Senpensekai no Madoushoshi

Section Four: The Inverted Forest

"Heh... you got it good, Laplice"

Carol, naked and ongoing, raised an exclamation as she was held by Toslin. I, like her, stare at the place where the lake was as my eyes were rounded.

"I could see the same magic in the waves."

Mippo is confused by the sudden brightness, rubbing his eyes with gossip.

"In the fairy?"

"Yeah, I am. Isn't that right?

Raplis nodded confidently as I couldn't hide the excitement.

"Oops. A few months after the inside was raided and thrown out into the outside world. I finally found it."

"The magic of the phantom...... No, you left it out of phase. If you could see magic like Laplice, if you knew where it was, you'd have noticed it first."

Reaching out to the new green where Ritzereich suddenly appeared intrigued. It's just a plant I've never seen before, but I've touched it terribly, too. Then I definitely felt the scent drifting from the touch. It's not an illusion. It's real.

"Oh, look at that!! There's a fish.

But what a strange thing, a few fish crossed in front of me. They don't realize us, they swim away slowly.

"I told you earlier, because the phase is off. But you're not completely apart, so you can see the sight on the other side."

"Uh, I mean... is this in the woods and also in the water at the same time?

"Don't be like that. This is where the two spaces overlap."

We proceed through the woods with caution and vigilance.

But I was just curious and looked back. Then I knew I couldn't see the entrance.

"Huh!? Um, hey guys!? The entrance..."

I rushed back to where the entrance was and let my hands waggle. But I don't touch anything, I can't grab anything. There's just a forest spreading everywhere in front of you.

(You'll never get out again, upside down forest...)

In my head, a passage of legend emerges. Our feet shudder with fear that we may have made a terrible mistake.

You don't have to worry. I'll open the exit on the way home.

"Oh, really? Can you get out? Can you go home?"

Raplis looked a little surprised when I tried to be half crying for what I meant.

"Naturally, though. Otherwise, how do they get sweets to the city?"

"Oh, well..."

That's what Laplice told me to stay on my shoulder and I finally regain my composure.

"But that means you can't leave without the help of a fairy."

"You mean you'll be wandering through this depressed forest for the rest of your life? I wish I could."

Toslin said something about elves and all that, but I agree. It's like coming out of a picture book. It's in a very beautiful forest, but when you ask me if I want to stay here for the rest of my life, I'll shake my neck to the side.

"That's why, that passage? That wasn't a threat, that was a real warning."

"Right. Iris, don't let it slip away."

"Ha, ha! I won't leave your sister when I die!!

I grab the hem of your sister's robe and follow behind.

"Nevertheless..."

A while after I started walking, Toslin looked up over my head. There's a branch there with solid leaves, but I can also see the blue sky. And the sun that naturally illuminates this whole forest...

"That's the sun...... is that okay?

"I don't know if it's real, but, well, it's something that plays its part,"

"Ha... that sounds kind of weird"

Looking up, I see what Toslin is trying to say.

"The guy next to the sun. That's the moon, right?"

"Right. I know the sun was magically created when it was made, but the moon next to it is the real moon we were looking up to earlier."

"Does that mean we're out of the cave and walking under the sea right now?

"I wasn't born in this house, so I don't know for sure, but I think you're probably right."

"So if Laplice opens the entrance and exit here and now, the water comes in?

I put up my index finger just to say that Carol had come up with something good.

"Right. What is it?

"Hey, you can't open it by mistake, can you?

"You can't open it. You think I'm an asshole without thinking about it."

"" Yeah. "

Toslin and Carol nodded in the face at the same time, as Laplice silently beat them up like arrows. The result is more obvious than seeing fire, so I dare not mention it.

"So if you walk away like this, you'll reach the bottom of the ocean where quadriga is sealed? And there..."

Mr. Ushna...... Is there a Mr. Wough?

"... Sister Sally"

"Oh, maybe we should hurry up a little. Toslin."

"Hmm? Oh, yes, yes. Hey, Laplice. That's why I need you to show me around. You know, magic streams, you know where your people are, right?

"Heh heh heh heh heh... I'll definitely pay you back later. Remember Yikes!!

I don't know what they were doing, but Laplice, whose face turned bright red, moved away from Toslin's hand and onto Saluena's shoulder.

That's how we went through the woods with her guide and moved to the center of the inside.

Unlike the stinging trees of the snowland, these forest trees are luminous. I remember a warm impression somewhere that I should say I'm full of life.

As we crept through the trees, the number of trees gradually decreased and eventually went out into the open space.

"Wow, wow...... Beautiful flower garden......"

Obviously people's...... no, a flower garden where someone's hand seems to be in it. Every single one of those dozens of spreads has beautiful flowers.

"Is that... the pier? Why is that in the fairy?

What Laplice found was a wooden bridge wide enough for two people to pass side by side.

"It's not like someone's coming in or out."

That's what Toslin said as he checked the condition of the pier.

"Say stupid. Basically, the fairies are off-limits to anyone but the fairies."

"Oh, yeah. But inside Laplice, there used to be kids in and out, didn't there?

Apparently, he's not decaying. Following Carol, Toslin also put his foot on the bridge. The last time Goltmund rode, the guillotine started to sound, but so far there's no sign of the board falling out.

"That's special. I got lost by accident. In that case, it can be temporarily protected. There were goblins there, too. You can't just throw it out like that."

We follow the Toslins, too. The wind blowing from somewhere is warm and my chest fills with the smell of greenery and flowers when I take a deep breath.

"Beautiful, sister..."

"Yeah, right. I can't believe there's such a beautiful flower garden at the bottom of the water. The fairies who live here love flowers."

"No, no, that's totally different."

"Huh!?

From right next to me walking about your sister, I heard voices I wasn't used to hearing.

"This place has been full of flowers and trees for about five hundred years. Until then, it was a rock stripping place."

"So, who!?

Turning to those who spoke, there were only flowers there.

"Who are you disrespectful to? Choo, that's what I want to hear."

But a few moments later, a leopard little face peeked from behind the flower along with those words.

"Oh? Are you the fairy here? I'm Laplice. I'm from the woods of Swansy."

"Swansy? Where's that stupid big tree gathering? Well, what an unfamiliar fairy you think you've shown up, you've come from such a de country?

You were relieved to admit to the appearance of Laplice, the same fairy, who appeared not only in his face. A white girl wearing a dress that looks like a superimposition of colorful petals. The child, who stretched her dark yellow hair to her waist than Toslin, looks a little older than Laplice.

But even Laplice the Toddler is talking about being over a hundred years old, and maybe trying to measure the fairy's age on the outside is pointless.

"Ah!? What the fuck!? You're making fun of my birthplace, and you're gonna have wings!?

"Hih, hih!? I'm scared!! The boulder-born fairy is barbaric."

"I made up my mind, absolutely!!

In this short exchange I understand. He said he was indisputably like Laplice. She's a race that unconsciously pisses off her opponent in a different vector from Laplice...... it's like a fairy species.

"Mr. Laplice. I apologize for watering down the joy of meeting my fellow countrymen."

"Hey, Rose. When did I look happy?

"Now there's something we should hurry to check"

"Oh? Oh? What the hell? You're a priest, aren't you?

A fairy assembled from behind and about to be plucked blinks her pussy and little round eyes.

"Yes. I'm sorry I suddenly pushed you inside. My name is Rosalis Coolbacor, a priest who serves the goddess Ilua."

"Whoa! Kruppippo is called Kruppippo. Run with the best of these. I'm still here to see what's going on."

Humphrey, for some reason proudly, the fairy Mr. Krupippo strains his chest. Hit it. It's a fairy's own custom, or is that what you have? Running great with the chief inside, like?

"Why are you so proud of me?"

I thought so, but it doesn't seem so. Laplice has a bewildered look just like me.

"Hey hey, if you have a chief inside... why don't you let me see that fairy?

"Um, the eagles didn't come here to do harm. I'm here to find people and warn you."

"Whoa? I see. You got it. Though I was born in the country, I tend to be one of them, and I take it from the chief of the inner house."

"Whoa, whoa! That was deliberate!? Obviously you just sold me a fight!?

"Heh? Fighting? Crupippo doesn't like to fight. I don't know what to say, but I want you to stop."

"Hey, Iris. This is me... you can clean it up, right?

"As, well..."

The phrase, 'You're the same thing,' swallows up and spoils Laplice.

"In the meantime, I'll show you to the captain. Don't make a problem of yourselves. Come and talk to me about Kruppipo."

Mr. Crupippo starts flying by trying to accompany the pier.

There was about one fairy girl floating blue, and she had a hard time quenching her anger, but we were safe and we were supposed to meet Mr. Rei.

"Manager Ri is now at the altar of Shi (...). Kulpippo came from there, too. Crupippo only eats rice in the morning and noon. I've had meat on my stomach lately, so I'm keeping my rice to myself."

But this Mr. Crupippo, he talks well. Laplice is also a chatterer, but not far from her.

When I ask one question, I get one answer back. But next time, there's a story sticking around that has nothing to do with two or three.

"Sometimes I go get human treats. Get out of here with your buddies on the New Moon night. Speaking of which, humans can't fly in the sky.

"Hey, shut up for a second."

Mr. Crupippo's mouth doesn't stop, although Lapris says it with a softened look.

"That, why shouldn't Lapolis fly? If you eat sweets all the time without flying, you'll get a belly pumpkin colin like Inner Long? Oh, can I have one of those? It's delicious."

Laplice, who was eating with a run-down spill of cusp over Rizzelaich's head. Having found it, Mr. Crupippo plundered it in an instant, as if it were when the eagle would capture the ground's gains.

"Don't eat before you reply. Yikes!! Give it back, Cora!! And I'm Laplice! You're not mistaken. Yikes!!

Laprice, deprived of the treat, chases Mr. Crupippo, and the chase begins in the name of guidance.

"Hey, nevertheless..."

Mr. Crupippo, who flattened the cookies in a flash, pounds his stomach.

"I can't believe you two priests are coming to rebuild the seal, because the goddess loves you inside."

Mr. Kruppippo, who said so subtly, but we doubted our ears.

"Wait, wait, it's Kruppippo. Did the clergyman tell you two now?

Mr. Kruppippo answers Rizzelaich's hurried upward rubbing words with a relaxed but prolonged voice.

"That's how it works, isn't it? The priest I wanted today was Mr. Coolpipole."

I thought maybe you were mistaken when you saw the holy mark I was lowering from my neck, but you weren't.

"The other priest is now in the Temple of the Shinigami with Master Ri."

The junction of the inner entrance remained laid, and there was too much laid-back pastoral air to be alarmed.

Mr. Wough was already here.