[There is a quiet nod of agreement on that point. Just because you can help doesn't mean that needing to help in the first place is genuinely awful given the circumstances. Alucard suspects the feeling us universal among the Summoned of the Free Cities.]

Is it selfish if you return more capable of doing the work?

[A week, two weeks, is nothing in the grand scheme of things. Of course, Alucard knows he thinks of time differently given his longer lifespan, and that one of his parents was functionally immortal.]

There's plenty of monsters in the desert whose parts have values. Or else there's just the quietness of being out here.