A complete defeat. The words that came to the minds of five people, including Nainiae, who fought the Abyss, were completely defeated.
“I couldn’t get it right even once…”
“…I can’t believe we were beaten.”
In particular, the two people, Nara and Iril, who had no idea who he was and were confident that they would win as he was young, looked blank as if they were shocked by the current defeat.
“I, I will treat you first.” When the atmosphere calmed down after the battle, Priesia, who was looking at the situation, carefully gathered the other five and checked their condition. “First of all, I will start the treatment from Nainiae… Hmm?”
Tuk, tuk, she opened the hem of her clothes that had been crumpled like a whirlpool by Abyss’s fist and looked at Priesia, tilting her head as if to ask what was going on. “What’s wrong?”
“Nainiae, is there any place where you feel uncomfortable?”
To Priesia’s question, Nainiae, who was looking at the crumpled part of her clothes, answered with a strange expression.
“…no, there isn’t.”
Responding to Nainiae’s answer that there was no uncomfortable place, Priesia turned to Nara and Iril and asked both of them as well.
“Both of you, are you two uncomfortable?”
“What?”
“Well?”
The two people, who were confused by Priesia’s question, raised question marks. They also tilted their heads like Nainiae, but didn’t say they were sick or bothered.
“What about Ms. Sera and Mr. Ian?”
Ian only had a snowball fight with Abyss, and he had never physically bumped into him, so there should be nothing uncomfortable, but… In Sera’s case, Abyss grabbed her ankle and threw her like a ball, so there was a high probability that her body was seriously injured.
“Me, me too…”
“Me too, no problem.”
Even though they took a pratfall or rolled on the dusty ground… Far from being hurt, everyone was in a state where they didn’t even get a scratch.
“Th… this…” Priesia muttered in disbelief as she saw Nainiae’s body float in the air by Abyss’s fist and saw Nara’s body bend like a bow.
Abyss opened his mouth. “Priestess, are the children okay?”
“Yes?”
It’s not awkward at all for a child much younger than her to ask without honorifics, but Priesia asked back in honorifics instead.
“It’s been a long time since I moved around with this unfamiliar body. Honestly, it was difficult to control.”
Noticing that they weren’t hurt, Nainiae recalled what Riley had said before coming here. ‘I’m worried about everything.’
Nainiae was convinced that even if Priesia didn’t use her divine eyes, Abyss wouldn’t do anything harmful to the five people, including herself… and she was sure that Abyss wouldn’t do that to Riley either.
“Yeah, I’m glad you all weren’t hurt.” Abyss, who was looking at the group, nodded as if he was relieved and sat there.
“The warriors… no, I was expecting that since Riley brought you here, I’m sure they are good friends. But I didn’t expect you to be such good friends. It’s fun.”
When Abyss, who was muttering to himself, started laughing, question marks appeared on the faces of Nainiae and the other five.
“I didn’t mean to do anything to all of you. I simply thought it would be better to warm-up and go… That’s it.” Abyss, who looked closely at the six faces, asked with a grandfather-like look with a young face. “If you don’t mind, I’d like to tell you about your strengths or weaknesses with the warm-up we just had, is it okay?”
They were still looking at him suspiciously as if the alertness had not been completely resolved. Abyss sighed and changed the topic as if he couldn’t help it.
“You don’t seem to like talking about it, so let’s talk about something else. For example… the story about Riley you don’t know?”
Only Nainiae, who knew about his past life, wriggled her eyebrows, while curiosity arose on the faces of the other five.
“The story of the young master that we don’t know?”
“No way… I have been with him since he was born. There can’t be something about the young master that I don’t know…”
When Ian shook his head and tried to deny Abyss, Abyss burst out laughing and looked at Nainiae.
“Looks like you know about that?”
“…”
“Nainiae?”
As the group’s eyes turned to her, Nainiae, who was frowning, looked at Abyss and asked.
“Are you called… Abyss? Why are you asking me that question?” When Nainiae asked the boy in honorifics, Priesia looked at Abyss with a glance, ‘As expected, there is something.’
“If you’re not going to talk, I’m going to tell them. For your information, I already told the lizard child his story. The child seemed to be more interested in where he lived than his story.”
The rest of the group, who were listening to the conversation between Nainiae and Abyss, started to look around thinking what to do. They were curious about the ‘Riley’s story’ that Abyss mentioned. They wanted to ask, but they couldn’t because there must be some reason why Nainiae frowned.
“I hope you don’t think badly. I’m just trying to save time.”
“Save time?”
“By the way, if we want to go into that world together, it will be better for them to know his story to some extent… Don’t you think it’s better to tell them in advance to save time while Riley is away?”
When Nainiae crumpled her face with an expression of ‘still…’, Abyss shrugged and asked. “Did he tell you not to talk?”
“That’s…” There was a time when Riley said it would be better not to talk about his past life, but Nainiae, who had never heard the word not to talk about it, blurred the end of her sentence.
“I guess you were warned.” Abyss, who nodded as if he understood, said. “Well, I would have done that too. If it’s known for no reason, you might get caught up in troublesome things. However, things have changed a little now… They have to know his story and go. Doing so is a shortcut to avoid the ‘annoyance’ he’s worried about.
They know what’s bothering him.”