Ugh!
'Hannah, your movements seem sketchy today, don't they?
It looks like you've been absent for a while, so what can you do?　.... ah, but it sure feels different than usual.


　The two red and blue feathered bird people with prominent red and blue feathers had been eating French fries at the guild since the morning, watching Hannah's standing in the third platform. In particular, Lara, a red bird person who was a fist fighter with the same job as Hannah and also an evasive tank, was squinting at her messy standings.

　Behind them sat Misil, the Silver Beast's clan leader, and Madeline, the spellcaster, behind them. She was wearing a deep black hood like an Aldoret Crow informant, and she was looking at the God's Table without answering anything beside Misil, who was talking to her at random. But that's always been the case, or maybe he doesn't mind talking.


(He's good at disarming the poison, too. I have to refer to the moves of the ninety-three levels)


　And Lorena, the running healer, was also observing Tsutomu's standing on the second platform, with her rabbit ears up so that she wouldn't miss the sound. Since the Silver Beast was also in a position to proceed with the attack from the ninety-one levels, he had decided to actually look at the divine platform today morning to gather information.

　The Silver Beast's first-tier PT that has crossed the ninety-first level seems to be attracting a lot of attention from those around them, but the four of them no longer seem to be bothered by it and are concentrating on watching the divine platform. However, Lorena, who has good hearing, was the only one who could hear the gossip about the Silver Beast, and although she was slightly concerned about the voice, it was not enough to disrupt her concentration.


''Jho, I've put it all together!
Thanks!


　After that, until the afternoon, the first army PTs gather information at the God's Table and receive documents from the few orphans who are part of the Silver Beast and can read and write. Although they are not yet up to the level of labyrinth maniacs, they can extract a certain amount of information from the God's table that they are instructed to look at, so the Silver Beast leaves some of the information gathering to the orphans to practice as well.

　Recently, there have been many other things that the orphans have helped me with. Especially after falling into financial difficulties at the 90th level, the Silver Beast was made to reaffirm what it was to be a clan, and the orphans began to choose the path of working as a member of the clan, rather than just the path of becoming self-reliant after being fed by Misil for a few years.

　As a result, more and more of the orphans in Silver Beast became involved in clan management or worked in partnership with sponsoring companies for funding. Silver Beast, which had been managed almost entirely by the clan leader Misil until now, started to show movements that could be called a major clan from there.

　Of course, most of us are amateurs at present, so even though we have a large number of people, we won't soon be able to do as well as Aldoret Crow. If we were to use an analogy, it would be like Aldoret Crow is run by working people and Silver Beast is run by students.

　However, the human resources themselves were not bad, as the old-timers led by Misil had taken care to nurture the latecomers as well. That's why we didn't become dependent on sponsors, and Silver Beast had begun to establish itself as an independent clan.


'Is it just another hodgepodge of leftovers today?
It's the easiest thing to do.


　When it was past noon after the divine platform viewing, Lorena and the others returned to the Clan House once and went to eat the hodgepodge of meat and vegetables that the orphans had prepared using the giant cauldron.

　From the side, the scene looks like a poor-quality cookout, and it's not an environment that can be called a very big clan. But since everyone from those preparing the food to those standing in line have been living together like a family, even the soggy vegetables and hard scraps of meat tasted better than before, and they were laughing at each other as they ate.

　In addition to the food, the orphans are actively involved in raising funds for the equipment and supplies needed to explore and manage the clan house. And to repay their debt of gratitude, those who had been independent also came back to Silverbeast on their days off to teach the orphans the skills of their professions. Perhaps that's why they don't eat uncooked, burnt-out vegetables these days.


'Miss Lorena!　I look forward to working with you!
Yeah, nice to meet you.


　After finishing the meal, each one of us will train the later ones. Lorena dives into the divine dungeon in a PT with a group of white mage boys and girls who have volunteered to teach the running healer, and teaches a few of them how to practice their skills while practicing them in front of me.


(I wonder if this is how Tsutomu felt about teaching me at the time.)


　While smiling at the boys and girls who were moving their skills with desperate faces, I thought about Tsutomu, who was probably still working hard to update the hierarchy at the 93rd level.

　At first, I only had a scary image of him because of his all-out confrontation with the Solit Company, but when I talked to him, he wasn't such a bad person. Even if you sometimes think that he is mean-spirited when he looks at Kamindai, he went out of his way to teach himself a healer and even wrote down materials and improvements in his standings individually, so he respected and appreciated him as a teacher.

　Thinking that she would like to be on par with Tsutomu like that, Lorena practiced according to his materials. Thanks to that, she was able to have the same level of ability as Stephanie, who had been rising to prominence since then, but by that time, she realized that the gap between her and Tsutomu was getting wider and wider.

　I felt that the more I followed Tsutomu's advice and developed my skills and knowledge, the more I came to understand his abilities, which I hadn't been able to see before, and the more the gap between me and Tsutomu widened without me realizing it. And after realizing that Stephanie would overtake him if he didn't, he decided to focus on something Tsutomu wasn't doing, and decided to try his hand at being a running healer, utilizing his touch heels and his own fast feet.

　After it took shape, I could see other white mages doing something like a running healer in Kamidae, and Tsutomu also charmed me with that ninety-level running healer, albeit only in form. The way he looked was quite awkward and made me want to say something about him as a running healer, but it was very nosy for that Tsutomu to imitate me.


(I never thought I'd be in a position to teach a healer though. Eventually, the healers I trained will become explorers and become my successors... I wonder if I'll be good enough to be on par with Tsutomu by then).


　While fantasizing about the future after that, this and that, Lorena taught the still inexperienced white mage eggs many things.


　oo


　Five days later. Alma, who was leaning her chin on the light blue staff dropped from the treasure chest at the Snowfield Hierarchy, was looking at the figure of the infinite circle that was attacking the ninety-fourth level on the divine platform.


(It's like a rage.) Aldoret Crow has also reached the ninety-sixth level, and the Red Demon Squad has no way to stand.)


　The Red Demon Clan, with Weiss as the clan leader, who was well known as an explorer from the beginning, had been renowned as a major clan until a year ago. However, lately, the only thing that was talked about was that they had defeated the Mutant Shell Club, and it wasn't much known that they had broken through the eighty levels and reached the Light and Dark hierarchy.

　But despite the sarcastic murmurings of his mind, Alma's expression wasn't that bad. Even though it was true that she wasn't able to play an active role as a Red Devil Gang, it didn't mean that her current situation was bad. Especially since Weiss, who had been quiet, started to talk to the clan members, albeit slowly, the atmosphere of the clan had visibly improved.


(Not too long ago, I couldn't see that either...)


　However, when Weiss began to speak, only Alma was treated like a boil on the ground by those around her for her unusual dependence on the black cane and her dislike of Tsutomu, who was beginning to gain immense influence among the searchers. Weiss felt sorry for this and set up a reconciliation, but it ended in failure.

　At the time, Alma had shifted the blame completely. In the first place, he had raised the unnamed orphan as the lucky one for goodness sake, and he had paid a large amount of money well. I'm sure that the two names of the lucky ones also originated from my own words, but I didn't mean any harm. It's just that some people who were jealous of Tsutomu's good fortune spread a perverted rumor that he hadn't done anything wrong.

　Nevertheless, when Tsutomu came to the reconciliation meeting, he refused to even accept the black cane while looking at me as if I were a criminal. Seeing his attitude, his emotions exploded, partly due to the unfairness he'd suffered in the past.

　It's a good thing that you have a good idea of what you're doing.

　After that, Alma was shunned by her peers and the residents did not look at her favorably due to the fact that she was disliked by Tsutomu. I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that I'm not the only one who's been in the market for a while.

　And she subconsciously believed that Tsutomu was deliberately putting her in this situation. However, as she spent her days with her clan members after being separated from the black cane, Alma realized that Tsutomu was not trying to get her to fall into this situation.

　Of course, at first she couldn't believe it very much, but as she went out and slowly talked to those who were estranged from her, she began to realize that this was true. Tsutomu may have disliked himself for sure, but he really hadn't done anything about it. Oddly enough, it was very similar to the situation in the Lucky Man fiasco, and Alma couldn't help but laugh.

　I didn't do anything when I too was being mocked for calling Tsutomu a lucky person. I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make the most of your time with us. After that, I tried to stop feeling like a victim and apologize to Tsutomu from the bottom of my heart, but he was avoiding me and I had no way to talk to him, and time passed in a state of trouble.


(Though I never thought being swallowed by the worm would be the impetus to talk to him.)


　When the worm swallowed him up and covered him in bodily fluids during the stampede in King's Landing, Alma had the momentum to talk to Tsutomu. And when she managed to apologize while fighting her fear, Tsutomu told her that it was all over. With those words, Alma was finally able to apologize for the past that had been trapped in her mind, and she was able to have a normal relationship with Tsutomu.

　And since she started to talk to Tsutomu normally, the unfairness of her past disappeared like a lie. The guilt and anxiety that had been piling up in the past also gradually disappeared, and recently, I even visited the infinite circle with the Red Devil Gang. Therefore, as for Alma, she was grateful for this time, and happy.


(Oh, you look so disgusted.)


　Besides, the person named Tsutomu was also seen as a life-size person. He's not the bloodless, ruthless man who thoroughly hunted down the Solit Company and the insect explorers, nor is he the hero who saved the labyrinth city. He's just a boy with a bit of a personality problem who likes God's dungeon.

　Seeing Tsutomu's face reflected in the situation where multiple PT members were in a poisoned state, Alma laughed with a chuckle and watched over Kamidai afterwards.