But there is no city here. Squall tilted his head slightly but decided it wasn't important in the least to figure out these semantics. Maybe it was a suburb.

Open cities? That surprised him. "Of course. Otherwise the monsters attack." Obviously. "But I also grew up in a mercenary academy." So. That wasn't exactly an open setting, either, for security purposes. He didn't even bother pretending and saying it was a military academy. They were mercenaries, SeeD, not soldiers for some government.

"Good." He nodded. Lack of threats, the better. "Is there a place to get weapons, though?" The lack of his sword was bothering him.