While that was happening, minutes had passed since I started taking small pauses, and it had become suddenly quieter across the woods.

"... apparently you were able to crusade"

"Seriously!? Damn, it's over without doing it back!

Garnett took his hand off my shoulder and looked at you with a serious face.

Even if I'm wrong, it's not like the three of them were knocked down by a dragon.

If that's the case, you'll see a roar of victory or a dragon flying in the sky.

I hear from the demonic ecology called Dragon that there are few cases where neither of them can be.

I don't even know why.

That's just the rule of thumb among adventurers.

"This sounds like we should rendezvous rather than escape. Can you stand, Garnett?"

Stand up first and offer your hand to Garnett.

Garnett looked a little musty, but he honestly held my hand back and woke himself up.

And then turning back to the meadow where the dragon emerged, in keeping with the imperfect Garnet's gait.

"Ha, hu..."

Garnet's footsteps are still unresolved.

If I make it impossible, I'm going to fall.

Shall I carry you? I was not willing to make a suggestion.

I'm determined to be angry and try to move extra. It's counterproductive.

My [repair] skills don't produce lost blood.

To be more precise, I can't think of a candidate for supplemental materials to [repair].

Even if I used someone else's blood as a material, I couldn't deny the possibility of a fatal reaction, the same as if I had normally transferred blood into it.

"Hey, White Wolf's. Talk to me. It's easier to talk."

"I don't care what they say... then just in case, how far do you keep your face and gender a secret? Is it okay if I keep rendezvous with Felix and Sakura?

The full face helmet Garnet was wearing has not been recovered as soon as it was blown away by a dragon.

Or he doesn't even know where he flew away.

If we even have to avoid showing our faces to others, we can no longer rendezvous in this state.

"Don't worry about it. The Knights' executives are showing about their faces. After that, Sakura will keep his mouth shut as promised."

"Don't you say anything else without permission about the information obtained during the investigation…? It smells a little stinky, but it seems to apply."

I'm the subject of an investigation in the first place, and I carry the same conditions.

But even if I didn't, I'm not gonna tell you Garnet's secret.

"But maybe Felix and Bradford don't know I'm a woman. My knights stink a lot. Only men are supposed to be in the team. It's out of date, right?"

"You've heard that knights aren't uncommon these days. Same goes for adventurers."

Differences in physical abilities between men and women are easily filled depending on their skills.

A good example of this is Sakura. He's got physical abilities that don't make sense to me.

The brave Falcon party was also three out of four women.

It also affects that Falcon likes women, but all three of them had the abilities they deserved to be part of a brave party.

Nonetheless, if it lays down an exclusive ban on women for men, how much is it an organization that weighs' old-fashioned tradition '?

"So well... if I find out, I'm in a lot of trouble. There's something about Captain Carmine's" brother "that I can't get through, but there's a limit to that."

"Copy that. You don't need to say anything else."

I see. Is that why Garnett wants to be a part of the Silver Wings Knights until then, not 'why he's hiding his gender'?

I'm pretty concerned about the reason, but I won't ask.

Because it's like I earned my trust with that kind of promise.

"... Garnet?

For some reason I suddenly stopped hearing Garnett's footsteps, so I look back in a hurry to see if he was going to fall.

Garnett stood on two feet properly, but his gaze was directed at the misguided, not at me.

"Hey, White Wolf's... you see that too, don't you? My eyes didn't go crazy...?

"Arr......?... Become! Ugh, you're lying...?

At the end of the line of sight was a cliff leading from the fifth to the fourth tier.

It is a rocky wall that soars in the woods, which Garnett called an 'interesting terrain' on the outbound route.

Originally, natural green curtains made up of large quantities of wax were hanging on this cliff, but somehow some of them had fallen apart.

And on the rocky skin of the dewy wall - there was a huge horizontal hole.

"I knew you weren't looking at me wrong. When the hell did they pull out that big hole?"

"... no, maybe that one came from the beginning. It's covered in massive amounts of wax, and no one has ever noticed it..."

I hear not many adventurers stepped into the fifth tier before the resources of the dragon's corpse appeared.

The reason is not the difficulty but the problem with the harvest.

More than 90% of the herbs that can be collected in this dungeon can be collected before the fourth tier.

There is not much merit in getting down to the fifth tier, and there should have been little chance of discovering this great hole in itself.

"Hey, White Wolf's. I can't imagine."

"That's an odd encounter. I have a bad feeling about this, too."

"The dragon that just showed up a month ago..."

"... you must have come out of this big hole. The guild couldn't grasp it."

The first one didn't have a big physique, and most importantly, only the one came out.

Perhaps the great hole remained hidden, since it came out literally like a curtain, with the exception of the draped one on the absolute wall.

In contrast, the dragon, which appeared today, was huge in stature and had taken around ten bodies of Wyburn.

The giant and the large masses were forced to pass, so a large quantity of pigeons composing the green curtains were torn apart, and this is how the large holes were exposed.

"Anyway, you need to report to the guild..."

At that time, I wondered if the wall vibrated lightly, and something like a metal door came up from the underside of the hole, sealing off the big hole.

"Oh, hey! What the fuck? That!

"It's a common trick in the labyrinth. It's rare that it's so massive. Even so, does this guy mean... he's part of the dungeon trap until the dragon appears?

If that was just a big hole, it was thought that it was connected to some dungeon where the dragon lived, like the stairs I climbed.

But it's obvious that there's more to managing dragon entry and exit than just being connected.

If so, the switch that activated the trap...

"No way -"

"White Wolf's! Look at that! The ground directly beneath the hole! Somebody's down!

"What!?

As Garnett put it, there was a stranger lying neatly there.

"Are you all right! Bad, Garnett! Wait here for me!

"Whoa! Come on!

He rushes down the slope that leads to the bottom of the cliff and once again speaks to its blackened figure.

You regained consciousness with my voice, the blackened man looked up without power.

Long brunette.

My physique is luxurious and I don't think I'm trained to fight.

His face, hidden with his long forehead...

"No way...... is that noir?

"Huh..."

- It was an unforgettable face for me.

Noir the Black Wizard. One of the brave Falcon party members.

He had a dark rooted personality, weak self-assertion, and never hit me like any other member, but he had little to do with me in the first place - that's the kind of guy he is.

"Why are you here? What happened to the brave man? What do you mean you're not back!

"Huh... ahhh... wow!

Noir suddenly started crying and shoving his face into my chest.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry......!

"Please, just calm down. What happened to the brave man? You don't even have Julia and Bran?

"-Mi, everybody, of the dungeon."

At that moment when I was about to say something important, suddenly Noir's body trembled violently as if it had been bathed in a lightning strike.

"Ahhh!

"Oh, hey! Noir!"

Noir who is weak and stuck with me.

He didn't seem to be dead, but he was completely out of his mind.

The brave party's not back yet - I could only get away with it, holding Teng Himself, who was supposed to know the secret.