What an unexpected and welcome surprise, I hope you also took some vacation in the meantime, I like this chapter, thought I think I will have to re-read it to appreciate the story, it seems more "lore focused" compared to the visual spectacle of the previous one, we got a bit more of an insight of the people around Erika, how she found him which also shows once more how she doesn't back down despite her limited resources.
I am curious to see how the way she plays in Dark Souls connects to real life, if we are meant to take it just her being stubborn, (67 retries, I never had to go through so many with people honestly), I gotta re-read all the chapters, I think I got too complacent with Manga that spells out things (multiple times) to readers eh eh.