Yoke Feldio has been having some trouble with his A-Rank party. They aren't giving him a fair share of the pay for quests, and aren't reimbursing him for all the potions and items he uses to help them, causing him to start losing money with each quest instead of earning it. When he brings this up, he's ridiculed and derided for being a weak Red Mage who can't fight as well as the rest of the party and his support efforts aren't even recognized at all. Fed up, he yells "FUCK YOU! I Quit!"
Unfortunately, being The Red Mage going solo leaves him without any prospects, as no one is willing to hire a member of his class by themselves and he's beginning to resign himself to fruitless efforts to join another party that likely won't be any better than his previous party. Then he happens to run into a trio of girls (Marina, Silk, and Rain) that he'd previously mentored as adventurers, who are more than thrilled to have him join.
Tropes found in the work include:
- Ability Mixing: Yoke's ultimate spell, Prismic Missile, inflicts a target with every negative status effect.
- Big Brother Mentor: Yoke to the girls previously, and in many respects still. He's very patient and knowledgeable about all aspects of adventuring and chock full of great advice.
- Didn't Think This Through: Simon, leader of Yoke's former party Thunder Pike, attempts to discredit Clover by goading Yoke into attacking him while the camera is broadcasting live, by insulting the dark elf member of Clover with racist and sexist remarks. Simon's party ends up the one in trouble. How much trouble? Well, they apparently forgot that A-Rank parties like themselves are officially recognized by the king, allowing them to act as representatives of the crown, meaning that their publicly broadcast overtly racist comments have sparked an international incident and have put them on the line for punishments up to and including banishment.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: The main drive behind Yoke leaving Thunder Pike. Not only did he not get any thanks, recognition, or a fair share of the treasure despite all his hard-working efforts, but when he brings this up, the party tears into him and treat him like he's useless because of his minor combat skills. This lead him to his Rage Breaking Point and leaving the party. Fortunately, the members of Clover treat him much more fairly, and then some.
- Guilt-Tripping: In a failed attempt at guilt-tripping, Simon tries to point out that Thunder Pike keeps failing at dungeon expeditions and quests because Yoke left them. Yoke, however, stands his ground and counters that Thunder Pike kept treating him like crap and their failures are their own responsibility despite their claims otherwise, and he is under no legal or moral obligation to return to a party that did nothing but belittle and abuse him and never paid him his fair share of the earnings for everything he did for them.
- Harem Genre: All three female members of Clover are head over heels for Yoke. He's the only one that doesn't know.
- Hoarding the Profits: One of the reasons Yoke left Thunder Pike is because he was sick of his fellow party members hoarding the earnings from their activities for themselves without even compensating him for his expenses in helping the party get where they are, leaving him in the red. His new party, Clover, rewards his contributions much more fairly and achieves quick success and fame under Yoke's leadership while Thunder Pike keeps losing prestige, and their hired replacements for Yoke leave because they were asking them to do all the work Yoke did without fair compensation.
- Humiliation Conga: Life does not treat Yoke's former party well after he leaves, and even better Yoke himself has nothing to do with it beyond his absence. Some highlights:
- Because Yoke took care of everything not related to combat, his former party is hopelessly inept at even basic adventuring logistics. The amount of work Yoke did behind the scenes is so great that everyone they try to hire to replace him quits after one day from sheer frustration.
- Since Yoke's support magic was greatly strengthening the party, they go from regularly challenging the 10th floor of an elite dungeon to struggling on the 4th floor, leading to at least one instance where they had to flee with one member greatly injured.
- Their lack of success also causes their popularity to plummet, losing viewers to their broadcasts as well as sponsors, which means a hefty financial loss.
- Failure to plan and prepare properly leads to repeated failed quests, causing them to be threatened with having their party's rank lowered.
- The leader attempts to pressure Yoke into joining them on a one-time basis, which Yoke refuses, enraging the leader and causing him to confront Yoke publicly over it in the middle of the guild. Yoke gives him a very calm and targeted "The Reason You Suck" Speech regarding his horrible leadership skills, turning him into an immediate laughingstock for all other adventurers present.
- This is all before Simon's Didn't Think This Through moment and because of the said moment the party's popularity plummets even further due to an international incident and it fatally destroys its reputation.
- Not learning his lesson, Simon goes after Yoke in the dungeon again, and takes his female party members hostage, trying to force Yoke into signing over his accomplishments with a magical contract. The dungeon doesn't agree with Simon's antics and comes at him, cue a graphic Cruel and Unusual Death.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: The entire premise of the series is basically Yoke getting fed up with being this and getting no recognition for it.
- Instant Web Hit: There is a magic item that can record adventurer actions like a drone camera and even broadcast live. Yoke decides to use one for Clover party's first boss fight versus the "Novice Slayer", and the video goes viral when he accidentally one-shots it with support magic.
- Noob Cave: The Abandoned Mine Labyrinth Paintal, a low-level 10-floor dungeon, is apparently the first one most adventurers enter.
- Polyamory: Not official yet, but all three of the girls in Clover are smitten with Yoke, none of them seem jealous or competitive with each other, and at one point Silk casually mentions that Polygamy is legal where they live. Yoke thinks she's only teasing him.
- Precision F-Strike: How Yoke quits his former party, Thunder Pike.
- The Red Mage: A very versatile class in this universe that mostly casts support magic and doesn't have direct attack options.
- Removing the Crucial Teammate: Played with in that Yoke removes himself from the party rather than being kicked out of it. Nonetheless, while the party laughs it off, they quickly learn how essential Yoke was to their success due to his taking care of all the non-combat duties.
- Rescue Romance: The day after Nene joins the party, the girls all ask if she is, or might become, in love with Yoke as well. Nene says she has no interest in love in general and walks off. Immediately afterwards, she trips on some stairs and Yoke catches her, causing her to fall in love with him immediately.
- Support Party Member: The Red Mage class in this universe, which Yoke takes to amazing levels having mastered a very diverse range of skills to make the rest of his party's efforts easier and more effective. The other members of Clover are absolutely starry-eyed at how much easier quests become with his support.
- Take This Job and Shove It: Without getting his fair share of quest proceeds from the party, getting reimbursement for supplies (especially potions and other items) used in each quest the party undertakes, as well as being taken for granted by them as a whole, Yoke tells them "I quit!" and cuts his losses. Clover makes it up to Yoke to where Simon's attempts to get him back fail miserably, and bring Thunder Pike to the desperation of having to team with a rich evil mastermind to ruin Clover and Yoke especially.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: An Informed Attribute since Yoke one-shots it by accident, but the Steel Crab on the 5th floor of the Abandoned Mine didn't get the alias "Novice Slayer" for nothing.
