"I wonder how she will react when she sees that I'm still alive," Saito pondered to himself out loud while walking on the road to the magic academy, where he knew that Louise would be. As he said this, he absent mindedly touched his chest where he had been fatally wounded in Albion only a few short weeks ago. "I shouldn't be alive….," Saito mumbled under his breath. An hour goes by with him entertaining his dark thoughts. He was only roused from his thoughts by the sight that came to him as he crested a tall hill and saw the signature domed roofs of the Tristain Magic Academy in the far distance. Looking towards the sun he judged that he would make it there by noon if kept his pace. " I know that she cares about me a lot, but I really hope she doesn't blow me up when I get there like she usually does," Saito said with a heavy sigh. Thinking of the possibility made him shudder a little. "What's eatin' at'cha partner?" said the familiar metallic voice of the magic sword Delfringer bringing Saito out of his thoughts. " I guess that I'm just worried about seeing Louise again, what if she hates me? I mean I did drug her and make her leave me behind as I faced certain death at the hands of Albion's army," he replied. "I don't know what to tell ya partner except for this, in this situation you can only trust fate's decision and accept it as an inevitability," Delf said, sounding like he truly understood what Saito was feeling. "You're right… I guess. Well… I guess its time to see what fate's decision of my destiny is," Saito said with a resignation to accept whatever decision that fate made for him.