2 months had passed since the fall occur. Hajime and Yue already cleared the Great Orcus Labyrinth and currently on their way to the surface.

They spend their entire month on Oscar's Hideout studying, honing their fighting style, and creating artifacts. Hajime found the entire archive of all the knowledge the liberators possessed, this include the layout of the entire Labyrinth. Hidden routes, traps, ores, and all of the teleportation circles locations were present. They also found an exit which can only be activated using the proof they acquired for finishing this dungeon. There's a teleportation circle in the hideout but rather teleporting to some unknown place, they decided to play it safe which required going through the entire labyrinth again and activate the alternative exit located on the floor 101st of this dungeon.

On their way to the surface Hajime harvested quite the quantity of raw materials for their entire journey, this include monster's loots such as hides, claws, bones, and teeth. For normal life forms of this world might find it problematic carrying this vast amount of loot by themselves, but for Hajime who owned the most convenient tool ever existed the Treasure Warehouse, which makes carrying everything a piece of cake.

They basically speed run the whole labyrinth thanks to their strength and teleportation circles. Hajime fills up Yue's question with ease on their way to the exit. Yue who had been sealed for 300 years practice with her magic so she can adjust the output of her magic fighting small fry and maximizing the efficiency of her mana rather, she don't really need to do it because she had Divinity Stone Accessories Series but of course she didn't want to cause any collateral damage while fighting on the surface.

They were currently heading to the next teleportation circle located on the 70th floor of the upper floors. Hajime just let Yue handle all of the monsters of upper floor, only focusing on detecting every entity on their vicinity, but suddenly he detected some unwanted creatures ahead. His mood distort quite a bit which Yue immediately noticed, she's about to questioned him but not long after she also picks up the presence of this unknown creatures. Putting her guard up on there enemies, though they aren't strong enough to intimidate her but still, their strength is quite different to all they fight in this floor so far. Hajime patted her head and Yue turned her head to look at him but to her surprised he's just smiling at her, proud that a partner he had chose were so reliable that he can leave her to have his back to any situation. As far as Yue was concerned she hadn't seen Hajime hadn't raise any hostility against their enemies so this was new for her.

Once they reach the end of the hall they found lots of adventurers, Hajime's classmate to be exact. Hajime already guessed that the presence he detected earlier belonged to his classmates, currently camping out besides the teleportation circle taking a break. Several knight were on patrol, guarding the heroes against monsters surprise attacks, but it seems like none of them were able to detect Hajime and Yue as expected, this just show the result of their training were paying off, because their Hide Presence on the completely different level.

The Hero party consist of Amanogawa Kouki, Yaegashi Shizuku, Sakagami Ryutaro, Tanaguchi Suzu, Nakamura Eri, and Shirasaki Kaori. There's also Nagayama's party and of course Hiyama and his peers were also present. Endo Kousuke were also there but he didn't didn't notice him as usual.

Amanogawa Kouki is your common anime protag. Strong, handsome, smart?, and charismatic. Brown hair, charming facial features with the height of 180cm, his appearance screams perfection without even him trying.

Shirasaki Kaori were the most beautiful girl in school. Her waist long black hair, perfect body proportion, and charming beauty captivated every boy on school. They call her Goddess not just because of her beauty but also for her personality.

Yaegashi Shizuku were Kaori's best friend. With her body that looks like a model, alluring aura of a big sister, and her trademark ponytail captivated not just the boys but even girls at school. Her beauty were second to Kaori, aslo, although she find the title embarrassing, she's also a Goddess who would protect everyone.

Sakagami Ryutaro is Kouki's best friend. His 2 meters height, bulky muscles, and bear like figures will without a doubt intimidate anyone. He's hard worker who doesn't think too much that's why most of their classmate calls him a muscle brain.

Tanaguchi Suzu were the class mood maker. Standing 167cm, twin tail hair, and child like appearance makes her looked like a harmless animal. Although she looks like this most of the time she's just messing around acting like a perveted old man and drag her best friend to every troublesome situation.

NaKamura Eri were Suzu's best friend. She has a short hair, wears glasses, and pretty much had plain attributes. Although she's just like this but for better or worse she gets along with everyone else in class.

Daisuke Hiyama were Hajime's bully. He has brown hair, brown eyes, and a personality that would invite anyone to punch him in the face.

Hajime was sure they should have noticed his presence already but it seems he has overestimated them. For some reason Koari became uneasy, she keeps looking around looking for something she didn't know herself. Shizuku who were right next to her discussing their plans with the rest of the party noticed Kaori's behavior, she was about to ask a question but interrupted by a familiar voice that suddenly rang out.

[ Kaori? is there som- ]

[ Looks like all of you are having fun aren't you? ]

[ !? ]

They all look at the same the direction putting their guard up for the sudden appearance for this unknown person. They all know that no habitants of this world in history were able to go beyond 45th floor of the Oscar's Great Labyrinth so they should be the only people present on this floor, but for an unknown reason this person were here at the 70th floor that no one but themselves were able to reach. It's only natural putting their guard up but Kaori's eyes widened in surprise and for some reason her heart that should be cold since his demise started to pound rapidly, warm feelings flow through her entire body, tears were gathering to the corner of here eyes, this feeling that she can't describe feels the same when she saw him the first time kneeling in front of those delinquents, in her eyes thousand of emotions were currently residing and she can't do anything except shouting his name, the boy she were looking for this entire time.

[ Hajime-kun! ]

All of them turned to look at Kaori dumbfounded, and back to Hajime.

[ Yo. Long time no see, are all of you doing well? ]

In his light hearted reply, they were all shaken. None of them cant even process what to do in this situation, their mouth open and close without words coming out, some of them doubt Kaori and says [ Huh!? thats him!? , [ No waaaay!? , or [ Its gotta be a joke right!? right!? ].

Who can blame them? The person in front of them right now were a completely different person. This person with white hair, eyepatch, and a weird looking arm were a far cry from Hajime. He's wearing all black and his eyes looks sharp like a hawk, his body structure and height were completely different from the Hajime they knew. They can't really tell if this person really were him, but his facial figure resembles him so they can't really denied Kaori's outburst. The fact that he's emitting an dangerous aura makes her claim hard to believe too, so none of them drop their guard down. They doubt Hajime could explored this floor on his own with his strength, there were also a possibility that this were a monster in disguise or one of the labyrinth's trap, Meld already teach them lots of stuffs so they can't even remove their gaze on him for even a second.

Kaori was about to run to him but Shizuku stop her and ask Hajime a question.

[ Is that really you? Nagumo-kun? ]

Hajime just sigh and reply.

[ Do I look like someone else? well yeah I really do look like someone else but it's me. Nagumo Hajime... I'm alive. ]

Meld decided to butt in on the conversation. Still on guard.

[ Do you have something to prove your identity? ]

[ Ehhhhhh~ is that really necessary? ]

Hajime just shrugged his shoulders while muttering [ Well, can't be helped huh. ]. He flicked his status plate to Meld which he catch perfectly. The other students also tried to take a peak of his status place to see if he's really him, but none of them expected to see his status plate to look like this, their eyes widened in shock, Meld were also on the same state, for now he tried to wipe the plate with his sleeve and rapped the surface to check if it weren't broken. Hajime found their reaction quite weird, he tilted his head on confusion and was about to ask a question but realize his fatal mistake. He forgotten to hide his stats and skills, and now they are full of doubts whether he really were Hajime.

[ What's wrong with this status plate? your stats is on 5 digits, and you have dozens of skills and your level only shows "? ? ?" on it. ]

Hajime laugh awkwardly while scrathing his head.

Hajime's appearance seems calm but he's actually panicking and he mentally berated himself for his carelessness. Yue chuckles a bit while looking warmly at Hajime's current state. It's pretty rare to see him like this after all.