Hey, is that you, Karol?

Dyne!

Who might this be?

I'll do the introductions. This
is Dyne from the Hunting Blades.

He really took care of me
while I was in that guild.

These are my guildmates in Brave Vesperia.

I'd heard you started up a guild
of your own after our darling
Nan gave you the boot.

So? Things going well so far?

Yeah, we're getting by.

Karol...

Huh...? What's up?

You sure this is okay? You've
got a bit of a rocky history with
the Hunting Blades, don't you?

I what...? Oh, Dyne's
not like that at all.

This kid has a habit of trying to
act way bigger than he is, and the
others gave him hell about it.

Not me though. I was a fair bit like him
when I got started, so I could relate.

Huh.

Glad to see you seem to be
getting along just fine with
your new group here.

Yeah, we're giving
it our best shot.

...Oh, say,

I actually have a bit of
a favor to ask you all.

What is it?

I'm headed to Desier soon to take care
of a monster. This one sounds like
a real nasty piece of work, though.

The Chief and Tison are off on another
job, so I can't ask them.

So you want us to
help you out?

That's about the half of it, I guess.

Well, should we take the job?

Oh yeah, you'll do it?

Sure, a friend of Karol's is a friend of ours.
Just let us know what you need done.

By the name of Brave Vesperia, the
brightest star on the canvas of the
night sky, we accept this task!

Whoa, Karol, listen to you
sounding all grown up.

All right then, you all'd better make
sure and get yourselves good and
ready. This guy's the real deal.

Right.

My client's waiting for me at
Mantaic, so I'll go on ahead.

He did say Mantaic, right?

Yeah. Anything odd about that?

I just wondered what we'd do
if the monster he's after
turned out to be Phaeroh...

If that's what's going on, we'll
just have to explain the situation
to Phaeroh himself.

But Phaeroh's already
become Efreet...

So basically, if Phaeroh does turn
out to be the target for this job,
we'd be better off not taking it.

We have already said we'd do
it though, and it is Dyne...

Let's get ourselves to Mantaic. That should
help us decide on a course of action.

Sounds good to me.

Let's make sure we have everything
we need before we set out.

That's probably
not a bad idea.

No, huh? Not exactly the answer I was hoping for...

No point moping over it, though.
I'll just have to look somewhere else.

Oh, you'll take the job?