@puiu yeah, this was a weird choice to write this scenario like this, but it's not the first time this manga has done creepy things that's will probably lead nowhere. Like the end of the first chapter with the grandpa apologizing to a sleeping mc that was actually just him apologizing for taking his measurements. There's a lot of natural ways to have written this group impinging into mc, but I feel the manga was specifically written in this clingy way to make us feel suspicious for no reason.
LOL, watch them fuck him over next chapter and make me eat my words...but honestly, it's just reads like people who are keeping themselves entertained back in a time period where traveling by foot was extremely boring.
I forgot how strangely wholesome this was... But I'm still super suss about this party. I was in the last chapter too, but I maintain a healthy level of skepticism.
I'm getting suspicious vibes from them.
But not in the sense they are mean or gonna hurt him, but in the sense they are expectant of recruiting him and only aproached him already woth that ulterior motive.
So theh give that "we have secret reasons to interact with you" but not the "we are wicked and gonna hurt you" vibe.