After landing, he rolled again, narrowly avoiding several rolling rocks, and even his pipe fell out of his pocket, landing on the ground, finally clumsily escaping danger. Then the Big Catfolk climbed to his feet, looked up, and saw across the torrent a Sky Pirate leader in a captain's coat pulling his enemy up from the ground.
The other party glanced back in this direction but didn't take further action. Instead, he turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
The Big Catfolk recognized him; it was the Dragon Knight from the Sky Pirates he had seen on the battlefield not long ago.
Then Reed heard a jumbled sound of footsteps approaching; looking in that direction, he saw members of the Descendants of Flor hurrying this way. He pondered for a moment and realized the reason for the retreat—it seemed the battle was already decided.
