Is that all you've got for me today?
Yes, sir.
Well, all right. Thank you for everything. It's a big help.


　When Stephanie finally thanked him with a smiling face, the first Aldrete Crowe informant who responded to her for the first time thanked her with a drawn-out face. Because the walls of the room behind Stephanie were covered with pictures and articles of Tsutomu.

　After receiving the article clipped from the informant, Stephanie closed the door and looked over it repeatedly, breathing hard for a moment. The supporting skills that had been floating around her also spun up in response.

　Finally, after a while, Stephanie was satisfied, she took her eyes off the article and glued it to the empty wall. The room, with the article and photos already stretched across the ceiling, was an indication of Stephanie's strangeness.

　Stephanie had thought she had been entrusted with everything by Tsutomu after she had finished her training with him earlier. A document that contained all of Tsutomu's current skills. If he handed such a thing to someone else, even his position could be in jeopardy. This is because Stephanie was handed it.

　From then on, Stephanie practiced a variety of techniques to master them, without a break. She managed seconds on a daily basis, practicing her flying skills, shooting skills, and putting skills. There was no shortage of other things to learn, such as understanding the various jobs and standing around with the fly.

　And even during the period of God's Dungeon self-restraint mode that was after the Stampede, Stephanie continued to work incessantly to gain the ability to maintain an army of Aldrete Crow. Everyone congratulated Stephanie for continuing to stay in the first army and achieving results, despite the concerns of her peers.

　And Stephanie was happy about it, too, so she took a day off for the first time in a long time to visit God's Table since things had settled down.

　There Stephanie saw Tsutomu performing healers in an endless circle. At the same time, she saw an endlessly long way to go.

　The overwhelming difference between her and Tsutomu, which she could see now that she had become competent to some extent. The management of seconds, skill manipulation, and standing around. Everything was better than me. Stephanie, who was happy to keep her army in Aldoret Crow, was ashamed of herself.


(Not even close. I need to practice more. More, more...)


　Then Stephanie's, as she said, began to practice tirelessly. Practicing all the time and diving into dungeons. Once she's done with one army, she'll go into the vacant army below and do the healers again. Even during breaks, I constantly use my skills to manage my seconds.

　Every second counts, and he spends his days practicing his placement and shooting skills. Of course, there's no way she can move that much with her sleepless nights, and early on Stephanie wasted the day by passing out in her room.

　After that failure, Stephanie realized the limits of her body and decided to sleep at least three hours a day. But there were times when she couldn't sleep, so her days were the same, with shadows under her eyes and the constant counting of seconds. The life of being pressed for time and practicing was eating away at Stephanie's psyche more and more.

　She couldn't help but feel physically and mentally on the edge, and finally began to lash out at the PT members around her. The clerk in charge of the first team informed me that I would be demoted if I didn't do something about it.


(It's impossible for me...)


　Finally, mentally trapped at the edge of a cliff, Stephanie was about to give up. Her eyes almost went dark in front of her, thinking that she hadn't lived up to Tsutomu's expectations.

　That's when she happened to see a PT member reading a newspaper during a break. Then Stephanie's eyes widened when she saw the picture in the article.


(Master Tsutomu is looking at me....)


　Tsutomu's picture in the newspaper. It seemed to Stephanie to be a glimmer of hope.

　With that, Stephanie began to collect articles about Tsutomu. She had always had a tendency to worship Tsutomu as if he were a god, but it got even worse when she was mentally trapped.

　He would dive into dungeons in the morning with his army members, and from midnight, he would join a PT of nocturnal beastmen to play healer. And when he returns to his room in the middle of the night, he always looks exhausted and terrible.

　But I can't let Tsutomu see that face. Stephanie started to say goodnight to Tsutomu with a proper face before she went to sleep. And when she wakes up, she puts her hair in a vertical roll and dresses herself in a non-rude manner before saying good morning.

　It's not just a matter of how much time you spend in the office, it's also a matter of how much time you spend in the office. Once I saw the colored Tsutomu in Shentai, I could work hard for a month.

　Once that habit was established, Stephanie's mind was more stable and she was unusually committed to practice. There was a tense atmosphere when she was mentally trapped, but after she started greeting people, that atmosphere disappeared.

　Stephanie, who had practiced and built up her abilities more than anyone else, and whose spirit had been stabilized by the morning and evening greetings, no longer had a rival healer in sight. Besides, the atmosphere was softer than before, and there was nothing wrong with that on the surface. Thanks to that, even those in charge of the first team dropped Stephanie's demotion.

　Ever since she started greeting Tsutomu's picture, Stephanie had grown up as if God had taken over her body. But she still hadn't been able to reach Tsutomu, and she was embarrassed by herself for being like that. So when Luke suggested that she join the infinite circle out of concern for her, Stephanie turned red and refused. When Luke saw Stephanie's room afterwards, he also avoided the infinite circle, thinking that it would be dangerous to let her meet with Tsutomu.

　But then one day. Stephanie, as usual, gets an article about Tsutomu from her informant and looks at it and finds something disturbing in it. A healer named Lorena had been working with Tsutomu on some kind of PT.


(Lorena I believe is the Silver Beast healer.)


　It boggled her mind a little when it said that she was Tsutomu's best pupil, but Stephanie decided to observe Lorena, who she said had been praised by Tsutomu.

　However, Lorena's abilities were lower than she thought they were. It's not just a matter of time before you get to the point where you can get to the point where you're ready to go. The fact that she didn't use her placement and shooting skills made her a terrible second-rate healer.

　Despite this, when he heard that Tsutomu's first apprentice was praising him directly the other day, a jealous Stephanie launched a verbal fight with him when she encountered him in the dungeon. It then escalated into a scuffle, and Luke scolded her and she quieted down for a while.

　But next, Eunice was featured in the article as well. When I looked directly at him again, this time he was a less than third-rate vixen who could only use a degraded version of the Haste that I put down. Stephanie thought that she was rude, as she had spoken to Tsutomu before, as she had made fun of him.

　Because of that, this also caused the same kind of uproar as Lorena, and she had just received a big eyeball from Luke earlier.

　However, Stephanie's ability is such that she can be said to be reachable by Tsutomu, perhaps because she has been practicing unusually well. And besides those two incidents, he hasn't had any other problematic behavior, and his relationship with the first-string PT members is good. For that reason, Luke couldn't be that strong either.

　And after Luke's sermon was over, Stephanie returned to her room at midnight after practice, and after gluing on the article she received from the intelligence officer, she went to take a bath. After tying up her peach-colored hair and finishing her shower, Stephanie placed her hand on the mirror.


(I'm definitely stronger than you. So why.........why are you praising those guys, Tsutomu-sama....... I'm stronger than them, and I try harder. (So why.........why why why why why why why why why!


　Stephanie's face, which made her cringe with jealousy, looked like she would scream if the intelligence officer saw her. But even Stephanie noticed it when she looked in the mirror and shook her head shakily.

　Then she got ready in front of the mirror and went back to her bedroom, got into bed and stared at the picture of Tsutomu that was tacked to the ceiling.


'Good night. Master Tsutomu.


　His face was like an angel, unlike the devilish one he had just seen.


　-Oh.


It's so cold...
Would you like me to warm you up?
No, thank you.
Moo.


　Amy looked swollen in reply. Tsutomu was spinning his pen in the living room of the Clan House, tilting his head to see if he had caught a cold from the hair-raising chill.


'I wonder what the hell you're doing, Tsutomu...'
You're awfully good at this.
Right?　Ember!　Aura!　I said!


　Amy is imitating Zeno while brushing her white bangs, which seems to be annoying, while Hannah in the same living room is smiling and Diniel is in a daze.

　Currently, Zeno has gone home, and the other five clan members are each training and visiting the Doren Workshop and other places. Since today was a holiday, they were not heading out to explore the dungeon, so each of them were taking it easy.


''So, what are you doing?''
Hmmm ... I'm about to take on the Winter General, so that's a refresher.
Oh, well. Um, by the way, I wonder what's going on with the members?
Well, I'd love to hear that, too.
Don't lean on me. I'm not done teaching you.


　Amy and Hannah, who approached with a strange tail end, Tsutomu fluttered the papers in check.


'Shhhhhh. You can tell me a little bit about it, can't you?''
Good!　Isn't it good!
Stop.


　Tsutomu prodded Hannah, who was tickling his ears with her blue wings, and Amy, who was leaning over his shoulder, without a word. Then he moved to Diniel's side to sit down, perhaps to warn them both.


'Yes, yes. I wanted to ask Amy a few questions about that.
'What?　What?!
Who do you think would be stronger in a fight, Garum or Daryl?
I don't know.


　Amy's eyes were sparkling with a roaming gleam, but as soon as she heard their names, she lost interest and was thrown off.


'Please. I don't care what you expect.
''Well it's not Garm. Daryl is a disciple of Garm to begin with.
'Hmmm, but Daryl's been pretty strong lately, too.　Of course, I don't know if I can beat Garum-sama.... but I think I'll be a good match, don't you?
Oh, yeah. That's true.


　Tsutomu let his pen wander in the air as if troubled by their words. Then he thanked them and went back to his room with a bang. The two men, who looked at each other blankly, let out a sigh of dismay at Tsutomu, who was still the same as before.


It's a good thing that you're a Winter General. I'm not going to be able to get in on it.
I'd like to be included if I could.


　As Hannah sat down on the sofa with a vomit and vigor and shook her large breasts, Amy glared at her and crowded her.


'You're not supposed to use this~'
No, I wouldn't do that!
You have no idea! You crime tits!


　It didn't bother her that much since she was wearing thick clothes when she was diving in the snowfield hierarchy, but in her loungewear, she could see the size of her breasts. Amy let out a loud sigh after pecking at Hannah's chest.


''........I'm small anyway....
'No, but it's okay. Master doesn't look at your chest at all. I don't think he cares about the size of them.
Really?
It's true. I haven't seen enough of it to ruin my confidence...
'Yes!　Shut up!　You should realize, Hannah, that you are blessed!
'Gee!　De Diniel!　Please help me~!


　She woke up from her daze as Hannah called out to Diniel for help as Amy jumped at her. Then, when she saw them squirming, she got up from the couch. A glimmer of hope lit up in Hannah's eyes.


'Books, I need to read.'
'Diniel!　Wait, Mr. Diniel!　Help!　Please help me!
So let's get this transplanted now.
'Amy!　You're afraid of your eyes!　Somebody!　Somebody help me!


　Then Oli heard the voice and ran into the living room, only to find Hannah sinking into the couch with her face buried in the couch.