The King arrived at Magic Town, all of them bow their heads to show respect the King, then the knight asked the King why is he in Magic Town, the King said that he wants to talk to the town's people directly, then the King asked why the knight is injured, and the knight said that he got into a fight with an adventurer, the King called Haruto and the King laughed, he thanked Haruto for giving the knight a strong punch.
"I apologize for what Gabriel have done, please forgive him" the King said.
Then the knight said that he didn't properly introduced himself, so he introduced, his name is Gabriel a knight that directly serves the King.
Then the town chief arrived and pay his respect to the King, the King apologize for not able to help when the Magic Town wewill support for rebuilding the town.
After a few days the town has been completely rebuild, the King camere under attack, the King said that he back to the Royal Capital, then Ichijou came back from his quest.
Sicily and Ichijou made up and Ichijou meet his daughter Ai, and so Akari and Haruto give them time to have fun, then Gabriel showed up and have a message for Haruto, Akari and Hikari, Gabriel said that the King invited the three of them to go to the Royal Capital to reward them for saving Magic Town, the three of them were shocked that the they were called, Gabriel said that they're going to set off the next day.
Hikari asked Sayaka for her permission to go to the Royal Capital, and Sayaka asked why, Akari tell her about the invitation of the King, then Sayaka shouted and hug her daughter as she said that she's proud of her.
The next morning they set off to go to the Royal Capital, they were excited, while they were traveling, they reached a forest, and bunch of guys showed up and said to hand over all of the things they have, Gabriel said that why would they do such a thing, the guys said that they're tired of this world and ever since they came to this world they only experience pain, when Haruto and Akari heard them, they asked them if they are players, the guys also asked If they are also players, Gabriel and Hikari don't know what they're talking about.
So Gabriel asked them what they're talking about, Haruto know that lying won't do any good so they tell him the truth that they're not from the world where Gabriel live, when Gabriel and Hikari heared their story, they were shocked, and Akari asked the guys why would they want their things, the guys answered them that they can't take it anymore, they were afraid and tried to survive, but most of them didn't eat for a few days.
Some of them starved and died, and Haruto asked why they didn't go to the town's to buy foods, the guys said that even if they want to they can't get out of the forest because they were cursed, Gabriel asked about the cursed.
The guys tell them what happened after they left the beginner's town, all of them wandered in the forest until they encountered a monster, and the monster release a black smoke, and since then they couldn't get out of the forest.
While they were talking a black smoke covered the area, the guys trembled in fear as they said that that's the smoke they saw before they got trapped in the forest.
Then a big black monster appeared.