[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/181012/ad7d1ac9cb16e5ae0b355f0d3152a846.png[/img][hr][color=gray][b]Village of Kotana[/b][/color][hr][/center]Kaito's fears weren't unfounded. If their enemy had such a thing themselves, then it would be all the more dangerous. Hiroko didn't want to assume that just because they've beaten a couple of goblins without prior training that they'd be able to defeat highly trained soldiers. If they had such firepower and they only had some low tier magic, a sword, and a bow - well, they would likely just perish as soon as they entered the battlefield no matter the blessing given to them.

Well, Hiroko would be damned if she'd die [i]now[/i] after everything that had happened in her life. 

[b][color=f26522]"Better to have something to shoot them back with than not, right? Still, I get what you mean. If he's as influential as I think he is, it's very likely they already have this technology in their hands. We just have to figure out how to counter it if we ever encounter them."[/color][/b] That was the most they could do. If they can't beat them through sheer brute force, then outsmarting them would be their best bet. 

Ipharia's reassurance of bringing them to the capital did put Hiroko at ease. Just a little though. But as long as they kept their mouths shut about being heroes from another world, then the Black King wouldn't find out about them. They were safe... for now. [b][color=f26522]"Well then, we better hurry it up a bit yeah?"[/color][/b] Her tone was lighter, trying to ease the mood of the group back to a more comfortable one.