Hitsugi no Maou

Twenty-four Tales: Darkness

Eventually, without any foretaste, the ground flattened.

If you look up over your head, you haven't reached the ceiling, but at the tip of that area of light, you could barely see all the moss (coke) lumps (clumps) dripping off the plate.

A pendulum-like moss (koke) that conveys and represents the earth's tremors as they are. Perhaps there will be no stillness until then, when the water filtered into the soil and rocks will be pounded.

Turning around, the band of light (obi) that was descending from the rock was disappearing. Are there walls and mountains beyond the darkness that have slammed them? The girl put a twist on Sabitoga, who was turning her gaze, at her fingertips.

"The slope ends here. There is a cave leading forward to the 'womb'. But there are things to do before you step in."

"What?"

"I'm going to throw away the pine lights. Don't bring in any fire. Gas builds up in the cave, and when it comes into contact with the flames, one side becomes the sea of fire per area. If you don't want to be black, set it apart from fire here."

"Do you go through the darkness..."

When a girl throws down a pine light, Sabitoga and the others also dump the pine light on the ground because of it.

The girl unwrapped her hips (strings) that fastened her hemp clothes and let everyone grasp them. It's a lifeline for walking in the dark.

A leading girl walks out of the pine light.

The Sabitogas proceeded through the darkness, relying on the movement of the waist strings rubbing their fingers. Don't turn around, the girl whose voice sounded like she was letting go of the strings seemed to be walking unmistakably through out of sight.

At the end of the day, Ledge began to make a pitiful noise. Sabitoga tells Straw to grab him by the ledge, and right after, he snorts.

I don't know how long I've been in a cave, but there was a smell (just) that resembled sulfur in the air. That's what the girl said, flammable gas?

I didn't get any particular attention, but I don't even think it would be good for me to inhale it. Pulling the neck portion of the feather cape up over the ceramic jawbone, the girl sounded again from the darkness ahead.

"Sabitoga. Why would Omae want immortal water?

Sabitoga stopped breathing for a moment, questioned by accident. "I didn't hear you say that," said Straw from behind, and the girl's voice echoes from the front again shortly afterwards.

"Omae looks very healthy and doesn't even look like she's been (stuck in) difficulty. You don't look like you're craving immortality to escape imminent death. Then why did you come to this island? What do you use immortal water for?

……

"Your eyes are neither the eyes of the semi-dead obsessed with raw, nor the eyes of the deep (often buzzing) wanderer who is giraffed to use the power of immortality for his ambitions. - Answer me. What's Omae's purpose? Is Omae a nanny thing? Sabitoga?"

In the darkness of all sides, let the voice of a girl, a straw, or the pulling exhalation of a ledge fly over. The sense of direction that remained faint began to go crazy because the sound was reflecting on the wall, or because of other reasons.

Floating sensation. The feeling behind your feet goes away and you lose the real feeling that you're treading on the ground. Even the sense of time was becoming obscure. The gas that has slipped through the feathers is still harmful and may also be causing a delusional effect.

Sabitoga returned a groaning answer to the string at hand and to the noose of a voice who, while holding the spear firmly (busy), no longer understood the meaning either.

"It's all dust. Who I am, why I fight, equals dust mustard."

I can't even take it personally.

I don't know.

... the voices disappeared. My legs are moving, but all other realities have disappeared.

After a while, I thought someone said it. "That's tricky," he said.

Moments later, the light stabbed the eyeballs that were wrapped in darkness.

Closed his eyes slightly, but his legs didn't stop. Eventually I feel heat in my head. Photothermal heat in the sun.

I got a thin finger on my hand. When I stopped my legs and slowly opened my eyes, there was a girl standing in a bright world in front of me.

"We're through the 'birth canal'. This is the womb."

Blue skies. Meadows.

Ugh, the forest of Buna was only at one end of the scenery, and in front of Sabitoga a vast earth was still spreading the appearance of a stranger's island.