Morning of Lilia trying to tempt Arel, but he brushes her off and went to find Laina, only to have her sleeptalk to him thinking he's her dad (and he pat her head before leaving)
Then they went to the labyrinth, some mechanic explaining.
First fight with Living Armors, nothing interesting.
Then a dude seemingly injured show up asking the party to help his friends.
Arel noted that this dude is totally faking it.
Since most people only fight while their divine protection is still active, he shouldn't have kept fighting so far to be this injured.
Also, just looking at the amount of blood he's dripping, the dude should've been dead. After all, Arel's been injured seriously before and by his estimate this amount of wound should've left the dude incapable of so much as moving, not to mention he's able to walk fine.
So, right away Arel immediately realized this guy's setting up a trap for the party, but decided to went along with it, because "This should be more interesting than fighting the Living Armors"