My head slowly turned to the knight, who displayed an uncanny amount of bloodlust towards us while we were helping Luna out.

“W-What?” The man sputtered through clenched teeth, and as I slowly stood up, he took a step back instead of getting in front of his young miss.

How pitiful…

“Seems I was wrong. Somebody as weak as you wouldn’t dare to threaten us,” I taunted the man, but as he was in front of his young miss, he couldn’t act rashly, so he took the taunt and pushed it down to where it couldn’t hurt his pride anymore.

His young miss keenly paid attention to me but didn’t act rashly as she now knew even if she wanted to kill us, it would be nearly impossible.

She also seemed to be formulating plans to try and escape from our grasp, but Bella continuously stayed behind them, making sure they couldn’t threaten anybody any longer.

But, just as I had acknowledged, the young miss was smart, so she opened her mouth once again, spitting a deal I couldn’t deny.

“Let’s make a truce. You don’t threaten us, and we don’t threaten you… but obviously, you would want something else, so I shall offer one of my blades to you,” The girl said, and the knight’s jaw seemingly dropped to the floor.

“Y-Young Miss! You mustn’t do that!” The man announced, but she was keen on prioritizing her safety which was threatened by just being around us.

I could tell she was even ambitious about possibly maintaining a good relationship with us, but that would be impossible once we encountered Orme.

“Orion-” Aisa said as sweat dripped down her cheek, but I just turned towards her and gave her a little thumbs up.

I could tell everybody was worried as she could just bring it back into her storage ring whenever she wanted due to her control over swords, but I wasn’t doing this deal for the sword… I was doing it for her safety.

If we could potentially make her feel safe within our group, she would let her guard down, and the destruction of our relationship might make this trip a bit more amusing later on.

As Aisa saw me chuckle a bit under my breath, her expression deadpanned, and she just sighed relentlessly before glancing over at Cy.

“See this mother**er?”

“Clear as day,” Cy replied before helping Luna up.

“One of us should really learn a healing spell,” Bella sighed as she gestured for the duo to continue walking, to which they easily complied.

We continued our trip through the labyrinth while following Aisa, who had all the remaining locations… which was literally just Orme.

“What about you, Mister All Rounder,” I said to Cy, who blankly looked back at me before shrugging and pulling up his hand, which was now coated in a soft white glow.

“What the **,” Luna said before kicking Cy in the ass as he refused to use this power on her, which could obviously ease the pain and accelerate the healing process.

“Damn… I just… I’ll explain it later,” Cy muttered before gesturing over to the duo who was tagging along with us.

It’s from his rune path, isn’t it… That’s the only way I could possibly think of him obtaining a skill completely diverted from his warrior-like path.

After about an hour of walking, everybody was beginning to mentally tire out, but with a few confident words from Aisa, we pushed through and walked into a large cavern just like the room where the tomb guardian was from.

But, this one was much more defined as it had a small rocky hill that led up to what looked to be a dilapidated shrine.

And, at the very top of it were several shadows and several Bonebloom children who had their heads cut off and their torsos completely blown away.

“So you’ve finally come, Laura,” The man sitting at the top of the hill announced, swords as large as trees swirling around him.

And one of them especially stood out as it was coated in dark purple flames, which ate away at the surrounding rock as if it were trees.

Dammit… Where is Orme? Don’t tell me he got himself killed already?

“He’s not dead yet,” Aisa muttered as she felt my worries, but for now, we had a much larger problem to focus on.

Laura immediately took back her sword from Cy, who seemed to have taken a really massive liking to it, but for now, I told him to stand down as we could just take it away earlier.

“Ugh… He really charged ahead without us… What a disappointing dick head,” Bella muttered before conjuring two balls of green flames in the center of her hands.

She chucked both of them at the man, but they were swiftly blocked by the one coated in purple flames.

“What’s up, old man! You can come to serve me by my side! I won’t do anything to Laura if you come to my side!” The man announced, and I could see the knight’s eyes shift beneath his sturdy helmet.

“*sigh*… Begin,”

“ALRIGHT! BUT MAKE SURE NOT TO KILL HER-“

All of a sudden, the helmet fell from the man’s neck, and the young miss who stood right beside him could barely even have the time to react as she soon had her throat slit.

“Oof… It seems I went a bit too fast,” Aisa chuckled as she finished the cut with one clean swing, separating her head from her body.

“GODDAMMIT!” The man at the top of the hill shouted, and I came to a sudden realization… he needed a shadow to obtain the inheritance, didn’t he?

I mean, it would all make sense as the girl didn’t freak out about him obtaining the inheritance before him and trying to get a dusty old man to his side when he was so much stronger than he just didn’t make sense.

“Ah… How amusing,” We all chuckled in unison before getting serious.