Dai Katana Manga Chapter 20

This is the twentieth chapter of the Goblin Slayer Side Story II: Dai Katana manga.

Full Summary
The usual royal guardswoman looks at the party as they exit the dungeon, thinking that they made it back alive and from the looks of them it was an intense battle. Captain is happy how well everyone performed, but everyone is tired and sore. As everyone is exhausted, Female Wizard recommends that for tomorrow they take a break. Female Bishop questions if that's a good idea, but Female Wizard just says that they worked hard that day. Captain considers it and says it should be okay. He reasons that they made it to the second floor and from what he's heard around town, their pace is faster than most. As he starts to speculate as to why that's the case, Myrmidon Monk finishes his statement by saying not a man among them cares about anything but making money. Captain confirms that was what he was thinking and - reflecting over how few adventurers are interested in the source of The Death and instead are enamored by the dungeons riches - tells his party that's why they must challenge the second floor themselves and eventually the third. For which they should conserve their strength. Myrmidon Monk concurs saying that heading into the unknown while their still run down is a death wish. With that Captain directs them back to the inn to rest, saying that selling the equipment and delivering the rank tags of the dead that they found can wait until tomorrow.

Captain finds that he can't sleep and after smelling soap he gets up and goes outside for a bit. Waiting for him is Female Warrior in her night gown again. Guessing she can't sleep either he invites her to sit down on some hay with him. As they do so she again teases him asking him if he was hoping for something, yet the conversation soon moves on to her real reason for wanting to talk to him. She says she thought she should say thank you while she still had the chance. Captain denies doing much to deserve gratitude, and after a minute of silence tells Female Warrior that if there's something she wants to say to go ahead. She teases him some more, but Captain thinks there's something that she wants to say, and with a little more prompting, after a bit more banter she continues.

She says she always believed that what happens twice would happen thrice. Telling Captain that the group she was having buried when they met was her second party. Her first party had been a group of girls from the same orphanage who were older than her. That they'd all figured that if they were going to be adventurers it'd be best to start out together. Captain finds that not unusual as it's a common story. Female Warrior continues to say they'd been attack by brigands down in the dungeon and all the older girls died. She says that they'd thought that if there was a "death" down in the dungeon, maybe there's a "life" too, but it didn't work out that way. Captain reflects on how the dead cannot return to life as Female Warrior false silent for a moment before continuing on to say with everyone dying she fled so she wouldn't die before she could have resurrection used on her companions. Captain calls that a poor excuse while thinking that the odds of a newly minted adventurer getting out of the dungeon alive are poor and she must know that better than any. With her story over, she claims the whole thing was a joke, a story made up and she was just teasing him as she stands up. Captain asks if she is feeling better and she says she is and wants to go to bed now. However before she heads off she whispers her real name to him.

Alone again, Captain reflects on how much can happen in a day and as well as on the city itself and how it came to be.