Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

- Jabbo!

The sound echoed in my ear, and I felt it thrown into the liquid.

Normally, it seems like a hurry situation, but I was rather relieved.

Looks like we're finally back.

In the first place, the confusion in the water is because it is only human and requires breathing.

It is the sense of crisis that makes us rush to death as it is, and makes us explore various means that we have to get out of it somehow.

But how about me?

You don't need to breathe or anything, and if you feel like it, you can probably keep meditating in the water all day.

So I was able to calmly check my position as though I was in no hurry.

To look around, after all, I understand that it is nothing more than an earlier location.

Now that would have been the rush if they had thrown me out to places I don't know again......

But it's been a long time.

The Capitans will be worried too.

There will be a normal party where you think you've already given up on me because you think I'm dead, but Capitan knows I'm not going to die that way.

He should be waiting for me in a little while.

Anyway, if we don't get up on the water......

That's what I thought, so I made sure which one was up there, and I headed toward the one where the light plugged in.

Not so far away.

Slowly, but surely, he swims and goes up.

Then something jumps in from the water.

I thought it might be an enemy, but soon I realized it wasn't.

That was a hand.

It's familiar.

I reached for it... I grabbed it.

My body was pulled up...... I got out on the water.

I heard the water coming out with me.

Totally wet, but this coat presented by the woman is quick drying, so it dries as soon as possible.

The mask is also made of something like metal, so it looks rusty, but no matter how much it goes on the water, it doesn't float at all, it just keeps being a creepy skeletal mask.

Well, if it's going to corrode, I'll use it to smash it, 'cause I can do something about it.

I guess I can't even break it so I can't take it off no matter how.

"... Lent! Are you okay?"

When I think about not having such a benefit, such a voice hits me.

It's the voice of the Capitans.

Of course, it was his hand that pulled me up.

I look up and tell him.

"Oh, I don't know... I mean, I'm sorry it went off. I'd have kept you waiting a long time, wouldn't I?

"Not so much. It's only been about twenty minutes... but I'm surprised you suddenly don't see me. I dived into the water and looked for it, but I didn't see it anywhere... and there was another passage in the ocean somewhere, and for some reason I headed that way, and so much so that I thought of the possibility."

"Twenty minutes?... That was surprisingly short."

That would be about the time I was talking to that woman, by and large.

Hallucinations...... or the longer I was looking at the labyrinth memories that the woman said.

"What... is something wrong?

Apparently, the Capitans perceived something in my reaction.

I say.

"Oh... I don't know, a lot. I want to ask you first...... did the Capitans see anything?

That woman said.

The same hallucinations as mine could be seen by others.

To this the Capitan opened his eyes,

"... No, I haven't seen it"

I replied, but I asked because I was curious how to say it.

"I (...)?"

"Oh... Diego. I just lost my mind for a second. He said he saw strange hallucinations then. Maybe he said he thought it was his mental problem... but it doesn't look like he did, does it?

Diego saw that.

I see, I felt that.

From the words of the Capitans, I suppose the others have not seen.

Why.

There are not so many possible reasons.

However, I can predict from the content of that hallucination that it is because it is the past of those close to Diego.

This labyrinth has a long history.

It was before Lucalis could do it.

And that's why countless people have visited.

The same would be true of the memories stored in the labyrinth.

Nevertheless, shouldn't we think that I saw that because... Diego was there?

I don't know how the labyrinth works, but to think about the ingredients we have today in general, that's natural.

I just want to see that woman again and ask if I can... but I know I'm not the one to see her that way.

If we ever see each other again, now is the time to ask some decent questions......

Whatever you need to do now......

"... I'd like to talk to Diego, too. Everybody?"

The only person here right now is Capitan.

There are no Diego and no Needs.

Capitan answers.

"I'm going to see what's going on a little further now. This is a so-called safety zone, but it's not in anything. Time is limited, and I thought we should let the needs know what this labyrinth looks like."

"Are you all right?

"With Diego there will be no problem. In the first place, no more powerful demons have emerged around here yet. Even if you leave, it's about the Little Fish Phantom (Lesser Sahagin). If it's just the needs, it might be packed if they're surrounded by about five, but if it's Diego's arm, it's fine to have ten. You don't have to leave all at once."

Diego seems pretty highly regarded among the Capitans.

Well, I feel the same way.

From the movement I saw when I first met him, I know he has more than some power.

Of course, I know I'm not showing you everything in my hand, but at the very least, I know I'm going to say that I can do that.

Furthermore, even if the Capitans do not see the battle in person, they will see the same thing when they see what they are doing.

I knew it was different to be a master... I can't get that far.

That's a lot of mistakes.

"Okay then... will you be back soon? Or should I go after him?

"We should be back soon. I told you not to go too far... and I'm sure you'd come back."

He seemed to think of all the possibilities, but still believed me and waited for me.

Thankfully.

"I'm sorry..."

"No. I don't mind... but what really happened? If you just saw the hallucinations you were saying too, you wouldn't have had to disappear otherwise, like Diego did... but you... where the hell were you disappearing?

"I don't know that for sure either..."

But still told Capitan the rough things.

Including that woman. There's not much to hide from him.

No, you can say it's not first.

Capitan heard it,

"... odd, but not enemy, woman of mighty power, or... Yeah, sounds like a waste of time just thinking about it."

And I said that I had no body or lid.

"That may be true..."

"Same in the woods. Occasionally I see monsters like monsters in the depths. But I get something like that, and I don't show interest in little people, etc. The same goes for the woman. If they show interest...... I'll just have to give that up now. Well, when it does, you'll fight, but you can't do what you can't. I'm guessing she's something like that.

"... Well, yeah"

He didn't flush anything properly, but it was a dialogue because of his attitude toward the mighty, the imperceptible to people, which he acquired as a hunter.

I feel the same way, and it's a story that sticks together.

"Then go in a direction you don't care about for the moment... you're gonna have to explore the labyrinth first"

When I say that, the Capitans snort, too.

"Ah. We talked quite a bit, and it should be time for Diego and the others to come back..."

That's what I said, and we got scared all over our bodies.

face to face,

"... what!?

"... this is...!?

We were both saying those words.

The cause of the fear is felt from far up.

And at the next moment, the mighty magic and the tiny sway that reached the labyrinth struck.