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

Chapter 153: The Way Out of Boundary

I was gonna make a bishy cool decision like a famous detective in a novel, but the finger I poked at the maid of waste,

"... soma. Loosen one, no."

By the hands of an apple who had recently begun to acquire common sense, he was forced down.

...... yeah.

I have a bit of a shred of momentum, but for now, it's not a waste of time that I have to deal with.

"... so how long are you gonna be standing there?

"Yes, no, I..."

What I pulled out my sword and poked at was a fat man standing behind a waste maid.

Certainly a merchant character by the name of Karma.

I tend to be mistaken like a big bad guy because the way I laugh is so bad, but I'm actually not particularly bad, I'm a regular bad merchant.

"Rubbish. If you want to!!"

Karma decided there was no benefit in staying here any longer, or she didn't hesitate to turn her back on us and fled at first sight.

"That bastard!!

An exasperated fi tried to go after him, but pressed him back.

"You can leave it alone. More than that..."

When I turned my gaze, the waste maid shook her body in a freak.

But I didn't try to get away with it, holding the ring.

"Before we go into more detail, let me ask you to return the Immortality Vow."

I know it's okay, but I have trouble wasting my maid's weird mind here.

I'm gonna give you the ring, like I thought. Trying to get the ring from a useless maid's hand,

- I'll give it to you.

Shortly before, he was exposed to a ring in Mr. Elm's hand, which had been stretched from the side.

When Mr. Elm flickered at me, he complimented Mr. Shizun on the ring he had received.

... No, me, you're too suspicious of anything at all.

"This... is still a real 'pledge of immortality'.

There is no difference in dimensions between what was in the magical pocket. "

When Mr. Sizen confirmed the ring and said so, the waste maid said, "Huh?" He looked.

"Wow, were you looking inside when I used my magical pocket?!

I run that thing by surprise, but I can't help but mistake it that way.

"... well. I knew you didn't know.

Magical pocket flaws. "

"What is a defect?!?

I told the wolf maid the cruel truth.

"This magic pocket is the most inappropriate place to put valuables."

- "Magical Pocket".

Wind attribute magic that puts a rift in a dimension and invokes different dimensions that can store items.

Initially discovered, the effect of aiding adventurer bags with limited capacity was expected and noted, but this magic was planted with an oversized mine.

If you put an item in this magic pocket, the item you should have put inside will disappear little by little over time.

For some time, this phenomenon was understood as an unexplained bug.

Just one time, a player who by chance witnessed NPC using his magical pockets discovered a hell of a fact.

The NPC took out the item that I had just put in my magical pocket.

Later, when he tried his magical pockets again in advance, the items he was supposed to have put inside were gone.

In other words, there is only one type of item storage available for this magic, and whoever uses the magic pocket goes through the same storage space.

As an image, is it close to thinking that all users use a single item box through magic?

With such specifications, I am also convinced that more and more items are missing.

Of course, theoretically, players should be able to embezzle items put in by NPCs, but none of them put items in their magical pockets outside of the event.

Even if that had happened, the item should have NPC possession attributes, so it would be the mountain of Sekiyama that would be treated as stolen even if it had one.

Fortunately, NPC's Magical Pocket Utilization is low, so you don't have to bother to risk losing what you put in or being taken away by others.

Only when I really can't hold out an item, or a certain quest (...), does this magic no longer stand a chance of being used.

And that opportunity is this Arken Family Ring quest.

"Anyone can freely remove anything someone puts inside a magical pocket by chanting a magical pocket.

I was expecting Lilm to hide the ring in his magical pocket when he said he wanted to go shopping out in the city.

So I asked Mr. Sizen to cast the magic of his magical pocket and make sure he had a ring inside. "

By the way, as a worst possibility, between leaving the Arken family and getting here, there was a danger that the ring in the magical pocket would be taken away by someone who had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Still, I forced this operation out of the peace of mind that the waste maid wanted to capture the moment she took the ring out of her magical pocket with the current criminal, and that my condition was monitored by Mr. Elm all the time, so if the ring was gone, there would be no charges against me.

If Mr. Elm keeps staring at me from morning to night, I can easily prove that he didn't have time to use the magic of his magical pocket on me.

Either way, the ring didn't go away, so I can tell you it was a waste of concern.

And, there, Maki, with his own case note, raised a protest.

"Wait! That doesn't explain the most critical part yet!

Lilm can't use junction magic, and the only time he came into contact with someone who could use junction magic outside of the living room was when Mr. Missou came on the watch shift!

And yet, how do we break the line... "

"That's where the mistake is."

When I whispered, Maki gave me a strange look.

"Lilm is a complete solo offender, and it doesn't matter at all if it's junctional magic or attributes in the first place.

Anyway, Lilm didn't step into that room at all when he committed the crime. "

"What do you mean...?

I speak to Mayuki in a daze. [M]

"To Maki, I thought I gave you enough tips, didn't I?

When you went to Lilm's room with me, didn't you think anything was wrong?

Did you see the big indentation on that table and feel anything?

Lilm's room had dents everywhere, but the large indentations of the square that were on the table, especially in the center of the room, were noticeable.

But that's weird if you think about it normally.

No matter how much lillum is dodgy, whatever the floor is, hitting something that big on the table is unnatural.

Besides, there was no such thing as a big square mark in that room.

"On the table, on top? Oh, speaking of which, that shape..."

So Maki raises her voice as if she had come to think of something.

I looked at it and laughed.

"... you seem to have noticed.

That square indentation shape is the same as the tile shape on the floor of the junction room.

And Lillum's room, directly beneath the room of the junction.

The conclusion deriving from it is one "

I glanced over at the faces of everyone on the spot, and then I said it off sharply.

"- Lilm, there is no breaking the line!!

By scrubbing the floor directly beneath the junction, I brought a pillar with a ring inside my room!!

This is the blind spot in this case.

As Mitsuki ascertained, the cylinder and junction on which the ring was placed is an indestructible object, but the floor supporting it was not.

No, it wasn't possible for players to scratch floors and walls in the game days, so that's not exactly correct, but you should have seen it coming out of that floor if you had carefully observed one place.

"Ma, sa..."

It wasn't the wasted maid, who somehow was the killer, who collapsed gawdly when he heard the words, it was Maki.

"I can't believe the juncture has nothing to do with it at all...

I made a lot of notes, a lot of them, and I thought...

Uh-oh!

How much I regretted it, Maki, who begins to say bumps and grudges all by herself.

But Mayuki, who collapsed, looked up as if she immediately remembered something.

"So, but wait! If you pulled out the floor, you'd still have that trail!

Yet when we went to the room, the floor was normally... "

"Adhesive."

"... what?

Open your mouth and expose yourself to a dumb surface. I'll put my fingers up and explain.

"Lilm committed the crime in the first place when he went to change clothes that spilled tea after the watch was over, considering the circumstances.

The fact that we visited the room before that meant that it wasn't the first time the ceiling had fallen.

Actually, I also checked the ceiling after the two of them were gone, but there were just signs of the use of glue in the square shape.

Now I'm convinced that if the ring was gone, the killer would be Lillum. "

"Oh, but, you know, the glue, the ceiling..."

Maki tries to argue badly with him all his life, but unfortunately Maki forgets that this is the 'cat ear cat' world where everything is.

"The instant adhesive Lilm was using to fix the broken dishes can fix the missing walls, too.

I can fix the falling ceiling.

Besides, Lilm is proud enough to hold the armored figurine in the hallway by himself.

It's not as good as lifting adhesive floors to the ceiling. "

".....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

You've even run out of energy to argue anymore, and Maki sat on the ground like a shell out.

I feel sorry for you, but it was a good example of seeing painful eyes when you put excessive expectations on 'cat ear cat'.

"... lilm"

So, make sure you pick up after Maki, and Mr. Shizun comes forward.

That's how I quietly questioned Lilm, who had listened to my reasoning so far in silence.

"Is what he said true, Lilm?

Are you sure you're the one who stole the Thief Nightwind, The Pledge of Immortality?

When Mr. Sizen asked in a half-hearted tone, he only replied that he was sorry about the waste maid.

"How could you! How could you do this..."

Mizzou makes a sad scream.

Against her like that, the waste maid turned her vain eyes.

"... I stopped by the slam when I was buying out last time.

Then I and my friendly children suffer a lot from illness...

That's when I met Karma, the merchant from earlier... "

"I'll treat those kids when I bring them the ring," she said. Right?

When I asked, the waste maid nodded honestly.

"There was nothing I could do about those children's illness, and all I could think about was relying on someone.

And... and I thought, too.

Right now, the whole mansion is in a mess, and everyone's not getting along because of that ring, "he said.

"Lilm......"

The usual swallowing face is like a lie, a face distorted by deep sorrow, and the servant Missou also ceases.

As she watched it, she made it look like she was throwing up blood and spitting out painful words.

"That's it, if only that ring was gone!

I'm sure we can all stay close family!!

That's what I've always thought!

So because I thought so, I...!!

The Arkens nodded and could not say anything to the cries that cut them off, which were both like penance and like rebellion.

Around, awkward silence falls.

I sighed, watching how it went.

... That concludes this quest.

I found the killer, retrieved the item, and let the killer's motives and tricks also be uncovered.

I'm going to reward Mr. Shizun with a shield crest, and I'm going to leave the hall behind.

Then one maid disappears from the Arken family, but that's none of my business.

The quest is over.

I don't care if you ask Mr. Sizen about that later on in your interest.

"I am the Lord"

and they just ask me stereotypes that have absolutely nothing to do with the case.

But I can't help it either.

That's what games are for.

If that is the end of the quest prepared by the producer, then we have to accept it.

I mean, this solves the case.

The quest was successfully completed and we had a happy ending.

(- I can't believe it, there isn't!!

All this time, I wasn't convinced.

to the poor aftertaste of this case, and to all the characters in this case.

So far, I've been going through the event the way the game is.

But that will be enough.

I'll write the scenario from here on out.

With determination, forward.

I set foot on a stage that wasn't supposed to go up.

- I'm not kidding.

Recruiting frustration at the tragedy of a wasted maid.

That's why I can only call him a maid of honor.

I get angry at the nagging waste maids as if I were clearing up my game-era depression.

"It doesn't matter what you were thinking! 'Stealing' is the worst option I've ever chosen, and you're the worst bitch I've ever seen, revenge me!!