I Became the Demon King of Lust

So in the end, it turned out very poorly.

At first, it was Blaze who went forward to attract the attention of the Golbat.

But both of them didn\'t follow the plan in the end and tried acting on their own.

Long Shui Ling tried using her illusions to trap the Golbat while Claire fired her arrows at it.

This caused the Golbat to suddenly fly up into the air out of our range and it used all kinds of wind attacks at us. If it wasn\'t for Blaze reacting quickly and running back to shield us with his flames, then we really might have been in danger.

Though it was terrifying seeing his flames surge after absorbing the wind blades that fell down at us.

Neither Long Shui Ling and Claire received this cover since they had both run off on their own, so they were put in a pinch.

If it wasn\'t for us reacting quickly and going to save them, they might not have made it.

But that was what they deserved for putting us in this danger in the first place.

They were the ones that had ruined each other\'s attacks and caused the Golbat to go on a rampage.

In the end, we were able to trap the Golbat in the air with Hayato\'s wind and Blaze\'s flames, forcing it down onto the ground.

Then I was able to cut it down with the Time Stop ability after they created a gap in the flame tornado for me.

If it wasn\'t for us acting fast enough, we might have had two members dead today.

When it was all over, I forced the two of them to sit on their knees in apology in front of us.

The other three had supported these two before, but after what they had done this time, they didn\'t support them anymore.

They were standing over the two of them with me, looking at them with disapproving looks on their faces.

I looked down at the two of them for a bit before suddenly saying in a disappointed voice, "What was that?

Both of them looked up at me as if they wanted to explain, but when they saw the way that I was looking at them, they couldn\'t help lowering their gaze again.

It was as if they were struggling to say what they wanted to say.

In the end, they just remained silent without saying anything.

I narrowed my eyes as I looked at the two of them.

This could be considered partly my fault since I had ignored the fundamental problem here.

I had wanted to avoid this since it would be more convenient for me to avoid it, but all it did was cause trouble for our party.

Now that it had bitten us in the butt, I couldn\'t ignore it even if I wanted to.

So I took a deep breath and said, "From now on, there will be no more of this. If you can\'t work together, then we can\'t have the two of you on the same team. When the time comes, one of you will have to go."

Both of them trembled when they heard this and they looked up at me with a lost look.

Then they looked at the other three, but they also had firm looks on their faces as if they supported my decision.

Of course they would support my decision since it wasn\'t one that was made arbitrarily.

This was something that would even determine if they died or not in the future, so they wouldn\'t dare risk their lives like this.

They would not play around with their lives, so naturally they would support me who was thinking about keeping us safe.

In the end, both of them said in a soft voice, "We\'re sorry."

I took a deep breath and said, "If you can\'t learn to work together, you not only threaten our lives, but all of our lives. I don\'t know what conflict you two have, but I need you to work together and listen when we\'re in the dungeon at least. Do you understand?"

After a moment of hesitation, both of them nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, I let out a sigh of relief before saying, "I can\'t trust you both to keep your word yet, so you\'ll both be on probation for now. Until we can be sure that you two won\'t act up again, you won\'t be given any important roles in dungeon dives. Is that clear?"

Both of them slowly nodded again.

After seeing this, the other three let out sighs of relief as well.

After all, this was their lives that were at stake if they couldn\'t solve this matter.

But when it was over, they couldn\'t help looking at me with a strange look that I ignored.

After all, I knew what they were trying to say with this look.

"Just how dense are you?"

I was very dense, or at least I was in this situation since I needed to make sure that nothing went against my plan.

So no matter what signs there were, I would ignore them all.

Since the boss had been killed, there was nothing left for us in this dungeon.

The porters had already picked up the loot, so it was time for us to make our way back to the entrance.

As we walked back, I couldn\'t help giving another sigh.

This trip into the dungeon was supposed to be a chance for our new team to build up a good relationship and a good working dynamic, as well as see how we could work with each other.

But all it did was achieve the opposite.

Was it my fault?

Was it their fault?

It was all of our faults to a certain extent.

After all, I never expected Claire to feel that way about me…

But since she did, I would take her as well.

That was my greed as the demon king of lust.