Lead the other world.

"Mmm..."

Citrus slowly opened his eyes as he felt the vibrations coming through his body as he was moving.

"This is..."

I noticed that the citrus vegetables were connected by a collar with some strange glowing white scales that I didn't know existed in my neck, leaving me completely powerless in the sensation and body where the magic was sucked away.

On top of that, both arms were restrained behind their bodies with iron bracelets, and all weapons and tools were recovered and locked in cages.

While lying powerless, Citrus called on his partner who was in his own world of mind.

(Lux……)

However, there was no response at all. Citrus clouded his expression.

Then he moved to crawl without using both arms and threw both legs forward, also against the cage wall.

"Hmm...? Are you awake?

When the citrus vegetables raised their faces unexpectedly to the voice they heard from outside the cage, a dark-haired pale-haired man in a familiar silver armor stared at this one as he sat.

"Hih..."

Further to his familiar voice, Citrus remembered when he was slashed, and he accidentally screamed a small scream, softening his body.

The man exhaled at the reaction and left with a word to wait.

(What was it...?)

After a while, an earlier man appeared in trousers that looked sturdy on one shirt and sat in front of a cage with citrus vegetables.

"Is this getting a little better?

"Ugh, yeah......"

If you look closely at the man's face, he looked serious and neat, but he looks younger than you thought. Takumi and his years don't seem that different.

The man coughed up once and spoke to the citrus when he noticed the citrus seemed to have an unexpected look on his face.

"I'm Zain, one of the 'Guardian Knights' of the Radatome Empire Knights. Let me know your name."

Zain, who lightened his introduction, was also urged to introduce himself to the citrus fruit, but turned away and ignored it.

Zain then shrugged his shoulders, sharpening his eyes and warning the citrus.

"You better answer quickly. As long as you have that collar, it's a mechanism that will inflict a certain amount of pain on your body if you lie or act inconsistently with our will. Of course you can't kill yourself."

Citrus answered with no choice but to whisper in Zain's eyes, who never seemed to lie.

"Kiryu... citrus. That's what you said back then, J-rank."

"Again..."

Citrus was pretty frightened inside about what Zayn would ask me this time to pound and squeal so much, but the next thing Zayn said was an unexpected word.

"Why did you shelter the Spirit then? The Spirit would not have died in the attack of Ashinaga."

Citrus replied to Zain looking at this one curiously.

"My body just moved on its own. Because you are my dear partner..."

Zain silenced himself for a while to the answer and re-sat to hit the wall in the front of the citrus tree, opening his mouth with a whisper.

"Sorry about that. The back wound was left to be treated on its own to avoid sequelae."

"Huh?"

Citrus vegetables said so surprised me and overheard Zain's words.

Then Zain turned away and replied blurring.

"Don't make me say it again and again. I'll keep an eye on you until we get to Radatome. If you want to talk about yourself, talk to me, because I'm personally interested. Well, if I didn't like it, I wouldn't pursue it any further. You're just gonna suffer."

Then, Zain began to take care of his pale sword, so the citrus trees kept silent and watched for a while and remained silent.