The group might have started out small, but it would gradually grow with each achievement he would gain from each mission he took on.
Even his visit back home was not a small thing for him, since seeing his mother again in her poor state would only motivate him further.
Being a B grade might have seemed like a great achievement, but it was far from being enough for Sloane, so he would continue to push himself in a way that would speed up his growth.
Even though there only seemed to be a small distance between Sloane, who was a B-grade Balancer, and Ash, who had estimated herself to be a D-grade Balancer, the gap was still quite huge in reality.
All that it seemed to look like was that there were two grades between them, but each grade higher could be considered as being the next big step.
As the grades increased, the gap between them would only start to grow wider, so the difference between Sloane and Ash was still very far despite her efforts to try to catch up.
