Human Malice

Three days later, Dago appeared in the tower's mission hall once more.

The bald wizard followed him like a shadow, as though he had latched onto Dago completely, like a ghost that refused to depart.

As usual, Dago ignored him. He gently placed a gray parcel containing thirty Gale Bee Guard honey sacs on the counter and called over the short-haired girl he knew to submit the mission for him.

"You're here?!"

The short-haired girl remembered Dago well. Her face lit up with surprise when she saw him, and she seemed genuinely delighted by his arrival.

But soon, Dago watched the color gradually drain from her rosy cheeks. Staring at the mission register in her hands, her entire face turned deathly pale, and even her lips began to tremble.

"I—I got the required item for this mission wrong."

The short-haired girl rose from her seat with vacant eyes and murmured dazedly, "What the requester wanted wasn't Guard Bee honey sacs at all, but Guard Bee eyes."

Again?!

Once, twice, and now a third time!

With mishaps happening again and again, even someone as good-tempered as Dago was finally nearing his breaking point.

"What use could Gale Bee eyes possibly have?"

Dago forcibly suppressed the smoldering fury in his chest and asked patiently.

"Help me contact the requester and ask them properly. Maybe you didn't register it incorrectly. Perhaps they made the mistake themselves."

But the short-haired girl could not hear him at all. She merely kept muttering to herself, "I got it wrong, I got it wrong."

Under Dago's cold, flame-spewing gaze, she suddenly burst into tears.

"I—I... I'll use my own con-contribution points... to compensate you!!"

In an instant, the short-haired girl wept pitifully, tears pouring down her face as she apologized to Dago between sobs.

Dago had not