In the spacious hall, Fang Li sat on the sofa, narrowing his eyes as he looked at the scene before him.
In front of him, a table that should have been lying there had been propped upright like a shield, blocking his view.
Then, hushed whispers began drifting out from behind the table.
"Wh... why did that cold-blooded devil suddenly come back!?"
"H... how would I know!?"
"It's over! It's over! We're definitely going to get punished horribly! Horribly!"
"Y... yeah! If it's Fang Li, he absolutely won't let us off! It wouldn't even be strange if he tied all of us up and hung us outside! Though in that case... in that case... it might not be so bad?"
Conversations like these continued to emerge from behind the table.
They were filled with unease and panic, as though a wild beast had entered the house. Their fearful, desperate tone made it seem as if something truly dreadful had happened here.
Fang Li merely stared at the scene with half-lidded eyes. After a long while, he finally spoke without expression.
"Don't you have anything to say to me?"
The moment those words fell, every sound behind the table vanished.
Immediately afterward, four heads cautiously poked up from above the table.
Other than Kazuma, Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness, who else could it have been?
"Y... yo, Fang Li."
With an awkward smile, Kazuma greeted Fang Li while pretending to be calm.
"W... we didn't expect you to suddenly come back. Since you were coming back, why didn't you tell us so we could pick you up?"
At Kazuma's words, Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness all nodded repeatedly.
However...
"Tell you?" Fang Li said blankly. "If I had told you, you would've run away in advance, wouldn't you?"
The four useless idiots immediately