Meanwhile, Kronya had decided to pay a visit to Tarrey Town. The town's construction had been coming along nicely; it was just beginning to thrive. Link had directed a Rito shopkeeper's son named Fyson to Tarrey Town when he had told Link of his desire for a new market to sell to, and Robbie's son Granté had filled the role of the town armorer. Other people had proved the adage 'if you build it, they will come' true, with people from all regions and walks of life making their homes in Tarrey Town. Even Kilton had a shop where he sold his strange yet useful goods.

Claude walked up to her in a new set of armor. "Harth made me this. What do you think?"

Kronya evaluated the armor. It was leather armor, reinforced with metal plates. Light, made more for freedom of movement than close combat. It had been painted forest green, likely for concealment. "I think it suits you."

"And, it comes with a removable fleece lining for fighting in cold weather," Claude added.

"Neat," Kronya said. "But I don't think you asked to meet me here to show off your new armor."

"No, I didn't," Claude agreed. He looked around Tarrey Town. "I love this place. People from all over Hyrule, from all walks of life, working together for the common good. It's kind of a microcosm of Hyrule as a whole. If only the whole world could be like Tarrey Town…"

"It probably helps that Tarrey Town was never anything other than what it is now," Kronya suggested. "Nobody here expects Tarrey Town to be different than the way it is. It might be that if there was a migration of Gorons to Lurelin, or Zora to Hateno, or Sheikah to Rito Village, there wouldn't be as much harmony. But Tarrey Town was always meant to be a home for anyone who wants to make their home here."

"Maybe so," Claude said. "It's something worth thinking about, at least."

"Excuse me," an older man addressed the two of them. "You two are mercenaries, are you not?"

"Why do you ask?" Claude asked.

"There's talk that the Rising Sun Company replaced their lost member with a Twili. I'm guessing that's her," he said. "Meaning you're probably also a Rising Sun member."

"Yes, we're with Rising Sun," Kronya said. "What do you want from us?"

"There's a pair of Guardians that have been staying rather close to the town," the man said. He held out a silver rupee. "I will pay you to get rid of them. This now, and more at the end."

"Deal," Claude said.

Kronya and Claude went to where the man said the Guardians were. They saw the two Guardians before the Guardians saw them.

"I have armor-piercing arrows with me," Claude told Kronya. "Keep the one on the left busy while I deal with the one on the right."

Kronya nodded, and drew her daggers.

Catching the attention of the one on the left, she used what she had learned both from her Agarthan teachers and from Impa to avoid its attacks, constantly changing direction and moving at just the right speed that it couldn't lock on to her but it also wasn't going to stop trying. Eventually, she heard the other Guardian explode, and she moved forward to attack hers in earnest.

Only for the Guardian to be sliced off n half vertically. As the two sides fell away, they revealed Sooga, son of Sooga.

"You," Claude said.

"Indeed," Sooga said. "We have been keeping tabs on you. I was ordered not to try to take on the Hero or Lady Impa, but I shall eliminate the two of you before you become more of a threat."

"One question first," Claude said. "Were you the one who killed Elder Kaneli?"

"No. The Rito Elder was weak and feeble. Killing him would have brought me no honor," Sooga said. "Though I hear they have chosen a new Elder, a great warrior. Perhaps I will have the chance to test his strength in the future."

"Do you know who did kill him?" Kronya asked.

"I believe it might have been Dzu-Teh," Sooga speculated. "But you need not worry about him. I will be your final opponent."

They had a name now. It was just a matter of surviving until they could pass it on.

Claude nocked an arrow, and Kronya adopted a fighting stance. "Bring it on," she said.

Sooga charged quickly, but Kronya had learned a lot since his fight with Impa. She was able to keep up, if only just. When he swung his sword at her, she remembered she stood no chance of blocking it directly. Instead, she would use her daggers to knock it off its course slightly and help her push herself out of its way, ensuring Sooga couldn't hit her properly. Claude, meanwhile, used his arrows to limit Sooga's movement, keeping him from being able to overwhelm her without letting Claude shoot him.

This would only work for a limited time, though. Eventually Claude would run out of arrows, and if it came down to just her and Sooga, she would likely be the one to falter first.

Claude nocked another arrow, but this one was different. This was a Flare arrow, made by mixing Brightbloom oil with the Fire Fruit oil used to make a Fire arrow. When he fired it, it lit up in an arc of bright light. Sooga dodged it, but it flew in front of his face. Given that Kronya had needed to avert her eyes, it was a sure chance that Sooga would be temporarily blinded even if he had closed his eyes.

Kronya dashed to slash Sooga's throat, but the Yiga assassin just barely managed to dodge. Instead of cutting through his throat, her dagger knocked the mask from his face.

Kronya and Claude didn't know what they had expected Sooga to look like, but he looked rather ordinary under the mask. He had a strong jaw covered in gray stubble, a sign that he was on the older side. A few scars adorned his face, but not overly many. Save for his unusual height, Sooga II was a rather ordinary-looking man.

Still, Kronya and Claude thought he had a certain indescribable look to him, which they mentally compared to the Raven and Zimmer, the only two Yiga assassins who had shown the Company their faces. But while Kronya would have described the Raven as emanating a sense of power, and Claude would have described Zimmer the same way, Sooga was different. He carried himself with pride, but not the same type of arrogance as the Raven or Zimmer. The two of them had carried themselves with the confidence of men who thought they were unbeatable. Sooga, while he knew he was a powerful warrior, didn't have that.

"Clever," Sooga commended them. "The two of you have the minds and spirits of true warriors. I will remember this battle."

For several minutes, the battle continued. Eventually, though, Kronya stumbled, and Sooga prepared to finish her off. But just then, a Fire spell flew towards him, and he had to use his sword to deflect it.

"I didn't just fire that Flare arrow to blind you," Claude said as Ferdinand, Hilda, Ashe, and Mercedes ran up to stand with him, and Kronya escaped his reach. "I also used it to call for backup."

Sooga evaluated them silently until he seemed to decide the odds were against him. "Very well. Today you have bested me. But I will face you again, and we will have our final conclusion." With that, he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Are you both unharmed?" Ferdinand asked.

"He didn't hit me, though that would have changed if you had taken longer to show up," Kronya said. "I could never have beaten him on my own."

"Well, that's why you have a team," Ashe told her.

Kronya smiled. "Yeah. A team."