When Elke finally realized how easy it was for her to escape her opponent, she realized her error in judgment. 'He was weaker than me? So he's dead now!'
Realizing this, she, who only wanted to delay her opponent while she fled to seek refuge, thought about the possible consequences and decided to return to identify her opponent.
Killing someone for self-defense was not considered a crime from the point of view of imperial laws. However, this did not mean that the dead man's family would not seek their own justice!
In this case, Elke knew that she had better identify her opponent and perhaps even loot his body to communicate to her own family about the incident.
So, in the blink of an eye, she stopped beside the motionless body of Merten, who by now was dead, with a lot of blood dripping from his nasal and mouth orifices.
She first took off his spatial ring and then the mask covering his face, promptly identifying who had attacked her.
