"Yes, boss!" comes from Tidus, absolutely in high spirits for potential trouble. Does the world look utterly miserable and the mission read as pointlessly dramatic? No, so he's rather thrilled to be jumping into an otherwise straightforward 'look into the spooky things' type investigation.

There is one downside to this, though. Not one that Tidus complains about immediately, but the distance between where they are and wherever that storm is... some ways. And that's a detail Tidus is wondering about himself, keeps it in his head. He's got a hoverboard, but only one, and that's about it for travel. ... but there is one over option, possibly...

"Hey," he says, cutting into the quiet of their walking, about ten or twenty minutes or so. "How onboard would you be about riding on a fast bubble of water? Solid water," he clarifies.

Solid bubble water. You know. That normal thing.