#38
“what I’m saying is… It’s not logical. The most important thing is that you might get hurt because of me.”
He sighed in despair and said.
I don’t think there will be any progress if I have to talk to Rubia more than this. The moment when I was about to say the words “Stop it” to end the quarrel that has no meaning here.
“Ezio!”
Someone shouted loudly. We turned our heads to the side at the same time. There was one person running towards this side, panting.
“stellar.”
“Uh, what happened… ? Why are they here again? Why did you and that man come out together? What the hell happened?”
“That’s what I’m asking for.”
Stella’s baptism of questions poured in, holding her hand on her knee and holding her breath. He seemed to have a lot of questions. But that was the same for me.
“What were you doing here? Where else are you? Mu is… … Why are you with me?”
“Here… It’s the end of the labyrinth. deepest. Underground. And maybe… Reality, not fantasy.”
“… The end of the labyrinth? Is it real?”
Stella, who had forgotten the concept of being respectful to me, nodded, biting her lip so that drops of blood began to form. Without paying attention to Yuri and Rubia, who looked at them with confused faces.
“Did you hear it before the practice started? There is an altar in the deepest and darkest part of the labyrinth. … That’s the altar.”
A black, sinister structure hung at the end of Stella’s gaze. It was certainly in the form of an altar that can be seen in temples and the like.
“The purpose is… A high-ranking beast sleeping inside the altar— Summoning the body of Velkaros. Originally, once that high-ranking beast was killed, the training of the person who killed it would end immediately. It’s about completing special assignments and finishing as top.”
“Originally, if… … ”
“It’s different now.”
Stella looked back.
A long-haired man who staggers with rhythmically flicking his fingers. He stared intently at her back, then continued speaking in a lowered voice.
“That man… From now on, I will use that altar and cage to make tribute to a very dangerous being.”
“… … What?”
“Before that, either kill that man or escape from here. ──I don’t have that much time. Ezio. Now it’s your turn to explain it to me.”
“Wait, wait. stellar. It’s too much of a leap. I don’t understand at all. For now, what you’re doing is… Is it because you saw the future?”
“… … ”
Clearly, Stella’s words and actions were a bit strange. Rather than the information that the person who arrived at this place first could collect, he knew all the more specific and secret information. Why?
I thought it probably had nothing to do with Stella’s future poetry.
But if that’s really true, something goes out of context.
For example, what Stella said to me. I killed Yuri, and he said that was all he saw of the future… …
“It’s similar.”
Stella gave a small affirmation.
“It’s similar, what exactly is that—”
“I’m sorry, Ezio.”
Stella offered an apology instead of an answer.
“… There’s something I haven’t told you and Yuri yet. I’ll apologize properly later. I thought I could stop it on my own without getting you involved. Now things are completely wrong. it’s all my fault I’ll explain the details after I get out of here… … ”
“stellar.”
I called her name quietly.
“… ah.”
Then Stella suddenly looked up at me with a puzzled look.
With her slender shoulders and hands trembling slightly. Breathing seems a bit unstable. It was very difficult to see from the usual Stella.
After carefully placing both hands on her shoulder, she opened her mouth, facing Stella’s silvery-white eyes in a straight line.
“… I joined Yuri on the way. I saved something that was caught by a monster and almost dropped out, and after that, we started walking together. I haven’t forgotten what you said We told Yuri everything, and we did our best to find out what we could do in that situation.”
“Ahh. yes.”
“Then I found out that something was going on outside after confirming that there was no waiver. Since then, while looking for a way to escape from here, I stumbled upon Rubia. Immediately after joining Rubia like that… … That man, Nebiros, appeared before us.”
“Neviros… … ”
Stella muttered so.
Immediately after, the eyes lit up.
“… What did that man say to you?”
My answer is not late.
“I said it wouldn’t hurt us.”
“… don’t believe it All lies.”
“He just wants to talk to us.”
“Conversation… ? If you really want to talk, you can do it on the spot. By bringing you all this far, doesn’t it mean that you prove yourself that everything has a dark intention?”
“… They said they would grant our wishes.”
“It’s so… … It’s more strange to believe.”
“I know, so I didn’t believe it either.”
“Then why are you here… … ”
“Because he said he was satisfied with just me and released all the rest of his friends.”
“… … What?”
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Did Stella not hear the brief quarrel between me and Rubia? He’s staring at me like I’m talking about that.
“He showed great interest in me. So, I made a suggestion. Take me and get the rest of the kids out of here instead. Then, he said he didn’t want to do anything big, so I thought he would gladly accept it… … ”
“… … I see That’s how it happened.”
Stella nodded her head blankly.
Then.
“… No, it’s better. If that were the case, Ezio, you would be taken on your own, and me and the rest of the kids wouldn’t have been able to get out of here even a single step… Yes, I understand the situation.”
“And one more.”
“… Uh, what?”
“One more thing, that guy was talking about.”
Nebiros was lifting an object like the Holy Grail on top of the red silk and nodding his head happily as he looked around.
When I turned my gaze to him, Stella also followed me and looked at Nebiros.
“He is like us… Human.”
A dark and ferocious magical energy that instinctively causes rejection. It was all the more prevalent in this cavity.
At the time of bringing us here, I was half convinced that Nebiros was a demon, not a human.
“that… … As much as that, maybe.”
But,
Stella.
“I am not lying.”
From a listener’s standpoint, the answer was quite unbelievable.
“… Rather, that’s why the more dangerous being, that Nabe—”
“This is it!”
at that time.
Even though it was quite far away, Nebiros’s piercing voice, like a barracks close up, shook our brains.
“There is nothing more rewarding than introducing yourself for someone else! Make it so! If you talk more nonsense there, you won’t get a chance!”
“Ignore it. Because I am a madman.”
Stella clenched her tongue cynically, pretending not to listen to Nebiros.
Rubia and Yuri, who were going to see Stella, who was an elegant noble girl herself, for the first time, did not even show room to intervene in the conversation between us, as if they were not used to the current Stella at all.
──Tub, thud.
Then at some point.
While the conversation was interrupted for a moment, the sound of footsteps walking towards this place was clearly heard.
“… … ”
I turn my eyes to look at Nebiros once, and then I see ourselves in my own eyes. Rubia, I, and Stella kept their mouths shut, but not as much as Yuri.
“… music!”
When Yuri called her name, it was as if Mew looked at me instead of Yuri at first glance. It just felt that way, it was a moment that was so fleeting that it was only on the level.
“What were you doing here… … ”
“I don’t have time to say hello.”
After cutting the joy of glass like a knife, he came close to us and glanced back at Stella.
“I think he is the most suspicious.”
It was a sudden thing to say.
“There are a lot of useless things I know, and I can see the future… And he came into this space before me. He was the first to come in here.”
“… … ”
She chins at Stella, who has her mouth shut.
“But there were no signs of going down to the basement. It certainly didn’t come down the normal route. It’s hard to accidentally find a shortcut to the basement… … There are not one or two things that are suspicious. It’s like saying you know everything you know, even when you don’t know what it is.”
exactly.
He said he would explain everything if he left, but that didn’t mean we could fully understand the situation. There were still some questions about Stella’s words and actions. I just didn’t take it out.
“If you can explain it, do it. How did you come down here? It’s not that difficult. Did you also move to the portal at the end of the corridor like me?”
“Yeah, of course… … ”
The moment Stella was about to affirm.
“It’s a lie.”
“──!”
Mew cut Stella’s words coldly.
“… … uh, huh?”
“It’s a lie. At the end of the corridor, there was no such thing as a portal, but a tombstone and a door. I came down the rope through that door.”
“… … ”
“Did you all hear it?”
Mew looks at Stella indifferently.
“This is for sure.”
And then,
He asked quietly as if tossing.
“You have been here before.”
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“I’ve been there… … ?”
That mumble was Rubia’s.
“It’s not just that. In my opinion… I think you know the identity of that madman. right?”
“… … ”
Stella, who gradually lowered her head at the end of Mu’s gaze, could not give any answer in the end.
Rubia asked cautiously with a trembling voice.
“Hey, Stella. that is… Really?”
“… … ”
“Tell me something… … ”
“… … ”
“stellar… … ”
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Despite Rubia’s watery prompting, Stella just kept her mouth shut.
“… Look at that, even if it’s a question, it’s too questionable. I don’t understand it at all. If you could really see the future, and you knew everything was going to be like this, why didn’t you stop practicing sooner?”
“… … ”
“Don’t say it was impossible at your discretion. Even the Frontiers know what your abilities are. Even if I couldn’t trust you completely, I would have been able to get into the investigation.”
“… … ”
“… … Only then, there will be no conclusion.”
Mew let out a small sigh.
In front of her, I opened my mouth.
“me too… I have the same thoughts as Mu.”
“… … ”
One day, Mew glanced at me.
It had been a long time since I had spoken her name.
“In the future you told me… There was no word that these things would happen. But you were acting like you predicted all these futures… … Come to think of it, I told you there was something you didn’t tell me and Yuri earlier.”
“… … ”
“that is… what?”
“… … ”
“stellar.”
“… … ”
“It’s okay to answer… … ”
at that time.
“Uhhh… … okay. I will talk to you.”
Stella, who had been silent for a while, raised her head and exhaled a long breath. With a somewhat reassured face, he looked back at Mew who had just questioned him and said:
“… Did I ask if you’ve been here before?”
immediately after that.
“right. I’ve been here. Even ten years ago.”
“… … !”
“… … !”
“… … !”
“… … !”
At Stella, who meekly affirmed, four eyes of surprise fell on her.
In fact, Mew’s eyes widened slightly, as if he had asked a question, but did not know that he would really confess.
‘Ten years ago? Then… … ‘
It overlaps similarly to the time when I first met Stella.
… Did Stella from that time ever visit this deep and dark labyrinth? No, did this labyrinth exist before that? Nebiros said, It’s not impossible at all since it’s been painstakingly crafted for a long time… …
“Then, everything else… Is it true?”
Rubia mutters mournfully.
Knowing that something unusual was about to happen, but not actively stopping the practice was the same thing for me too. But there… … Some of Stella’s opinions were also included.
“This was the best.”
“what… … ”
Glass takes a breath.
“Fate is not something you can go against. If I had tried to deviate from the established trajectory, something even bigger would have come.”
“That means… … If we had somehow tried to stop the practice, something worse would have happened than this, right?”
“Exactly.”
similar, neither.
correct, it was
“It was all fate for me and Yuri to come here. and glass… … It’s probably not avoidable that you’ll get hurt as a result.”
“Hey, what are you talking about… ?”
Yuri asked in a voice filled with fear.
and.
Stella suddenly looked at me.
“However… … It may not be.”
spoke slowly.
“Ezio… Because of your existence, which is completely out of the observable fate of the stars, from now on, fate will take its course in an entirely unpredictable direction.”
You cannot change the process.
However, the results can be changed.
I can now understand the true meaning of those cryptic words.
“Maybe I was using you unintentionally. … I’m sorry, Ezio. I will formally apologize for this later.”
“Wait, Stella. You said you saw my destiny before? What is the other thing that cannot be completely observed… … ”
Stella had a glimpse of my fate, predicted the future in which I would kill Yuri, and was still fighting to avoid things like that.
“that… I didn’t mean to lie. I really thought I saw your destiny. Realizing that it wasn’t… It wasn’t long ago.”
“then… … ”
“It was a whim of a star. You showed the fate of a completely different person than you. It’s probably not your fate… … ”
at that point.
Stella turned her head to the left.
“… … uh, me?”
There, there was Yuri, who was pointing at her with her finger, and standing blankly with an expression she didn’t understand.