chapter 4

“First of all, please use this knife to cut your right thumb a little. Once you have the back of your left hand in front of you and have recited my words, draw a line in blood on the back of your partner’s hand.”

As Princess Elle tells them to, they get ready to go.

“Then let us begin. ‘I swear to Mithras, the god of love and friends, that I hereby desire a new bond.’”

“I swear to Mithras, the god of love and friends, that I hereby desire a new bond.”

They draw a line of blood on each other’s backhand. I mean, how can you say that in one sitting? As expected of a top-achieving team.

The drawn blood softly glows and disappears.

Then the pattern around their necks began to move and changed its shape to “01”.

“Now, please check your status.”

Mitsumoto and Tobino open the status.

“Surely the …… status is up.”

“Yeah, well, I’ve got more than twice as much on my plate.”

Seeing their amazement, their classmates marveled, “Oh!”

“’Yes. That’s the [Bonds list] – the power, we the human race, have been given.”

It’s like the friend feature, or more specifically the [Bonds list], increases your status by contracting with each other.

So you’re saying that by raising our status, plus defeating demons and increasing our experience, we’ll become powerful heroes …….

Then it’s no wonder the first status is full of 10s. We’ll just add more from now on.

“Now, gentlemen, please make a contract with your neighbors. The contract will be done in pairs.”

“What?”

That was the first voice I heard when I came into this world.

In pairs……

There are 31 students in this class?

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“Uh…”

The boys were happy and the girls were already starting to make pairs.

In the midst of all this, I had no choice but to stand there with no friends.

A [Bonds list] would be an essential element as a means of increasing your status. Furthermore, there shouldn’t be any opportunity to have this many relatives. If we don’t make a deal here, we’ll be late, or left behind, or a bloke, so there’s nothing we can do about it!

“What’s wrong?”

I heard a voice in my ear and turned around in surprise to find Princess Elle there.

“You don’t have a partner, do you?”

“Well, my classmates ……summoned were 31 people.”

“Well, that. I’m sorry I didn’t think of that.”

“No, no, no.”

Princess Elle bows her head down to me, and I feel sorry for her and bow with her.

After all, it’s not her fault that I’m being a bloke, all I had to do was ask someone to make me a contract with me. I’m a loner because there’s no one I can ask to do that, though.

Princess Elle looked up and put her hand on her own chest.

“If you don’t mind, I’d be happy to make a contract with you.”

“Eh…”