This Time, No Passing the Buck (Ninth Update—Please Subscribe! Please Vote!)
With Bedo's suicide, the escort squad's ordeal was finally declared over.
In the end, the Old Demon Faction had been completely wiped out. Bedo was dead, Kilian had been murdered, and numerous knights and adventurers had been assassinated. Though the escort squad had survived, its losses were undoubtedly devastating.
Afterward, everyone cleaned up the battlefield and tallied the casualties.
"This time, we had a total of 117 people and lost a full 84."
"Of those 84, 79 were knights from the Knights, while the remaining five were adventurers."
"Leaving the knights aside, among the adventurers, four were members of Aris's squad, while the other was from Lyon's squad."
"Regrettably, Magray is dead. Although we didn't find his body, barring any surprises, it was simply destroyed to eliminate the evidence rather than him having escaped by luck."
At the center of the camp, Beren presided over the discussion in a grave voice.
Present were all the members of Vivian's Squad, several members of Aris's squad, as well as Lyon and Eudice.
Naturally, Shien was there as well.
However, perhaps it was just his imagination, but Shien felt that the others were keeping a rather subtle distance from him.
Shien wanted to bring it up, but he had no opportunity to do so. He could only grumble inwardly and stay to one side, waiting for the discussion to proceed.
Upon hearing Beren's words, the others aside, Lyon and Eudice both wore heavy expressions.
"Magray..."
"That guy actually..."
Lyon and Eudice looked exceptionally grim.
But shouldn't they have been gloating instead?
After all, the reason Lyon and Eudice looked so terrible was entirely because they had underestimated this mission.
Including Magray and Magray's father, everyone connected to Lyon's squad had believed this