"Captain, I hope you won't blame me for dragging you into this later. However, this isn't an opportunity I gave you; it's one you gave yourself. If you hadn't quickly pulled yourself together after returning to Tobesk and made a name for yourself in Midshire Fort, even if I wanted to give you the opportunity, it wouldn't have mattered."
Shard said, raising his glass to clink with Captain Lades.
At that moment, he suddenly felt a peculiar sensation. The man before him, whose fate had gradually changed due to his arrival, might just be one of the traces that Outlanders leave in this world.
"Perhaps when I see Captain Lades transformed into a calamity in the Bygone Era, I will truly understand what I have done in this world."
He drank the low-strength barley wine and, after putting down the glass, noticed Captain Lades looking out the window at the village children playing in the tavern's stable. He then asked:
