"Ha ha."
Laios laughed like a child, clutching the Dragon's Tooth and Cursed Bone in his arms, inspecting this one, then that one.
Hachiman Hikigaya calmed down and felt that Laios wasn't such a bad teammate after all. He might have seemed a little strange, but he definitely had some skills.
"Uh, Laios, are we getting ready to fight the BOSS?"
"Mm, I know."
Laios spoke, staring into his eyes with an exceptionally serious expression.
"Then it's time to prepare something!"
"...What is it?"
Hachiman Hikigaya instinctively began wondering whether he had failed to do something properly, thinking about how a good brother should handle this situation.
Oh, right. He had forgotten to exchange information about their Craft Essences and Noble Phantasms with Laios!
He scratched his head.
"Sorry, let's exchange information about our Noble Phantasms..."
"Then let's get ready to eat first! We can talk while we eat."
"Hm?"
"Huh?"
Hachiman Hikigaya and Mahiro Oyama both spoke up at once.
"If we're eating, what do we do without a pot?"
Laios smacked his fist into his palm, suddenly coming up with a solution.
"We can search around here for things, right?"
He ran off immediately.
"Ah—"
Hachiman Hikigaya simply lay down, looking up at the sky.
"Mahiro, I think the sky looks pretty nice too."
"It really does. Hehehe, lying down is pretty comfortable."
After a while.
"Everyone, come on! Come eat!"
Laios's voice rang out.
Hachiman Hikigaya got up and instantly widened his eyes.
Laios had actually... started a fire by the side entrance of the school building!
Not only had he built a small campfire, he had also found a pressure cooker for stew and set it over the flames, with white steam billowing out.
"No, where did you get water?"
"I filled it up from over