To Michelle and Cloud, who greet me with a strange face, me and Retina send their gaze.

It's obvious what you've done to surprise us more than what you're doing here.

"Hello, I'm Michelle. Nice to meet you!"

"I'm the cloud. Take charge of front-line defense. Nice to meet you today."

"What's white"

The cloud that deflects my gaze from my words and Michelle scratching the back of her head and deluding herself.

Salica and Xanastia round their eyes for that exchange.

By the way, Sullivan had her eyes on her heart. If you get your hands on Michelle, Colos.

"Do you two know each other?

"Yeah, well... or he's an ex-companion"

"Nicole, I'm sorry! He's still one of us."

"I'm a student now,"

In retaliation for the prank, he strikes back with a twinge attitude.

Michelle explained to me like she was in a panic.

"Nicole, don't be mad at me? You know, Cloud, if I had to talk to you anyway, I'd say let's get out of here."

"Oh, here, Michelle! Don't blame me!?

"I'm not mad at you for anything. But I don't know if I can make a face out of it."

This is also an enemy land. If they found out that me, Retina and they knew each other, they were in danger of taking some action.

If they could, they wanted to get their distance.

But it could be dangerous to teach it here. Because the faculty's eyes are shining now.

"Anyway, now, just pretend to be the first person you meet"

"Uh... yeah, okay"

To my magical face, Michelle accepted without objection.

She trusts me, so she honestly listens to me even in situations where there's a lack of explanation.

I was grateful for that reaction.

"Okay, you're done face-to-face with adventurers, right? Then I'm going to the woods now. Having experienced three battles with monsters by noon"

Looking around at the faculty words, there were already seven groups.

Nearly thirty students each made a squad of four. Plus one to two adventurers will follow.

Given the time of travel, just over two hours until the lunch break. Three battles in the meantime would have imposed a rather harsh norm.

Regardless of our highly explorable squad, the rest of the squad will have a hard time finding their enemies.

I was thinking about that as I followed the leading faculty.

"So you two had an adventure since you were in elementary school?

"Yeah, it really helped to have Nicole, didn't it?

"He's my master, too. It wasn't like the kids there."

"Nicole sure is beautiful. That's what they call attention."

While on the move, Michelle and Cloud were colluding with the Salicas. Cloud was responding with a subtle face to Sullivan, who was sesame as some other girl student.

He may not be very compatible with a typical tarashi guy like this.

But we both want you to refrain from talking about my past in excessive exaggeration.

"Salica was from Berito, wasn't she? So you've seen a world tree or something?

"That's local. So I'm worried about Nicole..."

"Oh, you helped the Pope. Hey, is Nicole a local hero?

"Whether or not to build a bronze statue, the more seriously debated"

"Wow."

"Give me a break..."

I did not know that Salica was from Berito, the capital of the Holy Tree Country of Forneus.

But knowing what was going on there, I almost had my head.

"By the way, it's Master Ashera himself who's leading the way"

"We have to stop it!

Next time I see you, I definitely need to stab the nail. So determined, I hold my fist.

"Speaking of which, after that one, there's been a rumor that the world tree went off, right?

"The world tree - rings?

"Yeah. Kiss in the middle of the night, kick in."

For a moment I suspected that Kufal, who had fled inside the world tree, had done something.

But no matter how much the slime of the mutant species, when it comes to interfering with the world tree, it should take a hell of a lot of power.

That's what we should need the power of the Disciplined God class that snapped the world tree.

I don't think Kufal has that power, so this is probably a separate matter.

We'll talk about the role of the party afterwards.

I was working with the Lyells to learn that this kind of pre-preparation is necessary for group action.

The city was already surrounded by deep greenery when it exited the gate as soon as it exited the city, as it was a raum-specific terrain called the forest.

"Okay, let's get started. Follow what the adventurer says."

In the words of the faculty, each squad moves out.

Each of them had discussed it on their journey so far, and the students who were nervous at first had also begun to break it down.

But it is also that the nature of the son of a nobleman of high temperament has begun to leak.

Then there are also students who do not listen, not even from civilians, but from the words of adventurers, many of whom are not even obvious.

That's why faculty were pressing for caution to follow the Adventurer's instructions.

"Oh, man, I didn't know I would follow the words of adventurous style"

"If I can't accomplish this challenge, I'll drop the unit. I'm at the tree."

I heard voices leaking discontent from all over the place in the evidence.

Of course, the voice reached the teacher, but he was asking if it was the usual thing.

"Well, shall we go too?"

"Yeah, but where to?

"I'll have to leave that to the Adventurer."

"Uh, isn't Nicole going to defy me?

"That's not a challenge -"

Michelle gave me a twilight look at my words.

She has a sharper feeling, too, but she's just not as good as I am. But, well, I've never messed with you before.

I don't want to waste my unit either.

"Look, over here"

Pointing to the tip of the woods, I decided to get ahead.

Deep in a place with no beast paths. A different place than most squads went down the beast path.

"Mr. Nicole, there's no way that way, is there?

"Yeah, yeah"

Salica raises questions and Xanastia shakes her neck cocky.

Their questions are best, but this time the challenge is to fight three times.

You don't have to go after the big guy, like a beast road stays. Even the wild birds there count as one of the fights.

"I just saw Raum pheasant."

"Really!? That bird is delicious."

Raum pheasant is a large pheasant that lives in this forest area of Raum.

If I spread my feathers, I have a large body that extends to two meters, but basically people don't attack me with grass food.

But if you get raided, the amateur is just a little heavily loaded because it grabs you with claws that support that big body.

Still, Michelle, or is that what you first felt...?

"As for ignoring Michelle's words, that also falls within the scope of a full monster, so shall we deal with them from then on?

"Ugh, yeah."

Salica nods with a nervous face. Xanastia feels the same way.

But Cloud and Retina were already used to it, and had their hands on each one of them.

And Michelle pulled out her bow, exasperated by my words.