The fact that I was the link between them allowed Fried to trust the Offenburg Knights. This was exactly why connections and personal relationships mattered. I could see the trust in Fried's eyes as he looked at me.
"It seems Angela arrived safely in Feuzen. Now that you're here, Sir, a weight's been lifted off my shoulders. Baron Valent kept disappearing from sight, and I was worried about what he might be scheming."
"Baron Valent attacked the young lady of Euznirk."
"...What? That can't be!"
Angela had told me that she'd been sent to Feuzen in secret. The secrecy was blown the moment the attackers struck, but Fried explained he'd sent Angela to Feuzen so that she could at least escape if things went wrong in Euz.
But the information had leaked through some channel, and Baron Valent, who'd been nowhere in sight, had been lying in ambush in the forests of southern Euz to attack Angela. By sheer coincidence, he'd run right into me instead.
