When Felyn returned after lunch, he saw a crowd gathered at the classroom entrance.

"Felyn, your Viloti is here looking for you."

A classmate at the door saw Felyn and made way for him.

Felyn saw Viloti sitting at his desk, secretly rummaging through his school bag.

What is this little pink-hair trying to do?

Felyn couldn't figure it out. He walked over to Viloti's side and found her so engrossed in rummaging through his bag that she didn't even notice his arrival.

He gently tapped Viloti's head with his hand and heard the little pink-hair let out a whimper.

Viloti covered her head with both hands and looked up with a blank expression to see who it was.

Upon seeing Felyn, her eyes stopped moving, and her body froze in mid-air.

Then she stood up in a bit of a panic, her hands behind her back as if hiding something.

"Felyn, I... I-I-I-I, I came over to..."

Even someone as smart as Viloti couldn't think of a good excuse at that moment.

Felyn looked at the gazes of the surrounding classmates. Before any rumors could start, he took Viloti's hand and walked out of the classroom.

"Felyn, I wasn't stealing your things, nor was I trying to mess with your stuff."

Viloti was wearing a beautiful butterfly bow tie on her chest today, making her face look even more adorable.

"I know."

Viloti stealing my money? The daughter of the empire's richest man stealing my money?

Seeing that she could no longer hide it, Viloti obediently extended her hands and handed the money to Felyn.

"Felyn, this is the apology I collected for you."

Felyn didn't understand at all. Was this some new popular phrase?

It wasn't until Viloti explained what had happened with Anise that Felyn understood the reason.

Who is this Anise? She seems pretty annoying.

"Stay away from her in the future. Her values are all wrong." Felyn took the money from Viloti's hand and started counting it.

"I know." Even though Viloti didn't know what "values" meant, she still nodded. She would ignore that Anise from now on.

Felyn divided the money in half, keeping one half and handing the other to Viloti. "This is yours. We should split the money we earn."

"Eh?"

Seeing that Viloti didn't move, Felyn stuffed the money into her pocket. "If you hadn't helped me get the money, I would have been scolded for nothing. So you deserve credit. The rest of the money can be my compensation for emotional distress."

Viloti looked at the money in her hands and Felyn's smile.

"Did I help you?"

"Mhm, someone was slandering me, and you stepped up for me. Isn't that helping?"

Felyn looked at Viloti, who was still savoring the moment, and couldn't help but reach out and rub her head.

This action drew a chorus of hoots from the classroom behind them.

But both Felyn and Viloti ignored it.

Felyn felt that this was good for Viloti. Slowly, she would learn to resist and realize that others' slander wasn't true.

And Viloti felt that Felyn stroking her head in front of so many people was... so happy.

After school, Felyn went home, took a shower, and prepared to go to the dungeon.

The sun was almost completely set. Felyn didn't turn on the lights, letting the shadows crawl up the walls and swallow everything in the room.

His wet hair was still dripping. He dried his hair while knocking on Daiyi's door.

"Daiyi, I'm preparing to go on a long trip to the dungeon to study the behavior and habits of magical beasts. I probably won't be back this weekend. I've already made you food, you can just heat it up later."

Seeing no response from the door, Felyn thought Daiyi might be sleeping and turned to go downstairs.

"Creaak~"

The door let out a sigh, and Daiyi peeked her head out from the crack.

She was wearing a light green slip dress, looking like she had just woken up.

In the dim light, her dark green eyes were like stars in the sky, seemingly never to be swallowed by darkness.

"Not coming back for the weekend? Actually, you could also bring the girl home. There's no need to take her to the dungeon... Oh, I see, you think the outdoors..."

"Stop! And why do you even know about the outdoors? What have you been watching?"

"Hm? Is an outdoor excursion something that can't be talked about? Or is Mr. Felyn the one with the dirty mind?"

Daiyi covered her mouth with her hand, as if she were snickering. "How annoying. So I'm such a wanton woman in Mr. Felyn's heart."

Felyn always felt like he was punching cotton when dealing with Daiyi.

"I have some sigils here, you should take them." Daiyi turned and walked back into her room, then came out with an exquisite leather wallet.

Felyn took the thick stack of sigils from Daiyi's hand, roughly estimating there were dozens of them.

"Is this okay? This is probably worth..." Felyn couldn't estimate how much it was worth for a moment, but it was a lot.

"My family is special. If we don't use the old ones, we can't get new ones. So I'd rather you spend them, and I'll go get new ones."

The benefit for believers of the Church of Truth was that they could receive a fixed number of internally supplied sigils each month, which were more powerful and faster to cast.

Felyn casually took two and looked at them, finding that these sigils were all a bit different.

Besides the sigil patterns, each sigil also had cat patterns of various colors drawn on it.

"This is..."

Daiyi, who was about to return to her room, saw the patterns on the sigils in Felyn's hand and immediately froze.

She immediately replied, "Strange, it was probably that girl Bernice who drew them."

Felyn raised an eyebrow, watching as Daiyi said this without a change in expression.

He already knew from Dorothy that Daiyi was a member of the Cult of Truth, but he didn't expect a believer of the Cult of Truth to lie. Wouldn't the Goddess of Truth blame her?

Daiyi's body leaned against the doorframe, her dark green eyes looking at the floor with some embarrassment.

She took a deep breath and said softly, "Be careful, Felyn."

"Mhm, I know. I'll be back soon."

After returning to his room, Felyn put the sigils Daiyi had given him into his backpack. In this world, there was definitely no one else besides Daiyi who would dare to draw on sigils.

He looked at the various colors and breeds of cat patterns on them, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

In addition to these sigils, Felyn also brought the four seventh-tier sigils that Claude had rewarded him with, as well as two sleeping bags and a bento box for two.

Then, without much hesitation, he walked to the door, gently closed it, and headed towards the western dungeon.

Lucia said that even at night, the adventurers still hadn't found any trace of magical beasts on the 23rd floor. It seemed Eitani was still there.

To be honest, Felyn still hadn't figured out how to get Eitani to sign a contract with him.

It would be good enough if she didn't kill him on sight.

Among the seventh-tier sigils Claude had given him, one was an instant-cast transfer sigil. If things went wrong, he could just flee.

An hour and a half later.

"Yo, Lucia."

Felyn came to the front desk to register.

"Felyn, are you really going there alone? That's the 23rd floor."

"Just trying my luck."

Felyn wasn't being reckless. Since Eitani had appeared on that floor, it meant there were almost no magical beasts there. As long as he didn't run into Eitani, there wasn't much risk.

And from the past few times, Eitani didn't seem to be the tyrant type; she probably wouldn't just attack people on sight.

After Lucia finished the procedures for Felyn, she watched his figure slowly merge into the entrance of the dungeon.

She didn't have time to think about the young man's fate, because many people came to register afterwards, and Lucia was busy until late at night.

What was more noteworthy was a noble-looking young lady with a middle-parted bun who came to register with a large group of people.

There was also a young girl wearing a mask. In the registration book, Lucia found the girl's name and her team.

She was Felyn's registered teammate.

(End of Chapter)