"Man…"
To the west of Algerie Kingdom, a man with light gray hair could be seen leaning on the railing of a watchtower, their expression that of immense boredom.
"I really shouldn't have listened to Jacques," murmured the man to himself, faintly shaking his head. "When he told me this mission paid out a lot of points, I didn't even hesitate to accept it in his stead."
"…Now I'm starting to regret it, considering I've been staring at nearly nothing for the past couple of months."
While looking around for missions he could accept back at the Blacksmith Guild, the man had coincidentally come across Jacques after the latter recently finished his own mission.
Asking him more about how his friend fared on that mission, the man's interest was immediately piqued the moment he heard from Jacques that he had a fateful encounter with Ylvar while he was out on that mission.
