Just as Alice felt uneasy, apprehensive, and expectant, Aqua and Megumin, who had kept their distance from Alice ever since, finally stepped forward.
"Hey, what's this about a Hero appearing to defeat the Demon Lord? Why didn't I, the self-proclaimed know-it-all, know about something so important? Don't tell me it was some prophecy made by a fraud? You can't just believe that, you know? Just recently, I saw a cockroach in an incredibly suspicious shop claiming to be some Thousand Mile Eye demon that could see through everything, you know?"
Aqua said this with a serious expression, making one feel like cracking open her head to see what sort of circuits were inside.
"So you ran out because of something like that. You're even more selfish than I imagined."
Megumin, meanwhile, said this rather nonchalantly, making one want to point out that there was probably no one in the world more selfish than a Crimson Demon Clan member who absolutely had to cast Explosion Magic no matter what.
"You two..."
Darkness could only sigh helplessly.
Forget Darkness—even Fang Li wanted to roll his eyes.
The moment those two saw Fang Li and Darkness bringing Alice over, they had immediately scurried far away.
The reason was simple: they were afraid Alice had come to settle the score with them.
After all, when Fang Li returned again, these people had forced Hans into a corner, leaving him with nowhere to go but to turn around and attack the Royal Capital, nearly causing it catastrophic losses.
Yet, urged on by Kazuma, they had fled without a trace. It would not have been strange at all if Alice had come on behalf of the royal family to punish them.
That was why those two had kept their distance. Only after confirming Alice had not