"... Leon, get back here. I don't know what it says there, but we need to find out."
"Come on, Dantes, don't be silly. You're gonna crack my head open with that noisy weapon when you get back anyway, right?
"I wouldn't do that. Not like you."
"Ha!"
like throwing up. Leon said,
"It's not like you! You've been that way for a long time, you preach, and you want to think about the party and everyone, but in the end, you just want to be cool on the spot without thinking about it later! With your discretionary sense of justice, how many times have you (...) done it with a fee? Even when you defeated a bunch of abominable goblins, you didn't take the liberty of saying, 'You can't take money from a poor village' or anything!
"That... after that, I would have been well rewarded by the Adventurer Guild"
"It is! Me! 'Cause you negotiated with the guild!' Cause you're the only praise the adventurers around! What's wrong with getting paid? What's wrong with going up there? Dantes, I'm so glad you got petrified. Happy without you. Happy with you. Happy with your heroism."
"Oh, I... no"
Words stop coming out as if Mr. Dantes even got grass tangled in his throat.
Exactly, I wondered what the graffiti was.
But I couldn't say anything —— because I had goosebumps at the signs of someone next to me.
"Twice, you don't think it's the word of someone whose life was saved by my father."
Mr. Nong's voice was calm as usual. And behind that word, there is an incredible infiltration of anger.
Scary. Scary because calm people are usually angry. I can't look at you because I'm scared.
"Heroic temptation? So what is it? You must have been saved from Medusa by that heroism and twice in this labyrinth. I can't stand hearing people like you when I stick a blade at them."
"Become —— you're Dantes' daughter, so you can say that!
"I am the one who puts himself in the church. Before I was the father's daughter, I was the son of God. It is also found in the Bible: 'Give thanks and reward hatred with mercy'. My father is not a man of the Church, but he is a man who goes on earth with the teachings of the Bible. No matter how many motherfuckers you are (...), my father will treat you with mercy"
"Ugh... Ugh!! I told you the sermon was perfect!
I noticed Leon's anomaly at this time.
Was he the kind of man who would raise his mad voice, like he was so cornered?
He should have been more plain, fuzzy, and picturesque kind of guy.
(Ah--)
I just felt the identity of the mess (...) here, okay.
"--Mr. Mimino, we're out of magic neutralizers. Can you get it out now?
"What? That's in that luggage--"
It was when Mr. Mimino referred to the luggage we had left out of the meal earlier.
"Leon, come back here once!
I was trying to put my strength into the hand Leon put on the lever.
"Dantes, watch your fingers there. I'm the one who's gonna break through this dungeon. I'm gonna be the hero here!
The lever was lowered.
What should I have done at this time?
Leon laughed, Mr. Dantes distorted his blue-white face, Mr. Non stared at Leon, Mr. Zelly cautioned, and Mr. Mimino still pointed at the other luggage until occasionally.
From above, far from above, my voice waved as if God were to give even in the announcement.
"-- Fear Seyo --"
I feel my heart stiffened and my head held down from the top. Fear, it is reminded that this is what it is.
I slammed my hand on the ground. I have trouble breathing. Vision stains red. Much tighter than the emotional attack that was done in the first battle with Automaton.
!?
I looked at the end of the aisle. Leon is also nodding with his head again. But behind it, there was a corridor on the wall with some writing on it —— a corridor that I could manage to get through if I crawled on all fours.
But Leon hasn't noticed. Not only Leon, we couldn't all move out of this place.
Zuzu, it sounded like ground.
That was "the same" I heard when I defeated the Juggernaut.
In other words, the "same" thing happens -- the buried wall of the "face" moves out. In an attempt to close the narrow passage, it moves.
"Leo, n......! The wall's moving!
I squeal my voice. Happily raised his face, Leon was a messed up face with tears and snot. And I understood what was about to happen to me.
Even so, he couldn't move. I just shook my ears and neck sideways like a frightening little animal.
"Move... move! I'm gonna die!?"
"Leon, come here......!
Mr. Dantes also notices an anomaly and raises his voice: the passage, which was about a metre wide, has already narrowed to about 70 cm.
"Get up! Leon!
"... Yes, help..."
But Leon can't move. Even if it moves from here, my legs are dull-- oh, shit, shit, shit! If you were on "Magic Neutralizer," this wouldn't have happened if you had just a little more time to prepare!
"Mimino, do you have a twat!?"
Mr. Mimino, who was trembling with a bright blue face, noticed in my words that when he took the snail out of his hips toolbag, he turned to the aisle and activated [flower magic]. Hiluru's stretched twat fell right in front of Leon.
"Da, Dantes, don't pull...!
"Leon!"
Leon grabbed the knob that had fallen in front of him, clutching him.
Even if they pointed the blade at me, even if they betrayed me, even if they spit on me, neither Mr. Dantes nor Mr. Mimino had any hesitation in helping Leon.
In extreme circumstances, people manifest their nature.
I'm glad I'm having the same party as these people.
"Let's go!
The aisle width is already about 50 cm. Leon falls to the sidelines, desperately clinging to his claws.
The aftertaste of fear still lingers. My legs tremble and my hands are powerless. Still -- with the will to "help," get over the fear.
I join Mr. Dantes and pull the knob. Pull. Pull.
5 meters to go. 4 meters. 3 meters. 2 meters.
The width is only about 30 cm.
But in time —— the light of hope lit Leon's eyes with his face up.
"Ah--"
From above Leon.
A loose, viscous object came down like it had been smashed with a bucket.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!?"
My knob broke and me and Mr. Dantes flipped back.
Slime --.
Encapsulates Leon, melts clothes, melts skin, and smoke rises.
Voices interrupt.
The passage closes.
No sound.
When the width cut 10 cm, the inside was no longer visible.
…………
Perfectly, the passage was closed. As if there was no passage there.
Where is the gap between the slime sticking out just a little, when the soot sucked into the wall and disappeared?