"Are you Shizue Izawa?"
On the vast prairie, a figure clad in blue-white armor approached.
Her pace wasn't fast.
Yet each step seed to traverse space itself, rapidly closing the distance.
In the blink of an eye, she stood before Shizue and the children.
"A knight?"
"So beautiful..."
"Is she soone Shizu-sensei knows?"
The children were awestruck by Artoria's beauty and presence.
"Who are you?"
This was Shizue's first ti eting Artoria.
"Allow to introduce myself."
Artoria perford a knightly bow. "I am Artoria Pendragon, Lord Damien's guardian knight."
"P-Pendragon?!"
A blonde girl clutching a pink stuffed doll widened her eyes. "Are you related to the legendary King Arthur?!"
These children were otherworlders summoned to the Central World.
Among them, Alice, who ca from a noble family in her previous world, was well-versed in the legend of King Arthur.
"King Arthur, you say?"
"I don't know what the legends of King Arthur are like in your world."
"But in my world, I am indeed King Arthur."
Artoria's words left Alice in shock. "No way..."
"King Arthur is a girl, and such a beautiful girl?"
Fortunately, the little girl wasn't hung up on the idea that King Arthur had to be male.
In fact, a female King Arthur was even cooler!
"King Arthur? That King Arthur?"
"The one from the legends?"
"For real?"
Kenya Misaki, another otherworlder, had played gas related to King Arthur and knew the story of the King of Britain.
"If King Arthur's a woman, isn't that kinda weak?!"
"Heh..."
Artoria didn't bother arguing with a seven- or eight-year-old. Kids say what they want, after all.
Smack!
"Ow!"
But so discipline was still necessary.
"What was that for?!"
Kenya clutched his forehead, glaring at the blonde girl who'd ambushed him. "You sneak-attacked ! That's so low!"
"I absolutely don't accept that a woman like you is a just knight!"
"A just knight, you say?"
Artoria raised an eyebrow, surprised. She t the boy's fierce gaze and shook her head. "A knight isn't sothing a little punk like you could beco."
"And looking down on won? That needs correcting too!"
With that, she delivered another smack, leaving a large bump on the boy's head.
"Ouch!"
"That hurts!! You damn woman!"
"Agh!! I'm so pissed!!"
"I challenge you to a duel~~~"
Thankfully, Shizue quickly stepped in to stop the fuming Kenya. She looked at Artoria apologetically. "Sorry, Kenya didn't an any harm."
"I know."
Artoria gave a gentle smile. She actually preferred Alice and the shy black-haired girl beside her.
"Onee-san, I'm Alice."
"I-I'm Chloe."
"Gale Gibson."
"I'm Ryota Sekiguchi. Are you really King Arthur?"
The other children were far more polite than Kenya.
To their questions, Artoria nodded. "Yes, I was indeed the King of Knights who once ruled Britain."
"Um, Miss Artoria, is Lord Damien free?"
"It's about the children, right?"
Artoria waved off Shizue's formality. They were both Damien's subordinates, part of the sa family.
"My Master told before."
"Once you returned, I was to notify him imdiately, and he'd co to heal the children."
"That's a relief."
Shizue let out a sigh of relief.
Though she could summon Damien herself, she was too reserved and worried about interrupting his important work.
Important work, huh...
Artoria thought of the crowd in the rear, watching Damien and Rimuru's live Dungeon exploration.
She couldn't bring herself to tell the truth.
Damien wasn't busy with important work... he was happily slacking off.
"Master..."
"Lord Damien..."
The two won called out to Damien together, drawing his attention.
"Hm?"
At that mont, Damien, deep in the Dungeon, looked up. "Artoria and Shizu?"
"The kids are here?"
Healing the children was serious business. Damien wouldn't neglect them just for a bet with Rimuru.
Besides...
He glanced at the two blackened party mber icons on his interface.
"Forget it."
"I've already lost anyway..."
Damien didn't even want to complain anymore. This ti, he truly witnessed the sheer incompetence of Aqua and gumin.
He'd laid out the rules clearly before entering the Dungeon.
But gumin ignored them completely.
The mont they entered, she declared, "My first ti in a Dungeon calls for a celebration!"
Then, the chuunibyou girl recklessly raised her staff and unleashed Explosion magic in the cramped underground space.
Goddamn it...
That was the only phrase that captured Damien's feelings at the ti.
BOOM!
The next mont, a deafening explosion rocked the Dungeon.
Damien's team's first Dungeon exploration ended with all four buried alive.
Sure, being buried was no issue for Damien and Darkness.
But they'd agreed to explore using only the stats of adventurers in this world.
Being buried alive? Ga over.
Not to ntion, Aqua and gumin lacked the physical resilience of Damien and Darkness. The mont the cave collapsed, they were deed "dead" and teleported out.
Thus, the party's first exploration attempt lasted less than a minute, costing them their first chance of the day.
Furious, Damien pinned the mana-drained, immobile gumin over his knee and gave her a thorough spanking.
The little girl wailed, swearing through tears to listen to Damien from now on and never act out again.
After countless warnings and gumin's repeated vows... sealed with Explosion magic... Damien restored her mana and began their second attempt.
But this ti, the troublemaker wasn't gumin... it was Aqua.
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