The Last Surviving Alchemist Wants to Live Quietly in the City

"I'm going to help Franz alone.... Sorry, Mariela"

Eurike said it was definitive, not suggestive or hopeful. I guess my feelings were fixed for a long time.

Eurike decided to give Franz priority, even though he was in the middle of a request.

"I'm coming with you, Eurike. It might be a foot job, but I'm sure it'll help."

Mariella shakes Yurike's hand apologizing for not being able to complete the request.

"Thank you, Mariela. But this is our problem. I can't risk Mariela on my own in the middle of a request."

As a member of the Black Iron Transport Corps, Eurique refuses to involve his client.

"What are you talking about! I can't leave you alone, you're not my friend!

It has become very dangerous. Or rather, it was Mariela who got involved. Mariella mouthed as she thought she would. But Eurike saw Mariella with a decent look.

"……………… Friends?

"... Huh? No?"

Was Mariella the only one who thought she was a friend?

Mariella circles her thoughts in Mach as the air she was straining loosens to a subtle sensation.

Mariela knows very little about Eurike and Franz.

A short time since I met the Black Iron Transport team in the Labyrinth City and the memory of the two people I peered into in this world, that's all.

Especially when Franz's memory was all about his casual routine when he lived in Eurike and Imperial Capital, I can't imagine what the hell Franz was like, how the tornado that rolled up with the roar earlier had anything to do with Franz, who was supposed to be a healing wizard, and Mariela just imagines on her own what Eurike thinks of Franz like that.

But Mariella thinks she may not need to know better.

The time that Eurike and I lost in this strange world of water was not so bad. If it wasn't even dangerous, I would have even thought it would be fun.

Even if you don't know them well, they don't even have anything in common, so it's kind of fun to be together. Mariella was able to learn that she felt comfortable living in a labyrinth city.

"Once you eat dinner with someone like that, you're already friends."

That's what the master said, but was that still the original rule of the master?

Mariella, a little awkward by the silence that ensued, asked me with a slight look on Eurike's face, and Eurike replied with a small voice, "It's not different."

"Good -"

Weirdly, Eurike is the one that keeps things between us, so I thought it was Mariela's slightly embarrassing mistake.

"……… not good."

When Eurike, with a slight pointed mouth, shifted his gaze ahead of his eyes, Donino and the two grand old men watched the friendship play between the two girls with a full nymph and a warm smile.

It was not long before the sun fell that Mariella, who had asked the two old men for Edgan, not Etekou, to reach the entrance to the third floor of the southwest tower.

I wanted to sleep a little along the way and purchase some memories about the black war disaster, but it took me longer than I thought to collect and make potions to restore the Grand Dollar, replenish the flame bottles that I had used up, and other potions that I would need.

Of course I am concerned about how Edgan is doing, but Edgan, who lost his memory from one end of the spectrum, seemed to wake up in the wild and looked more like he was in excellent physical condition as well, so everyone unanimously decided to wait for the evening visit, prioritizing collecting, procuring food, and securing treatment and passage, in agreement with "something seems ok".

"Mariela, I'll be there at full speed. He's got you."

"Yeah, okay!

"Gu Ga"

Run up the southwest tower to the fourth floor with the evening visit, through the fence to the northwest tower. Although the indoor corridor is safe, it really slows down when I run through it in Raptor because of the low ceilings and a lot of decorations. It was decided that it would be quicker to kick the black demons and move on, but until now there were not many demons near the northwest tower, which should have been overflowing with black demons, and Mariella and the others were able to approach the tower without bitterness.

I have a bad feeling.

Running unobstructed, it burns my chest with agitation.

Mariella turns to the end of the northwest tower, which will arrive soon.

How many times have I seen this view?

The pine lights leaking from the tower paint the contours of the fence into the dark night.

It is the demons darker than night that are swallowing even the light on their dim walls.

On the other side of the fence, a black demon must be pushing the tide.

From time to time on the eastern side of the Great Collapsed North Wall, flames rise.

Edgan, or maybe Donino and Grandad who ran used the flame bottle.

And as I echo it, from a little further up the northwest tower across from Mariella's...

"Franz!!

Did Eurike see the shadow rising in the dark, Franz?

The fist rolled out of the forward leaning position is so fast that it cannot be captured in Mariella's eyes, and the black demon is mutilated and fogged into an attack that should be rolling out with her bare hands. The leap produced by two legs that never stop is taller and sharper than any adventurer Mariella knows.

The powerful and agile move, which only had to be lost sight of because it was viewed far away, also made it difficult to see the details, seemed to Mariella to outweigh the realm of man.

(…… as if, beast)

I wonder if Eurike's voice has arrived. I turned this way. Although that face won't be seen at a distance apart, I felt like Mariella was stared at by something I didn't know how to handle.

Behind it, a black demon, like a tsunami, rises and strikes to crush Franz.

"Franz, dangerous!!

Eurike screaming as far as his voice is concerned. It was the tornado that rolled up the black demons and the Franz that roared like no man in its center.

"Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh"

"Franz! Franz!

"Danger! Eurique!

Mariela definitely stops Eurike trying to jump from Raptor and rush to Franz.

"Let go, Mariela! Franz!!

Mariela grabbed her clothes to stop Eurike. The moment Raptor lost control of the horseman slowed to confusion, several tornadoes arose around Franz swept Mariela and Eurike into space for each Raptor.

"Ha ha."

What was spreading on Mariella's leg, wound up in a tornado, was the sight outside the broken north fence.

The black road leads to the temple, tearing the forest in two as it spreads through endless horizons.

It was a runoff of black scourge (purposeful) trying to fill a side around it and pour it into the temple from the gap of a broken fence.

Part of it looms like a creature trying to swallow the immobile Mariellas while being wound up in a tornado.

Mariella instinctively felt “scared” when she was about to be swallowed by a disastrous turbulence.

It's not fear, it's like taking a life in front of a demon.

It was such a fear that although it did not take life instantly, it would be forced to live harder than death, like being closely intertwined and eroding life from the inside out.

Although Mariella does not have such experience, she may be close to the condition of a prisoner who has preceded such a statute, who continues to be tortured while being kept alive for a long time in order to entertain someone.

It flows this way as if it were a prescribed waterway. Mariela felt that way when it was the heart of a cursed, mad, wish-praying distorted person who wanted to be angry, painful, pitiful, tormented, and abusive to someone.

A distorted black stream twists.

A collection of black demons reaches out to Mariela and Eurike, who have been tornadoed and have lost their scaffolding.

The misfortune of a human being who has nothing to do with himself is sweet and annoying.

If you want to taste it, you stretch out your black arms to the two of you, both joy and sorrow, in an effort to eliminate all the memories that the man holds in his heart that make him his own.

"Scary, scary, scary. HELP, HELP...... ZEEK!!

At that time.

Like transforming the world, the sky, the earth swayed.

The night, which seemed to have just begun, suddenly ended with a dazzling light.

Clean water floods the world and torrents push black demons away.

In a violently shaky world, Mariella and Eurike felt held by something.

In a glaring and transforming situation, Mariella was able to recognize the

"Franz......"

and was the seventh tower, which appeared to block the crushing Eurike's relief and the destroyed northern barrier.

(…… it's too late)

Mariella, a little hateful but relieved, entrusted consciousness to the memory of someone pouring in.