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that in all of her trips to the thirteenth floor.
    She reasoned that today must be one of their first trips to the middle levels.
    “…We’re going over there.”
    “?!”
    Mikoto’s body lurched as if Ouka’s words had been a slap in the face.
    No one in the group had to ask. They knew what he was planning to do.
    A “pass parade.”
    It was a strategy used inside the Dungeon. Simply put, it was a way for one battle party to escape from a monster by passing it off to another battle party that happened to be nearby.
    There was an unwritten rule that battle parties made as little contact with one another as possible in the Dungeon, but everyone accepted that there were times when sacrifices were necessary to protect something important. Accidents happened every day in the Dungeon, and using another party was one way to get your own out of a sticky situation.
    “Please reconsider, Captain Ouka?! If we do that, then those people…”
    Executing a pass parade now would mean the small party of adventurers would become that “sacrifice.”
    She could tell that that party was struggling as it was. They were trying to fend off a large pack of Al-Miraj just as Mikoto had done only moments ago.
    They would be overwhelmed if any more monsters joined the fray. Should the pack chasing
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get too close…
    “Your lives are far more important to me than some random people.”
    “…!”
    “If it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, you can scold me to your heart’s content when we get out of this.”
    Ouka’s decision was final. Mikoto’s face looked like that of a child who’d realized her parents had disappeared.
    She looked back at her allies.
    They were in dire straits. Most were covered in blood, their breathing shallow and staggered as they sprinted for their lives.
    Their
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’s emblem glinted dark red beneath a splattering of fresh blood.
    Mikoto was on the verge of tears for the first time since this ordeal started.
    …I’m so sorry!
    It was too late to change their route now. They were close enough to see the whites of the other adventurers’ eyes.
    She caught the gaze of a white-haired boy as he sliced through one of the rabbits and tried her best to communicate a heartfelt apology.

    Bell could hear, could feel all of the Al-Miraj coming at them from all angles.
    The continuous onslaught of monsters didn’t allow for a moment of hesitation.
    “Not even enough time to breathe, eh?”
    “Then don’t talk!”
    Welf swung his large blade, sweat flying everywhere, as Lilly delivered the final blow to a monster with a well-placed arrow.
    Bell was fighting very well despite being completely surrounded.
    With the exception of Agility, Welf’s Status was greater than or equal to the Al-Miraj. He fought on the front lines with Lilly’ssupport. It was Bell’s job to make sure that they didn’t get flanked by taking out as many of the monsters as he could.
    Most of the rabbits fell to a single slice from Bell’s blades. It didn’t take the monsters long to figure out that it was useless to take him head-on. His speed and power were just a little bit higher than the average Level 2 adventurer.
    “Welf, get down!”
    “Gotcha!”
    Seeing that Welf was about to be hit from two sides, Bell jumped to his aid.
    Bell flew over the back of his kneeling friend, slicing one Al-Miraj in half with the blade in his right hand and slamming the side of his buckler into the head of another.
    That was too close…!
    The boy might have been holding his own, but his mind was racing.
    Fatigue was beginning to catch up with him. His limbs had never felt this heavy at any time in the upper levels.
    Of course the most powerful member of an unbalanced party had to carry the largest workload in combat, but the increase in number and intelligence of the monsters in the middle levels served to make that burden even harder to bear.
    Bell was starting to realize just how little endurance he had. Another second and he