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Fortunately, we managed to escape just before the cave completely collapsed. However, the moment I looked back, I couldn't tell if fortunate was the right word. The cave, our test site, had been reduced to rubble.
I muttered, "This isn't my fault, right?"
Lorcan stood beside me, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "Are you seriously saying that?"
"If we had stayed put, we'd all be dead. Shouldn't a mercenary thank the person who saved his life?" I shot back, my frustration clear.
"That's true," he admitted.
The examiner, who had been waiting by the carriage, came running toward us. His usually blunt voice trembled slightly as he demanded, "What exactly happened here?"
Seeing that, I couldn't help thinking, Even this emotionless man is capable of feeling something.
"The demon that was sealed in the jar went berserk," I said flatly. "The cave collapsed during the battle."
The others who had escaped with me gave me puzzled looks, but I ignored them. I had left out plenty, yet nothing I said was untrue.
The examiner studied me for a moment before asking, "What about the demon?"
"We defeated it," I answered.
His question made me wonder whether the Hero Society's examiner hadn't been monitoring what was happening inside the cave. Perhaps he was testing our reaction, or maybe their surveillance system had been destroyed during the battle.
I didn't see any communication crystals.
The cave was vast, so it was likely that their monitored areas were limited. If that were the case, someone could have seen Verita smash Peron's...
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