Carelessly Becoming Famous Again

"Captain, hurry! Something happened!"

The seven-day trial had passed five days. That day, inside the monitoring room on the outskirts of the trial town, a monitor on duty suddenly shouted.

"What are you yelling for? As a soldier, you need to stay calm in the face of danger... Holy shit, what is this?"

The captain, who had been "staying calm," let out a startled cry the moment he saw the radar display.

On the radar screen, the red dots representing exotic beasts were actually... disappearing in clusters. Only a scattered few red dots remained.

"We released three thousand low-level exotic beasts. Logically, no matter how capable they are, they shouldn't have been able to kill them all."

The captain frowned, and a sudden shock ran through his heart. "Unless... a high-level exotic beast entered the trial grounds to hunt!"

"Keep a close eye on things. I'll report this."

The captain rushed out in a panic and ran to a building outside the trial grounds.

"The trial beasts are dying on a massive scale? They're almost all dead?"

Upon hearing the captain's report, the instructors from all the various organizations sprang to their feet and hurried out of the room.

They had come to the same conclusion.

Unless high-level exotic beasts had entered the trial grounds to hunt, there was no reason for the trial beasts to be dying in such large numbers.

If high-level exotic beasts had entered the grounds, the trainees participating in the trial would surely be in grave danger.

"Open the gates!"

The instructors rushed into the trial grounds in a frenzy.

Then...

They saw a group of trial trainees sitting at the entrance to a street in the town.

A bonfire had been lit ahead of them. An iron rack stood over it, strung with strips