One could never predict what would happen in the forest at night. Even a month after they had first entered Samar, Eugene and Kristina still took turns standing guard every night.

Narissa had now been added to the initially two-man party. The elf’s sensitive hearing was certainly enough to keep a close watch on their surroundings, but as Narissa lacked the strength needed to protect herself if it came to an emergency, they couldn’t allow her to stand guard all by herself.

As such, tonight as well, Eugene and Kristina were still the only ones taking turns to stand guard.

He didn’t know how Kristina might be taking his actions, but Eugene still chose to show respect and consideration to Kristina in his own way. Generally speaking, the first and the last watches of the night were the most convenient. So every day, Eugene gave up the first and last watches to Kristina, and took on the most difficult watch in the middle of the night.

A small voice suddenly called out his name, “Sir Eugene.”

That alone was enough to make Eugene’s eyes snap open. He then easily got up from his sleeping spot without showing any signs of fatigue. Kristina was crouching down just outside the entrance to his erected tent.

“Any report to make?” Eugene checked.

Kristina shook her head. “Nothing happened.”

Monsters roamed this forest at night. Under the usual circumstances, the camp should have already received several attacks from these monsters, but Kristina’s barrier was able to hide their camp from the monsters’ perception.

That said, they couldn’t just blindly trust the barrier and not stand guard. While Eugene was rather unreliable in other matters, when it came to things like this, he was always thorough. This was because, during his time wandering around as a mercenary, there were more than a few times where he had ended up in danger when some foolish mercenaries he was working with had let their guard down while on the night watch.

“Don’t you feel tired? After all, you were quite active today. I’m not feeling that worn-out, so why don’t you just sleep in for today?” Kristina offered.

It seemed that Kristina was showing such consideration because he had been forced to deal with the warriors of the Garung tribe earlier today. Eugene just smirked in the face of Kiristina’s concern.

“In the first place, I didn’t even get enough exercise to wear me out,” Eugene reassured her. “I’ll be sure to wake you up in five hours, so don’t worry about it and get some rest.”

Kristina didn’t argue any further and just nodded. When she had yet to become as familiar with Eugene as she was now, there had been several times where Kristina continued arguing with Eugene over similar matters.

But by now, she had learned better. When it came to matters such as these, Eugene would always refuse to back down. It...