The Other Side Of Adventuring
The Mana Crystals from those Rat Shadow Stalkers should be worth quite a bit of money so we took the time to extract both from their corpses.
Unfortunately, the Dungeoneers they killed were completely eaten up by the Rats and somehow they also managed to chew through their equipment too, leaving nothing good for us to pilfer.
Heck, even their coin pouches were reduced to just cloth scraps.
"My apologies for making you worry for me, Mistress," Katsuki apologised for the umpteenth time after she recovered.
"It's fine Katsuki, I'm just glad you're ok," I assured her.
"To think that I would not even be able to handle a monster of a level like this… It seems like I need to train even harder…"
"Umm… Everyone has their own specialties so you don't need to beat yourself up over it."
"Mistress is really kind."