The Spearmaster and the Black Cat

Peeli ignores me.

He seems to be a race name Zenzibar, but he could be the madman.

I could see the cow knife Peeli had was suspiciously brilliant.

Let's just go crazy, let's leave that "furry man" to each other.

Turn off the Demon Spear Wand on the spot.

Let them disappear into the gambling district.

"Explore Black Cat (Rollo), Hermé, Gambling Street."

"Nha."

"Yes."

It is also convenient that faraway rolls are full of wild horses.

We enter the wild horse and run through it like we sew between people.

I stopped in the shadow of the alley.

Ask Herme to return to his left eye while keeping his back on the wall.

Activate Hyde just in case.

Black Cat (Lolo) also returns to his shoulder.

He returned to the streets again and was lost in the darkness of the night as he used the shadow of the crowd.

Walk around the gambling district in that state.

In front of a beautiful liquor store, whorehouse, and inn, I wondered if a lady dressed in a rich looking bilload clothing with a lantern in her hand was taking a whore, and on the other side there was also a ruin dotted with dirty thinly dressed floaters.

This is a city where the rich and the poor live together. and recognition.

Then as the gambling street name suggests......

Throughout the streets, gambling is taking place.

There were major boxing competitions at one tent venue about six tents on the flat screen, as well as pawn games like arm wrestling, card games, jahn, and chess.

But in one corner, they also sell drugs they've never seen before.

Colorful large grains in shades like candy balls.

At first glance, it looks like a treat... a drug.

Medicine candy was left unmade in a square box like selling candy.

On the side where the square box was placed, a man looks like a drug dealer and the unfamiliar ones look around.

There were a large crowd of drug addicts (junkies) who looked pale and eye-catching at the scene where such drugs were sold.

The opposite of the feeling coming from the lower town.

The atmosphere was bad enough to make me feel connected to the demonic world... the street that made me feel like there was a jail-like shady air that was due for years.

Imagine only, I might have a family member to take to the demonic god who is feeding off the negative emotions here......

While I'm patient, I walk around looking for [Ashler's guide, Kazane's enclosure].

I was wandering around the gambling district for hours searching for signs.

Tired of searching, Black Cat (Lolo) rests in a jacket headscarf that drips down his back.

It's night, but there's no sign.

But it's relatively bright.

There are many earthen bottles like drum cans, and many fires are cooked.

The floaters were busy surrounding the fire of the earthen bottle and baking some food.

A place with lots of magical light sources floating in the corner of that alley that are brighter than earthenware cooking enters your sight.

The floaters as well as the general public were gathered.

Interested. Let's see. That's him. I took him around.

Oh, rat race.

Six frame plates are provided on a straight stretched rectangular lane plate and the rats in the frame run straight towards the bait placed in the back.

That was a simple race to make.

There are beautiful facilities around such a betting racetrack.

Multiple table seats were available to enjoy drinking and eating and to buy and sell rats used for gambling.

When you're listening, it's not just about here...

There was a rat racing field in each city, and there were also specialist breeders with controlled rat lineage for each region, with the presence of tutors and rich owners.

Deep as horse racing......

The absolutely unbeatable battle of the rats was there.

With admiration for the story, start listening.

I talked to a tannic old man wearing a cloth hat and a swallow tail suit.

“Ashler's guide, don't you know where Kazane's enclosure is? ”

And when I asked, the sinister man in the hat told me with a smile on his face.

"Oh, then, it's right there. They used to give me a wooden fortune, but, you see, it's a white,“ little building ”next to a money changer and a cash exchange with that magical light."

Next door. Oh, it's true.

There is a white building next to a money exchange for rat racing.

"True. Thanks."

Give a gentle thank you to the old man in the hat and then head to the store.

There was a white-walled house in the form of a sandwich between earthen walls, with one door.

At the center of the door there is an ornament marked with an eye.

Is this the sign?

The size of the store is really small.

Romanesque building with only white walls with no signs.

The width is too narrow and simple.

In advance, I might not have known if they hadn't told me it was this store...

The people standing in line at the cash changer aren't looking for this overly simple, white-looking shop.

You didn't predict the race with fortune?

People were talking earlier, but I don't think I've been doing it lately.

The eye mark at the top of the key door is the famous "Eye of Providence", which is also on a one-dollar bill.

Looks just like our mark.

The door has no hinges and no handles.

I had no choice, so I glanced at the mark on the door and the surface of my index finger.

The surface has a rough metal feel.

No way, this isn't the ring, is it?

and try pressing the eye mark subtly and gently.

At that moment, the marks of the eyes glow and cracks and splits regularly into the surface of the wooden door.

The door becomes a brick block-like area and is stored in the frame of the door so that the wooden puzzle is dismantled.

Wow, that's a strange door.

The part that was the door was missing as if it had been pierced.

The tip is a narrow dark green color followed by a dark passage.

One step inside, as soon as you step in, a green light occurs.

- Wow, I'm a little surprised, but it's a candlelight.

Brass candlesticks were installed on the walls on both sides.

All kinds of green flames illuminating me in the hallway.

Looks like nature and green fire lit up in response to me coming in.

From the end of the hallway, the raw warm wind stroked my cheeks.

Every time I go down the hallway, the candles on the walls light up, feeling the hunch of summer horrors freezing my spine.

Is it also a sensor... well made.

There were two large black and red doors at the penetration of the hallway.

On that door, letters, eh!?

You're lying... Japanese is carved.

On the surface of the black door, "You can read this, you're Japanese from Earth. Turn the handle of this door three times to the right, five times to the left, and push it in at the end." It said Japanese.

If he's a prudent guy, he turns back here.

But I don't do such boring things.

As it says, move the handle on the black door.

The moment you move the handle exactly as instructed.

The black door changes into a small brick block of rectangles and squares, like the first wooden door, and the blocks are automatically stored inside the outer frame, which is left and right up, down, and left.

Ahead of the opening there was a cozy room, wrapped in green light and green curtains.

In the center of the room there is a stage that is raised, with a set of heavy desks and chairs that shine black.

The magic vegetables are thick.

Across the desk, an "old woman” sat and waited.

The green light illuminates the old woman and her desk.

That woman is Japanese!

On the desk were instruments like large harps, tarot cards, and objects like metromes.

They think it's a fortune teller room, but they don't have classic crystal spheres or anything.

'My lord, this seems like a place with thick magic vegetables, some kind of junction, or a thinning of the narrow space (Vail). Be careful, it can be said that the gods have increased their influence.'

In my left eye, the ever-dark water spirited herme advised me so.

Thanks for the advice, but I don't care what happens.

'Okay. You inform and educate that woman about your prestige. I also educated my butt...'

'- No, I don't care about that, I'm simply interested'

I tried to say something weird again, so I spoke forcefully.

"Yes."

As I talked to Herme, I didn't go in the room and I waited,

"Come on in, please"

A suspicious old woman waiting in her room spoke to me.

Voice quality seems to be a gentle impression.

The face of the old woman in the strange hat has wrinkles that have been on her annual wheel, but she has a gentle smile.

He was wearing an arranged witch outfit and had a small ball skewer stick in his hand.

That stick is magical, so it must be a magic item.

Are you more witchy than this old woman, the fortune teller?

... face like a bodhisattva.

"Now, if you'll excuse me"

I hesitate to step in.

He proceeded as close to the desk and met the old woman sitting on the other side, standing across the desk.

"Don't be nervous, take a seat there"

"Yes......"

That's what the old woman urged me to do, and I sat in a chair.

"My name is Moussa Aroman. He's a reincarnator. His name in his previous life was Fengyin Maruko. It's been a while since I've been in this city. … but surprised."

Japanese. Long time no see.

... I'm surprised, too. Not to say, but to return it with doubt.

"... Surprised?

Hearing my simple question, Kazane puts the ball skewer in his hand at his desk and opens his mouth.

"A reborn man named you who could open that black door has appeared… I've been waiting for the reborn for a hundred years, but“ now ”I can't believe he showed up at this time..."

You've been waiting a long time.

For that matter, this old lady, she's young to say she's waited a hundred years.

You don't look like you're over a hundred, do you? I feel like I'm over sixty.

Black eyes felt lively and vibrant, and the magic resided in them.

There is also rainbow magic from all over the body and it is like a wave.

The basic demon fighting system seems to be mastered.

Well, I just take it personally that I think of it as a demonic fighting system, which may actually be a completely different magic system.

Don't talk about that magic, for now, praise your appearance.

"... is it a hundred years? And you look young."

"Hehe, you can flatter me. Mr. Kagari Shuya."

That's my name. I haven't even guessed it yet.

This woman, with a smile on her face, seems to have been appraising me all along.

"You can really identify people."

"Oh, did you ask anyone about my skills?

"Yeah, yes."

"Yes... but Kagari is almost invisible." [Spear Martial Arts Level XVIII] [Demonic Arts Level] That's all I know. I don't know what that means... No way, “fruit" and... "

Actually? The old woman is leaning her neck.

There seems to be something I can't see.

Isn't the appraisal complete, too?

But [Spear Martial Arts Level XVIII] [Magic Level XVIII] and they seem to be part of my status.

Interesting. Sounds a lot different than the talent I know.

"... come on. You don't know what I'm asking you."

But I simply wanted to see my abilities, but I didn't know I was a reincarnator.

Very interested.

"... Earlier, Mr. Kazane was said to be a hundred years old, but in the meantime, he hasn't seen a reincarnator?

This is important.

You may find out about the other reincarnators that exist.

"That's right. I haven't seen him. To be exact, if you haven't seen him, you might as well say that in the [Radford Empire] in the west, the [Seven Kingdoms of Florsail], the [Empire of Zerubia] in the northwest, the [Federation of Fujiks] in the east, and the [Glutton Empire], you've heard rumors that a subpoena is taking place. This world is infinitely wide, with stars and contiguous gods, and endless... there are so many things I haven't heard that I don't even know if I live beyond a hundred years... Anyway, in this city, I've lived forever and conspicuously for over a hundred years, but I haven't met the reincarnated. And you're the only one who showed up.

Few reincarnates?

Those with summonses and memories of previous life aren't so summoned, aren't they the divisions that come into being Pompom?

But the reincarnated should not necessarily aspire to the adventurer.

I may be in a profession that draws on my previous life's work. Even if you were an adventurer, there are other lands where adventurers like labyrinths and towers are likely to gather.

Besides, some prudent reincarnators may have decided not to touch the black door and not to enter the door I came in, also being wary of Japanese.

I mean, normally I do.

Based on that area, I'll ask lightly.

"... So you think there are no reincarnators other than Mr. Kazane?

Shut up and let go, Grandma Kazane shakes her head gently left and right to open her tease mouth to my inquiry.

"No, I was there a hundred and twenty years ago. Only three, including me."

Were you there? Past form but......

Do the three of them have something in common or something?

"Do those reborns have anything in common from previous lives?

"Not much. They were all subtly reincarnated from modern Japan with different histories. And he suddenly remembers his" memory as a Japanese man ”because of his illness and the shock that struck him in the head at a young age. The common denominator is that maybe all the people born and raised in this world (Serra) fell apart."

Heh, born in pieces......

Doesn't it matter if you're connected in your previous life or something?

What the three of them had in common was that they were both from Japan with different histories, and in some sort of accident at an early age, they remembered when they were “Japanese", only...

Parallel worlds, Everett's multi-world lectures, Schradinger's cats and other thoughts pass in the back of his brain.

He doesn't seem like a reincarnator with character making like me.

"... Mr. Shuya, from the way he spoke, is he from the Greater Kanto area or East Japan in his previous life?

"Right."

"So, like us, you remember being Japanese since you were born in this world?

Looks like we should keep the conversation together here.

"It will."

"I see..."

Did the Kazane woman remember the old days, taking her gaze off and looking far away?

"But a hundred and twenty years ago? You met the reborns who grew up in pieces, didn't you?

"Yeah, right. But if you asked me why I met you, and you were Japanese, you'd know. Ask why?

Well, I'm interested.

Let's hear it.

"Yes, if you don't mind."

"Well, let's talk about it. I was one of the adventurers working in this South Mahaheim region at that time. And I heard a rumor. The unknown Arsenian civilization at the end of the southern ocean, the archipelagic nations to the east of the Kingdom of Thermalia, said that there were rare things… the island nations to the east, rare things, when I heard about them, I immediately imagined Japan. Sometimes I missed Japan. So we decided to head to that archipelago country. I didn't go to the southern ocean because of it. I had no equipment, no knowledge of crossing the ocean, so I had to have a group of islands connected by trade"

I see. Convinced.

Reminds me of the islands to the east and, above all, Japan, the island nation.

"Fishman pirates. We had a lot of problems, but we succeeded in landing on the biggest island in that archipelago nation. We stayed at the inn and started investigating the island. At the inn where I was staying for that investigation...... I happened to know two of the reincarnators. Those two are the same adventurers as me. We were both looking into something rare, Japan at last."

Is it a rare thing or an ingredient? I want rice or something.

"You want rice or something. I see why. Ever since then, together?

Did the Kazane woman react to the word rice, her tone is getting softer?

"Yeah, I am. I discovered ingredients similar to the name" Suggested ”and" Plum ”in Japan on the island I surveyed. I really wanted rice, as you say, but it wasn't on that island. So we could be the first ones to tell this continent the recommendations?

Oh, Melissa was talking about that.

ingredients that were in the upscale dishes of the soup.

Were you such an amazing adventurer as to mark history, Kazane woman?

"... and then for about a decade, the three of us had all sorts of adventures. The investigation was abandoned because the eastern archipelago states are dangerous due to the fighting of fishermen and people, but in North Mahaheim, beyond the Gordics Great Desert, past the religious state, hunting giants in the Kingdom of Loroliza, in East Mahaheim, hunting holy beasts in the eastern Relic region, the home of the Tiger Beasts (Lazelles), the battle against the Gulton Empire with its war-filled Fujik Federation and six madmen...... In this region, South Mahaheim, the Grand Corridor of the Ancient Elves is said to connect from the Mahaheim Underground to the Imperial Capital of the Elves, supposedly built by the Befalitz Empire in the past..."

The Kazane woman speaks happily of her memories.

"I'll be speaking in a common language from here. And I've been working in this city ever since I got to this [labyrinth city of Pernette]..."

A Kazane woman stopped speaking Japanese she missed there for some reason.

I've always understood it because I have it.

"Then, for a hundred years, here?

"Yes. A hundred years. There's been a lot going on in this city. It is a nostalgic memory that I challenged the labyrinth with an adventurer clan led by hero Mbran Clenor. We succeeded in“ making money "and gaining“ one fortune ”in our labyrinth search at that time. M'Blanc was stronger than us reborns... but maybe five years later, we were going to break up with our companions, the reborns who were lovers."

Mbran Clenor? With that name somewhere......

Well, no, more importantly, how much is “making money” in the labyrinth?

"Earn. Did you even discover something amazing?

"Yep, giant gold pieces as a prelude, a four-layer level five, dozens of high-priced range Demon Treasure maps, magic items of Demon Crystal Big Clock as well... not the ruins of the Ten Evil Statue, but when I defeated the Unknown Guardian Class, where the Ten Tier Rooms were protecting the Hidden Rooms, a rainbow chest appeared that I had never seen before, with" fruit ”and“ secret medicine ”in it"

The rainbow chest and the first ear. And a big watch, it would be precious in this world.

I don't think it would be strange if someone had already invented an analog watch.

I'm not sure about the "fruit”, I can imagine the “secret medicine”.

From the looks of the Kazane woman, maybe, rejuvenating drugs or something?

"... is it a secret drug?

"Yes, the secret drug of rejuvenation (Grenadsoma), a secret medicine that will definitely extend a person's life more than the flesh of a mermaid."

Is it still true?

"I see, what is fruit?

"Do you care?

What? Not really.

"You care"

"Hehe, in fact, we are familiar with the item name… the name is the reincarnation fruit of dimensional tearing"

Nooo. That's true......

"That item, actually, fruity?

"Yeah, about pineapple in size. It was round and had a thunderbolt pattern on the surface."

"Did you use the reincarnation fruit and the dot?

"No, I was afraid of names, and I did nothing. Besides, just like you, even with my powers (skills) related to Ashler God, I only knew his name as a substitute... too creepy. But Sugisaki and Linko were different..."

So you had a fight with the reborns?

It's wild, but listen.

"Excuse me, but you and the reincarnator who was one of us acted together for years and challenged the labyrinth, right? Why did you break up?

The Kazane woman speaks with a look on her face.

"... I didn't really want to talk about it. I'll talk to you because you're from Japan.... everywhere, man and woman . In the end, I was shaken, and broke up with Sugisaki. Soon I saw Sugisaki cuddling with Linko, and I was jealous. Some regretted it. That's why we had a big fight.... those two have been hiding from me for a long time. Well, now, that's well, I can't forgive you, but I'm a man, so I'm gonna give up..."

Two women and one man? Don't be a harem.

Didn't the Japanese feel so comfortable with each other that the world was different?

"But?"

I encouraged the conversation.

"... I couldn't allow myself to sell the reincarnated fruit of dimensional tearing. What if I used that item, and this dimension tore, and the universe collapsed? We may disappear. Yet Sugisaki and Rinko sold for gold, for their own desires, to the famous dark guild that nests in the elephant god city of the Radford Empire in the west"

Seriously.