He'll probably do something severely stupid and get beaten by MC. More than likely he's gonna try something to get the quest reward himself or something to do with the MC daughter.
@Cidolfas Well that isn't a good sign. Forcing a story usually means its getting axed or someone felt that this was too boring and changed it. Hopefully this won't turn out bad.
@Cidolfas: I don't read the WN, but my guess is that the story had enough openings that the author think he can add this guy to characterize him earlier than whenever he appears in the WN, and to add a little more drama to otherwise 'harmless' quest.
Wouldn't be too bad, especially if whatever is his issue and the girl's issue can somewhat be co-related.
Here comes the loud forceful character. Why would he ever think Douglas would ever form another party with you since you basically bad mouthed him when he lost his powers?
now I'm thinking of ssethtzeentach's Elona+ review and his story about the escort quest with a kamikaze samurai. Maybe this guy will charge at the first enemy they see and explode too.
That's probably what happened. A lot of the web novels get heavily reworked when they get published. every other arc of shield hero is either mostly or entirely new to the light novel. Probably something similar here. Actually Shield Hero also had a problem where the other heroes were too dumb and simple at the beginning of the web novel and so they were rewritten in the beginning to have more clear and meaningful flaws that the author didn't decide on until the end of the web novel. It's probably the same thing here.