After fighting the adventurers several days ago, Ford, bored out of her mind, finally opened up the loot bag she had gotten. She pulled out a red bracelet with a blade attached to it and read the description. Item: bleeder bracelet; quality: uncommon; immunity to bleed effects; pull on the blade to cut yourself and bleed to make weapons. Ford put the bracelet on her left wrist and began the long wait for everyone to awaken.

Tanya stared at the pocket watch while Lilly and Ford looked for people more suspicious than themselves or people who looked dangerous. By eighteen hundred (six o’clock), the others woke from their meditative trance and groaned, stretching their stiff muscles after sitting for several hours. Tanya stood, closing and pocketing the watch, “Okay,” she said, “let’s go.”

“Where are we going?” Ford asked.

“Into the adventurer’s guild! As requested,” Tanya said with purpose, then picked up a loose pipe from the ground.

“And how are we goin’ to do tha’?” Lilly asked.

Tanya waved a hand dismissively, “Now, now, Elf. Have some faith and follow me!” She ran straight toward the guildhall.

Ford rolled her eyes and ran after the child. Tanya took a right at the fountain in the middle of the courtyard, running toward a Giant with a massive Morningstar. The Giant noticed her and turned, raising a bushy stone eyebrow. Ford and the others froze as the tiny Tanya jumped, swinging the metal pipe and smashing the Giant’s balls. It did nothing to hurt him since he was five times Tanya’s size, but it did piss him off. He roared and swung his Morningstar at Tanya. She jumped forward and rolled, just missing the strike. Then she turned, pulled down her left lower eyelid, and stuck out her tongue. The Giant roared again and swung his Morningstar, missing as Tanya ran toward the guildhall. She ran through the open doors and disappeared into the building, closely followed by the Giant; Ford and the others followed the Giant.

The Giant burst through the open doors, searching for Tanya, but he couldn’t find her. So, he walked forward, and another Giant, as drunk as could be, rounded a corner and collided with the first one. The drunken Giant stumbled backward as if they had hit a wall and fell back onto a table full of food that Dwarves were eating; the Dwarves began yelling at the Giants and throwing their empty mugs of mead at them. This angered the first Giant even more, and he swung his Morningstar wildly, hitting an armored Giant that had come to break up the fight in the gut. The armored Giant doubled over, and everyone in the hall froze, except for the angry Giant. Drunken patrons then swarmed him; as the patrons fought the Giant, a few misplaced punches started several more brawls in the hall, turning this magnificent guildhall into an all-out bar brawl.

“Why are you just standing there gawking? Let’s go!” Tanya said from behind them, then ran off to the side of the building. Ford followed, and she led them to the back of the guild, where a window close to the ground was open. Tanya slipped inside, and Ford created a three-meter hole in the wall using destructive field. The wall turned into mana, and a second mana bar appeared under her other mana bar, reading one-hundred twelve MNP and revealing a kitchen.

‘Neat,’ she thought as she walked through the hole.

“You didn’t have to destroy the wall,” Tanya said.

Ford gestured to Gimble and said, “I kind of did. Anyways, Ee, where’s the dungeon?”

“This way,” Ee said as she led the way through a door that led down a flight of stairs. They followed and entered a storeroom full of sacks of potatoes and wheat. Ee nonchalantly opened a portal underneath a stack of sacks of potatoes, making them disappear and revealing an archway to the next dungeon.

“Whoa,” Tanya gasped, “That’s cool.”

“Meh,” Ford and Max said in unison.

“Can I come too?!” Tanya asked excitedly.

“NO!” everyone said simultaneously.

Except for Ace, who said, “Yes. Uh, I mean no.”

“Why not?!”

Ford knelt, looked Tanya in the eyes, and said, “Because it’s dangerous, especially for us, since it’s designed by Gods to kill us. We have enough trouble accounting for our own lives, and we don’t need anymore-”

“Baggage,” Tanya interrupted sourly.

“Any more people to worry about. We’ll be fine, and that’s only barely surviving. Stay here and stay safe,” Ford said, then Tanya gave her best pouting face to try and convince her otherwise. She ignored it and walked past her as Ee opened up the portal. Before walking through, Ford turned, looked at Tanya, and said, “Stay!” Tanya crossed her arms and turned away as Ace sat down, staying in place. “Not you, Ace,” she said, then walked through the portal into the dungeon.

Ford took a moment to take in the room as everyone else filled in behind her. When she heard the portal close, she released the area control around Ace, turned to give commands, and saw a tiny Tanya riding on the back of the giant mech Hellhound. “Whoa,” she gasped, “this place is so cool! I didn’t know your dog could shrink and grow! He looks way cooler this size.”

Ford raised her eyebrows and looked at everyone else as Tanya went on a hyper rambling about the dungeon. They all just shrugged or looked just as exasperated as Ford felt. She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose and thought, ‘You know, Wrath. I think you had the right idea about killing the child.”

“Can I kill her now?”

‘Still no.’