By the time Seol Jihu got a hold of himself, Kim Hannah and Jang Maldong were talking merrily.

—Sometimes, I even wake up at night, worrying if he’s eating or wearing clothes properly.

“I understand. Participating in the rescue mission without telling you was that brat’s fault, 100 percent.”

—It’s the same with the Banquet. He can go after he gains more experience and strength. It hasn’t even been a year since he entered Paradise, yet he’s always dying to go to places filled with life-threatening danger…. Am I worrying about him too much?

“Of course not. He is your contract partner. I agree with you fully. But, as someone who’s instructed him for the past month, there’s something I’d like to say.

—Oh?

Kim Hannah shrunk back a bit, cosplaying as a surprised, innocent girl when she was really a sly fox.

—You instructed him personally, Master Jang? Then, could you have been… at the Huge Stone Rocky Mountain?

“You knew?”

—So that’s why his face was…. Ah, of course, I do! It’s the home mountain of High Rankers!

“Haha, home mountain, is it? That’s very flattering.”

—No, no, I’m being serious.

Kim Hannah smiled modestly. Seol Jihu followed his instincts and brought a paper bag up to his mouth.

While the young man barfed quietly in the background, Jang Maldong convinced her with a calm voice. When he told her his initial plan of making him an Archer who would support the team from the back, and have him leave during Stage 2, Kim Hannah nodded her...