Kyuuketsu Hime wa Barairo no Yume o Miru

I was headed to the heart of the Holy Capital with Johnny's lead, but as I approached the tower, I felt the air strangely bothered me and twisted my neck.

If you look at it properly, Johnny also looks at the direction of the 'Tower of the Pale God' with a strange look - though it's only about the base of the tower already in sight - and narrows his eyes.

"What...? Something's wrong with the vibe."

At that moment, sounds and vibrations like explosions echoed from across the street adjacent to the tower. The body sways in a tingle by passing on air and sidewalks.

"- An earthquake?!"

"You're not. An accident or an explosion... some kind of trouble, I guess."

Black smoke rising from the other side separating about two streets and a slight scream promptly equipped me with a love sword, "Sinner of the Rose (Jill de Leye)" and back gear, "Lucky Luck of the Rose" La Vi Ann Rose ", out of a ribbon-shaped expansion pochette on my hip.

"I'm going to take a look. I think it's dangerous, so I think you should wait here."

"- What?! No, wait. If it's dangerous, I'm coming too!

"Feel free. Just go ahead and come on your own."

Without waiting for a response, I dashed from the scene towards the scene of the noise.

Naturally, in an instant, Johnny eats the leftovers.

It's a paved road, and I just want to get on top speed all at once, but the street called Street was already fussy, rubbing it with screaming and escaping crowd waves.

"- I can't help it."

Give up going along the road, decide to make a shortcut, and move from the spot to a three-dimensional way of getting around, using skyscraper walls, street trees, and even air corridor railings in a triangular jump.

Luckily, it seems that people fleeing can't afford to see anything else, and they were able to reach their destination without any extra noise or disturbance.

The center of the noise - it was almost a place like the 'Tower of the Pale God' kneeling.

There are distinctly different shadows of human beings in the streets lined with shops for priests, priests and pilgrims.

"It's a monster!

"God help me, please!

"Help me. Dear God!"

The half-human half-beast - pig ghosts (oaks) and dog-elf ghosts (cobolts), big ghosts (orgasms) and single-eyed giants (cyclopses) - with a pleasant coma (kura) grin - were doing all they could with our faces.

"This - heh!!"

Falling out of a building about five stories tall, he slashes the most threatening single-eyed giant (Cyclops) he has ever seen and greets "Holly Disruption" from almost zero distance.

"Come on, run!

I distanced myself from the single-eyed giant (Cyclops) whose torso disappeared almost in one blow, and I called out to those who had missed the run as I confronted the next monster - but

"Help me, help me!

"Please help me, Aoi God"

Running away was still a category, with the majority of people squatting with bumps, yes, whether they had lost their hips or were fleeing reality. Besides, apparently the majority of them smell like priests to see their outfits.

"Act before you pray!

Yelling so, there is no way to move on to action, and he goes on and on eating, slaughtering, and being slaughtered while he watches.

When you say that there is a clear danger of life at hand, don't fight or run, just "help" and you just cling to the Ethereal God… I don't know what to say, it's impudent to go through pity and even get an irrepressible fluctuation of killing intentions.

I wonder what these guys think of their lives.

No matter what peaceful country you are born into and live in, there is a chance that no human being will come tomorrow, and life will be equivalent in the sense that one day you will die. There is no difference there between children, old people, rich and poor.

That depends on the environment, there will be a difference in the resources you can live with, but living or dying borderline is something that's rolling there easily, and I just think it's crazy that you can let someone else take care of your life lightly in a situation where that choice is imminent.

"Everyone, do not resist! All these aliens emerged from the" Tower of the Pale God ". In other words, it is the servant of the God of Heaven. Accept without resistance!!"

And the old man, who seemed to be a high priest, when he did it, began to incite his surroundings out loud.

"Oh, are you an idiot?! Do you want to die!?"

I accidentally put in a scratch, but the old man said grandiose with an arrogant attitude.

"If that is the will of the Ethereal God, it is only obedience! All those who believe in the Ethereal God, if they do, Heavenly Paradise will be the same as promised!

The people who were running late who heard that cry originally didn't know if the story apparently propagated or if there were any other idiots claiming the same worldly myth, but the people who ran away once came back to us one after another, in a squatting prayer attitude on the spot.

Naturally, the monsters in front of the outfit feed, without any hesitation, hang those “devout followers” in their hands.

"You look like an asshole, you look like an idiot, you can't do it, Conch Show"

Slash all the pig ghosts (oaks) and little ghosts (goblins) coming at you in an exasperated manner, wasting as much tension as you can.

"Scarlet Snow!... Ha, ha, finally caught up. Ha ha ha ha ha ha..."

He came there as Johnny sewed a crowd of people, repeatedly breathing rough.

"Oh, I wish I had run away. Or, like any other believer, could you have intended to commit suicide here?

"- What the hell? What is this thing?

Johnny looks over at the tragedy around him - the monsters that continue to overflow from the tower like clouds and xia and the faithful who are solemnly staying on the spot and being fed - and blacks and whites his eyes.

"What a monster. Some of them seem to be subhuman... hey, don't you know?

"A demon (monster) - a monster in the Bible that God sealed in purgatory?!"

"Ho. That's how I treat you. - Yeah. Maybe that's for sure."

"Duh, what am I supposed to do...?

I don't care what they say.

I would have been able to annihilate other demon generals once and for all, but in my case, I don't have the firepower, and I don't fit the demon in the first place, no matter how many of my opponents are miscellaneous fish, and this one uses the HP and MP Auto Recovery (Regenerate) skills of an almost permanent engine, but in my basic paper armored body, I'm surrounded and damaged, it's definitely out.

And the gushing speed of the demon (monster) definitely exceeds my annihilation speed when I see it.

"I can't do anything about it. If we could at least get inside the tower and grasp the cause of the monster's appearance, we might come up with countermeasures."

No matter what you think, it would be suicide to go inside the tower against the flow of this demon (monster).

"... you just have to put it in the tower of the Ao God, don't you?

Johnny thinking with a difficult face.

beating the demon (monster) that persists toward you,

"No, there's a good chance it won't be any of them coming in."

I put my honest thoughts in my mouth.

"If it's still possible, I know it. Follow me!

Nodding confidently, Johnny returns his heels.

……… - I don't know. "

Soon I decided to leave the scene of this tragedy behind.

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A coarsely made roofed gondola like a minkan box was slowly progressing towards the 'Tower of the Pale God'.

"This is Snake. I have lust."

"Are you insatiable?

I sighed for now when I was asked back in a straight face by the sprinkles.

"... never mind because it's just a promise"

"Really? If you can't stand it, you can always help me."

"What" and "how" I decided not to let the scratch in to help me, and I looked far down and down through a round hole with glass attached to my apologies for what was happening on the ground.

Though there are too many distances to individually confirm on the boulder, it looks like a fairly large demon has also emerged, and it looks like it's going right and left over there in the Holy Capital.

"... Can't we move this a little faster?

"Don't be impotent. This dedicated lift has been discontinued from use for some time. I knew I could use anything because I had a chance to move it by accident before, but I've never actually moved it before."

"- Wait a minute! Wouldn't the wire cut off on the way?!"

If you fall from this distance, you'll die in a boulder!

"... we'll just have to hope it doesn't fall"

To my inquiry, Johnny shrugs his shoulder with a troubled face.

That also ends the aerial walk in Gondola, which is very bad for the heart, somehow.

Doesn't matter, but when I asked him if he couldn't travel on that flying winged machine, he said he couldn't because he had "no license" and "no flight around the tower in the first place" constraints.

"No, let's see if it's unlicensed. I can do enough to move it looking...... I'm gonna go find an ornithopter, you want to try it?

"In such a critical situation, there will be no such dangerous bridge!

So I picked a way to get around this one, but this one can be a literal 'dangerous bridge' over here.

Still, after a small hour, the place where we managed to arrive safely was 20-30 floors down from the top floor of the tower.

"There's only a staircase from here, but are you okay?

Mainly out of mental tiredness, Johnny looks worried to see how I'm feeling down there.

"It's okay, I don't have a physical problem, so let's just go. - Why don't we go up?

Sighing, I looked up at what was at the center of the tower - the spiral staircase.

It looked like a radially separated little room around this spiral staircase, but it wasn't popular enough to say at all.

"Oh. I hear that to meet the Ethereal God, we should head to the altar in the temple on the top floor"

"- Hmm. 'Cause he says he likes high places somehow and smoke."

Confirming Johnny nodded, I hung my foot on the spiral staircase. Johnny followed me with something to say.

Daimyo, the Ethereal God guy has a glass of wine in one hand. Every night, he looks down on the earth and does "Kuku, the fools" and I guess he's delighted.

That's how I imagined it - "Lady Tian is graceful", the Lord of the Aerial Garden was here.

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Upon ascending the spiral staircase, it had become a vast space.

High ceilings, decorated stone columns arranged at equal intervals, polished cobblestone blue floors look like mirrors, and if you look down you can see them up to the tip of your hair -!?

Ba! and looking back at the same time as holding down the skirt, Johnny turned to the day after tomorrow with tremendous momentum.

"... have you seen it?

Depending on the response, I try to slip through my eyeballs on this occasion and hit the sword tip of 'Sinner of the Rose (Jill de Leye)' around my cheek.

"I haven't seen it! I didn't see anything! I was just looking at it a long time ago - the future forever!

His eyes were exactly parallel to the floor as he ran out of dazzle and sweat.

"I hope so"

In a rather wise manner, even this one had to bear the spear.

Now, turning his gaze, there was something like an altar a step higher. From there, things were flowing like white mist, crawling over the floor and being sucked into something like a round manhole lid, positioned dotted in a circular temple.

To me, they're both familiar silo things.

"Transition Gate (Teleporter)... and the fog? Is that monster coming out of the fog and being sent to the ground?

"Oh, man. What do you think, can you stop this?!"

Johnny looks around in an uneasy way watching the infinite amount of fog gushing out of the altar. When did he prepare, he held a sword about the middle length between a small sword and a bamboo.

"Well. I wonder if I should simply smash the altar. If you do that, on the other hand, if a daft fog erupts all at once, the world here is going to end... well, it seems almost wiped out even as things stand, so why don't we do one or eight?

"Don't take it easy on me! Can't you handle it?!"

"I don't care what they say... there's no Ethereal God at heart"

I glanced at Galan and the unpopular altar before looking back at Johnny.

"By the way, is that sword made of steel?

"Hmm? Yeah, I brought it for protection once, what's wrong with that?

"No, what's wrong? What are we going to do? - Right!

"Ha - what...... but?!"

For a moment, Bok's lateral slaughter, which struck him by accident - a move that increased the pressure with his left hand attached to his body because the distance was clogged - stopped at Johnny's dagger and just bounced off his body.

"- Become?! What imitation, Scarlet Snow!?!"

Johnny manages to avoid only falling and has a stunned look on his face.

"Oh, come on, I want to quit the play."

"What are you talking about... are you going crazy?!"

"I think it's you who's weird, Johnny - no, Mr. Ethereal God."

"Huh??? What can I do to make me a pale god?!"

"It's quite an imminent act, but it's weird that there's an arm that can prevent me from attacking for real - well, if I get attacked, I'll find out the 'indestructible' attribute, so I must have defended myself with an aggressive... but in the first place, it's impossible to prevent this' Rose Sinner (Jill de Leye) 'with an iron sword."

Johnny, with a puzzled look, turned down and shut up.

I thought I was still going to go on playing monkey - but the look on Johnny's face, who looked up, had changed from that of a boy who seemed like a good man to that of an old adult, although it was the face that didn't change.

"I didn't know you'd find out. How long have you known?

An inquiry, with the same voice but with a bottom-cold sound, flowed out of its mouth.

"I guess from the beginning. It's a good world, but it was obviously weird."

"Wow. Where?

With a spare look, this one mouths what he remembers, with utmost vigilance, against the Dagger-lowered Ethereal God (Johnny).

"It's too beautiful. For example, the meadow where we first left off. Normally, when you're in a place like that, there's a lot of momentum for mosquitoes and mosquitoes.

And people in the city, including you, would hardly have smelled of body odors or dirt. -It's impossible, unless you take a bath every day and wash your body and clothes with soap and chemical detergent. "

You actually smell like going to the city in that world and shutting up the most.

There is a magical 'wash' about sterilization, so I can say it's okay, but I can't help but get dirty and smelly because I don't take a bath. And because spices are expensive, garlic (garlic) is used mainly in cooking, so everyone has a bad breath. And if you wash into a toddler, you use human or animal ooh for bleach, so your clothes stink!

"In short, you only know the terrestrial world you've seen from above, so you make those careless mistakes. A little mixed up with Shirai's people, you would have seen something different, and you couldn't have made a mistake. - Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was when you called me Scarlet Snow, because I didn't introduce myself to you."

With an incredibly grinning grin on my answers, Ethereal God (Johnny) spread his hands wide.

"You took one of these. I chose this on purpose to draw your attention... Was it no use?"

"Hmm. After all, I modeled Joey."

"Well, that's the thing. As a result of the skimming, I decided you were the one who was most forgiving."

A bitter Ethereal God (Johnny).

"Skimming. After all, is that fog demon, or was the bear an analyzer?

"Well, I don't know about that..."

For a moment, the appearance of Johnny the Ethereal God, covered in noisy distortion, and the next moment, standing on the spot was the adventurer who lowered his magic sword on his hips to upper body metal armor - replacing Joey with the exact same figure and gear.

"I switched to a long time ago... no, since I first met you, I might have been here by your side (Joey) - hey, Hiyuki"

"-!?

I understand in reason that it is the mouth of the Ethereal God, Joey. I was called up with the smile and voice of that thing, and although it was a few moments, doubts and confusion arose in my mind.

With that smile on his face, Joey ran all the way to the altar.

"Ma-!"

A magical sword of recognizable light flew from the front as he immediately tried to chase him.

I should have thought about it later, but I guess I was getting emotional. I knocked it off instantly.

By the time I realized it, the figure of Aoshi (Joey) was about to disappear into the fog.

"Follow me, Scarlet Snow! I'll be waiting for you. I look forward to seeing what choices you make and what you look like!

At the end of the laugh, the figure of the Ethereal God disappeared completely into the fog.

"I'm going anywhere. You've made me so cocky, it's not enough to hit me with one shot!

Leave the momentum to me, and I'll follow.

As we approached the fog, the blue defensive film covered the perimeter again, confirming it, and I jumped into the back of the altar.