Hum, I have a problem with this chapter... How long did it take between Rudeus and Eris' "separation" and this memory? No, because she has really long hair for a girl who has cut her hair up to the neck...
It's a flashback @AtomikCactus, this happens after Ch. 34 when Rudeus is reunited wtih his father and the end up fighting. Eris mentions this fact to Cliff (a much younger Cliff BTW)
So... I decided to search for this novel and one of the entries in google was the Wikipedia page of it... I made a mistake and decided to see, turns out the Wikipedia page is complete , if you guys don’t want to know how the story ends (more or less), don’t go there...