Enemies Meet on a Single Rope

'There is an aphorism you mustn't forget during the selection process.'

『Once they look down on you, there'll be no end to it.』

It meant that if someone harmed you, you had to repay them somehow. If you let it slide, you'd be treated unfairly without end.

Of course, having spent my life trembling at the bottom, I should have learned the art of getting by rather than revenge, but the gist was the same. In any case, I had thoroughly paid back people like me as well.

"Baby, think you can make it up this time?"

"Yeah, I think I can somehow."

I looked down at the couple climbing up the rope. A man and woman were huffing and puffing. I watched them crawl upward, wriggling along like caterpillars.

Then, when they had climbed about a quarter of the way, I grabbed the rope and hauled it up in one swift motion.

"W-what?!"

"Eek?"...