Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)
Chapter Six-9: Beyond Sand Time
The first day of the attack on the Augurian dunes was cut up as soon as sunset.
If you plug it in the middle of the night, it will be the longest of the 'sand hours' blown three times a day. If you can't make it through the sand where you're pregnant, your body will be eroded and you can lose sight of the road.
If you can't even hope far away for the landmark Preades Watch Tower, it would be wiser to spend the night heavily recovering and cultivating your sense of integrity for tomorrow.
"And now, by the way, does the anti warcraft work while you're asleep?
"Of course not. Aye. It's so dumb and funny that the kids who brought me in here can't butt me. Wow."
Knowing the fierceness of the Augurian Dune Warcraft, Subaru is slightly more or less lumbar. Laughing at Subaru's hips like that, Mary's nose is high.
Are you glad you proved your usefulness, she has been in a visible mood since the sand earthworm incident? Subaru also realized that her mood was worth dying for, so she wanted to include seriousness in the response in the future.
Whatever it is, it is night.
For one thing, based on the stunning sandy plains in the dunes, Subaru and the others begin to prepare for sand avoidance around dragon cars. Even so, you don't need such a big prep.
Regardless of the strain on one person, the way it is done is really simple.
"Well, Emilia Tan. I'm just asking you, please."
"Yeah, just stay away. - Damn it!
With the same procedure as sticking up the ice tower, Emilia exercises her magic with a distracting hanging voice. and ice walls are formed to cover the eastern side of the stopped dragon car, which acts as a defense against sand winds and shuts out sand completely.
If you don't have to worry about the ice melting, it will also help protect you against a little warcraft. Looking and feeling cold is the problem, but if I closed my eyes there, I expected to be effective enough.
"I'm still sweet with Emilia's help, but I don't feel comfortable."
"It's okay. I told you, didn't I? Because Subaru and Julius are working hard on the move. And I told you, I'm doing great."
"They usually have bad breasts, and I think that's what's at stake."
Emilia builds a force on Julius, who sees the ice wall and sighs. With his soft white arms sideways, Subaru thinks he needs to pay attention to Emilia's condition as well.
In fact, the supposedly airy dune air has a unique 'weight'.
Its weight also acts somewhat on Subaru's body, and the low mouth count of Beatrice and Julius seems to have an impact on it. Anastasia and lamb quiet in the dragon car may also have something to do with it after a while.
On the contrary, Emilia and Mary are the two who seem to be doing well.
I don't think the two of us have anything in common, but this should also not be less alarming than the impact is extreme. Speaking for real, I just want to get through the dunes early.
"No rush allowed. I don't know how you feel about hurrying down the road."
――――
Julius looks up at the eastern sky, which is inhibited by ice, and calls out to Subaru, who pushes silently. Feeling herself seen through the inside, Subaru snorted and turned his back on the ice wall. and Patrash's nose, just approaching Subaru, is pressed against Subaru's shoulder.
Subaru laughed bitterly at the feeling that from next to next.
"So, you're trying to calm me down, too?
"Nothing, I didn't mean to. Maybe they didn't take the lead."
Beatrice pushes her back and turns away, looking up from the bottom in a meaningful way.
Subaru scratched his own head wondering if he could see so much impatience. If you look at it, Emilia also sees Subaru with tender eyes, and when she meets her eyes, she waves her hands small.
Suddenly embarrassed, Subaru slapped his hand.
"All right, thanks to Emilia Tan, we've secured the bunk, and we'll be ready for tomorrow. It's dawn when 'Sand Time' ends, so by then..."
"Before we do that, we have to treat the lamb."
"Oh well. Right. So, Emilia, I asked for you and Bear."
I can be stopped by Emilia trying to do her routine, trying to talk about it quickly. Emilia and Beatrice nod at Subaru's request and the treatment begins with the men outside.
By the way, why put Subaru and Julius outside and the treatment starts -
"- Uh-huh."
Through the door, but I can tell by the slightly leaking voice that the treatment has begun.
Somewhere hot and trembling, painful, the voice belongs to Ram. Light light rises in the dragon car, and treatment is given by mana that combines the four attributes.
It was also true that mana was poured in from the corner wounds that were gone and the condition of the ram being treated was painful, on the other hand, making it feel glossy somewhere.
As a result, the men have declined their seats since they witnessed the treatment scene on the first day.
"I'll give it back, but I don't know what Roswar thinks about letting you do it."
"It must be some kind of honorable role. Ms Lamb is pathetic and attractive. I'm just honestly not happy, considering it's obvious who her eyes are looking at."
"Roswar would know that, too, why would he do something like this?... In this case, why would we talk about rams even if they did?
"There are things you can't connect with people from the outside. This is all the more true if it is a relationship between a man and a woman. To put it to the extreme, your first meeting with me couldn't have been a good one either. At least I didn't know you and I would ever be on the same side of the road together."
"... is that so?"
Subaru rubs his nose slightly reddening his cheeks at the sound of treatment heard from behind.
Julius has a firm face but is very irritating for simple teenagers. Still, you can't go away and be sniffed by dangerous warcraft. I don't have a choice. I need it.
"Hey, I can see Natsuki-kun's grid."
"Wow!?
I was quietly clearing my ears, and my breath sprayed in those ears and Subaru bounced. When I fell ill and rolled over the sand, I saw Anastasia circling this way from the back of the dragon car. Julius, who was wary as Subaru panicked, broke up with that anastasia figure and looks at this one who rolls.
"I guess it's a little too surprising. It's like I was even thinking about something evil."
"Huh? I haven't thought about anything other than evil? Oh, I don't know what you're talking about. I have no idea. I have no idea. Mr. Anastasia, what can I do for you? I'll ask you anything!
"Too bad to delude you, Hin? Ma, yeah. Natsuki-kun may be intrigued by the exchange inside, but I have to tell you something important."
The color of contempt shakes out Julius' gaze, and Subaru thumbs up to Anastasia. Anastasia, bitterly smiling at that reaction, stepped on the sand with her boots to
"Wow, it's hard to walk. Julius and the others are fine."
"Because I'm working out. I can't say enough for this moment."
"When underfoot is uncertain, don't try to slow down to make sure, but leave the momentum to the firmness of the back of the shoe to step through. This is the Clindstream."
This is the foundation of the evil path I learned from the all-purpose family ordinance, Clind, during my Parkur mastery.
Anastasia nodded as impressed by the words, then lowered the neck of the robe that was weaving its feathers and put the lower part of her hidden face outside. Exhale deeply.
"I know about the sand, but I'm gonna catch my breath. I want to go somewhere sandy and unrelated and take a deep breath as soon as I can."
"I agree. And then I want to take a bath. My head is sanded so fast."
People in the desert will see why they wrap turbans around their heads.
sand control and measures for hot and cold weather. The human way of living on a harsh earth is natural but reasonable. Subaru is also moderately wrapped in cloth, but to this extent it could not be prevented.
"Bath, agree. I wish I had a bath in Mr. Sage's house."
"... you just don't know that far, is that what you mean?
"Even if Echidna knows how to get there, it doesn't mean we've been in there before."
Anastasia pulls the neck of the robe further down, showing the fox collar roll she is wearing without letting go of her skin. This is the main premise that Collar Donna will be the guide for the journey.
Doubting her doesn't start, but it's what I want to pack.
"You can think of important stories as future, right?
"Of course."
"Sincerely, I ask you"
Into a thin-breasted anastasia, Subaru and Julius enter the listening position. Taking it, Anastasia looked back at the dragon car with a lot of attitude,
"Starting today, I'm going to stay in the car with a burn... and you two boys are not going to sleep in the front seat. A woman and a small chamber, and when things get better, it's Akan's."
"You can talk about that hand now!
"Hey, I just thought I'd relieve the tension... ma, yeah"
In the first place, I just stayed in the same room for about a night and now I don't care. I already know my lack of courage and my opponent's lack of vigilance.
All in all, put aside such a subaru inner cry, Anastasia gets to the point.
"This is how I spent the day going for the surveillance tower today... how's it going?
"Hands-on... blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."
Twisting his neck to the question, Subaru looks back at the day.
The Subaru, who arrived at Augurian Dunes at noon and spent the morning 'sand time', then spent nearly half a day traveling. Beyond the afternoon 'sand time' that was there in time, it is now the situation that has entered the sunset. Speaking of achievements to date -,
"I knew the tower was perfect as a landmark and a sign of the way home I asked Emilia Tan to do. And then I guess it pays to say that Mary's potency is stronger than I thought?
"The measures to 'sand time' were adequate with the previous preparations and the driving of Subaru. However, the problem is that I can't see the Preades Surveillance Tower, the way there......"
"Can't you see the way?
Julius, who was supposed to have taken over the words, and Subaru frowns at the incorrect conclusion. Julius said to Subaru, "Didn't you notice?," he exhaled.
"To this point, indeed, the itinerary is proceeding in due course without any noticeable deficiencies. I agree with you that if you don't stay out of shape,"
"I took it around. Don't say it, it's a bad habit. Say Babuk more directly."
"Briefly, then. - Subaru, don't you notice anything strange about the tower?
――――
Subaru breathed in the quiet inquiry of Julius.
Then you look at the watchtower - a mighty masterpiece that sees through the other side of the ice wall, claiming to exist pompously even in the night.
Abnormality, even if Julius points out, Svalbard doesn't know the abnormality of the surveillance tower. That tower, which has been staring at us all day, should have changed nothing since we arrived in the dunes.
- Nothing has changed, should be.
――
"You seem to have noticed. That tower is obviously not close or far away. We keep walking towards that tower... but the distance isn't filled."
As Julius points out, Subaru finally realizes the anomaly.
The far-sighted Preades surveillance tower continues to be there, unchanged and with a sense of size that there is no way to overlook. Whatever, the way it looks remains unchanged.
"You're lying..."
"Subaru, I also know how you feel about moving. But be sure..."
"So you're saying that all the journeys I walked through today, struggling and sanded, were wasted!? The offense stinks too much -!"
"... yeah?
I kicked the sand under my feet and Julius' words jammed into Subaru, which absurd my voice. Subaru crouches to the ground in front of confused Julius, shrugging the sand with his palms and pointing his lips.
"Whoa, whoa, you're serious. When I found out about it, I became doggedly tired. They say hard work was hard work. Seriously, it's tight. Wow, that sucks."
"More than I thought, it doesn't seem like there's any spirituality."
"Where are you looking! You're in so much pain! The mess is dented, and the mess is unpleasant. If you've noticed, say it sooner!
"Try to keep your mouth shut until you're sure, think so. I didn't want to discourage you."
"That's how you guys do it..."
Throw away the dull sand and stand up with your hands slapped. That's how he glanced at Julius from the bottom, and Subaru was outraged.
"Will you stop feeling like that? Don't even think about it. I'm not mad at you! Instead, you might find a thread from it. Is it the spirit of your 'let's just treat this thing in my own chest'? So you really think things are getting better? At least I've never been glad to keep my mouth shut!
"Oh, oh, I'm sorry"
"Tell me something trivial right away. I also told Lamb, a non-offensive character. Do you have to tell everyone to go around, hey?"
Julius is also a reflective face when Subaru looks back at the thoroughness of the horseradish. Having taken a rare advantage over his' best knight 'opponent, Subaru picks up what barely seems good from the numerous inconveniences and turns to Anastasia.
"So, you can think you know something about this phenomenon."
"I reflected on the lack of explanation I did... so I could be sure that our people half-heartedly did it today. It would help if you thought that way. Wow."
"At that half-heartedness point, talk to me next. That's it. So what's going on?
Tongues out to Anastasia, who brings up excuses first, prompting ahead of words. Then Anastasia prefaced, "Don't be surprised to hear it,"
"It's a sand plain between this dune and the surveillance tower, but maybe the space is clear."
"The space is clear...?
"I mean, it's different from the way it looks, and it goes on and on. I don't know. You can keep walking like this, but you won't be able to get there for long."
Subaru can't block his open mouth to Anastasia revealing the facts of the obvious and the shock. Anastasia-Collar Donna should have known that from the beginning, more than pretending to be the wind that she heard about it from Collar Donna.
"Is that why neither Reinhardt nor previous challengers could be traced?"
"The destination itself is not visible there. All you have to do is pack the distance... and if you've been desperately through the Nest of Warcraft on the road, all the more so, you don't want one more step and you don't have to flaunt it"
――――
The carelessness of the adventurers who fall in the middle of the road, with their purpose at present, is somewhat overwhelmed.
Even Reinhardt gave up his offense, an obstacle to anyone aiming for a surveillance tower. The distorted space and the end of the sandy sea that you can't actually reach - is that karaki?
"How can I break that?
"... maybe the story of not breaking is a little off target? This is a natural trap or monster created by temper. I don't even work for artificial force."
"Natural trap!? This is it!?
Extremely rarely, nature prepares traps that it can only assume are intentional to kill in their own way.
Mirages often found in desert areas and snow paths leading to cliffs in heavy snow zones. A bottomless swamp or even a full tide can take human life if you think in a large frame.
But the presence of this watchtower...
"Is this nature's prepared trap? Exactly. That's too much to say."
"Originally, a Preades surveillance tower was built where these phenomena occur. It's not unnatural to think about it that way. Even if it makes sense."
"Suitable for reason? Of what?"
"Don't forget. that the dunes lead to the surveillance tower, but that the towers are not the only ones at the end of the dunes. In the first place, what's the surveillance tower for?
Julius embarrasses Subaru and encourages him to think. The answer immediately came to my next inquiry. The purpose of the watchtower, it is the seal of the 'Witch's Temple'.
And the insurmountable dune trap will have a very high effect, even as a deterrent to witchcraft that seeks to revive the 'Jealous Witch'.
In general, I cannot be blamed for that.
"... Huh! Okay. Anyway, it's not good now how and for what purpose that tower was built over there. There is nothing wrong with that. It's a way to break through distorted spaces."
"You can't turn down the original, you know what I'm talking about? That's what this place is all about."
"That's OK. I grasped the terroir and fame. Next, let's explore weaknesses. There's more to it than buying directions and getting out, right? There's a way out."
"Without that, we wouldn't be talking about it.... the way out, it's subtle."
Bitterly smiling at Subaru for his pursuit, Anastasia makes a lot of windy attitude. Then she nodded to Subaru and Julius, gazing at herself, and said:
"There must be a moment in the middle of that 'sand time' when the space leading to the surveillance tower collapses. Through there, into a real sandy sea. That's the condition for a breakthrough."
- The Dune Attack from the next day had a series of very difficult situations.
The path to Anastasia's disclosed surveillance tower, the terms of which are shared by all. In other words, the march until the visit of 'Sand Time' was mostly marginal, during which time it was expected to be marginal.
But those anxieties,
"Even when the 'sand time' at the heart comes, it's up to luck to get to the bust. If you think about it, we don't think it's bad to stay in one place."
"And if you're in one place without it, the animals around you might remember our smell. Wow. I'm all right, but oh, just in case something goes off with me, you can come after me everywhere. Wow."
Anastasia and Mary, we got nothing by the two opinions.
I don't rely on the former opinion, but the latter opinion is actually life-threatening. I don't really want to think about the situation, but turning away from danger is just cowardice. Genuine courage is honorable because you dare to look directly at fear and still stand up to it.
"Isn't that right, Emilia Tan"
"-? Yeah, right"
"Dear Emilia, Better not take it too seriously. It's the face of a fool."
I regularly exchange words with Fujiko in the dragon car, but his motivation hasn't diminished even when yesterday's march was heard to be hard work.
There is also a lot of room for food and water prepared in Milula. Although I would like to think that there is no anxiety, as the influence of Qi is soothed by Emilia and Beatrice's spiritual art.
"Actually, it's stressful not knowing how many days I'm gonna be working."
"Subaru, don't swallow the gravel in your mouth. It doesn't have to be a large amount of sand. If it's a nasty procedure, you'll see the painful eyes later."
Beatrice is also perfectly accustomed to the feeling of savoring the sand in her mouth and notes the subaru of diminishing vigilance. As always, Beatrice, who is in Subaru's arms while riding a dragon, when he gets the water inlet out of his nostalgia,
"Look, I think I need to get my mouth straight. Clean your mouth as much as you can't take a bath."
"Heck... Speaking of which, you don't have to take a bath to stay pretty"
"I wonder if the majority of Betty's body consists of mana. Naturally, I always keep my cleanliness. Adorable anytime, anywhere, I wonder if it's natural for Betty"
"Yes, yes, cute cute cute"
Beatrice swells her cheeks at the nasty Subaru response, but she strokes her head like that and plays with the vertical roll pushed into the robe. I'm knitting three today.
"Oh, another Herd of Warcraft discovery.... Yeah, if you're doing it and making it faraway, they just look like animals, too."
"When you get close to me, your brother will soon be gabbling. It's strange, but the animals around here are watching your brother."
Pull Patrash over to the dragon car and see the herd of warcraft gathered in a position sideways off the path. Mary looked at Subaru with a strange face, as she put it, and muttered, "It's weird.
Apparently she doesn't know what to do with Subaru's surrounding 'leftover incense of witches'. I thought Subaru was a homogeneous one, but I don't know what it is, and it's going to get dizzy. Either way, the smell didn't fade from Subaru, or the nature of the Warcraft being drawn to it seems to have disappeared.
"Oh, could that be a warcraft of nostalgia? Ram, look at this!
"It's terribly unpleasant to be told about me like I'm part of a memory. I can only remember Balls and Ram getting caught in a terrible way."
The herd of demon dogs peering this way from a distance is a companion to the Warcraft disaster that struck the former Roswar residence. Unexpectedly tense Subaru, Ram's attitude is staggering and cold.
"Don't say that. That's me, you, and your relationship with Rem. Had it not been for those guys, I might not have been here right now. Thinking about it, it's not a bad relationship with them either... No, I'm sorry! You're shit!"
"Burn yourself up and stop extinguishing the fire yourself. Because it's pathetic to watch, miserable to hear, pitiful to just think"
The agony of a year ago is revived against a herd of warcraft. Sighing at its heating Subaru, Ram shut the dragon car window and cut the story off.
Too bad, but I can't help it. That incident a year ago in the ram has been repainted in a form resolved in cooperation with Subaru in the absence of the presence of Rem. In fact, I don't know how I can attack a bunch of Warcraft without a lem, but they don't make me uncomfortable with that memory alteration.
If Rem's memory comes back in the ram, the missing part should be filled and the topic meshed. At that time, I knew I was only willing to be offended.
"Whoa!" Sand Time "Yabe!" Sand Time "Pan! Sandstyle sucks!
"Hey, I made as much transparent ice as I could, but if you can't, tell me, okay?
"Not good enough already. This! Ice all-purpose theory collapses!
And the arrival of the pivotal 'sand time', jumping towards the sand wind, penetrating in search of the distortion of space that leads to the tower, is overwhelmingly stirred by the fierceness of the sand than you can imagine.
Especially a miscalculation was the ice wall, its total defeat, which has supported the Subaru's adventures with strong performances so far.
"Even though it's an ice wall because of it, the mess sand sticks up and you can't see the front at all! I mean, too windy, too windy, too windy with a wide area of ice, too suicidal!
"Huh!? What!? Subaru said something!? I can't hear you at all!
"Too windy and too suicidal!!
"Huh!? Want to die!? No, you can't! Don't be weak!
"Talk to me like that...... GUAH!! Sand entered my eyes violently ah!!
"Huh!? What did you say!? Say it again! Subaru? Subaru -!"
"Do it again, Sparta like that...... GUAH!!
"Subaru -!?"
The stormy sandstorm is no longer close to that of the sandstorm.
Even though the Subaru who are challenging are serious in their own right, the exchange seems like an act of comedy.
Thin, even having an ice plate with only sand avoidance in mind is only suicidal in the wind blowing from the head. Instead, it is best to protect your body completely with a cloth and reduce the amount of wind you receive by letting all the dragons shrink to the extreme.
However, in the case of that operation, it comes neck-,
"Come on! Come on, Gian! Only your horsepower depends!
――――
A ground dragon that receives the sand wind head-on and is forced to storm into it. Already the number of days of the dune attack also counts, and the budding bond is expressed as a nomenclature.
Early on, the name of the ground dragon of the glass species pulling the dragon car was named 'Gian'.
And that Gian's hard work holds the key to a breakthrough in the sand wind. Anyway, dragon cars carrying women have no idea how to be smaller against the wind.
As a result, Gian has no choice but to pull a dragon car with unbeatable horsepower as far as his power is concerned.
"It's not sexually appropriate to force a dragon to do so much... but now you're counting on it"
"See, good luck! I don't want to go back to the sand again."
Julius, who holds the reins, and Mary, who sits next to him, also send Yale to Gian.
It's the two of us who have seen Gian work harder up close than anyone else, so we can trust that bottom line and throw words at him.
――――
I can't even open a small window in the wind, but I can believe Emilia and the others would be praying worryingly from inside the dragon car.
As a sand wind measure at least, Emilia had the dragon car slightly smothered with ice. If you put an ice plate on the front, the sand won't withstand the wind's onslaught even if it can prevent it.
Then, and Subaru's bitter measures imagined a single spear, the formation of wings and sharp angles that shed the wind - piercing suddenly in the wind.
"It's an application of the Petite 4WD modification. I can't do it because lighter meat drainage is life-saving, but I'm going to do what I can. Come on, go, Gungnir - pierce it!
"-!"
Gian's feet suddenly step forward as he responds to Subaru's cry. A dragon car that has become a single spear eats through the wind that pushes it head-on, forward, forward.
Eventually, the dragon car, which bears the name of its divine spear, pierces itself into the wounds of the wind that it devoured, determines the sand outrage, and breaks through -.
――――
The moment it went through the sandy wind, it was a terribly sharpened silence that struck Subaru.
The wind that was so noisy in his ear, the sand that struck him to scrape his whole body, the temper to encourage the activation of the Warcraft, has disappeared as if everything had been an illusion.
――――
The end of "Sand Time" is certainly abrupt but with more aftertaste.
The sand-wrapped wind gradually weakens its momentum and eventually slowly disappears as the waves draw, leaving only a unique scent of sand.
But only this time, it doesn't. That is proof that this end is separate from the previous end of 'sand time'.
――――
Subaru looks back, feeling thirsty in his mouth.
Then, just like Subaru, there are Julius and the others who shudder through the sand wind. Naturally, if they are there, so is Gian, and the dragon car.
- Julius.
"Oh."
To Subaru's call, Julius, who was stiff, pulled his jaw. Then he raises his hand in neither and holds his fist in good stead to honor the breakthrough of 'sand time'.
Next to Julius I saw Mary paying the sand on her body and working Gian. Gian is undoubtedly a special prize for this trip.
If you don't fully appreciate, labor, and reward me - just...
"Anyway now! It's a breakthrough! We did it! Do -"
"Yikes! I think I've been kicking your ass in the ear for a long time - whoa!!
Subaru's jaw, rejoicing, is thrust up from directly below to Beatrice's palm bottom.
The sight turned to a brilliant blow, Subaru flipped from the top of the patrash as it was and fell indefensibly over the sand. Subaru, whose head is buried in the sand and contains a large amount of sand in his mouth, gets up immediately and eats and hangs on Beatrice.
"Suddenly what?!? If people try to be overjoyed, suddenly what! I was surprised and drank quite a lot of sand!?
"You're holding Betty, but you're all alone and you're loud! Something downburst, off-road, generic shift, burning soul, I don't know why! My ears are so kinky!
Remaining across Patrash, Beatrice protests violently toward Subaru.
As a Subaru, I have a lot to say, but I certainly can't deny the feeling that I was a little tense and screaming about the right terms side by side. What the hell is a gunnil?
"Ohon.... and anyway, Safely 'Sand Time' broke through. Let's be happy about that first. Look, Banzai!
"Long live..."
Whatever the attitude of the infidel Beatrice, there is no doubt about the breakthrough of the sand disorder.
He strokes Patrash's neck for his hard work and also expresses his gratitude to Love Dragon for his bravery, which does not show fatigue on his Rin face.
On top of that Subaru rushed over to the dragon car, trying to share the joy -,
- Brother.
"Ah? What's up? Even if you're a little happier..."
"Shut up."
Mary's sharp words fly this way, calling off the small run Subaru and looking back.
What was in there was an alert to obvious dangers.
- Neither is Subaru bogged down enough to mistake what that means.
――――
In contrast to Svalbard, Mary nodded with her finger against her mouth, slowly pointing in the direction of the front with the hands of the empty one.
Both Subaru and Julius and Beatrice look forward as their fingers move.
Beyond the sandy winds of "Sand Time," the distorted sandy sea to the surveillance tower was cleared.
As a result, the silhouette of the surveillance tower that rises in front of you is obviously larger and clearer than it was before.
The specific distance to the goal was set again, that's what I could think of.
However -,
"... what, that"
Colorful flower gardens continued to spread in front of the Subaru as they filled the sand that led to the tower.