"...So you just ran back like that?"
Looking at the girls before him, Fang Zheng was completely speechless.
He had never seen them in such a sorry state before. Eriri's eyes were swollen from crying, Asuna was still unconscious, and Mimir looked equally bedraggled. Aoba wore an embarrassed smile off to one side, while Leafa was covered in mud and hiding behind Lingyin...
"Forget it. Clean yourselves up. Once you're ready, we'll go again..."
"I'm not going!!"
Before Fang Zheng could finish this time, Eriri was the first to jump up, desperately shaking her head.
"I'm not going! I'm never going to this floor again! Even if I jumped off Aincrad, even if I died, I still wouldn't go!!"
"M-Me too... Those bugs are too terrifying, Mr. Fang Zheng. I really can't take it..."
Aoba was trembling as she pleaded from the side.
"Yeah, yeah! It's only just started, and there are already spiders and centipedes. What if cockroaches show up later?"
"-----!!"
At Leafa's words, almost every girl turned pale and froze stiff. Aoba's eyes rolled back, and she nearly fainted on the spot—centipedes and spiders as large as people were already enough to test one's nerves. If they ran into cockroaches the size of people too, they would probably collapse outright!
"..."
Seeing everyone before him looking ready to die rather than yield, Fang Zheng had no choice either. Honestly, he had never expected the designer of the sixth floor to be so disgusting as to fill it with bugs... As the saying went, there were only two kinds of people in this world: those afraid of things with no legs, and those afraid of things with too many legs.
Now it seemed his guild had quite a lot of the latter...
Fang Zheng tried persuading them a