Eula x Reader - Disgraced Yet Defiant

Chapter 33: Knight vs Knave

Amber: "Mmm-Mm! Your cooking never disappoints, even in a foreign nation's kitchen and a bunch of new ingredients, this is really delicious!"

Y/N: "Oh, uh... thanks Amber..."

Eira: "She's right, you know. This is totally delicious! Heh, or maybe it's just withdrawal symptoms tricking me into thinking you're a competent cook!"

Eula: ". . ."

Amber: "Eula! Come on already, lighten up! You can be oppressive enough as it is without you staring Y/N down like they're the last slice of pizza at a party!"

Eula: "Hmph..."

Y/N: "It's alright Amber, I get why she's mad at me. But I don't regret my actions either."

Eula: "I'm not mad, Y/N. I am absolutely furious. You infiltrated Fontaine's most secure prison with intentions to interact with some of the prisoners there. Not only that, but you also spent the night there and ended up getting tranquilised by the nurse there."

Y/N: "Hey, I was helping out with a natural disaster at the time!"

Eula: "As I've heard. It would seem this 'Prophecy' is soon to come, according to Monsieur Neuvillette. All the more reason for us to get away from here before the sea levels rise and we come to risk of drowning."

Amber: "But what about Eira? The things that Arlecchino told Y/N... Could she be at risk? And what about Mona?! She's still here somewhere, isn't she?"

Eula: "She's currently housed at a hotel in a place called the Fleuve Cendre; which as I understand it is a location beneath the streets of the city. And she told me she has no intention of leaving any time soon."

Y/N: "Huh? She's not staying in the same hotel as us? But I thought her lodging was arranged by the Knights...?"

Eula: "It was... But I suppose she decided to be frugal with the financial aid she was provided, and she elected to get a room at a less pricy establishment instead..."

That sounded about right to me. From what little I knew of Mona Megistus, she was a rather frugal person who often struggled with maintaining enough funds for her rent payments— although this wasn't due to her being unable to procure the necessary amounts, but rather because she had to buy very expensive tools and books for her needs, whatever they may be...

Amber: "...hey, Eula? We're not actually thinking about leaving Fontaine, are we?"

Eula: "We've successfully retrieved Eira, as was our mission. And to stay here seems quite risky, if this nation is really to be submerged under the sea... that's quite the disaster and I cannot guarantee that we will all survive it."

Amber: "But Arlecchino said—!"

Eula: "You mean the same Fatui Harbinger that was responsible for kidnapping Eira from the Knights of Favonius' custody in the first place? How can we even start to trust her word, seriously?!"

Eira: "...and what if I want to stay?"

Eula: "Don't be preposterous! Why would you want to remain here, where you're at a constant risk of being taken from the streets by the unfettered population of Fatui here?!"

Eira: "...Fontaine is my home, it's where I come from. It's where I really come from... I can't just abandon it now, can I? Father–Ah. I mean, Arlecchino, she finally gave me real freedom from the Fatui. I'm officially cut off from them, and I can truly embrace who I was back before I was just another soldier of Snezhnaya. And what if what she said comes to be true? What if I'm at risk of disappearing to the Prophecy's curse no matter what nation I take refuge in? If I'm going to find my life coming to an early end, then I want to go down fighting for something that I believe in. And I believe that this Prophecy can be bested!"