"Let's get this straight first. Although we brought Ira here, Yair and I definitely won't be helping her. Ira, you should think this through too... If you want to know how to get to the Spirit Realm, there must be an easier way. The Astral Entity might know."

As Vereesa spoke, she looked at the nodding human woman, and at the bespectacled girl sitting next to her who seemed completely bewildered by what had happened.

(YuYu: Hmm? I'm still doing population statistics... So, what do you want from me?)

Vereesa didn't even glance at Leonard, who was coughing incessantly.

The man in the trench coat, who looked pale, greeted Ira between coughs, saying, "Hello, welcome... I am very sorry for trying to kill you with Raphael before."

But actually, Iraq didn't know about this at all...

"..."

Ira paused for a moment, not knowing why, even though they were all outsiders, this [Leonard] in front of her felt completely different from Vereesa and the human woman.

Leonard always seems exhausted, as if he needs to seize every opportunity to find the forces that he calls "helping," which feels really... pathetic.

“Hello, I am Ira Elkaras… If you mean helping to kill the [Family of the Evil God], I can give it a try. I hope you can keep your promise afterward.”

As Ira said this, he looked at Vereesa, who had a slightly disgusted expression, and said, "If we can only struggle to deal with external threats, just how strong are the followers of the evil god?"

"..."

“Very weak, at least weaker than you think… According to the definition of the Prime Material Plane, the weakest of the evil god’s followers is merely a professional at the level of [Swordsman], and the strongest of the evil god’s followers is no match for us outside the Plane.”

Leonard helped Vereesa with her explanation, then sighed helplessly and said, "However, there are many of them, and attacks involving Mana are ineffective against them... You'll understand when you see them later."

As Leonard said this, he showed off his throwing knives and the longsword at his waist, and said, "This means that even if I am an outsider, I will not be able to kill a lot of the evil gods' followers in one go. We just need more manpower."

Even outsiders, without using Mana, few can quickly inflict large-scale damage... Outsiders also get tired and can only perform tasks like decapitation strikes.

"Many of the hunting teams are just legendary figures, right? And some aren't even legendary... Is the 'Outside the Path' just an emergency measure?"

As Ira asked this, he looked at Vereesa, suddenly remembering what the woman from the World Tree Serpent had said. He then looked at Leonard and asked, "If I gave you ten commanders outside the realm of reason, how long would it take you to resolve the calamity of the evil god's followers?"

The snake woman who claimed to be a god once said...

In fact, those calamities aren't that difficult to resolve... Do you know about the [Family of the Evil God]? Just three outsiders, leading a hunting party, firmly kept them outside the prime plane.

[Although that wasn't the calamity itself, and that calamity might have been resolved from the very beginning... well, you'll understand what I mean later.]

However, this at least proves that as long as the outsiders work together, any calamity can be easily resolved, and that those children of the "gods" have already fully grown up.

【pity……】

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"..."

Leonard pondered this for a moment, then said helplessly, "If it's someone skilled in using non-Mana methods... maybe within three months? All the evil god's familiars can be wiped out."

This timeframe was much shorter than Iraq had imagined, but... this was merely a hypothetical scenario.

"However, the evil god's familiars... look disgusting and filthy~ We don't want to help them."

The human woman said this, then shrugged, gesturing for Vereesa to leave. She gave Ira a thumbs-up and said, "If you want to return to the Prime Material Plane later, just call out our names!"

Amidst these sounds, the human woman and Vereesa took a step back and disappeared into the doorway formed by ripples in the air.

"It's filthy..."

She repeated the human woman's words softly, unsure of what to say. Having once been a ghost maid, she was probably one of the least afraid of getting dirty in the Demon King's territory.

Because of her sensitivity and seriousness towards money, she gradually became the chief financial officer of the Demon King's territory. She was once a low-level employee... She was responsible for cleaning the toilets in the Demon King's territory and would also float into the sky to clean the corners of walls that the succubus maids could only reach by flying.

Even after she rose to a high position, Youyou never complained about anything being dirty... Even though her current status is no longer at the bottom, it has always been the same.

"It's so pretentious to talk about outsiders... Fortunately, there are still outsiders who are willing to protect the world."

Youyou commented, while Leonard just gave a light, wry smile. Ira shook her head and said, "Maybe it's not like that, it's just that that guy is afraid of getting dirty... The main reason most people don't care about others is probably because it's boring, right?"

Leonard glanced at Ira's speculation, somewhat surprised that Ira had figured it out so quickly... Ira was absolutely right. The reason the outsiders weren't interested in helping was mainly because they were too bored.

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