Kossimo just stands there and casts it over and over until you attack. You have no choice but to kill him. After the battle Adele awakens to find Hero hunched over Kossimo's dying body. Adele thinks Hero killed Kossimo on purpose and was only using her to get close to him. Before Hero can explain, guards burst into the room.
Hero is forced to jump from the window and make amends some other day.
Cutscene to several days later where you see Adele in her room. Adele struggles with what she about to be forced into. She decides that she must be proud and live up to her title as a noble. After a sequence where we see the kingdom thrown into an eight year war over Nicola and Queen Agatha's struggle for the throne, the next section begins with a merchant speaking to an East Natra soldier on a military supply train. The merchant bought his way onboard, but the soldier's nervous about his captain finding out.