Beginner Dungeon (4)
I kind of expected it.
That’s also true, because whenever Rize and I went to special places together, unexpected things would happen.
Didn’t you prepare so much because you thought you could do it this time too?
I approached Rize, who was still stomping across the tent and talking to Irina in frustration.
“Oh, it really looks like it. Hey, is there such a thing as that?”
“Reese.”
“dad? Can’t you see your dad?”
“Let’s get there for now, put on all our clothes and come out and talk.”
Just talking to Irina behind the tent didn’t make any progress.
As soon as I finished my words, I heard the sound of changing clothes, and I sneaked back and slowly looked at the walls around me.
The rectangular wall surrounding it on all sides was plain and without any pattern, and I couldn’t even feel the touch of a person.
There was only one passageway leading to this room, so I thought it was just a dead-end room where I could relax, but wasn’t that the case?
But no matter how I looked, nothing was there like when I came before.
“dad! Master! hurry!”
When Irina removed the tent, Rize, who had returned to her immaculate skin, ran out and called me and Douglas.
There weren’t many cases where Rize made a fuss like that, so Rize approached the wall as she kept glancing at it, but it was an ordinary wall with nothing unusual about it.
Turning his head to the side, Douglas frowned slightly as if he hadn’t found anything.
Rize, who was watching the reaction of the two of us, rushed to the wall and pointed to one place jumping up and down.
“Can’t you see here? Is it drawn very large? Is the light just coming out?”
“Hmm… … .”
If there was really something Rize said, there was no way we wouldn’t see it.
I wondered if my vision was a problem, so I squatted down, but there was no change.
That’s the story… … .
“It seems like only Rize can see it.”
“Isn’t it possible that adults can’t see it?”
“After reading a lot of children’s books with Rize, you’ve become quite innocent.”
“… … .”
Irina’s cheeks turned red as if she had just said it for no reason, and I continued to crouch down and beckon to Rize.
Rize immediately ran up to me, grabbed my shoulder, shook it, and pointed at the wall.
“Can’t you see Dad? really can’t you see? Am I weird then?”
“Rize, wait a minute.”
Rize, who seemed to be too excited, read it with her arms wrapped around her waist, and soon lost her momentum, leaning on me and pouting.
He seemed to be feeling like a liar.
I looked at the floor for a moment, but it was too hard, so I finally took out a piece of paper and a pen from my bag and unfolded it.
“Can you draw a picture of what you see? I can’t see anything about Dad or the two of you here.”
“Do you believe me?”
“Well, of course not. Even if Master Irina or Master doesn’t believe me, Dad believes in Rize unconditionally.”
“Of course I believe.”
Not to be outdone by this, Irina hurriedly intervened, and Douglas cleared his throat when Rize’s gaze turned to him.
“Come on, you have to be a teacher and trust your students.”
It was only then that Rize sat down with a bright smile and immediately started drawing.
Rise, who had been drawing while looking back and forth between the wall and the paper, completed the painting by measuring the length with the palm of her hand, perhaps intending to depict it more accurately.
Looking at the picture that is being completed little by little… … Irina and I forced ourselves to swallow our surprised emotions.
It was because the patterns Rize drew were very familiar to Irina and me.
It was the mark of a hero, shaped like the shape of the half wings on Rize’s back.
However, Rize’s painting did not end there, and he drew a pair of wings facing each other in a mirror.
Is there something like this on the wall over there?
“Uhm, that’s about it, ah, I was wrong here. Okay, that’s it!”
After completing the painting, Rize immediately jumped up and held up the painting she had just drawn toward us.
Douglas, who was looking at the picture while patting his chin, shook his head.
“I have never seen it. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t go around many dungeons.”
Then he turned his head and looked in my direction.
“Irvin, I think you would know, how is it?”
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“… … well. I’m not sure.”
Should we bring out the hero’s story here?
I looked at the painting and the wall alternately without such worries, but it still felt like a separate thing because it was not visible on the wall.
Shall I use my head for a while?
“Rize, would you like to hold it like that? No, wait a minute.”
I left Rize alone for a while and blocked the light of the campfire with the tent, and a thick darkness formed on the wall on the side where Rize was.
Is the lack of luminescent moss around there intentionally made that way?
With that thought in mind, I approached again and took out the magic lamp and adjusted the light.
“Would you like to put the picture sideways?”
“Ah, this is shadow play!”
Rize, who immediately understood my intentions, stretched out her arms and opened the painting, and as I shined the lantern toward the place, the picture Rize had drawn appeared black on the empty wall.
“Uh, isn’t it here? Dad, can we make it the same as the one on the wall here?”
“Yes, please. I want to see what it looks like.”
“okay! Oh, Dad, just a little bit this way. This is the center.”
Like that, I adjusted the shadows on the wall little by little in harmony with Rize, and soon Rize stopped moving and glanced back and smiled brightly.
“It’s right here. The light is coming out of the wall like this. Why is it only visible to me?”
It was the moment when Rize, who was saying that, tilted her head.
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A light vibration echoed along with a small sound coming from the wall.
“You can’t believe this was the key?”
Some dungeons have hidden passages.
In particular, in the case of ancient ruins, there are cases where treasures are hidden, so there are cases where experts were deliberately hired to explore together.
I also had some knowledge, but I had never seen a dungeon of this type.
No, I didn’t know if it was just that I couldn’t see it.
“My lady, this way.”
“Whoa, whoa!”
Rize couldn’t take her eyes off the wall even as she was dragged away by Irina.
It was because the wall engraved with the hero’s pattern split from the center and was slowly moving in both directions.
I only thought it was a cave organized by monsters, but in fact, was this place also a ruin?
Leaving those doubts behind, I also stepped forward and took my seat as if protecting Rize.
From here on, I had to be careful because I was completely unfamiliar with it.
The wall that continued to open on both sides finally stopped when it reached the same width as the other passage.
“Hmm, is it over?”
Douglas also stepped forward, a little stiff-faced, and carefully glared at the newly opened passage.
The aisle extending straight inward was bright enough to see a clear difference between the lighting magic tool installed and the luminous moss.
Just looking at it from here seemed to somehow make the air different.
“dad? Can I go in there?”
“… … .”
It was natural for Rize to show interest with her eyes sparkling.
After all, a secret place is always a place that makes children’s heart beat.
Instead of answering right away, I looked at Douglas.
It was better now to ask for Douglas’s opinion and listen to his judgment rather than mine.
Douglas, however, nodded his head without showing much concern.
“Go in, however. From what I can see, there is nothing that poses a great threat.”
“Since the lady is a goddess, wouldn’t it be right to explore the inside?”
“yes. The real pleasure of dungeon exploration is this. Isn’t it the original meaning of finding a place that no one has discovered?”
It wasn’t enough that I readily agreed, and as Irina’s support shot continued, Rize grabbed my collar and sent her eyes shining even more.
I didn’t mean to object, so I nodded and opened my mouth.
“Okay, let’s go in. Should I stick with my dad instead?”
“Yep! I’ll listen to Daddy!”
Rize, who had a spirit of exploration, tried to step forward while holding on to me, and I had no choice but to move in line with him.
Douglas and I were at the forefront, and Lize held onto me while Irina entered the aisle with her mouth still open in formation a short distance behind.
As we entered, a brighter and warmer light greeted us.
“Here, it feels completely different.”
Irina who entered next said that, and Rize, who had been looking around in the same way, sniffed and looked up at me.
“Dad, it smells different from the one before.”
“smell? what smell?”
When I asked what it meant, Rize sniffed once more and then continued.
“Something dark and gloomy over there? It smelled like that, but it’s really refreshing here. It smells like sunlight.”
The smell of the dungeon was the first thing even I had heard of it.
I tried sniffing like Rize, but I felt like I didn’t know.
I looked at Douglas just in case, and Douglas, who was worried for a moment, looked at me and opened his mouth.
“Perhaps Rize can feel dark magic.”
“Maybe you felt the thick air unique to the dungeon?”
“Isn’t it Lizzie who discovered this place? You must be right to think there is something special.”
It was Douglas who was talking like a toss, but I couldn’t help but sympathize.
When it comes to Rize’s speciality, I know better than anyone else.
This place, too, was definitely a place that could only be thought of as being related to Rize.
At Douglas’ words, Rize tilted her head and asked.
“Am I special?”
“Finding a hidden passageway is something no one can do. Besides, it was a pattern that only Rize could see.”
“Then I wasn’t weird… … .”
It seemed that he was worried that only he could see it.
I hugged Rize tightly and said.
“Rize is your father’s daughter. Our most special daughter in the world. Let me know if anything like this happens in the future.”
“Yeah, Dad. Thanks, hee hee.”
After I soothed Rize and let her go, Irina approached right away and said that she was as special as Rize, so she quietly ignored her and approached Douglas.
“What do you think of here?”
“What? There really isn’t anything about it that was opened so strangely.”
As he said, there was only a straight aisle from the entrance to the present.
It was clearly a passageway with more artificial traces than the previous one, but that’s all. It wasn’t anything like what I was expecting.
As Douglas said, even though Risemann opened it specially based on the pattern he saw.
“So you’re saying there’s something over there at the end.”
“Hmm, see you too? I’m glad I didn’t twist the road or anything. It’s a space created for someone, so it’s natural.”
“Someone.”
“Of course I mean your daughter. At this point, even a fool would know. As I said earlier, there must be something special about Rize. Yes, something you could call destiny.”
That was all the more surprising to Douglas, who had no interest in being a hero or anything.
Of course, I wondered if they would believe it if I told them openly that Lize was a hero.
There was still a distance to the room that could be seen far away, and there was nothing else in the passageway, so we headed towards the room, talking less and less.
It wasn’t too far to the room, but Rize, who was attached to me again, hurried my steps, as if she wanted to go faster.
We also didn’t intend to leisurely look around, so we moved a little faster and finally had the entrance to the room in front of us.
“Hmm, this door is pretty elaborate, isn’t it? It is definitely the work of artisans.”
“I think I finished the aisle roughly because I put my heart and soul here.”
While looking at the door engraved with elaborate geometric patterns, Irina and I joked about it before reaching out to open the door and then stopping.
“Ah, is Rize open? This is where Rize found it.”
It was usually a virtue to yield to the discoverer at the forefront of such a place.
On top of that, since Rize was making a throbbing expression, she naturally wanted to concede.
The answer from Rize was an involuntary laugh.
“No, I want to open with my dad!”
“… … Yes, then.”
Pressing down on my mouth that was about to open wide, Rise and I put our hands on the door at the same time, and slowly pushed inward to open the door that felt heavy.
and… … A white light emanating from the room covered us.