Interesting series, I'm curious if the "Manga Protag" ever makes an appearance or not.
It would be ironically poetic if the MC of the manga Wolca read never shows up.
I mean, there's almost zero chance he's a normal merchant what with keeping composure under the full stare of the flock. Unless he's the shady merchant version of King from OPM (which would be entertaining as heck)
Imo there's three main possibilities. He's a moderately powerful antagonist...