"I wanna be stronger. Strong enough to protect everyone. I need to be...!!" Eager for a new challenge, Haruhiro's party descends into the Cyrene Mines--the lair of the kobolds and the resting place of Mary's former allies. But not long after the combat starts, tensions between Ranta and Haruhiro begin to flare, and when the group finds itself up against an unspeakably powerful foe, Haruhiro is forced to make an impossible choice... The party faces its greatest challenge yet--the ominous monster Death Spots!
Final book in the manga. The story ended before it really began. I didn’t like that Mary suddenly started being super nice after Haruhiro figured out why she was cold. It would’ve been more realistic if she stayed guarded and cold even after he figured it out. She had a personality when she was cold. When she went back to being a nice girl, she became ordinary and uninteresting.
This painfully generic manga adaptation of an anime adaptation of a book series comes to an abrupt halt after just 3 volumes. If there was ever anything interesting or original about this story then its been lost in translation, because any hint of personality has been scrubbed away.