[ She's never forgotten who he is and what he's done but it's always so difficult -- almost impossible -- to reconcile the Ardyn she knows with the one he says he used to be. The same man who sat with her and braided her hair and is apparently getting married once all this insanity is over is the same man who near-single handedly brought a country to its knees and very nearly dealt the finishing blow.

She's grateful every single day that the man who woke up on the Fantasy Sweet was Ardyn Lucis Caelum and not Ardyn Izunia. ]

I... thought maybe he would. With, um... w--with how he looks, even though he'd forgotten so much but... god.

[ She rubs a hand over her eyes. ]

Do... do you know the things he's going to end up remembering?