The Healer Banished From The Party, In Fact, Is The Strongest

"............"

Two days after the mutated Hydra appeared, during the reception of the Labyrinth City Adventurer Guild, I was leaning down with a blue face.

That's clearly suspicious, and I can see suspicious eyes being turned on by the adventurers.

Still, I couldn't pretend to be what I always am.

The reason I was in such a state, it was the presence of Hydra, which was mutated by what I had hidden from my surroundings.

Hiding Hydra's existence is a felony.

It is certain that the receptionist will be necked and could be put in jail for a few days at worst.

... but now that the Hydra that I have hidden has mutated, the punishment that can be inflicted on me will weigh no more than what was hiding the existence of Hydra.

I will surely be enslaved or I will be punished more than that.

"... I'm trying to hide Hydra's presence."

I shook my body in that imagination, and my words leaked contained an irresistible regret.

I can't stop trembling from my body just imagining what will happen to me in the future.

Now they still haven't noticed if Hydra is looking into mutated anomalies for a short period of time or if I'm the person who was hiding Hydra.

... but it will be only a matter of time before you find out that I was hiding Hydra.

Blood draws from my face to that pessimistic prediction of the future.

Driven by the urge to escape from here, but where I have now escaped, there is no way I can escape just because my sins are heavier.

Because I can understand that, I can only do the reception work to avoid any suspicion at all.

My mind was being hunted down more and more by the octagonal situation.

"... I'm not bad at anything"

... and having reached my limit, I turned away from reality.

"... I am not involved in the mutation of Hydra. I was just unlucky. Why should I be guilty?

I'm a small voice, mumbling words like defending myself over and over again, trying to assume so.

... distract me from the reality that something could have happened to the labyrinth city if I wasn't lucky because I hid Hydra's presence for my protection.

"Yes, why should I be a slave? It's all bad, isn't it, mutated Hydra? I'm the victim."

Guilt dissipates completely from me in it, and the perception that I am a victim dominates my chest.

I'm just a victim of Hydra's anomalous mutation, and assume I have nothing to do with it.

... but there was no way that reality would change where I made such a reality escape.

The sight of the Adventurer Guild flowing with a sight like never before, plus I am reminded that no matter how much I try to ignore reality, that means nothing to me.

The situation without a way forward as it was had not changed in any way where I assumed I was the victim.

"Huh!"

I was reminded of a reality I couldn't do anything about, and still I couldn't just admit to being a slave.

In my impatience for momentary and impending time, I bite my lips and look around looking for something to twist on.

"Oh, well, I'm just picking flowers."

"Yeah, okay. I'll see what I can do with tomorrow's request."

─ ─ By chance, it was then that I found Laust and his fellow militants discussing it with pleasure.

The moment I saw him, I accidentally distorted my face.

Healer Laust, that healer, who should have been scorned for being a flaw until now, was now a famous adventurer in the Wang capital, as opposed to the labyrinth city.

At just two parties, they are credited with crusading mutated Hydra with little damage, and rumored to be the next super-class adventurer.

... it was the exact opposite of me being frightened, potentially being dropped into slavery.

Until just a moment ago, Laust and I were in a very different position.

I was the exclusive receptionist for a first-rate party called Lightning Sword, whereas Laust was the subject of contempt from a Labyrinth City human being.

"... Holy shit!

But now Laust's position had risen beyond belief in the situation.

In that situation, I cannot hide my jealousy and hatred for Laust.

If Laust stayed on the lightning sword, he'd know he wouldn't have been cornered so far.

... aside that I didn't stop the lightning sword, I make him raise a grudge against Laust.

"At least if Laust, with the lightning sword in, puts a handle on it..."

If Laust had been present at the Lightning Sword, the handle would have belonged to the Lightning Sword and also to me, who was an exclusive guild clerk.

Think about it, I'm about to leak my sigh.

"Huh! This one!

At that time, a certain way emerged to make Laust's handle his own on my head.

The moment I come up with that method, my mouth looses.

This could only avoid becoming a slave.

"I'm sorry. I'm gonna take it off a little bit."

"Ah! Yes!

The next moment I thought about it, I told the receptionist I was next door and I was walking out to Laust.

Fortunately, now on Laust's side, there are no troublesome militants.

If this is what I'm trying to do now, there's no one to interrupt.

With that in mind, I open my mouth to Laust, who is eagerly looking for a favor with a full grin.

"Maybe a little."

"... Huh?

At the next moment, Laust leaks a missing voice between them when he realizes that I had been called out to him, but I went on with the words without paying any attention to that.

"Will you come with me?