A few minutes earlier.
[Iron Wall] Bruh, accompanied by [Sea Magician] Sarant Tudor, [Sword Saint] Herman, [Phantom Blade] Gus, and a few other Third Order pirate officers, sat in a small tavern next to the coffee shop, each slowly sipping a beer.
As a childhood friend and Guardian Knight who had grown up with Byron and Catherine, Bruh knew exactly what he should be doing at any given time. Though part of the security detail, he astutely avoided disturbing Byron and Catherine's private time together.
In fact, while the pirate officers never admitted it openly, they had to acknowledge that their lord was the most formidable fighter among them. Their primary role was actually to handle trivial matters for him.
Just as the group was cautiously sipping their drinks, feeling increasingly bored by the intensifying rain outside, someone at an adjacent table—occupied by several men who appeared to be middle-class merchants from their attire—suddenly changed the topic from the weather:
