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While Ren went down and went through the trees first to test the terrain, see what kind of monsters were there and see the route, he continued on his way.

while the students were sleeping, ren could only lament her bad luck as he saw some footprints that aren't from some kind of small monster.

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at 7 am the students of the camp were already waking up.

As the boys came out of the tents, they smelled the rich smell of meat, looking for the source, they saw Kumiko cooking meat in a pot, while wondering what happened last night since they thought they would start the day hungry, Kiriko began to speak.

"Good morning guys, it's time to eat, please come over here with Kara and me for her disposable plate and then you'll line up for your portion of beef and chestnut soup.

As many were hungry, they quickly lined up to receive their dishes, the boys cured themselves of their worry and anxiety with Kara's smile and the girls cured themselves with Kiriko's smile, Miss Isabel was resting from caring last night, and they would leave at 10 when ren returns from the second floor.

although Kiriko, Kumiko, Aiko and Akane were calm.

The others, like Kara, Amerie, and a little Isabel, we're worried that in the event that Ren dies, they will have to go as they are, with a great possibility of death or send someone else to have a similar fate.

After the meal, the boys felt full of energy, Kumiko, seeing them excited, made a secret victorious smile, she used the chestnuts they found yesterday with ren so that the others could start the day with enthusiasm.

Looking towards the entrance of the second floor, although he didn't show it, he did worry like the others, despite knowing that Ren is strong and could have gone all the way in the dungeon looking for them before, this dungeon was a D rank just like them. , in other words, the monsters on the first floor were at their level, but a characteristic of the dungeons is that the further you go down the floors, the more varied the monsters can be and at the same time the more chaotic.

It is like saying that on one floor there is a rank D horned rabbit, but a couple of floors below you see a rank D rattlesnake, the 2 have the same rank, but the snake will be more dangerous since it can use poison.

While the others were hanging out with Kiriko explaining and practicing how to use spears and some simple weapons that they created like axes and swords using the bones of wolves, Kuroka decided that it was none of her business as she was purely a mage and went to the corner. of the room that curiously was the entrance to the second floor.

And just at that moment, an incredible coincidence happened when Kuroka heard footsteps going up the stairs, and she started to get scared since no one should have gone down since she wasn't with the others, she didn't know that Ren had gone to the second floor before, so without Knowing this, he prepared a water spear at his side, while he waited for the intruder to pass through that dark door.

Seeing a shadow beginning to appear on the steps, she aimed the spell at the said shadow.

When the shadow tripped she unintentionally let the spear go.

Ren that the first thing she saw when she went up to the boss room on the first floor was a spear of water towards her head, her mind and instinct already tired, dodge, but she brushed his cheek.

Kuroka who saw Ren dodge was startled again, this time by the cold look that Ren was giving her.

The 2 did not say anything at that time, one was shocked because she had almost killed someone and the other was trying to put an order in her mind that was in chaos so her body reacted and activated her newly acquired ability [calm mind].

Ren's look turned into a calm look and her face turned stoic.

" what are you doing?.

she said as she started to advance step by step toward Kuroka who had trembling hands and step by step back, as she backed away she fell on her back, but still she tried to back away.

Ren spoke again.

"I said, what are you doing?

ren was just there, no weapons or anything, he was just standing.

But a boy who saw Kuroka being bullied drew the sword from him without seeing who it was and jumped to attack the intruder.

Ren seeing Kiriko try to slice him, without batting an eye he drew his sword from his ring and deflected the incoming attack.

" what are you doing?.

Kiriko realizing who he was, didn't let her guard down, when she saw Kuroka who was still scared on the ground she yelled.

- What are you doing! Why are you attacking a colleague!?

Ren gave him the stoic look again but tried to explain himself anyway.

"Well, you see, she was going upstairs when Kuroka-

- You saw her alone and tried to do something to her, right?

Ren was worried about the big misunderstanding that happened, and he wanted to explain himself again, but the others were coming.

with a stoic look, he began to frown and those with good eyesight found it frightening.

"I'm too young for this shit.

he put his sword away and started walking towards the camp as the others arrived.

- Hey! You still haven't apologized to Kuroka!

Kiriko said as he ran throwing his sword to the ground and trying to hit Ren.

Tired Ren turned around and seeing the incoming fist, dodged with his neck and taking advantage of Kiriko's momentum, slapped him on the neck, but this slap concentrated a good amount of lightning that left Kiriko unconscious.

At that moment while the others wanted to be far away to avoid stray fire, Isabel came running.

- What's going on here.

seeing ren's still bleeding cheek, seeing the traces of water on the wall, and seeing kiriko on the ground, he got an idea of ​​what happened here.

- There is nothing to see here guys, go pick up your tents, we'll be leaving in 30 minutes.

despite the fact that the others wanted to stay and continue looking at the gossip, with Isabel's cold gaze they quickly gave up and began to walk back to prepare their things.

-May I know what happened Ren?.

as ren nodded, he saw Kumiko running and made a face talk with her telling her to take care of those 2 while he went to another secluded place with Isabel.

"Miss Kuroka attacked me when I went upstairs.

- I guess no one expected that huh? And what happened to your partner?

"He attacked me and I knocked him out.

- Yes, I saw him with the slap, will you tell me how a slap could make someone faint?

"...

- I guess not, anyway, do you have the map?

"Yes, it's here.

Looking at the map on the second floor, Isabel was surprised by the great amount of detail, there were marked areas that were wolf territory, their hunting areas, other beasts, and the route they should take, with some indication details such as going through a large tree or around a large rock.

- Well, for now, go to sleep, I'll tell the others that in an hour we leave.

"It's not necessary miss, I don't want the first thing I see when I wake up to be a water spear pointed at my head again.

-ha..., don't hold grudge ren, it was an accident.

"I know, but that accident almost cost me my life.

- Well, you can go to your tent if you like, they prepared one for you while you were out at night.

" Thanks a lot.

Ren just went to the tent that he was told he happened to be near the entrance.

Once inside, Ren deactivated his ability and began to take off his uniform top in a bad mood.

what angered him the most was not that they almost killed him, it was that he was tired and had to move his body, also because the blood does not come out so easily on clothes, but for his consolation, he had a liquid that removed the blood of the uniform.

while he was rubbing, someone else entered the tent, seeing who he was, ren sighed because it was only Aiko.

- I heard from Kumiko that you knocked out Kiriko, are you okay?

"Yes, I am, they just brushed my cheek.

- so what happened?.

"I just misunderstood the situation, and that's why Kiriko attacked me.

-ha..., come here, let me help you heal the wound.

Ren just nodded, moving in front of Aiko who concentrated as he gently dabbed at the wound with cotton.

Ren found it very cute that concentrated look that he gave to his cheek only for a small cut, he thought that this moment made it worth the injury.

While Ren was receiving care and attention, Kiriko woke up inside another tent in pain and confusion, with Kumiko standing next to him.

Unbeknownst to Ren, she cured her fanaticism of Kumiko, as Kumiko was standing while watching Kiriko holding her head in pain, after hearing what happened to Kuroka, Kumiko knew that the one who was wrong was Kiriko, but still, Seeing that painful look, she realized that Ren should have held back more, Kumiko decided that she would give Ren a piece of her mind later, but for now, she has to comfort and advise the love of her life.

- are you OK?.

-what happened Kumiko? I remember that she wanted to hit ren and out of nowhere everything went dark.

- well, you see...

After telling Kiriko the true situation, he felt ashamed of himself.

- How could I do it like that, I got ahead of the situation and attacked an innocent colleague.

- everything will be fine kiriko.

Kumiko hugged Kiriko who had a look full of sadness, Kiriko sank her nose into his neck to recover some calm.

After a while, he calmed down with the hug.

- what will I do?.

- you should apologize for the misunderstanding and regret doing that without listening to ren before.

- You're right, I should do it, but how?

- I know! I must do it in front of the whole room, so the apology will feel better.

- please no teacher, ren hates crowds, just do it in private.

Kumiko said with a smile.

kiriko was glad to have this girl by his side to comfort him, not knowing what to do even in this situation when they are so close, since neither received an explanation of this situation from ren, and both were people with a lot of shame, they decided alone hug for now.

While in 2 tents sweet things were happening, in one tent there was sadness and pain.

Kuroka, despite having a cold look always with her, is still a girl who never killed anyone.

She had many emotions about what happened a while ago but the main ones were 2.

anger and shame.

he attacked someone innocent who was just walking, and he was attacked for that misunderstanding.

and worst of all were the voices outside the tent.

How could he do that to a girl?

- He is a bastard for trying to hurt a lady, on top of that he knocked out Kiriko who went to defend her.

and voices like that defaming ren, outside Amerie and Kara, were trying to calm them down by explaining that it wasn't like that, but they didn't believe anything they said.

after a while kiriko came out with Kumiko by his side, seeing how the situation was escalating due to a misunderstanding, he decided to redeem himself in another way apart from apologies.

- please everyone calms down everyone and listen to me because you will see that...

After 15 minutes of explanations and confirmations by a protagonist with great charisma and leadership, everything ended quickly.

As ren had come back 1 hour before, the game was also changed to 9 am to fast forward, everyone under the guidance of the protagonists arranged all the things, while ren already had all his things ready and ate bacon rashers I have no idea from where can I get.

So they started another day, as they went through the second floor, the boys were very anxious, although they said that the route would be safe, they couldn't calm down since they didn't have their weapons with them, only bone swords and stone spears.

Miss Isabel was in the rear guarding against behind, Kiriko was in the front, and the 4 heroines along with other students were in the corners as they would take care of the students in the center, those who were magicians or those who had low rank, which is usually the majority.

while the students walked.

Akane who was in the middle since she was still +80 range was inside the formation, Aiko who was walking inside was also sad that she couldn't use her fire magic the 2 girls found themselves lined up, as they had already talked before, they smiled at each other and decided to walk together.

On the way, Aiko saw the bracelets on Akane's wrists and remembered an artifact that her father had in the past.

- Hey Akane, where did you get that?.

- You mean this ?.

she said she showing her doll.

- Yes.

Akane smiled teasingly.

- fu fu, for this.

and summoned his great dagger (the weapon)

He thought that Aiko would be surprised by how he pulled weapons out of nowhere, but no.

Aiko watched for a few seconds and made a mischievous smile too.

-fu fu, I give it to you ren right?.

Akane, hearing the name like that, blushed a bit, but he was able to calm down quickly this time and nodded.

Yes, he gave it to me.

-So that's why he asked for those weapons, huh?

- Sorry?.

- Oh right, well you'll see.

A couple of days before Akane's duel, Ren contacted Aiko telling her that he was ready to go see his father for the rewards of the job, and Aiko went to tell his father, the demon king Abadon.