Episode 128
38. The Rift of the World (3)
I wasn’t the only one who felt the absurdity.
In the blink of an eye, George pulled out the rapier and went into alert.
Camilla also rotated the spear on her back.
“I’m seeing this for the first time…?”
“I’m first too.”
“Ah!!!”
Camilla speared the spear at the one that was creeping up in front of her.
But before her spear could even reach, the noise split in half, dodging her attack.
“!?”
It was as if he had predicted an attack in advance.
George also joined in the bizarre behavior and attacked with Camilla.
But this time, as always, the noise created holes in the body and evaded all of George’s sword attacks.
“Why! Why not?”
“Wait a minute!!!”
I stopped the two men who were pouring their attacks at random.
“It seems like they’re the ones who can’t catch them anyway? They don’t show any aggression at all right now, but they won’t know if they go later, so let’s get past it first.”
In RPG games, monsters with such gimmicks always exist.
A type that never takes damage no matter what kind of attack it throws.
It’s usually the sort of thing that blocks the road, or prevents you from heading to a controlled area in online games.
Even now, don’t these guys seem to block our way by multiplying rather than attacking us?
‘In other words, this must be the control area.’
We do not know who is doing this, but they are restricting our access.
If you want to go back and not eat rice or porridge for nothing, quick action is the only answer.
“Take up your weapon and follow me!”
I sprinted towards the gap that was still open.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen him, so George and Camila also followed me without saying a word.
‘By the way, that’s tragic.’
It just coincided with the closing time of school, so the streets were full of students who had left the faculty with their friends.
There were also some familiar faces.
Like Elkara, who goes to school with a bunch of guys about my size.
The prisoners I had met several times in the class also caught my eye.
In addition, Natsumi, a classmate, also seemed to get caught up on the way back from training.
what?
for a moment… … .
At a scene that suddenly came to my mind, I stopped on the spot.
Camila and George, who were following immediately, stop together.
“Why all of a sudden?”
“The place where I saw the Rob man was not here, but at the entrance to Arthur’s Faculty.”
Of course, it was important to find the person who handed the stones to the two of them.
For now, the first priority was to prove what I had just come up with.
“Would you like to show the gemstone one more time?”
“Come on, here.”
The gemstone was shining softly in Camilla’s hand like a fern.
Looking at the shape of the gemstone, the hazy memories were once again imprinted.
“I think I’ve seen it a lot somewhere.”
I turned my head back and looked at Natsumi. She was smiling broadly as if she was having an interesting conversation with her friend.
Come to think of it, I have experienced this phenomenon once.
And it’s not the first time Natsumi has been involved in this phenomenon.
‘Professor Bled’s office. Even then, the whole space was bugged.’
On the summer vacation day, the professor didn’t come on time, so Natsumi, the class president, went out to find him.
He didn’t come back for more than ten minutes right after, so I ended up going to look for him.
at that time.
Natsumi and Bled had been locked up in a frozen time like now.
‘At that time, the crystal ball that glittered in this color was a vehicle for bugs.’
I poked Natsumi’s cheek with my finger, just in case.
Her soft flesh went inside, but her condition did not change.
“You…! What are you doing!”
“Wait, I have something to tell you.”
I went over to George and brought the gem he had.
George, who was ignorant of English, fell into a state of time stop as soon as he escaped the influence of the stone.
Let’s place the recovered gemstone on Natsumi’s hand.
The stone scatters a soft light, freeing her from the prison of time.
“…I mean, how did I do it. Huh???”
As she continued to speak, her eyes widened.
“Aww-!!”
He looked at me and screamed.
From Natsumi’s point of view, it would be as if I suddenly appeared in front of him, who had been walking without a hitch.
Screaming in surprise is understandable.
“Uh, no. I’m sorry.”
I retrieved the ore I had placed in my hand and returned it to George.
Natsumi’s body hardened in that state of shock.
On the contrary, time flowed through George’s body once more.
“What, what? What just happened…? What’s Natsumi’s expression like? Was it like that?”
“No, I thought Natsumi might have been the subject of this phenomenon.”
“suddenly?”
“Sanwoo, it’s really bad…”
Asking if it was necessary to pick and choose Natsumi, Camilla looked at him with disgust.
Why did George look like Natsumi?
“Are you going to come back and solve the things that you’ve been restrained for the entire first year? I understand…”
“Oh, no! It’s not like that. It’s happened once before! Natsumi was the one who got involved!!”
“Poor Natsumi…”
“I admit…”
I kept my mouth shut, realizing that there was no point in pouring out more excuses.
Even if I didn’t do it consciously, something was starting to look strange to me.
I got the information I was going to get anyway.
It wasn’t Natsumi that stopped time at that time, but the crystal ball was definitely the cause.
The fact that this incident also has nothing to do with Natsumi.
And at the same time.
‘The effect of this stone is not limited to Camila and George.’
A crystal ball that stops time.
A stone that makes time pass.
The question is, where did these convenient items come from?
In the main story, such a scenario, let alone a similar one, did not exist.
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Maybe it’s better to think of it as an ‘original development’ like the last time I discovered the Demon King’s Altar.‘It would be more reasonable to think that dummy data similar to Aaron Nortontail’s crown caused this phenomenon.’
So, where the hell is the crystal ball that is the subject of this phenomenon?
“Ummm…”
A moment when I was deeply in thought.
I could see the swirling clouds converge to a point in the green sky.
Like the eye of a typhoon.
‘That’s… … It’s on the Central Terrier side.’
The moment I saw it, I could immediately recognize that that place was the source of this strange phenomenon.
“George, Camilla. You have work to do.”
“What is it? If it’s bothering Natsumi, I’ll fall for it.”
“No, f*ck you. If you keep doing that, the stone will be taken away? Break it?”
“Nong-dam.”
“So what is it, Sanwoo?”
I took turns looking at the two of them and delivered the task.
“You two, track him down around here. The one who gave you the stone.”
“Aren’t you going with me?”
“I’m going to go over there.”
Camilla’s face changed as I pointed my finger at the green sky, especially the hollow center.
“I’m going over there!?”
“Camilla, don’t you think that place is the most suspicious?”
“It is, but…”
“You have to do the best you can right now. I don’t know what’s going to happen with what started out like this.”
I said as I grabbed Camila’s arm, who looked at me with worried eyes.
“It’s my job.”
I am a ‘player’.
Besides, it also has a strange ability to fix bugs.
Just like when Bled and Natsumi got involved, only my ability could break this situation.
‘Even if the console is stuck.’
“Camilla and George.”
I said, making eye contact with the two of them.
“This is a very serious situation, because you are doing a tremendous job of restoring the ruined world to its original state.”
Then Camilla and George shudder and tremble.
Now, this strange situation seemed to be starting to make sense to me.
“So. Take care of yourself.”
“Yeah…! Sanwoo too!”
“Intimo amico, leave it to me.”
“Copy that.”
I give a thumbs up to two trustworthy colleagues.
It moved towards the eye of the typhoon.
* * *
I arrived at the place where Camila and George were facing at full speed.
“I knew this was going to happen.”
Cheek- Chee-hee-
Even the gap that two or three people could easily pass through was immediately blocked by the noise.
‘I got the wrong idea.’
Until now, I thought that the vicinity of Arthur’s Faculty was inside the border.
In reality it was the exact opposite.
“Damn… what should I do?”
I looked around. As I passed by, I saw that the other alleys were also blocked by noise.
At that moment, the roof of the open two-story building caught my eye.
Although the height of the wall made of noise was gradually rising.
So far, it seemed that if I climbed up on the roof, I would be able to get over it.
“In the end, this will be all.”
Without hesitation, I opened the door and entered the house.
It was probably a general store inside, and a noble-looking middle-aged man was meticulously cleaning the items on display.
I went up the stairs to the second floor, opened the window and grabbed the edge of the roof with both hands.
“Who! Who…! One, two, three!!!”
He tightened his grip on the arm, and climbed hard on the roof.
“Wow, X baah!!”
When I finally got to it, I felt like my legs were running out of strength.
Obviously, actors in movies and dramas seem to have flew around doing shu shun parkour.
The experience of my legs fluttering in the air was not as pleasant as I thought.
However, in the midst of the real-time world being opened up, there is no way you can relax.
I grabbed my wiggly legs, stood up, and walked to the edge of the roof.
roof over roof.
The distance is only about 30 cm.
“Ahhh!!!”
With a strong spirit, he put his feet on the edge of the eaves.
Squeezing out the power that was sucked in and leaping.
Let’s apply the firefighting foot method that Camilla taught us.
“…!?”
It flew to a height that could not be called human jumping power.
He was so strong that he failed to adjust the angle at all, and almost threw his head on the ground.
“I can see why Camilla just told me not to use footwork.”
It’s harder to adjust than you think, this.
I got up, brushing my ass, and carefully descended the roof, step by step.
There is a separate balcony here, so going down was much easier than the house we came up from.
“Okay, the noise wall has been crossed. I see the typhoon’s eyes are towards the student building.”
Roughly estimating the distance, it seemed that if I ran non-stop, I could reach it in about 30 minutes.
Anyway, I am a student of Arthur and Arrin.
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My stamina has grown incomparably from when I first came here.“This tidy gum!”
Lightly knead your knees and rotate your ankles. It even jumps forward.
Adrenaline rushed through my body.
The central plaza of the Central Terrier has arrived at the end of a frantic run.
“Heh, heh, heh, heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh hehe
I was pulled up to the limit and collapsed to the floor.
No one looked strange.
Because time had already stopped.
“Heuk, hooha! Ha!! X, feet!”
Breathing in the stomach, holding on to the mind that was about to become distant.
When you’re out of breath, almost on the floor.
Tub.
Someone’s shoes came into view. What followed was a long brown robe that stretched to the ankles.
“I knew you would come anyway.”
A voice that sheds laughter as if it were a pleasure.
As I lifted my head in surprise, I saw a smiling face over the robe.
even.
I couldn’t help but be speechless.
“You… no, sir.”
When I was first brought here, the baker who did me a favor with Doo Seok Ah-jae.
“Why is Rona Aztel-senpai here?”
Because she was looking at me in a robe.