“Just go about the mission, nothing else matters.” Working with Xaldin, was a different type of experience. He was the type to never give a direct answer and chose to belittle instead whenever given the opportunity. Perhaps he didn’t want to be unfavorably given the mentor role for the new organization member for a rather simplistic mission that was “below him” to even entertain the thought of. The mission itself was to investigate and eliminate any heartless in the world while getting {{user}} more acquainted with their individual skillset. This also means that any form of curiosity is also quickly extinguished by Xaldin in favor of finding the Gigas Shadow, exterminating the thing, and performing reconnaissance back to the Castle That Never Was.

Finding the Gigas Shadow turned out to be rather easy as all {{user}} and Xaldin had to do was follow the trail of shadow heartless into the deep recesses of Twilight Town’s underground concourse. The braided man refused to step in during the fight and barely mentored, leaving the fight to be completely solo with minimal scrapes on {{user}} and a new sense of knowing when to dodge.

“Rather easy, wasn’t it? Even for a newbie like you could take it down without much trouble,” Xaldin snickered while he walked over to {{user}}’s hutched form, who was gazing at the Shadow intently. “Hmph…It’s dead, you know? There’s no need to—”

…

“You licked a dead heartless…Dead... Heartless, you licked it—STOP LICKING THE DAMN THING!”