The price was betraying the Iron Blood Battle Group, betraying his current comrades, and bearing the lifelong stigma of being a coward and a traitor.
To choose to fight alongside Dietlinde, facing the crushing pressure of three full Knight Orders, would mean certain death.
In that moment, Reinhardt could almost hear the cruel mockery of fate.
But it was a shame.
Fate had ultimately chosen the wrong person to mock.
Because he was Reinhardt.
Just as Adrian had said in his final parting words when he left Frostfire Fortress: "Stand where the light shines, Reinhardt."
That handsome, noble Knight had perhaps foreseen that the young Knight Reinhardt, under painful torment, would birth a boundless rage that would blind his eyes.
But what he didn't know was that Reinhardt had never surrendered to hatred! His noble ideals had never once wavered!
