Upon entering the quarters, Sail was seen standing in front of the dining room door.

"Sail."

When I speak up, Sail turns to me.

"I can't, Mars. - Were you with Senior Falt?

"Oh...... Or Sail.

Nothing. You could have eaten first, right?

"Don't tell me like I've been waiting for you.

When I was about to make dinner, I just happened to see you. "

Though it obviously looked like it was waiting for me.

The werewolf, staring at me with sharp eyes, rebelled hard.

Whatever you say with your mouth, you're some sort of disciplined werewolf (him).

"I think I've kept you waiting. Let's eat."

"Phew, Senior Falt... so I'm not..."

Falt even told me, and Sayle lowered her ears and tail as if she had been depressed.

Sail followed suit as we advanced to the dining room.

When we get there in front of the counter.

"Good luck, everyone!

Nerfa smiled at us so much that the fatigue of the day blew away.

We received a dish recommended by a bright and pleasant maid, and the three of us finished our meal.

Then leave the dining room.

Let's go.

A light-hearted smiling falt quickly turns to the front door.

Seems Sail questioned Falt's words.

"Where are you going?

"I'm gonna explore the dungeon"

"Dungeons? Are you two with Senior Falt?

Sayle alternated between me and Falt with his eyeballs.

It's getting a lot darker out there, but it shouldn't be so weird either.

"What is it, Sail? Me and Mars getting along?

"Yes, no... it's not like that..."

When Falt laughed bitterly, Sail stuffed the words with a troubled face.

"Will Sail come with us?

"... me too...?

I asked her out.

"... No, I'll stop.

I'm gonna end up with you two right now. "

That's what I answered after the tour.

Its expression, which cannot hide its frustration, also appears to mourn its powerlessness.

"Sorry, Sail.

I'm gonna get Mars to lend me one today. "

"... I'm not saying no to you."

Though I was absolutely right, I agreed.

Downhill at the end of the back of the college building from the dormitory.

Down that hill, there was a cave leading to the labyrinth (dungeon).

This is the second time I've come to the labyrinth of the College.

The first time is new to memory as a bitter memory of being flown in a demon trap (trap).

"You want to go?

"Right."

Falt invited me and I proceeded to my feet into the cave.

If it is a labyrinth (dungeon) without human hands, the darkness is so deep that it is immersed in the abyss, but there are pine lights everywhere in this labyrinth that it is dim, but it can be visually confirmed to the end of the aisle.

For the sake of the labyrinth (dungeon), there is no shard of tension.

"Whoa, did you get out early?"

As he proceeded through the intertwined labyrinth, a creepy shadow glimpsed into his face, blurred out by the fire of the pine lights.

It's a bunch of ugly looking goblins.

The number is six.

"The monsters that appear on the ground floor are just cluttered fish."

It is true that each and every goblin can be considered a vulnerable organism, but if this number is gathered, there is also ample potential for life dangers at the student level in this college.

But.

- Well, it's gonna be like a prep movement.

I thought Falt, who was next to me, had disappeared, and in an instant he was taking the back of a goblin.

"... Huh?

The moment one goblin tried to look back, bewildered by the disappearance of Falt, who was in front of him.

A blade popped out of Goblin's chest.

Goblins pierced around people's hearts opened their eyes in amazement and their gagged necks shook as they tried to look down at their own chests.

At the same time Falt pulled out the blade, its goblins fell and lay down powerless.

In a few moments of events, the goblins were solidifying on the spot without being microscopic, whether they had learned their instinctive fears or because of confusion that they did not understand what had happened.

Naturally, there's no way Falt misses that gap.

The remaining five demons died in an instant.

"... you didn't even make it into a prep movement"

To Falt, who banished the demons with brilliant skill.

"Boulder, you're the strongest in college."

"Don't you say that."

I honestly meant to compliment him, but he got gently flushed.

Then Falt waved a weapon in a strange form when it came to the sword - and paid for it sassy blood.

"That weapon is a sword, isn't it?

"Yeah? This...?

It's a weapon called a machete. Have you ever heard of it?

(... a machete?

It's an unfamiliar weapon.

Its shape is contrary to that of the Three Sun Moon, and from what I've seen, the blade (if you do it) only comes on one side.

My big sword or Ellie's single-handed sword was double-edged and basically all I had was a single-edged object of a sword I knew.

"There are weapons like this."

"Oh.

At this academy, I'm the one who uses it. "

That said, Falt said he would return the machete he had to the demon stone.

"Well, let's move on"

"Oh."

Walking through the labyrinth again.

Does Falt fully grasp the passage of this labyrinth, or he goes on without hesitation.

I took a left on the road divided between the left and right front and the three directions, and found a staircase going down to the basement.

Slimes and imps roam around to protect that staircase.

"Now, knock it down and go underground -"

Quickly, Falt tried to move to defeat the enemy.

"Now let me do it."

Before Falt moved, I moved.

Remove the Demon Stone from your pocket and form a Great Sword.

He swung his sword as far as the enemy was concerned.

Several of the demons on the spot are cut in two together.

It's like we're not dealing with each other.

It wasn't even a battle. It was a unilateral battle.

Falt's right, it may not even be a prep movement.

"... heh...

Is that your weapon?

"Oh."

"That's a terrible sword for a long time.

It's like a demon weapon - no, it's not uncomfortable if the demons have it. "

A pitch-black sword even darker than darkness.

Surely the great sword I am forming may give the impression that it would be disastrous if the beholder saw it.

"Oh, come on, I think that's too good."

"Ha, wow.

My frank feelings came out of my mouth. "

Falt pounding my shoulder.

"I didn't care about anything.

Again, Senior Falt, do you care about the Demons?

"Oh, for once, you're a member of the student council.

Alicia seems to care more than I do. "

Alicia is better. In the words of Falt I said, I remembered my conversation with Alicia.

Alicia is more bound to protecting her students than she needs to be, to the crack of a minimum order.

Does Falt know why?

"... hey Senior Falt.

How could Senior Alicia be bound to protect her students?

When I asked Alicia directly, she shut her mouth.

But if it's Falt, don't you know why?

"From Alicia, you haven't heard anything?

"... oh.

He said he'd talk to me when he got the chance. "

"... then I guess that means we can't talk yet"

After speaking so, Falt said.

"I can't answer your question.

That's something Alicia herself should talk about, and it's a betrayal for me to tell you something Alicia doesn't want to talk about.

I can't betray my friends. "

Of course, I'm not going to force myself to ask either.

It was something that I somehow put out in my mouth in the course of the conversation.

"Is that such a big problem as betrayal?

Those words came out of my mouth.

"... I guess that depends on the subjectivity of the individual"

That's what he said. Falt stopped talking once and looked at me.

"Hey Mars.

Let me ask you one thing.

I've been asking you about Alicia, but what are you gonna do with it?

Falt's question was unexpected.

"What do you want me to do?

If I could help, I thought I'd help.

Is that all?

"To the power..."

Falt patrols.

"Why do you want to help?

"Why, Alicia is mine - mine...?

Alicia is not my friend.

Why did I want to help Alicia?

"You reach out to anyone?

No, if anyone like that, that's hypocrite.

No one can save all.

"I'm not.

You just have to protect the one you really care about.

What else did you cut off? "

A loved one?

Is that about Alicia, Nenea, or the student council face?

"That's what friends are for me.

Hey, Mars, how about you?

Falt asks.

"What's a friend to you?

"Friends for me..."

I don't think being a friend is a bad thing.

But I don't have the firm will to give a clear answer like Falt.

That's why I couldn't return the answer to that question.

All I could do was be silent.

"... let me hear the answer someday"

That's what Falt said, and I was finally able to get my head back.

Afterwards, even after returning from the labyrinth to the quarters, Falt's words were circling through my head.

(Friends for me...)

The consciousness gradually faded without being able to obtain an answer.