First time on land

We hadn't spent that long on the river, so the chubby dock manager was still there when we came back.

Seeing the ship come back, he immediately ran over to check on it.

Though the way that he acted, it seemed like he was more worried about us than the ship.

It was just that we could see his eyes drifting over to the ship from time to time as if he was checking up on it. No, even without that, there was something else that gave him away.

"My lord, I'm so glad that you're…back. I was so…worried this whole time!"

There were those strange pauses in between his words that came when he looked over at the ship to check on it.

It seemed that this chubby dock manager really didn't know how to divide his attention…

We just ignored it since we knew why he was worried about the ship, even more than our lives. It was his job to care about these things and even before that, the ship was something that many people relied on to make a living.