Chapter 84

"H-Hii! Hiiii! H-Help me!"

Kelt dragged himself along, desperately trying to escape from Patchwork.

Behind him, Patchwork slowly gave chase.

"If there were only one, we might've managed... But a second one's too much!"

Meabel clutched her staff as she said this.

"...Luche, can you draw the one targeting Kelt away? Meabel, hurry and heal him."

"There's another Patchwork right in front of us! There's no way I can go help him!"

Meabel was the first to react to my words.

"Besides, if it were you or Luche-san, Elymas-san, that'd be one thing, but I can't take a crazy risk just to cover someone who betrayed the party and ran off right away! Even if I spend MP to heal him, it's obvious he'll try to run again if having more of us around makes it stop targeting him! It's not like I dislike him and want him left to die. I don't care if that greedy, loot-snatching bastard neglects his companions and does whatever he wants, but he should be prepared for his companions to neglect him in return!"

At Meabel's words, Kelt went deathly pale...