115. The dream I want to wake up from
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115.
The saintess of innocence looked around her with her arms tightly clasped close to her chest. The situation around him made me wonder if it was something out of the delusion of a demented man. The light pouring out of the pillars was clearly connected, but the angle was bent in a way that was difficult to explain.
The light that extended as if going back and forth from side to side, obviously extended in the form of a flat surface, but at the end it was in the form of a drop. Moreover, the part that fell off was connected to the beginning of the light.
If you say that part of her drawing on the paper ‘actually’ sticks out, you can explain it somewhat similar to the sight she sees now. The saintess turned her head away from there, thinking that if she kept looking at it, she would really go into a delirium.
Turning her head, the Death Knight came into her field of vision from beside her, looking above her.
“…… Knight?”
The saintess asked quietly, but the Death Knight did not answer. She just stared up at the ceiling as if she was frozen. In the end, she, too, had to turn her head in the direction the Death Knight was looking at.
The saintess realized that even if the metaphor that she jumped out of the delusion of a demented person was wrong, it was very wrong. No deranged person would be able to conceive of such a form.
The saintess did not know how to explain the scene where the space itself was undulating.
At the top, a space similar to the one they were standing in continued. Like a reflection on the surface of the water. However, there was a big difference that it was not a simple image, but that the space leading up was seen through.
It’s not wrong, but at the top, I could see something sloppy on the floor. Since the distance between them and the ceiling is a distance, I didn’t know if the upper part of the space with a similar distance was really the floor.
She just stared blankly at the sight so incomprehensible that she reflexively flinched at the sound she heard next to her.
Death Knight picked up a fragment of a demon statue nearby and was holding it. Holding it, the Death Knight threw the debris into the rippling space.
-Slowly… ….
“Ummm… ….”
Seeing the spectacle that matched his expectations, the Death Knight let out a drool. The shrapnel thrown by her ‘sat’ upward. Like really drowning in water. The missing debris gradually sank upward and disappeared from view.
The saintess had to keep her eyes on her eyes. It was a scene reminiscent of the center of the mage tower I had seen before, but at that time it was just floating with gravity reversed, but now it seemed that the space on the ceiling was completely separated from them.
The saintess extended her finger and indicated the space.
“Knight, that… ….”
Death Knight nodded her head.
“She should stop thinking about getting out of the way. As the space is folded and takes the form of a maze, she wondered what would happen if she went upstairs……. It seems useless.”
At the word ‘up’, the saintess opened her eyes wide.
“…… Are Miss Perien and Mr. Freight all right?”
Death Knight stopped her body at those words. Blinking her eyes for a moment, he gave her a slow nod.
“…… It will be fine. When the space was distorted earlier, it seemed that only the space of the altar where we were was like that. If the entire space of this ten thousand battles had been distorted, it would have been distorted at once, including the holes that were away, rather than distorted sequentially from where we were. Isn’t there a need for Leternia to proceed sequentially to give us room to escape?”
At the Death Knight’s words, the saintess also nodded her head. Zerfied did not bother to mention that his opinion was speculation, not fact. Ecilia wasn’t stupid enough to point that out either. But her eyes were shaking with anxiety.
“Esilia, first of all, think about getting out of here. Only after we get out can we ensure the safety of the two of you.”
The saintess nodded at the Death Knight’s resolute words. Seeing her like that, the Death Knight held out her hand. The saintess blinked her big eyes a few times at the sudden outstretched hand.
“Catch it.”
“Uh, huh? Yes?”
“Catch it. I won’t be able to carry you or not. Do you need a hand to hold a weapon? Looking at the current situation, it doesn’t seem that there’s anything particularly dangerous besides the labyrinth… , You never know again.”
“Ah, ah… ! Yes yes… !”
Only then did Celia hurriedly hold her hand, which was extended to him. The hard feeling of the gauntlet touched her palm. Oddly enough, I didn’t feel the coldness of the gauntlet. Only the hardness of the Death Knight holding her hand was felt.
By the time she slowly closed her eyes at the thought, her body was pulled out. It was because the Death Knight pulled her arm. Only then did Celia realize that the knight and herself were intertwining her hands.
Her tightly gripped hands showed no sign of letting go. Naturally, in her field of vision, only each other’s hands and Death Knight’s broad back and shoulders were visible. I passed the walls of the distorted space in between, but unlike before, I wasn’t particularly anxious.
“Um… …. The space itself is folded, so I can’t even leave a mark…….”
Also, Death Knight’s low voice was also the only thing she could understand in her incomprehensibility. In that uniqueness, she felt the tension slowly dissolve.
But she had to let out her breath as she suppressed her throbbing heart apart from him.
“…… Ecilia?”
“Whoa… ! Whoa… ! Puha… !”
“…… Ecilia?”
“…… Oh?! Aaaaah!? Yes yes?!”
Her low voice suddenly fell from above her own head, and Escilia was so startled that she almost jumped up in a moment. Naturally, her attempts were unsuccessful. Because one of her hands was holding her tightly. The recoil from her own movement staggered her even more than when she tried to move it.
‘…… !’
The Death Knight immediately pulled the saintess’s body, which almost fell behind her.
‘…… ?!!!?’
As a result, the saintess ended up being hugged by the Death Knight.
The saintess should have felt the same surprise as before at the situation where her face was buried in her chest. She hurriedly pulled her body behind her. But she couldn’t even do that this time. Because her Death Knight held her tightly in case she fell behind her.
In the end, the saintess was completely embraced by the Death Knight and was unable to do anything.
-Thumping – Throbbing – .
The sound of my heart fills my ears. I can’t hear anything except the heartbeat. I don’t know whose heartbeat it is. Is it the knight’s? Or mine?
“…… Leah.”
The saintess of innocence heard a voice coming through the beating sound. She involuntarily lifted her head. The bloody eyes of her death knight were staring at her. Both practically and figuratively, the saintess was overcome by a feeling of being unable to move.
The saintess unconsciously had to swallow her saliva. The blood-red eyes of her death knight stared at her as if through. Upon receiving all of her sharp, piercing gazes, the saintess seemed to lose her mind.
“Ecilia, are you okay?”
“…… Yes? Yes yes!”
“Your face is red.”
At those words, the saintess hurriedly ran her own face with her other hand. Even when she touched her, a burning sensation was found in her palm.
…… It was to the extent that anyone could see that it was strange.
Unable to attribute her own heat to the glare of her knight’s eyes, her mouth began to speak pitifully.
“Uh, uh…… That’s it…… Maybe it’s because I want to eat strawberries…… ?”
Even if you think about it metaphorically, it was a word that couldn’t find any meaning, so the Death Knight’s eyes, which were difficult to understand, became sharper. Unfortunately, the saintess’ face grew even redder and her voice became more hoarse.
“I am a strawberry…… I want to eat… Because the maze is an illusion… Reflect that… So……. Ugh…….”
The saintess felt like crying.
The Death Knight, who listened carefully to her story, asked a question.
“Esilia. Are you tired?”
“Huh? Yes?”
Zerpied slowly turned his gaze and gazed at the location of the hole where they originally fell.
“I’ve been counting the hours since a while ago. Almost an hour has passed since we wandered through this maze.”
At those words, Ecilia slowly stood up. An hour passed? Doesn’t it seem like that much time has passed?
Tilting her head, Esilia looked behind her. And she stopped her body. This is because there was no big difference between the place and the distance from which they left. Even if an hour hadn’t passed, they took quite a bit of time to move. I passed the wall made up of several layers of space. Ecilia suddenly had a creepy thought.
“Wait, this can’t be that there is no exit…… !”
Death Knight immediately denied it.
“That can’t be. Leternia’s ability is illusion. A dream is a dream because you have to wake up. She must have the key to get out somewhere. Besides, if she was so powerful, why didn’t she activate those abilities as soon as she encountered us?”
Ecilia nodded her head at his reasonable words.
“Esilia, if you don’t mind, I’d like to move a little further. I need to understand the situation.”
“…… Yes.”
At the Death Knight’s serious attitude, Esilia’s answer was tense. A thumping sound fills the maze. As before, they moved their steps, following the walls of the grotesquely folded space. It was a simple act. Enough to take about 30 minutes.
So, the fact that when they turned the corner it was no different from where they had left was shocking enough.
“This is… how…… !”
Hearing the trembling voice of the saint, the Death Knight quickly looked around. However, nothing remarkable was still seen. The Death Knight, who gritted her teeth, thought she had to calm her saint first. He turned her head toward her saintess.
“Esilia, first… ….”
There was no saintess. There was only a fading sunset made of desolation.
“Eshil… ….”
The Death Knight, who was muttering in bewilderment, froze as he watched the sunset. At that moment, a voice came from behind him.
“The leader.”
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“The leader?”
I can’t do this.
“The leader? Why are you blank?”