The Kid was stretched completely white-eyed.



"Lucky did that?"

--"How about that, Rock! I can do it too. I didn't even get a good shot off.



　Lucky told me with a smug look on his face.

　Sure, it didn't go off, but to kill a ...... brave man with a single shot is just too much.

　I felt again how reckless we were.



　If Lucky had really attacked us, we would have been wiped out for sure.



"Secure the Kid!"



　Rikka ordered, and the adventurers secured the Kid. His hands were cuffed with power shackles and his neck was covered with a magic seal collar.

　He will not be able to escape.

　The Kid was taken directly to a small room in the back of the guild.



　There was a temporary prison for criminals there, I believe.

　I'd say his sentence is almost served.



"Thanks for the luck."



----What do you mean? Let's get this over with and eat some meat.



"Yeah, I'm almost done, just give me a little more time."



　Lucky responds with a big wag of his tail.



　Oh, and while we're at it, let's get the bag out of the box and give it back to him. Can we just get the bags out of the box?

　In my mind, I think to myself, "Come on, party members, come on out with your bags.

　With that thought, their luggage popped out of their bracelets.



　How convenient.



　I take out the healing potions from my backpack and distribute them to the wounded adventurers.

"Could this be the recovery medicine made by ...... saint lady that Mr. Locke is handing out?



　I smile vaguely and go through with it.

　For some reason, Kara is the one who made it among the adventurers, but she hasn't made any restorative for about a year now.



　She claims to be a saint, but she only heals people in battle and leaves all the work of making restoratives to me.

　However, I will not say anything more because it would make male adventurers happy to think that a saint made the potion.



　As they say, the effect of a fake potion is a matter of taste, and if my wounds heal faster, then so much the better.



　The rest of the luggage goes to Isaac. At the top of the luggage I find the breastplate that Lucky and I played with. It is covered in drool and tattered with bite marks, but I pretend not to have seen it.



　It was a small price to pay for the fact that I didn't get my stuff back.

"Well then, I gave you back your stuff."



　Isaac takes the package from me.

　I guess his stuff didn't show up because he wasn't a member of my ...... party.



　He said he'd give it to me as a souvenir, so I guess it's not a problem.



"Rock ...... sorry ......"

　Emmy apologizes to me.

　Emmy refused to leave me out of the party until the very end, but in the end she couldn't help me. I'm not going to forgive her, of course, but still .......



"Okay. Emmy."

　I guess I answered Emmy nicely, but Isaac misunderstood and called out to me.



"Rock!　No contest. I'll get you back into the party. That was a necessary decision."



　Isaac called out to me from above. If I let him kill me because I had no choice, it could happen again. And Isaac obviously wanted to kill me.



"I'm sorry. I'm not partying with you guys anymore. I've been trying to figure out how to be strong with you guys. But you were the first to let go. It's hard to fix something once you've broken it."



"What about me, Rock?　You came to my rescue because you want to party with me?　I'm one of the betrayed."

　Kara was standing next to me like she didn't know I was okay, but she called out to me like she didn't expect it.



"Why is that, Kara?"

I had no idea what Kara meant by that.



"Because I can't work with Isaac and Emmy anymore, and I don't want to be an adventurer by myself."



"Kara...... saved you because we've known each other since childhood. But that doesn't mean I'm going to continue to party with you. Kara would have agreed with my quitting, right?　Just like you can't party with Isaac and Emmy, I can't party with you."



"Oh no. ...... f*ck Isaac. It's your fault. You're the one who's always talking and you're the one who brought them here on your own."



"What?　You said you couldn't use a lock. You're the only one who's a victim here."



　It was not a good feeling to see my childhood friends cursing each other.

　Besides, they were going to party with me again now.



"Isaac, Kara, let's not do this. It was all our fault. We found out in the dungeon of fire, didn't we?　Locke helped us a lot, and he chose the best path for us, not the shortest. And we didn't listen to him."



　Isaac and Cara, who had been arguing, looked down and said nothing.

　Once something is broken, it can never be undone.




　If it is invisible, it will be even more difficult to repair.



"So let's talk about the game.

　The game that Ricca proposed to us was beyond my expectations.

　Hey! Is this okay?