"A rank-2... Apple Earthling?" Mister Hunter repeated, furrowing his eyebrows.
"Yeah!" Arachnea said cheerfully.
She insistently displayed her missing hand as if that alone was enough to prove her claim.
"So quickly?" Zev asked, raising his eyebrows.
"Bad luck..." Vera added with a half-mocking, half-sympathetic smile.
"(Am I the only one bothered by the fact that she's missing a hand???)" Noah wondered.
They seemed to be taking the situation lightly. If Noah's memory served him right, rank-2 monsters were supposed to be much stronger than rank-1 monsters. Momo hadn't gone into much detail, but clearly, their relaxed attitude was strange.
"(Then again, should I really blame them for being calm when I'm taking so many risks myself?)"
Asking to enter the hunting grounds—actual dungeons with real monsters—accompanied by people he barely knew. People who might not even like him.
"(… Maybe my mom was right. I do have a tendency to act without thinking things through.)"
