An image.

Image of a crying woman.

Image of many crying woman in front of him.

Sadness, hatred, rage, despise.

Each and every emotion lingers in the air.

Among the many women crying there, one walked toward the one in front of him. And she screams.

[WHY ARE YOU ALIVE!!?!?!?]

***

[Ugh!]

As Vram was jerked around in his dream, all he could see is a bright ceiling that filled with a cocoon, a mana cocoon from the Vasps.

[A… are you okay…?]

As Vram still confused with what had happened to him, Hilda was by her side, hugging Hougo’s remain while timidly approaching the conscious Vram.

[Somehow…. I barely managed to survive.]

[Hmm…] [Yet, here I am, worrying myself to the death….]

[Ah, sorry about that.]

[Nhah, It’s okay.] [I should’ve known better that a Familiar with its body still intact means that they still alive.] [Josephine already realized that, thus left you here with some mana stone to recover your stamina.]

[Unggh….] [I’m thankful for that.] [So, where’s she?]

[She’s there, collecting the Mana Cocoon together with Maria and Chris.]

[I see….]

Vram was struggling to stand once again, while Hilda was trying to stop him.

[Rest again for a while.] [You look so exhausted.]

[That’s exactly why, Lady Hilda.] [If we don’t start moving as soon as possible, their reinforcements will come.]

[Eh?]

[MASTEEEEEEER!!!]

As Vram took a deep breath, then unleash it with such a voice that could be heard throughout the whole cave. Hearing that, there are sounds of footsteps quickly reaching closer toward them.

[VRAAAM?!?!] [Thank god you’re fine!!!]

[I’m grateful for your worries, but we need to move out from here as fast as possible.]

[Why?]

[The reinforcements are coming.]

[Who?]

[That giant Vasps.]

[Wait!] [What do you mean by that?!?!] As Chris suddenly went in outburst hearing Vram’s statement.

[I’ll explain it midway, but for now, we need to get moving as fast as possible.]

[I agree with Vram.] [I feels something weird will happens if we’re just staying here doing nothing.]

As Hilda agreed together with Vram, they finally started to move out from the Cave.

***

[That’s… impossible….]

As the girls keeps walking further and further from the cave, though they already quite far from the forest, an expression of disbelief and despair runs through their face.

What they have seen before was something not even the locals in the island would’ve seen, or survived to even see one. Hordes of Vasp Queens, flocking and gathering around like a normal Vasps, went toward the cave they previously raided. About 20 to 40 Vasp Queens gathering there for the obvious reasons.

[I… if not for the cloak Vram gave us and his “storage” that allow us to hide the cocoon, we would never survive that….]

[How did you realize that, Vram?]

[When I was in the middle of face-off against it, it somehow releasing some kind of waves similar to what the Vasp’s corpse had been releasing this whole time, only the frequencies were larger than the normal Vasp, letting me able to sense it easily.] [Considering it was those Vasp that called that monster, it’s safe to assume that there are more of those kinds.]

[I guess it means that there are still so many things we don’t know yet regarding this island, considering we’ve been living in this island for more than decade.] As Hilda's worries somehow grow larger with it.

[And venturing it would be dangerous, as this place had so many places that completely robs us of our mana and drain our energy completely, leaving us with nothing….]

[So this island also had another “Forbidden Spot”?]

A “Forbidden Spot” was an area notified as unreachable mainly because of the nature of its area. Some places were too deadly, some places were too poisonous and others are just plainly dangerous without reasons, or “beyond” reasons.

[Still, we’re managed to obtain a huge amount of Mana, completely way beyond what the quota had expected from us~!] [With this, we could easily fixed the seniors’ familiar in no time~!] [AND I COULD EAT AS MUCH HAMBURGER AS I WANTED~!] As Josephine skipping and jumping here and there with her droll spreading here and there.

[Urgh…] [You really need to learn some manners, Naked Idiot…!]

As Hilda letting out a long deep breath, she smiles a little behind her backs.

[Thank you, Josephine.] [I’m really grateful.]

Thus, leaving Josephine so oblivious with Hilda’s gratitude, the party went back home in smile and laugh.