Woof!

What is it, Repede?

So, what sort of blastia
are you selling?

It's the world's smallest blastia!
If you don't buy it now you'll
never get another chance!

O-ho!
So, where is it?

It's in that office over there.

Whoa there, I'll need the payment
of 50,000 Gald in advance!

F-fifty thousand Gald?!

You don't need to worry about the quality of
this fine item. I can guarantee it, as Mordio,
Aspio's number one genius mage!

So, how about it?

A man with a cape stealing my name?
Where have I heard this story before?

Now that we've found the
guy, I guess we can't just
turn a blind eye, huh?

Woof!

Huh? Could that be the core thief?

His name was Dedecchi, wasn't it?

Hm? What do you want?

What luck running into you
here, huh, core thief?

Y-you're that guy from...!

If you remember me, I trust
you remember what you did.

You really messed up everyone's life
down in the lower quarter, you know.

Uh, sorry!

Someone asked me to
take on that job, so take
your problem up with him!

I don't care if it was your idea
or not. You still did it.

Eep! I'm begging you.
Please forgive me!

Come on. Do you really
think I'm going to let
you off that easy?

You'll have to take the
heat for what you did.

Damn it! I never even wanted to
get involved in the sort of stuff
Barbos and the others did!

I didn't want to use that freak mage's name, either!
I just put up with it because he said things would
run more smoothly if I did!

The biggest genius mage in Aspio?
Who cares about that!

That just means this Mordio
is some sort of blastia freak!

Hey now...

If I had known things were going to turn out
this way, I would never have taken on such
an oddball freak's name in the first place!

Hmph... You're pretty
brave, aren't you?

Huh, wh-what, why?!

First you use my name without my consent,
then you sell fake blastia like that...

And on top of all that,
you call me a freak?

Ahh, sa... save me!

Stone Blast!

Gwaaaaah!

Aah, much better.

Rita, I think you went
a little overboard...

It's his own fault for talking that way in front
of the person he was impersonating...

...Man, I lost my chance
to take the stage.

Thanks. You saved me there.
I never suspected he was that
sort of person.

Be careful of anyone trying to
sell you something suspicious
from now on.

Yes, I will. Just
leave him to me.

I'll inform the knights, so he
can never do this again.

He'll be in jail for a while.

A bastard like that should just
spend his whole life there.

The case of the core thief
really is over now, huh?

Yuri, are you okay with not
getting to smack him yourself?

Rita really went above and beyond
whatever I would've done.

I'm gonna call it good.
Isn't that right, Repede?

Woof!