Usotsuki Senki, Meikyu wo Yuku

Kasumi was running.

He visited the town's cemetery from his resident clanhouse.

After receiving Lil's greeting, Kasumi took on all the work she could. I told him that doing the back job without delay was the only thing I could do to help Lil, and he threw away the excuse that it was an unfamiliar job and was committed to running the clan.

Even though I'm thinly realizing that that's just an excuse for myself for abandoning my position as an adventurer to the front line.

I guess that's why. After finishing his greeting, Lil came back here to join the Colos, and Kasumi threw out all his work.

Lil's rendezvous point was in front of a certain consolation tablet.

It is a tombstone dedicated to the English Spirit scattered on fifty levels at some point. Thirty names are carved on the consolation tablet built in the hacienda.

There's Lil, there's Heeko, there's Colo, and that's the life I couldn't help. No, you're not. Those three men were saved with thirty lives.

The Lils made it their meeting place before the final showdown, where they worshipped the English spirit who defended them with their lives in jeopardy.

Perhaps the lils gave it away from hand. It was still accompanied by a bright bouquet of flowers. All three of them are silent in front of the consolation tablet.

"... eh"

Kasumi tries to speak up and puts on his lower lip.

I was an outsider.

I can't get inside those three. I can't line up my shoulders.

Because it didn't even extend to the seventy-seven hierarchies. As an adventurer, Kasumi didn't seem to be able to reach them. I don't deserve to stand in line with them trying to challenge a hundred layers and transcend the world.

So Kasumi had to wait for the lils to finish praying.

"Kasumi."

I guess I finished my silence. Lil, who had long noticed Kasumi's presence, tells him to turn his back.

"You do the next clan master."

It was a ruthless declaration of delegation that felt cold depending on how you heard it.

Something, I thought I'd say.

Breathe in, open your mouth, but I couldn't say anything.

"I apologize for the irresponsibility of being gone less than a year after I founded the clan. Still, I think you would."

"I am…. I am….!

There must be something I want to tell you, but the words didn't take shape as much as they did.

I wanted to be more useful to Lil. I wanted to speak on a more equal footing. I wanted to be the kind of person who could help Lil one day in return for his help.

Really, I wanted to be the kind of person I could tell no one I was one of Lil's.

Until the end of the day, Kasumi only worshipped the dust behind the lil.

"……… I'm sorry"

"There's not a single thing you can apologize for. Keep the philosophy of 'Infinite Light (No Limit Glow)' alive."

"... no"

Maybe this will be our last goodbye. No. Lil thinks this is the last time he's saying anything. That was the asexual regret.

"It is well known to all involved that you are the next clan master. Take full responsibility."

"Never, I will make Mr. Lil a shameless clan."

"…… Thank you, Kasumi."

I guess I'll head to the hundred layers. The lils start walking.

Kasumi has no doubt whatsoever that she is set to win. No matter how strong the opponent is, Lil defeats the Haunted Cat and saves the world. So Lil goes beyond this world. Win, go beyond the world, and that's how you're gone from this world.

Unexpectedly, unspeakable thoughts cut the weir and poured out.

On his distant back, the unbearable cashmere stretches out his voice.

"Never."

On the back of that person, who would save and transcend the world, Kasumi squeezes his voice and delivers his thoughts.

"I will definitely, one day, go see Mr. Lil. Huh!!

Lil, who stopped her leg, signaled a smile.

"…… Yep. I'll be waiting."

Neither Kasumi nor Lil said goodbye.

Because Lil doesn't lie. If you mean you're waiting, she'll wait for you. They will wait for us for tens of millions of years and eternity.

Then it will be true if you respond. Go see her beyond the world.

Kasumi wet her tears.

I wanted to be strong. I wanted to catch up with the glow I yearned for then when I got help. But I couldn't catch up, and I screwed myself up on the way, and in the meantime, the admirer kept moving forward.

Seriously.

Couldn't make it. I couldn't walk beside her. I couldn't even walk along the path they cut open and illuminated. I was told that I was one of them, and I thought I was one of them, but I couldn't even be there for them.

Too bad about the helplessness that doesn't extend far.

Still. No, that's why absolutely, Kasumi was determined to go beyond this world.

"Kasumi, no……………."

A little face out of the shadows is Eis, who has been running away and hiding all over this place. It's been a long time since Kasumi saw her face fleeing things about the labyrinth at all costs.

"………… What are you doing"

"Ko, I'm scared... the labyrinth is too scared, I can't even face Mr. Lil and the others... I've come this far, but I'm still scared...!

Apparently, Lil and the others were too scared to get close to the remnants of the enemy.

Ace, who is already crying even though he hasn't done anything, leaks a whimper.

"…… Yes. I'm keeping your letter."

To a well-faced little fool, Kasumi gives the letters that Lil and the others had kept. Apparently, even Lil and the others didn't get to meet Ace, so they kept the message.

When he received it, Eis further loosened his tear glands and spilled tears as blurred.

"Why, why me, this is what I am... always flushed... run away at the heart of it... I'm sooo, I don't like myself right now...!

"I don't know. I just can't follow you. I mean, if your letters get wet, stop crying."

Cut off the cries of Ace.

He escaped because he was afraid to say goodbye to someone close to him. Self-loathing will be one thing, but that is self-blame. Kasumi himself is being attacked by self-loathing in the first place. I can't afford to comfort others.

Or Kasumi might have envied his talent as an adventurer for Ace, who could put on the strength of the enemies of Lil and the others.

If I had a talent like Ace - maybe I was mixed up with those three, that's what I'd think.

"Ace. I will never give up."

There's just no point in that assumption.

The lils disappear so far away that they can't see their backs, the leftover cashmere snaps.

I can't change the weather today, I can't predict the weather tomorrow, but that's why I get excited.

I did give up in the process of challenging the labyrinth. I've learned my limits as an adventurer. I closed the road that if I proceeded as an adventurer, I would definitely die.

But there is not one path in this three-dimensional world. There's got to be another different way to go than Lil's journey through the limits of being stupidly forward.

"Mr. Lildor is waiting for you."

So Kasumi decides to turn up so he doesn't spill tears. Know the limits, pinch the outlook, and still don't give up.

"I'll definitely go see him again one day, my own way!

It is our philosophy to take over and inherit from the limitless glow, so no matter how long it takes, we always get to where the lils are.

"Me too..."

Jesus, who heard Kasumi's declaration, also snorts and expresses his determination.

"Next time, never, never run away. It helps the lils......!

"It's late, you idiot."

"Ugh... that's..."

"Yes, sir. I know."

Kasumi accidentally smiled bitterly at the determination of the coward girl who finally motivated her.

Ace, who thought he was so talented that he'd come out of his hometown, finally motivated me.

"Really, no way, but good luck with that."

"Yeah…… good luck"

To dissolve the remorseful parting.

To visit a friend who had gone far, the two girls resolved to walk in their own way.