"Dead"

"This one as well."

The blonde woman poked the man on the ground with her only usable hand.

"I'm not sensing a heartbeat for this one."

The girl with the hoodie brought it down and clutched her head.

"Are you kidding me!? Not a single one lived?"

She ran towards the closely located Ezekiel and punched him in the side. He kneeled over slightly before trying to calm her down.

"Hold on-"

The girl didn't care and cut him off.

"You bastard, I thought you paralyzed them!" She shouted

He put his hands forward as if to say "Calm down" and continued from where he was rudely cut off.

"As I was trying to say, all I did was paralyze them, I don't know why they're dead."

"You probably cut an artery or something!"

"Oi, oi, don't bad talk my precision. Some of them probably wouldn't have lasted until we returned, but most of them should've at least stayed alive until tomorrow."

They kept going back and forth until Elizabeth called to them.

It seemed she had opened the corpse's mouth.

"Ugh, are you one of those people that collects someone's teeth after you kill them? I'm not one to judge bu-"

Lily elbowed him in his side.

Elizabeth then pointed to his mouth.

"Smell it."

They gave her a few looks before she got tired of it and grabbed Ezekiel's head and shoved it towards the mouth.

"Is this some new fetish, sniff ugh what is that?"

Ezekiel's face slightly twisted when exposed to the smell.

Lily became curious and gave it a smell as well. She quickly got up and moved a few paces away so she could breathe some fresh air.

"I don't think I've ever encountered a smell as uniquely horrible as that one." She said while ensuring she took deep breaths.

A pungent and strongly acrid odour was coming from the dead man's mouth.

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She then pointed to another corpse.

"Smell that one as well."

"Do I have to?"

Elizabeth then dragged him by his head over to it.

"Alright, alright, I'll do it so stop dragging my hair!"

He then sniffed this one and noticed the awful smell coming from his mouth as well. Elizabeth then requested (threatened) him to do some of the others.

"I see."

Lily looked confused and Elizabeth decided to explain.

"They're all missing a tooth."

Lily tilted her head at this and turned to Ezekiel.

"Considering the awful smell, they either all ate something real nasty that also happened to make them lose exactly one tooth or they all had a fake tooth that contained some sort of poison."

Lily then hit her open palm with a fist like a mallet with a gavel and mouthed an "Oh".

"So they're all useless." She responded.

"Tch, tch, tch, Lily I'm sure it'll be pretty useful to at least know the poison they use."

"But if that's the case we at most need to bring two back. The rest of them are useless."

Ezekiel wanted to counter but couldn't think of anything and instead approached her and gave her noogie.

Elizabeth sighed at the sight.

"I suppose it's about time we left."

Ezekiel continued to noogie his helpless guildmate and nodded his head in agreement.

"By the way, who's gonna have to carry that monster's corpse back?"

Both Lily and Elizabeth responded in unison.

"You,"

"You, dumbass."

"Oh, come on can't we play rock, paper, scissors for it?"

Lily immediately responded "Not this time you bastard."

He looked at everyone and all he received was cold stares.

"Come on guys, I'm pretty sure this counts as mutiny."

Two of the adventurers picked one of the corpses and moved along and everyone else followed.

Elizabeth slowed down a bit to tell him something.

"He's all yours Mr. 'There aren't any big shots'."

She soon disappeared into the forest.

Ezekiel groaned and quickly picked up Saito's body.

"WAIT FOR ME YOU BASTARDS!"

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Vanessa was passed out on Tibaut's shoulder at the manor entrance and Tibaut looked like he was fighting sleep himself.

He soon saw a wolf exiting the forest looking excited and barking towards the forest.

He shook Vanessa but she wouldn't budge. He moved her off his shoulder and she soon fell into his lap. This seemed to wake her as he immediately felt something bite him.

"Ah, what the hell?"

"Tch, I missed." She responded with an ominous comment and looked forward.

"Seriously?"

Tibaut himself looked forward and saw what she commented on.

Elizabeth was walking back limply with one of her hands bandaged.

Upon seeing this, Tibaut couldn't help but unconsciously say "seriously?"

Eventually, Elizabeth made it to the pair.

"Did you get into a fistfight with a dragon?" Tibaut responded astonished.

"Would you consider a demon higher or lower ranked than a dragon?"

"I suppose it would take a demon to fight one," Vanessa commented.

Elizabeth, imperceptibly fast, grabbed and pinched her cheek after this comment.

While Vanessa writhed on the ground, Tibaut looked to be processing some thought in his head.

("So demons exist in this world, huh.")

Although he was right, Elizabeth was simply referring to how Saito looked.

"Anyway, it seems my current training isn't enough," Elizabeth said while looking as if something was weighing on her mind.

She grabbed Tibaut and pulled him up.

"So I've decided we need to intensify our training."

Tibaut had a look of horror on his face. Not because he was afraid of getting his ass kicked. What was this battered woman saying? In her current state, even Tibaut would be able to beat her without any shenanigans (at least, he believed so).

He then got behind her and started pushing her.

"Fight with that hand? Are you an idiot?" He sharply responded.

Vanessa joined him and helped to push her inside.

"Did you get your head hit too hard, Liz?"

She protested but they were able to get her inside and brought her to her room.

They held her by her hands and legs and threw her on the bed.

"Get some rest."

"You're not enough of a monster to train like that."

They then shut the door and quickly left.