--it was in a forest filled with sunshine.

'Ha...... did ha......!　We did it!

　The smell of earth.
　The smell of wood.
　The warmth of the sunshine, which cannot be felt from luminous moss.
　Everything soothes my troubled heart.

　The exit of the stairs I climbed was a hole in the base of a large tree.

　It's a different place than the entrance to the dungeon with the brave party, but that doesn't matter.
　It didn't change the fact that they had escaped from the labyrinth.

　Perhaps because I was loosened up with joy, a feeling of hunger that I had forgotten about hit me at once.

''Uggh, I'm going to die if I don't eat something ...... it's a forest, so there were at least ...... nuts and fruit!

　I plucked a ripe fruit from a handy tree and brought it to my mouth.

　Just as I was about to bite into it with all my might, a powerful danger signal echoed in my head.

'......!　No, it's rotten inside!　Even at ......, how did you know that ......?

　The fruit looks delicious to look at, but I've completely lost the desire to eat it.

　I don't understand how I was able to determine that it was harmful. That's just creepy.

　Before the question could be answered, a high-pitched voice echoed around the area.

'Kyaaaaaah!'

　The first human voice he had heard in half a month was a girl's scream that ripped through the silk.

'......!　Who's there?!

　I reflexively ran towards where I heard the scream.

　I honestly don't know if I was trying to help the owner of the scream or if I was trying to get help myself.

'(d*mn!)　(Shouldn't you have run away?)

　That thought occurred to me, but I quickly chased it out of my head.

　Although I was able to escape from the dungeon, I had no idea of the route to the human settlement from here.

　To die in the forest outside instead of in the labyrinth would be the worst kind of laughing matter.

　So it would be best to meet up with another human who knew where the human settlement was.

'There they are!　There or ......!

　There were two girls in an open area of the forest.

　One of them was a petite girl clad in a cheap robe.
　She didn't look like an adventurer and gave the impression that a town girl had wandered in.

　The other was a dark-haired girl wearing light armor of an unfamiliar design.
　Her long hair is tied back in one piece, and she's wearing a pair of red-hemmed pants that look like a skirt.

　As I recall, that was a garment called hakama (hakama) or something like that in the east.
　The armor plate of the light armor is also in the Eastern style.

''Run away, Sylvia!
'So, but I can't believe you left the cherry on top: ......!

　A dark-haired girl called Sakura is defending a girl named Sylvia while intimidating the enemy in front of her.

　The enemy is a winged monster that is considered special to all adventurers.

("No!　(There's a dragon outside the dungeon!)

　I wanted to pat myself on the back for not screaming out loud.

　I'm a monster that would have been devoured in an instant.
　If they found me, it would be impossible for me to even escape.

　And it wasn't a subspecies of wyvern with its front legs turned into wings.
　It was a true dragon with all four limbs and wings.

　Surprised by the unexpected turn of events, I look at Sakura again.
　She was warlike in contrast to Sylvia, but something was wrong.

''(......?!)　Aaaaaaah!　What the hell is he doing?　(You're hurt so badly!)

　Sakura was sloshing a lot of blood from her side.
　Moreover, the single-edged sword in her hand was snapped off in the middle.

　I see. The scream earlier was the scream that Sylvia raised when Sakura was injured?

''Sylvia!　Only you deserve to return alive!　Get out of here!
I'm sorry, Sakura......!

　A sobbing Sylvia comes running towards me.

　I ran towards Sakura as I passed it.

''What ......!?''
"Whoa, whoa!

　Squeezing out the full force of his weakened body, he threw the luminous moss and [synthesized] knife at the dragon.

　The knife spun around in the air and was popped into the dragon's forehead and flew off somewhere in the forest.

　The damage is completely zero. But that's it.
　The dragon was distracted by the glowing "something" that hit his forehead and turned his gaze away from Sakura.

　In the meantime, he threw the long sword to Sakura's side.
　In reality, I wanted it to stick into the ground in style, but it didn't have enough momentum and rolled on the ground.

''Can you hear me, there samurai!　Use that!
"......!　I'm not going to lose heart!

　The dragon lost interest in the glowing knife, and once again turned its fangs to bite Sakura to death.

　Sakura picked up her sword even faster than that and slashed the dragon's legs and throat with her god-speed swordplay.

　The dragon collapsed as if to plunge its head into the ground and then stopped moving.

　It happened in just a moment.
　The dragon must not have even realized that it had been killed.

''Yes!''

　I couldn't help but squeal with delight.

　It was even sharper than I had imagined.
　I didn't expect to be able to inflict a head-on fatal wound on a dragon.

I'm going to have to say that I'm very grateful for ...... your help. Thanks to ...... your help, you can ...... help me.

　Sakura tried to walk towards me and Sylvia, but she fell down as if she had run out of energy in the process.

''Ah!　Sakura!
Hey, you okay?

　He ran in with Sylvia to check the wound in Sakura's side.

''Not good. This one could be fatal. ......!

　In my fifteen year career as an adventurer, I've seen a lot of guys who have been seriously injured.

　That experience tells me.
　Sakura's wounds will lead to death if there is no treatment with 'skills'.

'You guys don't have any healing skills?

　Sylvia shook her head as she cried.
　By the looks of it, she must have run out of potions and other things.

''Oh, you are ...... you are something ......''
''I'm sorry, but I can't either. The only skill I can use is [Restoration], and its effect on humans is--

　Wait a minute, are you sure that's not possible?　He asks himself with a strangely bright mind.

　The [Repair] skill can't heal the damage to the creature.
　That's common knowledge that everyone knows.

　But is it really so?

　If it's me right now, I can save the girl who is dying in front of me, can't I--

　This is not unfounded confidence.
　There are certainly reasons to say that there is no possibility.

It's worth a try: "There's ......, right? ......!