It had already been about half a day since Celica disappeared across the crack, and it was completely late at night.

The cold winds at night are harsh in places where there is nothing to block the blow. But the "Oriental Four Stars" didn't seem to intend to leave by the crack, and they started the fireworks on the spot.

This is like showing clearly that no matter how far away you are, there is a human being here. Even though there may still be monsters around here.

I had no choice but to spend the night again by the "Four Stars of the East" while exploring with "Magic Detection".

(... Damn, what are you doing, Celica?)

The "Oriental Four Stars" have been arguing about this crack ever since Celica was gone. Of course I've asked Hikaru what this presence is, but I don't know what happened to Hikaru and what gave birth to something like this. On this occasion, I only told him that there was a mighty monster, but he replied that he did not know otherwise.

—— Celica was able to return to Japan?

—— Can Celica go back?

-- Why can't the three "Oriental Four Stars" cross over the crack?

—— I... can you cross?

You must be tired of an unanswered argument, leaving a solution for the lookout and you two are asleep. Soluz had been looking at this one from what I had said earlier, but Hikaru also pretended to sleep again.

Sleeping all over the blanket, the starry sky stretches across the night sky I looked up. The air is clear and an incredibly beautiful starry sky.

(It's a constellation I've never seen... Is Japan now at night?)

Beyond the crack there was darkness, and the light poured like a street lamp. And sometimes the car ran through, and I could see its headlights.

(Celica... didn't seem like she really wanted to go back to Japan)

Reminds me of what she was saying.

—— Of course there's untrained over there. I love my mom and dad, and I'm fucking busy, but I had a sister.

For myself to be who I am, I have to go —— yes, Celica said, jumped into the crack.

--And... I have a best friend.

Though I never thought that would be Hikaru's known Yeats.

(Well... Celica went to put Keri on her heart)

Shton, and I finally realized what Celica was trying to do.

She went to say goodbye. To my father, to my mother, to my sister —— and to Ye Moon.

(I have no one to say goodbye to... so seeing the crack didn't make me feel like "I really have to go")

—— Really, isn't it?

A slight doubt blurred the back of his brain, and Hikaru woke his body to squash that question. Paula and Lavia were asleep, but Soluz noticed a rising hical.

"... can't you sleep?

Asked, Hikaru stood up shaking his neck to the side.

The wind blows and rocks the coat.

(Untrained, even for me... just a little bit, isn't there...)

Hikaru came across another fact (...) at this time.

Hikaru and Celica, together, came to this world but had a common "soul bond".

It's Ip Moon.

Maybe this crack wasn't a crack (...). Maybe it was an indefinite form of pure energy.

But Hikaru and Selika —— two people with souls from different worlds -- approached the occasion. Suppose that's why you used your power to cross the world--

"Almost certainly, it leads to Japan..."

Unexpectedly, the solution turns a strange face to Hikaru, who ran in Japanese.

"Silverface, you..."

"Hey, Soluz. I want to ask you something. What kind of promise did you make with Celica?

I won't forget my promise, Selica said on leaving.

Then Soluz laughed, tickled.

"What, it's a small promise without other love..."

All this time, I felt like I could see the face of a solution with nothing behind it.

"I'm sure Celica will be back. Maybe soon."

"Why would Silverface think that? Though I'm surprised you knew so much about Celica."

"I just feel like that... I (...) get a pretty good idea"

Hikaru walked to the crack to be led.

Will the wind we're blowing here reach over there? The dragon doesn't know what to do because the exhaust gas comes when the human body says it won't pass.

Damn, I reached out. To the crack. If there is Japan ahead —— if you can go home.

"Huh!?"

However, Hikaru's hand stopped when it hit the crack.

My body doesn't go through. Just like the Shufi and the others.

"How..."

Is it because this body belongs to Roland? Because I'm totally this person now?

Or —— isn't "untrained" enough to get back into that world over there?

While I'm sorry, somewhere in my heart I'm horrified. I disgusted myself with that.

————

I looked up —— then my breath stopped.

"Ah..."

Township at night. Walk down a sidewalk lit by street lights... walk in, shadow.

She looked familiar to the girl who weaved an orange cardigan on her shirt and wore a slim denim.

- It's hard to live, then. You may be smart, but you're dangerous. Somewhere, someday, in a moment... heh, he's going to die.

Leaf Moon, who brilliantly foresaw Hikaru's future and was Celica's best friend in high school.

He has black, smooth, long hair flushing to his left.

Realistic, beautiful faces that look somewhere far away are also the same as back then —— no, grown up, is it?

Ye Moon stopped a few meters before the crack. Gee, I'm staring at this one. Hikaru's heart rang out. Why? Why not? Is she here?

"Yeats!"

It's Celica who's been running from the other side. Hold the robe aside and the inner is replaced by a printed t-shirt. The sports bag, lowered from his shoulder, was shaking heavily.

"Hehe, I'm sorry. Surprised? --Ha!? There!? I lost weight, so what!

Hikaru was anxious to hear Celica's voice but not Ye Moon's.

I wanted to hear your voice, I thought.

He wants to go over there.

However, at that time the cracks began to chisel and make unpleasant noises.

"-- What's this noise? Is that, Celica!?"

The solution that came to the side raises a hurried voice.

That should be it, too. Cracks have narrowed their width slightly.

"Celica! It's starting to close! Celica!!"

"Hey, turn around!

Soluz and Hikaru raised their voices but didn't seem to hear them. Celica is turning her back here and talking to Ye Moon, who occasionally looks at this one, but apparently doesn't see any cracks.

"Not good. It closes fast"

I slapped my fist on the crack, but Soluz's hand has no effect whatsoever as if I slapped a thick tank.

Soluz pulled out his sword. Its slender sword sparkles like white snow. Hikaru saw a tremendous amount of magic in there.

"Ahhhhhhhh!

The cutting tip hit a crack, where for the first time a chin and a hard sound rang and a spark scattered. Happily Celica looks back.

"Huh!? Why are you trying to close it?!? Oh, hey, you know, Yeat--"

"But I haven't."

It's shrinking to the size of the only thing a person has to go through.

"What, what's wrong?

"Mr. Soluz?

"Hmmm......"

"Ugh."

Looks like the four of us who were asleep woke up too.

"I'm still with you--"

Hikaru didn't think, he was screaming.

'You have an appointment with Soluz!!'

Celica is not the only one.

Ye Yue also looked at this one again with haste.

I saw Silver Face, Hikaru.

"Celica, run!

"Mnh-mnh, whoa, whoa, whoa! Ye Moon! I don't know -- now that I'm really with you, because I'm bye-bye '

When Celica runs out for real, Ip Moon's eyes open.

Oh, seniors look like that, too —— and Hikaru thinks,

"Goodbye"

To the crack, reach out.

It's also a suspicious size to see if humans can pass by anymore.

But Hikaru's hand was offered beyond the crack (...), and when he grabbed Celica's hand, he pulled it in for a breath.

"Nbi, shit!?"

Celica hit harder and harder along with a scream that roughly didn't seem like a good voice for a high school girl. A sports bag is thrown out and rolled to the ground.

"Celica!

"Celica!?"

"Mr. Celica!

A party member leans over to Celica and hugs her. And I cried woefully.

"Hey, hey, what the hell!? I told you to come home properly!?"

Hikaru glances at the crack as he hears it.

There's no more —— nothing, there wasn't.

(At that time, Ip Tsuki... Did you see me?

The last thing I saw of her is burning to the retina.

I looked grown up. From her perspective, what do I look like?

But her voice was not heard here, only that of Celica. I mean —— maybe the crack itself only looked like Celica.

I felt a little sorry for myself, but that wasn't bitter regret or anything. Hikaru felt his heart was surprisingly lighter.

At that time, the left and right sleeves were gently pulled. It's Lavia and Paula.

"--Thank God, Silverface!

Celica shouts out loud even as the Soluzz screw her up.

"If I were a moment late, I might not have been able to come back here! I brought you lots of sweets over there, so I'll share them with you!

"Thank you."

The rolling sports bag does not look light on the crack of packed luggage inside. Right, sweets, I thought it seemed like celica when I found out what was in it.

"Hmm... what happened to the robe?

"Huh? --Ah! No! Ahhh! I just dropped it on my way over here! That was expensive!

Celica roared with her head,

"Look... if you think it's a souvenir for Ip Moon."

And I said it in Japanese with a puffiness.

Celica comes to Hikaru.

"Thanks!

Hikaru shook back his offered right hand, exhaling small.

It's gonna be expensive.

"Ahhh! What is the power of the trap now!? senkun magisenkun"

"That."

There was a threesome going through the woods. It is a threesome of Rank A Adventurer Party "Pleasant and Painful".

Even when the monster showed up, Gilliam the challenging elf was buying time, and in the meantime Senkun trapped him, ending him in that trap —— slowly knocking the monster down in a cycle.

explosions, magical attacks, comas —— Senkun, who installs various traps in conjunction with the enemy,

"Say, well, if it hits us, it's like this"

"Hiu! Senkun, say it!

"That."

Senkun to the right, Gilliam to the center, Nargo to the left and three of us shoulder each other to skip through the woods.

The height difference was just one bump in the head.

"Just, just ~"

They were doing well. There were some strong monsters, but I was able to calm down and defeat them, and the teamwork was as good as ever.

Was their optimism good? Or was it good that you pushed through the woods at a high pace? Or was it just luck? Or —— was skipping good?

"Oh? Oh, my God, the woods are out there."

The forest should still have been on the simple map.

But it is true, as Senkun said, that the forest is out and the sun is pouring down there.

The three senkuns went out into the sun.

"Ah--"

And they discovered.

A soaked earth, like Ant Hell. There's a ramp there that draws spirals and goes down.

Its deepest depths, about 10 meters deep, were pompous and one house spacious.

"That could be better."

"Maybe ~!?"

"That."

What was in that open space was a hole that went further downward. The hole has a staircase, surrounded by eight blue and white glowing columns.

"It's a dungeon. Ahhhhhhh!!"

It was the moment when the first dungeon, the Underground Labyrinth of the Dreamer (Labyrinth), was discovered on the Grand Dream Continent.