Kono Sekai ga Game da to, Ore dake ga Shitte Iru

'That sound' reached my ear, of course.

- Bourne, Bourne...

Unmatched for an underwater dungeon, it's the sound of an ancient clock bell.

"This, from where...?

Resurrected Mitsuki shakes her ear at the sound of an invisible clock with no audio source.

I tried to say something like that to Mitsuki, but before that, my vision dimmed.

What I feel is like being bounced out of the world, feeling like I'm gone.

And......

"Hey, what's this!

When I opened my eyes to Southern's upset voice, all I could see in front of me was a space full of clocks.

There are dozens, or hundreds, of different watches, large and small, floating in the universe in a spacious room made up of unnaturally white alone.

That's all I found out, this wasn't the usual space.

"Sh, what about underwater cities?!? How did you end up in a room full of clocks..."

That's like responding to a panicking Southern.

"- Your souls were imprisoned in the circle of dreams."

I heard a 'voice' from nowhere.

"Who are you?"

More panicked Southern screams, but there is no major upset about the 'voice'.

That's right.

Its' voice 'dominates this world.

As much as a Southern scream, it can't be shaky.

"I am the Lord of this world. Who liveth the hour, but the hour of the temple.

"Shigeru's, time...?

Suthern crumbles and looks at me like he remembers.

That gaze over the mask dwelt in a luminous light.

I have a feeling I'm gonna be a pain in the ass, but I'm gonna move on.

"Explorer, look for me!!

The art of your escape from the circle at this time is nothing else... '

"Go home anyway."

In the meantime, I slashed the ancient clock in front of me with agnostic fire and silenced the 'voice'.

A clock that deviates diagonally and splits into two parts, one up and one down.

"Oh, hey...! Oh, yeah, yeah!!

And the wolf-cut voice of Southern;

"Brilliant, become. Adventurer... '

My vision darkens again as I hear the last words of that 'voice'.

It's getting familiar already, with a third sense today.

"Ah. I'm finally home..."

In the next moment, we were already standing in the living room of the cat-eared mansion of nostalgia.

Looking around, there are exactly the same members as when we left.

For some reason, Suthern is hardened with his mouth half-opened, but it'll be fine because it's about Suthern.

I looked back once again after making sure my buddies were safe, and there was an event item, the Curse Ancient Clock, that I had taken out of my bag just before I left for the underwater city and rolled into the ground.

Looking at the dial, the time is stopping indicating 2: 02.

(I struggled a lot harder than I thought, but if I just looked at the results, was it as planned for once)

But if you want to defeat the Demon King within the next ten days, you'll have to have even harder days starting tomorrow.

To that end,

"So shall we break it up this evening?

Good day everyone.

Get some rest in preparation for tomorrow. "

It is also important to rest your body and mind firmly.

I want to think about what to do on my own, too, and I've decided to end my activities today.

But when that happens, it's the place to stay that's a little problematic.

"Uh, what about Suthern, as Maki goes back to the castle?

There are plenty of rooms, and you can stay here... "

That's what I thought, when I asked Suthern about it.

"- Hey, wait a minute!!

Suddenly, Susan made a loud noise that sounded all over the room.

Still can't get excited, he arrows at me in a fierce gesture and showers me with words early.

"Come on, you've been experiencing all these anomalies, and you're starting to talk to me about a place to sleep flat with a face that looks like it's all over!

Before that, explain to me, explain!!

First of all, what is that room with so many of those clocks just now?!

How could I come back here if I slashed that watch!?

"Huh? Oh, well, you haven't explained the riddle yet."

Suthern also gives me the edge of a magician whose quest for knowledge comes first.

Apparently, that's the nature of the concern.

"What I slashed was the" Cursed Ancient Clock "that lures people into the world of nightmares when they heard the bells, and what he said about" Find Me "is a common quiz to guess the right clock.

To put it in more detail, the word "time-honoring" in his words means the clock, and "living in a moment of pride" means that the clock needle is moving in reverse.

Among other things, the note that can be found at the hidden door of the rigged clock, 'The Devil only walks at the same stride', is the biggest hint, which means that every time I go to the next room, the clock gets the same amount of time. The clock gets it right.

However, no matter which watch in that room you look at, the way the clock needle actually goes is irregular.

But the only possibility of time being rolled back regularly is the clock I slashed, which always points to 12: 00.

'Cause, you know, if I rolled it off for twelve hours at a time, the needle wouldn't seem to be moving at all, would it?

"I see, so that's the right answer...... no!

That's not the kind of riddle I want to hear!

Susan screams out with her head all of a sudden, even though I politely explained it to her.

I've been thinking about him since the game days, but he's still pretty emotionally unstable.

"Maybe you, you're tired.

Sleep well for one night and you'll be fine, so take a rest today... "

That's what I said and reached out, but they shook me off awesome.

"I mean, it's your fault I'm tired!

... Oh, that's enough!

Enough talking about the clock room earlier, let me talk about the underwater city!

"Uh... and underwater cities?

When I snapped my neck, it heated up further and stuffed me up.

"Yes, what about underwater cities!

We haven't defeated a guy named Poseidal yet, and we haven't even gone to the treasure trove!

Can I just give up like this?!

The momentum finally made me feel like I knew what Suthern was trying to do.

"Uh, maybe you, you want to go to an underwater city?

You know, I know it's not enough to end up on the way, but this is an important time to defeat the Demon King.

I don't have any business in particular. Let's not dive into the dungeon again, shall we?

Even though I taught him to be as gentlemanly as I could, Suthern returns a reaction like he was shocked the other way around.

"Hey, eh...!?

Why is it like I said Wagamama!?

Oh, no, that's crazy, isn't it?!

"No, even if they say so..."

You're the one who's crazy, that's all I can say.

"Yes, you said it on the move!

Poseidal says the treasure trove ahead of defeating the boss has an underwater aptitude item called 'Water Dragon Neck Decoration'!!

Don't you have to go get that?

While walking, I did explain how to proceed with the underwater city quest......

"No, so you said you weren't going to the treasure trove.

Saying it has underwater aptitude is only for one person because 'Water Dragon's Neck Decoration' is a unique item, and performance is one thing now, and it doesn't really mean much if you get it, does it?

"Yes, it doesn't make sense, then, the underwater aptitude item..."

Sighing at Suthern saying strange things again, I pointed to Suthern's finger.

"What, you didn't notice?

If it's an underwater aptitude item, look, it's already in your fingers. "

"............ to?

In Suthern's fingers, which leaked his missing voice during that time, "Water Dragon's Ring," an exclusive underwater city outfit, was glowing hard.

When you rattle, well, it's not a big deal.

The "Water Dragon Ring" was created as an area limited edition item, but it is not systematically unavailable outside of underwater cities.

It just means it gets lost when you get out of the outer wall.

Conversely, if we can get out of the underwater city in a way other than by regular means, naturally the ring will remain.

But in underwater cities, items and magic from the transfer and escape systems are disabled.

No matter how many monkey 'cat-eared cats' everything is, you can't go outside by normal means.

- So what I used was a backgammon about between the bug and the specification, The Big Tail Ancient Clock Teleport.

Remember when I did a bunch of quests right after I got the mansion?

"Mikhail's Blue Bird," "Doki! Serial Murders Full of Nobility, Alchemist's Sadness, Clock Mansion Anomalies, Lost Roadmarks.

I completed and terminated most of these quests.

But there is only one thing in this that I cannot yet say that I have completed the quest, although I let the trouble be resolved.

"Clock Mansion Anomalies" quest.

I only retained this because I recovered the original culprit, the 'Cursed Ancient Clock', and did not attempt to step in any further.

That's because the "Cursed Ancient Clock" event within this "Clock Mansion Anomaly" quest was of a very useful nature.

The 'Cursed Ancient Clock' event is flagged by players and their associates listening to this clock bell.

And the night I heard the bell, at 2: 00 a.m., I was dragged into a nightmare that forced me to look like a clock, which is the outline of this event.

This is inevitable, and if you hear the ancient clock bell of the curse, you will always be caught up in the ancient clock event at 2: 00 a.m. that next morning.

But instead, if we break this ancient clock nightmare, the players can be freed and come back in front of the clock.

This, in turn, implies the fact that 'if you have heard the ancient clock bell beforehand, you will always be able to get back in front of the ancient clock at 2 a.m.'.

I can only use it once because I have no other means to get back from the clock nightmare than clearance, but with this nature, it is also possible to move away from places that are otherwise impossible to return to.

I finally get back to talking here.

In the first place, the only way to get underwater aptitude items for people in a short amount of time was to "protect water dragons" in underwater cities.

Besides, you probably can't get past the blood pond at Demon King's Castle.

To do so, it was necessary not merely to equip itself with underwater aptitude, but also the effect of this water dragon's ring 'being able to secure vision even in cloudy water'.

So I took an ancient clock of curse out of my bag just before I left and made everyone hear the sound, and on top of that, I went into an underwater city.

I was actually planning on collecting treasure from the treasure trove before 2: 00, but I didn't have any items I needed in particular, so I wouldn't have to regret it there.

As a result, we got the number of people's rings at the end of the day and got to the mansion safely on Ancient Clock Teleport...

(Shit. How am I supposed to explain this to Southern?

That's where I hit an unexpected problem.

Recently, the Mitsukis were paralyzed because they also accept bug moves quite naturally, but from the side, what I did may seem a little unnatural.

In fact, Southern,

"Huh? That? Why am I still wearing this ring?

This is the only equipment that can be used in that underwater city... Huh?

And I'm totally confused.

But bug moves, especially the fact that the water dragon ring can be used outside of underwater cities, are difficult to explain.

What we can still possess is the result of poking holes in the game's data processing, which doesn't make sense purely from the setup.

Now that I think about it, idiot, I wish I had properly deceived you without telling you everything honestly, but the time limit to the ancient clock teleport and the rush to defeat the Demon King as soon as possible might have narrowed my horizons.

I had no choice, so I decided to deceive you appropriately now.

"Yeah, Southern.

Apparently it was my mistake that the ring could only be used in underwater cities.

So this is no problem.

There's nothing bothering you. "

Fortunately, Southern is too noisy and flirty.

So I gently told him to get into that gap in his heart.

"Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah?

Right, that would be fine.

Haha, what I did messed me up...... that would fool me!!

"Wow!?

But no matter how much Southern, this didn't seem to fool me.

I can see a precursor to character collapse in Noritsuki, but the eyes behind the mask are gleaming.

"I mean, you guys don't think anything!?

You're obviously crazy, with all that!!

Suthern looked back at my people and looked for an endorser.

However,

"… I only follow about Soma"

apples care little about the details,

"Recently, when I thought about it, I started to think it was a loss"

Mitsuki is starting to give up a lot,

"Eh. Did something weird happen to you?

Maki feels so good that no matter what happens to the game,

- Nita.

Kuma is the most mysterious creature she is in the first place.

No one gave me the response that Suthern wanted.

"Hey, what's this?

What's wrong with me?

No, no, that's not true.

I'm Suthern.

It's Suthern, descendant of the great mage!

Greetings and backwards Suthern, but managed to stay on.

And I screamed, teary-eyed, clearly discerning over the mask.

"Oh you guys are absolutely, insane!!

I'll never be fooled!

throw it away into a dialogue, looking at the back of a black robe running away just saying it, I was like,

(No, I don't want you to tell me it's crazy or anything.)

I thought so.

afterwards.

Suthern eventually came right back and said, "Can you stay with these crazy people! I'm going back to my room alone! I said," I stayed at the mansion.

Still, well, it's better than being told that you're never out of town.

However, this doesn't solve the problem.

It gives me a headache considering I have to convince you later.

The next morning, I thought about that, and when I got out of bed feeling depressed,

"Whew!"

By the bed, a familiar robe looked trembling in a gym seat.

It is Suthern, who should have slept in another room.

Trembling, but I tried to clear my ears because I seemed to be crushing something with a whisper.

"I'm sorry I let you go. Please don't do this anymore. Please don't..."

I was kind of terrified.

Or rather, it's more horror over here.

As I sighed at the trouble I'd been having in the morning, the door to the room just opened a little.

I admit to the appearance of the culprit that Suthern frightened me there, and I speak with a shudder.

"Kuma, you work too hard"

To my words, this time the murderer, the little stuffed animal, put his head on the telegraph.

Strangely enough, Susan from then became unusually honest as if she were someone else, and she almost stopped complaining.

Instead, when the yellow objects entered my sight, I began to make a frightened voice, "hiccup," but it would be somewhat trivial.

- Thus the Southern problem was solved by the activity of the yellow devil in our mansion.