Brrr...

B-b-brrr... It's c-cold...
S-so...very...c-cold.

Okay, old man, we get it already.

The aged have lower body temperatures,
ya know. Ahh, what I wouldn't give for
the heat of that desert.

You're gonna slip and fall
if you don't shut up...

Oops, too late.

Watch it there.
We old folks are fragile.

...S-sorry.

Man, this is really some place.
Sort of a cross between
mysterious and just plain creepy.

There are swords coming
up out of the ice.

Yeah, they seem to be all over.
Just what kind of place is this?!

They're the remnants of a quarrel between
the Empire and pirates long ago.

Huh? C-come to think of it,
That kinda sounds f-familiar.

You seem to know a lot about it.

It's information I dug up when
I was looking into Aifread.

I thought they were called the Blade
Drifts because the cold cuts like a
blade, but I guess I was wrong.

You weren't wrong about it
being so cold that it cuts,
though. *Shiver*

Grrrr... Woof! WOOF! WOOF!

What...what's wrong
with him? Aaah!!

!!

Whoa!

Wh-what was that?!

It's big...

...I-is that an Entelexeia?!

...No. I don't sense
intelligence in it.

So it's a monster, right?!
We'd be in trouble if
that thing attacked us.

It's Baitojoh!

Its back is rigid and glistening.
What a robust monster!

It shouldn't bother us
if we leave it alone.
Forget about it.

Let's go.

Karol!

Huh, oh, right!