SSS-Class Suicide Hunter

1.

[You have entered stage 63.]

[The Eye in the Labyrinth senses your prowess and is furious!]

The sandstorm enveloped me and sank.

It's like holding it once and letting it go.

I dry in the sun and smell the sand blown by the wind, and I straighten my back.

“You don't have to say it with a message anymore. Mr. Grumpy?”

I didn't use a vocal chord.

The opponent is a constellation that controls all mysteries and secrets.

Easier to peek in the unseen and eavesdrop on the unseen. In other words, it means you're an expert in wiretapping.

[The Eye in the Maze is shivering at your rudeness!]

Mmm-hmm.

I zipped one eye shut.

“Maybe we can negotiate. I, for one, am surprisingly well-connected. If you're not going to hide and spend eternity like that, why don't you have a little tea time and talk? ”

[The Eye in the Labyrinth asks you where you're playing tricks!]

Indeed.

‘Even if you die, you won't be able to hear yourself. ’

I looked around.

‘If you do, be careful that it will reveal your location. I watched Mutia apply it to me... I wouldn't have the courage to show myself. Well, then... Do I have to play hide-and-seek now? ’

Labyrinth.

Surrounded by high walls.

In fact, I was curious whether to refer to it as a 'wall’.

At least none of the walls I know of seemed to leap over and reach the stratosphere.

In fact, the sky was closed in dome shape. The eggshells covered the ground. Perhaps climbing up the wall will block the shells of the sky.

What about the ground?

Wood.

The swirling wooden floors with symbols like snake scales spread out.

I tried swinging my sword as a test, but the wall and floor were fine. No damage was done. Maybe it's set to be very difficult to destroy.

“…… is the world itself a maze? ”

I muttered.

“Not a chance. Mr. Grumpy will keep changing his position. I don't know the geography here, but Mr. Muggles will. If the opponent runs away, there's no way I can catch him... ”

“You don't have to worry about that. ”

I heard a voice behind my back.

The reason I didn't raise my reflective sword to attack is because I've already heard that voice.

“The Ancient Staff? ”

“Simply call me Wizard. He's a wizard.”

[Ancient Staff] said with a face I don't think I've ever laughed in my life. The wizard yawned about six metres away from me.

“He's not that great. He was just the greatest wizard in the world. ”

“No, I think it's quite an achievement...? ”

“No, it's not great. Before he became a pillar, he single-handedly slaughtered thirteen solvents, punished seven dragons, and for the first time ever arrived at a hollow crack - the root and starting point of the world - and he called it the flag, but he was just a wizard. ”

“…… Are you just going to boast to me? ”

“Four kings. Do you know why incredibly successful people are incredibly humble? The more humble I get when I get to that position, the less humble my opponent becomes. I humiliate my opponent, but I am completely innocent. Only a powerful man can truly be humbled. It's not surprising that successful people are humble in that sense. Did I give you an epiphany? ”

“All I just realized is that the Wizard's personality is rotten... ”

“Congratulations. You've come to your senses. ”

Pair, mate. Even.

The wizard claps his hands. Not with your hands, but with your mouth. So I moved my mouth and said, "Pair, Pair, Pair." As I listened to the wizard's clap, I sensed this pillar was also an unusual lunatic.

“Let's get back to business. Why shouldn't I be worried? ”

The wizard pulls the paper out of his arms and writes something down.

It says on the paper, "Essence."

The wizard places the paper on the wall, takes three steps back, and then returns three steps forward.

“Ta-da.”

"......."

“Back.”

I decided to ignore all of this for about 15 seconds. I also need to be armed with a spark in order to fight the crazies on my own.

“Yes, Mad Wizard. Why shouldn't I be worried? ”

“The constellations are unfair. Ordinary Humans are simply too powerful to cope with. Not only are they physically strong, but their very existence is magnificent. ”

The wizard said as if he were normal.

“But even in injustice, there is justice. ”

“Fair?”

“Yes. A riddle is a riddle because there are answers, no matter how difficult the riddle may be. The maze is a maze because there is an exit no matter how difficult it is. The answer to the riddle is just a list of annoying sentences, and the doorless maze is just a series of boring places. ”

The wizard mutters silently.

“So that the constellations are no different from the ‘ordinary human' lives. ”

"......."

“Even if the answer is wrong. Even if it's a twisted escape route. The role of constellations is to answer the world without answers and to give doors to life without doors. No, the existence of the constellation itself. ”

That is.

“Hashemit Creetz... [Eye in the Maze] doesn't run away? ”

“Every palace has a throne. The maze is a palace. The king will no longer be king when he flees from his throne."

Is that so?

I nod and look at the walls everywhere.

[The Eye in the Labyrinth]]

[The Eye in the Labyrinth expresses its power!]

And then, as I responded to my provocative gaze, the world changed.

2.

The world is still made of walls.

However, it was no longer an invisible wall.

[The Eye in the Labyrinth requests an oath to the Tower.]

[Designate Sanctuary.]

[Approve.]

The coverings of the walls melt and flow.

[Currently, this place is owned by the Eye of the Maze.]]

The inside of the wall that was peeled off and poured down was glass.

Transparent windows.

It was no longer blocked, so I was free to look inside. I looked at the glass, intentionally or unintentionally, there.

“…… a mannequin? Figure?”

There were a lot of dolls on display inside the glass wall.

The expression "numerous" is literally "infinite."

They were glass so high that it reached the end of the sky that I didn't know how far it would go. It was a labyrinth of glass, with dolls lining each window, layered and layered over each other.

[He is the one who hides and reveals. Worship him.]

Peek-a-book.

Hanging from the nearest window, the mannequin suddenly raises its head.

I opened my mouth.

"He is the one who hides and reveals, so worship him."

Another stuffed doll, left, right and top of the mannequin, opens its mouth.

“He is the one who hides and reveals, so worship him. ”

The dolls that surround them again.

“He is the one who hides and reveals, so worship him. ”

On either side of a straight passageway, the mannequins at the cul-de-sac walls of an alley, the mannequins at the right angle of a crooked path, hundreds of thousands of mannequins just where I can see them, literally an infinite number of mannequins in the unseen, giggling! Beyond the window, squeeze. Peek-a-book opens his mouth, grunting.

“If you're looking for me, look for me. ”

Tens of millions of layers.

Each doll had a dissonant voice.

“Among these is my body. ”

"......."

Of these.

Here, with hundreds of millions, or even more, of dolls on display, the Eye in the Labyrinth is hidden.

I raised my mouth.

“Playing hide-and-seek is too bad for Sulai. ”

“This is a fair game. ”

The doll on the right wall of glass moved her lips.

“If you can't find it, just admit defeat and go down." Or you can wander around my glass palace forever! ”

Each of the dolls had its own characteristics.

Some of the dolls were close to the figures of the isochronous school, or even the real one. You have a face. You have eyes. I felt alive as if I were breathing right now, but my face didn't change to see if the time had stopped.

Some of the dolls were mannequins. A wooden doll. A Marionette with no face, no face, and an open joints.

Each doll had a different level of sophistication. From perfect to incomplete, there were numerous puppets hanging from the thread, all posed differently.

Just one thing.

I am the murderer who killed the children of my neighbor.

Every doll has a piece of paper sign.

I lied to my best friend.

That was the only thing they had in common.

I had an affair with a priest of the temple.

I am the one who plotted to poison the Grand Duke of Milky Way.

I killed my father.

I hate the noble who took me in.

I have destroyed the main house through my enemies of the monarchy.

The signs with the dolls were different.

It was serious. It was poetic.

“…… they're all secrets. ”

I realized what the signs meant not to be difficult.

“Something I don't want to show others. Secrets you don't want known. Everyone has a secret to keep. With it, we can infer his identity. ”

“He's a fast-moving guy. ”

Inconclude-.

The puppet in the front opens his mouth. The squeaking of the joints was probably the intentional laughter of the [eye in the maze].

“They were all those who prayed for me. Leaning against my powers at least once. My realm is so vast now that it's nothing compared to yours in the new constellation! ”

“I don't want to create a world this big... ”

The Great Library of Hamustra. Mutia is the Sand Temple. And Hashemit Creetz is a glass gallery.

“What are your main wishes? ”

“[Please, tell me his weakness.] ”

"......."

“[Please let no one know what I've done. Please. Kill him and no one will find out.] [Don't let them know my secrets, even if they dig into my past. What happened that summer. As if I were innocent.] ”

Queek, queek.

The mannequin of the seven sieves sneers at the same time.

“My realm is the wish that everyone has ever wished for deep in their heart. You humans have so many secrets you want to reveal, but you have so many secrets you want to hide! ”

Hisimit Creetz.

Eyes in the maze.

Keywords are snakes, eggs, mazes, secrets, riddles, contradictions, confidentiality and security.

Locks and keys.

Expose.

“Of course, I'm as close to keeping secrets as humans want me to be. Under my power, they enjoy the blessings of being invisible from the things they most want to be seen, but the secrets they hide are only exhibited hostile here! ”

I nodded.

Understood.

“That's why you were able to relate to my skill's [traumatic penalty]. ”

Seven mannequins tilt their heads at the same time.

“Hmm?"

“Man's past is the sum total of his secrets. The past with the deepest wounds is the most profound key to understanding him. ”

I was catching my breath and talking.

“The tower said that this power comes from [all life], and if you go back, you reach your ancestor, who was an apostle of Hamustra. At the same time, my skills are in contact with your powers. ”

The Mannequins have set off a bomb.

“Aha, yes! Correct! Yes. Human past is [memory] and soon [story], but at the same time [secret]. You revealed it beautifully. ”

A mannequin raises his hand in the corner of my vision.

“A wise revealer must be rewarded. ”

A finger made of wood pointed somewhere.

“Rejoice. I'll give you my little gift. ”

“A hint as to where you are? ”

“You'll see. ”

I followed him.

In the direction of the finger, there was another mannequin, and the mannequin raised the finger somewhere else, so I repeatedly walked the same process 16 times.

And...

"......."

Stop.

At last, I stopped momentarily where I arrived.

“How's it going, little star. ”

On the other side of thin glass, a doll moved his lips.

Marionette's appearance was exquisite.

It was a voice I knew well and a face I knew well.

“Don't you want to know her secret? ”

There.

There was a puppet that looked just like the paladin.