"Leave? What are you talking about!"
"Let's go demand an explanation from the Captain!"
"No, the Captain didn't say it directly, but..."
In the face of their intense reactions, Rin shook her head in a fluster.
In a way, it could just be her overreacting, which is why she hadn't told her friends...
But since things had come this far, she had no choice.
Rin finally began to pour out the worries she had been harboring alone.
"The thing is, of course the Captain didn't say that. But looking at the situation, isn't it obvious?"
Rin is useless now, so maybe it's time to fire her.
...Of course, there was no way Ian would actually say that.
However, even if the duration was far too short to be called a "career," during her time working as a mercenary, Rin had developed enough intuition to notice when the tide was shifting.
"Now that we have such a strong vanguard, I'm useless in that role.... Efficiency-wise, it makes sense, doesn't it?"
"There's no way that—"
