Those stairs would certainly be a good exercise for anyone who lived in this city, but... Ramza broke away from that befuddled look eventually. Surely he japes, he thought to himself. ...no, another glance confirmed that that grin was in earnest, not in jest.

He'd given too much thought to it already. "I would think I'd grow accustomed ere long." Ramza hurried through the topic and onto his next question. "But I had thought our jobs were to hunt Kishin... or are we to find our own coin elsewhere?"