- The apple is dead.

Only that fact is heavy, deeply attached to my chest, and I can't breathe.

So I didn't feel anything, even as countless tentacles crawled out of the hole in the wall that I should have knocked down once.

"Soma!"

Southern voice.

I didn't think of anything in that tall voice that seemed to cry.

I just looked at you reflexively, and Mitsuki, carrying Suthern, was right beside me.

"I'll run away."

Mitsuki briefly said, holding me aside with Suthern on his back, he left the spot in a breath.

A view that quickly drifts away.

In a few seconds I reached the other door and Mitsuki climbed straight up the stairs to the third floor......

"Ah, apple's, watch..."

The apple left it, Chronos Watch.

I left that on that spot.

"Take it, or I'll...!

I tried to loosen Mitsuki's arm, but her body moved dull.

- Penalties for the incarnation of outrage.

A word I don't quite understand blurred the back of my brain for just a moment.

Anyway, I'm in trouble as it is.

I appealed desperately to Mitsuki.

"Get out of the way! That's apple's......!

"You're more important to me than a watch."

My tense face looks like I'm crying for some reason, and I just keep my mouth shut.

Conscious, breathe in the air.

Just a little bit, my chest weighs softly.

"... bad"

To my apology, Mitsuki replied briefly, "No," as she opened the door to the third floor room.

"I told you before.

Saving the world is hard work, and it's not like we can do it without sacrifice.

You don't feel responsible. "

To that word, I bite my lips.

That's not true, I want to scream.

I don't even want to admit that Apple's death was a sacrifice to save the world.

But...... now that the apple is dead, there is no point in such reasoning.

"... but that's fine with you.

That's why I like you. "

"Mitsu, ki......"

Mitsuki, who was supposed to hold both of them and be penalized agile, was still fast.

His eyes were alert to the surroundings even as he had a conversation, and his feet, which went the shortest distance, were through another large room on the third floor, with his feet on the stairs leading to the fourth floor.

"Let's move on now. Don't lose anything more.

While you can't move, I'll protect you.

So you...!

There was no foretaste.

On the way to the fourth floor, the walls of the tower were breached and several tentacles popped out of it.

The road was completely blocked.

I thought so.

But Mitsuki was a boulder.

I didn't hesitate to jump forward and turn around holding both of us.

"Gu!"

He gives a shoved and killed voice, and although he breaks his balance in the air, he rolls into the room on the fourth floor through a swarm of tentacles to be killed.

Hearing the door close behind him, Mitsuki continued to accelerate in a falling position, falling forward around the middle of the room.

"Mitsuki!? Whew!"

Me and Southern's body are thrown forward, too.

The penalty of the incarnation of outrage still persists.

I rolled to the ground without even being able to accept it.

But it was more serious than that......

"Mitsuki!

"I was going to avoid it, but you seem to have blurred a little"

Mitsuki's feet were stained bright red.

From my eyes, it looked like I was avoiding it altogether.

Because of this damage, I could imagine what would happen if I took it properly.

"Especially not a problem. than that......"

Mitsuki knocks at the front door while treating the potion removed from the bag by smashing it into his foot unmanipulatively.

"You're spinning in"

"Become!"

From the door in front of me, I can't feel anything strange.

But as Mitsuki says, I guess so.

Come to think of it, it's also unnatural not to have a pursuit from behind at this point.

From the game's preconceptions, I seemed to see the intelligence of the Evil God shard sweetly.

But what can I do?

There's only one road ahead.

But I don't care what you think of proceeding inside where shards of evil gods await...

"... you have no choice.

After you, Mr. Suthern, please. "

Faster than I can conclude.

Mitsuki moved.

"... soma"

With a clear voice, they are called names.

If I noticed, Mitsuki's flat face was right in front of me.

"And then, please, what the hell? - Uh-huh!

Really, it was a flash.

Mitsuki's face, which was at close range, was closer, and if she noticed, warm objects were touching her lips.

"- Huh!!

A moment that I feel forever.

After a short, long mouthful, Mitsuki let go of her body from me in a shame and smiled softer than she'd ever seen before.

"If all I do is sloppy, Mr. Ringo might piss me off"

"Mitsu, ki...?

The smile on my face fuels my anxiety.

But Mitsuki doesn't stop anymore.

"I will draw the shards of the Evil God.

So please proceed exactly ten seconds after I leave the door "

"Mitsuki! Say what...!

We have to stop it.

I think so, but my body doesn't move freely.

"... ok"

And.

Next to me, Southern nodded.

With a face of heartfelt relief, Mitsuki walks out.

"Wait! I don't..."

My screams don't reach Mitsuki.

"- I was happy to meet you.

So please, just you, survive. "

The figure disappears behind the door.

"Mitsuki!!

I tried to chase that back.

Whipped on a dull body, trying to move on......

"Let's go, let's go"

But it was Suthern who whispered the move.

With a weak hand, he stops me and pulls me in the opposite direction.

"Southern! What are you talking about, Mitsuki, Mitsuki..."

"If we go after him now, it's no use.... move on, we are."

"That's why I can break it off...!

My mouth, trying to yell back, stopped on the way.

Because I noticed the tears flowing over the inorganic mask.

"... because. We have to move on."

I couldn't argue with a sadly crushed word.

... and ten seconds go by.

As expected, the bluntness of the body was gone.

Open the door.

Beyond that, there was no ambush of evil gods.

Retract Southern's hand and climb the tower in such a way that it drags halfway.

Suthern, inferior in speed, fell many times, but never tried to make a weak noise.

Through the fifth floor, he ran on the sixth floor, he ran on the seventh floor, and the eighth floor also passed now.

"Soon! Soon! And upstairs, so the magic team..."

"Soma!!

A screaming Southern voice.

Straight side walls are smashed through.

Before I could see anything red and black from there, I jumped forward holding Suthern.

"Ugh, guh!

I can't say it's as vibrant as Mitsuki.

But I did.

Jump over the tentacles, in front of the door to the ninth floor room, roll.

Keep trying to get inside the room before the tentacles start attacking......

"... oh, yes"

I noticed what the tentacles had.

"Soma? What are you doing! Here..."

I hear a Southern voice.

But I can't hear you.

Only focus your consciousness on what is in front of you so that nothing else can get into your eyes.

That's how Karan and it (...) fall.

Thin body, stunning blade print.

There are no two in the world, a light sword.

"... Moon, Shadow"

It was the love knife of a Mitsuki shark, which he had without letting go of his skin. It was broken in two unbroken pieces.

I don't even have to ask what happened.

Still, my mouth was spinning words on its own.

"Killed him, huh?

The inside of my chest gets hot and my head gets cold to inversely proportionate.

Hot and cold impulses take the whole body.

"Soma! Soma, no, Soma!

I hear a murmur from behind.

But it doesn't matter.

I twitch my tentacles.

A new tentacle crawls out of the wall.

More and more, more.

But it doesn't matter, either.

"... kill me, do it"

No weapons.

The agnostic fire has broken.

With other weapons, you won't be able to scratch this guy.

But that's okay.

If you don't have a weapon, you can hit him.

A fist won't break.

With my muscle strength right now, I'm sure I can do a little bit of damage.

That's fine.

Then I can kill him.

My fist won't break anyway.

If the tentacles get in the way, give me the tentacles first.

Then your arms, your head.

And at the end of the day, if you stick to the core, hundreds or thousands of shots, you can hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him, and keep hitting him until he dies.

I take a step toward the tentacles...

"- You idiot!!

Side to side, impact.

I got hit unexpectedly and I rolled into the room trying to get in touch with something that jumped on me.

We rolled down the floor in momentum and stopped in a way that I would go down.

The door of the room closes on its own, and you can't see the shards of the Evil God.

"Why did you interrupt?

I made sure of that and said that to the person riding me, Suthern.

Suthern says nothing.

I roughed up my voice.

"He killed my loved one, Mitsuki!

The apples, the mites, here... "

Suthern says nothing.

Just keep quiet, lift that hand up to your face,

"Become!"

When I put my hand on my mask, I pulled it off momentum.

From underneath, he appeared, his face...

"Oh, before... Well, my face, no, but..."

It upsets me.

"Did you wake up?

That's what Suthern says when he takes the mask off.

"Remember what you have to do.

Backwards, revenge is what you have to do?

The most you have to do, the most you want to do, what?

"That's... Move the Magic Formation to make the Evil God..."

"No!!

Never seen it, Southern face.

Never heard of it, Southern voice.

"No, you're not. Remember Mitsuki's last words."

"Mitsuki, of..."

As if to stick around, Suthern rocked me,

"- I guess you have a place to go, where you have to go!!

That word pierced me.

"I can, I can..."

Reminds me of a warm place, where I should be.

... Yes, it is.

I still have a place to go, a place where I want to go.

I already have what I need.

Even magic, I remember it right.

I can go home, I'm supposed to.

"And, you know, a little bit.

What a world, just save it......

You go back where you belong. "

Sutherne said that in a trembling voice, away from me, and stood up.

And I looked at the door, not the door we should be facing, and somehow, I looked at the door we came in (...) and it didn't move.

"... Southern?

Ask, call.

"What, I'm doing it. Now, go."

A hard voice gives me a bad feeling.

"Go on, what are you gonna do?"

"... I have something for the wild"

That's all, I guessed.

In that way, I don't like it when I can guess.

"Don't look at me like that."

"But..."

"You're not supposed to go out of your way to die.

I have an operation to keep.

An awesome maneuver, like a shard of evil gods never stops. "

That's what I say, make a strong smile.

But I couldn't stop it.

Because I want to go home.

Because you abandon this guy who strengthens and laughs, and still wants to go home.

"... I, m"

So I say that in a faint voice, and I turn my back and walk out.

Previous.

Stand alone against the Evil God, in the opposite direction to Suthern.

"Soma!"

To the door, just before we got there.

Suthern's voice held me back.

Turn around.

"I... I (...)..."

Wait for the words.

But in the end, Southern shook his head without force.

So you can push in strong thoughts, bite your lips, and then...

"- Soma, I hated you."

Squirting with tears, he blued his lips and still said with a smile.

I ran out of words.

And that was the last time.

The timid, brave one turned his back on me before I burned that smile in my eyes.

"... soma. Just one, do me a favor."

"What?

Sutherne, with her back to me, kept me from showing her face.

"- Never, never look back"

We went our own way.

Climb.

Climb. Climb. Climb.

The roar rocks the tower.

Something, a loud force hits each other sounds.

But I don't look back.

Just look forward and keep climbing.

I don't know what's going on.

Still, let me tell you that as long as this noise goes on, Southern is alive, and go forward.

"There it is!

We're on the tenth floor.

I opened the door and ran out to the magic team.

"Set! Set, set, set!

Produces tons of misrills from misrill sculpture knives.

I don't even have time to lose sculpture knives.

I throw away the sculpture knife I finished for, and I open the Necranomicon in the center of the magic formation.

"The sharp soma of witchcraft is rare.

Guide the great Mana to the fulfilment of an enduring miracle… "

In the event of the game, activation of the ritual required a long chant of spells.

Fortunately, for that spell, there's a full text in Necranomicon's development record.

Don't worry about making a mistake.

(Come on, come on, come on!!

But it's a long time.

The chanting of a spell that I should have enjoyed during the game accelerates my impatience.

But the chant is finally coming to an end.

"... so here, that power - ugh!?

From the back of my throat, air, leaks.

Still, the shaking and roaring of the tower continues.

But only one bottle.

A tentacle of evil shards broke through the floor and turned to me.

- Think about dodging.

But no.

If it moves here, it will waste my preparation so far.

Again, there's no more room to start chanting from the beginning.

Tentacles looming.

While I'm ready to die, I'll give you the final chant...

- Nita.

That, time.

The yellow flash ran through my hips, through my bag.

(Ku, ma?

That's a stuffed animal without two.

Me and I, we had a joy and sorrow together, a reliable companion.

The tentacles stagger with a grip on the sides.

――

The scream is about to pop out of my mouth.

Tentacles were intercepted by the force of the Vajra thoroughness placed in the sidelines, instead Kuma was blown to the corner of the room.

My ears are ripped off and the cotton inside pops out.

The fallen body doesn't even move with Pickle.

- But.

Time has been earned.

Nothing holds back the completion of the ritual anymore.

I try to say the last phrase of the spell...

Just, for a moment.

For a moment only, I hesitated.

What floats in the back of your brain is the figure of Iaski, who turned into a different figure.

Maybe me too...

(Got it, you mean!!

Discard strays.

I scream the last phrase.

"- Here, show me that power! Nekranomikon!!"

The chant is complete.

At the same time, the magic brightens up, and it makes the room a light that covers all of this city...

Fluffy, fluffy, move on.

Put your foot on the stairs, lift your body, and when it's done, give me another leg.

If you alternate your legs, see, your body still moves properly.

"Ku, ma. Just a little bit more, so.

When you're done, fix it, I'll do it. "

Behind between the magic formations.

As I climb the stairs leading to the top floor, I call to my bag.

When the light subsides.

The only thing left on the spot was me and you getting thrown out in the corner of the room.

I rushed right over, but strangely, the ripped off of one ear didn't try to move at all, even when I called.

I'm talking about a prankster.

I'm sure you're trying to surprise me.

When I put my bears in my bag, I left the magic room behind and proceeded to the top floor.

The sound of the wind blowing into the tower.

My footsteps trample the stairs.

Then even my heart beats.

I can hear all the noises all around me, strangely clear.

I wondered, why not?

"Right. I stopped that noise."

Until I finished the ritual, all that whirring and the shaking of the tower was now completely gone.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

When I got to the top floor door, I pushed it open.

What spreads is the sight of the game street.

Large windows with huge beds and views of the city overlooking the tower.

"Make sure, we have to..."

Whip me to my tired body and I walk to the window.

I don't even know if I'm walking, or if I'm flattered, anymore.

Just a sense of duty pushed me, and I peered out the window.

"... Ha!

I saw that in my eyes (...) and it was that sound that spilled out of my mouth first.

The sight ahead looking down through a huge window.

What I saw was a deserted city and a nogging giant.

Slowly, it became a grain of light and dissolved in the sky, the appearance of a shard of the Evil God.

Is it because I saw it from a high place?

Or is it because the other person is dead?

The shards of the evil god that seemed so large and mighty also looked as if they were small once or twice when I looked down from here.

"Ha, ha! I won! I won!!

Good news, it leaks out of my mouth.

To the joy of victory, tears spill out of my eyes.

I swirl away from the window like a whirl.

Express joy throughout your body.

"We did it! I did it!

After all, even when I say evil god, it's just a monster with HP.

Fragments of the evil god, deprived of their power by forbidden rituals, were finally extinguished.

"This is the power of man! This is our..."

Again, as a sign of overflowing joy, I raise my hands, and the next moment...

- My back, it exploded.

"... Damn, Gu!

Roll the floor.

I can't kill the shock on my back, I hit my hands many times, my legs, and finally I hit the wall of the room, and I finally stop.

"What..."

I felt good because of it.

Because, even for a moment, I could have forgotten...

I don't care about the angst, the angst, the pain.

I tried to get up so I could support the bed that was next door.

"... ah?

I saw that.

A colossal jewel like blood, glowing with scourge.

A rugged, powerful giant arm that scratches open the window.

Ugly face, unfocused eyes.

And countless tentacles, stretched this way.

"Of evil gods, shards......?

I don't know what it is.

Maybe I'm dreaming.

Extraordinary, worst, most terrible nightmare.

"Quick, I need to wake up..."

Whiplash yourself into a body that is powerless and wake up.

I struggle, I crawl up to bed.

"... da....... Kete"

Sounds like twitching in my ear.

A shard of the Evil God is saying something.

But I have no idea what you're talking about.

No, this is a dream, so maybe I can't help but figure it out.

"That's right. Oh yes..."

With a trembling hand, remove the black ring from the bag.

A ring of memories, taken by all my friends from the Arken mansion.

Put that on your finger.

Somehow that's all I felt, I felt closer to my people, and I was happy.

"What, yeah. Stay out of my way."

Yet the red and dirty get in the way.

I stretched out my red and black tentacles and dropped something in front of me.

Complex decorated bracelet.

Somehow, I've seen it somewhere.

"... da.... Yo....... Kete"

It doesn't even stop the sound of ear damage.

I can't think about it because of it.

"... Yada.... Thailand, yo.... Skete, Tasketeyo,... Ma"

But yes.

This is important, very important...

"Itaiyo. No..., connano,... li. Tasketeyo."

The Word of the Evil God becomes clear.

Fragments of the Evil God were asking for help.

I don't know what that means.

I knew it was a dream.

"Iada. Hontowha, Hitoriha, Iada. Oitaikanaide. Me, Watashi, Tasuke, Te..."

When I thought so, I figured out the answer.

This...

"-Tasketeyo, Soma!

- This is a Southern bracelet.

"Damn.... Ah, ha. Ha ha!

All right, all right.

Resolved neatly.

Well, yeah.

There's no way this guy could have said the Evil God would help him.

This is a message.

It was an evil message that reproduced the words of Suthern just before his death.

- Never, don't turn around.

Somehow Suthern's last words rise to his chest and it gets hot as burning around his eyes.

Put Southern's precious bracelet in the bag gently and carefully.

I had a lot of urge to scream, but I didn't know what to say, and I just laughed.

"Haha, ha! hahahaha!!

I can't stop laughing all over my mouth.

I can't help it anymore.

Weird and crazy, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I'll have the urge to laugh up later, and I won't stop.

"Ha! Ha ha! Hahahahahahaha!!

It's crazy and crazy, and I don't even know if it's me or the world that's crazy.

But I get it.

"... I'm done"

There's nothing in this world.

It's all broken, it's gone.

There's not a single shard of hope left here.

It's all this guy, the evil god has turned it into despair.

"Over, I just..."

At that moment, I was really determined to abandon this world.

There's nothing untrained about it, and it doesn't have to work.

If it's enough to live in a world that's over like this, it's better to fail and die.

"Go home, man."

I'm going home.

Go back to that peaceful, peaceful place where I belong.

"Krutta, ca?

The murmuring noise twitches my ears.

But I don't answer.

I just saw the anomaly staring at this one at the end as I touched the black ring with my trembling hands.

Because this should be the last sight I'll ever see in this world.

Clearly, burn that little figure in both eyes so that no matter what happens, you don't forget...

- I'll say it.

A spell to escape this world.

A spell to bid farewell to this world.

A spell to abandon this world.

"- Sleep"

A magical sleep wraps me up.

To the heavier flesh, the fever to be lost.

I see a whip of red and black meat coming to me in my dim vision.

But that's only a little late.

One moment before death captures me, my body can be captured in bed.

To a sinking consciousness, a darkening view.

An event trigger that should not exist (erased by a patch) is pulled and everything flips quietly.

The world closes, turns upside down.

The flow of time is reversed, and all causes are reversed.

The spilled water leads to the basin, and the rolling rock climbs the mountain.

The world is winding down, and...

"Diz Astor. I'll never forget you. I'll make sure you..."

- It all turns into a midsummer night dream.

―――

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!!

A sight that should be, but at the same time feels helpless and unrealistic.

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......?

It's supposed to be, but why not?

Above all, I couldn't clearly see that figure, blurry, carroted, that I should have been eager for.

"... Thor, Ma?

A blue girl rushing up to me in her constant sight looks up at me strangely.

I miss such a different kind of love, for example, and feel like a loving thing......

"- Heck!

I can't stand it, hot stuff telling my cheeks.

Something hot just flooded out and I can't see anything.

Instead, I embraced the luxurious body in front of me.

"... soma. No, you don't?

I don't even know what you tried to answer that question.

However, the cut word leaked with the whimper.

"I'm home. Go home, I did......!

Blue hair is cluttered in his arms, from which a thin hand is reached.

White fingers gently stroked my cheek, and so she giggled, still smiling to the fullest.

- Welcome back, Soma.