"What are you planning to do next, Ninya?"
The four sat on the grass, and Naiyuan looked at the silent Ninya. She had just told them about what she had gone through.
They treated the girl gently. After all, the three of them had borrowed several hundred hearts from her.
By digging out and eating one heart after another, Herohero successfully used the Ancient Jet-Black Slime's ability to devour the Talents within them, ultimately turning them into Ability Seeds.
Afterward, Herohero remarked that children's hearts tasted great—crunchy and nutritious. As a Slime, he liked them very much.
Naiyuan and Momonga also swallowed the Seeds on the spot, successfully obtaining the Talent, Accelerated Magic Learning.
"I..."
Ninya lowered her head, her face full of confusion. Her teammates were gone, and now that she was alone, she did not know what she was supposed to do with her future.
Should she continue being an adventurer, or find an ordinary job and live out the rest of her life like that?
She wanted to save her sister. She wanted to avenge her teammates. But Ninya realized that there was no hope if she relied on herself alone.
She could do nothing.
"Ninya, why do you think this happened?"
Momonga looked at the Ninya who had lost her way regarding the future and asked.
"Because... we were too greedy?"
After thinking for a moment, Ninya lowered her head and spoke. Her heart was filled with regret.
If they had not chosen to return to the forest and had instead gone to the Adventurer Guild to submit the quest, things would not have turned out this way.
She could clearly have tried to persuade everyone back then. But when she thought of the treasure they might obtain, and of using it to redeem her sister