Cui Ciyou's gaze settled on the dreadlocked female warrior who had just been encouraging her teammates, ready to sacrifice herself to cover their retreat. He thought:
Was she the one who was both a sister and a mother to Sara in the original story? Susanna?
Then this party must be the one Rudeus joined in the original story after disbanding his Adventurer Party.
The B-Rank adventurer party he joined when he came to the Three Great Magical Nations-Counter Arrow.
As for Cui Ciyou's impression of this B-Rank party...
Aside from Sara, he remembered their female warrior and Vice-Leader, Susanna, and their mage and leader, Timothy.
Those two had left a fairly strong impression on him.
Among adventurer parties of wildly varying character, they were a rare breath of fresh air-genuinely good people.
Susanna had first appeared to help Rudeus out of his despair after Alice left him.
Whenever her party was in danger, she repeatedly volunteered to stay behind and cover their retreat, displaying a deeply selfless spirit.
Their leader, Timothy, meanwhile, was an exceptionally kind soul.
Even when someone beat him up, he never got angry and always wore a cheerful smile.
Whenever he earned money, he generously treated the adventurers at the local guild to drinks, whether he knew them or not.
When Cui Ciyou watched the anime back then, he had even felt...
Compared with Rudeus in the original story, the ever-positive, optimistic Timothy seemed more like the classic hero of an otherworld mage anime.
Still, noble, upstanding protagonists seemed to have fallen out of fashion.
These days, it was all about cautious survivalists and looking out for yourself above all else.
Dark protagonists were more popular, too.
But in this timeline, thanks to his intervention, Sara...
Had had her parents saved, changing her fate.
She had