"Long time no see! Hyung!"
"Kekekek. You couldn't possibly not call me, could you?"
"..."

A cyborg dragon and a clattering Lich King.

In truth, Kalstein wasn’t entirely sure if he really needed these two for this journey. He called them simply because they were mentioned in Volume 53 of the Eunyeongyeon as being necessary.

Normally, Kalstein would have preferred to go solo, ignoring them altogether.
‘I’ll have to bear with it. This time, things must go exactly as written.’

That way, while dealing with the incident involving Märchen's power, he would also be able to pick …