Breathing a sigh of relief, the red-haired girl thought Horace's face looked familiar "I feel like I've seen you before... Do you live in Victory Town by any chance?"
Horace smiled as he realized the redhead was talking to him "That's right Miss Senna, although we haven't met in person, you may have seen me around the few times you've been to Luck's stall"
Senna's eyes lit up at the mention of Luck's stall "Maybe..."
The blue-haired woman nudged Senna's shoulder "Ahhh, it's been a while since we ate there...we should go back one day when we're free..."
Senna nodded in agreement "Absolutely, that man's food is delicious."
Bryan watched in confusion as the two female members of his group suddenly forgot the situation they were in and talked about food, "Girls... do you know this guy?"
Senna nodded "This is Mr. Horace, a merchant from the town of Victory, he's harmless."
Bryan pointed to the rest of the group "What about the others?"
"them?" Senna glanced at the people behind Horace but couldn't recognize any of them because his face was masked.
"Even though I don't recognize them, they're all ordinary people, no star powers."
"But the one lying wounded on the ground..." Senna's eyes widened as she recognized the person lying wounded on the ground.
"Mr Luck!" the surprise in the woman's voice could be heard.
Velma: (ﾟ⊿⊿ﾟ)
Velma, who had been watching the conversations in astonishment from the beginning, thought, 'They finally realized the boss...'.
As soon as he realized that Luck was seriously injured, Senna ran to him and poured a bottle of life potion into Luck's mouth.
Bryan's eyes widened again in surprise.
"You just poured the intermediate-level life potion into that man's mouth!" Bryan thought that 100 gold coins were wasted.
Senna said without hesitation, "It's worth it."
Brayn: ( ･ㅂ･ ) "Is it worth it, are you serious?"
Senna in all seriousness "You've never eaten his food before, you don't understand!"
Bryan: ( ﾟдﾟ)
Horace: (⊙...⊙ )
The rest (;° ロ°)
Could it be that the way to this woman's heart is through her stomach?!
"Can't you see that man's wounds? Even that life potion may not be enough to save him! You wasted the potion!"
Elsa shook her head disapprovingly "Can't you see the blood flowing from his wounds? There are blue streams...that man was seriously injured just as he was undergoing a breakthrough, even without the potion, he would still be healed with the energy of the breakthrough, but now with the effect of the life potion, he may be much stronger!"
Elsa turned to her sister Senna and gave her a thumbs up "Nice investment, brother! That man owes you now, we can eat good food for free!"
Brayn:: (」゜ロ゜)」
Horace: ( ･_･)
Rest of the group: (ΦзΦ)
one is no better than the other! They're both gluttons! Foodies!
Relieved after deciding that Horace and his group were harmless, Bryan and his team began to ask what Luck had been through to get hurt so badly.
Devi, who was no longer inward after all that had happened, began to tell what had happened with excitement.
"After Mr Horace and I left the town of Victory, two guards started guarding us all the way! They killed a lot of star beasts along the way...."
"We had never seen the forest fox, but the guard guarding us killed a jungle fox with an arrow!"
Devi continued excitedly without pausing for breath
"The black bodyguard was awesome! His movements were agile, like a cheetah, you wouldn't believe it!"
Devi's fast and excited speech bored Bryan and the others, but Bryan couldn't stop thinking "Where are those awesome bodyguards you mentioned? Did they abandon you and run away when they saw Flame Claw?"
Devi nodded "Yes they did, they turned and ran! Bastards, they even hid in the cave we were planning to hide in and chased us out!"
Bryan started to look around carefully "So there is a cave around, they might still be hiding, be careful people!"
With Bryan's warning, the group began to scrutinise the surroundings with rapt attention.
Devi waved her hand nonchalantly "Nah, they tried to hide in that cave over there."
Bryan looked where Devi pointed and saw everything but a cave.
Did he just call that hole in the wall a cave? Seriously?
But when he looked at Horace and the others and saw them looking at Devi approvingly, he became skeptical.
"Was that really a cave?"
Horace nodded "Yes, it was a cave until Flame Claw attacked."
"Flameclaw's attack? Oh my god!" Bryan looked at the flame claw lying dead on the floor and then at the cave.
"This flame claw had 5-star power?"
...
After talking for a while, the group started to make their way to the Blood Adventurers compound.
As they walked along the road to the compound, Horace learned that Bryan and his group had come to the place where Luck was fighting with Flame Claw because he was curious about all the gunfire and the sound of the grenade exploding.
Meanwhile, Velma, Devi, and Can looked at Luck with concern as they carried him on a stretcher they had made from things they found in the woods.
"You don't have to be so scared."
Velma was surprised by the voice coming from right next to her, "Huh?"
She had never realized that someone had approached her.
Elsa smiled at Velma, who was startled like a frightened rabbit, "You don't need to be afraid, star power is getting stronger every moment, look at this" pointing to Luck's healing wounds with her hand "His wounds are almost healed."
Velma, who was a little relieved even though she was still worried, "Thank you."
What happened next was just as Elsa had said, Luck's wounds were visibly healing rapidly while the star power emanating from Luck began to increase.
....
Bryan is silent "How did they kill Flame Claw?"
"I'm not sure, boss, but it has something to do with that steel club."
Bryan looked where the man was pointing and looked at the assault rifle Liam was carrying, imitating Luck.
"Could it be a staff?" Bryan asked curiously.
Senna approached the silently talking duo, "I don't think so, I can't sense any star power from that metal stick."
The swordsman said, "Then what is that thing? Where did all that noise we heard come from?"
Senna shrugged his shoulders, "Even if that stick is not magical, I think it is certain that all the noise is related to that stick."
Bryan squinted, "Why do you think that?"
"Look at the way that man is holding that stick as if he is ready to attack at any moment, you can see such an attitude in someone who trusts the weapon in his hand."
Bryan, who examined Liam for a while, "You may be right, we'd better report this to the guild master."
"That's up to you, if you're curious about that stick, why don't you go and ask them?" Senna said indifferently.
"I don't think they would tell the truth even if I did."
The swordsman said with ruthlessness in his eyes, "We can force them to tell the truth, boss! They're a bunch of powerless ordinary people!"
PAT!
Bryan slapped the back of the man's head.
"Are we that kind of people, eh?"
The man with the sword: ◖⚆ᴥ⚆◗
'aren't we, boss? Did we kill a few people because they got what we wanted?
Bryan, who realized what the man meant from his eyes, gave a frightened look around.
'Those two women are protecting that man! I can't touch that man even if I want to! Otherwise, if those women don't kill us, the guild master will kill us!'