When he arrived at the city gate, a guard about five feet tall, wearing light armor, a helmet, and holding a piece of paper in his hand started walking toward him, and when he got close he said, "Good morning, what are you -, ah it's you Gen. "Good morning Joru.", "What's all this luggage? Are you moving out of town?", "No, it's going to be a long trip, I'm only taking what I need.", "Gee, if all this is what you need, where are you going?", "To the ruins of the sands.", "What! Are you crazy Gen, hardly anyone ever comes back from the ruins, they say they're actually a monster that sometimes appears when it's hungry, so no one knows its exact location.", "You're exaggerating Joru.", "Hold on then.", Joru then turned around and shouted, "STANLEY! Come here, Gen is mad, help me make sense of him!", the people at the gate heard him shouting and started to look in Gen's direction, when he saw this he looked at Joru and asked a little annoyed, "Am I crazy?", "Of course not Gen, I just said that so Stanley would come faster.", Gen looked at him a little more and said, "Okay.

After a few seconds Gen heard a voice from far away, "What happened?", Gen looked in the direction of the voice and saw a young guard about one meter eighty, dark skinned, blue eyes and very short blond hair, he was wearing the same clothes as the other, but was carrying his helmet under his arm. As he approached Gen and Joru, he looked in Joru's direction with a questioning look. Joru then said, "Gen wants to go to the ruins of the sands," Stanley was surprised to hear this and asked Gen, "What? Why do you want to go there, Gen? Do you know that it is a completely unknown and very dangerous place?", "I heard that the ruins are an ordeal and I was interested, so I will go there to check it out", "Do you really need to go there Gen? You're already pretty strong even without an essence.", Stanley was saying this because he has trained with Gen a lot, and of the normal people he knew, Gen was one of the strongest. "I have my reasons.", Gen replied and looked at the sky with a half lost look getting quiet for a while, seeing this Joru looked at Stanley and made with one hand that Gen was going crazy.

Stanley turned his gaze to Gen and asked, "Does it have to be today, right on your birthday?", "Birthday? Today? and you are going to the ruins of the sands? tell the truth Gen, you are going to another city for your birthday because you don't want Lina to spend all your money, or better- hmmp, I mean even worse, you don't want her to see where you are going to celebrate." Joru finished his sentence by giving a wink in Gen's direction, but he ignored him and replied to Stanley, "I've stalled too long, more than three years to be exact, I need to go as soon as possible.", Stanley looked into Gen's eyes and saw that there was no turning back, he then said, "Alright, good luck on your trip then. Does Lina know about this?", the two looked at each other for a while, and Stanley got the message and said, "It's going to be a long night tonight, ahhh ...", Gen then said, "It really will, especially after what happened this morning.", upon hearing this Stanley asked, "What happened?", Gen then explained to him and Joru everything that had happened.

As they finished hearing the story, the two shouted in unison, "YOU WHAT?!!!!", everyone at the gate looked at them again and Gen said, "Keep it down, this way everyone in town will know, and it will only make the situation worse.", hearing this the two calmed down a bit and before Stanley could say anything, Joru said to him in a whispered cry, "Stanley, I will need to take a few days off. My sister sent me a letter, she had an accident in the next town over and she needs me to stay there for a while to help her. Unfortunately I have to go as soon as possible, because it hurts me to think of my weakened sister alone in another town. I'll put my armor away and I'm going now.", he then started walking towards the city guard building next to the gate, but before he could take more than three steps he was stopped by Stanley who wrapped his arm around his neck, Joru then asked, "What are you doing Stanley, I need to go, my sister-", but Stanley cut him in half and said, "You don't have a sister. ", "I-I got confused, I meant my cousin.", "You don't have cousins either.", "And how do you know that?", "You told me the other day after work.", Joru was in shock and thought, 'Me and my big mouth', and then said, "I'm sorry Stanley, I really don't have a sister or cousins, the truth is my girlfriend-", but was interrupted in the middle by a laugh that Gen couldn't hold back.

Seeing Gen laughing, Joru broke free from Stanley, grabbed his shoulders and asked, "What are you laughing at! When night comes this city will turn to hell. How could you kiss Lina Gen! She'll turn this whole town upside down looking for you, and imagine when she finds out where you're going, she'll be ..." Joru stopped talking, and suddenly started running towards the gate trying to get out of town, but Stanley was watching him and quickly jumped on him, knocking him to the ground. When he saw this, everyone in the surrounding area looked in their direction, and some started to come closer to try to understand what was happening. Joru, lying on the ground began to speak, "Stanley, let me out of town, please, just for today, I promise you I'll be back tomorrow", "If I could I would, but we're going to need all the help we can get to hold that beast back", "But, ..., ahhh! Stanley then stood up, and offered his hand to Joru, who accepted and stood up as well.

Stanley then looked at Gen and asked, "How long do you plan to be gone?", "A week, that's the most I can afford with what I have gathered", "Hmm, got it. Well, have a good trip then, I'll walk you out.", "Ok, bye Joru.", "Bye what, you think this is how things work, you arrange a huge problem for us to solve and run out of town as if nothing happened.", "But you wanted to run away too. ", "D-Don't change the subject, you owe me and Stanley, simply for the fact that we didn't arrest you now to hand you over to Lina to calm her down.", upon hearing this Stanley looked at Gen with a look as if considering something and said, "On that point I agree with Joru. You owe us one.", "Sure!", Gen said seeing the way Stanley was looking at him, "When I get back I'll pay this debt with you.", "And it won't be cheap, you better come back with money from your trip, because I'm going to want to go to 'Mirage Paradise'. ", upon hearing this Gen was surprised and Stanley ran towards him and said while covering his mouth, "Keep your voice down!", realizing that he had spoken louder than he should, and that he was getting all kinds of looks, Joru looked at Gen and said, "Well, we can discuss it further when you get back, good trip and good luck out there. Now I'm going back to my post, ah yeah, happy birthday." and then left as fast as he could.

Stanley looked at him running and shook his head, then turned to Gen and said, "Well you better get going, before someone shows up here looking for you.", "H-Haha ... that's right.", the two then made their way to the outside of the town. On the way out Gen offered his hand to Stanley, who accepted it by shaking it, but also pulled Gen into a hug, slapping him hard on the back twice, and then said, "Be careful out there, I know you're used to going out, but this place seems to be very dangerous. ", "I don't know how many times I've heard that today, but anyway, I will.", upon hearing this Stanley pushed him away and said, "Go quickly before I change my mind and arrest you.", "Ok. you wouldn't be able to, but I'm going. " said Gen laughing and turning his back to him, Stanley laughed too and said, "Well, I can't deny it.", Gen then climbed on his camel, and said, "Well, anyway since you made it easy for me, when I get back I'll help you with Cris."Stanley heard this and was surprised, "Gen!", "Hahaha, bye Stanley.", Stanley shook his head helplessly and said, "Bye, and happy birthday.", Gen didn't say anything back or turn around, he just said goodbye with one of his hands and walked on into the desert.