Another nod. "Yeah. Helps that they're the only two that arrived before my group that even seem interested in lending a hand." Which worries him. Why would the others choose not to? What did they find that keeps them from saying anything?

"Aside from a mysterious Empire to the West that none of us have so much as glimpsed and the murders around the lake on the continent north of here? It's been rather peaceful." Alarmingly so, in fact. He doesn't trust it. "The police in Tark Varentain were still on high alert, last I visited the Ninja guild. Whoever the culprit is, they haven't caught them.

"There's also the fact that some of us have started to disappeared without a trace." If it wasn't obvious Noctis is worried? It probably should be, now.