Comprehensive Manga: The Master is not here today.

At the banquet, both sides determined their respective destinations. Laos and his group prepared to return to the ground, while Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash continued to explore. However, before returning to the ground, Farin agreed to help Fujimaru Ritsuka inquire about the ghost matter to express her gratitude.

At the same time, Laos also shared with Falin their experience of eating monsters along the way, which aroused Falin's strong interest.

Marlucil, who originally wanted to prevent Farin from eating monsters, suddenly realized that as Laos's sister, their interests and hobbies might be surprisingly similar.

……

The happy time passed quickly. Sensi, who wanted to continue processing the dragon meat to preserve it and take it away, offered to keep watch all night, allowing the others to go to rest first.

Considering that the corpse of the fire dragon might attract other monsters, they chose to station in a remote and relatively safer house a little further away from there, with men and women each living in a bedroom.

The bedroom was not big and only had one wooden bed. They moved another bed from another house to make it fit. Malucel and Farin slept together, and Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu slept together. It was just right.

"Good night then."

"Good night."

Lying on the bed, everyone fell asleep quickly.

Although no fierce battle broke out in the end, perhaps because they were able to sleep in beds for a rare occasion, or perhaps because they successfully rescued Falin, everyone's tense nerves finally relaxed and they slept particularly soundly.

As for Fujimaru Ritsuka, she can sleep soundly at any time.

However, in the middle of the night, after an unknown amount of time, Falin suddenly woke up and opened her eyes abruptly.

"..."

She silently got up from the bed, walked down the bed, without even putting on her shoes, and just walked towards a certain direction in a daze.

Although the noise she made was very slight, Mashu woke up immediately and noticed Farin's presence.

...Miss Farin?

However, she did not pay too much attention to it, thinking that the other party just wanted to get up conveniently. But soon, the next scene made her immediately notice the abnormality of the situation——

Falin's steps were like those of a sleepwalker. She did not go to the bedroom door, but walked all the way to the edge of the bedroom window, stepped straight over the window, and climbed out of the house.

"!"

Seeing this scene, Mashu instantly came to her senses and quickly called out to Fujimaru Ritsuka beside her:

"Senior, wake up! Something happened to Miss Falin!"

"what happened?"

When he was first woken up, Fujimaru Ritsuka was still a little confused, but he quickly woke up after hearing the second half of the sentence. He immediately looked at Falin's bed, which was now empty.

"Through the window?!"

Mashu immediately explained the situation, and Fujimaru Ritsuka instantly perked up. The two of them hurried to the window and looked down, only to see Farin in pajamas and barefoot staggering on the street, looking a little weird.

Sleepwalking?

Does the other party still have this habit?

Fujimaru Ritsuka tried to call her:

"Falin, what are you doing? Where are you going?"

"..."

However, Falin did not respond and continued to walk forward without paying any attention. Seeing this, Fujimaru Ritsuka smelled a hint of trouble and turned to Mashu and said:

"You follow Falin first and find out what's going on. I'll go and notify the others."

"Yes!"

Mash nodded in agreement, and immediately jumped out of the window to catch up with Falin and follow her.

"Hmm...what's wrong...?"

At the same time, the noisy noise finally woke up Marlucil in the room. She looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka in confusion, not knowing what had happened.

Fujimaru Ritsuka briefly explained:

"Falin left the room by herself, and she seemed a little bit off."

"what?!"

After hearing the news about Falin, Malucier woke up instantly. She turned around and found that Falin was gone.

Could it be a side effect of ancient magic...?

A bad thought flashed through her mind, and she hurriedly stood up and informed Laos and others together with Fujimaru Ritsuka.

After receiving the news, everyone hurriedly took their weapons and equipment and chased in the direction where Falin and Mashu left. They soon found them at the location where the body of the fire dragon was.

However, the scene before them made them stunned——

The body of the Flame Dragon, which had just been killed, was gradually melting like ice and snow. Its skin and flesh had almost turned into thick blood. In front of the Flame Dragon's body, stood a short elf with a creepy aura.

Mashu and Farin were confronting each other. To be more precise, Mashu grabbed Farin's hand with one hand to prevent her from moving forward towards the elf, and with the other hand, she tightly grasped the cross shield of the round table and looked at the other party vigilantly.

But Falin, who was caught by her, showed great resistance, struggling non-stop, and kept muttering meaningless words -

"We must... go find... His Majesty Delga...!"

“Falin——!”

Everyone quickly came to Mash and the others, and stood vigilantly against the elves. Laos quickly looked at Falin and said:

"Falin, what's wrong with you? Falin!?"

“I’m so annoyed——!”

"Oh!"

Laos' call seemed to make him even more irritated. His other hand, which was not under control, swung hard and actually knocked Laos out!

"Laios!"

Malucier looked towards Laos worriedly. Sensi went over to help him up and sighed in a serious tone:

"What a powerful force..."

"Although I still don't understand the situation, Falin, you should take a rest first."

At this moment, Fujimaru Ritsuka took out the druid's staff and tapped the increasingly violent Falin on the back, making her dizzy and finally calming down.

"Falin!"

Malucel quickly caught Faline's body. Mashu, who was finally able to concentrate, nodded to Fujimaru Ritsuka, who smiled back and looked at the elf in front of him and said:

"So, who are you, please? And what did you do to Falin?"

"…It should be what you did to my dragon."

The other party suddenly spoke, and his gloomy eyes swept over everyone in front of him, and finally fell on the fallen Laos. His eyes instantly became sharp and he asked in a deep voice:

"You shameless thief... I remember you, you used to run around in the living painting..."

"Now you've messed up my dragon..."

"Living painting?"

Ritsuka Fujimaru looked at Laos. She didn't know about his experience, but Laos' expression was stunned, as if he remembered something, and Malucel and others also showed surprised expressions.

But before they could continue asking, the other party seemed to have found the answer the next moment -

"……I see."

"You...are all usurpers...!"

“Everyone, go to hell!!”

As soon as he finished speaking, his opponent stared at them with hatred in his eyes, his hands stretched out from his cloak, and the magic book in his hand floated in the air and began to turn the pages automatically. At the same time, he began to recite meaningless spells.

“Hey, is he chanting a spell? I have a bad feeling…!”

Chilchak felt very bad, and Fujimaru Ritsuka saw this and said helplessly:

"Seriously, can't you talk it out first before fighting?"

At least introduce yourself first?

At this moment, Laos suddenly shouted:

"Everyone be careful! He is the master of the maze, the mad magician!"