Chapter 475: Debate
Kim couldn’t say that she wanted to leave as quickly as they could, but at the same time, it wasn’t like she had anything she really wanted to get done here. Not when they were so close to getting out of this competition and out of the constant worry about what was going on with it. Or even what might come next.
However, she also didn’t want to turn the others against them. There was safety in numbers and right now there was no telling what else those running this lousy competition had done. So many things were just uncertain at this moment. Not to mention the fact that pushing everyone to this could potentially affect their morale. Which was something that would also impact how quickly they’d be able to return to that dungeon.
After all, Kim was confident that part of the reason it’d only taken a single day for them to reach the village after leaving the dungeon had been because their morale was high and so were able to make good time. Although Kim deliberately pushed the incident with the spider out of her mind, given how that itself had slowed them down. Not to mention how it’d affected her and what she’d been able to do.
"What if we cook breakfast and eat it while we walk?" Kim asked interrupting the debate over that very issue, doing her best to keep her own impatience from entering her voice. "I mean, it shouldn’t take that long to cook it, or at least heat it up, right?"
Owen blinked, looking like he’d been caught off guard. Even the others stopped their bickering about the issue with Kim’s statement. Though, she hoped it was because of it being a good idea rather than any other reason. Especially since there wasn’t any guarantee that it was going to keep them from devolving back into arguing again.
"Shouldn’t we take our time and enjoy our breakfast?" Owen asked. "I mean, it has been a long trip for us from the library."
"Yeah, that’d be fine if we didn’t have Stanley’s group to worry about," Kim retorted, not caring how her words came across. "We took our time coming back to this village and even stayed longer than we probably should have at the capital just to catch up with Samantha as well as talking with the king."
"All the more reason to take our time here," Owen replied, sounding as if he’d lost sight of what they’d been pushing towards.
Or at least as far as Kim was concerned.
"What if we take our time and Stanley’s group comes back because they hustled and found that the book didn’t work?" Jonas asked calmly, as if this was merely an intellectual discussion and not one that could determine just how quickly they were able to get out of this competition.