"Excuse me."

It's supposed to take the form of riding into enemy territory for once, but it's not like I want to be hostile to the whole sorcerer's guild.

He entered the building of the Sorcerer's Guild with greetings like a student entering the staff room.

Even though it may be a battle from now on, it makes me horrified when I enter a building with lights from a dark place.

It is not the demonic tower that has the guild reception, but the building in front of the demonic tower.

It's a place I've visited countless times in the game, and even in this world, I've been here when I first met Southern.

"Especially since you don't see anything unusual."

As the words Mitsuki snapped, there is no story going to the end, or even more floating in the guild than usual, if not particularly killer.

Rather, it can even be described as calm.

If Mitsuki hasn't found anything, it would be useless to be vigilant.

While I whispered to myself not to be alarmed, I headed to the counter in front of the guild's entrance.

Inform the glass-wrapped, neurotic male employee who is packing there of the requirements.

"Excuse me. I'd like to join the Mage Guild..."

Then they told me about the qualifications associated with joining the group, and the rules.

I honestly wanted to skip it, but if I don't mess with the expansion badly and things don't go according to the event, I'm in trouble.

This much should be tolerated.

Though I honestly heard that, it's something I've heard many times in the game.

Unlike in the game days, I couldn't even see the wiki when I wanted to kill time, and it became a more boring time than I imagined.

"Now, please wait here until the ritual is ready"

Still, when you hit the appropriate gavel for a few minutes or so, the explanation finally ends and you move on to the ritual.

The first stage would be success if the guild leader came out here, well.

In the meantime, it means it'll take a while, so look around the guild and crush your spare time.

Once again, this was a space that magicians might prefer, with suspicious tapestries, bookshelves filled with magic-related books, and mysterious objects of unknown use.

However, there are a number of items that have just been handled by the appropriate 'cat ear cat' staff, and you must be mistaken about something.

Especially an object with a skull on the tip of a stick that makes no sense to me personally.

I feel more like a magician than a magician, and what the hell appeal is this?

Officials don't seem to be coming back yet, so I'll get close to one of them and slap that skull with a knack.

Hard response I feel on my fingers.

After touching it, I realized, what is this ingredient?

I would hate to be a real human being.

"Oh, yeah."

When I thought of it, I took a small stone out of my bag and stuck it in the dokuro's fallen orbit.

It's a little prank, but now in a few hours...

"What are you doing?

Mitsuki stopped by as she made a lot of laughter at her imagination.

My movements seemed to be completely witnessed, and my cat ears were like, "Wow, wow, wow!" He's just intimidating me.

This is going to make my mouth sour in many ways.

"Yes, no, this isn't a big deal.

Now it's just a fluorescent stone... "

I didn't expect to be overlooked.

When I was in a hurry and excused myself, the staff came back at the right time.

"We're ready. This way, please."

Just like when I was playing the game, I'm told pale.

That distracts Mitsuki from attention.

When I was sneaking my breath, Mitsuki was walking over to the staff quickly in the meantime.

"His ritual will be accompanied by me and her. Are you sure?

It's already more like a precaution than a question.

But looking at the administrative response earlier, I don't even think I'm the one who can get through that kind of gobbling.

I knew if they were hard against me here, I'd have you wait here, for Christ's sake.

"... right. If it doesn't interfere with the ritual, it won't be a problem."

Officials admit to accompanying apples and mitzki lightly besides their thoughts.

"Well, I'll show you around"

I walked out flat as if nothing had happened.

I was surprised by the unexpected flow, but you can't be left here.

We went after the rest too.

When I lined up next to the clerk, he looked at me and spoke in a calm tone.

"You were lucky. The guild chief, who is just here, will perform the baptismal ritual immediately."

"Heh. I appreciate that."

Properly in tune, but this is exactly the default route.

In the game, the player's baptism ritual was always to be performed by the guild leader.

It's just that he also talked about things he didn't say in the game.

"Master Soma was defeated by submerging the Demon King with the magic of Tidal Wave."

"Huh?... Yep. Well."

Only the flat asks and squeaks.

After all, as a magician, is it unacceptable to use magic for such purposes?

When I unwittingly stiffen my body,

"Few people in this guild can use Tidal Wave either.

I'm so glad to have someone like you in my guild. "

So he broke only a little of his ever cold mask and laughed with a look that could be described as young.

"- Welcome to the Mage's Guild. I welcome you to join the group."

Stiffness, a few seconds.

"Oh, thank you"

Barely return the word and soak up the imaginary sweat.

Oh, it was dangerous.

If I were an unmarried woman who liked glasses boys and was a race vulnerable to gap adoration, I'd just be totally dropped with a smile on my face right now.

... I mean, it wasn't very dangerous.

It's also embarrassing to be looking at him somehow, so I let my gaze slip back.

Then I saw Mitsuki and I looked at this one with a gaze that seemed clear.

That was embarrassing, so now turn your gaze to the other side......

"Blah!"

I almost jumped something weird out of my mouth by accident.

The apple walking opposite Mitsuki, in a slightly more serious atmosphere, puts his chest like this... hehe hehe, well, like that, he was doing something.

Yes, no, actually, I'm probably fixing it because I care about the chest of my clothes, or I'm checking the chronos watch on my chest, or something like that, but this is eye poison.

Ringo is originally such a beautiful girl that she competes for exactly one or two in the game, and when compared to Mitsuki's Shinkansen, it paralyzes her senses, but even her breasts, that's not why she never does.

There are other people here than my own.

It is very unlikely that she has such an overly defenseless manipulation.

"Ri, apple. Hey......"

I whisper the apple that looks at me like I'm surprised.

"Well. Apples are cute, so you can't do that kind of misleading stuff."

"So, you see, like earlier, um, messing with your chest might make a guy feel weird, right?

Hi. I don't like this kind of topic.

When I said it out early, the apple closed its eyes twice, three times,

"... Mmm!

I nodded with a slightly cheerful voice.

Then the apple never touched my chest, but I was walking with all my chest up as if to accentuate my chest.

You really know, I'm a little nervous.

"... this is the room"

Then we lost so much, we got to the front of the room where we were meant to be.

As per the game, the guide seems to be this far,

"I've brought you"

And I told him only one word behind the door, and the official went all the way to the reception.

That's what happened in the game, but they won't take the lead on the way home.

"I checked with the Explorer's ring. They even have Iaski and Saamon, and Deekill, the deputy guild leader."

"Did you bring Saamon out of the tower?"

As soon as the clerk bends the corner, Mitsuki hears that.

Three of the guild's radicals are especially powerful.

I was caught off guard because I was going through the streets of the event, but the moment I opened the door, I might accidentally strike, and so on.

"In addition, I think there are signs of people. But don't let it distract you."

Still, there's no option of not moving forward here.

It's not like the usual pinch.

Powerfully, this one should be much higher.

I nod to Mitsuki's words and step inside the room, only thinking so that whatever happens can be dealt with immediately.

- Welcome, Hero Hall.

As soon as you take a step into the room, you can speak to me.

There were four magicians.

At the center is the old man who has spoken to me now.

Mage Guild Chief, Kaymona Iaski.

Saamon, who is a Rapid Executives with that katana.

A man with round glasses laughing mildly next to him is Deekill, the deputy guild leader.

Then......

"You...!

When I saw the last person, I raised my voice unexpectedly.

Ringo is also in a battle position with a dagger in his hand, and has already taken the posture of a knife puller even to Mitsuki.

"Hih!

You were pushed by intimidation, the person in the matter screams.

The person is a magician-style man who was in the library.

I tried to take the Nekranomikon, the magician's guild.

"... could you hold on a second?"

It was the magician guild chief, Iaski, who was the ladder of words to the murderous atmosphere.

"Let me apologize for targeting your magic book.

But we believe that we can solve the problem in a satisfactory manner in our discussions. "

White dialogue about how to say it, but it's also unnatural to poke at it completely here.

I encouraged his words even as I thought about how to get on the established route.

"... let me hear it"

"Kaymona Iaski, who is the head of this guild.

This is Deekill, deputy guild chief, and Saamon and Robin, his men. "

Apparently the man who tried to get through us and get the book is named Robin.

He shakes his head desperately to keep pace with Iaski's words.

For once, I thought I'd introduce myself...

"We..."

"It doesn't extend to introducing myself. Non knows you well. [M]

Lord Soma reveals himself as a hero over level 180.

And the fellow apple lord and the Mitsuki shark, okay?

They've already got our information.

The three of us, among other things, get a nagging glance at Mitsuki, who was last called by his name.

Mitsuki didn't say anything, but his ears seemed deflected uncomfortably.

You seem to know a lot about us.

Speaking so as to restrain him, Iaski spoke out suddenly.

"Whew, Lord Hero. Why do you think you did the great job of defeating the Demon King?

"Because..."

Confused by the abrupt question, Iaski opens his mouth again before I return the answer.

"That's power. The power that you possess, that is, the ability that a high level brings, did a great job of crusading the Demon King.

High levels are the most important way to get something in this world!

"... strength is not like that. Levels are just one indicator of strength"

Iaski mouths a level supremacist statement without hesitation.

I couldn't bear to argue with my words that would deny our past, even though I knew they were just dragging the game setup.

Look at me like that, Iaski laughs.

"Hehe. Young. Well, that would be fine now.

Now you know, don't you? Lord Soma, a high level and hero who saved his country, is a being that cannot be ignored, and, behind it, Lord Shark.

You are almost the only person in the world with an overwhelming power that cannot be held hostage to a level.

I think it's weirder not to pay attention. "

After all, Iaski seems to have a strong obsession only with Mitsuki, regardless of level.

I came forward to cover my subtle mitzvahs, but his paranoid gaze never stops.

It looks uncomfortable to have a boulder mitzvah in sight.

"... so? I'm telling you, I'm already grabbing what you're trying to do with the magic formations strewn around this city."

I'm a little lost, but I don't want to prolong this futile discussion any longer.

The guild chief laughed bitterly when I threw the bullet at him early.

"The boulder is the hero hall of salvation, ears fast.

I just want you to make no mistake.

I activated the ritual magic formation because I wanted to form a friendship with you, and I didn't mean it.

Evidence suggests that no one in this city should die. "

I couldn't get my empty mouth blocked by the nerves that talk like that.

Sure, people don't die just from being unplugged MP, but if you were in a high spot or in a fight, for example, depending on when you lose your mind, you would also lose your life.

No, Iaski says this, but I can't even say enough that no one actually lost their lives.

"I'll tell you what's going on."

Mitsuki hasn't hidden her anger, either, in a flat tone.

"You may be suspicious, but it's not true.

I thought that if something big happened this way, the Lord Hero would always show up.

I didn't think I'd be able to pinpoint this place in a day, but it's a boulder hero.

Now the purpose of Non and the others has been fulfilled. "

I suddenly became stupid when I heard Iaski say something that was released with a big serious face.

I don't know if you're seriously coming to flex us or if it's some kind of ruse, but we don't need to hang out.

"Unfortunately, I'm not into that kind of belly art over here.

"I'm here for the ritual of baptism".

You'll do the ritual, won't you?

Mouth the keywords and move the event forward.

Now you can't refuse Iaski.

"Of course not! If your magician guild will join you, your magician guild will be safe!

As a special case, let's promise that we won't be forced to take the Book of Witchcraft, etc., as long as we can attach it to executives from the moment we join the Alliance, and of course you're an Alliance member!

"Okay, just get it over with."

"I don't have a choice. So, can you get dressed for this?"

The light mouth could not be completely sealed, but Iaski quickly fell into the event's established behavior.

Passed by Iaski were the robes of the elementary magician and the wand of the elementary magician.

Ritual, bottom-class gear.

"So..."

Behind the prepared collision, quickly change into a magician's robe.

That doesn't make me feel uncomfortable even though I've fallen to my natural talent.

"And it's hard, because it's the rules.

Could you take off the bags and the pouches and the accessories? "

Nodding to the words, I also added rings and necklaces to the gear I had removed and handed it to the apple, leaving the Adventurer bag and pouch with Mitsuki.

Come to think of it, if you got in alone, did you also risk getting your luggage stolen during the ritual?

I was glad you both followed me on this alone.

But......

"If it's a rule, I'll give up on gear.

But you're not forbidden to have an item in your hand, are you?

What bothered me was the Nekranomikon.

While I can't move in the ritual, I want to avoid getting the mites attacked if I can.

I know Mitsuki will be fine, just in case.

"Um, yeah. It doesn't matter if you have enough items in your hand."

I thought it would be rejected for whatever reason, but my proposal was accepted so lightly that it clapped out.

I was wondering if Iaski's purpose was to nail me to the ritual and take the Necranomicon in that gap, but was it off?

Or that you can't impose restrictions that aren't in the game?

I get caught, but I can't pull the words out of my mouth.

Besides, this is also a good chance to determine the reaction over there.

I took the Nekranomikon from my bag and the Chronoswatch a little lost and held it in the opposite hand with the Apprenticeship Mage's wand.

In the meantime, sneak out some magic gems as well and let them sneak in the sleeves of the robe.

"Well, that's..."

I didn't miss Iaski narrowing his eyes the moment he put out the Necranomicon.

Again, this guy hasn't given up on Necranomicons.

In order to turn down the worries of the hindsight, you'd better beat it to pieces here by the time you're completely skinless.

Once again, when I consolidated my resolve, I stepped forward to the little magic formations that would set the stage for the baptismal ritual, before anyone could tell me.

Three magician guild officials.

The ritual of baptism begins amidst the unusual circumstances that my two companions watch over.

Baptist rituals, etc., but their contents are simple.

There is little magical significance in this ritual, just sit still in the magic formation and listen to the words the guild leader speaks for a long time, and the player automatically becomes part of the Mage Guild.

Regardless of the game system, it can be said that almost everyone magically means nothing to this ritual.

"As protectors of all magicians, all the secrets of magic gather together for our Order..."

The words of Iaski, which are spinning well, are still what I have heard many times.

While I don't think I should be distracted, I can't concentrate.

I closed my eyes, excusing myself to shut out the extra information.

(Ok. Let's make sure that within the moment, after Iaski finishes the ritual)

If there's nothing to do, at least that much, I thought, but confirmation and nothing, I've decided to do it.

At the end of the ritual, they will challenge Iaski faster than they can move, and they will have an upward event.

There's no way you can do something about us while you mouth a few seconds or so of keywords, and as long as Mitsuki is around, most of the training ground is going to be cut through.

So it's up ahead that I think about it.

When this is over, will I be back in the original world...

The moment I thought of it that way, a ton of images flooded my head, as if the weir had suddenly cut off.

- To my parents. High school friends, close people I've left behind in Japan.

- A small, but attached room where I lived alone.

- I bought the first VR machine with all the money.

- Valued associates who don't even know their faces, made through "Cat Ear Cat".

- The college life I spent at, the strange ones who still spoke to me.

- The junk food store I went to, the flavor of a nostalgic burger.

Besides, a lot of things come to mind that I wasn't aware of when I was in Japan.

Tiny, memories that shouldn't otherwise love attacked me with an overwhelming mass.

(Right...)

Until now, I thought I wasn't very untrained in Japan, but that was a mistake.

I was just trying to look away and not remember by immersing myself in the game world.

I never imagined that my longing for the original world, the loneliness of not being able to return, would have remained so much for me.

Its mind is about to be crushed by so much nostalgia that it has physical weight.

But then......

―――

My consciousness surfaced in my ear beating familiar voice.

The first thing the reflectively opened eyes admitted was Iaski, the man who looked like a magician himself in the fantasy world.

"...... Huh!!

The sober part of my head whispered that this was the back of the Sorcerer's Guild and now I had just been baptized ritual.

But before the judgment of reason, instinct shows a rejection of it.

I didn't think so, I pulled myself together.

"Soma!"

It was once again the voice of a girl who saved me like that.

Turning to your voice, it's bright empty colors that jump into view.

The appearance of an irreplaceable fellow who spent more time together than anyone else in this other world.

"Lynn, go......?

The moment I saw him, a wave of unspoken emotions shoved into my breath.

... I wonder why.

The moment I saw her face, the moment I imagined that goodbye, the same or more loneliness creeping up when I remembered Japan.

What makes me feel unreasonable is that this is where they are, this is where I'm going.

"... it's okay"

But I shake my head, shake it off, and laugh at the apple.

Within immersion in the recollection, at some point the liturgy of baptism seemed to be coming to an end.

I can't believe I was sinking into my thoughts at the most pivotal time, but I'm glad the apple called me in.

Fortunately, the Iaskies have yet to take any action.

I don't know what you're going to do, but that initial slowdown is killing me.

From here on out, put up a battle at once.

"Caimoner Iaski! As one sincere magician..."

I opened my mouth before anyone else and tried to say keywords to make an event happen.

But I couldn't speak that dialogue to the end.

... because that would be so.

The keyword I tried to say was dozens of characters, whereas the guy, Iaski, said it was only three.

"- Metastasis" Tensen "

The moment that word reached my ear, I was flying that body somewhere with the flash of light.

"Here, is... of the Magic Tower, between the Magic Formations!?

I can't keep up with the unexpected.

For some reason, they made me transfer between the magic formations that were supposed to only come at the final event, but most importantly, I can't believe what's in front of me.

I don't want to believe it.

The center of the magic formation, used for the last ritual.

There is a statue there that mimics a mukimuki man who does not look good on this occasion.

"Full build Bob!!

It is a symbol of the Warrior Alliance and should rest in the heart of the Warrior Alliance. That is why it is here.

... No, how more serious is the effect it has than the cause.

Brain muscle fields are occurring around Full Build Bob, in which all magic and skills are deactivated.

And now I keep my usual bags of gear and items in apples and mitzki, and all I'm equipped with is the weakest equipment for rituals, like it's not poisonous or medicinal.

Give me this far and everyone will know.

(This is a trap! That, too, was probably a trap aimed at me from the beginning!

I couldn't read through Iaski's aim, and I was completely sealed with skills and magic, and gear.

And the worst thing is, one more thing.

"Welcome to my tower. Celebrate the Alliance Enlistment and Executive Promotion of the Honorable Hero!

That's a black iron giant standing in front of me.

Normally, brain muscle fields only have a negative effect on wizards.

But there are exceptions to that.

"This is what Nong et al grew on hand salt, level 192.

I did blow out that levels are not the only strength, etc.

... that word, do you want me to prove it?

- Demonic golem.

A secret weapon of the Sorcerer's Guild, with no means of attack other than simple physical attacks and, instead, very weak in magic, immaculate in non-magical attacks and out-of-consciousness striking power.

The magician's guild's physical power shines best in situations where magic and skills are unavailable.

"No, no, that's not right..."

In a magical deactivation space, there is no time to mourn the irrationality with which magical weapons move.

The merciless black iron giant shook up his arms big......