post-canon Laios eagerly looking forward to when Mithrun returns from his monster hunting expeditions because Mithrun's reports are the only time Laios gets to talk about monsters anymore so he's vicariously experiencing monsters through Mithrun. ends up pavloving himself into being excited whenever he sees Mithrun.

in my classic "taking the character who thematically connects the three way relationship together and then kicking them out" fashion: Laios, guy whose hunger will never be sated and whose deepest desires will never come to be, and Mithrun, guy who achieved his single last desire and now wants nothing.