Martin listened to the comms from Kuro A and the others.
He had done his part. Now he had to trust them to do theirs.
Looking back, he had done pretty well, and that alone should have raised his standing in Cassandra's eyes. From a practical standpoint, whether Night Espresso won or lost mattered less now. Martin had already earned plenty of contribution points.
But Martin didn't feel that way.
His friends had been killed because of Just Die. If not for them, Martin and the others might have been facing the final boss of Cascade Valley by now.
Because of that, he wanted to succeed more than anything.
He needed Just Die to fail.
There's clearly a traitor who told them about our expansion quest. I suspect Thorn'Shield, but I can't accuse him for no reason other than the fact that I shat on him. On the other hand, even if I expose the traitor somehow, it might only work against us. Just Die won't care in the slightest.
Martin turned in the water and looked back at Ao Tenshin.
