He seemed surprised that he wanted to join the guild. At least thats what the first question sentence thing made him think. Why else say You want to join a guild?
Anywho, he said he was part of Sleeping Calamity, which was the local guild in Orchidia. Which is even better to him. It means its close and he doesnt have to travel far.
Sure Alexandre has been in Orchidia years ago. But back then he didnt quite pay attention to the guilds. Now that he thinks about it, he does remember a guild being stationed here. But he never really cared about it before, he had more pressing things at hand, back then.
His current travel companion would say how it is a dark guild, which meant he'd have to deal with people like the ko'd guy. And the next sentence made him chuckle, 'even if you arent commiting crimes, you'll be considered guilty by association'
"Story of my life" he thought to himself.
Nevertheless, he let the guild member speak. It seems at first he started off with the bad stuff, like to try and deter him away or see if he had 2nd thoughts about joining his guild. But Alexandre let him speak, he was more curious than ever to see what this person had to say.
Once he heard him out. It was interesting to say the least. Heh, you could even become the guild master if you are strong enough
"Well, I do desire joining your guild still. What I dont desire is to lead it. Its too much hassle to be a leader. Too much responsibility. Freedom and strength though? I like it"
If he wanted to be a guild master he'd probably make his own guild. But even in that scenario, he wouldnt want to. Being a leader was too much stress inducing. Too much work and paperwork and looking out for guild mates.
Like sure it could be less stressful if you choose to be a shitty leader, but if you're bad at your job, then why even bother.
No thanks. He'll rather pass the job to lead and just be comfortable taking orders. Less responsibility and if anything goes wrong, blame the leader for being bad at planning, organizing or whatever.
He didnt mind being in a dark guild and he was used to being guilty by association. In a way he was always that way. Even if not associated. Like this person over here, the guild member, who asked him if he was associated with that knocked out guy. Its a self fulfilling prophecy maybe.
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