After completing my application for training at the Telemachus School, I returned to the village outside the city walls.

I finished my last meal at the inn and went back to my room, hearing some well-meaning advice from the innkeeper, though it didn’t feel very comforting.
That old man, if he was going to offer advice, he could’ve just done it straight. Why did he have to talk about people who couldn’t handle the Abyss and ended up retiring?

I guess it’s because the lives of adventurers who get pushed to an inn like this, in a village outside …