Of course, outright stupid as his decision was, Daru had been smart in his approach, at least.
He knew what he was doing could very well get him killed, and just after he survived a harrowing ordeal of being trapped inside a root hollow with two horrors just two dozen meters in front of him.
However, he must advance the progress of his mission.
What could be a better way to gather information than to be in Harlowe's position?
He had not been killed by the demonic jester when it was all too easy to do so, so why would the horror act now that he's fully on guard?
Furthermore, there wasn't only one but many times wherein Harlowe could've attacked him, yet he didn't.
Daru was fairly confident that the demonic jester wouldn't attack him as long as he didn't attack first.
Nonetheless, his climb was extremely slow, and Daru had even tested the horror a few times, feigning to climb quickly only to jump off the next moment, as though he was baiting Harlowe to attack.
