The Traveling Hero Won’t Let the Innkeeper’s Son Escape

Walking again for a while from a place like a commercial establishment, he was put on an elevator headed to a deeper level. I don't think I should be riding anything further underground, but I'm not even willing to resist the guidance of the light now. There's no other way in the first place, so I can't help it.

(And you're basically protecting me from this light.)

Even after leaving the commercial establishment, the melting demon encountered several times gradually became more creepy, and many of them did not know what characteristics they possessed, but when they followed the instructions of the light, they were able to spend most of their time without being attacked.

At first I also suspected that this light was leading Ruth to the molten demon in the first place, but for that it was too much help, and I didn't know what the light would gain by letting it attack me, so I decided to throw those thoughts away once and for all. If that is indeed the case, then it is then.

Either way, the only communication of will (?) I didn't want to lose someone who could. Otherwise Ruth will be alone in a world where the dark and melting demons roam. Because when that happens, in the usual Ruth, it was going to cause a mental abnormality.

And when we got there, it was again like a hallway in a medical facility. But this time, the atmosphere was darker than the other one, and the melting demons were few, but when I did it, there were many malformations. Some of them didn't keep their original shape so much that they didn't know what had happened to them in combination anymore. When that happens, I can't tell the difference from the demon.

As we move into the back, the number of doors gradually increases, and the demonic squares that were written on the walls become more complicated. I opened the door so that there was no such thing as a thin red light, but I found that even Ruth, who couldn't read the Devil's Square, was on strict alert.

(What does this light want to show me?

Ruth had no choice but to respond to the guidance, as the answer was unlikely to come back when asked.

"Wow... it's cold..."

The temperature suddenly dropped when I left after about ten doors. If you look closely, the surrounding walls are frosted. Luckily, I thought I wouldn't be able to stay very long, although it would be nice if I wore a long one to prepare for battle.

"We're leaving here early, right?

I just asked because I know that even if Ruth asks such a question, the thin red light that opens the door will not show any particular reaction. However, since I don't think the light understands Ruth's temperature, I would have to consider going back a little if I were to be around for a long time.

However, when a slightly larger door was opened, a slightly unexpected view emerged.

"……… now an experimental facility?

Placed on the front side of the large room was a large number of cylindrically made glass cases placed vertically. They vary in size, from sizes that are likely to contain adult trees to sizes that contain small animals. But none of them had broken glass and no contents. But since there's something like a device attached to each root, it's obvious it's where we were experimenting with something.

"So so... ugh, it's cold..."

It was a brighter place than the hallway, but as the cold or foggy thing could stand in, I follow the traces of light that go on as they flash over the floor. The light went straight through the center of the room. As Ruth looked around, surprised by the size, the glass case eventually disappeared, and a lot of things began to roll like devices I wasn't sure about. Some of them have a combination of devices and glass cases. I wondered if there was not one experiment that was being carried out here, unlike the entrance part.

And when it became hard to withstand the cold, I arrived at the wall. There were multiple tables with bundles of paper on them, and then the light of light was flashing in light.

(What is this, a card?

The light was flashing like a card that was underneath a bunch of paper. When Ruth tries to put it back where it belongs without knowing what it will be used for, it flashes again. Apparently, they want me to take it. I had no choice but to turn to nostalgia.

And somehow I pointed my gaze at the front wall, and it was like a blackboard there, with a big illustration.

"The sword that stabs the sphere............?

A sword stabbed in a circle like a large sphere - that's how it looked to Ruth. But what was a little weird was that the illustration was annotated more than just a picture, and the part of the sword that was like a string was pulled to the edge of the circle, and the middle part of the blade had a vertical egg-shaped circle, and the part below it that was close to the tip of the sword was painted black. The lower part of the letter, which appears to be an annotation, is also filled black.

(What the hell were you researching?

When I looked at the glass case, I thought it was biologic, but when I saw this sword, I was wondering if it also made something like a weapon. But with all the technology to build that facility, it's also a weird story that they were manufacturing swords. Or is the existence of a sword necessary in a world where demons spread, no matter how advanced the times become? Either way, Ruth doesn't know because I can't read the letters from the thought.

"Whoa, now that's that way."

Soon the light in light red flashed on the left. I found that there was a door there to hide in the shadow of the pillars. Ruth's legs speeded up on their own when they thought they might be able to get out of this cold place.

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Leaving a laboratory kind of compartment, the cold had subsided at some point. But after being passed through a place like an empty hole in the wall, the ambience had changed.

Until now, it was a beautifully organized road that assumed that people were going, but since just now, tubes, boards and cords like those at the construction site have been walked in the uneven areas. The passage was narrow, and there were places where I had to crawl and go. We can say that we are fortunate that there is no melting demon. I can't deal with it very much if I come out here like this.

"Whoa... whoa."

The place where they came out through places like thin exhaust vents had a different atmosphere than before.

Ruth spreads his arms wide enough for the ten to line up in a circular cavity with the same circular giant door. The door was well painted with giant demonic squares.

Ruth is under the circle because he came out of something like an exhaust vent, but there is a passage in the center of the room that allows people to pass through. Normal doors were also installed on the other side of it. I doubt why you didn't guide me from there.

(That's kind of creepy...)

The black demon squares painted on the white doors are quite elaborate, and I can hear that they are not a single hand, even on a scale. The part that seems to be an important facility has passed before, but I felt a difference in dimension from it.

Guided by a thin red light, Ruth stood in front of something weird like a stone tablet as he went up the stairs and through a passage that was stretching into the center.

"Does this fit something?

In the center of the rectangular stone tablet up to the height of Ruth's hips was a square hole smaller than his palm. Behind the hole are multiple depictions of the demon squares. I'm sure it's a mechanism that doesn't open here unless you fit the relative keys.

"Doesn't that mean I'm this far too..."

I wondered if it was a passage rather than a need here, looking for a light that was thin red, but that light stuck to the front door, and I saw it many times. I started drawing demon squares that forced me to drill holes. Apparently, I have business in here.

Eventually, it took nearly three times longer than usual to drill the hole. Besides, Ruth will bend herself into the smaller hole than usual. I guess it still has a pretty strict mechanism in place. I went outside through a hole like a slightly longer tunnel.

"Wow……………."

I couldn't hide my surprise from each facility when I started strolling through this, but it was the most shocking I've ever seen.

The size alone was smaller than the experimental facility earlier, but the height was so high that it was not comparable to the commercial facility a while earlier. Something like an airplane guide light is so invisible that you can't see the tip of what's making you crawl on the wall. If you suck, it's probably higher than the walls you saw outside when you came in here. It looks taller than the famous red tower, which I've looked up from below in my previous life.

And on one side of the wall there were countless things like doors that people could get in, most of them open. It seemed like a terrible resemblance to the glass case I saw in the lab.

As always, there is no sign of anyone, but the place and creeps have drawn a line so far.

(I don't know, it's like the sight of a movie or something that's an SF)

Surprised Ruth crosses a bridge that stretches from where he came in to a scaffold near the center, with a blurry feeling. In doing so, I glanced down from the top of the bridge, but in the same way there was an induction light and a door-like thing on one side of the wall, the same as the ceiling, so that I couldn't see the bottom. It makes me a little zorky.

Eventually, when we reached the center, there was a square hole in the center of it that looked like a demonic square with multiple layers on one side of the floor. It must be the same hole you saw when you walked in here.

As the passage was ending here, waiting for the appearance of a light of light of thin red again, it eventually appeared in the square hole. And when it emitted more light than ever before, the demonic squares painted on the floor made a small driving noise.

As if the thin red light were the source of power, the outside moves to wave out of the demonic cube near the center close to the hole, each starting a completely different movement. The outer letters enter the inside, the inner letters enter the outside, creating another demonic formation glows, moves out again, and the letters are replaced again - Ruth unwittingly lowered back to a different sight that never seemed like it. However, the Rubik's Square was painted on one side of the central scaffold, and the bridge that had been crossed had disappeared, and the escape had disappeared.

(Something's different now.)

Until now, it was just a thin red light that had been imitating forced holes in the walls, but now I felt like I was disarming the demon squares in a legitimate way. Is that also why I can't get in if I don't?

Eventually, when a noise was made and the central scaffold swayed, a staircase appeared along the circle.

"Should I let you in here?

Usually we ask about the thin red light that doesn't show up even though it glows ahead of us when we open it, but as usual, there is no reaction to Ruth's voice. But I went down the stairs wondering if I should go there because the road was ready.

"What is it, here?

I went down the stairs and got to a room that wasn't that big. One side of the room was completely glazed, and the room ahead had a peek mechanism. The other side of the glass is glowing white, but I don't know what it is. A little in front of the glass was a stone tablet with a square hole that I had seen several times to get here. I'm sure I'll bury that here, too.

(The truth is, if you don't get the keys to fit in this, you can't get in here, can you?

Ruth looks for a way to go further, questioning the thin red light that has guided him that far. If it is made an end point here, it will not be possible to return to the original place, so the meaning that followed will be lost.

"Hey. Mr. Light? What are you going to do now?

Up to this point, he mostly appeared before Ruth was in trouble and encouraged me to go ahead, but the light in thin red never appeared. I'll call you at once, but there was no response to your familiarity. I had no choice but to look for every corner of the room and found something like a door at the end. But there's nothing like a handle. Speaking of which, it's just a square outcrop of palms with thin rectangular slices on the side that don't even have fingers in them. Pressing there will not open it.

(I wonder if there's any other way...... hey, there's a little below over this glass)

Looking around again, I saw the room on the other side of the glass. The front doesn't know what's going on because of the strong light, but it looks like it's two or three floors down below where Ruth is, and I can see another ground.

I wondered if there was anything I could do to observe it.

"- Eh, people!?

Beyond the glass, in a critical line visible from Ruth's position, he could see a leg like a person in armor lying on it. I don't know what state he's in, but Ruth is happy that he might be able to talk to someone. Even if the conversation doesn't go through, he might know the means to go home if it's not a mummy or something. It's not even zero chance of attacking me, but it would be better than right and left here. I couldn't stay even if I thought so.

"How did you get down there, down there...... oh, that door after all!

A good look at the other side of the glass showed something like a staircase directly below where there was a door that wouldn't open earlier. From the position, I guess there's that staircase across that door.

Ruth made a lot of attempts to open the door again as he rushed over. But the door still doesn't even freak out to that extent. Even if you want to open it, the gap between the wall and the door just contains a single line and there is no gap between your fingers. I tried to put in the blade tip of a broken misrill, but that wasn't even appropriate.

"I guess I need some kind of key. Then I guess a thin slice over here is the key?

I guess it's a thin rectangular gap in the horizontal that seems to only fit about a nail, a mechanism that lets you put something in there and unlock it. But Ruth had something to stay there with.

"There it is, there it is!

Exploring the nostalgia, he retrieved what looked like a card obtained in a place like the lab one time ago. Even considering that the light in light was guiding me to take this, I would be sure to use it here.

I put the card that Ruth took out in a thin gap and it fitted beautifully, and the demon squares emerged and the door of the door, which was tightly closed, disappeared.

I was somewhat surprised, but when I remembered the downstairs thing, I missed the card and hurried down the stairs.

The bottom was several times wider than the top. The light seen over the glass was in the upper center of the room, and various devices were placed to surround it, but after a slow look, Ruth ran to the person lying down.

"Are you ok!? Injuries and…………………………."

There was one person Ruth could see, but there were actually two. It was an adult man and a woman.

The man holds his shield on his chest while wearing a rather obsolete armor, and the woman holds a long cane with both hands in clothing that is worn in old armor but relatively close to modern times. We both looked like the same kind of people in our years with Ruth. But...

"What's going on, this…………………"

Ruth thought they were lying down, but if you look closely, the two of them were inside a glass cylinder with intricate texts engraved on it. There was a strangely blue liquid in it, as seen somewhere, and the two seemed to float in it.

The glass cylinder resembled the glass case from the laboratory I saw on the way here, but it was attached to the appliance in the center of the room at the end, and the blue light shined in between. There were a few other similar things lined up, but they were empty except for two.

"…… Ah, um, excuse me, can you hear me?

Ruth tries to tap something like that glass and try to speak up, but the two of them inside didn't respond at all. As far as closed-eyed faces, skin firmness, color, and hair gloss are concerned, I feel a life force that is likely to move out right now. But when I looked closely, my chest didn't move at all and it didn't even seem like I was breathing.

"No way............ corpse, is it............?

As a matter of course, the answer was not returned.

In a room where there was no more than the sound of liquid moving through the tube, Ruth slowly moved away from the glass case and went into the spot to lose power.

"Already... what the hell is this..."

Starting with a strange phenomenon that happened in the dungeon, I was just exhausted because I suddenly came across unknown places that were brought in, various facilities that seemed to be Auperts, and what I found in the quote seemed to be corpses of the same people - things that I couldn't normally think of at one time.

"What am I supposed to do, I am…………"

I don't even see a path in the room that leads ahead.

For Ruth, who lived a relatively calm life in a small village, the current situation was too complicated.

He came after the light in a light of light that was thin red with the hope that he might be able to return to his original place in the first place, but at some point its appearance disappeared, and the room he reached had no further ahead, only a line of meaningful corpses. You won't be able to help if you come disappointed.

"Was there another way...? But that light was definitely trying to get me to go to this room... but what do you want me to do with this?

I don't know what that means when I think about it. This is enough to convince me that Ruth, who collapsed in the dungeon, is only dreaming. I'd rather it be.

"Uh, I want to see the sunlight..."

Ruth raised her face on the spot, wanting to let the sun shine on her, not in a room with a stuffy breath that she didn't know where.

- But something terrible came into his sight, and the feeling that was missing all at once disappeared.

"- eh...... eh eh!? Oh, what is this!?

Ruth couldn't believe what he saw with his own eyes, and as he stood up immediately, he approached the center of the room avoiding the two bodies. The tension and slight excitement caused my heart to bell early and I felt the force entering my body.

From a distance, the light above was too strong to be noticed in the shadows, but besides the type lying down, there were also glass cases that looked like struts.

"... on, it's fake, right? Dolls, etc…………………."

But the closer I got, the more I complained that the person in the case was far from Ruth's expectations.

The colour of the skin, the noticeable creation of the nose, the hair swimming in the liquid, the hands and feet that are likely to move even now - they are all complaining that they are not crops. Besides, even though I was meditating on my eyes, I felt strong magic.

"No way......"

A woman with long hair that reaches to her thin red knees, two little crying black children on her right side, and a small body.

Ruth is also in church yesterday and sees the figure with Father Johann.

"…… Goddess."

Of Celestialism, which extends throughout the world, it is said that there is nothing unknown, 'God', who is said to have built this world a thousand years ago. The kingdom of Deodart, to which the village of Hashi belongs, is one of the four most venerated gods -

"Aristotle Theresia............?

The presence that was supposed to be solely on the story I had only seen in the paintings decorated in the church quietly meditated on my eyes to offer prayers in front of me.