71. Stalker (5)
71. Stalker(5)
When you go through the bookshelf with Saint Eldenia, your view is instantly reversed. It was obviously the time when the sun was up, but the world behind the bookshelf was night and a trail was visible. On both sides of the trail, trees swaying their bodies from side to side were densely grown.
A huge mansion is built at the end of the trail, and a crescent moon hangs over the mansion.
“Hey, Woros senior. This is… “
“In front of Arisha’s Forbidden Library. Be careful. They’re sending undead to hostile outsiders to drive them away.”
“If it is undead, I will purify it. In the name of the goddess Rosasia!”
Eldenia said that and she smiled happily. I must have been excited because it was my first time visiting the place. I gave her a nod of her head and pointed her finger at her mansion at the end of her trail.
“Let’s go. If you follow the trail all the way, you will be safe. They don’t recognize you as an intruder until you leave the trail.”
“Do the undead attack if you deviate from the trail?”
“Yes, some of them are quite powerful. It is best to go without a fight.”
“I see. I have a question. What we just passed… Is it a portal?”
She shook her head as she walked down the trail.
“Rather than a portal, you can say that you have entered a hidden space inside Shaiza’s library. Arisha was a typical firepower nerd. She was big and hard, but she preferred the powerful. That kind of Arisha has always been doing secret research for her own taste.”
“So what?”
As if Eldenia was curious about what was going on behind her, she grabbed my collar and shook it.
“That’s why they were created, weapons that took the lives of many people. Arisha’s teacher, Shaiza, couldn’t be called over something like that. Every time a weapon is discovered by Shaiza, he gets hit in the calf, and everything is discarded. Arisha’s daily routine of secretly experimenting to avoid getting caught was repetitive.”
I said that and smiled once.
“So this place was created. It is dark under the lamp. You wouldn’t know if she hid her own secret laboratory in Shai Ja’s realm, right? It’s a place I made.”
“I see. So what is that tree? Did Arisha-sama make that too?”
“That is the Dumchid Dumchit tree. They scream like crazy when people approach them. As you usually see, I dance by twisting her torso from side to side.”
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She said that while looking at the tree swinging her waist from side to side.
“It’s a tree made by Arisha, like a guard. You said I shouldn’t stray off the trail, right? The moment you leave, that tree screams and gathers the undead.”
“I see. I don’t want to see that cute tree screaming, so let’s go down the trail.”
“Good idea. I was trying to get out of the trail from a while ago, and he glanced at me. Safe is best. Then let’s go.”
I was walking down a damp and dark path while chatting with Eldenia.
“By the way. Senior. Did senpai try to come to such a dangerous place alone?”
“It is true that it is dangerous here. It’s very dangerous. Arisha’s Magic Tower. Along with Arisha’s toy factory, it’s where Arisha’s wealth lies.”
“Now, a toy factory?”
“What… there is such a place Arisha’s Forbidden Library, which we visited today, is fine if you follow the rules. It’s okay if you don’t go down this trail. For that reason, I decided that there would be no problem even if I came alone.”
“Ah! So, you installed that safeguard.”
I nodded. Before entering this place, I had put a barrier at the entrance. It was a barrier of structure that we could immediately know if a person entered the barrier. No one had passed the barrier yet, and the entrance to this place would have been closed by now, so there was nothing dangerous.
An expert in tracking who is determined to follow us cannot enter this place without our knowledge unless he has passed through the barrier.
As I stood in front of the entrance of the mansion where the forbidden library was located, the door opened with a squeal. Then the butler of the mansion opened the door and stopped in front of us.
The butler was a teddy bear about the size of my torso. The bear greets us, but its stomach protrudes too much, and it doesn’t have a neck because it’s a doll.
“If you are not classified as an intruder, most are very hospitable.”
“I see. Then-“
“Don’t come too close. I heard that although it is a teddy bear, its strength is similar to that of a real bear.”
I stopped Eldenia from approaching the cute teddy bear. On the outside, it’s a cute and cozy looking teddy bear, but that doll is undead. There is a monster inside that doll mask. We followed the bear and entered the inside of the mansion.
So far, everything is as planned. Now, if you enter Arisha’s Forbidden Library and take the existence back to my greenhouse, today’s work will be over. I had to.
ㅡ『Quaaa!
A tremendous scream was heard from outside the mansion. The voice that was once spread like fire and increased to dozens or hundreds of voices, and I had no choice but to block my ears at the tremendous noise.
Someone has stimulated the Dumchid Dumchit tree. Like that, Eldenia and I covered her ears until the screams stopped.
“Ugh.”
“Ah… are you okay?”
“Yeah, well, I’m fine, but what was that?”
“Someone cut the Dumchid Dumchit tree… Holy lady, come to me!”
I grabbed Eldenia’s wrist and pulled her into my arms. It was because the distance between Eldenia and the teddy bear butler was too close. After hearing the scream, the teddy bear stopped in its walking position, as if the video had been stopped.
It was then. The flames of the lamps that were lighting up the interior of the mansion all began to turn green. As a result, the mansion has a green light. At the same time, the teddy bear turns its head as if it is looking at us, as it is in its stopped position.
The bear’s body is facing forward, but her neck turns 180 degrees to stare at us. The teddy bear’s face remains cute, but blood is flowing from her eyes. Seeing that, Eldenia froze stiffly as if she was shocked.
The undead will come. You also need to find out exactly who stimulated the tree. Any student who gets caught up in us will have to be rescued, and anyone who deliberately provoked the tree to endanger us needs to be identified.
With that thought in mind, I summoned the spear of Zakat. Since it is Zakat’s spear that penetrates anywhere in this world and any space, it does not break through the walls of the mansion and comes through and settles in my hand.
I held my spear and looked at Eldenia. She stood there with her mouth open in shock at the fact that the cute, plump, and soft teddy bear had turned into something terrifying.
Until her shock wears off, I will have to protect her.
*
Irina Blood followed Woros and passed through the bookshelf. As soon as she realized she had landed in a strange place, she fell to the floor. It was because he could see his brother’s back at the end of his field of vision.
“W… What the hell is this place?”
Irina, who managed to hide herself, looked around her and frowned. Because she stinks.
“…… “
Irina immediately realized that this place was unusual. Lying on her stomach, she waited for Woros to disappear from sight. She felt the need to secretly follow her brother and protect him.
The reason she had no choice but to judge like that was because her senses sent red flags. This sense was quite accurate, as it was a skill he had learned while undergoing hell training in the Blood family.
With Waros disappearing from sight, Irina runs down her path at breakneck speed, using even her magic power. Arriving in front of her mansion in an instant, she jumps over her wall with a single leap.
“This is… “
It was a strange-looking mansion. One is made of wood and the other is made of brick. A mansion that seems to have been built spontaneously without any special plan. Irina almost vomited for a moment at the tremendous stench that wafted from inside the mansion.
The stench of this feeling was very similar to that of a corpse that had died holding her grudge.
“Older brother… Why are you in a place like this?”
The reason is not important. No matter what he does and what results come out, it is all necessary. Because that’s what my older brother did. All I have to do is make sure my brother can finish the job. Irina thought so.
Irina jumps over the wall on the opposite side of her house to look at her older brother who must have entered her mansion. That was when she approached the window.
The tree that was dancing, swaying her left and right. She stopped her body and glared at herself. There was a hole in the middle of the tree’s body, and there were eyeballs in it, so it wasn’t a metaphor, it was really staring at Irina.
“What?”
Sensing her strange sense of danger, Irina took out her dagger from the scabbard wrapped around her thigh and held it. At the same time, a hole is made in the middle of the trunk of all the trees around the tree where she found Irina, and her eyeballs appear. As if those eyeballs had fulfilled her promise, she glared at Irina.
It was then. The eyeballs embedded in the trunk of the tree disappeared all at once, and teeth-like objects began to rise above and below the hole. Irina frowned at the bizarre scene.
Irina thinks it’s better to ignore the trees and do something. That was when she tried to turn her body around. The hole in the tree started to grow, and in an instant, a tremendous roaring sound began to be heard.
ㅡ「Kyaaa!」
“Kyaaak!”
Startled by the sudden noise, Irina curls up and covers her ears. The tremendous sound that continued for a while stopped in an instant, as if it had been promised.
“Ha ha ha… what’s this?”
Irina, who is dizzy, she manages to get her body up and shakes her head from side to side. Then checking her tree, she immediately readied herself for battle. Because from a hole in the middle of her tree, a man thrust her face in and glared at her Irina.
He has pale skin, his hair and eyebrows have not grown, and most notably, he has no nose and no ears. The man in white twisted open the tree and crawled out of it.
“Pangporo Pangpang. A kumquat flower.”
“… What is he saying now?”
“Pipopipo. Eggs are delicious Guru guru meme body.”
“…… “
Spitting incomprehensible words, a white man approached Irina. The man points his finger to the sky. Her curiosity piqued, Irina looked up in the direction he pointed her finger at.
“Huh… “
Irina almost stopped breathing at the tremendous sight. Something huge in the sky is looking down this way. Big doesn’t mean big and tall.
Something overwhelming enough to fill the sky was looking down at me. Seeing that figure, Irina wondered if the Transcendentalist might be like that.
“Mere Mere, Mong Mong Ming Mong.”
The man in white is still spouting incomprehensible words. Nails stick out of his hands, and he throws her at Irina, who is looking up at the sky.