Chapter 539: Negation

"Why are you grinning like that? It's creepy..." Jess complained, looking at James as he was sitting there, drinking water from a waterskin after his fight, "Because it was a lot of fun, honestly." He pointed out, and Jess rolled her eyes in response, "I'm glad you had fun. Meanwhile, I'm going to have to fight the guy that Eiro called 'extremely dangerous'."

"Don't worry about it, you'll be fine. And even if... At the end of the day, this isn't a real battle. Usually you could use so many more tools than you can now, so even if you were to lose now, which I don't think you will, this doesn't really show how powerful you are in a group." James pointed out, "Honestly, this seems like a very inefective method to choose people to accompany the hero..."