Synopsis

The chapter opens with the protagonist asserting Eclis's role as her personal guard, emphasizing his need to gain acceptance within the duchy to prove his value. She explains this is his first mission and a requirement for her to keep him. She then refuses her brothers' suggestion of using house guards instead of Eclis and then reveals the previous night she almost died but was saved by him. The chapter ends with a failed system quest, and the implication she is making the decision to lean on Eclis as her guard.