I feel like I was dreaming.
I don't know where, pale green meadows.
There's Zahr, and the other two, men and women I don't know.
The three of them were laughing.
The man, with dark hair, a slender length, is somewhere reluctantly laughing.
The woman was a girl who looked good with a smile, featuring flax hair and a brown flared skirt.
I know something about these two.
But I can't remember anything. Even traces, as if that's the only place out of memory.
At that time, a slender man turned to me and turned to me with a grin of clearly different intentions than earlier.
And I move my mouth like I said something, but I can't hear it because it's far away.
At that time, my consciousness was suddenly sharpened and my eyes blinded to the shock as if I had even been watered.
When I woke up, I had my arms and legs tied to my chair.
Surrounded by gray walls and ceilings, the only place that leads to the outside is an iron lattice window and a heavy iron door in front of you.
One man and two masked men stared at this one as they stood in front of that door.
The other two don't know. But I only know one.
"... Nikolai"
"It's been a long time. How have you been?
As always, Nikolai, who talks to this one to laugh with Niyaniya, puts an empty bucket on the ground.
When I saw the bucket, I finally realized I had been watered.
At the same time, I noticed that my neck, cut by Aruba, was blocked as if it were a lie.
"... did you heal this wound?
"Wounds? Come on. Maybe someone healed him to sell his thanks."
Anger boils down from the bottom of my heart to Nikolai, who replies ambiguously.
But now that I can't move my limbs, I can't do anything about him.
"Get me, what are you going to do? No way, are you gonna take me hostage?
"No, you don't do that kind of wild stuff. I want you to know. This new sage's law."
"The new, sage law......?
I'm not sure what his words are meant to be.
It's not like the Sage Act four years ago, is it?
"What we aim for. It's a truly equal, uncontested world. Justice is the only thing that keeps you alive, the right world."
"... that's an ideal theory"
"Fulfill it, huh? Have we forgotten that there are people who can manipulate people's hearts?
"Is the world created by brainwashing the right one!
"Only at first, I feel uncomfortable with that. Soon we'll all know we're right. But..."
"You're the one who gets in the way the most."
Nicolai punches me in the cheek at the same time as that word.
I couldn't take that shock and fell to the side of every chair.
"Let me stand."
At the same time as Nicolai's words, the man who was lying down nodded and made me stand in my chair.
And at the same time, again, a stronger fist stuck in my cheek than earlier.
"'Too ideal a world, corrupts man'? Don't make me laugh. So you're a fine man living in a harsh world?
"... That's not what I'm saying. Not everyone's equal world is acceptable to everyone!
"Ha! We're human beings are family! What do you do when you have an advantage or an inferiority in your family!
His eyes, telling that, seemed brilliant somewhere.
It's as if you believe your theory is not wrong in any way.
That's when the man with each eye walked into the room.
"Dear Nicolai, Alba caught my breath."
"... Aruba,"
"Right. Then let's laugh."
"Huh?"
Nicolai breathes heavily, ignoring my words.
And loud enough to echo this room, he... no, they all started laughing around me.
"Hahaha, hahahahahaha!
"... what's wrong?
"Huhahahahahaha!"
"What's wrong!
"You're the one who's crazy, Lazareth."
Nicolai quits laughing and at the same time he grabs my head with disappointment.
The eye was felt somewhere deep like a snake staring at its prey.
"Why don't you laugh?
"People must be dead!? It should be weird to laugh!
"It's not weird. Because we're family. If you're a family member, it would be polite to send them laughing, wouldn't it?
That said, I started laughing again.
Their laughter gives the impression that they are somewhat madness and not laughing at the thought of a dead person.
And after laughing the whole way, the man with the boat's eyes left the room blind to me.
"Well, let's say I decide what I'm going to do with you tomorrow. Shall we sprinkle with tea time?"
"Wait, you guys......!
"Yeah, yeah, one last thing"
"Remember, your life, we can blow it right away."
His voice was savvy and murderous, as if the word itself had the sharpness of a murder weapon.
They get out of the room after laughing so they can see me hitting that word for a second.
At that time, I felt the cold wind drifting through the hallway ahead of me, opening the door, strangely stroking my cheek.
And there was silence in this room as if it had been hit and changed and replaced earlier.
When I'm trying to get my arm joint off somehow, the door suddenly opens and my heart is about to stop.
Coming in then, unlike the men earlier, was as low back length as a child.
"... what are you going to do"
When I say it in a low voice like I threaten, he turns straight behind me and begins to untie the rope.
If you are perplexed for a moment about it and forget to speak up, the man in that mask will take off his mask and his beautiful face will be exposed.
"... I'm here to help, brother"
"You, that night's...?
The girl looks familiar.
She was the girl Alice had tried to kill before.
She stumbles on the knot, but in anticipation of it loosening, I pull out only my right arm, take out the dagger I had in my nostalgia, and cleave the rope that is tying my legs as it were.
... I wonder how unawary I am that no dagger has been taken.
Or is it judged that it can be erased at any time, as Nicolai said?
"Thank you, but how could you do such a dangerous imitation..."
"Because your brother is the benefactor of my life... That's why I wanted to thank you."
"... well. Thanks."
She braved herself to come this far. So the real benefactor of life isn't me, it's her.
By contrast, the only thing I can do to her is send her back safely.
That's all I get in return for her.
"Well, let's go. Can you walk?"
"Yes!"
When I make sure she nods well, I open the door.
And beyond that, which opened up, the deep forest was spreading.
"... Huh?
When I checked earlier, it definitely led to a hallway somewhere.
But now there's no shadow of it, not even the shadow of Nicolai.
"What's wrong, brother?
"Oh, no. Nothing..."
Maybe it's a mistake.
I set up a dagger and walked out with a little anxiety.