Huh....


　Eunice looked at Tsutomu's figure, who was releasing a holy in the ninety-fifth level of the ninety-five level, where many dark-attribute monsters were appearing, while Eunice stabbed her cheekbones at the desk in a dazed state. His fluffy golden tail, groomed and fluffy every day, was wagging listlessly.

　Although she had sulked at the time when Milway had passed over the reach hierarchy, she gave up her position in the army without any particular footing, as if she had approved of it as far as her abilities were concerned.

　She had been working on developing new skill applications since then, but one day she was suddenly dragged out of the house by Milway for dressing up. And without having time to protest what was going on, he was carried to the Clan House of the Infinite Circle and made to participate in what was called a social gathering.

　At first I was angry at Milway for forcing me out, but since I rarely went out except to explore with the second-tier PT, I enjoyed talking with people like Alma, who I hadn't seen in a while. But among them, the one I was most interested in was still Tsutomu.

　I'm not sure if he was drunk or not, but the atmosphere itself was rather good. Normally, drunk people would do worse things, but he was still unintelligible as always.

　I even spoke to him directly afterwards, with Milway pushing me back, and I was really surprised at how he seemed to have been drained of his usual venom. And he seemed to know that he had fallen into the second tier, but he didn't seem to make fun of me, and he gave me normal advice, comparing my abilities to Milway's.


(Maybe that one is the real Tsutomu. If so, that's....a good thing.)


　He even gave me words of encouragement that he would normally never say, and when he patted me on the head and told me to aim for the first team and do my best, I almost burst into tears. I'm not sure if this is the real Tsutomu or not, but at the same time I was confused, but I drank a bottle of wine to counteract such feelings, and after that my memory is vague.

　But the next day, I followed Tsutomu's advice and developed my skills so far, and started practicing more of the flying and placing skills I've been using. It's a very good idea to have a good idea of what you're looking for. But I had a sense that we were making progress.

　And watching Tsutomu lately, I couldn't understand him. I'm sure he was a jerk at first. The words he uttered were sarcastic and his attitude was not manly. He is exactly the opposite of Leon, and yet I didn't like the fact that I was talking to him in a friendly manner.

　But now I don't think so anymore. But I kept that feeling bottled up, thinking it would be a betrayal to Leon, but I couldn't help but feel bitter now.

　He should still love Leon. I fell in love with him at first sight when I saw the divine table and approached him anyway, but I was taken aback by the fact that he had adopted polygamy. And no matter how much you want to preserve the seed of the golden wolf, you are disillusioned by the fact that you are committing an unspecified act of dishonesty with an unspecified number of people every day.

　But when I told him how I felt, he respected my thoughts and wouldn't touch me. With such sincerity, Eunice was even more attracted to Leon, and with the effort that went along with it, he became the best among the dozens of white mages enrolled in the Golden Investigation.


(I don't know anymore...)


　And although he's working hard to make Leon choose just him one day, it hasn't come to fruition even now. That's why I can't allow myself to give up on Leon and switch to Tsutomu. However, there's a part of him that wonders how long he's going to continue doing something so fruitless, and Eunice is tormented by the conflict between the two.

　Unis, who couldn't hold on to such thoughts, managed to escape by immersing himself in the god's dungeon, skill practice and development.


　oooh.


(...it's unlikely we'll be able to break through before the infinite circle comes after all.)


　Although Aldrete Crow had a lot of confusion in the clan, he got the information to break through the 96th level and started to attack. However, the ninety-sixth level was extremely difficult to conquer, and although it had been almost a month, he had yet to break through.

　This is the first defense battle in the God's Dungeon. It took Stephanie and the others some time to understand its system first. As soon as the dragon in the north or south was given a magic stone, monsters attacked from outside, but they didn't attack the searchers as usual because the hate was collected in the old castle. At the 96th level, defending the old castle from the monsters attacking from outside is the key to opening the black gate to the next level, so we were forced to fight a different kind of battle.

　At first I didn't understand this and without understanding the reason, the monsters reduced the durability of the old castle and made the foothold collapse. Although we managed to get out of it with a fly, when the old castle was completely destroyed, the 96th level itself began to collapse due to the unfulfilled conditions, and Stephanie and the others were wiped out. Afterwards, after learning that they could return even in the middle of a battle at the Black Gate, it was not a problem, but the loss of equipment was a moderate hit.

　Then, after repeating the process several times, we found out that we would be defending the old castle, but the situation of having to split up into two groups, north and south, was hard. Furthermore, the magic stones given to the dragons were limited to those that were dropped by killing monsters that were generated in the passageways, so they had to work hard to secure the magic stones as well.

　This unprecedented PT was extremely difficult to capture, and by the time they were struggling, both the first and second armies of the Infinite Circle had reached the end of the ninety-fifth level. They would probably break through the ninety-fifth level tomorrow.

　But as for Stephanie, she really wanted to capture it before Tsutomu and the others arrived at all costs. For that reason, I've been working hard enough to have shades under my eyes again, but I still couldn't break through. The ninety-sixth level of the hierarchy, which is completely different from the hierarchies we've conquered so far, is not something that can be conquered so easily. Seeing the situation so grim, the informants are investigating to see if there is any other way to capture it, but it seems unlikely that they will be able to expect it.


(For the sake of Tsutomu-sama, I wanted to go first, but...)


　Even though the five clan members of the Infinite Circle had already reached the ninety-ninth level, they hadn't yet attempted to reach the hundredth level. The prevailing reason for this was that the clan leader Tsutomu didn't trust her after seeing Diniel give up that happened at the ninety level, and that would be correct.

　But Stephanie thought that was not the only reason. The catalyst for that idea was Corina's unusual growth rate. Many of them didn't care about the prayer warrior because they didn't yet have a better understanding of her, but she was transforming into a healer who could no longer stand alongside her if you just look at her abilities.

　Stephanie had marked Corina from the moment she heard that she was going to be able to break through the ninety levels, but she conquered the end of her life on her own. And from then on, the first thing she noticed was that the completion of the PT she led was unusually high from the beginning.

　And perhaps Kolina's confidence grew as the days went by, and I could see that she was growing even more as a PT as the days went by. In contrast to her good health, Tsutomu's PT was not so good in the beginning. And now, although both PTs have the same level of success, Korina is slightly ahead of them.

　I'm not sure yet, but Tsutomu will probably try to get Korina to reach the 100th level first. To do so, he had her develop her abilities as a healer and adjusted her PT.

　If others heard this conjecture, they would dismiss it as unlikely. It would be impossible to intentionally develop Korina to that level as a healer in the first place, and there were too many other uncertainties. But Stephanie was sure that this was true, based on her experience so far. The only thing she didn't understand was why Tsutomu had gone that far.

　That's why she had tried hard, thinking that if she could update the hierarchy as well as Corina did, she might be able to hear the reason from him. But no matter how hard Stephanie tried, she was only one of the PT members, so no progress was being made.


(The word on the street is that Tsutomu-sama just doesn't want to die... but that can't be true. Something else must be going on. I have to be the one to support Master Tsutomu.


　Believing this to be true, Stephanie went to sleep in her room to lose consciousness in preparation for tomorrow's attack.