＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ [Saint Knight] Ray Sterling

"... again in this dream"

[Stunned] by Nemesis and Azrite, I had come back to that dream space I had visited so many times before.

[Stun] It's also something I'm used to, and I'm starting to see in the air that it's the same thing even if the outfit of the space is different.

This time there is no "just a" in preparation "sign in a place where there is nothing," which somehow makes it a very similar space to my room in real life.

Perhaps it's a reproduction from my memory again.

"... well, the question now is more about how you [passed out] than how you dress in this space"

I sighed as I sat in the same chair I usually used.

"I followed the bathroom rules, so wouldn't this result be unreasonable?

When I took an open-air bath, there was Nemesis and Azrite and I checked the stripper stickers wondering if I had made any mistakes... but it said there that the time now was a mixed bath.

Right after I went into the hot springs, I thought, "Well, that's no problem."

I can't solve it.

"You have to solve it,... right?

It was a little girl sitting right on the bed who responded to my voice.

"But my brother said it, didn't he?" Don't panic when you inadvertently step in a woman's bath. If you mouth or blush, you'll make them scream. So try to calmly and intellectually state why you came in, as if it were nothing. "

"I don't know if that's a lie or a real one, but... if it's true, that bear did it, too, huh?

The girl with the red copper skin asks, tilting her neck.

"I think he also said," If you make me think there's nothing wrong with being in there with you, it's okay. "

"That's obviously crazy, isn't it?

... It's really weird.

Now I think it might have been my brother's joke.

I took the joke for real, and I did something wrong to both of you.

............... but bathing during mixed bathing hours isn't against the rules after all, is it?

"Even if you're right by the rules, anything embarrassing is embarrassing, and when you get angry, you get angry. It's obvious, right? Manners for women are important?

"Indeed it is.... I guess I was suddenly upset by the situation too."

I finally realized it was even moving now.

Even without sexual excitement, I guess I couldn't stay calm about the very situation of "taking a bath with a non-family woman".

I did something wrong to both of you.

"I have to apologize properly, right?

"Oh, I know. I have to apologize when I wake up.... by the way"

"What?"

I turn around and ask the girl with the red copper skin - horns (...).

"You're [Gardranda], aren't you?

"Yeah, right?

[Gardranda the Great Ghost].

The first time I encountered UBM in Infinite Dendrogram

And my first privileged weapon, the thing that became [Gardranda the Hand Armor].

I have met this [Gardranda] will before.

I passed out in the fight against [Gozmaize], my second < UBM >, and I met this guy in a dream that recreated my memory.

At that time it was a silhouette coloured with red and black, and the language spoken was not clear.

But now...... I can see clearly, and I can seem to speak the language.

"I've seen a number of billboards say 'in preparation'... but it looks like you're ready now"

"Yeah. Ready, huh?

... I wonder why it's such a pronunciation with a question mark on the back from earlier.

"So, first thing I want to ask you... after all, what are you?

I asked my brother and Mr. Figaro, but they don't have any cases where the will of the defeated < UBM > came out in [stun].

A phenomenon that has never even happened to the two of us defeating even the mythological class or < SUBM >.

Why is that happening to [Gardranda]?

"The original Gardranda's, unused excess power and intelligence, is what I am now, maybe?

"Maybe?"...... right.

"More to the point, I was in the tummy of [Gardranda] you defeated, child?

"............... was that a pregnant woman"

I don't regret defeating Tian's people because it was a battle that cost them their lives, but the aftertaste just got a little worse.

"Because that's the kind of creature, isn't it? Ray fought like an egg shell, maybe?

"Egg shell?

That [Gardranda] I fought was like fighting with my hands and feet growing on an egg, and the actual [Gardranda] is this the [Gardranda] in front of me?

"Dual structure of mother and fetus, double design (...)? What, I don't know, maybe?

"I mean, what's this all about?

"Yes, I was defeated before I was born by breaking the shell of an egg... because the conditions for exercising true power were not fulfilled..., now to manifest, do you?

I had a hint of Cheshire so I could immediately notice the core of my abdomen and decide on the battle.

But if you didn't know, the situation would have gotten worse and the real deal would have come out.

Whatever it is, this [Gardranda] may not be the [Gardranda] itself when we fought, but it must be [Gardranda].

Sometimes the will of < UBM > appears after it becomes a reward weapon.

Then there are some concerns.

"... can the same thing happen to [Gozmaize] and [Monochrome]?

Will that cannibal grudge and the stars of Heavenly Light eventually reappear before me just like this one?

"There's no [Gozmaize], is there? There's nothing left, and that's just a vessel now, right? [Monochrome] is... I don't know, right?

"Why?"

"History is older and older than me, so be it. But now that I'm concentrating on one thing... maybe I won't answer?

That's probably about that skill I haven't used yet.

... Whatever, those two < UBM > never seem to show up before me.

If [Gozmaize] 's will came out lost, I thought I needed to send him back to hell then, so be it.

Unlike the monsters who were moving with different logic than people like [Gardranda] and [Monochrome], I can't tolerate that grudging spirit will colored only by people's malice and delusions.

So I also feel relieved to hear about [Gardranda].

"So, what's the point of bringing me in here?

It used to be to find out about me who defeated myself.

This time it means we're ready, but we still don't know what that is.

… although I have what I expect.

"Give me a ear, will you?

"Hmm? Yeah."

I doubt why you need to ear it in a space where there's only me and Gardranda, but for now, turn your ears to Gardranda.

Gardranda put her face softly close to my ear,

"Gabe."

I bit as much as I wanted,............ nah!?

"Ghaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

No pain but it conveyed a weird feeling!?

You mean, you bit it!? You just bit it!?

"What the hell!?"

"I couldn't eat my lifetime mother, just for a second, taste?

…………

Speaking of which, he was a cannibal.

I guess that wasn't his sin because he was more of a mother, but now it's just about to carve a new sin...

"I couldn't bite it off, but even if I just licked it, it was delicious, right?

"Ugh."

I'm not happy about anything when I'm praised for my taste.

"So the real deal, huh?

[Gardranda] corrected his residence, looked me in the eye, and said:

"Your defeat of the three < UBM > has unlocked the third skill of [Armored Gardranda], right?

That's how I got a description of that skill from [Gardranda].

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Finish your conversation with [Gardranda]... I woke up.

…………

Remove the [Armor] from the item box and try to attach it.

Evidence that current dreams are not just dreams also appeared in the details of [Xu Zhenjian].

The third skill is also unlocked in the description of the window.

".................. ha"

When he heard that the third skill had been freed, he was also briefed on the detailed effects and… the conditions of use (...).

In fact, the same contents are written even after checking them on the menu.

Let's be clear, this skill is one of the gear skills I've seen so far, with different digits.

Rather, it is a substitute for what is even said to be Zului (...).

It would be inferior to [Gloria alpha] 's "Extreme Dragon Light Tooth Slash/Ultimate" that Mr. Figaro has on the boulder, but conversely, it is a skill that rises to the level of comparability.

But this skill...

"… and more skills not available for the moment"

In a way, the third skill of [Xu Armor Gardranda] is harder to use than Shining Dispair, which eats horrible time for charging.

Instead, there should not be a phase that can be used, that's about the condition.

Naturally spicy to use, commensurate with skill performance.

But when you're in a situation where you can use it... I'm sure it's a skill you can count on.

"Mm. Are you awake, Ray"

When I'm thinking about skills, I open the door and the nemesis comes in.

The long dark hair contains water and the clothes wear yukata provided by the annex.

I was blinded by the way it looked and was a little thrilled again.

"... were you still in the hot springs?

"Not yet, not again (...), but. Because the Lord [passed out] and then returned him to the stripper, wiped his body, put on his yukata, and did it all the way until he put him to sleep there. I sweated and went back to the hot springs."

If you look down at your body when you're told, you should have passed out naked, but you're dressed in yukata.

"Well, I'm sorry.... and thank you"

I thank you for violating my manners of mixing baths without consent and for having embraced me even after that happened.

"Well, if you leave it like that and catch a cold, it will also interfere with your activities after tomorrow. Besides, I'm responsible for not noticing the Lord approaching me."

Nemesis separates the word "but" there.

"It's good about me, but you owe Azrite a proper apology. Because he seemed pretty shocked.... by what I've seen and seen"

"Oh, okay. I don't know if you'll forgive me, but I'll apologize later."

"Um. By the way, Ray, I'd like to ask you one thing."

"What?"

Nemesis says it's just the two of us in the room, but somehow he comes by and ears.

I remember being bit by [Gardranda] earlier in the act, and my body stiffened just a little bit.

"My lord, you were terribly calm, but didn't you really have any emotion for our nudity?

... I was asked a very hard question.

Either way you answer this without emotion, you'll get a horn.

... but I have an affair for this one, so let's at least be honest.

"I just seemed calm in my behavior then, and when I looked back, I think I was pretty panicked, too. And..."

"And...?

Encourage me to use my mouthful thoughts as words as I wish for once.

"I'm not excited, but I thought it was beautiful"

After I said that, the air in the room calmed down.

…………

…………

Undescripble silence fills the room.

It's not going to get cold, it's not going to get raw.

It has a difficult atmosphere to compare.

I've also noticed the meaning of words I've said as I please since I said them, and I can't see the face of Nemesis.

"... which one?

"Both."

Even so, I answer the words I thought again in no time.

Bad, this flow is... bad.

"Which one was prettier?

"............... let's get this far!

I notice myself trying to compare the two of them in my head at that time, and I shut out my thoughts about it and punish my memory to a drawer in my brain.

"Guuuuu..."

To the groaning of the nemesis, I'm afraid to see its face.

I've said too many stupid things.

But there was only one last thing I wanted to say.

"However, if you say it's beautiful... I think Nemesis looks great in her yukata right now"

I really thought so too.

Long dark hair and white skin, and a nemesis face, look great on yukata.

Yeah, maybe the prettiest yukata I've ever seen.

"Oh well.... well."

I thought I'd be given something back, but it wasn't, and... Nemesis shrugged a little and became silent.

I don't know what to say next, and Nemesis doesn't talk to me either.

Our silence lasted until the innkeepers came to dinner.

To be continued