186 The Last Breath (1/2)

John now laid unconscious on the floor. After making sure that he was truly unconscious, Azure lifted him up and put him on his shoulders.

John's form hadn't returned to normal yet, but azure could tell that he was still fighting for it back.

”Hopefully this made things easier for you, John.” Muttered Azure as he took John over to where the others were

Ayda was currently healing Master Sylvia, she had started shortly after the fight began while John was distracted. Meanwhile, Serena stared at him with a dumbfounded expression while Ariel had her attention focused on John who was knocked out.

”Is something wrong?” Azure asked with a nervous smile as he laid John down on the floor next to Master Sylvia who was being healed

Seeing as how the fight was over, Azure's party began heading over to the group when Serena asked

”You're... An S-Rank adventurer, aren't you?” Serena asked

”That's right” He replied casually

”So that means you already knew which door was the correct one in the beginning...”

”Haha, sort of but thanks to your party, we ended up being able to hide it.”

”Is it alright to be telling me this?” Serena asked

”I don't see why not, This dungeon is already conquered so it won't make a difference. Besides I owed you guys”

”For what?”

Azure then explained it as briefly as he could.

S-Ranks entering a dungeon or a city is a big-hit, so much that they're often have bribery and assassination attempts on them, in a way to keep them from clearing the dungeon.

Thanks to John, a rumour of the S-Rank in the city being a little boy circulated. This made things easier for Azure and his party.

”I see... I guess John's heroic act saved him”

'The act of saving everyone in the beach'

”Kindness is always repaid.” Said Azure with a smile before turning to John

”Hey, Azure... Thank you, John ended up like this because of us... And as much as I hate to admit it, despite being the 2nd oldest, I wasn't able to do anything...”

”No need to thank me, and I wouldn't worry to much about it, You've probably helped in more ways than you noticed. More importantly... It's too early to thank me, there's still something left.”

Azure noticed that Ariel was checking up on John who was now on the ground, so he decided to warn her ahead of time

”Ariel, right? John is fine but we're going to have to tie him up. There's no telling when he'll wake up and knocking him out twice may just speed up the transformation.”

As she heard this, Ariel quickly got up before heading straight towards Azure

As she stopped a few steps in front of him, he wondered if he she was mad at him for suggesting to tie him up, when suddenly Ariel bowed

”Thank you for helping us!”

Surprised, Azure raised his hands as he said

”Debt?” Ariel asked as she raised her head

”Yeah, it'll take a while to explain, we should start tying him up now” Said Azure

As soon as he said that, His party arrived and the purple haired girl joined in

”If that's what you need, I don't mind doing it” She said

”Kayla, good timing. Do you two mind if we tie him up?” Azure asked

”Not at all” Said Serena while Ariel shook her head

”Great. Kayla?”

”I'm on it.”

Kayla walked towards the unconscious John as she put on her gauntlets

”Eh? Weren't you a mage?” Serena asked

”Nope, that staff was a cover-up”