Sanzen no Souru Supina
■ Night 49: The Abyss invites
"Because deep down on this altar lies what the serpent witch wanted to show me."
Athelui clinging unexpectedly to the thoughtful words of Aska.
"Your Highness, it's dangerous. It is also fully conceivable that a trap!
"We've exhausted the debate on that, Athelui. If Snake Witches were really after our lives, they would have attacked our headquarters last night without doing anything so roundabout."
"But"
Isn't that the production for the conspiracy?
Isn't the real aim of a snake only one being named Asuka?
Such thoughts were felt from Athelui's fingers gripping Aska's clothes.
"There will indeed be a plot to guide you. But don't you want to see what that is? You can only strike a snake in the hand."
Because Aska smiled at Athelui eating down.
A damaged jewel shines a dull light behind a bag that I sag from my shoulder.
"The jewel we have here now is the snake's eye, itself. That's why we got here. In other words, even in exchange for my eyes, there is something for the snake that I want to show you. The means and attitude of asking for humans were not bad, but I wonder if it would be an outing and a plea."
"Plea?! A serpent witch says it's a plea?!
Aska and Athelui go down to the water for the ruins that it is the altar of a serpent looking like a rectangular pit (ahh), while discussing in that way.
From that point of view, the countless staircases stretching underground while folding back into the zigzag do remind us of the serpents flocking to the altar.
The voice of Athelui echoed those four quarters, echoing with indulgence.
"Athelui, shut up. If you're scared, you can wait upstairs with Darieri."
"What are you talking about! I'm coming, I'm coming! Because that's what I do. If I realized I was scared here and left Your Highness alone, I wouldn't have a face to match your husband!
Darieri, the master (Maestro) who was just thought to follow without hearing the words of this restraint, began to paint a precise copy of the altar when he put up the scaffold (Ethel) in the main.
And once he took the paintbrush, neither Asuka's nor Athelui's could reach him anymore, anyway.
I see this is the real genius, the two were half impressed and half frightened, and decided to give up and get to work on their own.
And this is how it goes down the knitted staircase that leads to the basement.
"Still, that's odd. There are dozens of meters between the other fountains and this altar."
"If you ask me that. I've lost my mind."
"And I feel strange signs. Someone whispers in the back of my ear."
"It doesn't sound like the aftermath of our conversation… etc."
And as an indication of how special this place is, Aska showcased it with her hands.
Gwong, and Athelui saw the vortex of the force field arise.
"Hiraki" is invisible to ordinary people.
Spindle rotation.
"We're not gonna pull it out."
"Yes."
So much so that the Lord followed him to the bottom of the altar.
It is a fountain filled with water.
The water is terribly clear.
"It's supposed to be a starch at the bottom of the earth, but I didn't know it had this much clean water."
"It even feels like it's glowing slightly. It's like... fresh water used by the priests for scale separation."
Athelui said to a quiet air full of surroundings.
"The place of the witches, that might be exactly what it means."
To Aska's answer, Athelui returned a convincing nod.
"But is that it? The road's gone."
It was Aska who said as she glanced at the mirrored surface.
"I've come a long way down... but I don't think there's a concealed door-like trick somewhere on these countless stairs..."
Athelui responded by bringing up the matter of Yugadir's hidden room, which appeared in Darieri's old story.
The walls are filled with a number of stairs and dance spaces that are likely to distract me when I look up.
Looking up from the bottom this way it could also be taken as a reverse triangular pyramid.
"If that's the case, we can't fix it all in ten days alone."
Just kidding me, Aska sighed and glanced at the bottom of the water again.
The water is clean and clear everywhere, but it cannot be foreseen to the bottom of the deep abyss.
If it's not a fish, it's impossible to move on from here.
Yet the stairs that edge the four sides of what you intend to do continue all the way ahead.
"The water is so clear, I can't foresee. It's so deep that it seems like it leads to another world..."
"If you are the Witches of the Snakes who make the world of water our thing, or you can dive into this abyss or not..."
It was then that they met each other in the face.
"That's it"
"The stairs are still in the water!
Aska and Athelui were right in their predictions.
And the treasure in the bag began to shine light as it responded to the words.
"What is this? This warm light."
The light that the snake-eyed jewel suddenly began to emit propagated to the flesh of Asuka, the bearer, and gently enveloped this.
"Your Highness!"
"Don't be dramatic, Athelui. I don't feel dangerous. It seems to be giving me some protection, this jewel."
Pushing aside the astonishing Athelui, Aska looked at the faint curtain of light that engulfed her flesh.
Then, as I recall, when I knelt on the dance floor, I sunk my face on the water to show it.
"Your Highness!"
Once again Athelui screams, but Aska ignored her belly-hearted voice.
How long would it have been since then?
Perhaps a few minutes in hours.
It is clearly beyond its limits as a short, but not specially trained, time for humanity to hold its breath in the water.
What's more surprising is that Asuka, who waited thirty seconds for her face to come up from the water, was not out of breath.
"Here we go, Athelui. I can breathe. It's the protection of the jewels. Excellent."
Athelui loses her word to her master, who says with a full grin as she drips water.
Beyond the innocent smile of a child, I saw the King of Champions making one decision after another in a difficult situation.
And as Athelui thought, Aska acted quickly.
"Let's try it. Athelui, get your hands on it. Let's see if we can transfer the light."
Aska took Athelui's hand and tried to see if the protection of the snake-eyed jewels could be transferred to others as well.
But this one didn't work.
"I see, you're telling me to come alone"
"Your Highness! I won't!
With Athelui screaming three times (every time) on her ass, Aska began to take off her clothes.
"Hey, what? Your Highness!"
"What... you enter the realm of the other. To be one would be courtesy."
In the stories of the serpent witches passed down to the world, there are many typologies of them falling in love with humans being stripped off and naked when they find out who they are and go back to the sea, or to the lake, or to the river.
Asuka remembered it at this time.
In addition, peeling (...) is the sexual (saga) of a snake.
"Because... it's too defenseless, Your Highness! What if something happened to you?"
"Don't be afraid, Athelui. Tell the story, too. If you go into a tiger hole, you don't get a tiger child. Besides, I have the protection of Azril."
Athelui has no more words in the smile of the Lord, who has taken off all his clothes with astonishing cleanliness.
I just stood back to pray for a safe return and offered my lips the best I could.