...It's the Hunting Blades.

What are they up to now?

How could you let it get away?!
We had it trapped!

B-but, it was all beat up!
Just looking at it made
me feel terrible!

Tell me our law.

Monsters are evil. This
evil must be punished...

So you broke our law fully aware
of what you were doing.

The punishment for that
is death, right, boss?

Y-you can't be serious!

One arm.

A-aah!

W-wait a second!

You!

What are you doing here?

Y-you're going too far!
He just let one monster go!

That one monster could one day end
up hurting someone. What then?
Are you going to take responsibility?

I, uh... But what you're
doing is even worse! You're
hurting someone right now!

Shut it, punk! You ain't
one of us anymore!

You ain't got no place
questioning our laws!

Wait, Tison.

Huh? But...

This is the second time you've
spoken out against us.

I read you loud and clear.

But if you really want to get your
message across, you're going to have
to do it with strength, not words.

Well, since you asked so politely...

Watch out. The boss is--
Clint is strong.

Yeah, we know. I still remember
him taking out that monster in
one hit way back then...

It's not like we haven't gotten
stronger ourselves since then.
We can take him.

Ha! No mere human
can stand in my way!

*Pant*
We... we won...

You were right...
He was pretty tough...

I... told you...

Ah!

W-what, you want some more?

Heheheh... Hahahahaha!!

B-boss...

W-what's going on?
I've never seen the boss
laugh like that before.

Very well.

I-I'm saved!
Thank you, um,
Karol, right?

Don't mention it. But what are you
gonna do now? You can't just go
back to the Hunting Blades.

Well, for now, I'll go back home to the
country. I can work in the fields while
I think about what I want to do next.

A-Ah!

Take this.

What's that?

“I'm waiting at the coliseum.”

Huh? I thought he wasn't interested
in fightin' anything but monsters.

Perhaps he feels we're just
as strong as monsters now.

Maybe he just wants...to fight?
Like, for sport?

Maybe. Well, it beats fighting over
some pent-up grudge, doesn't it?

...Yeah, I guess
you're right.