Different worlds of the last heaven and knights of the fist.

No windows are found in the stretching stone corridors, with dim darkness covering the area, not day or night.

Only candlesticks provided at regular intervals on the walls are a source of light, but their fire is also small and unreliable. The narrow stone spaces they illuminated were enveloped by the gloomy atmosphere of the underground labyrinth.

But the most unusual thing on this occasion would still be the chilly weather that cuts you off.

The exact temperature is not known because the thermometer type does not exist. From the point that the moisture just freezes easily, it seems to be definitely below zero degrees.

If I accidentally fell asleep on this occasion, it was enough to think that it would remain frozen and preserved until a distant future.

(It's like this because it's the middle of winter, but I guess it's just different in the summer...)

And so on, while thinking of the exotic season, Arichi Shield knocks on the door of the next room.

As he exhaled into his frozen hands, there was a response from a girl knight well known as "yes" from inside.

"Ugh. It's me. Me. Me.

Please, when I entered the room in response to a voice with, the familiar Bellette Fizz Gertirude had a cheek wand on a small round table.

It's breathtakingly beautiful, too, like I'm thinking of something.

Face as it was born as a result of the pursuit of shaping beauty to the extreme. The sharp eyes look like a sparkling jewel to the light ice "Ice Blue", and the lustrous blue hair that reaches up to the waist is the finest silk, too. A thin, even body has no place whatsoever that could serve as an example for a statue.

Even though it's been about eight months since I've known her, Lifeguard has often still been blinded by her like this.

but even as such an adolescence serious boy, there are things so distracting that I'm not likely to gush with evil feelings or anything now.

"... Belle, are you thinking about Lenore?

A girl who is currently in a position to be chased by soldiers and bounty hunters from all over the country, designated as the prize neck of a broken fifteen million esc in this Badalnoise divine empire. Lenore Schne-Grosevitz.

When you name her, a classmate and best friend to Belgrette,

"Mmm..."

The troubled girl knight returned an ambiguous response that could be taken as both affirmation and denial.

A new year and some time after a long winter vacation. Even if college life resumes, Lenore returns to her parents' home never returns.

It was about ten days ago when the Knights of Badalnois came to attack there and were informed that she was being arranged as a sinner.

The circumstances of Lenore, which were not even known in Belgrette, were then revealed one after the other.

A talent who was promoted to court chanter (Mage) at a young age. Hence the jealous and neglected past from the surroundings. The only 'Penta' Mertina Snow in Badalnois was that she was also the best friend ever obeyed.

And - that the mother has amnesia and is about to corrupt herself to the detriment for that treatment, that it may be.

With the help of many people, it was only after noon yesterday that we finally made our face-to-face attempt to find Lenore, who could not have known he was anywhere in the exotic world.

But when she had to reunite, "Go home to Raindeer," she threw away the drift guards. On the contrary, he even threatened to "kill me if I'm not going home".

There was no room to ask what it was meant to be, and the drift guards were kicked in by Mertina, who suddenly broke in.

And they went missing again, and dawned overnight and now. Things can be said to have gone back to shaking out.

(... no, I'm not shaking it out...)

Until yesterday, I had the expectation that things would change as long as I could meet Lenore... or solve them.

But having had to face each other, she turned down the drift guards.

Now, I'm...

"Go home to Raindeer, or"

Bergrette is small and squeals the words of that rejection.

"I wonder what Lenore meant by that..."

……

Belgrette's chest, poked by her best friend with such a line, is extra to guess.

……

I was a drifter wondering how I spoke, but I finally realized when I saw the look on the girl knight's face.

Strong light in the eyes. A trick that adds a finger to the tip of her jaw, which she shows when she thinks about something.

No, it's not.

Belgrette is not hurt or struck by words from her best friend. I'm trying to find the sincerity behind that statement.

"Even Lenore should know without even thinking about it. That I couldn't have honestly obeyed you."

That's a good idea. There is no way that a human being who has come a long way over so many days can be convinced to say "Go home" and "Yes, I understand." Strangers don't have to know, they're friends who lived together in the same school building.

Lenore himself, the strange stubbornness of Belgrette, etc. would be well known.

"So... I'm gonna have more doubts about the words after that"

"If you don't want to go home... on this occasion now, I will kill you"

Reminds me of that face with no emotion.

"... ha. Edvin, you were busted."

"The Mad Dog", who was so passionately stuck, was suddenly returned.

Lifeguard herself, I was sure I was out of line when she said it.

"'Kill us'. Lenore said in that phase, why did he say 'what he can't do' so strongly? I didn't fall for it."

"... Hmm, I see"

Reflux herself, I didn't think that deep. Because I didn't think it meant that much. Anyway, it's a common threat complaint.

But on second thought,

"On the contrary, we had dozens of soldiers. There's no way I can do this alone. Even if it's a threat, it's painful... honestly, don't feel like chatting."

"Even if it wasn't besieged, Lenore's strength is almost reciprocal with mine...... Me or Edvin, anyway, will never be any match for you. And Lenore said plainly,

Yes, it is. Lenore was not in a strong position to be threatened with "killing" the opponent he confronted on that occasion.

"Ah. Is that it? You know, that Mertina, she used her sister's power as an athlete."

"I don't think so."

Belgrette immediately denies that she intended to flash as a shield.

"What, without?

"Remember the situation at that time, in detail? After that Mr. Mertina Snow showed up."

"... mmm..."

That's what they say, digging back into yesterday's memory in my brain.

After Mertina showed up,

"Mel, what are you doing..."

Lenore's words just after that 'penta' literally descended or

'Mel, why are you here...!

'You really won't even do this, Len. What do you think would have happened if I hadn't come?

It reminds me of their conversation right after they all collapsed.

"..., Lenore... didn't envisage Mertina coming to help...?

If you ask me that while I'm still happy,

"Yeah. I'm pretty sure it's from the way he looks."

Belgrette assented forcefully.

"Then those attitudes and words of Lenore become more puzzling. Because that's how I said it, assuming there's no help from 'Penta'."

'What do you think would have happened if I hadn't come?' As far as I can tell from Meltina's statement, I can accept it as if someone else didn't even have a calculation to rush to the rescue.

"... hmm. I don't think so, for example, but already... you were going to blow yourself up? Look, it's like Maygus, the magician from the Heavenly Banquet..."

I still remember clearly. A heterogeneous man in black confronted in a depressed forest in a mundane heat.

It reminds me of that madness that pushed me to a disadvantage and tried to get involved with both the drift protection and the Enrokaku that were confronting me. If you're poor, humans, it's not strange to be in such behavior.

"No. If you take your eyes off your body, it shouldn't be. The people of Badalnois - especially the Cuarenas - receive death from external factors as' guidance ', while making it an absolute contraindication to die for themselves"

"Ah. No, you said something..."

Self-harm is perceived as a thick act of 'pushing' one's soul against Cure Renaissance. Whatever their plight, they say the Badalnoise never choose to die themselves.

Turning around, it also seems that behaviors like self-abandonment and rupture tend to be repelled.

"It seems that mastery is strictly forbidden when it comes to Oracle, a divine chant that feeds on one's life and vitality."

Religion in this other world occupies an unexpected importance from the protection of the modern child. Even young, deserted villains believe in the existence of God as a matter of course. Even if you betray your friends and family, only God believes.

"In relation to this, the use of poisons is strictly forbidden in Badalnois, right? Anyone can easily kill themselves, and in the first place, the ice goddess Cure Renee has been told that she hates poison."

"Yep."

Doctrine is absolute. If so, it is unlikely that Lenore, a Cuarenaean, would extend to the act of suicide bombing.

"You can't kill us. I haven't even thought about the 'Penta' assistant knife. Nor is there a sen of torn suicide bombing. What... what happened?

"At least now, for sure..."

The girl knight ran out in a confident tone.

"Lenore has no intention of killing us from the beginning."

"Uhm......"

"If you were really willing to do that in the first place... you should have been running it when we were powerless by Mr. Mertina and couldn't move"

"Ah... if you ask me, sure"

Probably against Lenore's will, when Mertina showed up for rescue.

The result of the dismay and humiliation that the attack technique of the white 'Penta' caused everyone to faint, including drift protection.

Belgrette's right, I would have even been able to stab a stop on that occasion if I wanted to.

But the truth is, on the contrary, there aren't even injured people out there who seem to be injured.

In the gap where everyone was unable to move, the two of them are choosing the path of escape.

"'I want you to go home to Raindeer'. Though I'm pretty sure this is for real."

"Hmm."

If so, why did Lenore speak of a provocation that seemed pointless like that?

She is no less than Belgrette, a girl with a head cut off. I don't think I'd do anything meaningless in that phase.

"... and well, I was thinking a lot yesterday because there were so many things I was uncomfortable with... oh, sorry Lugo. It's still early, isn't it? Can I help you?"

"Oh, no. It's more like I'm here to talk about it again."

I didn't have time to sit back and talk yesterday because I was in a mess with post-processing, or because the drift guard, who was almost intact, was working with a search party to follow Lenore and the others in the footsteps.

Incidentally, Lenore and Mertina have been reported to have cut off the tracks of Hefnell and Gammiha and other soldiers - who were not in the siege net - and jumped on a motorized carriage.

I have no idea where I am by now.

"Tsukasa, that's it. Lenore, if there's a situation, it's okay to say it clearly. Suddenly, he said," You're not going home. "

Of course, the situation was the situation.

Perhaps I couldn't afford to talk long enough in the tight air of one shot with the surrounding soldiers.

"Right. Possible possibilities...... at that time, there was a reason I couldn't say anything about it on that occasion. Alternatively, I had a situation where you weren't going to believe me at all where I explained it. … or"

"Or?"

"I wonder if both."

"Hmmm......"

If so, how many circumstances is that? What the hell is going on with her?

"Shall we discuss the details with you, Mr. Ohmzolf?"

"Right."

We were just about to have a detailed report on one of yesterday's cases and a consultation on what we were going to do.

……

As for drift protection, one thing has bothered me since I actually encountered that Mertina Snow.

That, too, would have to be raised in the place where everyone gathered.

Waiting for time, they headed to the designated room.