The Fully Equipped Scout

The next day, at noon.

Jack-in-the-Pulpit stood blankly in the room, staring at the heap of objects piled into a small mountain on the floor.

Despite being large dogs, Bernese mountain dogs did not have the energy or exercise needs of huskies and border collies, but their destructive power around the house was every bit as formidable—even so, as a dogfolk member of the Bernese Mountain Dog Clan, Jack-in-the-Pulpit could not help being briefly stunned by the extravagant sight.

How long would it take to chew through all this?

The dog girl glanced back at Hyacinth, who had finally dumped everything out of her magical storage space, then at Iris, who was carefully taking inventory with a notebook, and Shuo Ye, who was curiously examining a small cube held by a Magic Hand at a wingtip. Suddenly, she found her teammates a little hard to understand.

"Woof, what is all this? Why did you bring so much stuff back from hunting, woof?" Jack-in-the-Pulpit asked Nightingale, wagging her tail curiously as the latter came around the mountain of objects.

Nightingale spread her hands. Rather than answer immediately, she reached over and took the little cube from Shuo Ye.

"You can't just play around with these things, especially this one. If you mess it up, it'll blow this room sky-high."

"Woof?!"

Jack-in-the-Pulpit, who had been about to pick one up from the pile, hastily withdrew her hand and backed away half a step, ears and tail tucked in nervously.

"Huh... it's actually that powerful..." Shuo Ye clearly had not expected the little cube picked up at random to be so formidable, and felt a shiver of belated fear.

"Yep. All this stuff came from Heartmoon Fox. You tell me whether it's dangerous."

Nightingale sounded rather resigned, and gave Hyacinth another glance.

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