“Bogle?” Dalgil turned around. Bogle shuddered, and when he opened his eyes with great effort, Dalgil came running while shouting, “Bogle! Are you awake? Bogle!”

“Uh, um…where am…ugh! Ow, it hurts…” Bogle frowned and appeared very flustered. Then he looked at Dalgil and jumped up. “C-Captain?”

“Bogle! How are you—!”

“Look at the condition you are in! How injured are you?”

“No, I’m fine—”

“Wait a bit! Huh? Where is it! Where?” Bogle jumped and frantically searched for the bag he always carried around with him. Thus, Ru Hiana handed his bag to him, and Bogle immediately took out two healing potions and said, “Captain! Wait a bit! You have muscle strains, cuts, and burns…what happened to you?”

“Bogle, I’m really fine. It’s you who needs help—”

“No, the person who needs treatment the most right now is you, Captain. And don’t you know that the use of healing potions during an expedition is entirely decided by the one playing the role of a priest?” Bogle said firmly and shut Dalgil up by pouring a bottle of potion into his mouth. Then Bogle carefully poured the remaining healing potion onto Dalgil’s body after forcing him to take off his armor. And while drinking the potion, Dalgil’s expression relaxed. He had been worried that Bogle would turn out to be a fake, but his behavior and speech suggested that he was the real deal.

“It seems like two bottles aren’t enough…”

“It’s really fine now. Won't we have to leave one bottle for Airi?”

“Hm…” Bogle seemed pensive when Dalgil brought up Airi.

Bam! In the meantime, the violent knocking persisted.

“…Hey.” Bogle flinched and looked up at the red door. Then he turned back to his surroundings and asked, “I wanted to ask when I woke up, but what’s that noise? I’m not the only one hearing it right?”

Ru Amuh answered Bogle’s question....