Are you the Devil of the Labyrinth

“Haah... Haah... Wait a minute! ”

“Come quickly! It's going to be too late!”

After the boy running to his exhilarating face, the girl gasps and chases him. I've already shouted to wait a few times, but the boy didn't listen to the girl when he was in a hurry.

Working as hard as you can to chase the boy, but the streets don't narrow easily.

Rather, I try to stay away. My lungs were sore and my legs were slowing down.

Probably because of the inherent weakness of the flesh.

His breathing is rushing and his legs and arms are losing strength.

The girl was weak even before being summoned here.

That doesn't mean there wasn't an officer, but...

“..... wow. There's a lot of people.”

Arriving after the boy, there was already a huge number of people there.

Among those gathered were the same players as boys and girls, as well as the world's residents. It was time for the girl to have a stubborn face, looking in front of her like a wall.

The boy who was buried in the crowd frowned.

“Hey, what are you doing! You can't see a thing if you're here! ”

“W-wait, how did you break through these people? ”

The arm was forcibly grabbed and the girl was dragged into the boy.

My body hits people who were already in front of me. Some even insulted me. But Yonke's boy went forward without letting go of the girl's hand. It was up to the girl to say sorry every time the boy bumped into someone.

The girl repeated her apology several times and looked at the boy's back.

I think this is great.

One way or another, the girl admired the boy who sneaks into the gap between people.

It looked like a fierce appendix rushing forward through tens of thousands of soldiers. The boy moves through between the seemingly endless people.

It was an act that a girl could never do.

It's amazing how a boy can behave like that.

The boy's efforts have been rewarded.

Finally, they got out of the gap, and they both made it to the front row.

The girl stares forward as she feels her breath burst.

‘Huge numbers...’

There are still innumerable people on either side of the front row. As I turn my head sideways, the endless people gather on both sides of the road and wait for something.

The current arrival of boys and girls was the gateway to Roberia.

Today was a special day.

Lorelai's people, who had been disconnected in the meantime, finally returned to Roberia.

Honestly, none of the first players in Lorelai knew.

So the feeling of curiosity, rather than gladness, first hovered in my heart.

That's probably the same for the other players around.

Even the stage 2 players who were summoned before the girl said they didn't know the first player very well.

Before they entered the training camp, they did not have a chance to make contact with the First Players, and even when they left the training camp, they still did not have a chance to talk to Lorelai because they were disconnected.

So, like the new stage 3 players, for stage 2 players, the first players were a mysterious target.

There were, of course, some First Nations players who were not in Lorelai and who stayed in Roberia.

But they were mostly ordinary people who lived as employees under the inhabitants, and it was hard for them to hear such a special story. Should I say that they were no different from the stage 2 players?

As for the girl who is a stage 3 player, I wondered what kind of people the First Players would come back to this time.

‘What kind of people? ’

After three months of disconnection from Lorelai, it has finally been reconnected.

The time was more than two months since stage 2 players left the training camp, and stage 3 players were also recalled. Some second-stage players are like juniors.

The girl stares at the gateway without the heart of the cephalopod.

Suddenly the Gateway vibrates in a situation where everyone's gaze is in one place.

At that moment.

“Ouch!”

A vague sound erupts between people, whether they are admired or cheered.

The gateway, which was emitting intense radiance, succeeded in connecting after several minutes of stabilization.

Everyone raised their voice to the appearance of a portal made with mysterious colors.

"What about that guy? ’

The first thing that came out of the portal was Arans Different,

He was the commander of the Roberian Expeditionary Force.

The existence itself is notorious, but not so many people memorize his name, but by chance, the girl knew his name. This is the first time I've seen your face.

When the girl was summoned, Arance left Roberia and went to Lorelai.

Well done, Arans.

One fairy flies into his presence and welcomes him with a smiling face.

Arance replied by greeting the knight in a stealing posture.

Then he turned his back.

Then, at the same time, countless people began to appear on the portal.

"Those guys are the first players..."

The girl could see at a glance. Everyone who shows up now is a player.

Their appearance was as severe as the misery they had suffered in the meantime.

Bloody armor and weapons. Whether there was a fight before coming here, the blood in the weapons and armor seemed to be damp. In fact, the stink of blood is conveyed in the air.

In spite of the horrible smell of blood conveyed all the way here, the girl pinched her nose and flinched.

Their appearance was frightening from the standpoint they were looking at.

The people who were watching also killed themselves in the atmosphere felt by them. There are a lot of people gathering and only heavy silence is hovering in the noisy square.

I'm... scared...

The girl has met stage 2 players several times. In fact, there were some rapporteurs. Occasionally, when I stayed at the inn, stage 2 players came to me and offered to recruit a party member.

Come to their party when you get out of the training camp.

Apparently recruitment of talent among stage 2 players is a hot topic street. The new players didn't even enter the training camp, but they were discussing the end of the training camp.

Anyway, that offer came to the girl too.

Precisely to the boy next to the girl's.

The boy made a heavy demand that no girl should be absent. If you want to recruit yourself, recruit a girl with you.

Thanks to you, it was a girl who was in trouble. Curiously, however, stage two players accepted the boy's offer.

Is it worth it to the boys? Stage 2 players seem to have seen something special in the boys.

Obviously they had a very different atmosphere than the new players. The seasoned atmosphere that seemed to have suffered all sorts of dangers was such that they did not have to be exposed.

But I didn't feel that they were special either.

I just felt like they were more experienced than they were.

In that regard, those who climbed the portal made on the gateway were slightly different from the second-stage players.

Scary. The girl felt scared of them.

In the atmosphere that I could feel on my face, I even felt my ears.

It was like seeing a soldier come back alive after a terrible war.

When a girl is terrified looking at stage 1 players, namely First Nations players.

The boy next door was different.

“Th-that's great! ”

With his mouth open, he glanced at the First Players. I'm just constantly expressing my admiration. I wonder if my chin is falling down.

The girl smiles bitterly at the appearance of a boy who looks like a thousand people.

It's a sight to see with such glittering eyes.

The girl felt sadder than impressed somehow.

What the First Nations players went through would not have been lighter.

The girl turned her head and looked back at the First Players.

Everyone has sharp eyes like a blade, all together.

And as they pass by, they make a long procession, and the snow falls on themselves.

They didn't do anything bad, but they tremble.

Heart pounding. I shout that I'm scared.

How much blood do they have on their hands?

They are not happy even though they returned to Roberia.

I was just walking in front of me armed with a suffocating atmosphere.

It would be right to say that it looks more sad than joy.

There the girl thought.

Are they really people on Earth like themselves?

What the hell have we been through? Everyone has one face.

Seeing them, the girl came up with the question, but I didn't want to know.

I didn't know what to look like when I heard the story from them.

First Nations players create long processions and wait until their backs are so far away that they are invisible.

The people gathered in the square did not celebrate their return.

Someone from stage 2 who was watching this scene said:

They came back haunted.

The girl agreed with that.

The pupils they showed were cold enough to suffocate.