An Unknown Ill-Fated Bond (1)

“Too easy?”

“Of course. It was obvious from the start that it probably wasn’t even that big a problem.”

Charlotte said to Miriam, who was muttering as she shook monster blood from her soiled hands.

“I’m done over here too.”

“Me too. I had my doubts, but I didn’t expect it to be something I could handle alone….”

Kariya, covered in his quarry’s blood, and Roxanna, holding a musket with black smoke rising from its muzzle, returned and said the same.

And throughout the mission, I quietly watched from behind as the children solved everything as easily as eating cake.

“….”

Correction. Even “watched” might not have been the most accurate way to put it.

In reality, I had taken in very little information, because I had spent the several hours climbing the snow-covered mountain thinking about yesterday’s events...