Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnderX View Post
I was not amused. Near misses between people looking for one another has always been one of the most frustrating tropes to me.
It's a little different here, I think. It's not two people trying to find each other and inexplicably missing each other through plot contrivances, which is infuriating. That's the example of them passing each other in the alley or at the docks on the two boats. I'm with you there. But they were in the same city for days and days.

This is Roxy, specifically, failing. Them missing each other is entirely her own fault.

She's a former adventurer in this very city. She has connections. People know her. She deliberately steered them all away from Dead End (Rudy's party) out of irrational fear. The dwarf guy is asking around. Elinalisa is whoring it up to get personal pleasure while also asking for information in other back alleys. They're both doing the legwork.

Roxy steered them away from a well-traveled, well informed mercenary party for stupid personal reasons. She even saw them later, and ran away at full speed.

There's not that many humans on the demon continent regularly, or within the interior. Seeing Eris alone should have been an opportunity to ask Eris is she ever met a boy that met Rudy's description, or Zenith's, or Lilia's.

I assume that now Roxy is going to travel all the way to her hometown, still looking for them, only to learn that they were headed the way she just came from over a year ago, with Rujerd.