Chapter 156: Not Quite Fit
“You do understand that my tutoring is not free and that I charge money for it, do you not?” Captain Leander said with one skeptical eyebrow raised halfway up his forehead.
“Alright, slightly less interested now…” Balthazar muttered.
“So you—a crab—are interested in the skills I can tutor on?”
“Uh… yes?” the merchant responded. “Is that a problem?”
The veteran crossed his arms. “Not necessarily, but usually it’s only adventurers who take an interest in what I can teach. Can’t say I’ve ever been inquired about them by a crab. Or any other animal, really.”
The crustacean chuckled.
“Talk to a lot of animals, do you?” he said. “Let me worry about the whole not-an-adventurer thing. If I wanted to, would you be willing to teach me any skills?”
Marquessa’s captain squinted, focusing his gaze onto the crab like a magnifying glass focusing sunlight on an ant.
“The question is not whether I’m willing to teach them, it’s whether you’d be willing to learn them. My skills and techniques are not for just anyone. Do you have what it takes to master them?”