When I went up the stairs, I went out into the small room. There are three identical statues of children that I saw earlier.
The back wall closes with a noise.
"It's a two-way street." After all, it seems like an emergency passage for the royal family. "
I nodded to Mr. Abel's words.
It's pretty rotten, so I don't even know if the royal family knows where to use it.
But in any case, the former royal family surely knew Tarot.
Not only that, but it was also commonly used in magic and alchemy.
Thinking about it, it becomes even more confusing why the level of knowledge in this country has declined and magic has become unwelcome, but there are no further hints at this time.
Abel-san's face was dazzling as he looked forward to cutting his thoughts.
Abel-sama?
"Something..."
Abel-san snorted his nose as he partitioned his words a bit.
"Doesn't it smell? Sweet as evil, smelly as animals."
"!... yes, I will."
I noticed it when I was told.
I didn't notice the smell of dust and mold, but there was a slight smell from the passage at the far end of the room.
Sweet and muddy.
The smell grows stronger as you walk out of the small room and down the aisle. Then, around the corner, the smell suddenly became more intense.
This is not a sweet smell.
It smells strong enough to make my── chest sick.
The moment I thought so, there was a sound of the wind cutting off, and Abel's hand was held like a piece of luggage.
"Heeah!?"
When Mr. Abel jumped back at the noise, the ground where he was standing was stuck.
In my blue eyes, I saw a sharp spike and a scaly tail moving soggy.
Mr. Abel activates his own version of the tower's aus.
When the pale light spread out in front of us with a beep, some tail retracted into the back of the aisle as it sensed the danger.
The "tower aus" is designed not to drag what the user perceives as creatures, but it may have felt threatened by the amount of magic power it contains.
Reptile tail? But, Abel-sama, that's it.
"Ahh..."
While holding me, Abel-sama leaned back against the wall and peered over.
There was── nothing in the next room beyond the bend I saw.
But Abel-sama felt something, and he backed away again.
Once again, a sharp blow strikes from above where it jumped back.
Up there. There's something on the ceiling.
“Just a moment.”
Quickly activate the water mirror with the water Alheo character and fly it into the room.
I don't know what I want to see, and because I'm in a hurry, I can only secure a small vision like a ping-pong ball.
Still, when I looked around at the ceiling, I saw something dark green.
Breathe in the features.
"Abel-sama, you might want to run away." This may be out of our hands... "
What?
Answering that voice, something fell into the middle of the room.
Kukokoko's eyes widened in horror as she heard the creepy sound of a bone chirping.
"Death Dragon (Dravgur)...!!"
The Death Dragon (Dravguru) is a demonic beast that is considered fictional even in this fantasy world... no, I don't know if it's okay to enclose it as a demonic beast, but it's uncertain.
It's a fairy tale that's not in the picture book or the sorcerer's book.
It was literally a dragon zombie.
The muscles underneath the hard dark green scales are repeatedly corroded and regenerated, causing them to cramp, releasing a foul odor that makes them rot.
Despite that, it is a monster that moves at a speed that is traditionally called a meteor.
At this time, the life and death of animals cannot be directly manipulated by magic.
The current status of healing, rejuvenation, and resuscitation of the dead has not been confirmed.
Tarot might do it, but we haven't been able to verify it because there's no way to recover it when it has irreversible consequences.
Healing leads to rapid cell death if mismanaged, and since the theory of the soul has not been established until the resuscitation of the dead, it is unlikely to lead to zombieization.
And yet...
The fairytale monster shook its wings slowly, as if to show off its existence.
In the darkness, his eyes glowed sharply like a dragon's red lamp.
It is smaller than I thought it would be about three meters in size, but it is not the size that humans can win against each other properly.
Suddenly, Abel-san pulled out the assamay and carved the fixed (VAV) characters into the air and released them on the floor.
It was carved with magic power, which raised the ground, and a large cage surrounded the Death Dragon.
However, when the sharp tail of the main weapon stroked it, the cage slipped smoothly like a moose.
Abel-sama, let's retreat!!
Mr. Abel nodded and ran back as he shouted from the side.
She jumps into a small room with a statue of a child and puts her hand on the copper statue of a child so that she can open the door at any time.
But even though there was one intimidating roar, there was no pursuit.
As I was holding my beating heart, Mr. Abel dropped me off as I remembered.
I took a deep breath and noticed it there.
There was a cut in the trousers around Mr. Abel's left ankle, and there was red and black staining with blood.
Abel-sama!
“It's okay, it's okay to walk.”
I will answer immediately, but it is not such a problem.
"Such a thing would be obviously stupid!! I'm going to disinfect it now!!"
"It's all...... but it doesn't mean you're really not in this room"
"I'm not coming." When I retreated, the tangent of the curved aisle was a little glowing. It's probably the barrier there. "
"...... You've been watching me a lot."
Abel-san sits down in the corner of the room, pushed by my momentum like a water boiler in an instant.
When I rolled up the bottom of the pants, I was a little more frightened of the red because it was sharper than I thought.
After seeing it, Mr. Abel tries to cover his legs.
“It's not what the child sees. I'll do it myself, so you can lend it to me."
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" I'm fine because I'm not a child anymore. "
Even though I have told you many times that the contents are long past adulthood, Abel still has time to treat me as a child.
To see how the Dawn Brigade treats its children, a small creature must have a strong sense of protection.
But that's not good enough for me.
... I don't know if I'm in trouble or if I don't want to.
Anyway, I spread out the first aid kit prepared by Niisama Ville and Niisama Orlis and gave them medical treatment.
For some reason, it says "for disinfection/Alice" and "for disinfection/Abel". Is Mr. Abel for adults?
As soon as I applied the disinfectant, Mr. Abel's face ached so much that he had never seen it before, and he fainted quietly, but the whole procedure was over.
"That man..." muttered Abel, tired of feeling relieved.
"It's a flowing rock, isn't it? I'm glad it's perfectly effective."
The inflammation healed when I looked at the wound that Orlis had applied the prayed disinfectant. Niisama was the stony one.
For some reason, he speaks to Mr. Abel, who has distant eyes.
Well, we need to solve the puzzle.
"... that's right."
I nodded my gaze to Abel.
“If this is an emergency escape route, there must be a breakthrough. We need to identify it.”
"Yeah, and there must be a reason why you chose Dravgur."
Nobles are living creatures whose honor and reputation are theirs.
Even in a secret passage, there must be a reason why the noble king at the top used to be a zombie.
Even if I wanted a gatekeeper who wouldn't die, I could have done something with a gimmick, like a more metal or stone guardian.
There must be a reason why we had to be immortal creatures.