For the ten days until the end of the month, the party continued their training in the Team Graveyard. The first three days had been a horrible disaster — from Barbara having arrows stuck to her head, to Eunice dying from being targeted by Skeletons. It had been a good opportunity for Tsutomu to experience the aggro generated by <<raise>> for himself instead of seeing them through broadcasts, but Diniel had frequently grumbled that it was unfair that only Tsutomu had an easy time through it all.</raise>
After another week, however, they had gotten used to fighting with Skeleton Archers in the enemies’ ranks, with Barbara now being able to block the arrows with her buckler or getting them to hit her arms and legs instead of her more vital parts. She no longer had arrows stuck on her head as often as before.
As for Eunice, she could maintain the effect of <
While glancing at Barbara lifting Eunice up and spinning around, Diniel shot an arrow into the sky, using it for her monster-searching skill. As usual, she was sleepily lowering the corners of her eyes, seemingly unconcerned about Eunice’s label on her as a slacker.
Tsutomu, having not perceived Diniel to actually be that way from his observations, played it nice and followed along with her,
“It’s not necessarily all bad to do that, though. From what I’ve seen from the beginning, you seem to only hold back in the parts that aren’t absolutely necessary, at least.”
“……”
Diniel, somewhat surprised, raised the corners of her eyes and looked at Tsutomu’s face in profile. With how fast-paced his roles and multi-tasking were, she had not expected him to be so observant of such details of hers.
“Oh, but you can’t slack off on the important things, all right? To keep the operation together, you have to pull your weight properly when things get tough for everyone else.”
“…The party you’ll eventually lead is in for some tiring work.”
“Huh?”
“I mean, they wouldn’t get to slack off, after all.”
Despite the words she had said, Diniel chuckled and put one hand over her mouth, hiding the rare smile she had briefly shown. Once she was done smiling, she nocked some more arrows and resumed searching for enemies.