--Yes, I know we handled this kind of badly, we'll definitely take it as a learning experience for the future--

[ Ritsuka's keeping half an eye on the situation, but for now, her attention is focused on convincing the knight to go along with her. Sometimes, it pays to be good at both apologizing and at being able to handle the delicate egos of people who only see her as a scrubby background character. It's not her best work, no, but Ritsuka's best at handling people over an extended period of time, and they don't really have that now.

But it is working at least a little, especially with the (literal) light show going on off to the side of this conversation. The knight raises an eyebrow at last, then finally lifts her hand to make a curt hand gesture. Several people from the crowd--notably, all of the ones who haven't gotten caught up in the overall mood--look over, and begin to make their way over. It's not really subtle, but at this point, with all the shoving and catcalling, trying to be subtle would probably be more noticeable.

Ritsuka, for her part, is still nodding politely along to the lecture. ]

Yes ma'am. Yes, I understand. I'll definitely make sure that they know too. Yes ma'am. Yes, of course.