Sanzen no Souru Supina

Now the days pass like a storm.

If I had noticed, it would have been a month in a jiffy.

After diving into the corpses of Smaugard and winning the battle against the Royal Puppeteer, Ashlee won his power and took full control of the aerial garden: Isla Hyperia.

Since then, Ashlee has been immersed in the Dragon Sanctuary with Izuma.

"It seems that it would be harmful to call him [the Lord] forever." From now on... let's call this individual Hyperion. "

When Ashlee gave the individual the name of the Sun King in the old Ephthalmic language, Izma was the only one who bitterly laughed at the irony.

As he proceeded to investigate, it was discovered that Hyperion was spreading its neural net over the entire island of the aerial garden.

The ruins of the ancient Agantilis remain throughout the aerial gardens.

Ashlee and Izuma cooperatively verified that the facility group that sleeps here functions as the ears of the Ogiku , and found out that they were in the operating state.

"It's a convenient thing, I can see the whole island from the outside... it's as if I'm borrowing the eyes of a bird." I see, did Smaugard use this to understand the situation on this island? I can't understand how it feels to be a "god"... "

"Well, that convenience......" I perished trying to crush my power like a god, but Agantilis and the ultra-ancient ancient civilization that Agantilis had in mind "

With Ashlee approaching the truth of this world, Izuma's story was smooth, having obtained the art of escaping the curse of [Yu] once received.

"Ultra Ancient Prehistoric Civilization"

"It was they who gave birth to the prototype of [Him]." But they couldn't even be aware of [Yu──], and since their production line was set in a territory that the humans of prehistoric civilizations couldn't recognize, the── [Bloom Tide] that occurred after [Yu] was completed would have made them an unknown territory [Terra Incognita]. "

If Ashlee had said something a little while ago, it would have been a chicken pump.

Now it's falling into your stomach like thirsty fresh water.

”After all... I wonder if that's what happened when the people who gave birth to [Lord] disappeared from this world?”

"No, it's not. They ran away. the blind spot of our consciousness....."

When I said, "Where is it?", the answer was already in Ashlee's mind.

Izuma agreed, even though she hadn't heard Aashre's answer.

"I see," Ashlee nodded.

"I see. To the garden, to Ideogo."

"By the way, they fled to the other side (garden)." A literally ideal world without any constraints. Replacing our flesh with an auxiliary creature for the [Lord] at his expense. "

"At the price of substitution for auxiliary organisms? I don't think so."

"Oh, I can't believe it. The dragon princess said that, didn't she? A pure white, bleached... I encountered something like a plant and an animal. Wild Dragon King: The forbidden foreign law possessed by Smaugard. A raw" focus── "that continuously produces countless biological particles" connectors (harnesses) "using its own body

Focus?! Is it Focus ?

"Correctly, it's a creature, and it's also a Focus." The fact that the body color is always white is proof that they have the characteristics of "Focus". The whitening phenomenon is the final stage of "Focus". It's a visual sign that the functional plasticity has been lost and the role has been completely locked in. They believed that they could match their flesh with [Wish] and become fully fit. And in order to further promote its completeness, we tried to fill the world with "connectors (harnesses)". "

Turn all of your flesh into production plants.

Then they really threw themselves and tried to change the world.

said Ashlee in a somewhat sentimental voice.

Izuma laughs at the blueness.

"Ha, they didn't risk their lives." I didn't fight to win it. It was simply that the "garden" automatically picked up their "wish" and changed the world to the best potato. They're only interested in [Wanted]. "

Ashlee sensed with sensitivity that Izma's taunt was directed not at herself, but at people who had fled this world in the past.

"But I didn't expect that the [Wish] would be poured into the [Terra Incognita] books that were secretly manufactured in an unrecognizable realm. It would devour real-life supplies and energy, and cause the depletion of resources that would threaten their lives."

I'm depleted of resources... Are you using them to produce You ?

"Everything in this world is finite. The absolute amount is decided. For example, is the total amount of energy contained in this star that the sun gives us multiplied by the irradiation time? What if we use it... to prioritize the pursuit of our ideals over our own reality?”

“Pursue ideals over reality?... I mean... [Wanted] to get the ideal home without getting dirty, fighting, or risking our lives?"

I know, Mr. Ashlee, and Izuma shook their fingers.

Sitting on an operation board reminiscent of a monolith, he looked at the viscera of the Yu , which was spread all over the floor without saying it was a wall.

"Here's your answer again."

"But if we do that... isn't our reality just getting harder and harder?"

"You've already answered that question yourself." Why, why did they make such a choice...... no, why didn't they even...... "

Izuma's words were clearly understood by Ashlee at this time.

I couldn't have imagined myself before.

"I mean... we didn't want to decide for ourselves. I didn't want to admit that the world had become like this because of their choices and responsibilities. That's why I entrusted everything to Wish."

Yes, Izuma nods.

"Unconsciously, automatically, before we know it..."

"I don't know, I don't know," Ashlee shook her head.

"Is escaping one's consciousness and escaping one's responsibility such a priority over real life and one's own existence?"

"As a warrior class, and above all as an aristocrat, you have been taking the lead in fulfilling your responsibilities, although it seems like a strange mental structure with hard to understand emotions."

It was interesting, and Izumi looked at the distance with her left-over right eye, rather than looking at it as if she was enjoying herself.

"The more bitter the reality, the more [wish] grew." The desire to escape from this world has grown stronger. [Wish] wanted to escape all responsibilities and live in an ideal hometown... that those who were hounded may believe. "

God's forgiveness is to face the cruel reality.

With this forgiveness, humans return to reality and get [Chikara], who faces their life.

Faith is for this reason.

That's what I would have argued if it had been the former Ashlee.

However, after many dark battles, the young knight was changing his credo.

"I was so thirsty before I could escape."

"At the very least, there was a time when that kind of dark desire was faith."

”And that prayer... let's say no [wish]... I got flesh from a monster called [False God]”

"Without praying, without speaking, without thinking clearly, without being linguistic and conscious. Listening to the [Wish] in the depths of our hearts and continuing to change the world, you can see that it is a real" Kamisama "."

Ashlee repeated the interaction with Izuma many times.

The more I learned, the more deceitful and complex the world was, and the more I was reminded of what the poles of human desire were.

It was because Izumi told me that I could keep my sanity.

"You're not alone." Was it me, Smaugard, or Yugadir? You're standing in the exact opposite place where the heroes who once stood up to the deception that was hidden in this world ended up experiencing isolation. Or at the end of the day, even if you had to face it alone, you would── still be the one who sent down the── [Soul] into the world. "

Instead of the usual thin paper-like laugh, Izuma smiled at the face of the great Earth Spider King she dreamed of someday.

"We're already here." Right in front of you. "

You know what that means, don't you?

"Yes," Aashre nodded.