Alice Tale in Phantasmagoria

"I thought this would happen someday with you, Alice."

Eclair looks at me with serious eyes.

Take that gaze and snort heavily.

"Yeah, let's settle this, Eclair"

Hot Springs Inn Day Two Night.

At the table in the room, confront each other with their yukata arms wrapped around each other.

- It's an arm wrestle.

"Hey, Shima? Even if it is. Oh, my God?

"No, I'm not. It's a mess."

"No, I'm not!

"Yes, sister! I'm super serious, I am!

Arm wrestling or something, a man wouldn't be able to lose!

Look at this forged arm!

Show them your wrapped arms.

"... fine"

I intend to intimidate you, but for some reason, you can look me in the eye like you've been licked by Eclair.

You wouldn't be so different that way!

Fine.

Then... look, take this power!

"Yeah, you're soft"

"I want to! Please don't grab my arm!

Sister, you're gonna cry!

When I stare at my sister with tears, the bitter smile of bad comes back.

"... you can change the way you compete."

"Become! That's an insult! There's no way you can be so shameless to run away from the Original Right Power comparison!

Elbow at the table first, come on. Take it and stand up. I'll try to create an atmosphere.

"Hmm, I'll make you bark"

Eclair also elbows on the table and grips each other hard.

Ilia, the referee, laid her hand from above our gripping hands.

"Now relax"

To the voice of Ilia, exhale.

- Huh, I don't care about Likobu or anything.

All you need is wrist to elbow strength in an arm wrestle.

More importantly, the feeling of putting all your weight diagonally behind you is the creep of the battle!

In other words, hold your body tight and twist it down with your forearm so you can pull it in!

It depends on this.

I haven't forgotten what it used to sound like!

You amateurs - think about it!

"Lady -"

Eclair and his gaze intersect.

"Go!"

The moment Ilia raised the hand she was wearing, she exhaled!

"Oh, my God!!

……

The battle was not exactly for a moment -.

- What the hell!?

Preemptive attack on my full weight... doesn't work?

What a guy, Eclair...... a monster!?

From the start, it's barely moving!

"What is this feeling of being here..."

Still, for putting on weight, I push my arm.

"... Eclair's not a strong one either, and when he comes with every weight, it works a little... and Alice, wow!

Come on!

Again, this is what happens!

Yes, yes, I knew it!

What do you want me to do with your smooth face?

Not to much of this weakness, did you hesitate to fight, Eclair?

- But!!

That alarm is what separates the battle, I'll tell you!

"Eclair!"

"Hey, what?

Staggering gaze, slowly lowering - and stopping at the chest of Eclair's yukata.

Eclair, who was following my gaze, showed some restlessness.

Well, you're sensitive to gaze, girl.

"- Chest, I see it!

Pointing out the yukata I had in my arm wrestle...

"Hey!? - Ah."

Don't miss the gap Eclair was distracted by the chest of his yukata - he put on a battle.

"... hey, this is what happens because you lick them"

"Lady wins"

I can raise my hands high to Ilia.

"Huh!? That's crazy! Why is Ilaria declaring a grand victory too! A referee for what?

"touched by the wisdom and courage of the lady"

"It's obviously bad wisdom, and there would have been no courage anywhere!

"Sorry, touched and didn't look good before, other than settled"

"What the hell, this made-up race!

It is an act of a peaceful, peaceful hot spring inn that

When I say why I was having an arm wrestle or something, it's just a game.

It's getting pretty hot, Eclair.

"Master, do you want to?

Ame was curling her arms intriguingly.

"... I think there's something about wisdom and courage that doesn't arrive."

If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be in danger of a hundred battles.

This is not an escape, it's a tactical retreat.

Like force 5... I can break my arm.

From here on out, it really happened on the last night of such a hot spring inn -

I woke up in the middle of the night, and I realized my body wasn't moving.

What? I thought it was Till or Lynn again, but apparently it's not.

Looking around, there was no one in each of them.

Of course, to me.

- Gold bondage!?

Suddenly, a cold sweat erupted, agitated by unspeakable anxiety.

I'm conscious, but my body doesn't move.

This is a really creepy, horrible phenomenon.

I had a feeling I was going to see things I didn't want to see, and I closed my eyes aggressively.

It makes no sense. I'm about to scream.

After a while, I realized that my body was starting to move.

First, slowly hold or open your hand to see how your body moves.

My eyes haven't opened yet.

I was too afraid to check inside the room and dived straight out of my head.

Eight people, including myself, should be resting in line in this room, but there's no sign of it.

I'm the third person to count from the hallway, and at the most window, directly next to me is Lynn.

It's a diagram of four more people lining up their hunches, facing each other with space for the aisle.

Anyway - first of all, it's strange that Lynn isn't here at night like this.

Think normally and jump up and go looking for things, but there's more fear than that I don't know.

Are you sure nobody's here?

I decided never to raise my voice.

"... oh, sister? Do you have a sister?

Next to me, the opposite of Lynn, Mr. Theon is asleep - it should be.

No reply.

No sign of it.

"Ilia! You're here, aren't you, Ilia!?

Speak a little louder out of the hoof.

- Of course, ma'am.

No reassuring voice returned that

It is an anomaly.

Exactly, there's no way he's hiding out in the open like this.

I've finally decided to start acting.

I can't wait any longer.

- To the bathroom, I want to go!

Actually, there's no toilet in this inn, in the room.

So I have to leave the room and walk to the bathroom.

The building and toilet are beautiful and well cleaned, so it's not called a haunted mansion, but it's creepy to walk down the hallway by yourself amidst these strange signs.

"Ilia? Why don't you go to the bathroom?"

It is the last resistance.

I haven't heard back - it just seems to be solitary.

... come on, I'll never stand it till morning!

There's no way I'm gonna leak it!

I never, ever crawled out of the hook - opened my eyes.

……

The area is full of the same darkness and silence.

There were no ghosts.

Then again, there was no one there.

- In the meantime, I'm going to pick flowers and then think about what happens later.

When I left the room, I walked down the hallway along the wall.

Never make blind spots.

If you get tongued or something from behind - it leaks!

The hallway is equipped with thin and demonic ore everywhere, which illuminates the blur and darkness.

Slowly going down the long hallway for a while - from the front, I could hear the flooring.

- Xxixixixixixixixixi.

……

Because it's an inn, isn't it normal to be different from people even at night?

Not enough to be cowardly.

Ignore the beating heart, and this one slowly moves forward.

... but move forward looking at your feet without raising your face.

I'm not scared, am I?

Yeah, I'm not scared.

- xyxy

……

- Ki.

"... Huh?

- Now... I just didn't sound right!?

".................. Ah, ha. It's a quinosay. Psychological phenomena can largely be proven in science. Yes, it's plasma."

I decided to escape reality.

I'll never turn around.

Strong and determined, we go down the hallway.

For some reason, things came out like fog, and my vision was getting worse.

- Even though this place is indoors.

Chilly at any rate.

There are signs like some kind of foretaste.

When I say chills, I sweat on my back.

That's how I finally got to the bathroom.

If you peek inside, it's foggy to the bathroom and it doesn't look good.

Still, we have to move on, it's an emergency.

Change your slippers and go into the bathroom.

Despite this kind of midnight, everything was closed except for one of the deepest private room doors.

Blink, sweat erupts.

Never...... I don't think you should go into that deepest toilet.

No, absolutely not.

In the first place, is there really anyone else in the bathroom?

I don't think so, but I don't peek - I don't want to be a hentai.

Ask yourself.

Do you want to...?

Turn back...?

No, there's no turning back or anything.

I will not update my records on the world map that I draw to you.

Consolidate your resolve several times and move on to the deepest private room you fear.

Take your time and peek inside, there's - there was nothing in it.

… it is natural.

I stroked my chest down, went into a private room, closed the door...

"Ahhh Ri Su"

"Hiaaaaaaa!!!!?"

"- And that's where the bloody Eclair was sticking behind the door, surprised."

"I see, that's the story when you have a scary dream"

"Yes! Please reply properly even in your dreams, Ilia!

"Hehe, excuse me for this, ma'am"

On the morning of the departure day, I told Ilia yesterday's upside down just because I didn't want to get angry.

- It's a dream.

"So the lady woke up first thing this morning and was in a hot spring all by herself?

"Ugh, yeah. I was free, and I wanted to come in one last time..."

"By the way, I can't seem to find your lady's mum, but where is she folding?

"Huh?"

Where are you?

"... It's a beautiful day, isn't it?

"? Yes, the laundry looks good and dry."

……

Seems to see a hatena mark floating over Ilia's head.

"It was ~! Oops, you did!

And the last time I got up there, Lynn cried and hugged me.

Oops?

"- Lynn, that's normal. If you live, a menstrual phenomenon that anyone might offend, that can't be helped. No need to mourn, yes - of course."

"Are you sure? Are you sure?

"Yeah, sure. I'll tell the innkeeper, why don't you come into the hot spring with me first? Lynn."

"Yeah!"

Lynn and I held hands together, and I just decided to head to the hot spring.

Yeah, yeah, no matter how many times you go in, hot springs!

"... by the way, the biggest victim of that story is Eclair, no matter what you think."

And, like the victim, the perpetrator Eclair roared with an unconvincing face.

Yes, this is a scary story that really happened.