The Last Surviving Alchemist Wants to Live Quietly in the City

I think I was in a hurry.

I have no relative power over demons. That means that if an irresistible demon appears with a Eurique whip or a flame bottle, you have to run away.

Even Mariella has lived in the Devil's Forest. That's what I assumed because I've been acting so cautiously since I knew more than anyone else, but because it was all black demons that were creepy and numerous, but could be defeated by a flame bottle fire, only black demons appeared here.

"We'll take a walk in the west tower later and hurry upstairs anyway"

Sometimes Mariella and Eurike discussed that in the northwest tower because Franz's memory had fallen out a lot.

For the beads of memory Mariella had, Franz regained his memory, but that was only a fraction of the memory he had lost.

But more than that.

"Franz! That face............!

When Mariella turned to Eurike's upset voice, Eurike was about to remove Franz's mask. The hair flowing from the unloaded hood is neatly cut and flowing back in the same blue as the beads of memory.

You can't see the fine construction of your face from a remote location, but it's a much younger atmosphere than Mariela thought, and you can't even see it around the same age as Sieg or Edgan.

No, it's a much calmer atmosphere, so I guess it looks much more adult alongside the very restless Edgan.

But what surprised Mariella was not Franz's calm atmosphere or anything, but the same blue hair that covered her forehead and nostrils. I wonder if its shades, which seem stiff even from afar, are scales.

I noticed Mariella's gaze, Franz put on his mask and put on his hood to hide his face, but I could see only a little peek at the blue scales on his complexion peeking from under the mask, which was usually no different from people's.

(Mr. Franz said that even people with subhuman characteristics... But that face. Scale, it's expanding...?

Franz said this place is where he takes his roots. I can't leave here because I have to protect you.

As its roots are the blood of the subhuman, it erodes Franz, letting him fight the black demons here, causing him to lose his memory.

(It's like they're going to change it……)

Mariella was heartfelt at the thought.

What happens to Franz if he loses all his memories?

If I lost my memory, could I still say it was me?

"Eurique, let's hurry."

"I know."

Handing Franz half the flame bottle and instant food, the two girls jumped out of the northwest tower with their evening visit.

South, south, south.

Eurike runs Raptor to the southwestern tower as he burns out black demons in a flame bottle.

On the way through the west tower and jump into the southwest tower.

"Mariela. Give me a flame bottle!"

"Yeah!"

I'm used to handling flame bottles. Mariella and the others have salamanders. Neither will the firepillars that Mariella rises with the magic of her masses, nor will she burn a single strand of Mariella's hair.

Throw a flame bottle on the third floor of the southwest tower and jump into the flame-wrapped room.

On the third floor, as Eurike was talking about, some of the walls had collapsed, with black demons breaking in all you could from the outside. If I had seen it from outside the tower, I would have seen a flame erupt from the collapsed wall.

Mariella's thrown flame bottle flames quickly quenched the fire thanks to the salamander, and Mariella and the others didn't even have trouble breathing, but instead of demons on the third floor of the southwest tower, there were only crates and shelf-like items left to burn. And a few round things on the floor.

"Also, beads............. I can't see much coal, but this is……………………."

"Mariela, we can check later. We'll hurry upstairs."

The passage on the outer wall and here, how many beads? I'll check later. Let's just move on.

When Mariela and the others poured the beads they had picked up, they proceeded further downstairs and upstairs.

"There's no stairs down there..."

"It can't be that easy."

"Ggah......"

On the second floor of the southwest tower there are only doors leading north and east, and there are no stairs leading to the first floor, and you have to look for the descending stairs again to go for the temple.

I wasn't expecting to go that far, so I wasn't discouraged by Mariella and Eurike, but there was about one thing that was causing me confusion.

"Hmm? Coo, what's up? Oh, a carpet. I'm fine. No one gets angry that I've defiled you."

There was a carpet on the second floor of the tower that looked very expensive, and Raptor Coo, who usually never went indoors, was confused as to what to do with the feeling of his fluffy feet.

"Gaa!"

Ku, who asked Yurike for permission to step on it, happily fumbles the carpet on the spot and enjoys a fuzzy feeling.

"The atmosphere has changed a lot."

It is not just the carpet, but the material and construction of floors and doors are also different from the third floor. Does it feel like an old palace or a temple? Mariella's most luxurious building is the Schusenwald Border House, but it looks more luxurious and heavy.

"This room is luxurious, but nothing. Moving on."

Ku is the only one enjoying the fuzziness of the carpet, and Eurike gently opens the door that leads east when he quickly runs over to the door.

"Mariela, I have a room... It looks like there are no demons within sight, but I don't know if the lights are sparse and safe. … the same on the north side."

Eurike opens both doors and confirms the hallway that leads up to the third floor, which was just a hallway connecting the tower to the tower, but there appear to be several rooms upstairs on the inside wall.

And lights that are sparsely lit on the inside wall side of the room. With the door illuminated, I guess the pine light is only lit near the door.

There are luxurious carpets in the hallway as well, and neither hallway seems to submerge because it doesn't look wet.

"Does having a light by the door mean it's safe in the room?

"Come on? But from the size of the door, I can't even get in the room with Raptor on it."

Eurike steps out of the first open east door into the east and west corridors. The north side, or left hand side, is lined with doors, and if you take a few steps, you're going to be able to open the first door.

Eurike moves on as he asks what's going on around him, wondering if we should check across the door for now. Mariela and Ku will be safe too. Step out of the southwest tower and follow Eurike into the hallway.

The windows are open at regular intervals on the right hand side, dark outside and not yet dawn at night. From the way I've been here, it's supposed to be overflowing with black demons outside, but I can't see any black demons in the southwest tower or in this hallway.

Maybe it's safe here.

When Mariella and the others thought that way, they heard something pounding in the distance.

Corn, corn, corn.

"!! Sound now! It must be Donnino."

It's dark outside and the lights in the hallway are uncomfortable. The end of a long corridor stretching eastward is dimmed and it is not possible to foresee whether it continues to the southeast tower or whether there is anything along the way.

But across the hallway, I heard a regular banging on something hard.

"Let's go! Eurique. There could be an exit! You can go outside at night!

When they jump on Raptor's back without opening any of the doors in line, they run out to the sounding east at full speed.

Running down a straight, but dark and unforeseeable hallway, a pine light that lights everywhere flows backwards, like a world of illusions.

This world also seems like someone's world of bad dreams.

Corn, corn.........................

The hitting sound, which increased in magnitude as it progressed, suddenly interrupted.

"The sound...! Beyond that door!

The end of the long corridor was visited approximately half the distance from the corridor leading east to west. At the crossroads, a large, double-open door greets the Mariellas. Unlike other doors, it's a fine door, high and wide enough to stay on the Raptor and pass through.

"From around here, there was a path to the Temple of Examples, wasn't there? That means there may be an entrance!

There must be a staircase leading down at the end of this door. And outside, there must be a path leading to a huge temple surrounded by towers and exterior walls.

Maybe we can reach the temple before nightfall and the area is filled with water...

Mariella and Eurike were in a hurry.

Look at Franz as he loses his memory and even transforms himself.

And he was alarmed. Because only black demons have ever attacked me, and they have been lightly embellished with flame bottles.

There can't be a world like this where memories are eaten.

Why was the sound of the blow interrupted, was the pine light on both sides of this door, and the colour of the sky visible from the hallway window was the dark colour of the night or was it white at dawn?

Without even opening their consciousness to all of that, Mariella and Eurike made the choice to open the door.

Ki.............

As Eurike slid down with Mariela on Ku's back and hung her hand on the handle of the door, the door opened with lightness that she could not have anticipated from the heavy standing.

It was like an entrance to the central temple, as Mariella and the others expected. The upstairs hallway turns into a staircase across the door, joining from the southeast hallway side on the staircase and dance floor down to the first floor. I guess that's how it's supposed to be made.

However, the destination of the Mariellas was blocked by a fine tree far ahead of the confluence of the stairs.

"Thu………? It's like a wall…………."

There are several trees that reach the ceiling, even around giant trees that burst into the ceiling from the ground to the second floor and spread left and right as they are, and the stairs cannot be blocked and descended along the way. If we can get through the gaps in the trees, we can go outside, but the eel and the eel are growing to connect the trees, and we can't see the gaps that we can get through.

The smell of green and giant trees pouring in the moment the door was opened made me think of the forest, but this large tree, dense to the point of being unnatural around a single giant tree, also seemed like a snoring hedge.

"I can't go outside with this. Jumping down..."

Eurike steps onto the floor of the stairs and looks down the ground floor from the railing.

"Hey, there's someone out there?

Let's just look for the Lord of Sound. That's what I thought. Eurike speaks up.

Then, from somewhere downstairs, someone answered the call.

"Is that voice, Eurique!?

"Donino!? He's downstairs?

"Good, Mr. Donino, you're safe!

Unexpectedly Mariella also speaks up. After all, the sound of the blow earlier was Donino.

Donino, who maintains an armored carriage in the Black Iron Transport Corps, uses the hammer as his weapon and crushes the enemy on his way with his rigid arms. Though not the speedy type, it's never weak.

However, that Donino controlled Eurique with a sharp voice when he sensed that there were Eurike and Mariela upstairs.

"Eurike, get out of there now!

To Donino's voice, Eurique flies back to the hallway side where Mariella is located. That moment.

The tree that was blocking Mariella's whereabouts shuddered. The surface of the giant tree, many of which were connected to the trees around it, was scattered, and the surface of the tree was exposed at once as if the connected hair were flowing loose.

"Hih! Face!?

Mariella, faster than a short scream, leaves her as if she were a creature, beaten to the spot where Eurike was, and intertwined with the recoil.

If Eurike's evacuation was even a moment too late, Eurike might have been caught in the crosshairs.

The trunk of the dewy tree was dressed with red eyes like blood and nostrils and mouths like wounds that tore the flesh, twisting Mariella and Yurike.

"This guy, he's a" necklace ”!

Eurike screams as he flies back to Mariella and by Raptor in the next step of his retreat.

“Jewelry".

It is the nickname given to a certain variety of tree demons with the faces of people called human trees.

Tree demons are also full of diversity, as there are many different types of trees.

I guess there are some official names given by the capitalist scholars, but for the Euriquets adventurers, it doesn't matter what the name is. That's what demons are and how to deal with them. That's what matters.

The nickname "necklace" also denotes the demonic properties of this tree.

As the expression that appears on the trunk and this name stands for, this tree is said to be the most vanity filled species. Since no one has communicated with the demons of this tree of his will, he is not so sure as to be sincere.

However, while the common human tree occasionally adorns itself with ugly flowers and fruits, this tree alone does not blossom or bear fruit.

The look on the face of this tree, which has nothing to adorn it, looks more full of jealousy than any other human tree, and its bright red mouth, such as after rinsing its congested eyes and life blood, also seems to have been attached to a creature mad with jealousy.

And this tree uses the bamboo that it has taken in by eating itself, like a hand or a foot, to indiscriminately assault people and beasts with streets. He caught his neck with his tentacles and hung it like a pendant to decorate himself.

Therefore, the common name attached is "necklace".

I can't move with my roots, but I can move them as hard as steel, as long as I want.

It is a belligerent and troublesome tree demon.

"Eurique, let's meet on the other side. Ready? It's noon. Come after lunch! You get it!?

I can't confirm Donino's appearance. But what you can hear is the hard sounds of blunt weapons meeting each other, like Gakin and Gain, and you can hear Donino engaging with “necklaces” even downstairs. I guess it attracts the "necklace" and creates a gap for the Euriquets to escape.

"Donino!? Okay, and!

When Eurike replies to Donino, he retreats to Mariela and by Ku.

As well as Donino, Mariella and the others consider the "necklace" a prey and move to supplement it.

"Gah!"

Raptor coo that lightly avoids that attack.

"Go quickly! He's not the only one with a weapon, watch out! We're leaving too!

When Donino screamed so much, it seemed that he had begun to leave. The sound of the blow drifts away one by one.

Donino's warning. The meaning was immediately known.

Mariella and the others who were not caught shook her body as if she had a seizure.

It's me, it's me, it's me.

Something fell from the branches of the "necklace" that spread all over the ceiling.

Ugh, if that body was white and tight, of course it still deserved enough screaming, but it could still have been visually sweet.

From a distance, I guess those who seem fuzzy have never touched a normal seed that is not a demon of it.

Hair, thorns, poison.

Tough teeth on many, but badly short legs.

Is the black on the head facing this one an eye or is it just a pattern?

Although not discernible, "I saw each other," Mariella and Eurike felt that way.

"Hiu."

It was Mariella or Eurique that took my breath by accident.

Eurike jumps on Raptor at speeds like spinal reflexes and runs the path he came at at full speed, and he comes forward at unusual speeds toward this one, huge them.

Huge ones that seem to eat a thousand pieces in one bite, such as a man's head, overflow from across the door, crawling through the floor, through the walls, and through the ceiling endlessly.

"Good, good, no, no, no, no!!!!! caterpillar iiiiiiiiiiiii!!

The screams of the girls echoed in the hallway upstairs, which I finally reached.