Miles walked at the cave wall as he held the now empty sword in front of him. Even though he could see the heat emitted from the target, he didn't know how far it was. It took him almost 20 minutes to walk to the end of the cave, now looking at the cave wall before him.

Miles changed between heat vision and dark vision and looked at the same place repeatedly. In heat vision, he could see the silhouette of a person. While in the latter, he could not.

'Interesting,' he thought.

"I know you are there. You can come out now. " Miles said, making his voice deeper. His armor was on his body. There was no opening where one could see him.

"Stop waving your hand, I can see you." Miles said once again when the person started to wave its hand in front of him.

"The Marooner!" The person said as she started to appear in front of Miles. She had blonde hair framing her face and blue eyes and a hot figure. Porseila Lemaze! She had the look on her face that Miles only saw a few times when Porselia was looking at his brother.

"Princess!" Miles saluted with his head.

His thoughts, on the other hand, were working like mad. 'Should I kill her? No, I am not a cold blooded killer. But she did torture me with my sis when I was small, and she hates my guts. No one would know it is me, if she were to die here!'

"I didn't know anyone else could enter here besides me. But everything is possible for the famous Marooner, right?" She asked with a little blush on her face.

"You can say that." Miles boasted without shame and asked. "How were you able to enter this cave? I thought it was impossible to see in here."

"Well, I shouldn't tell you because I hardly know you. But I trust you." Porselia said, fidgeting her fingers, and explained. "You do know my powers right? Everyone knows thanks to battles I participated in when I was small." Porselia asked to see if Marooner was interested in her.

Miles just stood silently and waited for her to continue.

Porselia got a little bit sad and explained, "Anyway, my power is reflection. I can reflect almost anything. The darkness in here can also be reflected or ignored with my eyes. So I was able to enter and exit anytime I wanted."

"Oh, so that is how it is." Miles nodded, then asked. "So what were you hiding from?"

"I, from time to time, come here to collect some honey to give to my grandfather. He loves it. I never encountered any problem before, but this time when I entered, a group of wasps attacked me. I should have been invisible but they could feel me with their other sensory organs. I didn't know what to reflect, so I couldn't escape from them. I dodged their attacks, and by the time I figured out how to block their senses, I was here, deep inside of the cave. I was too tired to go out." Porseila said pitifully, and looked at Miles, "Can you take me out please? You are a hero right? I can't fight with those giant wasps."

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"I am not a hero." Miles said sternly, and looked at Porseila's downcasted face, "But, I can escort you out, if you pay for it!"

Porseila's face bloomed like a daisy after a spring rain, then blushed like a rose. She looked at Miles abashedly.

"What kind of payment?" She asked shyly.

'What the hell is going on in this crazy woman's head?' Miles shook his head and said, "High Tier Orb."

"Oh!" Porseila exclaimed at this, then she got serious, "Oh..."

"That is fine. It is just a High-tier Orb." She said and jumped on Miles's arm and held him tightly.

'I should have asked pinnacle-tier instead.' Miles was shocked when he heard what Porseila said. Since he already agreed on a high-tier, changing the price wouldn't be appropriate, so he shook his head and started to walk out.

"Your power is lightning right? It is so cool!" Porseila said from his side. Her giant racks were touching Miles's arm.

Miles was hesitant if he should cancel the armor, so he could feel them. But in the end, he won the battle against his bad side and kept the armor on.

"What was it like to fight against Starve Cleric?" She asked once again, but continued without waiting, "My Grandfather fought against them once. He saved Unity when their leader wanted to destroy Mama Hill, the mother AI. If it wasn't for my Grandfather, we wouldn't have the means to fight against monsters today."

"But you should already know all of these. After all, you fight against them, right?"

"I don't fight against Starve Cleric, nor am I a hero! I was there at the time, and Starve Cleric was standing in my way, thus I got rid of them." Miles said.

He wasn't a hero. He wasn't a bad person, but he wouldn't sacrifice himself for others. He had trust in his abilities at the time. Otherwise, he would run away as fast as he could. But neither was he a cold-blooded person. By luck, he was in the right place at the right time and stopped them. The other things weren't his concern. He didn't care if Starve Cleric declared him as their enemy. He long ago decided to live for himself, and he was just doing what he felt was right.

"Oh." Porseila said, and then asked. "Which stronghold are you in? I saw you at Umbra Forest and now here, but I don't know which of the three you are in."

"I am in Veteran Aomine Stronghold." Miles answered. He would be sighted in there soon enough anyway. He had no reason to hide.

"We are in the same stronghold! How come I never saw you?" She asked while jumping up and down.

Porseila asked question after question after they left the cave. By the time they were out, Miles considered killing her dozens of times, but in the end, he gave up on the thought. He brought her out by using a different route so she couldn't see the dead wasps, but she noticed something amiss anyway.

"Wait, why haven't I seen any wasps in the cave? Have you killed all of them?" Porseila asked when she saw Miles holding a bag full of honey.

"Maybe." Miles answered and reached out his arm. "Payment please, a high-tier Orb."

Porseila pouted her cute face as she looked at Miles as if she was wronged and fished out and orb pink in color. "You are extorting me! You have already killed all the monsters, but you kept the information from me so you could earn an orb to escort me out."

"Happy to do business with you." Miles said and looked at the orb.

Upon observation, Miles noticed there was something long rod floating in the orb.

'Is that a staff or a spear?'