The Branded Female Fencer

Hall of Return (Instead), Part 16 - Rift

"What, that one?

"It's in the distortion of space. When you get swallowed up by that one, you don't know where it's going to fly. I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in this hall, but whether it's here or somewhere in the room... could be in the wall again."

"In the wall, you say?

"Yes, some of the statues lining the walls would have irregular or only some of them if they did, wouldn't they? For example, the hand on the wall, where the staircase to the second floor is divided into two pieces, is on something that was not originally in the hall. I mean..."

"You mean swallowed by the distortion and flown into the wall"

"You are absolutely right"

The deacon also saluted him, but now he is Rafferty, who feels a groan in his trick. If what the butler says is true, we must leave here as soon as possible. The distortion wasn't progressing fast, but we were already trying to get to the balcony here.

"Okay. Let's just follow what I say to you. Show me to Rambless."

"Accepted"

Deacon started walking to encourage Rafferty and the others. Rafferty and the others left early as they saw the distortion looming behind them.

"You're about to come in from here."

"Yeah, it seems so."

Lisa and Aristotle stood in front of the entrance heard from the door-shaped demon. When it comes to the entrance, there are words. It was a crack that was made into a hall. Just enough rift for each person to go through. That rift, which suddenly appeared on a crackle-free wall around him, was also like the mouth of a pompous carnivore, and it was too dim in the hall to see clearly what was going on over there from the rift.

When Aristotle throws one pine light into the rift, he makes sure it's safe for now and gives instructions to everyone.

"You're all here!?

"Yes, we are ready to connect"

The nearest knight to Aristotle answers. Seeing how it went, Lisa decided Aristotle was a well-trusted knight as a deputy. Apparently, he's not being Rafferty's deputy to Dada.

Aristotle let the knights enter out of the rift in turn, and he went into the rift again about half way. Immediately after that Lisa tried to continue, and Jake grabbed the hand.

"Sister Lisa, wait a minute"

"What? Did Boya get lonely?

Lisa teased me when she saw Jake, who looked anxious, so Jake blushed and objected.

"I have a bad feeling about it. You shouldn't be in here."

"That said, you don't have to get couscous if you want to go to the tiger hole."

"You don't say that! No kidding, I have a bad feeling about this place!

Lisa felt nasty about Jake's desperate shape, but nothing caught Lisa's crisis-sensing abilities. I always have a bad feeling about it, but Lisa felt it was the same wherever she went in this hall.

"Jake, this place is already enemy formation. Dangerous is with everywhere. Then we'll go a little further. Different?

"That may be..."

"I am a mercenary. A mercenary is someone whose life is bought for money. I'm not willing to throw it away to pride, but I don't want Lisa to even think I'm cowardly because of it. It is precisely in these circumstances that the certainty of sensors like me involves the end of the whole thing. If Lisa slips in, she won't be able to save her life, will she?

And if there's anything else, you'll protect it, won't you?

When Lisa grinned and chewed, Jake strained his chest just to say he deserved it.

"Naturally! Say what...!

"Then I have nothing to worry about. Just push it, push it forward."

That's all Lisa said, she turned her back on Jake and walked into the hall. Jake was taken aback. Jake still doesn't know how Lisa can dance so proudly and without any anxiety.

Lisa dares to act vigorously to ensure that her trust in Jake doesn't become a bit of a mental burden for Jake, but at the same time she has confidence as her own sensor.

Lisa turns the sensor around as she enters the hall and goes to Aristotle, who entered earlier, to report.

"Mr. Aristotle, it seems there are no enemies around. I don't know how far you can guess, because the distance between the sensors is about the end of the hallway at best."

"Really? By the way, you're not the last one, are you?

"What? That's right..."

Lisa said that much before realizing that the earlier rift already reflected another sight. Oh, my God. The road that existed earlier is no longer connected to the earlier place.

"Shit, they did it"

By the time Lisa repented, it was already too late.

Continued