Scenario:Defender's Oath - Chapter 6: Defender's Oath - Episode 3

Defender's Oath - Chapter 6: Defender's Oath - Episode 3

Isabella continues to maintain her innocence even when presented with the prisoner from Ruforth Village. Lancelot is thrown into confusion and has to be propped up by Vane.

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Siegfried slowly opens the door. There stands Consul General Isabella and King Carl surrounded by guards.

Siegfried: Isabella!

Isabella: You stroll in here a wanted man. Do you realize what you're doing?

Siegfried: I could ask the same of you. Feendrache and its citizens don't exist to preserve your pretty face.

King Carl: Lancelot, and even you, (Captain)... What are you all doing here?

Lancelot: My apologies, Your Highness. Please forgive my impudence.

Isabella: Why are you just standing there, Lancelot? Arrest Siegfried at once!

Lancelot: Lady Isabella, please tell me the truth. What really happened on the night King Josef was murdered?

Isabella: You're already aware of the truth. Siegfried committed regicide and we've been pursuing him to this day!

Lancelot: I'm afraid I can't tell fact from fiction at this point.

Lancelot: I beseech you. Please be forthright in front of all who stand here today!

Isabella: Lancelot, I pity you. Your former mentor has planted seeds of discord in your head.

Galton: Consul General Isabella! Don't act like you've forgotten us!

Isabella: Gasp! You people...

Villager 1: Your Highness! Isabella locked us up in the underground prison!

King Carl: Confinement in an underground prison? Why?

Villager 2: You can't talk your way out of this one, Isabella! We, the people of Ruforth Village, have suffered your leaking poison for long enough!

King Carl: Poison? The villagers of Ruforth?

Sophia: These people were on their way to the capital when they went missing.

Sophia: They were being poisoned by karmide, a by-product of the alma extract!

King Carl: You're claiming alma creates a poisonous by-product?

Isabella: These petty hooligans speak nonsense, Your Highness! They have all been deceived by Siegfried!

Isabella: You idiots! Who would possibly believe such drivel? Show me your evidence!

Siegfried: Humph. Here it is.

Siegfried holds up a black orb containing karmide.

Isabella: Curse you, Siegfried!

Siegfried: This is karmide, King Carl. It has polluted this country's soil and tormented the citizens with a strange disease.

Siegfried: If you read this scroll describing karmide in detail, then you'll see who Isabella really is.

Isabella: Nonsense! That is nothing but libelous filth concocted by a washed-up failure of a knight!

Vane: What did you say?

Lancelot: ...

Siegfried: This research was written by a doctor named Boris.

King Carl: Boris has overseen the health of my father, nay, my entire family for decades.

King Carl: Summon Boris at once. We shall hear his testimony directly.

Siegfried: Boris passed away fourteen months ago.

Siegfried: He was attacked by bandits... The only thing I managed to save was the scroll.

Isabella: So that was you that time!

Siegfried: That time?

Isabella: Ergh!

King Carl: Isabella, why has it taken you over a year to tell me of Boris's passing?

Isabella: W-well... I couldn't confirm the rumor that Boris had been conspiring with Siegfried in secret...

Siegfried: Your Highness, King Carl of Feendrache, home to the knights of the Order of the Dragons.

Siegfried: Please forgive my past antagonisms toward you in my quest to fulfill a promise to King Josef.

Isabella: Sob...

Isabella: Why are you doing this? You're all so cruel, attacking a poor little soul like me...

Siegfried: Feigning ignorance until the very end. You don't know when to quit, do you?

Isabella: Tell me, Lancelot... Who do you believe?

Lancelot: Lady Isabella, I...

Lyria: Who's telling the truth, Siegfried or Isabella?

Lyria: If we guess wrong, we could mess up an entire country!

Lyria: What do you think, (Captain)! Who should we believe?

1. Let's trust Siegfried.
2. What if Isabella's telling the truth?

Choose: Let's trust Siegfried.

Lyria: Okay! I trust your decision, (Captain)!

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Choose: What if Isabella's telling the truth?

Lyria: It's possible... I'd feel awful if she was telling the truth all along.

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Vane: Agh! I can't take this anymore! I'm so lost right now!

Vane: Hey! Lancelot!

Lancelot: ...!

Vane: I'm not brainy enough to figure out this kind of stuff!

Vane: But I do trust you! So just follow your heart!

Vane: Even if it means being labeled as a traitor by everyone, then so be it! I'll always be your friend!

Lancelot: Vane... you...

Isabella: I guess this was inevitable, Lancelot. I'll ask you to come quietly for the time being.
Arrest him!