Over The Infinite

It's a coincidence.

But if you think back later, it was just an inevitable encounter.

"Hiya."

My first formal job as an adventurer. events during a patrol mission at the surface of the Moon.

Despite being an important task, I was blinded by the object I immediately saw. A "nothing" space nearby, likely to be sucked in just by looking at the distance. The countless brilliant lights, everything is a star. I was just looking up at that, and they were going to take me away somewhere that wasn't here.

"Erica, I'm not confused"

"Oh, whoa, excuse me!

The voices you hear through your space suit belong to your partner today. When I looked around in a hurry, I was about a few meters away.

'I mostly react like you, though. I felt the same way last year. "

"Really?"

"It's a routine thing for my predecessor, Sempai, to be on a rookie's patrol. Wouldn't Erica do it next year, too?

Apparently, it's customary to get to the point where you want a frightened junior to leave it on video. I think it's a mean habit, but you think this is one of education? Sure, it's better than pulling your legs in the infinite corridor. At least, there's no monsters out here.

Even when it comes to patrolling the surface part of the moon, what we do is really just a look around. Simple job to visually check for any problems in an unmanned and mobile facility and check. They're monitoring it remotely, and error-checking is carried out at all times, so they're just going to walk around unless there's more to it. Sometimes they even protect the inhabitants who came out of the ground, but that would be included.

Nevertheless, the facilities on the surface are quite vast. It will be a day of work to look around properly. Travel is mainly automotive. Use a private car parked on the surface. Driving seems to be Sempai's role, and I am to sit in the passenger seat and check for anomalies. Though there is almost nothing to see but the vast earth.

"Speaking of which... the manual said that toilets are installed in each facility, but this seems to be a good distance to use the car"

"Erica is an idiot. What do you think you're wearing in space for?"

"Huh..."

I thought that was just in case... No way, you mean instead of diapers?

"Use the restroom in the facility properly. Because I can't delude you. Because I'll be laughed at when I get back. There's one every year."

"Shouldn't this, personal vital data, etc. be treated as confidential?

'Yes, but strangely, this kind of leaks for some reason. Just pee.'

Wow, that's an interesting joke...... I need to make sure I don't leak it by mistake.

That's why we kept moving as we exchanged non-tattered chatter, and by the time we reached the first facility, an hour had passed.... This may have to be a proper restroom break.

There is nothing difficult to work with. It's just something that's available as training for newcomers and basically doesn't even allow mistakes to occur. If you skip or become appropriate, it's a proper way to find out and get pissed off. Even when it comes to tasks, I guess the significance of training is still strong.

'This is an important task. If you fail to check and all of a sudden you run out of city air or can't detect meteorites, it's gonna be tough.'

and even follow Sempai's thankful novel. No, it sure is. Because we have nowhere to live but here.

It's a little late for a lunch break after the check. Take off the helmet part of your space suit and eat the lunch box paid for. I feel uncomfortable taking off my space suit and starting eating normally, but there's nothing strange about it other than the way it looks. Some tea, but I felt dangerous and couldn't reach out.

Diuretic, dangerous.

That's how he digested his patrol assignment and came to the last facility.

That's a huge circular plate-like facility. They have no structure on the surface and everything is built underground. According to the manual, this is a facility for checking the inside of the month. It is an important facility for managing where we live.

"So, it's a regular rookie course, but at the end of the day, you can come check it out by yourself."

"Huh...? I didn't ask. It doesn't even say that in the manual."

'Cause it's a knockout.' Cause what I'm gonna do to Bezu is with me, and I'm just gonna get the experience of working alone. '

"Ha ha..."

Maybe there's no problem. The manual was read thoroughly enough to memorize the first task, and the task itself is simple.

But when I have to act alone, I get anxious as soon as possible.... Oh, already. I know it may be necessary... but I want it to stop all of a sudden.

'It's okay, because I'll go around one more time later and double check. Oh, make sure you report properly on time. Oh, and be careful because the stairs in compartment three are a little easy to step off.... Oh, and...'

Seems anxious to let Sempai act alone for some reason. Seeing that worrying attitude was enough to calm this one down.

That's how we proceed with our first solo work, listening to Sempai's voice communicating to Darkless Arrow Cod.

But the silence invites fear with no sign of a person just the sound of the machine's drive. What I am doing is a visual check of the same specific spot as before, but I became exceptionally anxious just to be alone. Good luck with your correspondence - good luck - Sempai screaming, maybe he had the same experience last year.

Even though the work and the area around it are not very different, the time feels long. I'm sure if anything happens here, I can't handle it. As weak as that is, working alone wears the spirit out.

... for once, it may also contain the implications of a kind of training geared towards the attack of the infinite corridor.

"Next and last."

He comes to his final destination, largely saved by the roaring voice of Sempai.

It was like an exposed hall on the ground. A huge metal pierces the center like a pile, and countless meters are installed around it. I don't know what the use is, but it's probably a device to find out something in the ground. The work here is to check the value of the instrument and check for physical damage.

Naturally, there's not even something there, but after checking, I got anxious and repeated the check again.

'I do, don't I? I get it. I was the same.'

Sometimes I was nervous about my first job, the last of it.

There is nothing strange about the value of the meter.... but. No way, is that a dodgy or something for newbies?

"Oh, um... sempai?

"What's up? Peeing? Surely it's hard to tell where the toilet is. '

"No, it's not... alle, what?

"Arre?"

I wanted it to be something that preached the mindset of an adventurer who had to cope calmly at all times, but it seemed so different.

'... what's wrong? Nothing's caught up here, though.'

"Something... there's a girl"

A naked girl stands where there was nothing until just now.

The girl softly wraps up the light, just staring at this one with a bow. It was too clear for hallucinations and aunts, and too adorable for monsters.

Even if a citizen who escapes from a city is ever found on the surface, it's hard to imagine coming here where security is solidified. In the first place, there would be too much distance from the housing department.

"Uh... lost?

No, you can't be... and it was such an unnatural sight that I let myself in the penetration.

You don't understand what I'm saying, the girl is leaning her neck.

That's what we met.

It's a snake-footed encounter in a world where all this is over.

-1 -

Just before I was born, they had a city on the ground called the Labyrinth City.

You think there were a lot of adventurers in everything and the residents were there to see and support the activity? There are video records, but as far as I don't know the time of year, it's a bit imaginary and hard story.

It is a realm of different dimensions, such as the adventurer-to-adventurer game that fights in front of a large audience. What, an idle adventurer?

"Beginning unknown today, there has been a stand-up case in First City that appears to be ADS-led by the Anti-Adventurer Party..."

The news heard from television is a case by a terrorist disputed civil society organisation. It's not a particularly unusual story.

The positions of those who are called adventurers in this city are quite delicate. Some chosen ones. privileged class, probably because of the widespread perception that they are extremely favoured within a city with a lot of restrictions. Besides the fact that adventurers are responsible for much of the life base, I can't stand the difference in living standards. Moreover, it would be unfortunate if it were to depend on one's natural talents. A wall that can never be exceeded by effort alone stands between the general public and adventurers. The title and description are…, but I sometimes wonder if they really are.

"Even adventurers aren't easy, Luna."

He spoke to a cohabitant who sat on the couch for the most part and watched TV, but was given the face that he did not know better.

Probably due to the scarcity of relations with the general public. Especially since Luna has never been involved with anyone other than adventurers or their associates in her life.

"Carry it because you can eat. Looks like Mana's coming home."

"Aye."

Bring the breakfast I made out of time more than usual to the living room.

The content is very ordinary. Bacon eggs and salad, soup. It's bread if you want to match it, but I also prepare rice for Japanese homeowners. If I told him to prepare miso soup as well, he would, unfortunately, skip the landlord's breakfast.

The meals thus prepared are no different from those of the citizens reported in the news. Well, there seems to be a difference between the ingredients themselves, but even if I experienced both, I only feel a slight difference in whether they taste good or not.

They're not forced to live without eating or eating, they just don't want to admit that there's a difference in themselves... is what the show's commentators say.

"Boo Kensha, you mean Erica?

"Yes. I, the runaway adventurer. You too, adventurer."

"And Luna?

"Yes."

This little cohabitant doesn't understand his origins. Without general common sense, there is no common sense that is not common. This is still the kind of stage where we teach things one by one. I guess I'm not like a human baby again, but I feel like a mother when I'm thirteen. No, I don't know what my mother's like.

I met Luna three months ago.

Since I picked it up at my first job as an adventurer, I've been living together. I still don't know why, but I wouldn't have been able to choose to throw this kid out, who has been missed like a printed one.

Luna is not human. "Nursing" tells me in one shot that the species is the Spirit. I hear that when the earth was lost, massively generated magic vegetables must have gathered to take shape, but no one can tell the truth. Anyway, he's unconscious.

Together, Luna is the newest and only Spirit. The Spirit of the Moon.

"Ta-da."

"Welcome back... that smells like alcohol. You've been drinking again?

The landlord returned just in time for the home notice. Though he had expected it, he wasn't late for work or special errands, he was simply late for a drink and a return trip. It's a good thing.

"You don't shake. Our leader, if someone doesn't hang out, we'll keep drinking. What's so fun and alcoholic about not getting drunk at all - hey. Hey, Luna?

"Mana's an adventurer, too?

"Oh, yeah. You and your people. Then other members of us are adventurers. Drinking leaders and adventurers."

"Well, I guess so."

It must be obvious because it's an adventurer's party. If you want to supplement it, it also has the modification that it's the best in the city.

Mana's party is the survival of one of the few adventurers who all know about the Great Collapse.

"Well, it's about time some adventurers disappeared."

"That's what I've been saying for quite some time... retirement or something?

"Retirement or limitation...... It's time for you to seriously and mentally suck, right? Maybe it's time to think about reorganizing"

"How many?

"… four"

... more than half of them have problems? Sarah, I'm sayin ', isn't that a big problem?

"What's the alternative?

"Not at all. I would do anything to just delude you, but then even the current members seem to manage for the time being... It's going to be a serious step."

"Deep down, even with Mr. Phosphorus, it's tough."

What floats behind your brain is the figure of this city's most powerful adventurer. She has consistently reigned in the strongest seat since we met.

There is such a clear difference that it is said that no one else can do what she cannot, and it remains the same all the time. Neither can I imagine her losing, frustrating or distressing something.

"... If you blah blah blah, maybe one apple can stretch the offensive layer. But if someone doesn't pull their leg, it's gonna break."

Lonely Swordsman...... cool to say, but if you let Mana tell you, the truth is it seems like a car with a broken brake.

That if I let it go, I would keep running until everything broke as well as the brakes.

"That Mana's doing the part?

"We're friends, even if there's an age difference, we're party members, and for once we're relatives even remotely.... That's the kind of kid you're most likely to rely on."

I don't know what that's like, but I guess that's a part that shouldn't be easily touched.

I only know whose name you're referring to. Tetsujingu Tuya. Before the Great Collapse, I hear he was the one who was trying to be an adventurer with Mr. Phosphorous. He's alive and he's registered as an adventurer, but I'm pretty sure he's having some problems at a time when he's not currently active.

"I miss my childhood when I was human resource-rich. No, I didn't have any shards back then that I was going to be an adventurer. Oh, tea, tea."

I'm flirting. Taking Mana and starting having breakfast doesn't change the subject very much.

Adventurers and such. Even if I didn't pretend before like I did today, it would be enough to add to the story of the school I go to at best. Luna, who just eats quietly, is not the first to come up with a conversation.

"... Yes tea. So, what did Mana want to be?

"Cake Shop"

"Cake is that cake? I was selling it at the store."

"Uh, yeah. Before the Great Collapse, there were shops everywhere. Anyone could have bought it normally. I think it's in the material Erica was looking at."

There are many buildings that are looking at video material before the Great Collapse and are not sure for what purpose it was used. Maybe there was a cake shop in there like that. There will still be plants I'm building, and some people are making it out of hobbies, but you were selling it on purpose......

"Ma, that's why the cake shop is going to eat a lot of cake."

"It's a Japanese party, but it wasn't a Japanese confectionery shop or anything."

"It's only recently that I became a Japanese food party. No, I liked Japanese sweets, too. It happened to be a cake. You admire childhood, whatever it is you see in your eyes. If it hadn't collapsed, I'd probably be in the customer service business or something." Welcome. "

"The adventurer wasn't in the choice? They were popular, weren't they?

"My sister... my oldest sister is like a hunk of talent, and it was kind of far from a goal. Some brothers went for adventurers, but they were quickly frustrated. I think she felt like a baby."

It feels like a talent Mana can't keep up with.

I hear Mana's house was a large family and had many siblings. Your sister has an adventurer. But it's hard to imagine watching Mana and it's more than that. Whatever the truth is, he's the only one who keeps shouldering that phosphorus.

"I got a higher level than my sister back then. I also gained experience. Maybe if we fight, we can win. But I don't feel like I could catch up to you for some reason. It's cruel that there's not even a way to compare them, really."

The dead are cruel. You can't keep up with people who aren't there anymore, even if you're standing in line. This story doesn't mean actual talents, but the image of your sister in Mana as great has been consolidated, but it must be a late story.

"I also think that I got hooked on the aptitude test after the Great Collapse because the supernatant is gone. Am I really talented?

"You're a top adventurer, but you question there?

"'Cause I'm nearby, Ohrinda, the attack hard on the infinite corridor. Make it a little easier for me. I grew up spoiled by my youngest son."

Even if they say that, I don't understand what's going on down the infinite corridor. I know Mana is my youngest.

"Maybe you guys are more talented. Especially Luna."

Especially Luna, who kept eating instead of joining the conversation, responds to her name and looks at this one. Maybe you don't understand what they're saying.

"... Luna is a native. I... I don't know. I passed the aptitude test."

"I don't feel like I have to be talented by blood. I don't know much, but both my parents were adventurers, especially your mother, who was a bee magician, right?

"Apparently... I've never even met him."

Apparently my mother was a magician. Not a class magician, but a natural magician who can exercise magic without any assistance.

I guess I did have strength. At the time before the Great Collapse, even at a time when it could have been called a rush, the material makes me feel different from other magicians. In fact, even if I try to fish for material from the old Mage Guild, I don't understand it now.

For once, my father was also an adventurer, but unlike my mother, who was also a Fellow of the Magician's Guild, there is no material left at all. Both are refreshing to the point of character.

"Ma, please just come up. If we don't move on, even the example plan remains stopped. Erica and Luna, too."

"Yeah, I'll do my best"

"Ooh."

Even though they are more favoured than others. I have to work for at least that amount.

It's a little hard for the general public not to understand.

-2 -

Once, there was a disaster known as the Great Collapse.

It seemed to destroy all the planets inhabited until then and cause them to lose their civilization to the depths of humanity.

Only some of the poles of the labyrinth city could barely be evacuated to the moon. Then for more than a decade, its slightest people have spent their former glory unforgettably.

The way cities in the moon, which the general public calls management society distopia, seems breathless and hard for them.

I don't think it's impossible to feel that way if someone who doesn't know the reality just lives passively, but it's hard to improve. Even though it is managed, the standard of living is kept adequate. There is plenty of medical care and welfare. But still, people's grievances don't go away.

Generations born in our moon...... those called Lunarians have lived this as a natural world.

For us, the claims of those who seek further well-being, freedom and deregulation are difficult to understand. Anyway, they call us pathetic. I can only be puzzled by the difference in consciousness between generations.

"Ma, labyrinth cities tend to be beautified at the time - I was a generation that knew, but it was never like a paradise that civil society was talking about."

When I asked my teacher in the 'Basic Education' class I would learn as an adventurer, he returned such an answer.

Well, I guess so. Sure, the difference is huge, but just looking at the material left behind is enough to show that a lot of the problem existed.

"The truth is, if you look only at the level of living, it's not much different now than it was before the Great Collapse."

"Really?

"It's exclusive to labyrinth cities, though. Outside, it's so freaking different."

I know that. Although I'm personally concerned, it doesn't matter now. Currently, most people who live on the moon are former residents of labyrinth cities.

"This is something that dungeon masters and adventurers struggle to keep this way. You can't recover the legacy before the Great Collapse from the dungeon unless you're an adventurer. Even the general public knows that. … So what's the problem"

They seem to be urging me to answer, but I didn't have that answer.

"Actually, there are many answers, but the fundamental part is the Zubari population. Not enough people. The moon is Sukkaska. It is difficult to create diversity because of the low number of mothers. If there are not enough people, their hands will inevitably be assigned to where they need to be. You can't afford it, so naturally. Birth rates are crawling through the ground. It's hard to improve."

Places of need… The main places of work for the general public are agriculture and industrial plants. There are also professions such as teachers, police and officials of the bureau, but they are kept to a minimum. Of course, there's no cake shop.

"Adventurers are the top priority among them. But as you know, the kind of aptitude an adventurer needs is rare. The current situation is that it is not enough to assign all those who are fit, but we cannot open the gates as wide as we used to. There's also a load of management, but the biggest problem is that we can't afford to have people who aren't talented."

For that matter, he wants me to turn my hand to the job I need to live.

"Only a deep adventurer, including example plans, can manage this predicament. That's the only situation I can say I hope for. … I get the feeling that maybe only adventurers seem to be treated the same way as they used to be in a labyrinth city"

"You say you don't like being treated as favourably as you used to?

"Mmm, the teacher thinks a little differently. That's certainly included in the titles they list, but that's trivial. They can't forgive the fact that other than adventurers are not needed to make up the city this month. The point is, I want to pull my leg."

Why, does that happen?

"The consciousness of the unwanted is quite troublesome. Even if you don't clarify, you want to rebel because it's like they say, 'You're not talented enough to make things in the factory'. Seems like you didn't have the talent of an adventurer, but you did have the talent of an instigator."

It's a poisonous story, albeit one that has nothing to do with class. I hope it doesn't have a weird effect on Luna, who's listening to me aloud next door.

"If the awareness of former labyrinth city residents is a problem, wouldn't it be better if generations changed?

Birth rates are sluggish, but not that a new generation is born at all.

I'm from the moon, too, and the younger kids are pretty much there. They have a thin old generation fence.

"... maybe, but that's expected to bring up another problem. Ma, it's not like I haven't even thought about the upper levels of the moon. In the end, however, it takes the power of an adventurer to solve this problem fundamentally. No, I really hope so."

I'm hoping...... that's a lot lately. I don't know what else to do, but it's a little heavy.

Indeed, the fewer adventurers there have been in recent years. The suitability test was optimized for the current situation, so fewer people were frustrated as soon as they became adventurers, but the total number of people decreased for that matter. What a cut of fifty people registered at the same time as me.

Less than half of them have completed pre-training. There are only five people in the infinite corridor attack.

At a time when only me and Luna are in this class, which is open to underage adventurers, we know how few mothers we have.

-3-

This world is blocked.

Cities built to a very limited extent: the Moon are functional but play less.

Life is kept to a certain standard. Welfare is adequate. There is also entertainment. But I can't feel the future. I work to live. I'm resting my body to live. I'm stressed out to live. The kind of city you live to live in.

Looking at the city stretching beneath his eyes, he felt strongly that mankind was being hunted down.

Observatory overlooking the city of the moon. The general public can't get in and out, and adventurers rarely lean in. This was my favorite place.

It's been three years since I became an adventurer.

I came with results for a lot of things that didn't reach the first tier. Near-generation children have grown considerably too.

However, Mr. Phosphorous's lack of personnel prevented the offensive from proceeding, and the progress as a whole was not pleasant.

Luna...... was recently integrated into the top team. Apparently, the peculiar origin of the Spirit gave him more qualities as an adventurer than a human being. In the beginning, even from what I had partied with, I felt that talent was missing two heads at a time, so much so that it would be an appropriate result.

"I was in this place"

"... Luna"

Looking back, Luna was there who recently had less chance to see her.

"Erica comes here when something is hard, right? Anything happen again?

The appearance was little different from when we met, but Luna's tone turned into something very fluent. This should please you to grow up with this, but I miss a little when you said 'ai' or something.

I grew taller when it came to me. As a woman, it's pretty much bigger, and there's quite a difference from Luna, who doesn't change her back. It's the opposite of how fast you grow as an adventurer.

"No, nothing.... uh, it's not hard to talk or anything, it's really nothing."

"Really?

It's not like I was at dusk here for a specific reason. If I say so, is it because I am somehow stuck?

"I'm not a big deal myself... what does Luna think when she sees this city?

"I don't know."

"Well, does Luna?... I think I'm a little dangerous. Maybe we don't have time until we cross the deadly line. As I approached adulthood, I began to understand."

Hard to see on the surface, but moon dwellers are about the limit. I hope it's some kind of future-like news, but that would be just temporary. In the end, we have to solve the fundamental part.

"How's the offense? Sometimes I don't have to ask because I don't know what to say."

"A little harsh. Lynn is feeling isolated and shedding except for me.... I wish I had Mana"

"I knew it would..."

A year ago, Mana fell off as she struggled to somehow wrap herself around an out of pace party.

I don't know how much load it was, but he said he was cornered until one step ahead of the mental breakdown.

I can live a normal life now, albeit in rehab, but honestly it's suspicious if I can go back to being an adventurer.

I guess I didn't have a problem with Mr. Phosphorous. The attack on the infinite corridor is even harsh. I can't do it in a decent spirit. Even the layers I'm attacking have shepherds, so it's even worse if you're the top team attacking an unknown realm.

Reorganization. Reorganization. Party members change frequently to avoid creating plays for personnel whenever possible.

"I want Erica to fight with me if possible"

"Is that solicitation?

"I'm not kidding. I think Erica's gonna be strong."

"Luna is serious, so hey. I know you mean it.... but I guess the status quo is tough. You're a little stuck."

If we look at the figures alone, growth has not slowed down, but there has been no dramatic growth.

Not only me, but also the party members I'm working with right now. Maybe so are the other parties.

I know it's important to be faithful to the basics and be solid and strong, but I guess that's not enough. I feel like I need some kind of breakthrough. Maybe only Phosphorous and Luna are beyond that at the moment.

"I want you to talk to Lynn for once."

"It might be Ali who asks for the views of the superiors. I don't have much contact with them."

Phosphorous and I have met several times over a connection where Mana was a party member, but that's all. Everyone knows his name if he's an adventurer, but he knows very little about character.

"It's not just about Erica... it feels pretty good about Lynn too, so I thought talking about Mana would change my mood."

"... ok"

Maybe the situation is worse than I think.

The presence of a top team is like a symbol of an adventurer. Until now, there has been a pillar called Phosphorus no matter how many members change, but if there is a problem there, it could develop into a problem for the entire month.

"... excuse me"

A residential neighborhood where only adventurers are gathered. At the far back of it is Mr. Phosphorous's house. It's an unusual style of building called a Japanese house.

I visited there and heard from a helper who responded to the story of being in a co-located dojo. I took the appointment, so I headed straight to the dojo...

... Smells like alcohol.

When I opened the doors of the dojo, it was full of alcohol odors. The source of the smell is sitting in the middle of the dojo.

"Long time no see. Erica."

"Duh, thanks."

Mr. Phosphorous remains in that posture and does not wander. I tried to be almost fished and sat head-to-head in that face.

"Luna told you to come, didn't she? Mental Care"

"Yes.... well, that's true, you actually want some advice even as far as I'm concerned"

Sure, I've been told, but I didn't think I had the power to do anything about Mr. Phosphorous's mentality.

"I don't think swordsmen and magicians have a very different field."

"I'm so stuck that I wonder what to do, I thought it might be better from a completely different point of view."

"I see... well, not so much a mock fight... but let's stand together"

"Oh, yes."

That's what they say and I get up. Fortunately, my legs weren't paralyzed yet.

"Oh, um..."

"What?"

However, Mr. Phosphorus has not kept his posture slightly moving.

"We're going to a mock fight, right?

"From anywhere, please"

"Well, do you stay in that position? Uh, weapons or something."

"Help yourself."

"Yep..."

Mr. Phosphorous kept his eyes closed.

Are we going to attack in this state? I don't think anything is possible. But he's a top adventurer... and as soon as we attack him, he's going to jump.

Nevertheless, there have been quite a few occasions here as well. I'm not even new anymore. Not that I'm good at melee, but I'm working out so I can move quite a bit. I don't think it's going to be one-sided even if it gets done...

Take a short distance from Mr. Phosphorus, who doesn't move at all. Removing it from the Item Box is my favorite cane.

"So, I'll go"

"Go ahead."

At that moment I realized defeat.

I can't move my body. He was restrained solely because of his intimidation, even though he was not subjected to any magical interference.

This... is a blade. A sword chi surrounds your body that could be torn apart if you move even one step.

Mr. Phosphorous has done nothing. Instead of pulling the knife out, I'm completely handless.

It is impossible to build witchcraft. Just moving magic will tear you apart.

Or so, it's out of the question to hit him with a cane. Clearly packed. I don't have the help to do this.

"... yeah, not bad"

All of a sudden the intimidation that was tying my whole body was foggy. I kneel as I fall in.... I can't help it.

What the... what's going on?

"Sounds a lot more talented than I was asking"

"Yes?"

What the hell happened to such an assessment? I stood up earlier...... I looked over a few seconds just facing each other and I would just look on my knees doing nothing.

"I'll give it to Erica like that"

"Ha ha..."

Mr. Phosphorous took something like a knife from somewhere and showed it.... I normally received it, can I have it?

"The name is < red >. If you want to use it in earnest, you need a professional skill, but I think it would be just fine if you think about it as a protection. If a magician can prevent a single blow, other party members will do something about it."

Is that a knife? I still see a lot of knives and knives, but few people use knives that aren't either of them.

As Phosphorous said, it is because you will need specialized skills to retrieve it, but if you think about it as a protection, it may indeed be an ant.

"Yes, but... this is important."

"Once upon a time, there was a man called Mr. Night Light. The person's appearance."

Uh, let's not give it to someone that important.

"I guess even if I had it, I'd just die, and I'd be happier if someone who seemed to use it had it. He liked to kill people."

I guess I heard wrong...... You're not cursed about this, are you?

"Besides, it's not directly handed to me, it's the legacy of the infinite corridor."

"Oh, is it a legacy"

Crates appear in the infinite corridor, whether they are remnants before the Great Collapse. They didn't install it by anyone, but it seems like a mechanism for what's lost in the dungeon to emerge. Of these, the equipment used by adventurers in the past is called heritage.

A man named Night Light, too, only knows his name. Sure, it should have been a knife user that was active on the quasi-line. So I guess this is also a pretty good performance weapon.

So somehow, I received it. If this had a chance to work, it would be when they pulled out the avant-garde and approached me directly with an attack. It's really for protection.

"Ha..."

Then they served me tea and I drank it up and finally settled down. I feel like I've had a hell of an experience.

By the way, I'm tea, but what Mr. Phosphorous is drinking is sake. I don't think it's like drinking with hot water.

"Phosphorus is in a non-intoxicating physique, isn't he? Are you drinking for any reason?

"Because our father was a drinking guard. Even if it doesn't feel intoxicating, I wonder if you know what my father was thinking. And it calms the smell."

I think it just smells like alcohol, but is it different in person?

"Surely your father was an adventurer"

"Yes.... someone with a sister for Mana and unlikely to catch up forever. I haven't even caught up with vegetarian strength, though."

"You're from a position like Phosphorus right now, aren't you? of the top clan. On top of the numbers, it's like it's time to catch up"

"Hmm. From what I can see in the dossier, my father, who worked as an adventurer, feels like he can handle it.... because at the time of the Great Collapse, the array you used to get me away wasn't of that dimension. How many hidden balls were there?"

That, too, is no longer a lost record. I guess I'll just keep stuck as a wall I'll never catch up with.

"Phosphorus's goal... is to catch up with his father after all?

"No.... I'm not hiding anything else, I guess Erica would. I was gonna show my face after this, and I'm gonna go with you."

"Ha."

... to where?

-4-

It was in the basement that Mr. Phosphorous brought him here.

Even more underground than there is a city of the moon, not the basement of the mansion. It is an area called the centre. Even adventurers with access privileges considerably higher than the general public would be extremely few to let in here. Of course I'm out of the question.

Only the place involved in the operation of the moon is known, but there is no other information. Rumor has it you're experimenting with humans or analyzing dangerous substances? Such black rumors are also flirty.

"Here, come in here. Are you okay?

"No problem. I can only get to the point where I can take my companion by my authority."

Top adventurers are amazing after all.

"I mean, I don't know the details of what I'm doing, either. Maybe you can tell me if you ask, but I'm not very smart."

"Once again..."

"Ha-ha."

It was a dry laugh that made me feel like I was going deep into it.

You're supposed to be the fool and the top adventurer in charge of the future of humanity. No. You use your head to assemble tactics in the first place.

"So the... where are you going?

"Hospitals... something like that. It's already here."

If you ask me, I don't have to feel like that. A passage made up of hard bulkheads and machines, but like a mixture of chemical-like things in the smell of drifting...... It sounds like it if you're the one in white.

But hospitals are separate for the general public and adventurers. Being in a purposefully isolated area means a lot...

"Doesn't that mean it's not in itself?"

Sometimes it's rumored that a human laboratory is one end of the spectrum.

"Hey, why are you here..."

Is it going to be modified? No, I've been having a clinic for a while about whether or not to prosthetic some of it, but no way is that entanglement or something. I'm so scared.

"You know, do you want to feel fresh if I can? I don't have to think about it if I have to... prepare my mind..."

"No, because I'm not here to modify Erica. I mean, why are you leaping like that?"

"Well... you've been invited to modify your eyes."

"What do you mean..."

Apparently, it was early. But you can't joke about the fact that the interview is actually coming.

Apparently it's not about losing human body function or anything, either, but I'm afraid of replacing my body with something else, albeit part of it. Even if it was the same as my mother's.

"... I got it. This is what I fight for."

"This..."

Yes. I came here to talk about Mr. Phosphorous's purpose. There's no way my modifications will come out.

No, I don't care about that at this time. Not quite.... What is this in front of me?

"Monster......?

Beyond the giant glass, mysterious life forms were bound in isolated areas. Dead or unconscious, I'm not responding in any way to this one.

"It's not a person anymore, but it doesn't apply to the definition of a labyrinth city monster. I can't even call him a sub. Nearby are spirits and sub-gods, but in this state or not."

"What spirits... like Luna?

But the Spirit on earth should have vanished with the Great Collapse. Currently, I hear that she is the only one who can be called a Spirit.

"On that day, the day the stars collapsed, spirits and sub-gods who lost the backbone of their own existence vanished. It is said that Luna was born as a spirit because of the massive collection of magic vegetables that emanated from it on the moon, but in this child's case a close phenomenon also occurred"

"But... this"

I don't care what you think. I'm not in the shape of a person. No, it's not even in the form of an organism. A distorted body with a lot of organisms stuck together. Although there is hardly anything like the shape of a person in the centre......

"Once upon a time, there was a sub-god who ran a labyrinth city called the Four Gods."

"I've heard of it. You know, created by the then Dungeon Master."

It's information that even adventurers can't view without a high level of security and insufficient rating. I also found out recently.

"And he called the man who assisted him a witch of the Four Gods. The witch was bound by her soul at the time of her covenant with the Four Gods, and she became like the Spirit."

"I mean, at the time of the Great Collapse..."

"Yes, both the Four Gods and the Witch of the Four Gods have vanished.... except for this kid who was still an apprentice at the time"

Uh... wait a minute.

"Halfway through the collapse of the stars, this child was torn to pieces. But it didn't come to total annihilation. There, the subgods, who were supposed to have vanished, flocked in search of a place to go.... turned out to be such a poorly understood snail, although I didn't make it to death"

This is... the end of the extinct sub-god.

"It was Tetsunomiya who became the nucleus.... my childhood familiarity"

…………

There were no words.

That's a name Mana has been mouthing for a long time. Phosphorous's childhood is familiar, and he said he was close to becoming an adventurer with him.

I knew I hadn't become an adventurer. It's nothing strange if there are quite a few circumstances, such as having physical or mental problems. So, at best, he said he was seriously ill due to the Great Collapse or something... But... this isn't much.

"I want this kid back. That's what Elsie tells me if we get to the bottom of this, there might be a way to fix it."

Elsie...... Are you sure you're a dungeon master? I think my real name felt more like a model number though.

"Can't you do something with moon medicine?

"It's impossible to even analyze the current situation. I don't even know why he's alive. In order to avoid being held in captivity in this way, not just to sustain life or anything. But before the Great Collapse, Master Elsel, the god of water, or someone else, might have managed to do something about it."

I mean, I can't right now.

"I don't have zero prospects of healing. But that's far ahead of the infinite corridor.... So this is my goal. It's not like I don't feel like catching up with my father or anything."

"Good... ok"

I continued to be an adventurer with vagueness.

Because few people have the aptitude. Because I hear my parents were adventurers. Because I get a little bit of preferential treatment. Because I'm going to try and do quite a bit of it. The goal was top adventurers like Mana and Phosphorus. All this is vague and I don't have a clear me.

Even when Luna moved to the top team, some remorse was normally acknowledged. I'm sure that's because I didn't have anything clear.

Because I'm like this, I'm sure other adventurers thought it was something similar. Because the goal of saving the future of humanity was ambiguous but noble.

... but it wasn't. In an environment that breaks the mind if you make a mistake, each of the people ahead has a personal purpose. I can't do it without it. That's the way it is in this world.

That's when I heard my voice along with a slight earthquake. The original is in front of me... from Tuya, who looks beyond the glass. A roaring, crying, grieving voice.

"... are you conscious?

"I am conscious of this. Because it reacts to me, I don't think there are any shards of Tua's consciousness left... But it's another will that's on the table."

"No way, we can have a conversation"

"It won't be a conversation, though. Sometimes it seems to convey its intentions." The concubine is Kamil, the beast goddess. "

"Kamil?"

"Once upon a time, there was a place on earth called the Dark Continent, and it seemed to have the same name for the inheritance passed down to the sub-gods there. A story that even an oral biography seems to leave only an overview. The name of the goddess called the Origins of the Beast Gods. I can't believe the beast goddess princess...... Tua Ya has become great - already. I don't know what to do."

I pretended not to see a tear come to Mr. Phosphorous, who would tell him floating.

-5-

"... I see, I met Tuya"

"Yeah.... I mean, that's not a good name to talk to a runaway adventurer"

"Haha, it's not that high a security level, okay?"

"Not really."

Later, Mana, whom I hadn't seen in a long time, looked fine. I can't feel the mental damage for what I'm talking about like this.

"That's the kind of heavy stuff you're fighting on your back, our top is. I was doing it because someone had to replace Tuya. I didn't have that heavy a goal myself."

If I had, I would have asked if it was.... but that can't be true.

Mana stayed at the top for a reason. I don't know what that's like, but it's weird if you don't.

Mana's adventurer's qualities will certainly be something you can call first-rate. But I can't just keep standing in line with Mr. Phosphorous.

Luna... well, I don't know because she comes from and her qualities are separate from those of a human being. But on the contrary, it's possible that a handful of memories are the object of that.

"What about rehab?

"It's hard to say it's nothing... but it's going well. I still get tattoos that I can do it if I'm reintegrated.

That's the same as saying you won't be reintegrated into society.

"... are you going back?

"I'll be back. I can't leave my leader alone forever. All of a sudden, though, the front line will be tough, and I guess gradually because they already make quite a difference and yes. Because will you pick it up at Erica's?

"I don't mind that..."

I've found it useless to ask if you're serious. Because Mana's eyes when she said she was going back were serious in themselves, eyes of what she was resolutely determined and prepared to do.

... I don't even know what my former cohabitant has in mind. Without knowing it, I knew there was such a world.

"But I'm gonna take a little break, too, if it's the right time to regroup."

"That... you think I don't like adventurers after a while? I'm going on a journey to find myself."

"It's not like that."

Where to go on a journey in a situation where adventurers are isolated in a district? The universe?

"Um, I'll change my eyes. Because even though it's easy, it's gonna be surgery."

"... uh, was that the mother's eye in the example? No, I don't feel like everything's okay... but no, it's okay. That?

"He said there's no functional problem. Because in case you fail, you'll have your normal eyes regenerated."

Prosthetic eye with too large a magical element to analyze. When it comes to understanding, it means that human vision will be obtained without problems, and that there are genetic restrictions on its use, and it will become a normal eye even if it is used by someone other than me.

But it's hard to believe my mother left it without meaning. You should think it meant something and left it behind.

"Actually, you may already know it on a security level, but Erica's mother is missing."

"Yeah. I looked it up, too"

In this case, the meaning is different from that of a normal missing person.

If he dies in a major collapse, he is treated as missing, unless he is also clearly witnessed. One star. If it's a broken situation, that won't help. But not in my mother's case. Because you survive the Great Collapse and bear me.

So I thought the treatment of missing also included the confidential implications of the adventurer. That's it. That he would be dying of some kind of problem.

... I thought the result was "missing" even though I was given various disclosure powers to confirm it. He said he couldn't keep track of it for the management of the month.

In the month in which most humans are registered, it is hard to think about the fact that they are untraceable if investigated. Not to mention, it's nearly impossible to embarrass yourself as an adventurer. But it's happening. Seems like something that really doesn't make sense.

Old Sorcerer Guild Chief...... The same was true when I asked Io, the current Sorcerer Director.

Even for her, my mother seemed to have a lot of incomprehensible parts. At the time, a real-life magician was said to be almost non-existent outside the labyrinth city. The master is also a man of what is called a legend, and there are still procedural ceremonies that cannot be analyzed today. Amongst other things, is magic called the Gate of Souls organized in such an inexplicable way that no one can reach it?

To be clear, you would be too optimistic to consider yourself alive. But I didn't even think there was any point in what someone left behind.

A few days after that. I underwent surgery and switched my eyes to prosthetic eyes. They also leave their original eyes so that they can be returned at any time, but it's also quite gross that some of them are preserved.

For once, dealing with things that have not been analyzed, the underground facility where the surgery was performed is an example. Apparently, the consideration is to be able to react immediately in case there is.

The surgeon was a girl called Third. Actually, it almost becomes a machine to perform the surgery, but it seems to be the treatment of being in charge for once.

Ask me, is she a replica of the Dungeon Master? Apparently the appearance is the same, including the face. I heard she was a woman, but I didn't know she was younger than me...... No, it's not normal for an adventurer not to look the same as his age.

"Now I will shine the light, if you are dazzled, please raise your hand"

After the surgery, I was not particularly uncomfortable, but just in case, I was forced to live a life where I couldn't open my eyes for a few days.

And it looks like we're finally going to do the exam in stages if we think we're going to open our eyes. I feel the light from beyond the eye lid.

Now I opened my eyes and I didn't see anything, I don't really want to imagine, but I tried to open it with courage.

But what I waited for there was an unexpected world.

"Erica Edenfelde, is there a problem? Do you see that?

"Oh, yes."

I see it.... I see too much. It's not that I have improved my eyesight or anything like that, I even see things I shouldn't see.

"... LC302-X5012-03"

"Yes?"

That's Mr. Third's real name. I haven't even been introduced. I can tell even though I didn't "nurse" it.

Not only names, but even race, gender, age, gifts and tons of skills......

"Huh!!"

Severe headaches hit me. Mr. Third seems to have panicked, but stops it.

This is probably a phenomenon that happened because the brain couldn't process the abrupt amount of information.... I can tell that it is.

I haven't heard of such a feature in this eye. That means the function of the part that could not be analyzed.

... My mother seems to have left a hell of a lot behind.

Heavenly Eye. As a result of the investigation, this eye was called. It wasn't named by someone, it was named by the infinite corridor because it was found that such skills were being granted as the details were revealed. Perhaps, I didn't see it because it wasn't clearly named.

It integrates almost all of the information system "Demon Eye" skills currently confirmed, some of which seem to be of performance that outperforms it. All of them get a great deal of information about one thing: Nursing Eye, Magic Eye, Chili Eye, etc. In addition, it also includes foresight and the ability to foresee the near future.

Naturally, it can't be easy to control. Something like a limiter has been put on me, but I've lost my mind many times after being drunk by a huge wave of information. useful. Extremely powerful. But too strong.

"... unexpected is a good point, but probably not all features are used at the moment either"

There will be features that have not been freed up because I cannot handle them, says Mr Third.

"If the name of Heavenly Eye Tone is correct, it is a force that can also be foreseen in the future and past. I was wondering if there was anything close to it, even if it didn't just stay that way. I don't know how far a person is allowed to go, but it's even possible to foresee the information that comes with the circle and how that person is."

It was too much power.

"Regardless of such a cross-dimensional function, it seems to me that magicians can be an uninterrupted and powerful force if you normally think about it. However, you should rest and adjust your adventurer operations for a while, as you are not busy at the moment."

"Right."

I'm too afraid of accidents. It would be catastrophic if you accidentally lost your mind when you saw something weird.

In fact, I can see that this eye function is not the only one. Or the main function is probably something else.

The point is, this is a magic support item. Areas of magic that cannot be handled by the person alone, that kind of support capacity is granted. Especially leading up to sorcery exercise and manipulation, even primitive sorcery without MP would be constructable. It's a labour-intensive task, but it's definitely advanced.

I'm sure part of my mother's incomprehensible sorcery processing left in the material footage was that Colle was one end of the secret. Even the key to understanding that magic called "Gate of Souls"...

"Nevertheless, it's hard to think that even if you're used enough to resuming your adventurer, that's it. The investigation needs to continue."

"Yes. I don't know if I can tell you to go to the hospital... but should I get a leg here? Or live here for a while."

It seems troublesome, but it will be important, and as a city, unknown information needs to be investigated. Besides, if you use it, you might be able to crack a stuck situation... what a desire. That's what catches up with Phosphorus and Luna...

"Of course you'll get your feet on a regular basis, but put one person on support"

Do you mean surveillance? It's still a very different situation, though I don't mind.

"Except for Dungeon Attack, do you mean to spend as much time with that support as possible?

"No, even during the attack. There's just an individual that our original was trying to put into it, so with a catachy called integration to suit the time of party restructuring."

"Ha ha..."

... Individuals?

"I'm calling you here, so I thought it was time to arrive"

Wait a minute like that. The door to the room was opened.

I get stunned by the appearance of the person who came in, and then I take my gaze back and forth with the neighbor, Mr. Third.

"Hi, Erica Edenfelde. My name is LC302-X5012-02. It's the second replicate individual, so please call it the second."

The introduced Mr. Support looked exactly like Mr. Third.

... No, although I thought about the possibility that there might be such a presence under the name Third. Seriously......

-6-

How many Dungeon Master replicate individuals exist? That kind of question arose, but that seems confidential.

It's also classified to say who the second is.

Anyone who knows what the Dungeon Master looks like will look at that face and react, but he's not willing to go deep into it.

"Oh, haha...... duh, thank you Mana.... I was really there."

"Yes, thank you. Call me Second."

This is the first contact that occurred when Mana and I rehabilitated and used the training ground. Apparently we've never met. Though Mr. Phosphorus seemed to know.

"Um, second means it was made before third, right? I've seen Mr. Third for a long time, but where the hell was Mr. Second?

"No more respectful language is needed than working as an adventurer from now on. Think of me as a different individual than the original."

"Oh, yes."

Even so, it would still be hard as a mana with dungeon masters and visiting experience.

"Prior to this mission, I was operating as a Starship AI."

The universe? Currently, there shouldn't even be plans to explore the surface, and beyond that, there shouldn't even be a ship.

... for investigation?

"Hit me..."

I hear Mana had something in mind.

"Yes. I was doing a dungeon exploration of Mars. It's about what's planned and whispered among adventurers."

Mars... No, it's about a star that looks terribly like a planet called Mars in the world that had a previous dungeon master.

There is a giant dungeon there similar to the one called the Moon.

A dungeon other than an infinite corridor can gain control of the area at the time of attacking it. In other words, there has been a plan for how attacking this dungeon could not make Mars a living zone for mankind.

Nevertheless, it is difficult to get to the point of attack because it is too far away. The story is that a dungeon master would be able to do that too, but if I let go of the management of the moon, it would be wiped out at that point. In the first place, I hear the Dungeon Master is not very motivated to ride.

That's why we're raising the bottom line of adventurers and developing people who can attack them... so the investigation itself was conducted?

"Uh, what was it like?

"The details will not be revealed because they will be confidential, but the original named the dungeon < Mars Disaster >. We've identified all of Mars as the largest dungeon of all time."

"Why, the whole area? It's a planet, right?

Even the big cavity of the moon is a part of the moon, albeit huge. That's the whole area...... and planetary scale.

That can be assumed to be a certainty that all of Mars will be dominated as long as the offense is possible, but at the same time the offensive difficulty jumps.

"As things stand, estimates have popped up that even if the original hit the offense with full specs, it would take years to fully grasp it. Which means that in order to accomplish the example plan, you need to at least that much of an adventurer's bottom line."

It was an impenetrable hurdle.

Can you imagine Mana more clearly than I do, and she remains stunned?

"Nevertheless, the original is not considered impossible. I see that the top adventurers, starting with Lynn, are able to attack well enough by continuing to raise the bottom."

"Well, if you're an orin, I have some expectations... but not yet on that level"

"Yes. Time to worry. The negative image that spreads to the moon city is growing with each day we follow. How much time can be twisted in the current situation, which is changing in a less favourable direction…"

For a long time...... the air that has spread to the cities of the moon has been particularly bad in the last few years. It's a difficult problem to get rid of, even if we know what caused it. While it's getting worse. It was expected that the colonization of Mars would improve if it were possible......

"So we don't have much time. Accurate time limits are not presented, but they can also not go on with decades. We can't wait for adventurers to grow, as they have done before."

"... if you put any more strain on the orin"

Even though it is still said to be an unscrupulous high pace, a situation where there is no one else to keep up with but Luna.

But the response was different from what I had imagined.

"No. Lynn, I understand that even if one works hard, it's impossible. So we decided that we needed to do something else."

That's how the second looks at me.

"Erica Edenfelde. The original expects you"

"Huh? Oh, yes... Hi?

Oh, what's this flow? You're not gonna tell me to do phosphorus-level activity.

"It is impossible to perform in a common sense way. I can't calculate the results no matter how optimistic I look at the calculations in the elements that the moon is able to grasp. Then we'll have to fill the hole with parts outside common sense. Currently, there are three elements that cannot be analyzed in the month. Kamil, Princess of the Beast God, and Luna, Spirit of the Moon, and are gathered unto thee."

"Uh... and"

Is it insane?

"The original put me in as an adventurer, also for that backup. I understand that it would be highly undesirable to burden only certain personnel, but please help."

No, even if I get my head down...... Mana's in a bad mood.

... the whole thing, what do you expect from me?

It's a snake-footed story, happening in a world where it's all over.

It's the story of the beginning of the six of us who forced us to be saviors in a world where dark clouds can stand.