Tsutomu and the rest of the PT were engaged in a battle against a pack of white snow wolves that appeared as if they were avalanching from a mountain top. Among them, two women were running without regard to the snow beneath their feet.


''Souba Zan!''


　A slash flew from the twin swords wielded with Amy's high-pitched voice. It went neatly into the large mouth of the snow wolf that was about to pounce on Hanna and ripped inside. Hanna slammed multiple blows into that snow wolf, making it particulate, and quickly shifted her gaze to her next opponent.


''I'll take care of the back!''
Hey!


　Amy stood around to protect Hannah's blind spot as she fought on the ground, taking out more and more of the snow wolf. Hannah looked at her for a moment and then punched the snow wolf in the face from the side.


(What a great breath.)


　Tsutomu stared at them as he pointed his wand at them and let the heist fly. Of course, it was partly due to the fact that Hannah had grown up in the past two months, but even so, the two of them worked too well together for it to be the first time they had worked together. Perhaps the reason for this was Amy.

　Amy is agilely moving the cat ears and golden eyes on top of her head and grasping the entire battle situation. The breadth of vision that had been trained before to figure out where the God's Eye was reflecting. It's Amy's clear weapon.


'Shakin'!


　Then he cuts off the snow wolf that Hanna punched away with his twin swords to catch it away. Her movements were quicker and sharper than when she had been in a PT with Tsutomu before.

　After the PT with Tsutomu was disbanded, Amy had been working in the guild, performing appraisal duties as well as dungeon exploration work. This was to resolve the weakness caused by the blanks that existed when she and Tsutomu were on a PT team.

　While remembering various other things, such as how to get around as an explorer, Amy spent her days in a dizzying state. All in preparation for this day of joining the Infinite Circle, she had been training without slacking off, which was rare.

　And her action of matching Tsutomu's support hasn't slowed down either. Based on her experience of forming PTs with the various white mages and prayer warriors of the guild staff, Amy will match up with Tsutomu's support.

　If she matches up with the time when the support runs out, Tsutomu doesn't have to devote his attention to Amy for that amount of time, so he can focus on other things. There are plenty of other things that can be done such as support recovery, attacking monsters, and storing barriers, so Amy's concern is honestly appreciated.


'Hannah!　Let's see who can take out more of them!
I can't lose!


　Following Amy, who raised her twin swords, Hannah also charged into the pack of snow wolves. Besides, from Tsutomu's point of view, he could clearly see that God's eyes were more active than usual around Amy. Amy's movements were different from when they were in a PT before, and Tsutomu continued to support her with his observant eyes.

　In contrast, Garum and Leleia are very quiet. Neither of them were the type of people who didn't talk about anything unnecessary during the battle, so the only voices that were heard by Tsutomu's ears were the ones that released skills.


''Salamander Breath.''


　However, the two of them aren't bad at moving. Leleia's manipulation of long-range skills has improved thanks to working with Hanna, so she won't make a mistake like misfiring at Garum. And since Garum also has experience with a number of attackers in the guild, he has a certain degree of coordination with Leleia, the spiritist, as well.


'Contract [Contract] - Sylph'


　Leleia summons the sylph and increases her own AGI (agility) by half a step and swings her rapier with unstoppable speed. With his unintentional sword handling, he takes both of the snow wolf's eyes, and then a final thrust to the throat. When the fairy on Leleia's shoulder pointed, a wind blade was granted to the rapier and tore the snow wolf's throat to shreds from within.

　When the spirits are compatible, they can give attribute grants and blessings in addition to spirit magic. Leleia can use all four attributes of spirits' attribute grants and blessings, and she can also exercise multiple spirit magic. Leelaia's ability to use multiple spirit spells is invaluable as an attacker.


'Combat Cry.


　And Garum is the first to understand and implement the concept of the tank. His way of getting around as a tank is being taught by Tsutomu and is being refined by adding his own ideas to it. Lately, he's been looking at the avoidance tank and thinking about whether he can do that as well, and partially incorporating it into his own.

　Daryl stepped to the limit in the Mounted Golem fight. Tsutomu hadn't seen it, but Garum had seen it on Kamidae. Perhaps because of this, Garum has been working out with particular enthusiasm lately. I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this in the future.

　And Tsutomu has also grown up more than ever before, probably because of the many things he has tried in the past two months or so. He was aware of the fact that he could stand on the ground without using his fly, and his insights were further broadened by his dual role as a tank. He was also getting better and better at storing barriers in his own body and managing hate in the snowfield hierarchy.

　And Leeleia is letting me sign a contract with her, Undine, a water spirit. Thanks to this contract, Tsutomu's spiritual power has increased by one level, making it even easier for him to support and recover. And since Tsutomu was invited by the gods, he was able to use Undine to its fullest extent because he has a very good affinity with the spirits.

　Among them, Tsutomu liked the automatic defense by Undine the most. Whenever there is a dangerous attack, Undine, which comes out of its pocket, automatically prevents it with its soft mucus and softens the impact of the attack, which helped me a lot when I was doing the avoidance tank.

　However, Undine can only be used when Leleia is not in the PT, and her mental strength is essential for the spirit's actions. Therefore, if Undine moves as she pleases, Leleia's mental power will be quickly depleted, so she can't rely on the spirit all the time. But considering the use of it, Undine was extremely useful.


''Ick.''


　When Tsutomu commands it, Undine immediately jumps on the monster, tangling its mucus and blocking its movements. Leleia is also contracted with a spirit and uses spirit power, so she can't use a lot of it, but she can also use other water-based spirit magic and attribute grants.

　However, ordinary people can't do this kind of trick. I'm not going to be the only one who has a unique skill that is equivalent to God's blessing to use spirits to this extent. And even compared to that unique skill, Tsutomu's affinity for spirits is unusually high, so currently only he can freely use Undine.

　Tsutomu managed the battle situation while granting protection to Garum and constant haste to the other three, and continued to fight for a while. Then the last snow wolf was taken in by Undine and suffocated to death, and the magic stone drifted into the viscous body as particles of light.


''Hey! Don't eat it.


　Tsutomu scolded Undine as he began to flow to take in the colorless magical stone. I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this in the future.


''I won~''
********. We'll win next time!
Well, I'm an attacker, so of course I'm going to win. But I'll take it!


　Amy said such a follow-up to Hannah, who looked seriously frustrated, and bobbed her twin swords as if to check her condition.


'Leleia. I'm also aware of the fact that you're releasing your skills with your voice, so you don't have to worry about it that much.
'I see. Then I'll try to add a few more skills next time. Is there anything else?
'Well..... I don't have that much experience working with spirit magicians. So it would be helpful if you could tell me what kind of skills they use a lot.


　Garum and Leleia were quickly checking each other's standing after the battle. Leleia nodded with serious eyes and then consulted with Garum about which skills to use in the next battle.

　Tsutomu looked at the four people who were each discussing and realized that there was no place for him to enter, so he called out to Undine, who was sticking to his right hand.


''Go pick up all the magic stones,''


　Then Undine fell out of Tsutomu's hand and spread his own mucus on the ground, pulling the fallen magical stones onto his body. After a few moments, he pulled his own body towards Tsutomu and collected all the magical stones that had fallen on the snow in one place.


''Thank you.''


　When Tsutomu chose a small, colorless magic stone and gave it to Undine, she was pleased to see her bouncing spherical body bouncing around. It's a good thing that Undine is generally happy no matter what you give her, so Tsutomu has only given her colorless rubbish magic stones recently.

　At first, Tsutomu was aware of his dislike for the spirits that consumed magic stones in vain, but when he saw that Undine was useful, he returned his hand. So now, he doesn't think of the spirits as evil to that extent.

　Tsutomu removed his gaze from Undine, who was absorbing more and more of the scrap magic stones, and collected the magic stones collected on the ground into his magic bag. In addition to Leleia, who is just an excellent attacker, she even comes with a handy spirit, so for Tsutomu, it was attractive to form a PT with her.


(..........if this doesn't lead to a conflict with Amira.


　That was the only certain problem with Leleia. For the past two months or so Tsutomu has been watching Amira and Leleia, but there has always been a distance between them. Leleia makes it seem like she doesn't care about Amira's past, and it's probably just some minor bad feelings that the others can't see. But Tsutomu can see it.

　Tsutomu also understands Leleia's simmering feelings because he is also rooted in the fact that Alma averted his gaze after the sale of the black cane and got away with it. Leleia responds to Amira's unconscious call to her with a nonchalant look, but it's predictable that she's going to be very sluggish inside.

　But on the surface, the two of them seemed to be fine, and if you asked Hannah and Amira, they didn't seem to have any particular thoughts about it. It's not that Leia is also trying to directly deal with Amira, but I can see that she has some kind of intention to win by force. It's a good idea to be able to have a good time with them.

　However, after two months of setting up a PT, I've started to talk to Leleia a bit, so Tsutomu thought it was time to step in directly to her. What kind of feelings do you have for Amira and what do you want to do about it? Tsutomu wanted to question Leleia's true intentions.


'Tsutomu, is that it for today?'


　I was looking at Leleia, who was teaching Garum her salamander skills, when Amy peeked in to interrupt me.


'Right. It's about time to go, and let's leave for today.''
Yeah. Good. Let's get out of here then!　Bye, guys!


　Amy winked mockingly at the last god's eye that came by, and then skipped off hand in hand with Hannah. Tsutomu also called out to Garum and Leleia, who were discussing the matter with each other, and decided to leave for the day.


''Whee~. Warming up~''
Right.


　Returning to the guild from the Black Gate of Homecoming, Amy and Hannah looked blubbery in the warm indoor environment. As soon as Garum clears the snow from the soles of his shoes, a cleaner comes in to clean them. Garum lightly calls out to the person to see if he knows him.


'Oh, Mr. Melcho, are you already challenging him?'


　And when Tsutomu looked at the first stand, he saw Melcho fighting the eighty level Lord, General Winter, by himself. Seeing that he's avoiding the Winter General's Iwo-kiri, which always results in one of his deaths, it looks like he's having a moderately good match.


''I could beat him or something!
I don't know.


　Tsutomu had heard that they would carefully prepare the magic stones of fire and cold weather gear before heading out, but apparently Melcho couldn't wait. Tsutomu dismissed the PT at the reception desk, hoping for good news, and headed home with the four of them.