While Airi was slaughtering her way through the Elven Village, Aiko, who was in the Royal Palace, was facing a difficult situation of her own.
Put simply... her students had split apart.
Of course, calling it a split did not seem quite right, because only one person had been isolated: Ama-no-kawa Kōki.
After the training ended, Airi patted her butt and ran off, but the mess she had left behind still had to be dealt with by everyone else.
Ama-no-kawa Kōki insisted that this was all Airi's conspiracy. He called on everyone not to fall for Airi's tricks, but to unite around him as they had before and let him, the Hero, lead them onward. In Ama-no-kawa Kōki's eyes, that was the most effective way to break the conspiracy.
However, Kaori and the other students, led by her, had absolutely no desire to keep fighting alongside Ama-no-kawa Kōki. Back when they had first been transported here, they might have found it hard to refuse because of appearances or companionship. But after being wiped out again and again in the illusion, the question of whether pride or life mattered more was no longer even a question.
Indeed, Ama-no-kawa Kōki had once been popular in class and the center of attention. But after being wiped out so many times in the illusion, everyone had had enough. Besides, the others were not blind. Whenever they had been at a disadvantage or completely wiped out, Ama-no-kawa Kōki had almost always been the chief culprit. Frankly, they were sick of him.
They could revive after dying in the illusion, but who was going to revive them if they died in reality?
If the students had not had a particularly vivid impression of death before, then after experiencing being bitten apart by goblins, having their throats