>>5313132>>5313148>>5313183"Guts, I don't need to tell you what to do. But remain concentrate and precise, we need to keep in mind where we are fighting. The Mandragora's are still human, so if you're down to slaughtering anyone, it's best to be the one who'll turn them back to normal."
"Could have just said you wanted to keep an eye on me." He readies his weapons, rushing forward and cutting the vines and thorns that lay in the hallway. Hopefully he won't screw with your plans before you arrive at where he is...
"I'll go with 'em, partner. If he gets too carried away, a few bops on the head will make that damn beast pay attention to us." Hyde flies off with Violet, not referring to the Mandragora when mentioning a beast.
"Where are we going? Aww, I wanted to see Rita's performance again!" Zhafira puffs her cheeks when you take her hand and place her on Gunpowder.
"I'm fulfilling your brother's wish like I promised, let's get moving." While horse rides are unorthodox for indoor fights, so are giant great swords, and that never stopped guts from fighting, so you might as well go in with your full arsenal.
"Wait! What about us?!" Rita asks, alone with Bolzack as he's still recovering from butting heads with the black swordsman.
"The soldiers down below are still fighting the plants invading the floor, either help them out or hide. Try bringing Serpico and Farnese with you, if you can."
"A last attempt at making amends with my people... I'll leave Anette's fate up to you, Lord Vlad." Bolzack rushed forward, hoping to still have some determination left on him.
By guiding Gunpowder with your telepathy, you only have to hug on his back as you squint at the tight passage of the wide staircase as you rush to meet Guts and the Mandragora tree.
With its full body reaching the third floor, you gasp as a floating heart child appears floating around in the empty plaza, it's body covered in shiny, sharp leaves with more Mandragoras about to swarm you at the slightest scent of conflict.
Seeing how it flails around, observing where to move and the scream it made after waking up, convincing this monster appears to be a shot in the dark: it's a giant flying plant baby.
As Guts slashes at a Mandragoran scientist, he lets go of an empty syringe, and before you could take it to extract the serum, the plant baby noticed Guts, and having shared knowledge front Eliza's village, it loudly cried and shouted as the smaller plants started to grown and drop onto the floor.
You cover your ears, incapable of making more movements as Gunpowder falls over, not being able to do the same.
Zhafira's ears start to bleed and even guts recoils behind the dragonslayer, sinking it like an anchor on the tiles as grimaces.
"WAS THIS REALLY BETTER THAN RITA'S SHOW!?" Zhafira complains as red pours from her eardrums.
This baby needs to calm down, before other little Mandragoras follow suit!
