At an information counter directly facing the main entrance.
The half-elf girl, Eina Tulle, was looking down as she sorted through a mountain of documents.
Noticing that the hall had suddenly gone unusually quiet, she instinctively raised her head.
Then.
"Clatter-"
A sharp sound rang out.
The expensive quill in her hand slipped, leaving a shocking streak of ink across the important documents she had painstakingly spent the entire afternoon organizing and was just about to file.
But at that moment.
Eina no longer had time to fret over her documents.
"L-Lord Haimo?!"
Eina's beautiful emerald-green eyes went wide.
Of course.
That was not the only thing that made Eina lose her composure.
It was also because...
"Thud!"
"Thud!"
"Thud!"
Kashima, Mikoto, and the others came forward, panting.
They unloaded the enormous canvas bundles from their backs, bundles that had nearly crushed them, dropping them heavily onto the floor in front of the counter.
"Huff... huff..."
Kashima straightened up and wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling as though he had come back to life.
"This..."
Eina watched it all.
An utterly absurd conjecture surfaced in her mind.
"M-Miss Tsubaki..."
Eina swallowed, her throat feeling a little dry.
"You... this is..."
"Don't tell me..."
"This is another day's haul for the Haimo Familia?"
"What else would it be?"
"What? Don't believe it?"
Tsubaki smiled brightly, her single eye curving into a lovely arc.
"N-no, that's not..."
Eina's voice sounded somewhat unsteady.
She glanced at the size of the bundles, then at the panting members of the [Takemikazuchi Familia].
"I-it's just, Miss Tsubaki..."
Eina swallowed with some difficulty, her voice trembling slightly.
"What... what floor did you reach today?"
"The thirteenth floor."
Tsubaki spoke.
She also looked back at Sasamori Aya, who stood with her arms folded and a bored expression,