Senpensekai no Madoushoshi

Unicorns run through the woods.

Amidst the forests surrounded by evergreen trees, the sun does not reach much during the day, though not as much as Swansy forest, and the snow that falls is deposited without melting intact.

Relying on the slightly spilling moonlight, the unicorn hooves bounce over its snow as it strokes. It's in the woods that if you normally step in, you're likely to bury it in the snow to a height higher than your hips, but her hooves take steps lightly without sinking into the snow, as if they didn't weigh.

"Seriously, what's going on with this? No, it's fine."

He looks down as Laplice clings to the unicorn hyena.

Actually, this is a little application of the Devil's Square, The Unbreakable Shield, which protected me from Ent's attacks.

"I see. Are you running with an earlier shield on the snow"

Deploy the Demon Square only to the part to be installed at the time of whether or not the hoof touches the snow. Then a metal noise sounded as if he had tapped the gold floor with gold and caught his hoof.

"Sort of. I was wondering if I could support my weight if I could prevent that kind of heavy attack."

So I asked Unicorn to do it for me, and he actually did it. At first, she herself was running in a way that conveyed a sense of surprise, but now she's used to it a lot, not even a full-blown disease, but she's proceeding at an extraordinarily higher pace than she would if she were to pull the snow apart and move on.

"Nah, I see. But wait? Is this the same thing as running empty?"

"Right. If we lay the junction like a staircase and run there, can we even jump over the mountains?"

"Yeah, I've been thinking about that, too, but it seems a little impossible right now"

"Why? Running on the snow, running in the sky, doing it together, right?"

"Sounds scary"

"Ah?"

"Yeah, so. She... she doesn't seem to like high places. Maybe we can get used to it one by one, but if it fails, it's upside down to the ground, and now I don't really want to try it."

The unicorn sounded so fine that I felt sorry for it.

"Oh, yeah well...... Everyone is bad at it. It's great to just run on the snow."

Laplice strokes the head of such a unicorn.

"Laplice is surprisingly sweet, isn't it?"

"Huh? What are you talking about? I'm not being nice."

"Really? You know, you give me precious feathers, you follow me like this, I think I'm sweet, though."

More importantly, she fought dragons with me in the village of Lelton. It would have been easy for me to escape on my own, but it increased my courage to my little body and saved my predicament.

"I'm here now because the goddess ordered me to. Otherwise I'd have gone out of my way to help him."

But... ugh. As far as this reaction is concerned, Laplice's fondness for Toslin and Carol seems to be going somewhere negative to zero. Because of that, I want you both to make up for it, because after we met, there was a lot going on again when we reunited... Well, but that's also the result of Laplice's poor mouth when it comes to the original.

"But still, I'm happy for you. Thanks, Laplice."

"... ooh, ooh. Oh, my God, really... don't go crazy with you."

"Oh, I'm sorry"

"It's not about apologizing. Even though they called me, I'm your partner, more than I've ever done with my own will."

That's what Laplice, who turned red in his face, told me as the demonic squares laid on the snow sounded tall with their hooves on. Even though I have brown skin, just like the Seeds sisters, it's hard to tell because my face is only about my thumb size. But on the snow, because the hyena continues to shine white in addition to the background, I now know that the redness is appearing.

"Iris, apparently it's almost time for a ruin"

"Oh, yeah! Right. Unicorn, will you slow down and get as close as you can?"

Give that directive to the unicorn, then approximately five minutes.

Little by little the spacing of the trees opens and becomes like a forest from the woods. The amount of snow seems to be increasing for that matter, but as long as you're riding a unicorn, snow is not an obstacle.

"Oh, hey look, there!!"

Laplice climbed onto the head of the unicorn, pointing forward to the right.

Suddenly an open vision. At the end of his sight, where there is no longer anything to block, he stands there as if a bumpy rock wall were intimidating.

"... of the ruins, the entrance..."

And on that wall, a tunnel is worn. Reinforced with wooden frames, it's just a pit.

"It's a remnant of what used to be a pit, and the rails are stretching inside."

It was 300 years ago, according to the literature, that this place was functioning as a mine. There are things scattered around the place that make you feel the moon. A wooden trolley that is decaying and about to collapse. Mountains and excavated stones and soil that remain piled up. And so is the rail that Saluena spoke of earlier. It would have glowed silver at the time. That is no longer corrosive and can be seen to be useless at a glance.

"There's a trace of snow."

There were several paths that had been created by drawing snow from the entrance of the ruins to the unproduced areas of the trees that had spread radially.

"... of the Toslins."

"I guess so. And then there 'll be a mix of hunter's that I heard some funny groans."

"When it caused the investigation in the first place - is there any doubt that groaning belongs to Carbuncle?"

Slowly and vigilantly, a unicorn heads to the entrance to the ruins.

"At first, we talked about having an undead, but only Ent was actually in the woods, so that meant there was a good chance the spirits were manipulating it."

And without knowing that the identity of that Spirit was the carbuncle that lived from the days of the original world, everyone went into this ruin.

(In this, everyone...)

I want to help everyone quickly, discourage the feeling of doing that and move forward carefully.

"... well. Well, sure, you're here. The carbuncle. Plus, it's extraordinary. There's some nasty signs coming from the entrance to the ruins."

Laplice crushes with a laid back look.

"But apparently not all of that reasoning is right, huh?"

And with that look on his face, he turned this way.

"Apparently, here, the undead will be nasty too"

Ahead of her pointing again, it was the entrance to the ruins as it was the first time. But now there, I see a shadow that wasn't there until just now.

"Wu...... Grrrr...... Grr, o......"

And shortly afterwards my ears picked up the sound. That was crouched, deafening multiple groans.