Negi rather quickly realized that his bluff had failed, and was certain he and his "partner" would get killed. Sure death was a minor annoyance, but still getting killed by slimes would be humiliating. Luckily things began looking better when a third hero showed up to complete their party. Unfortunately the new girl quickly proved as useless as the other one by trying to pickpocket the skull marked enemy.

As if things weren't bad enough the beetle managed to both poison the mage a second time as well as bind him, meaning he couldn't even try to whack anything with his staff. It seemed time for drastic measures. [color=fff200]"Orc, thief I don't care how but if one of you saves me, I can pay you when we're back in town!"[/color]