Everyone is alert.
Kairo – Let's split into pairs. Fujimoto and Shana will go to the left side, Koharu and Max will go to the right side, Cassandra and I will stay here.
Everyone then follows the coordinates.
Fujimoto and Shana spot the bandits.
Fujimoto – (I'll check their status.)
Fujimoto then realizes something.
"Name: Fujimoto Satoru
Class: Hero
Lv: 28
Skills: HIDDEN OBSERVATORY, CANCEL"
Fujimoto – (Wait, how did I level up so fast to get the CANCEL skill?)
Minutes later, everyone defeats the bandits, they make them run away.
Kairo – Who would have thought there would be bandits here?
Koharu and Shana look at Fujimoto, who makes a doubtful expression.
Fujimoto – (I need to ask them this question.)
Fujimoto – What's your current level, guys?
Koharu – But why are you asking this? It's been a while since we defeated monsters with experience points.
Cassandra – I agree with Koharu.
Fujimoto – Please look at it now.
Everyone agrees, even though it's strange.
"Name: Koharu Yui
Class: Hero
Lv: 30"
"Name: Shana Melria
Class: Priestess
Lv: 33"
"Name: Max Nelman
Class: Adventurer
Lv: 27"
"Name: Cassandra Dolberg
Class: Toolmaker
Lv: 32"
"Name: Kairo Karasch
Class: Thief
Lv: 36"
Everyone is left confused.
Fujimoto – Now look at your skills, because now I have HIDDEN OBSERVATORY and CANCEL.
Everyone is surprised that Fujimoto has two skills, they decide to look too.
Koharu – I have FEELINGS and DIVINE SUN.
Fujimoto – What does DIVINE SUN consist of?
Koharu – Says I can get stronger for five minutes when it's noon.
Max – That's quite advantageous.
Shana – I have RECOVERY and REGENERATION. REGENERATION consists of regenerating a limb of the body that the user has lost.
Cassandra – That's very useful.
Max – Mine are PHYSICAL ENHANCEMENT and FIRE OF YOUTH.
Kairo – What's that about?
Max – This skill makes me use fire skills.
Cassandra – Mine are SAHÕKURI and MAHÕKAZE. With MAHÕKAZE I have control over the wind.
Koharu – It's a good skill to expel enemies.
Kairo – Mine are INTANGIBILITY and MÃKUKKINGU. MÃKUKKINGU is used to place a mark on someone, from which I can teleport to that individual.
Shana – But does it only work on living beings or on objects as well?
Kairo – It also works on objects, but I can only place three marks every three hours.
Shana – I understand.
Koharu – By the way, how did you know that, Fujimoto?
Fujimoto – I noticed that my strength was stronger than normal, so I decided to check my stats. Besides, Galadriel's messenger told me that from level twenty-five onwards we can get new skills.
Koharu – I understand.
Fujimoto – but I still don't understand how we leveled up without defeating the experience monsters.
Kairo – I think I'm already suspicious.
Fujimoto – what's the reason?
Kairo – the clothes Edygil made for us have the effect of increasing our level.
Cassandra – how clever of him.
Kairo – now let's go to sleep, tomorrow we'll arrive in Omeron. Let's do the same division we did to prevent bandits from catching us.
Everyone agrees. Fujimoto and Shana go to the left side. Cassandra and Kairo stay in the current location of the forest. Koharu and Max stay on the right side. Meanwhile, on the left side of the Cebudal forest.
Shana – who would have thought we're alone, just the two of us.
Shana smiles.
Fujimoto – hey Shana, don't try anything.
Shana – because Koharu might find out, just like the time I kissed you on the mouth and she found out. Is that your fear?
Fujimoto – how do you know she found out?
Shana laughs.
Shana – Sorry, I ended up overhearing your conversation, I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Fujimoto – The problem is that Koharu hates you so much that if you make a mistake she wants to crucify you and make me kick you out of the group.
Shana – I understand.
Fujimoto – Now let's go to sleep and don't try to get out of my futon to go to my futon.
Shana – Okay.
Shana – (Fujimoto has no idea that Koharu and Max are together, but I'm going to let these two hypocrites continue their lie, because the bigger the liar's lie, the bigger the victim's hatred.)
Meanwhile, in the corner of the forest.
Kairo – (I wonder if I should give her the ring I asked Edygil to make.)
Kairo then looks at Cassandra sadly.
Kairo – It was the fact of telling the story that made you feel like this... it wasn't the fact that Shana and you are thinking about the possibility of meeting Melissa again.
Cassandra – I don't want to know about her, I hope she's dead.
Kairo – From what I heard two years ago, her father died of a heart disease and it seems that Melissa decided to close the school.
Cassandra starts laughing.
Kairo – That's not funny, Cassandra.
Cassandra – Don't tell me you still like Melissa?
Kairo – That's not it, but it was Tostoff Merechal who died, he seemed like a good person, besides, it's not in his character to laugh at people's deaths.
Cassandra looks at Kairo.
Cassandra – Let's go to sleep, this conversation is giving me a headache.
Kairo – That's right.
Meanwhile, on the right side of the forest.
Koharu – Max, this is so good and magnificent.
Max – Can I go deeper?
Koharu – Feel free.
Koharu – (I'm only doing this with Max because of our plan to expel her from the group, when she leaves Max and I will separate, then I can stay with Fujimoto.)
Max – (Fujimoto I'm going to take Koharu from you because you didn't expel Shana from the group, besides that Kairo, get ready because I'm going to steal Cassandra from you. My revenge will be complete when I do all this.)
The next day, they leave by wagon towards the city of Omeron.