While Makoto and Saemi were having an intimate moment at the lake, there was a person leaning against a tree near where they were standing, this person was currently with a wide smile on his face thanks to the scene he witnessed minutes ago.

"Hummm, so these two are already at that level of relationship"

Said the person who was leaning with his back against the tree.

"This is really an interesting turn of events"

Said the person starting to walk towards the dark of the night fading out of sight.

***

After Saemi and I finished putting on our clothes we both went back to the camp and separated, Saemi went to Shinji's tent while I leaned back against the tree I was in when Saemi came to talk to me, lying with my back against the tree I start to remember the moments I had some time ago with Saemi as sleep catches up with me causing me to fall asleep, the next day I woke up relatively early for two reasons, one is that I am used to waking up early and the second is that it would be easier to get things ready for when the strike group wakes up.

"Oh, you're up early Makoto"

I was surprised by a voice coming from behind me, as soon as I turned around, I found Aoi-sensei looking at me with a smile on her face.

"Aoi-sensei, what happened?"

Aoi-sensei had told me earlier that she was not in the habit of waking up very early, so it was very strange to see her so early in the morning.

"I couldn't sleep properly, our situation is making me a little anxious"

Aoi-sensei said, after that I split some fruit, I had picked and shared it with Aoi-sensei while waiting for the others to wake up, after some time passed little by little the others started to wake up, the last ones to wake up were the members of the attack group, Saemi woke up almost at the same time as Shinji but since I know she also got used to waking up early she probably woke up almost at the same time as me, once we had collected all the tents and put all the materials we used in our backpacks, we started to move again.

As we walked, Saemi glanced at me, i nodded indicating that she could proceed, in a few seconds Saemi suddenly stopped, drawing the attention of a few people and then began to look around as if looking for something, then her vision stopped at a specific place and then she pointed to one side and said something to Shinji.

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Shinji nodded and soon we all changed course following Shinji and the attack group, after a few minutes of walking, we came to a lake where I could hear several surprised sounds coming from various people, as everyone started to relax either lying on the ground or going to the lake, I decided to ask Saemi how exactly she convinced Shinji.

(I just told him that the wind coming from this direction was colder, probably from some water flow)

This was Saemi's answer that I received via Telepathy, to be honest I found Shinji rather simplistic, but since it came from his girlfriend, I guess that was just normal, as I sat there looking at everyone else playing in the lake, drinking water, or even relaxing I noticed Saemi glancing at me, by the way she seemed to want to talk to me.

(What's wrong Saemi?)

I asked using telepathy while looking at the lake.

(And that... when I woke up this morning, I was feeling different somehow... when I prayed this morning there was a new ability appearing)

Saemi said in a happy tone, for some reason I felt that she wanted to be praised for this even though she had no proof.

(That's great, what kind of ability is it?)

I asked curiously.

(I haven't tested it yet, but from the name it's probably a defensive skill, it's called Air Wall)

Saemi said, this news was really encouraging, although we still don't know what the defense level of this skill is, it should probably be strong enough to defend against some average enemies, this greatly increases the number of strategies since I won't have to worry about Saemi all the time.

(What did Shinji say about his new ability?)

I asked curiously.

(... I haven't told him yet that I got a new ability... I wanted you to know first)

Saemi said, i was a little surprised and at the same time a feeling of superiority welled up in my chest, at that moment I was feeling superior to Shinji.

(Thank you for prioritizing me)

I said, Saemi didn't answer what I said and soon a time again passed, everyone was doing the most diverse activities while we waited for orders from the attack group, which didn't take long to happen.

"Hey brats, stay put, Shinji wants to talk about our next plans"

A loud voice resounded throughout the place drawing everyone's attention.

(Ramon-sensei as always being a Shinji's bag-puller)

I thought as I looked at the scene, after seeing that everyone's attention was on him Shinji stepped forward while looking at everyone, when his eyes stopped on me a smile appeared on his face.

"I just want to tell everyone that we decided to set up a raiding party, so as you all know we need to find the place where the boss is so we can defeat it to go to the second floor"

Shinji said.

"With this in mind we have selected some people to form a group so that we can find the boss as soon as possible, for those of you who don't have combat skills you don't need to worry, the group will be made up of at least 2 people from the support group and at least 5 people from the attack group, you don't need to worry”

Said Shinji with a smile on his face, I really couldn't believe a word he was saying, to me it just seemed like he would take two meat shields just in case something happened.