The largest house inhabited by the chief of the settlement —— even so, two floors of wood, some five rooms. Nineteen adventurers, including three Eastern four-stars, were caged here.

"The front entrance is sealed!

"The hole in the toilet leads outside, too, so it's closed! So, but is this really okay?!?"

"What should I do if I want to piss?

"Put it in your pants!

The adventurers were fortifying the house at the behest of the solution. It was a house made of wood but stunning wood, so the defense seemed somewhat to be expected.

The solution itself lay in a dim ground floor hall with only the light of the magic guide lamp. I just laid it rather on the floor. There are five people lying there besides the solutions. In the center, Shufi was activating healing magic while sweating —— this is not magic for healing. Simply to connect lives.

"Now, are you okay...... Mr. Soluz"

"Ah, oh. That's it."

Soluz's face was blue and his breath disturbed. In fact, she was also poisoned again. The poison of the Gigantrock Viper is ferocious and it takes some time to use healing magic at once to treat it. But other adventurers are likely to die while saving the solution. This is how "maintaining the status quo" was all I could do to keep them all alive.

He's a craftsman made because he's a shuffy, and if he's a half-breed recovery wizard, he won't even be able to save one.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Master Soluz... you owe me my life..."

"Fine... saving the weakness is an adventurer's job"

Carrying the solution so far, crying beside her is the man who tried to steal the material from the Eastern Four-Star defeated Gigantrok Viper. He himself only needs trauma, which is almost healed by potion.

The rest of the potion was used up on the move here. It was also a big miscalculation that the detoxification potion only worked to the extent that it slowed the poison on the gigantic lock viper turning.

"So, but wow! I was caged in a house like this and I don't care what happens!? I followed you guys here though! Mixed with the villagers, we should have run, too!?"

It was Soluz's instructions that chose to stay in the settlement.

Without this, the inhabitants of the settlement would undoubtedly have been wiped out. But Soluz and the others, when it came to bringing in the injured and reinforcing the house, had done their best to run a warrant to the city of Nekoha.

"No problem..."

"Well, where does that confidence come from —— Nhhh!?"

Doon, and the walls fell, and the sand fell down from the ceiling.

"The customer (...) has arrived."

Sarah comes down from upstairs.

"Six gigantic rock vipers, two gigantic rock lizards, and one double neck viper. Hey...... they're all following me"

"Hih, hih, hih!

"No, he's dead! You're gonna die here. We are!

Gigantlock Vipers are Crusade Recommended Rank "C +," Gigantlock Lizards and Double Neck Vipers, Special Individuals, are "B +."

Tubra is the kind of opponent who mobilizes his army and crusades with sacrifice. Or it doesn't irritate me at all and I just have to recruit a high-ranking adventurer from Foreszard.

The house rocks again. The front door slammed a plate from the back, setting up a table, but made a shivering and unpleasant noise.

Shh, shh, shh, and I hear snakes roaring. The adventurer who heard it went to the corner of the room crying and shook with his head.

"Sarah...... how many can you do?

"Hmm, it takes a while, but I was wondering what two gigantic rock vipers are? Three if you're willing to die."

An adventurer tries to respond to Sarah. Sarah is a scourge type no matter what she thinks. And yet you're telling me you can take down a Gigantrok viper with a solo?

"You don't have to die... as long as you can buy time"

"Aye. —— Soluz, it's okay to be impotent, but don't die, okay? Serious story."

"I can't die yet... I can't"

"Mmm."

Sarah then went up the stairs and disappeared to the second floor. All the windows were closed, but only the route out from the back of the ceiling upstairs onto the roof was left.

"That sister's gone by herself!

"It's okay..."

"So, but hey, even if you can knock them down, they're 3!? The rest of them suck!

"It's okay..."

"So! Why are you so confident!?"

"... Huh. Because people like herds are not enemies —— for Celica (...)"

Yes. Soluz believed. That Celica will come here.

If you're one-on-one with a mighty opponent, the solution is better suited, but if the number of monsters is high, it's Celica's turn.

As a matter of fact, in the Oriental Four Star, Soluz and Celica are the two major battle forces, and Celica is overwhelming if it is simply offensive.

"Whoa."

The adventurers' voices rose because they heard battle noises outside.

A smaller explosion sounded. Sarah is torching the smokescreen and stirring up the monster. This will buy you time again for a while.

"And... he's coming too (...) I'm sure"

Schuffi didn't miss the words he said pompous.

"--That boy (...) is coming? How could... Soluz rely on someone like that?"

"It's just, it's a hunch... if you come, you'll be sure to win"

"But..."

"... Shufi, there is no good or evil to defeat the monster... if he is there and everyone will be saved then that's fine... gehoggyhoggy!

"Don't talk, keep your strength warm!...... ok. I don't want it, but certainly, as soon as he brings Mr. Paula in, you'll be able to move, too. I don't want to."

Sweat dripped from Shuffi's temples, telling him his chin and falling off.

Even as I continued to perform advanced magic, I didn't lose focus, and I was still highly proficient enough to chat.

Outside I heard battle noises, nobody and he stopped talking, and only the rough breath of the injured was heard indoors --.

"-- I mean, it's hard to come out when people say 'I don't want' twice. Mind your own business."

!?

Shufi looked up the stairs as a fright.

"Hey... I knew you were here"

The solution laughs weakly. The boy who saw it —— Hikaru, quite rightly, wondered if it was critical in time.

It's Paula, who's waiting for you.

"Shhu, Mr. Shufi! What situation--wow!? Are you all right!?"

Hikaru goes down to the ground floor with Paula. The adventurers also looked with dismay at where Hikaru had come from.

"Oh, come on! Has rescue arrived?!?"

"Oh."

When Hikaru responds, he says, "Whoa!" or "I did it, I survived!" or a voice of joy.

"How many of you!? How many of you came!? 30 or! 50 or!?"

"Seven."

"... Huh?

"The three of you just put us on board, so you've got four substantial rescues."

…………

Deadly silence descended, but Hikaru ignored and stopped by the solution. Stand back and whisper in her ear.

"... let Paula use her magic, but decide I assisted Shuffy"

"... you still want to hide her?

"... your reputation will grow, and we can lend it to you. That's not a bad story, is it?

"... that's terrible, you are. You don't have a veto right, do you?

"... I'm talking about you, you even expected this to happen. Where is' Sun Maiden '? Change your name to Belly Black Maiden."

"... because that's what they say around them. I wonder if you could name 'Sunboy' too."

"... say it. How are you?

Standing up Hikaru nods to Paula. I already know how Paula should behave, too.

The recoverer is Shufi. Paula said she should behave as an assistant.

"You are --"

Hikaru just glanced at Sufi, who was about to say it, and immediately turned his back. And up the stairs.

"... eh"

Shuffi bit his lower lip. Whatever her thoughts were, it was also because she was assured in her heart that she could "help now".

Immediately after, the house rocks with the sound of the ground.

The shake is as if —— a powerful magic has been activated.