Having split off from the rest of the adventurers and successfully managed to get the S Rank Monster to chase after him alone, Verdell felt his initial excitement upon spotting Scaly approaching the S Rank Monster from behind dying down. Not because he thought she would ignore the S Rank Monster, but because he realized that there was a very real chance that she would simply wait for the monster to jump on him and kill him before attacking.
The reason behind this being that the S Rank Monster would be the easiest to ambush when it was busy attacking him, a chance that a smart dragon like Scaly would undoubtedly take advantage of to ensure her own success, something that meant he would have to figure out a way to avoid dying from the coming attack. A task that was far more difficult than it would have been in the past with how little mana he had left following the earlier distraction he had created to hold back the other S Rank Monster earlier.
