"You had injured the beast quite a bit... making it easy for me to take the shot. Still, I hope you know when to fight and when to... cooperate."
The leader had an amused expression on his face, as he uttered the words.
The men standing behind him smiled in return, as if... the entire situation was in their control.
"You don't seem to be from the academy?"
I asked an obvious question.
It was clear that these people weren't from the academy, and I had some idea as to where they might be from, but thinking about it... I couldn't understand why such a thing would happen, after everything that I had done... leading to the alteration of the events in this world.
"Oh us... we are a sort of group that is tasked with the clean-up in this area."
Hm?
"That's all you need to know, kiddo."
A Gold 2 standing beside his leader spoke up—
"You asked me to cooperate, but... what if I am unwilling to do so?"
