A third party incoming?
Knowing how these things usually goes, if there IS a third party, theyre gonna turn the bandits into demons, or kill them themselves
> "looks like the tension is building up, and there's still so many pages left!"
> suddenly, cliffhanger
> "what? the rest of these pages are omake? darnit"
@Kirei Cake ; Thank you for the chapter. It would have been less of a shock if you had uploaded the extra contents as a separate chapter.
@ Suisuigo it could be the the healer from the hero party (Fanny), in chapter 8 it is speculated by the MC that one or more of the other party members left b/c he hears that they are recruiting new members. She was the only one to be unhappy when she heard that MC was "retiring". There is also the "Conjurer from Milton" / "Seamstress from Balzac" that the MC meet on the coat to the current town; he is just overall suspicious.