Frankly, she seemed like she’d be better at it than she was at fighting.

“Fehhh . . .”

“Glass and the others are counting on you. Do your best.”

I had to prepare her to be able to take on any challenge.

“In addition to that manuscript, I also talked with one of the four heroes over there and we worked things out. Glass and L’Arc agreed to a truce, too, albeit a temporary one. So even if we happen to run across them again, the likelihood of us fighting is extremely low.”

“Understood. It does indeed seem that there would be little value in being any more cautious than we already are, in our current situation, with the waves having ceased for the time being.”

“We also brought back several items from the other world. I’m not sure if they’ll function properly here, but there’s quite an assortment.”

I showed the queen the bag of items that we had received from Kizuna and the others. If everything worked out, not only would the items help us deal with the waves, but they were all things we could easily make a fortune off of, too. There was equipment that could emulate the drop function of the legendary weapons, as well as the Scroll of Return, also known as Return Transcript, which was equivalent to a teleport skill and could summon the user to an hourglass just like during the waves.

“Now then, there’s something important I’d like to address before anything else.”

I took a step toward the queen to make a suggestion, or perhaps I should say request.

“During the next three and a half months, it’s imperative that we recover from the curse that came as a toll of our battle.”

That’s right. Right now, Filo, Raphtalia, and I all had drastically reduced stats due to the aftereffects of the All Sacrifice Aura. Even worse, full recovery was still a long way off.

“I had no idea . . .”

To be honest, we were in pretty bad shape. We wouldn’t be able to really push ourselves until we had fully recovered from the curse. Even a normal battle would likely be pretty tough right now.

According to the doctor in Kizuna’s world, full recovery would take around three months. I planned on trying out various methods of recovery on my own, too, but we would still have to get by with reduced stats one way or the other until we had fully recovered.

Still, it was too bad, because I knew that at one point I had become ridiculously strong after meeting with the other heroes to discuss our power-up methods. Luckily my defensive power had been spared from the effects of the curse, so we could probably still manage somehow.

“In three and a half months, the Phoenix’s seal will be broken, and the battles we’ll face after that will probably grow more difficult as well.”

I’d heard that the monsters being stronger in Kizuna’s world had something to do with the waves. The situation was slowly getting worse, so the heroes had to be considered indispensable. There was no way I could handle everything on my own, and Raphtalia couldn’t be expected to take up all of the slack, even if she did possess the katana of the vassal weapons now.