[Please, Crown Prince. I can’t protect them alone!]

“W-Why can’t I be happy…!?” I wailed.

[C-Crown Prince?]

“N-No, nothing.”

By now, I was used to something happening whenever I was climbing the dungeon smoothly. Event Dungeons, Event Raids, the Luka continent, and now this! Just when I thought I could focus solely on the dungeon, Ren reached out to me. I couldn’t let my guard down at all. In fact, I felt like someone was doing this on purpose.

I gritted my teeth and asked him, “What’s up, Ren? Tell me.”

[…No, Crown Prince, you must be having a hard time too. It was my mistake, forget what I said.]

I snapped, “Cut the crap and tell me.”

[Y-Yes!]

Ren’s world, the Panan continent, was a peaceful land where humans and beastmen once coexisted. Of course, both races had to face numerous difficulties until the peace was achieved, but they had reportedly done it. At least, that was how it was until two hundred years ago.

One day, things began to change. Small conflicts between the humans and beastmen increased in scale as time went on until one day, a war broke out between a human country and a beastman...