Yui's reasoning naturally made a great deal of sense.
No matter what the evil spirit was thinking, they only needed to proceed at their own pace.
There were indeed godlike people in this world whose wisdom ran as deep as the sea, who could infer an enemy's entire scheme from the slightest thread of evidence and devise a targeted way to break it—but this group was certainly not made up of such people.
Since they were not godlike people, they should honestly solve problems the way ordinary people did.
The way ordinary people did things was to advance steadily and deal with matters as they came.
After reaching an agreement, they continued onward.
Perhaps it had realized they had arrived. The crying the priest heard became noticeably clearer. After a while, the ranger and mage heard it too, and shortly afterward, even the knight and warrior could hear it.
"That crying is so damn irritating!" the warrior grumbled unhappily. "Just hearing it makes my heart restless!"
"Could someone be in danger and need help?" After listening for a while, the knight said worriedly, "We should go take a look."
"Boss, how could there possibly be anyone here who needs help?" the ranger sighed. "Look at the ground. Other than the footprints we left behind, do you see any signs that anyone else has walked here?"
The knight studied the floor carefully for a while, then shook his head.
"Exactly. Judging from our footprints, no one has been here for at least two or three months," said the ranger. "Even if someone really were imprisoned here, after two or three months without food or water, they would definitely be dead by now."
"Even if they weren't dead, they wouldn't have the strength to cry that loudly," the warrior added.
"Maybe where