Saab revealed his true nature.

No, I didn't think it was Saab from the beginning.

Saab turned into a red dragon, beginning to twist and swell like a mollusk.

That's right. Minotaur, slime, zombie, and then you're a dragon.

Saab was extra......

Ever since I came here, I've always felt something I don't know about.

Appeared to evoke trauma, White River.

He seduced me with words that he would never say.

I was not confused by the temptation because there was too much of a gap between me and him.

He would never say that to someone like me.

Because Shirakawa was a man lover and an unrestrained person.

If you prefer a man opponent, open his crotch without sight, and the rumors were already well known to his classmates.

I mean, I was the only one who didn't know.

Then my image of her changed.

Just leave a false memory of a "clear Shirakawa”.

In the end, I just loved what I wanted, not that he liked it himself.

Afterwards, I got horrible.

I wondered if I was wrong when I understood the misunderstandings and changed my mind about the truth.

But I don't lie to myself.

I eventually decided to admit to myself, "This is me."

And it's Saab.

Even for him, yes.

If it was him, he wouldn't show any interest in me.

The only thing he wanted to do was scorn me, and that's what I enjoyed.

And then he raised the question, "Why kill them all?" and he shook my heart.

It brought up the stray that was in me, and it's exactly what I've been asking myself here lately.

"Is Saab the next dragon...... Look, what are you? What the fuck is a dungeon?

"Find the truth for yourself."

The dragon changed his tone again, and said so in a thin voice that did not suit his appearance.

The dungeon itself is, but I can't keep up with my understanding of this guy.

Saab's identity is Dragon.

- That's not true.

Perhaps this guy isn't even a dragon.

Then what?

"Is it better than that? Be alert?

Then the dragon's mouth began to glow.

And I saw a shadow of fire in my mouth.

"Masamune! The braces are coming!

As soon as Toa said that, I stepped forward to protect the three of them.

This is a wave of erosion... no...

But at that moment, I lost my left arm in the back of my brain.

Not this one.

"[The One Who Binds" Dies Obrigardio "]!

I stopped "erosion waves" and used "those who bind".

Countless white arms poked up from directly below, hanging on the jaw of the dragon that tried to release the brace.

"Grr!"

The dragon was forced to shut his mouth by being pushed up because he jawed.

Then an explosion was heard from the mouth of the dragon and black smoke erupted from the gap between the fangs.

Erosion fluctuations cannot be used.

If used, the damage could be done to three people.

There should be nothing wrong with contact if it were meant to be, but after one article, it's not so easy to make a decision.

"You suspect that? the abyss."

The dragon looks down on me and asks me that.

It's like there's no damage.

"[Grievance Pain (Phantom Payne)]!"

"An abyss without will doesn't work for me, does it?

Then the dragon did not change one expression, as if nothing had happened.

"[Shreim]!"

Then Nem set fire to the dragon.

But the dragon still doesn't freak out.

"Hmm? Pretty good magic. Unlike some coward."

"Nem, stay back. This guy has a different dimension."

"... Yes, it is"

I blocked Nem from coming forward with my hands.

"Nem, I'll do this one on my own... I feel like I have to do this."

"Cowards don't serve as kings, do they? Don't doubt the abyss!

"Don't give me orders! [Irrational Robbery (Riddick Lost)]!"

"No use."

I exercised the magic of forcibly taking part of my opponent.

This magic made it quick, trying to rip his neck off.

But like Dragon said, nothing happened to the neck I was supposed to aim for.

Then the dragon's right arm approached me when I was confused.

"Hmm?..."

I was delayed in responding to that "right arm”.

You look like, "Why?"

"Gu Hu!"

I was torn to shreds by the dragon's sharp nails and jumped back.

He chooses his torso, and blood splashes around him.

"Masamune!"

"Your husband!

"Dear Nito!

I heard three voices.

Long time no pain.

Ever since the dungeon, this pain.

But if they cut you, you'll bleed, and it hurts.

... I forgot.

"Don't come!

That's what I told the three of you.

That scared Toa tried to come forward to help me.

"[Healing fluctuations (heel aura)] …"

I healed my wound with healing magic.

I've never thought I'd be as good a healer as I am now.

Otherwise he would have died.

"Huh... healing magic? You're a convenient guy, aren't you? If that's what you're thinking, you know what I mean?“ Why am I the only healer? Even I normally wanted to see it flame out. Why aren't you a wise man? Not a knight? It's not Sausara, is it? "... right? You know, when you get hurt, you're relieved as if you're grateful. Come on, why don't you stop? That kind of nonsense."

"Shut up......"

I should have treated it, but I can't lose my weakness.

As always, the dragon says something that sees through my mind.

"[Conditional Anomaly Healing (Effect Heel)]... What do you know?

I used magic, but my weakness doesn't go away.

- Why?

'Cause I doubt it.'

This isn't the level of reading minds.

The dragon answered my heart's voice.

"At the time of dwelling, all the magic of that person is an abyss. And the abyss does not obey the unwilled. Because the abyss..."

"-Because it's you, isn't it? I know. That's why you're telling me not to doubt it, right? I already heard!

I took out the white cane.

"So how about this?

I put an inverted prank on my wand.

- "" By [flipping prank [pole]] [anger of the Virgin] has flipped to [Verphegor's scepter] ""

Then, as he saw, the wand changed its appearance in black.

"Ver, shoot him with that."

"Didn't you hear me say it was futile?

The dragon was, as always, looking down at me.

……

"Ver?"

I saw the statue on the tip of the wand.

But I haven't heard back.

Normally they should open their eyes and talk to the “master” comfortably......

Then the dragon's nails struck again.

I reacted instantly and avoided it properly next time.

"What's that bar cut?

Weird...... Vel doesn't respond.

"Stop..."

I had no choice but to store Ver in different spaces.

No matter how much he talked to me, he didn't respond to me trying to shake it abusively.

I didn't have time to wait for Ver.

And in the meantime, the claws of the dragon were looming again.

I tried to get those nails out of my fist this time.

If magic doesn't work, it's a physical battle.

But...

"Behold! Wow!

"That's unusual."

Though I didn't touch my nails, I was blown away by my back.

"Knock! [Healing Wave (Heel Aura)]"

I managed to land and heal immediately.

But is it your fault?

I also feel that the healing effect is diminishing.

"Your husband?

Nem looked worried and spoke up.

"Phew... what will protect you? Look at yourself? Who the hell do you think you're protecting? You can't even protect yourself."

"... you don't have to ask me that, you know.

I asked the dragon.

"Hmm?"

"You're reading my mind, I don't know what reason. Then you know what I mean. Why don't I use it?

"Oh, I know, but it's because you've destroyed a handsome Leah's rechargeable arm called an article, right? Because of that, his arm will never go back. But what happened to it? You must have remembered. What are you scared of?

"I'm not scared. I'm just taking it as a fact. I don't doubt myself."

"It's no use... it doesn't work in the abyss. You're out of your mind. I really do. Why did you invade a single arm? That's because you suspected it. yourself."

"So he said he didn't suspect! I don't get it, either! At that time, I just normally used magic. Yet the erosion invaded a single article. I only broke one article!

"That's right. I mean, isn't that the answer?

"What?"

"Don't you see? I think that's what you're saying."

"You think it's my will to hurt a single one?

"If you say it a little more bluntly, it means you wanted to kill me"

What is this guy talking about?

You think I wanted to kill one of them?

"You don't want friendship. Because I know there's no such thing in the world. You trusted one article with a kind of lost heart. You just swallowed words that were convenient to you."

"No... he took me"

"Isn't this what you really thought? You think it's disgusting? Most importantly, I hate you for what you call" friends. "

Yes, friends don't exist.

"Now you have been flushed by the words of others again. To my word. Why don't you stop doing that already?

I know... I know.

I haven't had enough will from the beginning.

I can't go through with it if I decide.

It's a pain in the ass.

"The king does not serve those who doubt themselves and are anxious. The vessel is easily crushed and scattered"

The words of the dragon sound like ciphers.

I don't understand anything.

"Don't you see? Masamune?

"... you want that pseudonym to be a problem in itself?

"No, you're not, this is really your way of doing things. Don't be ridiculous."

"Then what? Still one article?

Then the dragon gave him a snort, as he sighed.

"Let me tell you one thing. The abyss echoes the will deep in the heart. But it also responds to the cheap superficial will."

"Then why me? Back then..."

"Not one article. Before that, you had anxiety."

"Huh?... you say you're anxious?

"It's not trivial. Something bigger and more decisive. And anxiety continues to terror."

You're anxious, there's always one.

If it's small, it's many.

"Anxiety is suspicion of self."

What's anxiety?

When did I feel uneasy?

"Masamune!"

That's when I heard Toa.

At the same time, there was severe pain in my body.

When I realized I was being beaten up in the arms of a dragon.

No, apparently he's clawed again, mutilated.

I feel something warm in my stomach.

"[Healing fluctuations (heel aura)] …"

Even more effective than just now.

"Masamune!"

"Your husband!

"Dear Nito!

I see three anxious faces.

Right...... maybe I'll die.

After all, can't I protect anyone?

Nem, Sierra, Sufilia...

And Toa too...... can't save him from death.

With all that searching, I still can't find it.

The art of saving Toa from death.

No... I guess I wasn't sure from the start.

……

I see.

Is that my anxiety?

I can't save Toa, then.

Is this my question, my anxiety, my fear?

"Right...... me then, maybe I can't save you. Just like I was myself."

I couldn't save Toa in the future.

Maybe that's why I thought so, too.

"That's right. You were anxious. I doubted myself. But that's not the problem."

"Oh... I hid that. from yourself."

"Yes, that's the problem. You lied to yourself. That's far heavier than suspicion. To lie to yourself, that's to deny yourself. You denied your weakness."

"But I needed to be strong. Even abandoning your weak self."

"I don't need to be able to throw it away. Including you. Okay? There's only one thing you need to do. -" Don't doubt yourself, that's all. "

I doubt it... it's a lie, I don't know why.

"You know why. Don't doubt yourself, believe me. That's all I need. The abyss is yours. Very simple and also difficult. But you dare think hard."

I already know that this dragon is trying to make me realize something.

But what am I supposed to do?

I'm not suspicious.

I don't know.

I don't want to think about it.

"[Erosion Wave" Disparaise Aura "]... Now, what do you say?

- I chanted magic.

I refused, my first magic.