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kind side by taking a pupil with some special circumstances, but…somehow it’s like he’s only showing his gentle and caring side to that boy.
It does make me a tad jealous.

…Wait, now’s not the time for that! I’ll also declare my war on that boy!

As soon as I did, 【Thunderclap Whitefang】 said that it’d be impossible for me, and that guy treated me like a complete retard.
As expected, even Liz and Sasha looked super pissed, so we secretly agreed that the three of us would show him who’s boss.

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And then the exam started…

Eeeeehhh!?

That boy rushed off at an unbelievable speed.
What’s the idea here!?

Even those creepy guys, who had been scheming to get in the boy’s way, howled like sour losers as it looked like all their little plans went bust.

But, true, it’s not like any of us knows how long he’ll be able to keep up going at that pace.
If he runs out of steam inside the dungeon, it’ll spell his death.
Moreover, when being solo.

Even if he might have a golem with him, that thing should use quite a bit of mana, so it should be accompanied with quite a bit of danger to go at such a pace.

I’m sure he ran away because of all the bullying, and is now hiding somewhere!! I’ll totally poke fun at him if I spot him!!

 

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We finally arrived at the dungeon entrance.
We kept looking for that boy all the time, but he was nowhere to be found.

He must be quite skilled at hiding.
He got my praise for that.

An examiner stood in front of the dungeon entrance.

“…Did I see wrongly after all? Somehow it looked like a child entered the dungeon while being chased by some kind of monster…”

Hearing him mumbling that, I pinned my eyes on the examiner in surprise, “…He…entered already?”

“When!? How long ago!?”

“Eh? So my eyes didn’t play a trick on me then!? It’s been quite a while ago.
More than 40 minutes by now.”

Eeeeehhh!?

Those scummy guys, who’d arrived here at the same time as us, were shocked as well.

“…Gotta be havin’ fun by using that golem, right? Ahhh, I’m so damn envious of a piece of shit who gets pushed everythin’ into her ass by an S-Rank!”

How can it make things easier by using a golem!? Don’t look down on magic arts, okay? Even just having it walk around all over the place while following you eats lots of mana!

…But, if it’s a golem 【Thunderclap Whitefang】 obtained, it might have some function to not use mana? As I thought, he’s a cheat!

 

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We blundered on our pacing.
Since we wanted to get away from the guys who had been bitching all the time, we somehow managed to lose them halfway.

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Wanting to finish the exam faster than those idiots and that boy, I pushed my party members and advanced while limiting the breaks to the minimum.

“Huh…? I feel like we’ve passed this way some time ago…?”

“No way.
You properly drew a map, didn’t you?”

“Wha-, of course I did! But, I was a bit in a hurry, so I might have made a mistake.”

Not drawing a map in a dungeon is fatal.
If you fail at it, you should head back the way you came.
But, since I was impatient, I plunged onwards.

…and got completely lost.

No examiner is to be found anywhere, and we don’t know any safe areas either.

As we continued on, still not taking a rest, my feeling of time slowly started to fade.
And just when my exhaustion reached its peak…

 

Those monsters showed up.

 

We should have retreated here.
But, in the end we underestimated the enemy.
I mean, it was just two goblins.

“Wait! It’s dangerous to take them on in our current state! I’ll cast a barrier, so let’s use that moment to fall back!”

Ignoring Sasha’s warning, I rushed ahead.

“We can easily get rid of two lousy goblins, right!? We’re a party that’s going to become C-Rank!”

“True.
Defeating them will allow us to get rid of some stress even if we’ll retreat in the end, won’t it? …And to be honest, I don’t know whether I’ll have enough stamina to get away if they chase after us.”

When I cast a fireball as a restraint and Liz tried to cut into them…

…my fireball clashed against another spell and vanished.

 

Huh?

 

On top of that, the other spell continued heading my way.

“…Oh wall, block everything!”

Sasha’s barrier spell was in time, resulting in the spell getting repelled.
But, at the same time Sasha ran out of mana.
She crumbled down on her knees.

…I had used too much offensive magic, so I ended up drinking Sasha’s share of mana potions.
It was all because I wasted my spells out of impatience.

“Ughh!”

Liz had her thigh stabbed by the other goblin.
I looked at the goblin in surprise.

――This is no ordinary goblin! It’s an evolved one!

“Liz!”

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I threw the bomb magic tool.
This was a very expensive item, but I bought it just in case.

Using the opportunity, Liz somehow managed to fall back to us and drink a healing potion.
It apparently stopped her bleeding, but the wound itself didn’t heal.

――We prepared all kinds of things in order to pass the C-Rank exam in one go.
All the money we’d earned so far went into it.

We went this far, and yet it was all in vain.

That and everything else was my fault.
I got impatient and didn’t even consider our pace.
Even though I messed up with the map, I continued onwards without admitting so.
I attacked pointlessly, resulting in me using up even the mana potions of someone else.

…Yep, it was really hard, but we somehow managed to reach D-Rank.
But, I never felt my life was in danger.
I didn’t understand the meaning behind having the skill allowing you to reach D-Rank through connections, why you had to take a proper exam for C-Rank, and why it was said that you could only call yourself an adventurer after becoming a C-Rank.

Now that I’m about to die, I’ve finally realized it.

The reason behind the pledges I agreed to before taking the exam: 『No matter what happens, the guild won’t be held accountable for anything, even if the examinee dies during the exam』 and 『Please write a will in advance.
In case you die or go missing, we will hand your belongings to the people mentioned in your will after the exam has ended』.

Very likely, those are a Goblin Warrior and a Goblin Mage.

After those two squealed as if laughing at us, the Goblin Mage cast a fire spell.
The large-scale Blaze spell I specialize in.

…Yeah, I did something bad to that boy.
And yet he was able to calmly deal with such a spell being used on him.

It’s inevitable for me to be totally scared of that approaching fire…

…No! I don’t want to die! No, no, no! Please no…!

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I wonder whether it’s more stylish to hold up a hand?

I mean, it surely gives the feeling of 『using magic』.”

 

Eh?

 

When I lifted my head, that boy was standing in front of me.
With the flames having disappeared.

 

Eh?

 

When I looked at him in sheer amazement, he stared back at me, and smiled, “Yo, sorry for making you wait!”