Following the attendant officer to seek out Maid Tifa, Shard first pondered the cost of the carpet beneath his feet in terms of Mias, then realized that after meeting the King, unlike the protagonists in stories he had read before, he didn't entertain the thought "I could replace him."
Not only because secular power really seemed trivial compared to mysticism and those supernatural powers but also because studying to be a Circle Sorcerer was immensely time-consuming, and the recent King was still at work at eight in the evening, and that wasn't even the end of his day.
The poor man's receding hairline spoke volumes about the hardships of his royal duty.
Having come to a different world, the Outlander wanted to explore more of this magnificent and mysterious world, rather than spend a lifetime behind a desk.
