I wake up feeling signs.

There was Kuna's face so close I could breathe.

On long lashes, beautiful eyes, neat nose beams, I even feel awesome about the beauty of Kuna when I look at it at this distance.

"What, oh, Sauge!?

Kuna rushes backwards.

I blush, my breath is strangely rough.

When I saw her, Anne slept with her sword in her arms.

"Morning, Kuna"

Start checking your body.

Sleep for about five hours, to activate protection and magic restoration, dotted holes, but not 10% have recovered.

Still, a short battle is possible with as much as 30% of all power.

If you are the demon opponent of this hierarchy, you will be able to deal with it as long as you are not a herd.

"Whoa, good morning."

As Kuna grabs hold, she replies.

"What is it, Kuna? Did you even try to crawl at night?

At those moments when I am, Kuna's tail stretches toward the pins and heavens, and her tail hair reverses.

"Oh, no, you shouldn't! I just didn't hear Sauji's sleep at all, and I was worried that he was breathing and I was trying to make sure he was breathing."

As far as Kuna's reaction is concerned, it doesn't seem to be a lie.

"Too bad. I thought you were going to kiss me."

"Shima-san, why do I have to kiss an enemy of a woman like Sage?"

Kuna comes desperate to deny it.

I make such a strange and bitter smile at her.

"Should I not be the enemy of a woman? Would you like it if I told you I'd only love Kuna for the rest of my life?

Kuna blushes more than she just did with her fox ears up.

"... that's a secret. The way you put it is more or less cowardly. It's not manly to have a confession that you can joke about if you refuse."

So I turned away from the conversation.

And Kuna looked a little more at Anne.

... I guess I'm thinking a lot about her.

When I invited Kuna, Kuna sat next to me with a puffy face.

"Is your body okay?

"Yes, magic is a tease, and it doesn't heal at all, but protection remains about 40%."

"After all, did they take it with them?"

"Yeah, baking me, the golden (highest) fire fox, was a sneaky flame."

In order to collapse the composition of Tyranno's prison flame sphere, Kuna's hand carburized when he stuck his hand in it, and he was taken with him for protection.

"It was pretty much too much to stop that flame. I'm not sure I can tell you to do the same."

"Oh, well, Kuna, that was just it."

"It's a pitiful story...... Sauji, won't you listen?

Kuna looks up at me with a slightly sorry face.

"You mean that short knife... I'm curious, but it's fine when Kuna wants to talk"

Kuna's short knife that I never even used in my gaming days. If I say I don't care, I lie. But I believed her and decided to wait.

"… then now is the time. I'm in the mood for Sauji to hear it. My father made me a pair of short knives, red skies."

Kuna takes a short knife out of Pochette looking lovely and strokes it lovingly.

"Since I was a little girl, all the short knives I use were made by my father's hand, and a little while before Elsier was born, he couldn't resist breaking it, and he wanted a new one."

I took a breath.

That this mythological short-knife was made by modern alchemists, not from the Divine Age?

At any rate, I want to see Kuna's father. Such desire springs up in my chest.

"My father summoned me one day, and I received the red sky. When I was delighted, I was told that this was my dowry tool."

Kuna had a crying expression.

"Someone across the ocean who didn't even know his name, who told me to marry him, to get out of my favorite Elsier, turned white, yelled at his father for his foolishness, and ran away."

The look on Kuna's face keeps sinking. I guess I remember my hometown and my father. As far as Kuna's attitude and stories are concerned, Kuna must have loved both of them.

"I cried, ran and ran, and when I did it away from Elsier, I realized that I had brought this short knife. I wish I'd thrown it back at my father."

"So you couldn't use it"

"Yes, I thought that the use of the dowry tools my father gave me meant that I would be allowed to marry.... It's boring. If we don't use this, this time, not only will I die, but Sauji and Anne will be sacrificed."

I wanted to hug Kuna as much as I could to mock myself while I said that.

And I seriously want to make Kuna look like this, beat the shit out of her father.

"Then, Kuna. Why don't you come to my wife? Kuna's father only said it was a dowry tool, didn't he? If you marry me, you can use it without worries."

Hearing my words, Kuna laughs at me.

"Shit, make such a joke. But thank you. I was just a little clear. From now on, good evening, you'll be using a short knife! It's Kuna's show."

Whoever saw it was making a laugh.

That's why I decided to make one promise.

"When you get back on the ground, I'll make the Kuna sword. With Me Now, I can't make anything beyond that red sky. But I'll try to make a sword that Kuna can wield."

Regrettably, that's my limit.

There are problems with materials, problems with magic quantity, and problems with technology.

But one day, I'll make sure to go beyond the red sky. By the will of a man.

"Thanks. I hope so. If you make me a sword, I'll give you something important."

"That's a good way to put it.... but I'm looking forward to it. Gotta hang in there."

Kuna and I laugh at each other for saying so.

Then, after a while of chatting, I heard multiple pieces of rock crushing from the entrance to the fifth floor.

Did you get help?

"Kuna, wake Anne up"

"I understand. Sage."

I take a fighting stance just in case, and Kuna rocks Anne.

And all the debris that's been blocking the road has been crushed and made a face...

"Oh, you were really there, brother."

One day, he's about to be wiped out in the basement on the fourth floor, and it's a Rank 2 party where I acted meat and water. But the name of the party is [Herd Blue Eagle].

"Are you sure you were there? You knew we were here?

I ask with a grumpy face.

"My pretty little lady with brown hair asked me to. My brothers are stuck in the basement on the sixth floor, so go help them."

"... wasn't that lady and her hair shorter, poorly developed, somewhere busy?

I ask with a certain person in mind.

"That's right that's right that's right. Your brother's right, my little girl."

... Senior Yuri? As always, there are many mysteries.

He's not sure if he's an enemy or an ally.

"Thank you for coming. Honestly, it was pretty good."

"Yeah, thank you."

Saying so, the man hands out.

"Give me the advance. Shall I get half the reward first? Three hundred thousand bars."

"Sauge, didn't you say 600,000 bals!?

I raise my voice that Kuna was surprised by the amount of money.

"Coona, it's a fair price. Detain a four-man party of rank two as an escort for one day. That's an urgent request to jump in, too. It's cheaper."

It's a guy called Friendship Price. I'm glad I sold my thanks then.

If the Rank 2 party is an escort, we can safely go back to the ground right now.

"But unfortunately, I haven't brought all that cash into the labyrinth. Instead, why don't you put some material on our defeated monsters?"

I point to Tyranno's remains.

Then, the facial expression of the [flock of blue eagles] changed. Only a veteran would know the value of that material.

"This guy is amazing. Fine, if you're just saying you like this, don't call it an advance, but you can make it a full charge."

"So please. Either way, we had to leave him behind."

"All right, then you're negotiating. You, for one thing."

The veteran seekers will strip away materials that are likely to be used handily from the carcasses of Tirano. Probably going to be about a million bars.

"Nevertheless, that was a long time ago. I thought it would take a little longer to get rid of that rubble."

I ask the veteran searcher, wearing Tirano material.

It was a pretty bad collapse. It wouldn't be easy to remove a Rank 2 party.

"That's right, there was a client, and he took the rubble down the halfway. When we got here, we ran away, didn't we?

"The ancestors?"

"Oh, wow, a handsome young man, with a desperate look, I didn't mean to do this - but I would even kill Anne - I can't believe that, okay, I was putting the rubble away. By the time we got here, it was almost over."

"Well, he did."

The man is definitely Cranell.

I thought it was strange somewhere. Cause a deliberate riot, Stampede, and he'll even be dead to Anne, who wants to get it.

Still, doing it meant it was insane.

In the first place, there's no way Cranell could have caused that.

There must be a curtain.

"We're ready. Hey, honey. Let's just get back on the ground. Brown-haired lady tells me to hurry up because I'm in school tomorrow."

With a manly smile, I get a pin and a thumb up.

"... can I just ask you one thing? In the first place, why did [the flock of blue eagles] believe so much when they heard that we were waiting for rescue here? You didn't think it was a child prank?

Normally, I don't believe we're stuck on the sixth basement.

That's what students say, too.

Except for the story if you're getting paid, but Senior Yuri told me to get paid by me, members of [Crowded Eagle] say.

All I could think about was two things, one of which I double-billed me while I was getting a previous reward from Senior Yuri.

The other thing is that Senior Yuri has some kind of mental manipulation technique.

That's like someone instigating Cranell to do something that could kill Anne.

"No, I don't know why. I didn't even notice to suspect it at all. Normally, I'd laugh at the kid's crap. Well, that's how they helped my brothers."

Laughing, the man walks out.

As I pursued the man's back, I decided to ask Senior Yuri.

I've overlooked some unnaturalness so far, but I just can't avoid it.