"Hey, I found it..."

Hard scales shine black in the light that I have.

A dragon that once existed several in the world says it was armored all over its body with metal scales. To me, however, the scales were never visible to iron or copper, let alone gold or silver.

Scaled like casting darkness, giant dragon.

That beauty alone was enough to bind my spine.

I should have gotten so used to dying that I just put this dragon - in front of a different knight across it - and I have a feeling of inevitable death...

"semantic deception to a number of causal faults, it really lowers my mind. It's so easy ♪ That's the karma solver, the right guy in the world. Oh, was it" ex "?

The giggle of dullness, while pleasant, felt the undisturbed starch behind it.

Angry enough to be angry.

Hatred enough to hold my breath.

Similar to sticky mud. Hitting that in the dark, the fairy-sized teena just looked up at the dragon knight as she bit her teeth.

It doesn't move.

I can't move.

That tina that even seemed almighty, one finger...

'How dare you put in some innocent tea - you're not calling me anything. Just pull in, Teena Cleese -!!'

The world trembles billibly.

The roar that speaks for the wrath of the girl x does not hesitate to destroy the old passage......!

Come on... let me...!

Yeah, well, you're the only one who likes it!

This is a narrow underground passage.

stone walls at 360 degrees.

Then crush it, on this wall!

Spirituality [fingertips of the earth].

Its ability to manipulate stones and soil produced countless thorns from walls, floors and ceilings.

The image is a monster's fang.

Crush the Dragon Knight with a stone thorn as a giant monster closes Agate......!

Instead of impromptu needles. You're not getting away with this!

"Stupid, it's no use!!

"Huh?"

When I looked back at Teena who screamed - a dragon knight who was supposed to have been chewed up by countless thorns moved.

I didn't play the thorn.

I didn't even avoid it.

swallowed all the thorns, lukewarm, as if it were liquid......!?

"We're getting away, sister!! [Miracle Hole]!!

Confused I could only do what Teena said.

Empty the wormhole with [a miraculous void hole].

The Dragon Knight is on the verge of letting him escape.

I felt the roaring wind, the raging fangs, indeed authentic.

That's why I was able to jump into the wormhole at the right place so that I could be pushed by that threat.

Overwhelming signs can disappear like lies......

I knelt on the dusty stone floor.

Sweat dripping from the hair and jaw creates stains when it puffs on the ground.

This is the world of dreams.

I've even died a few times.

Yet the fear still binds the whole body.

It's like the soul itself was about to be chewed up......

"The Spirit Statue Room... For a moment, we got a distance, but it's water in the baking stone."

Looking up, Tina was distorting her face bitterly.

"How many times have I teleported? I can't sprinkle it. They've already caught me... Those dragon knights will come after us till we finish the Atashi."

"What the hell is that dragon knight...? How could he come into my dream world...!?

"Don't be imprisoned by your figure. Don't be tied to physics. Change the perception fundamentally, sister. If we don't, then this world won't even be a fight."

"... this, the world...?

"Outside the 'world'. The causal dimension where that woman says"

Causal dimension...?

When Teena helped me, it was like that dragon knight - Girl X - did say something similar...

"Ordinary 'worlds' operate along the course of time and according to the rule of physical law. But this causal dimension, which is the outside of it, naturally does not.

... Right. That's what dreams look like. There was a psychiatrist who turned whatever rod-shaped objects appeared in his dreams into male root metaphors, but similar to that, all the things in this world are metaphors with some meaning.

In the causal dimension, 'meaning' exists in stripping, which supports the world at its most primitive level. But you can't perceive it in the low dimension, so you embody it in the most appropriate way to show its essence. "

"Yep... Yep..."

Immediately after he fled with his life, he couldn't catch up with his head, even if he talked about something elusive without snoozing.

Teena looked at my face and wrinkled lightly between her brows, roaring, "Uh-huh."

"I can't afford to be too long... for example, yeah... for example - sister, remember? About the chain that connected Jack's five bodies."

"... Chain...?

I immediately remembered.

Jack was tied to five chains in a world like that starry sky that regained [the leading cause and effect].

I crushed one of them - the chain that connected my right leg.

"This is also speculative - the meaning of that chain is probably 'the conditions necessary to save Jack'"

I breathed.

Not because I was surprised - because Teena clearly languaged-something I had somehow guessed somewhere.

"The chains total five: 'neck', 'right arm', 'left arm', 'right foot' and 'left foot'. By destroying all of that, Jack is unleashed. And one of them, sister, smashed away at the same time as you regained [the leading cause and effect]."

"That was one of the conditions - necessary to help Jack...?

"Yes. One condition for a single chain. A total of five conditions. If you can accomplish all that, sister, you win."

What Teena was saying earlier finally swallowed up just a little bit.

A world where 'meaning' is stripping away - the causal dimension.

"You mean that dragon knight is the same as five chains? You mean some sort of... some kind of a condition?

So it makes no sense to attack at your discretion.

Unless you achieve the conditions that that dragon knight means, it won't be an effective attack......?

As I broke the chain by fulfilling the condition of 'awakening of [the leading cause and effect]'.

"Sounds like you're getting it."

Teena smiled reluctantly.

"Well, here's the next problem, sister. What are the conditions that the Dragon Knight means by fulfilling?

"... the Dragon Knight appeared where we tried to go behind this underground temple"

"Right."

"We came here to find out about the conditions for the resurrection of the Evil God - that is,"

A pitch-black dragon, a three-faced knight, accidentally changes himself in his head.

From unreasonable threats to obstacles to be crossed.

"The significance that the Dragon Knight has is' not to let us examine the conditions for the resurrection of the Evil God '- so if we get to the back of this temple, we can no longer fulfill its significance and... we have to disappear"

Teena deepened her grin.

It was a laugh of praise.

"It's 100 out of 100."

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I run through a narrow underground passage.

The path of the underground temple is never complicated. We can get to the back sooner or later as long as we keep running.

But the whole passage was intermittently shaking, as if to criticize me.

That gradually gets bigger.

Chase him on the back and beat him repeatedly and occasionally.

Don't. Don't go. I won't forgive you!

"Sister, they're coming!

"Yep......!

Shortly after the nod, the sideways wall collapsed away.

It was the pitch-black dragon that blocked my hand going through the wall. He sprays a hot exhalation from the gap of his fangs and captures me with red eyes like hell.

"Hehe...! Now we've crushed all the roads behind us. '

I knew it.

The intermittent sounds and swings are breaking down the road.

"[Miraculous Void Hole] shouldn't have been able to teleport to a place you'd never seen or heard of, could it? I mean, we can't go any further from here! I'm a checkmate -! '

"If so."

"Just try again"

With such triviality, I thought before.

But I've found out about the world of my dreams with Teena as I travel through time and space.

There is nothing trivial about this world.

"Cause and effect continued - -!!"

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He lowered Jack in the battle in Bradya, the capital of the Kingdom of Lowe, and took him away and fled the chaser, pushed down after he had worthlessly taken care of him whose heart God had worn out, returning to the Temple of the Temple of the Temple again where he was taken Jack by Girl X to a gap a few minutes apart.

The same procedure performs the intrusion, moving the pedestal of the 'Shield of the Earth' into the underground temple from the hidden staircase, where a dragon knight appears some time after proceeding from the room of the Spirit Statue.

'It's the same no matter how many times I repeat it!

"Well... I don't know about that"

For the first time here, I behave differently than I did last time.

[Scarce Dotted Hole].

Connecting the wormhole is not a room of spiritual statues in the rear, but a point all the way forward.

Last time, the point where I time-leaped -!

"Nah."

The overwhelming signs of the Dragon Knight vanished in an instant.

What spread in front of me was an unobstructed passage.

If you kick the ground right away, it's an update to the highest intrusion record.

The fairy-sized tina said, "Hihihi!" and laughs creepy.

"[The Miraculous Void Hole] certainly can't teleport to a place I've never seen or heard of. Then if you get there on your own feet and return time, even if you've never been there, you can travel in an instant! Nice combo, sister!

"But they'll catch up again this time......!

Intermittent destructive sounds and tremors come after my back.

It's not a very escapable speed.

The distance quickly clogged.

A spear tip unexpectedly grows from the wall.

It was very inevitable.

I was deeply pierced through my stomach, and I threw up a lot of blood on the floor.

Beyond the collapsed wall, six reds shimmer.

'Then you just have to kill your heart before you get there...!

I distorted my blood-swept lips into laughter, and I glanced back at three pairs of eyes.

"Now to this extent, what can I kill...?

Causal continuation.

I come back to the underground temple with the same actions repeatedly.

And with the same M.O., I shortcut to the last point I reached.

Dozens of meters at most to proceed per trip. It's a slow walk, but still for sure, it's close to the deepest part of the underground temple......!

"That dragon knight's movement is automatic. If we put the same conditions in place, we'll only show up in the same place - we can go, sister!

I traveled backwards in time several times.

He defeated Jack several times, played an escape, and was snatched away by Girl X.

Running through the underground temple more than once - dead pierced by spears more than once.

How about a few days?

How many years?

I stopped counting along the way.

Proceed per trip, just a few dozen meters.

Keep running through the underground temple, counting just that......!

It's been a long - long way.

I'm sure the distance in the physical sense was only a few hundred meters.

But for me, it's been a long journey for months.

The passage flickers.

Out into a big space.

I looked up at the elevated ceiling and was unconsciously frightened.

Gotcha... here we are...?

There is no way forward.

There was only a circular room.

This is the deepest part.

Where she tried to hide it through.

There it is.

"... after all, huh? At a time similar to the underground of the College, I expected..."

"This..."

At the center of the circular room was something like an altar made of stone.

No, is that a sleeping area?

That's what I thought, because nothing else - on top of that, there's one man, lying there.

By the stone bedside, there was a large bird cage.

Inside the iron plaid, a hunter in green clothes with bows and arrows in his hand.

It's also used in Dimkurd's spiritual excitation system -

That's right.

This room looked just like that place where the tragedy began seven years ago - the junction room of the College of Spiritual Arts.

"Sister. I was asleep in the junction room, that magician. Phil - that woman killed me, but do you know who that was?"

"No...... they didn't tell me that far. I know you're not the only one..."

"Oh... I'm sure you're not the only one"

Making a shitty noise, the wall collapsed.

... out of time.

The Dragon Knight has caught up.

"I want to make sure. I'm going back again."

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Time retrospective that may never be known again. I did a procedure I was completely used to and came back to the Artifact Palace.

"Not bad. You're tired of Jack shoving you down so many times."

"... even if you think it's a dream, it's painful. Because of my refusal, Jack..."

"Are you starting to feel like you can do it about once?

"Not at all!

"Hihihi!

Before diving into the underground temple, Tina, in a fairy state, glistened on the pedestal, its entrance.

"This guy is an exquisite replica of one of the four artifacts, The Shield of the Earth. Now I'll take this."

"Take this? Isn't it fake...?

"It's fake. It's fake. It's fake. Fine, fine."

Take a replica of 'Shield of the Earth' as they say.

The big shield that shines like a mirror, I'm sure, can't be lifted by my powers by nature, but if you erase the weight with [nesting permeable wings], it's fine.

Enter the underground temple.

He took the path he knew on his own and also went through the room of the Spirit Statue.

At the time the Dragon Knight showed up, I was going to teleport him to a room with an altar...

"... doesn't come out in the usual place...?

"Things have changed..."

"No way...... just have this replica shield?

It shines like a mirror. I don't know what it's made of, as always.

Replica...... but how did you make something like this......?

"Make up your mind, sister. I'm going to the altar room."

When I nod, I prepare my breath and then use the [miraculous void hole].

If you go through the wormhole, it's the altar room that you arrived at over months in subjective time.

The center of the room. When the man took a step to the stone altar where he lay,

"That's it."

For a moment, I felt like my back had been crushed.

It appeared abruptly, too huge a presence.

There is the word frog stared at by a serpent, but in this case I am not even stared at.

I'm stared at - delusional as if.

That's all, my whole body stops moving as if I was paralyzed......!

"Sister!"

Teena's voice brought me back from delusion to reality.

Pull the phantom paralysis hard and chop it, kicking the floor as you look back.

The shadows of darkness were wide open.

Running through a pitch-black dragon - a three-faced dragon knight.

Until just now, I certainly wasn't there.

Three pairs of eyes were staring at me in an inorganic light.

"- Hey, shall we get this far?

I feel my spine tremble in my resounding voice, and I bite my teeth.

What are you afraid of......! Now, to this guy!

'I can't believe it's an investigation in the dream world. No more forgiveness - let them be penalized. With that pain...'

When a cold voice touches my ear, I stand reflexively.

If they stick out the spear, I will die again.

You know that's all you have to do to get back again - the slaughter that comes from the giant intertwines my soul.

"Ha! Apparently, the combination of this shield and the man sucks, huh?

In the meantime, only Tina was resolute, confronting the Dragon Knight.

Carve a reliable provocative grin into her mouth and she will point straight at the Dragon Knight......!

"I'm already guessing. The man, and the woman of the junction you killed in the basement of the academy! It doesn't mean these two are involved in the conditions for the resurrection of the Evil God -"

…………

My consciousness swayed.

The roar of the dragon struck my brain.

The Dragon Knight will not miss my momentary stiffness.

Step into the feet of a formidable dragon and shake up a great lance......!

A hard sound tore through the paralyzed hearing.

Sharp spear tip. It would have pierced my body a few moments later - but stopped moving in front of me for centimeters.

No.

It's stopped.

"Ku......!

Teena, in a fairy state, put her little hand around her, and from there, she was unfolding a thin peach barrier.

The tip of the spear is taken by it thinner than parchment paper......!

"Teenah......!?

"Hurry up!! Like this, I'm just rocking his' terms' with incomplete guesses! Let the shield be in the hands of the man on the altar!!

On the thin peach barrier, cracks run between looking.

It won't last long.

And then what about Teena?

Staring at my tiny little back, I held my fist so much that it was about to bleed.

- Now.

Now do what I have to do...!

I turned my back on Tina and the Dragon Knight and ran to the central altar.

Let the man lying on it hold the 'shield of the earth' of this replica - that's fine, isn't it, Teena!

"Stop. Whoa, whoa!

Girl X's scream devoured my back.

But voices are just voices.

No more will I be paralyzed by fear.

Balin, there was an ominous sound.

That could have been the sound of Tina's barrier smashing.

But I do not look back.

Not because I'm scared.

To move on............!!

At the altar, we get there.

The replica's "shield of the earth," its handles, was made to touch the hand of the man on the altar.

I do not know what will happen with this.

Maybe Teena doesn't even know.

I just had expectations.

There was something in my mind that I hoped would happen.

As a result - the reality came to pass as expected.

A man's hand holds a shield from himself.

"... what...!?

I gave him a surprise, not because the man's hand moved alone.

Immediately after that.

For in such a moment that even I did not realize, a man was vanishing from the altar.

I look back.

At the same time, a majestic sound echoed, like the sound of a church bell.

The long and long aftermath occupies the perception, and during the bundling, the sense of reality is lost.

So maybe it was accepted naturally.

Perhaps they took the sight of Migawa for granted.

One man.

Protect the little fairy from her back.

He was taking the fangs of a black dragon with a big shield.

"- Get lost, evil kedamono. There is no such thing as you like!!

Anger that directly strikes the spirit.

By that - oh, I've never seen it before.

The pitch-black dragon takes a step backwards.

In that gap, the man bounces his fangs back with a big shield.

Three pairs of red eyes seemed to shake.

The light must be her heart.

It seemed supernatural to her - indisputable, ordinary, human, upset!

'Ya, stop... stop, stop, stop...!!

The man didn't make a one-sided voice that sounded like a half plea.

That figure, who sets up a great shield and stands in front of a dragon with fortitude, oh, exactly -

"Let's call it a name, it's a kettle thing. At least inscribe my name on that evil soul."

"Stop -"

"My name is Lowe."

- That figure is exactly what you deserve to be called a brave man.

"Seal the evil gods and make them one of the brave ones, king of the kingdom of Lowe -!!"

A good name was a decisive blow.

Shirazuri (...) and the figure of the Dragon Knight slacks to the side (...).

It was like broken firewood.

No, it was cut off as a fact.

Its very existence, by the words of the man - the brave Lowe, under one sword...!

'Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!!

The overwhelming presence fades quickly.

As the smoke scattered through the air, the dragon knight melted away into the world as he slipped away.

"What... why, why, why, just get in the way. No, no, no. -"

A resentful word at the end...... The Dragon Knight vanished from the world of dreams without leaving a trace of a grain.