185 – 185 – Blooming iron heart is glass #4
185 – Blood iron heart is glass #4
Éclair said that it is necessary to exchange hearts with each other in order to cure the eccentricity.
And the chosen method of exchange was ‘hug’.
I was wondering how a simple hug could be a cure for a quirk.
When I tried it myself, ‘holding each other’ unexpectedly required a lot of courage and exchanged a lot of energy.
Well, it’s because it’s the most important heart to heart contact for a person.
If it’s natural, maybe it’s natural.
I just didn’t know until now because there was no option in my life to ‘hug’ with someone else.
Of course, Victoria’s heart and my heart never touched.
Water-.
There was something like a huge wall between Victoria and me. No, no, rather than saying it hard, it would be better to say it softly like a balloon or a cushion.
“Uh, how are you?”
Victoria asked as she hugged me.
I don’t know what it is.
“How do you feel?”
“no. I really don’t know.”
There was just a feeling of ‘awesome’.
I don’t know how to explain this.
Because it’s really just awesome.
It was to the point that if there were people whose life was boring and uninteresting, just hugging Victoria would revitalize their lives.
“What kind of response is so flat?”
However, Victorica didn’t like my reaction, so she picked off like a magnet with the same poles.
Why, if you forcibly attach the same poles to each other, they fall strongly due to the repulsion. Victoria also seemed to have distanced herself from me for no reason.
It’s just more awkward than before.
After all, hugging each other or exchanging friendly jokes between him and me—things like that didn’t go well together.
We just curse at each other and fight… .
It might be more appropriate to fight and raise claws to the point that I wonder if it would be like this if I had a real sister.
“… … .”
“… … .”
The silence between the two flowed like that.
Now, when I was thinking about going back to sleep, I remembered something I had put in my pocket.
“Victoria, take this.”
“What.”
“It’s a ring.”
“ring?”
What I pulled out of my pocket was a ring made of weaving wild flowers.
Wildflower Ring, an item that increases Victoria’s favorability.
Eclair destroyed it, but I picked it up and worked hard to make it again.
“I fixed it again. It’s a little awkward and distorted, but the performance itself, which is said to slightly increase luck and magical power, wouldn’t have changed much.”
“… … .”
Victoriaka silently looked down at the ring on the palm of my hand.
Stung by something, I pretended to.
“Actually, it’s a little dented.”
I tried to restore it somehow.
It was so broken, how it got weirder.
At this level, it would be better to make a new one, but I didn’t have time.
However, Victoria picked out the ring from my hand.
“what is this. Totally funny.”
It’s funny.
It wasn’t the reaction I was expecting, but the guy who had been wearing a worried expression all day smiled.
It was like a light shining in the dark.
What, is this enough?
“Sleepy. Cut now.”
Victoria grabbed the ring and slipped into her sleeping bag.
Then, turning his head away from me, he spoke softly, showing only the back of his head.
“thanks.”
“… … .”
I can’t believe Victoria has said thank you to me.
This was more surprising than the great hug I felt earlier.
why am i so shy all of a sudden
Feeling embarrassed, I scratched the back of my head.
* * *
“Victor, I packed all your things. Let’s start right away.”
“Is it so?”
the next morning.
Early in the morning, as I was about to leave the temporary camp and start on the road, Victoria handed over my luggage to me. It seemed that the pins and props of the tent I had set up had been collected.
what happened
Victoria did a good deed for me first.
I wondered if it was some sort of surprise event, so when I was looking around by myself, Nike came out and looked at Victoria with narrow eyes.
“… something suspicious What did you two do while I was sleeping last night?”
It was the wild flower ring on the ring finger of Victorica’s left hand that was reflected in Nike’s emerald eyes as she deduced the situation like a detective.
“Mo, a ring I haven’t seen before… ! Miss Victoria, where did you get that?”
“this? Isn’t it very funny?”
Victoria spread her thin and long fingers to everyone. Soon after, Enio looked at the finger and criticized it, saying, “It looks so cheap.”
Then Victoria giggles as if she heard a funny story.
“Victor, you made it. They say it looks cheap.”
It is.
I have nothing to say because it’s a fact.
However, Enio said, “What? You said Victor made it? Look again… . No, now that I see it, is the finger the problem?”
At the same time, Nike said, “That, it can’t be… .” He said, drooping from the morning.
Is it low blood pressure?
“I’ve never received anything like a ring… .”
i get it.
Perhaps the ring stimulated the heart of Nike, who has lived with a dirt spoon and has never bought jewelry.
It’s a cheap thing that doesn’t even cost money anyway.
“Nike, later we will be able to buy a diamond ring the size of a thumb. Don’t be too discouraged. Even if you put a ring on each finger, there will be too many rings.”
“Ohh clothes… !”
Nike comes to his senses again.
Then puheh-laugh.
“Wearing a ring on each finger. That’s impossible.”
“is it?”
“yes!”
anyway.
With that feeling, we set off toward the west where the Wizard of Oz might be.
“Victor, do you have a map of this area?”
“no.”
It was when I wanted to hear another voice.
“I knew that, so I brought it.”
Victoria took a map out of her bag.
To be honest, I was a little surprised that he didn’t scold me or blame me for being useless.
Did the broken flower ring I gave you yesterday work?
It’s nice to see it’s worth the time invested.
“Once there is a river flowing according to the sign here. It’s a narrow river, so why not cross it and enter the forest?”
“is it.”
“Would you like me to show you?”
Seruk.
Enio intervened between me and Victorica.
Then, he snatched up the map and unfolded it. I was a little surprised at his aggressive behavior, unlike Enio, who had been in trouble because of the bugs until yesterday.
“But here is the river. You can’t cross it, Victoria. You should look straight at the map. This is a river that cannot be crossed.”
“Ah, that’s right.”
It is a river that cannot be crossed.
What does this mean?
So, the river appeared in front of us before we knew it.
It rippled—it flowed more like a small brook than a river. The flow doesn’t seem to be fast and the water depth is up to my knees?
“This is enough for me to cross over.”
“… … .”
“… … .”
“… … .”
“… … .”
But Victorica, Enio, Nike, and even Arnoi, who was always very timid, became quiet when they saw this small stream in front of them.
“What are you doing. Let’s all cross.”
It was when I was about to set foot toward the river.
“Victor, what are you doing? It is a river that cannot be crossed.”
Nike stopped me with a rather cool voice.
It is a river that cannot be crossed.
“Why?”
“They are piled up around the river like a pile of stones. You cannot cross such a river.”
what are you talking about
For a moment, I wondered what Nike was talking about.
Suddenly, an amazing fact popped into my mind.
It was the irrational map structure of the game D&A.
Why, in a game, there are cases where you have to go around a lot without getting over a small fence.
Or, there are cases where you have to go back to a bridge in the distance because it is a game without ‘jumping’ in a river where you can just press the jump button.
There are cases where you can’t eat the legendary Pokémon ‘Fire’ because a stone is blocking the path.
This is exactly the situation.
The stones piled up like a bank around this river are ‘walls’.
“… … .”
Now that these game rules are holding me back?
“It’s just funny.”
I lifted my foot to cross the river.
So, it was time to cross the stream where this ‘wall’ judgment might exist.
“… … .”
feet do not fall
As if my body was rejecting it.
Nike, who was watching that scene carefully, seemed relieved somewhere, “Look, it can’t be helped because it’s the rules of the gods who created this Ludens. Let’s go round.” He sighed.
really no good
Are these details implemented?
Maybe a buggy play ‘cross the wall’ is also implemented?
You can jump over all the structures that are judged by this ‘wall’ by rubbing them.
“… … .”
Wanna give it a try?
But.
Perhaps because of the eccentricity of 《Steel》, he couldn’t even try.
In order to play buggy, you had to do unsightly and ridiculous things, but the steel quirk that always has to be serious doesn’t seem to tolerate such situations.
Because of that, we ended up having to go round the long way.
Too bad.
Perhaps, if the quirk is erased, I will be able to do it?
‘Break through the wall’ or ‘item copy bug’.
Something like ‘heroine copying’.
No, did you try to block ‘heroine copy’ with the DLC patch?
would have blocked
That’s a serious bug.
“Victor, why? Are you still trying to cross the river? huh? Viktor, don’t stay near the river and come here quickly… !”
I couldn’t help but nod my head because Nike was frightened for some reason.
“Can’t you? I walk for half a day more and use my legs.”
“Good idea!”
So, I walked another half day to the nearby bridge.
I was curious as I listened to Victorica’s snort as she looked at her ringed finger.
“So, is it forbidden to wear multiple rings? ten fingers. There won’t be any problem if you wear each ring.”
It was morning that came to mind.
I told Nike that from now on I would be rich enough to wear a ring on every finger. Nike laughed lightly, jokingly saying, “That kind of thing is impossible.”
At the time, I heard it in the meaning of ‘Ah, wouldn’t it be funny to wear a ring on each finger?’
Looking at it now, wouldn’t it really mean ‘impossible’?
It was then.
I noticed that the surroundings were strangely quiet.
When I came to my senses, the Three Princesses, who had been walking diligently along the trail where the cicadas were crying, had stopped. That expression is like… .
Soon, “How do I… ? Viktor has been saying strange things since before… .” or “Victor-kun, didn’t you eat something wrong yesterday?” or “He seems to be getting more eccentric… ” they whispered among themselves.
“No, really not?”
I’ve been busy making money so far.
How similar is Ludens, who became this reality, and the original “D&A”.
I didn’t care how much my ‘experience and knowledge’ was allowed.
Arnoy said soon.
“You can only wear one ring on each hand… ! Why does Viktor, the chef, not know such “common sense”… ? It is to read the flow of the times… !”
I never thought the day would come when Arnoi would hear what I said.
In any case, it was certain that it was very strange.
Why did I not consider these things ‘weird’ until now?
There may be more strange things like this if you look for it.
Things I didn’t realize because my thoughts were dulled by the quirk ＜Steel＞.
What else could there be? – When I was thinking about it again.
A sign appeared in front of us after crossing the bridge.
「300 steps to the Emerald City – Mage O.」
If the wizard is O, is it Oz?
It seemed like a wizard who was passed down like a legend.
I didn’t know that they would put a sign on where he was.
“… Can I trust you?”
I nodded my head at Nike’s question.
“I guess I have no choice but to follow along.”
We proceeded along the signs, feeling strange sensations in many ways.