Mob, if I were a high school student, could I be an adventurer, too, Leah?
Episode 17: Chasing the Dead ②
"And in the meantime, we're going after...!
"Oh, yes."
With a confusing head, I manage to say that and follow the shadows.
Why, Shoko Sato? He was alive? Come to think of it, we haven't found a body. It's just missing. But why are you still here? Were you one of the killers? Or are you cooperating under threat?
Fill your head, numerous questions.
But more questionable than that was how she looked.
Despite being pursued in this way, I'm not running away using my card, I'm running away on my own feet.
I also thought you were inviting this one, but no matter how you look at it, desperate... I even said that face, which I occasionally look back on, would die if caught.
While I was a little lost, I decided to speak to her thoughtfully.
"... wait! Let me talk to him!
... No. I'm not responding. What, you think this one's one of the hounds?
"Shoko Sato, right!? We are adventurers who have come to the Missing Persons Search Quest! I'm here to find you!
I raise my voice like that, but she still doesn't respond.
From time to time, looking back at this one with a look of fear, he is desperately fleeing with a slowly slowing leg.
That doesn't seem like a taste for hounds.
So she fell at the root of the tree.
Even if the possibility of a trap is overwhelming for a moment, we decided that we should keep her here, even at risk.
"Anna and the others will wait here."
That said, I approach her alone.
But the moment I tried to touch her.
"... ugh!? Knock, knock?
As if it were Kasumi or something, Shoko Sato, who can disappear.
Shit! Was it still a trap by some skill!
I'll be flying right behind you...
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... but nothing happens.
That's crazy...... Twist your neck inside. I thought an ambush of enemies would come soon though...
Then after about a minute of vigilance nothing happened, so I turned back to Anna and the others.
"Hey? What do you think this is about?
But they don't answer anything just by looking at this one like it was a hiccup.
Eventually, Anna asked me with a bewildered blue look.
"... Um, what... Talking to you?
"What..."
Now this one puzzles me.
Shoko Sato was alive, right? I don't care what you think, it's an anomaly. Even if she was one of the killers, or even if the killer was blackmailing her to cooperate, it doesn't translate into a leading lead.
Besides, it's about the neglected disappearance in front of me right now. If it was a trap, we must be alert to enemy raids.
It was a question that included all of those...... how dull their reaction was.
With hesitation, Anna says.
"... what were the seniors following and talking to earlier...?
"... what?
Zokri, and a cold thing running on my back.
............... The Annas didn't see Shoko Sato?
It existed so clearly.
"Um, Master... from over there, the smell of blood..."
"What...?
With Yuki's lead, trace the source of the smell.
Off the road and as we continue to draw the grass......
"Ugh... ugh"
"Hih......!
"This is...!
- - There was a body there, supposedly a young woman.
I guess he was devoured by a labyrinth monster, a tragic corpse that hasn't kept its original form.
Because of the labyrinthine properties of distorted space-time, the decay of corpses has not progressed. But that, on the contrary, has told those who see 'fresh' death.
It's as if, if only a few minutes earlier, I would have saved you... and yes she's telling me...
Grotesque, if that means yomotsushi comedy stench and appearance would be tighter.
But the same human “death” unlike that on the card has had a completely different impact on us.
I can't move a single step forward of the body, Anna screams fine and blues, and the weave somehow opens its eyes and looks at me.
And... the clothes the corpse wore were the stuff of Shoko Sato, whom I was chasing until earlier, and the shadows that linger on his relatively little damaged head also proved that this was Shoko Sato's person.
"... ugh."
When I realized that, I was shocked unexpectedly by it myself.
That's not to fear that if I had any more bad luck, this would have happened to me.
Sure, there was that fear, too. No one will see this sight and not be afraid to know that they were likely to have been too.
But more than that, I was struck by the very fact that the victim was actually out.
Funny thing is, I was attacked by a hound myself, and many people are dead... and I didn't really feel like I was being killed.
I meant to understand that a lot of people were dead. But it was information as a letter.
But this is how I saw the corpse and finally found out what the hound man's place was.
This is... miserable. Too miserable.
If you noticed, I was holding hands against her.
Anna and the others imitate it and begin to pray for her blessings.
Now, I just... had to.
"So..."
Eventually, after a few minutes of silence, Anna shrugged at the pretend.
"Is this one good, Shoko Sato?
"Perhaps. There is no other information that there are non-returnees in this labyrinth..."
When I said that, Anna saw this one in a way that she was afraid.
"If you say this was Shoko Sato..."
"Oh, oh..."
"Well then... what the hell did the seniors see earlier..."
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A quiet chill runs through his back.
Shoko Sato will be the first to know that this body is from clothes worn, etc.
That means that the thing I was chasing wasn't the living girlfriend herself...
Again, the killer only pinpoints me for no reason to show her phantoms...
That means that I...
Anna says as she distances herself from Jiriziri and me.
"Blah blah, seniors are such 'visible people' su...?
"Yes, no, that's not true, it should..."
I lived independently of the things that are spiritual souls when I was born.
Spiritual vision in the first place... I don't think such a protagonist-like skill is sleeping in me.
But on the other hand, ghosts... the very existence of the soul could not be denied.
Because I am witnessing the souls of children once imprisoned by a Harmeln whistling man.
We can also assume that that was just an effect of skill, but I guess that was a skill that used the children's souls to look at their bodies and see what Lianhua said: "I'm still imprisoned here".
But I've never seen that hand thing since.
If you recognize the existence of your soul in the Battle of Harmeln and your psychosis-capable talent awakens, it shouldn't be strange to see it outside the labyrinth.
That's why I can see it at this time......
Besides, earlier arr was a little odd when it came to ghosts. It doesn't mean they talk about carelessness, it's like, they're just playing footage from the past over and over again...
"Perhaps what the seniors saw is a residual thought"
Weave said that all of a sudden.
When you look at what the hell...
"It must be residual thought if the spirit body was not speaking to seniors, but repeating its actions just before death. The senior's eyes must have read the strong thoughts of the victim who was burning to the scene"
The loom's eyes, which spoke so quickly, were different from the usual gyt eyes, and they glowed badly.
"Does the soul exist? This has not been scientifically proven even now that the Necromancer monster has appeared. However, some of the cards of the Divine Buddhist system publicly proclaim the existence of souls, and some magic tools allow communication with the dead. I mean, spirits exist, and if there are ghosts, it's not weird!
"Sa, little night, calm down..."
"Can this calm down!
A weave that tells Anna to bite her.
It was unimaginably exciting from my usual cool bareback.
... Blah, I'm a little scared.
"No one has ever seen a spiritual body in their lifetime, even if they have interacted with the dead with demonic props! The self-proclaimed psychic is rotten, but the seniors are genuine and authentic! You found the body with psychoscopic abilities! I didn't know spiritual abilities existed so close to me......! Wow, that's so awesome!
Woven looking at this one with a red tide of cheeks, as if I had met an entertainer I admired.
Apparently, the fact that she has psychoscopic abilities has pierced her strike zone for occult lovers and cook two sick patients.
but to be honest, I wasn't happy at all. As much as I would have appreciated not seeing it for the rest of my life.
"How did the seniors wake up to that ability? Again, born? Or have you wandered the frontiers of life and death and allowed your potential to blossom!? Can you feel anything spiritual? And you're giving it to me, too!?
"Yes, no, even if they say so..."
I have no idea what that means to me either, and if I can give it to you, I want to give it to you.
As I twisted into the momentum of the weave, I saw Anna come between me.
"As, well, let's talk about that later? Right? I'm not talking about doing this here..."
"Oh, yeah, we need to retrieve the bodies and artifacts first. I won't be sneaking around forever."
"Mm... right, surely careless. Her soul is here too..."
When we said that, Weaver pulled back a lot.
Besides, he grates his chest and stops perfectly there.
... Who's going to collect this?
View Chirali and the body. They must have been devoured by monsters of the beast system. The damaged state of the flesh was extremely bad, a tragedy that was difficult to withstand direct vision. It was more resistant to touch it directly because it is a state of hesitation to even put it in sight.
... After all, I have to do it? He's the only one.
But... blah, I don't want to...
I prayed for her blessing earlier, and I may be surprised... but that was different from this.
No matter how many adventurers you are, you are not used to human corpses.
This was the first time I saw people's bodies, too, except for the bodies of the kids from Harmeln.
I mean, we're just high school students on this sort of thing, just high school kids being corpses... there's no way we can take the initiative to recover a tragic corpse, either.
Besides, I've seen what looks like her ghost earlier.
If I was cursed by touching the body... my fear outweighed my sympathy for the victim only slightly.
Oh, I thought if Eliza were here at a time like this... then suck... and the weave came forward.
"Oh, woven...?
Huh... lying, no way...?
Turning to the look of anticipation while thinking, she wears the white gloves she took out of her nostalgia......
"Leave this place to me. I'd like to look into something."
I said that like it was nothing.... No, you said it.
Oh, oh, I'm sorry! Thanks! Sorry I'm such a pitiful senior!
As I offer my heartfelt gratitude, Woven begins to discern the body.
"You're in terrible condition with the body... now you don't know if the killer killed it or if the monster in this hierarchy killed it. If I were to kill you, I would use the same card as the monster here...
But... are there any signs of women being assaulted? Sounds like you're not a nasty killer in that direction for now. Or, woman...?
Are your belongings licenses, wallets, and regular smartphones? I didn't know you didn't even have a tear spray. It's called this light outfit, you seemed a lot alarmed. Are you still targeting beginners and the fading vigilante?
Does the wallet contain... 10,000 bills? Plus cash cards with electronic money features. Looks like he's not the killer for a simple financial purpose after all... "
A weave that collects textiles and artifacts with bumps and grumbles.
And finally, when I gave Yomotsushi Kome instructions and asked him to deliver the body to the special bag he had prepared, he looked back at me.
"Phew... it's over"
"Oh, oh! Tired. No, seriously, thanks.... So, did you find anything?
"Oh, I found a license and a smartphone. After all, it looks like it's undergoing mechanical destruction. If it's just a smartphone, it's definitely Gremlin's fault that the license is broken."
"That means the same M.O. as a hound."
Is it now certain that the killer is using gremlin for the crime? I mean, it wasn't a coincidence that I was raided by Gremlin at that time.
At that time, if you're home...... No, the houndster was obviously shooting at me. Sooner or later, any of them would have been attacked.
Instead, if he had returned there, the houndsman would have been more alert to me and attacked me with a more complete system.
Then I must have lost my life because I couldn't afford to use the 'metastasis' magic card.
With that in mind, I guess being attacked at that time was also 'lucky to be unhappy'......
"So there was an example?
"No... unfortunately I didn't. Well, I didn't think all the victims had it from the start. Rather, it would be unnatural to have it. Therefore, even if I had one, I thought it was about one in a few people."
"Be... enough?
Anna tilting her neck.
It's why the killer lets the victim escape the stairs, something the victim will be able to have in his nostalgia, something not all victims will have......?
What the hell is that...? I'm curious... how can I force myself to ask more than I'm willing to say right now?
... I also got dirty work done.
"In the meantime, we've recovered your body, and we're going back to the ground."
Nor is there a zero chance that a houndsman will strike.
A lot of thinking would be good after you settle down on the ground.
... Nevertheless, what is this psychosis capability?
I think of one person as I head to the gate for the lowest level of return.
Why has something previously unseen become visible at this time?
My sleeping talent blossomed in me... there can't be any. I understand very well that I have no special talent for that hand.
If there was a protagonist correction for saying that to me... that would have been given externally.
External... If this is the ability given by someone's intent...
By showing me the spirit of the dead, what do you want to tell me?
I often think back to Shoko Sato.
She was running away. This meant that the houndster would not kill me on the spot after I gave him the card, and it became certain that he would actually be let out of the stairs. But what would you have done if that would have caused the victim to meet other adventurers by chance and be protected?
The fact that you're destroying licenses and cameras should be true that you want to erase your tracks.
Nevertheless, why imitate such evidence that the victim's testimony remains......
The question kept spinning around in my head.