Chapter 831: Offering (5)
"Looks like the friends over there have really gotten into their activities in this world."
"Since there's already a precedent. But of course, I didn’t just accept it right away. The reason I gathered the three of you here today is to ask about that..."
"Isn’t your appearance a bit too relaxed for coming to ask questions?"
"Ah, you really have dug yourself in, haven’t you?"
...Is that so?
Anyway, the reason the three of them were speaking like that wasn’t without reason. It was because my body had taken quite a...strange form right now. It wasn’t entirely voluntary, though. Three Mecha-Biyams were sticking to my limbs like human hand warmers.
Originally, we were supposed to discuss how the third Biyam raid was going to proceed, but unfortunately, it seemed that these three were more focused on how to keep me around longer than anything else.
The result of that was... what my acquaintances were calling "digging in" and my current state.
Aside from that, normally I would’ve just gone along with the "when there's nothing, make do with what you have" mentality, but recently, that hadn’t been the case. The involvement of my acquaintances in the combat had become quite important.
Of course, even if I weren’t there, we could carry out the operation relatively smoothly. A prime example being the last time with the Cartographer. Thanks to the training I gave them, even though I couldn’t follow through to the end of the mission, we still managed to achieve the result of destroying the Shield Generator.
However, despite that fact, as I mentioned last time, the presence of the manifested acquaintances still greatly influences the operation. Especially in situations like the third youngest raid, where we couldn’t easily twist the operation structure by ourselves.
Because I knew that better than anyone, my acquaintances hadn’t rejected the proposal and were listening carefully to my words.