hands and feet icy.
It was not the low temperature in the Mountaintops of the Giants. She herself felt unwell.
The reckless fool she had met at the Academy of Magic had actually become a knight capable of deciding the course of a battle.
How had she failed to see it? Who could have imagined that an idiot had such potential?
She recalled how Zhao Si had looked when she first met him, foolish, rash, and reckless, and compared it with the way he sat astride Monster Horse now, head held high and chest out.
Ranni felt that the old Zhao Si had been rather more endearing.
"Come back soon." Malenia said nothing else.
"All right." Zhao Si did not say anything more either.
As usual, Melina accompanied him, because Zhao Si did not want Helena going to that wretched place of Mohg's.
Remember the maiden who lay collapsed on the floor of the Chapel of Anticipation at the very beginning of the game?
Although he did not know who had killed her, considering "White Mask" Varré's later actions, Zhao Si felt that Mohg's people had killed the maiden.
Because in the quest chain to join the Mohgwyn Dynasty, one step involved Varré giving the player a cloth for an oath and