"What are you still hesitating for? Am I not better than that quack? In what way are my abilities inferior to his? What exactly are you hesitating over? Hurry up and make a decision."
The woman had clearly run out of patience. Uchiha Hikaru was very dissatisfied with her attitude, but he could not say so. After all, it was not good to start an argument at a time like this—it would only waste time and hurt feelings.
"What do you think? After all this time, after coming this far together, the two of you are like my right and left arms. How could I bear to give either of you up? Besides, if I made the choice myself, wouldn't that just offend someone? I'm not doing something like that."
Uchiha Hikaru was not foolish enough to make a choice like this himself. Besides, this sort of question was simply unreasonable, and he had no intention of paying for such nonsense.
"But I truly think it's far too dangerous for the three of us to go up together. This is simply impossible. No one has ever succeeded at attempting this alone, let alone with three people. Wouldn't that just send all three of us to our deaths for nothing?"
The young woman knew quite a lot about it. Her father often talked to her about such things at home, so she understood these cliffs fairly well.
But this doctor stayed at home all the time and knew nothing about such matters. That was why no one wanted to bring him along; it felt as though he would only drag everyone down.
"I understand that, but it's precisely because the two of us are stronger that I suggested the three of us go together, so we could look after the doctor.