Graduated from Witchcraft Institute

Me and Mi, who destroyed two gargoyles.

Then I tackled the door that lay ahead.

It's the door just ahead of the two pedestals where Gargoyle was.

By way of example, Mi approached me carefully and tried to initiate an investigation.

The girl rested perfectly a little in front of the door, about in position between the two pedestals.

Mi's gaze is upwards, pointed at the ceiling just in front of the door.

"Uh... you have a blatantly suspicious clearance in the ceiling"

Mi says so and turns to me, letting me point to the ceiling.

I stopped by Mi's place to see where she pointed.

Then - I see there is a horizontal clearance in part of the ceiling.

Clever, the part where the light of the wall mounted lighting didn't reach and went dark, you wouldn't have noticed if Mi hadn't pointed it out and looked at it carefully.

Suchima is a hole about the size of a sword sheath placed sideways, just about in position to come overhead when you stand in front of the door.

"Is that... a trap (trap)?

"I think so. I think it's a pattern of something falling out of there when you open the door or twist the door knob or something."

"I see. But, Mi, you've noticed that stuff a lot. I had no idea until you told me."

"It looks like this. Because Mi is a professional bandit (sheaf). About this time before breakfast."

Eh and good at chesting mi.

When I did that head, I said, "Nihaha," and I was happy.

It's time for a classic exchange, and I'm losing my hesitation.

"Can we untie the trap?

"Of course, I'll take care of it. But it might be quicker to activate it."

"... what do you mean?

"Well, I'm watching."

Mi says so and instructs me to step back once now.

And when I made sure I retreated around the corner, Mi was more careful than ever and approached the door.

And staring at doors, surrounding walls, floors, ceilings...

"─ Oh, that way?"

I thought I snapped that way, I would walk up to the door and stop in front of the last step.

But then, taking that last step...

Mi's move from there was a terrible quickness.

The girl took several backsteps with incredible agility that also exceeded that of a wild cat animal, and quickly retreated to my next door.

And a beat later than that...

─ ─ Ragged, ragged, Khan!

In front of the door, something big and sharp fell from the clearance of the problem and crashed into the stone floor directly beneath it.

If you look closely at what it is...

"... Is that, Guillotine? It's not like there's a headstand."

"That sounds like it. It is a suspended guillotine using chains. If I stand in front of you trying to open the door, it's the one that's going to break me in two straight from my head."

Falling from the ceiling was a large blade tied to the chain.

It's a silver, half-moon blade, shaped like a large axe blade, that would naturally die instantly if something like that fell on the biological human head.

Now the tip of the blade eats slightly into the stone floor, and the chain that hung it hangs from the floor.

But that 's--

...... karakara karakara.

Eventually the chain lifted up so that it could be pulled up into the gap in the ceiling.

Waiting as it was, the chains and blades returned to the clearance of the ceiling, in their original state as if nothing had happened.

It's just that on the stone floor, after the blade ate in, there was only one left.

"Um, are you going back? That's a little rough."

Mi twinkles like that.

Perhaps if you step on that floor again, the guillotine blade will fall off in the same way again.

But with that structure...

"Why don't we just step on that floor again and go through it after the guillotine drops? I think we had a few seconds before we started falling back."

"Yes. That's what I was just thinking too. It's a simple, but precise way to cut through."

If anything, you can shoot in a magic arrow (magic missile) when it falls, break the chain, and make the trap itself irreversible.

Nothing tells me the timing of the breakthrough is cynical, and you won't have to bother wasting magic (mana), even if it's a small amount.

"Still, it's a much more murderous dungeon, like a guillotine trap where you took a breather by knocking down a monster of stone statues"

"Not at all. It's good to be here with you, Mi."

"Eh heh. But that also means there was no madness in William's eyes. William knows more about Mi than Mi."

While we had that exchange, we cleared the third gate and knocked over the door safely.

Breaking through the gargoyles and guillotines and knocking at the door, the hallway was still straight ahead.

Me and Mi move forward carefully down the hall again.

Moving on for a while, I could see one door on the wall on the right hand side.

The hallway itself remains forward, but the door intrigues me.

"Do you want to look into that door?

"Please."

Copy that, sir.

When Mi posed like a salute, he approached the door and began to check for traps, etc.

And after checking out one of the streets, Mi opened the door small as it was, peered inside, and then invited me to the front of the door.

"It's kind of another room I don't know how to take it."

When I got to Mi, the Beastman girl said so and opened the door, showing me the sight ahead.

That was a medium sized room.

Four stone statues line the back of the room, with one chest (chest) arranged in front of it.

Further beside the chest was a stone tablet and one stone table at a time, on which three small hammers were placed that emitted light.

The four stone statues in the back of the room all imitate what people look like, but each has a slightly different design.

One has angelic wings on his back.

The other one grows a single horn from his forehead.

Another one grows long, sharp nails from the tip of his finger.

The last one was growing beastly sharp fangs from his mouth.

Mi walks into the room with a careful look around and moves to the front of the stone tablet.

And he checked his surroundings one by one, and then he called me.

"William, it's that letter again"

Mi points to the tablet and invites me.

When I walked over and looked at the stone tablet, this was how it was described there in ancient civilized letters.

――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――

The treasure is nothing but a sword.

Look for the keys if you want the trivial treasures in this box.

The key is in the stone statue.

The stone statue has wings, horns, long and sharp nails, and fierce fangs.

Shake the hammer to the correct stone statue.

One hammer only once.

But don't rely on luck. Extra but mandatory.

――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――

I see.

I dived for the fiery demon sword in this ruin, but apparently other treasures are also available.

And if you want that "trivial treasure" in the chest in front of you, it sounds like you're going to solve this mystery (Riddle).

Note that "hammer" is probably a small hammer on the table, and if you shake that to a "correct" stone statue, the "key" can be retrieved.

Well, that's how I decipher the inscription on the tablet, while Mi was checking the crate.

The girl looks up at me and opens her mouth.

"This chest doesn't look like a trap, but it looks like it's locked with a magical trick. I can't open it in Mi. - What did the tablet say?

That's what I heard, so I told Mi to translate what was written on the stone tablet into modern language.

And then...

"Fumiyu... are there four stone statues and three hammers? I'm not sure about the tips either. Don't rely on luck means you can't take it for granted...?

That's what Mi said and thought about it.

... No, is it something to catch on to? This?

I'm pretty sure it's the "right answer" first.

Mi thought a little and then raised her hands like a lift.

"Mi is gibberish. Does William understand?

"Oh. Eighty-nine out of ten. I'm thinking of something that would be right about this"

"Are you sure? That's William."

That's what Mi has said, turning to the sparkling veneration.

... Now you're embarrassed if you're taking it off.

But it fits perfectly, so I'm pretty sure it's "that".

And I took two of the three pale, shiny little hammers I had on the stone table and headed to the destination.