However, the truth is that if he were alone, passing through the ruins wouldn't cost him any effort at all—although the square afterwards would still be a big issue.
But now with Faina and Funiya accompanying him, the problem became much more complicated. He dared not let Faina and Funiya follow him directly, so he made two trips to carry them across.
This might sound a bit ridiculous, but in fact, even when carrying someone, Brand's stealth skills were far superior to Faina's when she acted alone.
On his first trip carrying Funiya through the ruins, it went smoothly. He carefully left the jungle from the side dense with vegetation and used a broken wall as cover to sneak into a half-crumbled stone house—as he had predicted before, this direction was away from Andesa, and the woman did not pay much attention here, because she only needed to focus on the square over there, confident that no matter how skilled Brand was, he would be discovered.
