>>5302448"Isidro's not with you?" You notice the absence of the ginger haired kid with a loud mouth alongside him.
"Beats me where the kid is. He's always around following me at a distance. Still don't know why he hides when I know he's near, but that's the sort of brat he is."
"Maybe he's scared of the monsters you fight every night? You're not exactly known for sleeping peacefully. Did anything in particular came your way that would make him weary of approach?"
"Maybe to him, but not to me. Hard to say anything really shocks me in this world." Guts adverts his gaze, thinking of one particular time he encountered a terrifying apostle, but remembering that you can read minds, he starts thinking of something unrelated to it.
"It's nothing important. Perhaps I could tell you at a later date."
"Guts, are you... Feeling alright?" Finally addressing his attitude, you wonder if the monster within him is eating away at him.
"Take one good look at me, Vlad. It should take you that long to see that I'm just dandy." Guts forced a grin at you. Maybe it was supposed to be unconvincing. Don't make questions you know the answer to.
"At least you seem like yourself... Just so you know. We've found a shape shifting monster in the hill of swords, so it's best to be safe." You proceed to give him a rundown of what happened at Rickert's home, emphasizing how dangerous it would be to let the faceless entity run amok.
"If you plan on teaming up with me, then you better get used to fighting the monsters I do on a regular basis, because I don't have the slightest interest in babying you in your training. That goes for the rest of your group, too. I'm not turning into your leader and ordering you around, nor taking orders from you."
"Like we would ask for your help, troglodyte." Serpico growls, impatient with the Swordsman's behavior.
"Easy, Serpico." You wave your hand before he thought of picking up his sword. "Any reason in particular you came to Cromwell?"
"It was in my way." He simply replied. Could it be a that he doesn't know about the Mandragorans or the healing properties of Bolzack's research? How lucky is he to just stumble his way here?
"What, you expected this bozo to learn how to read a map? He just walks around and at best asks for directions." Speaking of which, we saved a girl named Rita from some bandits on our way here, she was about to perform in some sort of circus show. We were about to look for her since she invited us in but--" Puck is interrupted before his exposition ends.
"A SHOW!?" Zhafira jumps in place as her eyes sparkle. "CAN I COME? CAN I COME?CAN I COME?"
"Um..." The question was directed at Farnese, but she waits for you to have a final say, since you ain't got all the time in the world to sit down and relax to watch a show on town square.
>Sure, it wouldn't hurt to watch a spectacle.>Alright, but don't try to seal the spotlight from the performers, Zhafira.>I'd rather we go straight to Bolzack now.