At a public event Evie secretly moved up, Ms. Moss is publicly humiliated by a jeering crowd. Evie brings an old man, Old Mr. Bell, out of desperation; attendees mock him as senile and one warns, "Harvey Dillon is a Rank 5 swordmaster — ordinary people are no match." Ignoring the taunts and the warning, Old Mr. Bell mounts the stage, vows to protect Ms. Moss and declares, "All of you, come at me together." The episode ends with the audience frozen as that dare makes the promised confrontation imminently inevitable.