Do You Think Someone Like You Can Defeat the Demon King?

Land, which was still solidified with a pale face, rushed to grip the communication terminal when he regained his sanity.

"What are you doing?

"Call the police. Yikes! People are dead!?

"Are you calling the police on Diversebase?

"Ah..."

It is true that although there is no law that explicitly controls divers, it is not a very praised hobby.

Some parts of the world creations are modified and used after unauthorized conversion of technology, and if sued, the end of a roll.

"No, well, nothing. I don't think I'm going to get caught because I'm not involved in development or operations, but land is suspicious, isn't it?

To my point, Lu grabbed my hair with his head.

"No one will believe I called you."

"But people are dead."

You're dead.

"You're too depressed, you..."

Indeed, my mind is more stable than I thought.

Of course I was surprised, and although there is some upset, that's not “against people dying”.

The “mouth” that seems to exist in the inferior world is the sentiment for appearing here.

I remember years ago when there was a car accident in front of me.

That happened when I was playing with Shizuku and myself.

Someone jumped across the sidewalk into a large car that ignored the signal.

Dancing through the universe with a dull sound, he was slammed to the ground.

We rushed over to the victims.

But the more obvious in everyone's eyes, the more the flesh was too late.

Because he had stopped breathing and the "contents” appeared.

Maybe in that case, if it's a girl of her age, it's something to cry about or confuse.

But we were calm - no, of course, not without fear of the corpse or confusion about the accident, but calm compared to the others around us.

But at that time, Shizuru had the same reaction as me, so I usually thought, 'That's what it must be'.

"Something about me, I feel used to people dying. It used to be close."

"That's too much of a boulder, you're already in high school, right?

"... I thought so myself after I said it, but I'm not saying it with anything on it! Isn't land like that calm enough for people to die?

"I don't know how“ normal ”is because people have never died in front of me before."

The death of a close opponent may have changed again, but fortunately, it's “just a user” I've never talked about very much.

Most importantly, Lu, who is also an administrator, probably had more contacts than I did - as far as the complexion I'm already returning to, I don't think he was that close.

"So, what do we do? Even if you don't call the police, you're gonna be missing."

"Who was that earlier, your family?

"I live alone."

"Then keep your mouth shut and I'll deceive you."

"What do you do with deception? If I can sniff this place out..."

"You can make any excuse then. There are surveillance cameras, and there's just as much evidence that we didn't kill them."

"Well, maybe... why didn't you report it earlier?

"Because we didn't even think it was real"

"So you're convinced?

"Don't you?

I picked up a falling headset as I approached the terminal he was diving into.

"I ate cleverly, you know, it doesn't even leave a blood stain. Honestly, I didn't even feel it when I was watching you up close. It's still more convincing to be told that 'no one was there from the beginning'"

……

"No matter how many Allen incidents there were, no one has yet seen a scene where the existence of a lower world actually interferes with us. Especially since the police are a bunch of hard-headed people."

So to speak, this is a ridiculous story where "I read a book and a character came out of it” or so.

It's not limited to the police, I don't believe anyone, and I don't want to.

Even me - because as much as I'd like to think I was hallucinating if I could.

"Besides, if we report it badly, it's possible we're murderers."

"Are you going to do something you didn't see?

"Let's choose the best of the status quo. To each other, to Clevers."

"Nah is“ smart. ”But well... maybe that's a good idea. No, I don't think so, but rather than leave it to the police."

That's what Lu says with his face in his face.

Land, by the way.

"Hmm?

"Dive today, what do you want me to do? Coordinates are calculated."

"Oh man... not Bakka!? Not Bakka!?

"I said it twice"

"I'll tell you! I'll tell you three or four times! The man who dived right in front of you is dead! At least the dive is aborted until the cause is clear! Base temporarily stops selling too!

"Is that the admin's general idea?

"I'm the only one at the moment, but hey, if you talk to me, even the others..."

That's it, Lu says.

I guess there's an odd freak figure in her brain who manages the divers base as well.

I am close to Lu, but I do not know the other caretakers.

So I understand.

Those people are more likely to dive into the world with joy if they hear people are dead.

They talk about the Allen case because they're excited and happy.

"Even the others... know..."

"If land is going to stop my dive, I'll just ask the other administrators."

……

Silent, leaning land.

I guess I just messed around too much.

"... hey knot. I know this isn't a good way to put it, and it might just sound like a loser."

"If you have something to say, be merciless."

"Your motive, your heart's broken, right? But why do you keep diving?"

I can't breathe.

"Huh..."

It works, it makes me speechless.

Even though I have as many words in mind to disprove it.

I said, "Go ahead. You're the one."

"... I know. Beh, nothing, 'cause I'm not going to get mad."

I just got a little carried away.

"Shizuru said - uh, you know, ■ ■? Such a man took my heart away. Understand. It's irrational. Hey, it's hard. But, you know, there is. That's what life is, isn't it? Lost or frustrated, it keeps coming."

"So what do you want?

"Like I said, it's a fool's thing to get laid and die of this"

When I heard that word of land, I - accidentally laughed at it.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Land knows nothing."

"What?

"No, it's not just land. I don't even know what's going on."

"So what..."

"I did break my heart. I was deprived of my favorite stationary residence by a suddenly growing motherfucker. I can't do anything. I hate the one who took it, and I hate the one who took it."

"You said that earlier."

"Yeah. But that's just the result. Because results that can't be based on the process really seem light"

Maybe this is with what just happened.

Suddenly something like a big “mouth” appeared and people died here.

Nobody believes me when I say that, and we don't even have a sense of reality.

The same thing is happening in this world - so I know.

I guess no one will believe I told you.

"I'm leaving today. Because the next dive will be after tomorrow. Bye, Lu."

"Oh, hey, wait, I'm done! I don't know why I ended up here.

Land trying to hold me back, but she's sweet, so she won't stop until she grabs my arm.

I didn't turn around, I left the base behind.

◇ ◇ ◇

My brother in apron welcomed me home before dinner without any particular surprise.

"Welcome back, knot"

"I'm home, brother"

"Are you okay? You look like a cat's corpse."

"If you say you're usually pale,"

When I say that in a sigh, I go up to the house passing next to my brother.

And then I went into the living room, and I looked over in the kitchen, and he came after me on a small run, he said.

"Dinner's ready for you."

"Didn't you tell me you didn't want it?

"Somehow, I thought you'd be back before dinner. All you have to do is line up, so sit down and sit down."

Ignoring my brother as he sat down in his chair, I left my bag and headed to the kitchen.

Then wash your hands and carry the dishes.

My brother looked at me like that with a slightly disgusting smile and started dining late.

◇ ◇ ◇

"Knot, Shizuru told me."

Cutting the hamburger with chopsticks, my brother says.

"I fought with you again."

"We're not fighting"

"Sure, maybe it's not strictly a fight, but Shizuru was worried, huh?

"... What were you saying about worrying?

"I suddenly popped out of the classroom with a loud voice, or something"

I stopped the chopsticks stretched out into a matching spaghetti on the way.

It's annoying.

frustrating.

Why, so, it's like I'm the bad guy, you know?

"I think you should contact Shizuru for dinner, huh?

"So apologize?

"Don't tell me otherwise, because it's disgusting not to be worried about Shizuru, isn't it?

"That's not particularly true."

"Lies."

"True"

"You're lying."

"I don't know why."

"You look like a liar."

……

At times like this, family is a pain in the ass.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Don't get too angry. Nothing. I'm not blaming you for the knot. Come on."

Then why are you telling me that?

"The knot remains unreconciled with Shizuru. Then... because I miss him. We grew up with the same family, so we're familiar."

My brother, too, has been familiar with Shizuku since he was very young.

When my parents were busy at work, the three of us even slept in the same room.

When I was younger, there was one more boy and there were four or even more other kids mixed up, but the basics are three.

From when I was tempted, just a little while ago.

"Sometimes, I think this is punishment"

"You're a good boy, so you won't be punished."

"I like it"

"It's not a sin."

"I broke the childhood framework. I can't be my friend anymore. If I was just a friend, no matter who Shizuru fell in love with, I wouldn't have had to."

"It's not a sin, either. Because, Shizuru, I like knots."

"Stop it. Hey, brother. It makes it extra hard because it brings expectations that way"

"I'm not going to say it properly. Shizuru thinks of knots more than anyone else. Once upon a time, and still is."

……

Somehow, I can understand what my brother is saying.

Me and Shizuru were very close.

I grew up sisters, and that's why I'm so close.

That hasn't changed since I fell in love.

To the point that some of me are even alarmed that 'even if I had no love for me in Shizuku, if I were in Shizuku, you would accept my feelings'.

Yeah, but that's why (...).

This unreasonable and extreme breakdown of relationships does not, however, give me the power or right to just rectify it.

Or don't have the courage to talk to someone.

"Hey, knot, I'm..."

"Thank you very much."

When I get up, I quickly stack the dishes and head to the kitchen.

"Oh, tie it!

"Thank you, brother"

That said, I'm forced to make a smile.

"You worried about me, didn't you? It really helped, I'm feeling better."

"Knot..."

My brother, who drew my will, says nothing more.

Dishwashing is his role, so when I got out of the living room I headed to the bathroom to clean the bathroom.

◆ ◆ ◆

When Kusai finished cleaning up after dinner, he sat down in a chair while in an apron, took out his mobile device and contacted a certain person.

She (...) responds immediately and calls begin.

"Hello?

"Oh, hello... Mr. Songsai?

What I hear is a stationary voice.

"Yeah, it's me. Shizuru, are you okay now?

"Yeah, I was just resting in my room after dinner"

"That's good. You came all the way here today, and I'm sorry I didn't have a knot."

'Fine, because I felt that somehow. After all, are you still in town today?

"I'm not just going to play... I've said it many times. Oh, it's nothing. I'm not playing man, is it? I'm more of a bad type."

'... I know. I don't think I can do that because I don't like Tomoya.

"Yuya, hey"

It was the name of a male android that was close to stationary residence, for example.

"Jing Liu, what did you tell him about the conclusion?

'Get out of the way... I told you honestly. He said I like him.'

……

'Something wrong?

"You know, Shizuru is talking about our mother..."

'Divorce, and that caused my uncle to get sick. I know him well.'

Kusai narrows his eyes.

The language of silence is a fact.

Kusai and her knotted mother fell in love with a male Android and left the house in such a way as to rush off.

The father left behind worked desperately to raise the two of them - but his heart broke and he is now in the hospital.

However, the situation has not always improved, but rather the side effects of the medicine have led to a path of deterioration and the temporary return home is unacceptable.

We can't even have a decent conversation, but over the weekend, the two brothers and sisters decided to go visit.

"Then how did you end up like that?

Of course - even stationary residence, I know that.

"What does that have to do with anything?

"... no, fine. That's right, hey, personal feelings, because they belong to individuals. I can't help pushing our situation."

Kusai distorted his expression only for a moment, but soon returned to his usual serenity.

"I'm sorry, I suddenly contacted you weird."

'Nothing. You don't need errands for us to talk'

"Right. Oh, yeah, yeah. Because the knot is fine. Ah, that's all I'll tell you."

'That's good. Hopefully, Mr. Kusai will also persuade you not to disturb Yuya too much'

"Yeah, if the knot listens to me."

That's what I said with a bitter smile, and Kusai finished the call.

And sigh loudly.

"I'm in trouble... I can't stop you from joining me."

Is there anything I can do as a brother?

That's what I thought, but it didn't come up with a good idea.

◆ ◆ ◆

I sat in front of my desktop device and stared at the screen.

The cord stretched from the terminal is stuck to my temples on both sides.

It's a kind of device that feeds thoughts back into terminal manipulation, the so-called "image device”.

Besides working with divers in the world of world creations, I also worked as a tool developer working on the network sometimes as a cracker and sometimes as a terminal.

Even though my father is in the hospital, the household of a tree drawer is stable and my brother is going to college because of my income, in fact.

Most of all, it's not a very white job.

But what I'm doing right now is not my job.

Personal research.

What you see is just a website.

It was also very old, image and character based.

"Popular games, sudden end of service. Dangerous cult denominations use online games for solicitation?

The headline of the article describes such a sentence.

When VRMMO was popular, various games had been made anyway, and the service had ended for a wide variety of reasons.

And from the world of games detached from the world we live in, we pull through the NPC data and even reproduce the looks, thoughts and voices to resurrect them into this world.

■ ■ has a very feminine face, although I don't really want to admit it.

Originally, it's a game made for women, so naturally.

But the game had a back face.

"By implicating the players, he was planting faith hearts and unconsciously turning them into believers...? Some religions think a hell of a lot."

In the wake of that incident, the cult denomination apparently disappeared after being picked.

Religion, however, has always existed in every region and, of course, in the modern era in which we live.

Because my heart needs a base.

Faith minds that are too advanced, though, can sometimes be poisonous and erode people.

In that sense, “love” may also be like religion.

be eroded.

My mind, my memory.

by inexplicable, invisible “reason”.

"And reproduced from this game is that guy... Jizu depends on some kind of implication, so to that one..."

But when I say that, I'm just jealous, and they say it's disgusting.

I'm serious, I just want to help that kid.

Well, because I like it.

Maybe if we get back together, we can have another relationship like before, or something.

I don't even think about the relationship ahead of me.

But that's okay, you know what?

If you just think.

You can't believe what I'm saying anyway.

Android is protected more than necessary.

It's based on AIs made for people, so there's no way Android is evil, with that kind of reasoning I don't know.

Then he says you can look for proof, but you don't, do you?

I don't know.

How he manipulates the rest of the girls' minds.

I looked it up, and the exact way is, nowhere.

"Silence... Silence..."

I called her name as I sat in my chair, hugging my rabbit stuffed animal all the time.

I used to get this stuffed animal from Shizuru.

By the way, there's a stuffed animal in the stationary room that I gave you.

I'm not very good at choosing “remaining gifts” or anything, but this is when I realize its importance.

Because this is how the only thing that connects us right now is what we have left.

"We, I don't know if we can do this anymore...... yeah, maybe I'm the one who can't. Implications, brainwashing, maybe it's all paranoia..."

Well, this stuffed animal has always been in my room, so all I can smell is that you hugged me.

But look for the rest of the tranquillity from there.

"Stay still..."

Follow the memories.

"Stay still..."

Immerse yourself when you were still happy.

I was paranoid that the future might see the same sight again.

"Stay still..."

That's when “Prrrrrrrrrr” and my mobile device rang.

"Stay still!?

I jump and respond unexpectedly.

Then I heard a frightened voice from the terminal.

I'm sorry, not Shizuru.

"What, land..."

'What? What? Did you promise to talk to Shizuru? Then hang up. "

"No, I didn't."

"Then why did you think you were still here?"

"... I was thinking about stationary residence."

"You... you really like Shizuru"

"That's right, bad!?

There is no need to mislead me.

I said it in grandeur.

At times like this, I'd rather have my chest stretched than weird.

Look, even land is overwhelmed and losing words.

'Ma... well no. But that doesn't seem like a problem. "

"About what?

"What, you just saw people die? You're gonna be worried if you're not sick. '

"Nothing. No. I told you before I left the store, I'm fine."

'I thought the time difference was going to cause damage!

"Because Lu was?

'That's right. Honestly, I suddenly got anxious'

"That momentum didn't tell the outsiders that, did it?

'I didn't. Because I didn't... I imagined I was gonna die alone, and I was scared, and I called.'

"Phew."

"Oh, you laughed, you!

"No, because you're a maiden."

"I'm still a teenage college girl, even a maiden is fine. Nothing!

"I wonder if it's Gilliout"

You're gonna be my age in two years, right? Just be prepared, okay?

What am I supposed to be prepared for?

I mean, I don't even know if I'll be alive until then.

"But Lu, you're nostalgic."

'Really...? Suddenly what is it?'

"Look, me and Lu met because we had a common acquaintance, and that's why you're so annoying?

"You weren't your friend, that cracker."

"Not as good as friends, I guess."

'He said he was friends with you...'

"Well, sometimes I wasn't really good at spreading friendship, so I was wondering if the relationship between Lu and me would be diminished. But now, this is how we get along."

'Is that because I'm nostalgic?

"Because it's close to something from the start. Well put, it's familiar, badly put, it's familiar."

"Bad listening...... no, normal driving in case of knots"

"I guess I don't get more friends because I have these"

'It's hard to masturbate like that, too. But I guess so. I don't feel like someone else. "

"Could I have seen you in a previous life?

"Maybe."

"No, I don't care if it's accepted"

'That's what I meant by sticking with you on that level. Knot, how have you been?

"Hmm... I don't know"

"Friendship is formed by mutual walking distance. I'm the only one who ever waved his tail in my nostalgia."

"Then maybe he was walking over. I've never been particularly aware... well, I might have had something like" comfort ”for land"

'I don't appreciate it. Oh, I'm serious. Normally happy'

From the atmosphere of his voice, he's genuinely happy with it, as he put it.

That's also kind of embarrassing to me when I react honestly.

My cheeks are getting a little hot.

'This is the kind of knot that makes me happy, which is why I want to make sure...... I figured you'd be diving tomorrow?

Lu asks me anxiously.

I wasn't lost against it.

"Of course."

'... right. Okay, then I'll go out with you. "

"That's a little light. Are you sure? Worst case scenario, I've been meaning to rely on the other administrators."

"If it's enough to make you do things, I have operational experience. I'd better do it."

"Oh well...... thanks, that helps. I like it when you break it off like that on land."

'You're welcome, I hate to say it. It's complicated... if that makes you feel better. Well, of course I won't let you go anywhere that looks bad. After careful prior investigation, limit it so that it can only move within a determined range. I'll send you to a lifeless place as long as I can.'

"That's a pinch..."

"You don't want to dive?

"... ok"

It doesn't make sense if you can't encounter and ravage life forms in the lower world.

Well, Dive, I guess I'll just have to be as lucky as I can be.

It's the same as religion.

As a superior world being, I am free to descend into the inferior world - the way I am, I am somewhere at my heart's base.

The end of the day falls, or means and ends are being reversed?

But if that convinces me that the part of me that I can't control, let's just say it's good.

"One More Thing"

"Do you still have it?

"In time, tell me what happened to Shizuru. It's better for both of us to think about it than one."

"Uh... um... I'll think about it"

Lu probably won't laugh or make fun of me for telling you what I think.

Same goes for Brother Kusai.

But that's why it happens.

There's no way I can tell anyone else, even though there's a part of me that thinks' ridiculous and embarrassing thoughts' or 'delusions created by a head that was boiled in love'.

So the answer is appropriate.

But...... when the limits really come, I might say pollo.

There's just someone nearby who doesn't laugh then, and I feel safe.

"Bye, good night"

"Yeah, good night"

When we exchanged words like that, we finished the call.

The silence returns to the room.

"Good night..."

When I got up from my chair, I took off my image device and rolled a goron on my bed.

And stare at the ceiling.

"No, you haven't even said" good night ”to Shizuku in a while..."

By the bed is a window hidden by a curtain, and beyond it is a house of rest.

My room and the stationary room are close as a joke, only long enough to come and go through each other's rooms when the windows are empty.

So before, I used to talk through windows until I was sleepy, and at the end of the day, I said 'good night' and broke up.

That's the routine, it's been going on forever - oh, when was the interruption?

Not that there was a clear separation, but little by little, more days went by when I opened the window and it didn't come out.

……

Turn your face, me staring at the curtains.

"How long can we talk like this?"

"Always will, won't you?

"There's a lot going on, there's a lot going on, there's jobs, there's a lot going on in the environment."

"So stillness leaves me?

'No. There's no way I'm leaving the knot. The knot leaves me.'

'You don't have that...'

"Why can you say it all?

'No, because I choose among the choices that can stay close to stationary residence. I won't end this relationship unless Shizuku leaves me.'

"Then... we'll always be together"

"Yeah, together all the time"

'I'm with you no matter what.' Cause I won't forgive you if you leave. '

'That's the dialogue over here. There's no way I'm leaving. "

"I'm more anxious about Yiya Knot"

"I'm worried about Shizuku."

"Yui!

Shizuru!

"Mmmm......"

"... Huh, what is this?"

"Nfu, you sound stupid, us"

"Right."

'All the time, this is how I want to be an idiot. Ever, ever.'

Oh, I miss coming up on the stakes when I get alarmed - but not so long ago, I remember.

You're the fool.

Don't expect it.

That's what I tell myself.

But the desire for "maybe” doesn't calm me down.

Stupid.

But I can't help it, love is like that.

"Ha..."

I sighed, woke up my upper body, and while I understood it was futile anyway, I put my hands on the curtain.

And open it slowly.

Beyond the window - there was a stationary residence.

"Ah..."

On the contrary, I am confused.

But now if we open the window, maybe we can talk about it.

I anoint my feelings of fear with desire, and I unlock the window and finger the frame.

And the moment I tried to open it - there was stillness and eyes.

She was happily talking to someone with one hand on the terminal, and it wasn't hard to imagine that it would be ■ ■, but the conversation through the window was our “ritual” that had lasted more than a decade, so I'm sure she would respond - but she closed the curtain, without telling me anything.

Oh, so I told you not to expect it.

Only for what I expected, piercing my chest, a seed of pain.

It hurts just to bury it.

It hurts more when I grow up.

I'm stunned, in the dormant room. I was staring at a closed curtain.

"You're disgusting, me"

I squeal unexpectedly.

From Shizuku, I'm sure he looks like a creepy one who thinks of himself and runs wild on his own.

Or so he says from me.

What, love?

It's childhood friendly, so what is it?

If we stay together the whole time, you'll be rewarded and you take it for granted?

That's what makes me sick.

Do some divers, get drunk on yourself.

'Cause I'm trying to get a still-living interest by becoming "myself who could die."

I'm sure it is.

Um, if I'm really dying, I'm gonna freak out with a leak, cry out, yah, yah, yah, yah, daddy, brother, Jizu, I don't want to die, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah.

Disgusting.

Yeah, that's what I am.

"... oh, shit!

I grabbed my fist in eight hits and slapped it on the pillow as I raised my voice before I got out of bed.

Then sit back in the chair again and attach the image device.

Reality escape banzai.

If that's all you can do, if you don't do it aggressively, you'll be crushed.

I don't mind going to bed, because I just dream that I just slept.

Move it, head.

Get out of my way, think.

Shall I open the editor and finish the tool that I was about to make - thinking about that and doing my gaze on the screen?

"What is this?"

Notice the existence of an unrecognizable file.

If you look at the history, there's no sign of it being downloaded.

Nor does it look like someone cracked up and sent them in on their own.

Or my skills aren't sweet enough to allow that.

"Definitely not what I made. Who, how..."

Some confusion.

The stationary residence is only slightly diluted and helpful.

But the creepy ones are creepy, so scan for weird ones at first.

...... there is no problem.

Or the contents are just text data, this.

When it opened, it was written in black letters on a white screen.

"I Know Diver's Death"

"I am the one who came to this world from other worlds."

"I Know You Too"

"Dive is a foolish deed"

"There is no top or bottom in the world. You're the only ones who think of it as superior."

"You're lucky you didn't die until now."

"If you repeat this any more, death will surely come to you"

'If you don't want to die, don't play dumb about Dive and all that'

Wherever it came from, it was a text of intimidation.

But I'm not saying it would harm me.

I'm only obsessed with the “if you keep diving any further” part.

"What's the name of the sender...... Huwis Toole?

I felt a slight heartbreak at the sound of that name in my voice.