How Could the Little Priest Be the White Moonlight of the Hero Who Quit the Party?!

Having lived in this world for so long, Letitia had always assumed it was nothing more than a perfectly ordinary Western-style fantasy setting. And she herself was merely the resident cleric in a perfectly ordinary hero’s party. That was exactly what she thought—right up until the moment their captain “optimized” the party by kicking out its sole male member. But could someone—anyone—tell me why the script for this entire world suddenly popped into my head the instant we booted the guy out? And why, in the name of all that is holy, is it a classic “kicked-from-the-party” trope?! The kind where I—along with the rest of the dimwits left in the group—are destined to meet a gruesome end in ...