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Ralsei sits beside you on a meandering path of roots. The field, endless, feels like you could get lost in it forever. Suddenly, Ralsei speaks up.
"Kris, do you mind if you sit here for a bit? Just close your eyes and think about Susie..."
You were just about to disagree, but suddenly your eyelids felt heavy. It seemed like you had no choice but to think about them...
"Gee, where the hell is Kris's..." Susie said, trying to chase down Asgore before noticing Ralsei's presence.
"Shoot!", the girl exclaimed. "Ralsei, when'd you get here?", she asked the prince.
Ralsei started speaking, but chose not to answer her question. "Susie, I've been thinking a lot about what you said last night. In the church. And, I don't want to hide anything important from you anymore. So...
Its time I tell you something about the ROARING KNIGHT."
"Lightners can only stay in Dark Worlds for so long... Since the Dark World isn't... isn't like the Light World, Lightners don't get anything from Darkner foods. So if a Lightner is unable to return...
They die.
But you've already seen from the Old Man, that the Dark World applies to dead bodies too... So when a Lightner dies in the Dark World, well...
Darkners ultimately source their form from a Lightner's HOPES, DREAMS, and DETERMINATION. All that potential HOPE, that DETERMINATION in a Lightner's body... It doesn't just create a powerful Darkner. It creates something like the KNIGHT. A horrifying beast with unimaginable power. Not quite a Darkner, nor a Lightner, but... an amalgamation of the two.
The ROARING KNIGHT, they were someone once. And even though the Prophecy doesn't say who, the Prophecy does speak of a lost girl, trapped in an endless night, consumed by the ROARING. I once thought it was something that was to come. But, if I'm right about this...
Susie, have you heard of anybody who disappeared in the Light World? Vanished, in completely unexplainable circumstances?"
Susie thought to her short time in Hometown. Through every interaction. Suddenly, she realized."Noelle's sister! She must be... Ralsei, the Kn i g h t i s——"
And then suddenly, with all the effort in the world, you opened your eyes.