A few minutes later, accompanied by a clattering sound, an employee from the Archaeologist Association suddenly collapsed to the ground as if from exhaustion, the long knife in his hand slipping to the floor, breaking the suffocating silence.
"I'm still alive...still alive..."
The orc girl responsible for liaising with several small mercenary groups, including the Beautiful Girl Mercenary Corps, moaned, suddenly hugging her head and curling into a ball, crying out with tears, "I'm not dead! I wasn't eaten by the dragon! I... ooooo..."
She buried her head between her knees, unable to utter a complete sentence, her not-so-thin shoulders shaking incessantly.
This is understandable and not at all shameful, considering that for this young orc girl, that brief period where she had no control over her own life was truly terrifying.
