"What should we do? That depends on what Setsuna herself wants."
Seeing the pleading look in the girl's eyes, Rita touched her bracelet. She hadn't even used the power of her divine armament!
Why did it feel like her charm and affinity had grown so much stronger than before?
She had made someone she had only just met place all her hopes in her hands so quickly.
Though that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
"Setsuna's wishes?"
Setsuna seemed not to understand.
She no longer had any options or hope. All she could do was choose to believe the human girl who had saved her. Besides, Rita gave her a feeling that she could be trusted.
"I can help you once—help the Ice Wolf Tribe survive this crisis. Don't worry. Though I'm only a maid, I do have some strength!"
"Or does Setsuna want to keep growing stronger herself?"
"I can help Setsuna break through her level cap. Perhaps after becoming stronger, when we rush to aid the Ice Wolf Tribe, Setsuna will have the strength to take revenge herself and personally kill those soldiers disguised as slave-catching squads."
Sitting at the bedside, Miss Rita elegantly rested both hands over her lower abdomen, carrying both nobility and allure.
Her wine-red, enchanting eyes looked at Setsuna, stirring an indescribable feeling within her. But what mattered most were Rita's words.
"Break through my level cap?"
Setsuna was only half-convinced. She had never heard of someone's limit being breakable with another person's help.
That was practically the power of a god!
If limits were so easy to break through, there would not be so few strong people in this world.
Even fourth-rank warriors were rare within the Ice Wolf Tribe, let alone fifth-rank ones...
The same was true among humans. Those with magic power