The Black Sky Pirate Laughs Beneath the Moon. The Crimson Mage Howls at the Stars (32)

"...Leon, come back here. I don't know what's written there, but we need to examine it properly."

"Hey, Dantes, don't say anything stupid. Once I go back, you're just going to split my head open with that dangerous weapon, right?"

"I wouldn't do that. I'm not like you."

"Hah!"

Leon spat contemptuously,

"And that's what you come up with—'I'm not like you'?! You've always been like this. You act like you're thinking of the party and everyone else, but in the end, all you care about is looking good in the moment without thinking about the consequences! How many times have you gone and reduced our job fees because of your own damn sense of justice? Even when we took down that detestable goblin horde, you went and said, 'We can't take money from a poor village,' and refused payment!"

"That was... You got us plenty of reward from the Adventurers' Guild afterward, didn't you?"

"That was because I—I did it! I did! Me! I negotiated with the Guild, didn't I?! And yet all the adventurers around us do nothing but praise you! What's wrong with taking money? What's wrong with aiming higher? Dantes, I was honestly glad you got turned to stone. I was happy you were gone, and you were happy to die playing the hero."

"I-I... That's not..."

Dantes-san's words caught in his throat, as though a blade of grass had gotten stuck there...