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"… Endou?"

Hajime’s mutter made the black-clothed boy, Endou Kousuke, respond with "!," a response siaround and began to shout as if he was irritated, because he could not find the one he was looking for

"Naguuumo Hajimee--!"

Because his shout was too loud, one by one people began to shut their ears with their fingers His voice was filled with desperation since he wanted to ascertain whether the should be dead classazes towards Hajime With an expression as if he didn’t want to be involved in this, Hajime scratched his cheek and spoke towards Endou who repeatedly shouted his name out loud

"Ah~, Endou? I can hear you just fine so stop repeatedly shouting umo! Where are you!?"

Endou turned his face towards Haji to Hajime’s voice Hajime was inadvertently taken aback because Endou looked so desperate

For a aze an to look around again

"Dah I can hear his voice! Is he a ghost now? As expected, he returned as a ghost!? So that’s why I cannot see hi idiot Rather, calm down already You whose thinness shadow ranked the best in the whole world"

"!? Again, his voice!? Wait, whose shadow did you say was so thin that even the convenience store’s automatic door didn’t react to it and disappears from time to time! The automatic door opened at least one of three tries!"

"So, it didn’t open two ti that much, Endou finally noticed the source was the white-haired, eye-patched boy before hian to carefully observe Hajime’s face Towards Hajime, who averted his face since he felt unpleasant due to not having a hobby where he’d be pleased fro watched by a man, Endou spoke as if he could not believe what he perceived

"Y-You… are you… Naguh I look like this now, I aumo Hajime"

As he carefully observed Hajime from head to toe, Endou became dubious because Hajime was quite different from the one in hisat his features and how he knew about the thinness of his shadow

"So… you are alive"

"Of course, after all I aht before you now"

"Soed… Your looks, atmosphere, and tone…"

"I crawled up from that abyss with ed"

"I-Is that so? No, but, I see… You really are alive…"

Although Endou was perplexed by Hajiaze softened as he was relieved that the classht to be dead was alive No matter how he envied him like the other boys because Kaori paid attention to Haji Haji Hajireat ilad his classmate was alive

"Rather… when did you become an Adventurer? Moreover, a "Gold"…"

"Nn~, well it just happened"

After Hajied The relieved expression he had because his classed into an expression as if he was in a pinch Haji state He tilted his head, wondering what had happened

"… In other words, you caeon by yourself, and becahest rank? That’s rather unbelievable…"

"Well, that’s true though"

After Hajime confirmed what Endou said with a serious expression as the truth, Endou sprang up towards Hajiripped his shoulders, and in a voice filled with an to speak in sorrow

"Then, please! Please enter the dungeon with me! We must hurry or else everyone will be dead! We need someone with battle potential even if it is just one person! There’s also the possibility that Kentarou and Kondou have died! That’s why please help us, Nagumo!"

"W-Wait a sec What’s with you all of a sudden!? I don’t know the situation, you know? So what’s with the dead thing? And can’t A about it? There’s also Commander Meld, so there’s no need to worry about another failure like e faced the Beheh he usually didn’t stand, out Endou wore an expression as if he was truly at his wits’ end And at the moment Endou heard Commander Meld name, he fell to his knees with a truly dark expression Next, he muttered with a low, subdued voice

"… –ad"

"Hah? I can’t hear you So, what did you say?"

"… I said they are dead! Cohts are dead! All of the Knights who entered the dungeon are dead! They died to let me escape! Because of me! They are dead! They died!"

"… I see"

"They died," Endou said repeatedly like a child throwing a tantrum, and Hajihting one, so he didn’t have much encounter with Commander Meld However, he reood person, and he recalled that Commander Meld believed the "incompetent" him before Hajiot out of the abyss and heard of Meld’s death, he would have probably just said, "So what?" However, the current hirettable At the very least, he prayed for their happiness in the next world in his mind

"So, what happened?"

"That’s…"

Still on his knees, Endou tried to explain the situation to answer Haji his head However, a hoarse voice interrupted him

"Please continue your conversation inside After all, you are uests"

The owner of the voice was a powerful e scar on his left eye as around 60 years of age It was obvious his eye had the ability to perceive the situation, polished for years, and a from his body

With the previous receptionist by the uild branch And because Endou’s wails and shouts h tension siht this was not an appropriate place to have such a talk, and obediently followed the man

Endou had probably alreadyhad happened to the Hero’s group and the Knights And that was the cause of the strange atuild

The rab Endou’s aruild interior without saying anything Endou was considerably eth

Because the content would not be so pleasant, Haji the unpleasant

"… De out inside the reception roouild Seated on the sofa before him were the Holad branch’s head, Lorr Vauabith, and Endou Kousuke, and seated beside Haji on Haji the situation fro his explanation The talk of how the Hero’s party was attacked by the demon race and was in pinch, made Endou and Lorr’s put on serious expressions, and the room was filled with an oppressive at on Haji on the snacks, and it made her cheeks swell up like a squirrel, so she didn’t even notice the serious atmosphere The conversation between Hajihtly difficult for Myuu, and she could feel the uneasy atave her a snack so to divert her attention fro uneasy

"More importantly! What’s with that!? Who’s that child!? Why is she eating the cake!? Doesn’t she understand the situation!? Everyone ht have be dead, you know!"

"Eeek!? Papa!"