Gotta be a weird moment for Byron to re-enter this hall. The last time he was here, it was to found the adventurer’s guild. He’s got no regrets: Syr’Nj has certainly told him about how the Altruists betrayed that guild after his death, and even if it hadn’t, Gastonia/Iwatania still has to go down. But still, it’s maybe a little surreal for him.

Jarvis does appear on the next page, but this is his last conscious moment. He’s back to saying (almost) nothing and fighting to the last, as his type of soldier must.

FB:

BYRON: “Knock knock.”

JARVIS: “…”

BYRON: “Okay, guess I’ll do both parts. Who’s there? It’s Byron. It’s Byron who? It’s by running away from my shame for so long that I know there are no easy answers, and that’s why you’ve got to face up to it, man: you’ve created a fundamentally broken societ–“

AURAGU: “IT IS I, AURAGU! AURAUGU WHO?? AURAUGU HYESSS!”

BYRON: “I need to have a talk about brevity in comedy with Gravedust.”