"Comparing this photo with the images of the Knight of Light Speed and the uploads taken during the truck accident, it seems likely that they were created based on ideas close to the design of the same system.And in view of that superhuman ability, I probably assumed that the predictions were correct. "

"... I don't think that's why you have to take the snow away?

With a slightly stiff expression, Hayabusa clapped her mouth.

"I'm sorry, but we're talking in chronological order, so we haven't made that decision yet.However, from here on, it will also be relevant to the story.... Yosaburo Shiraishi's old diary was found on the desk after his death.It also includes things you've spent in other worlds while writing down your daily life.... you must have been aware of your physical condition.In the second half, it has become quite voluminous so that it can be hit by writing.It was written that he returned to Japan with considerable indifference in the exotic lands of the time.Apparently, he returned in the form of the summoner, “Poland Wye."

"Became hostile to the summoned magician?

"That's what it is. For the record, my information is based on the side information from Yosaburo's perspective.Perhaps the opposite would be a different view from Poland Wye's. "

In short, from which point of view do we see things?

Speaking of soccer, a winner who wins the tournament will appreciate the winning match as a glorious victory, but it will be a painful memory that the loser did not go one step further.

"I learned Polan Wye's name from a document that stated that I was the research director of the faction at the ruins that summoned him from other worlds.From that point of view, since we met with Polan Wye, Yosaburo was summoned a long time ago, and it will be called the War Period. "

Everyone nods at Yumi's explanation.

Between the Mao's appearance and Yosaburo's, the ruins were abandoned and time passed to ruins.

"With that in mind, I will continue to talk about Yosaburo.It seems that about 10 people were present when he was forcibly summoned.Apparently Poland Wye used some sort of technique to puppet them in confusion.Later in the diary, it was written that Poland Way was at the forefront of a war push aimed at expanding territory and plundering resources through war.Apparently, he sought a solution to the plight of other countries as their national power declined.Perhaps it was impossible to pretend that the fighting power used for that purpose was not only external, but also foreign.... back in the story, his memory was vague, moving and coming between self-awareness and unconsciousness.It seems that for a long time, a month has passed since the date and time of the previous memory.Yosaburo was desperately rebelling against his situation and concentrating on lifting the commandments in that short time to regain consciousness from time to time. "

"It must be the same kind of curse as Director Martha's.I wonder if the exterior road was spreading everywhere. "

Mao murmured to throw up and throw up.

It was not only Shigeru who remembered his good Obahan skeleton, who spent a long time in the orphanage redeeming himself, but everyone kept silent.

"... that's when he woke up.Lucky coincidence overlapped.Well, unfortunately.After some serious injuries on the battlefield, enough to disappear from the elbow of his left arm, it looks like his unit left him behind.It seems he regained consciousness when he was trapped by the enemy in a situation where he could not be healed.Apparently, he wrote down a speculation that something had gone from his left elbow to treat him as a puppet. "

"If you've lost your limbs at that level, you'll need a pretty sophisticated procedure to heal.In normal times, much less in wartime chaos, but also in captivity.No such convenient miracle will happen. "

The doctor will give you a supplementary explanation.

Perhaps a "Virgin" or high priesthood class healing technique will be required.

"That's why I was imprisoned in hostile territory, but the first thing I did to regain consciousness was to investigate who the Summoner was.Well, as we investigated, we also found out that he was the victim, and he was released in about February.On the enemy's side, the warrior with the beast's head (Mononov) was on the enemy's side.It was very merciful and humane. "

Ah, and a person with experience in different world summoning can raise his voice.

"Those people, that's what they have.Somehow it feels like taking care of yourself. "

"I guess the loser was the good one.Some tribes will be dead until they destroy the enemy thoroughly.What's a Berserker?

"After a short period of medical treatment, Yosaburo, who questioned the work of Poland Wai, who summoned him, became hostile to Polan Wai.He was learning to fight with his ship's arms, but he was watching the plane.In the diary, there are several lines, but it is written that I have been living like this for about a year.... and then Yosaburo, who perceived that Poland Wai was summoning the other world again, obstructed it and succeeded in keeping it in the grip.I don't know after that because I came back to Japan, but I suspect that the disappearance of Poland Wye, the main axis of war propulsion, will gradually bring us to an end. "

"... the place where the Summon Monster Squad was located is in ruins, and there are many countries where it was carried out, and its original form is gone.I think it was a record of a group of Poland Way falling out of the middle.However, it should have been said there that Poland Wye himself retired. "

"Perhaps there was an audience.Nothing but shame, such as a country's important people being attacked by people who don't know anyone.But that's good.Really.... "

A gentle smile comes to mind.

It must have been homework left by the family's forefathers.

Not everything went well, but it would have been enough to avoid the worst.

(... somehow, you flew away just like me, right?Probably ranked as a soldier.... what you're doing is a superhero.Stop the bad wizard's invasion war at his own expense. He plays the protagonist position in a movie for about two and a half hours.... I can feel the complex.)

Shigeru only slightly compares his own standing position with that of Yosaburo Shiraishi.

"As a result, Yosaburo succeeded in stopping the kidnapping crime named Summon Monster at a critical moment when it was about to be executed again.However, I did not know what happened afterwards because I was forcibly returned in the form of a fly-by.At that time, he burned his body and returned to Japan half-life, where he was hospitalized and treated.I answered the question "I don't remember where I was going.”Well, there must have been a desire to avoid being thought to have been hit in the head.Apparently, the Summon Monster Squad was activated close to a runaway.It wasn't until two months later that he was able to talk.As a result, of the dozens of people we have investigated to date, including Hideyoshi, only two, including Yosaburo, were able to confirm their survival. "

"Two?

"Oh, two."

It is an example that is too impactful to hear.

2 people.

In other words, in addition to Yosaburo, there is another person who has returned from the Gentiles.

"Gateway, give me an image of the example."

"Yes"

The monitor screen switches again and again.

It was a photograph of Yosaburo rejoicing with a letter of award at the judo venue that I saw earlier.

"... don't you notice?

"Hmm? What do you got?I don't know.

When Shinichi, who carved a wrinkle between his eyebrows, answered with a give-up feeling, others responded in the same way.

In the meantime, I realized that there were two people: Deep Snow and Hayabusa.

"What? This guy?

"... Hayabusa, do you agree?

The two face each other and turn their gaze to a certain point.

The person in front of the line of sight.

"This photo is similar to you when you were young, right?

A slightly flipped voice that Hayabusa squeezed out.

In response, he stood up slowly.

"As you can see,... the photo shows my lifelong friend.Yosaburo Shiraishi, and I was young when I didn't know anything.There must be only one photo left.Everything after that was pushed by the flow of time, leaving me behind. "

The gatehouse that used to operate the PC stood up slowly.

The white hair and wrinkled expression, if you rejuvenate it, will probably be the person in the photo, Yosaburo and the young man with shoulder to shoulder.

The gate closes its eyes and looks at the photograph somewhere nostalgic.

What he sees and feels is not just photographs, but the face of Yosaburo at that time, the circumstances around him, and the temperature of his shoulder-to-shoulder body.

It disappeared a long time ago, and I had a deep vision of the flow of time when I never came back.

"If that's true... age is different.At least you and Yosaburo were of the same generation at the time.If that's the case, it shouldn't be strange if you're old, no, you're already dead.

"... Doctor, no.If it comes back “at the same time" as Yosaburo, then.We came back for a time and a place.It is suspicious that the other timeline and this timeline are moving in the same flow. "

The focus is good.That's what it is. I couldn't see him dead.It has been about 35 years since I returned to Japan.Probably the effect of forcibly canceling the Summon Monster.When I regained consciousness, I was stepping on this nostalgic land, not that other world.Maybe I was there when my friend died.It could have been a terrible enemy.I just came back.I came back to this country.In the course of time, all my parents, friends, acquaintances and blood relatives had already disappeared.I was the only one at home besides my parents.My relatives are already close to others.However, the Shiraishi family remained.... I miss the day I visited with embarrassment... "

A gatekeeper looks up at the ceiling as if it were looking away.

"That's why.My father protected him after checking the situation.At that time, my grandfather was still alive, and there were still a few butlers who saw Yosaburo's superhero.It was in light of the diary that we decided it was true. "

"... Monkura-san, I'm crushing you, but what is your superhuman power?

When Mao asked nervously, the gatekeeper shook his head.

"I've been working out a little bit, so I think I have more strength than ordinary people.But you don't feel like a knight who can twitch and get stuck in a truck. "

"You mean the same as us...."

A roaring doctor arms up.

"However, it doesn't mean you don't have anything with you at all.Very small but skilled. "

In front of them, the gatekeepers take out a small box that they can hold with one hand from their pockets.

I put it on the table with a padlock on the top of the lid and opened the key.

"... what is this?

Inside was a black tetrahedral stone wrapped in cotton.

"It was surgically removed as soon as I got back here.Probably the core of the magic that was manipulating us.They are usually kept strictly at temples where they have close ties. "

The gatekeeper raised his left arm around his elbow wrapped in a clean white shirt.

The incision was engraved there.

"Can I touch it?

"I don't mind, but I don't know what it is.It doesn't feel very good. "

"It's okay."

It was the bushes that stretched out their fingers.

Phew, the phosphorescence covers your fingers.

As Yugo, who was just a little surprised, stared at Gankura, who did not change his expression at all, he glanced at it with interest, picking it with his fingertips.

"Mao?"

"... I've seen something similar.And the other day. “In this Japan."

"Where are you?

"Hotel Skyscraper. It was probably used to force the Skeleton Warrior back then, Mr. Takayoshi.I feel bad when I touch it.But the one at the time was smaller. "

The bush threw away the little ones, and put the black stone back into the box, and it became a traffic surface.

"Maybe I shouldn't tell you, but you'd better throw it away or shatter it and keep it away from me.That's a terrible sign.If you don't throw it away, I want you to have a really strict storage system. "

"... I accept your advice.Let's do something more rigorous as soon as possible. "

I put the padlock on again and put the box in my pocket.

"... it was an empty gesture, but it might still have been the right answer to send me to the gate.No, I shouldn't apologize for forcing you to take the snow. "

"Dad?"

There was Yugo with a difficult face.

"... that was Sugiyama-san.We haven't introduced you yet, but from what we've seen so far, you're the Knight of Light Speed, right?

"... I don't really like that name.Well, for now. "

Yugo rectified his residence and sat down in front of the mao who answered.

Suddenly, Mao was about to flip the wolong tea bottle on the table.

"Hey, what is it!?What is it!?

"I know you can't, but I want to ask you something.It's just a request. "

"... I feel like I can hit something really hard."

"Of course, I will offer you a reward at your price.On top of that, I want you to listen to me. "

"... I think it's cheating to offer the reward first and then later.I would like you to talk about the request first.Ah! That's not why I decided to take it!

Even though I was in a hurry, I should have been able to convey my opinions properly.

The reward you get for what you say, and what you bring with you, is a lot of money.

The reward that should be the price is the ceiling ignorance (although it is assumed that the bush has some common sense), and there is something scary in the dark that matches it.

"As I said earlier, when Yosaburo came back here, he was half dead.And Gankura returned 35 years ago.You've come back here, too.In other words, it is highly likely that you will visit this world if you are bounced from the other side.I mean, what does that mean? "

Yugo raises his finger.

Soon the monitor will be operated by the gate that was moving by the PC next to the table.

Projected are sketches that appear to be pencil paintings and digitally reproduced faces.

I wonder if they were both inspired by the faces of the same person, very similar.

A 50-year-old Westerner man with a deep carved eagle nose, the digital color scheme draws attention to silver blonde hair and green blue eyes.

"This is a sketch drawn by Yosaburo and facial data created by Monkura.It seems to be quite accurate, according to Gankura. "

"... whose face is that?I don't think any of us seem familiar.

Everyone around the bush nodded with a strange face.

Nobody knows that face.

"As far as I can remember, this is a reproduction of Polan Wye's face, which was also the cause of Yosaburo's death.... perhaps, there is a presence in this world of Poland Wye, or his associates and successors.Yosaburo's journal also says he “fell” to the Summon Monster team while hanging out with Polan Wai.Honestly, the White Stone family must be resented."Knight" could have been one of them.That's why I thought about the need to protect deep snow as soon as possible. "

"I see why, but who was able to show up at the pinpoint in the parking lot we came out of?How did you find out?

Deep snow puzzles my father with a strong tone.

Yugo answers without hesitation.

Stricter than ever, and politely, he spins words.

"... two people, Monkura and Yosaburo, who passed the summons team.There is no doubt that they are the only survivors.However, “No survivors", the Summon Monster Squad has been activated several times.Five times so far, no. Seven times in addition to the cases you guys came back.Samples of confirmed pattern data are available.Prediction accuracy has improved considerably.... I can't tell you the details, but with the addition of Gateway's skills, accuracy will increase even more. "

"The return of Mao triggered a possible attack on us by Poland Wye or his associates?

"I think it's unlikely that Polan Wye will be able to do it because we could have been traced without an oculitic genius.Our advantages are only abundant capital.Can't say it's an advantage comparable to an occult genius, can it?