Skeleton Knight, in Another World

Rise the mossy stone steps made in the mountains in the leaking sun that you give from among the trees.

Set on a gentle slope, it seemed to have been abandoned long after it was made and had already blended into the forest scenery until the middle.

The traces of the man's presence still leave a shadow because occasionally the animals living in the woods use this path. A little sesame grass and dirt were trampled on like a beast path, and the piled stone staircase, a trace of the man, peered slightly at his feet.

The whispers of the twig leaves rubbed by the wind mix with the voices of the birds, and the atmosphere of idleness continues into the woods of this mountain.

There is no such thing as a large warcraft seen in a forest at the foot of the Wind Dragon Mountains or in a place like the Great Canadian Forest, and it's like coming hiking into a nearby mountain for a holiday.

However, it is definitely due to the dragon king (Dragon Road), who has a giant dragon crown tree (Road Crown) that can be placed on the summit of the mountain.

It makes sense that there are few warcraft who would like to set up a nest near such a clear predator, and the weak come to their refuge beside such a person.

Even now, on the branches of a tree, the parents and children of an animal like a squirrel looked down at this one, a rare intruder, with his neck tilted and strange eyes.

As I slash twigs and sesame grass with my sword through the depressed woods to pave the way, the occasional surprised birds and beasts pop up and tell me over my helmet how the ponta above my head is reacting to it.

After diving into the large gray birdhouse at the foot for a short time, I suddenly opened my sight around whether I had climbed up to near the rocky mountain near the summit of the mountain.

There are few trees that grow like sticking to a rocky mountain, and there are not many rocks and tall weeds at your feet that make up the majority of the trees and block your surrounding vision.

Instead, the dragon crown tree (Road Crown), with its approaching, standing wall-like trunk, had stretched out countless branches to cover the sky to create a great shadow on the summit.

Being gazed at by its gazing size, I feel like I'm inadvertently going to roll down the slopes of the mountain backwards.

"When you look at it like this, it's an incredibly big tree."

The giant trees that were in the Canadian Great Forest were also quite large, but this has a different dimension to say what. It is reminiscent of a giant tree with a castle coming out of a castle in the sky.

To his words, Ariane and Chiyome, who stood in line beside him, wave the giant trees covering the sky in the same way.

"I've never seen a dragon crown tree before, but it looks like a mountain on a mountain."

That said, Chiyome narrows her eyes to the light of the day that leaks slightly and exhales.

"There are a few of them in the Canadian Great Forest, but this is the first I've seen straight away, too."

Arian drank the water from the water bottle he had in his luggage, then breathed a sigh of breath and wiped a sweat that floated snugly on his thin wood-colored forehead with his arms.

"We're just a few minutes from the summit. We'll hurry."

In reply to her urging, she moves her legs again to the summit.

Eventually, at the end of his sight, the stone staircase broke, and he could see a place where a stone birdhouse, slightly smaller than what he had seen at the foot of the mountain, was nestled.

The area around Rock Mountain was a desolate landscape with few trees, but the area around the summit where the birdhouses stand, visible from here, has increased in density of trees as at the foot, and the leaking sun falls over the birdhouses.

"Apparently, that's the destination."

Climb the stone steps and dive into the birdhouse on the top of that mountain to see what's around.

Originally it must have been a place built on the top of the mountain. It was flat, so the sesame grass was stretched and rough all over the place because it had been abandoned for many years, but I could see that the cobblestone, which leads straight from the stone staircase, was hidden from the grass gap.

At the tip of its stretched cobblestone lay a decaying building secluded.

Because the roof was made of wood, it can't see its shape because it has already decayed, but the walls of the building remain firmly mossy because it was made of stone.

The shape of the building had a familiar appearance to me.

"You look kind of like a temple too..."

Arian, who watched the same next door, mouths his thoughts on the building.

Her thoughts are not wrong.

The building in front of him was shaped like a shrine company that would be set with a birdhouse.

The walls and window frames of the building can also be seen lined regularly on both wings, which are a little deeper than the hall, in a building like the one you can see in the center.

Unlike the original shrine, only buildings like the shrine, there are no such things as coin boxes or bells on the front, and there are only entrances with only a few remains of decaying doors.

"This is the company where the first Hanzoo lived." It's similar to the Sheikh's house inside. "

Chiyome seemed convinced that the palace-style building visible on the front was the object of the first Hanzo, which once rooted the land.

If you can show me this shape, there's not much doubt there.

The decaying company sits in a rather mysterious atmosphere amidst the humid, thin, quiet view of the dragon crown tree (Road Crown) behind it, like a giant Kamigi tree.

Chiyome, who was observing the surrounding scenery with such a company, opened her mouth quietly with her cat ears clinging to her head as she accidentally made her nose snap.

"Something smells like unusual water..."

"Ki-yun!

As I agree with that girlfriend's words, so does the ponta that was lenient over her head.

I didn't have a nose as good as hers on the boulder, so I cleared my ears instead, and I did get the sound of quite a bit of water flowing somewhere in this ear.

"It could be the Fountain of Rumors..."

"Apparently behind this...... this way"

Two people nodded at their words, and as Chiyome turned his gaze towards the back of the company, he began to walk in the lead to encourage this one.

She takes off the cobblestone path laid in the front, turning her legs towards the back so as to bypass the company, and herself and Arian follow it in silence as well.

Turning to the back of the company, there was an unexpected sight there.

From the slightly higher rocky mountains, the hot water gushes out with the hot air. It flowed serpentinely through rocky skin crept like a ditch, poured into a large stone plot set up below, and flowed like a waterfall to a cliff beneath a rocky mountain just beside it with overflowing water.

It was an artificially built open-air bath, no matter what.

"Is this hot water gushing!?

Arian was the first to raise his voice of surprise as he moved his pointy ears cleverly.

Apparently she's never seen a hot spring before.

Though Chiyome is more surprised, the very existence of the hot spring seemed to be known, with a look seeping into his usual clear face that seemed happy with the wind that he had found a good object.

"It's a hot spring...... and it's pretty big"

As Chiyome put it, the size of the open-air bath is quite an object, and the area is likely to have a two-sided portion of the pool of twenty-five meters.

A hot tub made of stone is like an open-air bath in a large inn, but the surrounding area is mossy with wet stones by the hot air, creating conditions such as secret water in nature.

"Sure, there's warm water. This can also be called a fountain, but is this the example fountain?

"Apparently so."

Looking at Arian, who was soaking her hand in a hoarded open-air bath hot tub, like intrigued beside her, she stood up paying for the hot water of her soaking hand.

"Ki-yun! Kiyun!"

Did Ponta also show interest in the hot springs, getting off her head and soaking her nose from the edge of the hot tub and licking the hot water with her tongue, she was doing the trick of washing her wet mustache with her front leg.

I never dreamed that the fountain I was looking for was a hot spring, but I can tell you that this was a pleasant unexpected one myself.

Take off the caged hand part of the armor and dip your hands in that hot water yourself.

The hot water is twitching at the tip of my hand and transmits the heat. After a while I pulled up my wet hand, there was a hand there with brown skin just like when I tried it in [Anti-Curse (Anticars)].

I don't feel as uncomfortable as when I first cursed it with the [Anti-Curse Ceremony (Anti-Cars)].

"Whoa!? Apparently, the efficacy here is real."

In that hand, which appeared suddenly at the tip of the arm of the bone, both Ariane and Chiyome watched as they exposed their surprised faces and ate in.

"You really get your flesh back with this..."

Arian leaks her voice with a voice such as a little incredible.

Speaking of which, I didn't show them the flesh in the [Anti-Curse Ceremony (Anticars)] cursed state, and this was the first time I had seen it.

It looks a little... No, it's got a pretty horror finish.

After a while, too, the hands of the flesh had disappeared like a sumptuous and returned to the hands of the original bones. The reaction goes hand in hand with the phenomenon of temporarily returning flesh in the [Anti-Curse Ceremony (Anticars)].

Is it temporary to undo even the power of this hot spring - or is it ineffective not to apply the entire body?

You wouldn't even have to bother thinking about those things here.

So I'm going to soak up this hot spring and see what I can do.

That being said, I take off the armor helmet etc. that was worn on the rock beside the hot spring and put it down, and I also pack the luggage etc. that I was holding together.

To be honest, efficiency is second to none at this time. First I want to take a breather in the open-air bath with the fantastic landscape in front of me and get some bone rest.

Just the bones.

The effect of removing the upper torso armor or I feel a little chilly and shook myself unexpectedly.

It was never the joke I made myself that was cold.

"Hey! Don't suddenly start undressing in front of me."

Then a protest was raised by Arian, who was watching behind him. Looking back, Arian and I have a slight redness in the tip of my ear.

"Oh, Lord Arian had an exciting sexuality when he saw bones."

Stop saying that much. Arian's silent fist shot hit his ribs.

... plain painful.

"Then we'll look at the building while Ark is immersed in Onsen. Let's go, Chiyome."

That's all Arian says, inviting Chiyome, who had refrained behind him, to walk away in footsteps into the decaying company.

"Now, Lord Ark, we're going to investigate the company. Later, then."

Chiyome also bows his head to this side, chasing Arian's back.

Looking back at the edge of the drop-off hot tub as he mopped his ribs, Ponta was looking up at him as he sat down with his tail swinging.

"Oh, Ponta come in with me?

"Ki-yun!

Ponta waves her tail wide and answers, stroking its blocked head.

Take off all the armor you were wearing and stand in front of an open-air bath in a full-body bone.

Actually, it would be manners to hang water before soaking it, but there are no buckets here to soak it up - and if it's such a secret water in the back of the mountain, it won't bother anyone else.

There's only one thing to do in this big, open bath.

"Whoa!"

"Ki-yu!

I raise my temper and jump straight into the big hot tub. I fly by diving into the hot water once and then showing my face all at once and shaking my head with the water on my face.

Ponta is also jumping into the water with him and proceeding on the water surface as he scratches his dog.

"Pfft! I didn't think you'd put me in a hot spring in a mountain like this."

Yes, I look at my own arm alone.

There was a muscular arm of brown skin in my eyes. Moving that gaze to his chest, there his chest muscles, more developed than his original flesh, appeared in his eyes and his neck tilted unexpectedly.

There's no reason for my muscles to develop, not to mention the fact that it's been so long since I've been here.

"Hmm?"

Wipe the droplets on your face with your hands, then peek into your face as it appears on the hot surface.

The swing of the hot water surface gradually calms down when immersed in the hot spring, reflecting my face.

There was a different face there than my own in real life.

He is in his mid-thirties, has brown skin of Arabic descent, has long dark hair that is slightly habitual, and has a mustache in his jaw on his stern face. The man's eyes, staring at the hot surface, were stained with crimson colour, and most importantly, it was a long, pointed ear, which was something very different from that of a person.

"Is this...?

For a moment, his unfamiliar face stunned him, but he did recognize him.

And the next moment I realized who that own face was, the sole in my brain had pushed me like a turbulent stream to scratch all of my mind.

"Wowwwwwww!!

Heavy pain runs like a storm rolled up in your head, and passion rushes through you as if you were blowing out of the depths of your body.

Anger toward those who work the wolf on women, hatred toward people's places of work on slavery, fear in front of vicious warcraft, remorse and disgust for taking people's lives with their own hands - and a sense of hope for where they were.

All the experiences that have happened so far run behind your brain like a running lantern, the feeling of pruning life that remains vividly in your hands, and with it dyeing it black so that those negative emotions crush your own mind.

I repeat screaming and growling to try to put it out somehow, but it produces no fruit whatsoever.

While in a hot spring with hot air, my body is cold and trembling to my core, and I don't mind shaking around in passion and intense pain. When you forget me for the pain in your brain and strike your head against the rock that was on the edge of an open bath, the rock crushes and changes shape.

Still climbing to pain and heart-scratching emotions, he manages to crawl out of the hot spring while drowning and drinking water from his mouth and swallowing it.

"Ki-yun! Ki-yun!

Ponta, surprised by the sudden leopard weirdness on this side, makes a loud noise to call something and jumps out of the hot spring and rushes away.

I looked at the soft hairballs of its distant ponta, and my eyes shifted to my own body.

Such crap comes to my mind when I see a sole hanging between my crotches in a fading consciousness, 1.5 times our ratio over my original stuff.

Eventually I heard someone's footsteps in the distance and a familiar voice.

"Hey, what's wrong!? What, who!!?

"Ki-yun! Kiyun!"

I can hear Arian in the distance.

It conveyed the feeling of someone desperately licking my cheeks and only there made me feel slightly fever on my frozen body.

And the world was covered in darkness, and I felt nothing.