Board Thread:Question and Answer/@comment-107.179.236.63-20160509001657/@comment-28063016-20160509230017

I'm no expert at this game yet, but I have had that happen to me before. I assume you are aware that whenever you encounter an archwitch of any sort and fail to defeat her within the time limit, her likeability will drop by a quarter of a heart.

Are you requesting comrades for normal archwitches as well? Fantasy archwitches generally show up after you've killed the regular archwitch (minus bonus area encounters), and so you get a big blue screen saying "Fantasy Archwitch" right after the regular AW if you kill her yourself. If a comrade kills your AW and a fantasy AW shows up, you won't get the big blue notification screen, so it's possible she's just appearing without you noticing, and so you fail to notice her within the given time, causing her hearts to drop.

... Well, that's what happened in my case anyway. If I misunderstood what you were saying, disregard this :P