Usotsuki Senki, Meikyu wo Yuku

Episode 124: The Battle Princess Breaks Through Lila Toja

There was a giant tree in the infinite universe.

Space Tree (Yugdrasil). It's a tree that makes the world come to fruition.

Trees that bring the world to fruition and spit out seedy hero seeds of the transcendent. The fallen world crumbles like a fruit. Whatever the world is inside, it scatters all of it and dies.

A cosmic tree (Yugdrasil) is a tree that produces great life without the will to repeat such cycles.

When it was, a three-haired cat was born from another tree in the world.

I don't have any parents. I don't even have brothers and sisters. A serious only child in an organism called a cat. He was just a miracle cat, a world tree dropper.

The cat was born with enormous power. The superior power, even among the flickering transcendents of the infinite universe. The cat was so strong that there was no transcendent to plunder the fruit of the Uchi tree (Yugdrasil) just because the cat lay at the root of the tree.

The cat survived the infinite world at will. Sometimes I went out hunting, but I didn't go away. The roots of the world tree where I was born were the beds of cats.

He was a cat who wanted to live at the roots of the cosmic tree (Yugdrasil), but was unhappy with only one of its beds.

The sound of the world falling and crushing was unpleasant.

If you take it to that cat, such as the fruit of the cosmic tree (Yugdrasil), that's only the size of a lice. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it is a micro-organism such as the biology that lives there.

Even so, it's hard to hear.

The hundreds of millions of screams that echo at that moment of crushing are equal to fleas crushing screams for that cat, but somehow they sneak up on their ears and don't leave.

It was a few years ago, six billion world crashes brought to fruition by space trees in an infinite universe without even the concept of time.

Kadu, and the cat spit out the hairy balls.

In the hairball, resentment gathered. It was enough for the fallen world's victims to take shape.

The more solidified resentment took the form of a small cat.

It was tiny compared to a cat born from a cosmic tree (Yugdrasil), but a cat with a much larger pattern compared to the fruit of a cosmic tree (Yugdrasil).

The haunted cat, born when the fallen world's deceased gathered in dust, sounded one willing and unacceptable.

Never forgive the transcendents who have forsaken themselves for falling and perishing.

At the same time, he vowed to save all humanity in the falling world from annoying his biological parent, the cat.

As the vow stood, he kept moving.

I swallowed the world, swallowed the soul of man, and kept letting people dream of who had become only souls in their own bellies enclosing the concept of infinity.

Whether it's a dream or not, there's no difference from a happy reality if it doesn't wake up.

The salvation he exercised may have been a stupid blind advance. Maybe there was another remedy. Perhaps there was also a cleaner and more vivid remedy.

Still, he swallowed it.

He swallowed everything that fell, showing infinite dreams in its belly.

It was a hot, hot summer day.

Midsummer days when my skin feels heat and sweats, my nose smells moisture and greenery and I see a shaking mirage from the asphalt.

Summers in Japan are hot, but not so comfortable in England, where Lil was born. Both have regional differences, and both summers end up hot, but I still feel that Japan is more uncomfortable, of course, depending on the region, but I still shouldn't have summer in the city center. Just standing and walking is such a hard heat that mankind is going to realize that something is wrong.

"……… ha."

It's a billion-dollar weather just by walking outside.

Lildor Archive is an English-born girl. He is a native of England from his birth.

When I was six years old, I was supposed to come to Japan because of my parents' work.

When I was in junior year, Lil was badly bullied.

The Japanese hate outsiders more than they think. Being mono-ethnic, they are tough on exotics who are not familiar with their customs. If that's the tourist, I'll tell him you can fit in if he sees someone who can calm down.

There will be no choice of customs or words. You can learn that. It is understandable that we should combine the terroirs of emigration.

But it doesn't matter what it looks like.

White skin as smooth pottery, blue eyes as sky, glittering beautiful blonde hair, they were objects of envy and at the same time perceived as foreign objects.

If that is a child, it becomes even more pronounced.

Yellow race with dark hair and dark eyes when everyone is around. If you don't like white kids in there, it stands out. At the end of the sentence, Lil can't even speak Japanese.

That's what caused it, and he was badly bullied.

I went into elementary school and it became evident as the children's free time increased little by little.

At that time, someone kicked the bully's ass like a hero.

- Are you alright?

Lil, a little girl, blinked her blue eyes.

That was Lil's native language. Beautiful pronunciation with no habits at all. It's been a long time, understandable word without resistance. In unexpected circumstances, I forgot to cry and moaned.

Soften your chest with a hunch.

- My name is Nowa Chris.

Cute hair tip with long stretched black hair and a little peel from the top of his head. The grand attitude of not saying there is nothing to be afraid of in this world makes the girl's body a great visionary.

The dark-haired girl speaking Lil's native language said with a charming smile on her face.

- I'm a genius!

Everything. I hear she was originally half.

His father is Japanese and his mother is British. The appearance of dark hair and dark eyes was close to the Japanese, but the beauty that had been neat since childhood had slipped away. Since I was a child, I have had relatives who have mastered English, and since its birth I have been named to pass in Japan and the UK.

She was always full of herself, a little silly, and adored a girl like her sister who was related to her. Her only bad habit was to show off and brag about pictures of a girl like a blonde blue-eyed doll, but it was also a bad touch to have the brightest smile when bragging about her unconnected sister.

Her over-consciousness, which prestigiously affirms that she is a genius, is even more dizzying, but as she calls herself, she was really smart and at the same time a hard worker. Do what you have to do to breathe and absorb what you need. Above all, it would have been its charisma. She liked others as much as she liked them, hated them somewhat, and still took the leadership to move on.

People liked me just to live and I was a hero in saving people.

Lil was one of those saved by her.

Confidence. Being proud of yourself. She herself told her important things in life.

She graduated from elementary school to study abroad.

He was just a little too smart and overactive. It would have been much better for her to study in England than to enter a Japanese secondary school that was narrow for her.

I missed my breakup, but by then Lil had also completely mastered Japanese. Not that it's a placement souvenir, but even without her, who was special, the elementary school community remained, and there was no environment where Lil would be seen as heretical. That's how that community took over until junior high school, and if I became a high school student, my surroundings would be much more adult. The adult consciousness that it was evil to discriminate just because he wasn't Japanese was ingrained, and Lil himself was able to put himself out in grandeur.

Lil was visiting the home of her former best friend, friend number one, a high school student who was so magnificent that she was hailed as being strong.

"I'm here, Reiko."

"Ooh."

During the summer holidays on August 7th, Reiko was invited to her room to play with her.

When I was passed to Reiko's own room at her mother's hospitality, for some reason, this damn hot, only Reiko's room wasn't cooled.

"What is it......... you, even dieting with your own room as a sauna......?

"No, the cooler is broken………"

Despair was there.

Silence falls in the room where Reiko and Lil are the only ones. Reiko's eyes talk back when she looks at herself and asks why she called herself to such a hellish place.

Come on, let's melt in this room together.

Maybe Reiko has a boiling head. As for heat stroke, it seems that it goes hand in hand with the brain becoming eyeball-burning, it was highly likely that Reiko's head was already too late.

The humidity of the summer chamber is heavier than silence, stickier than hedro, and even evaporates friendship.

"I'm leaving."

"Wait."

When I abandoned him lightly, he grabbed his ankle.

If I did my gaze down, Reiko was clamping Lil's ankle as she crawled. I feel like my ankle is grabbed by a slime of viscosity. Ugly.

"I'm not kidding. You can't stay here. Be alone in a slime or eyeball grill."

"Okay. Let's go play. As a matter of fact, I couldn't stand it here either. I want to go somewhere cool. Let's go on a date to the pool or the aquarium. Hey, let's play together, amigo!

"Why do you have to go to the aquarium with Reiko?"

What's so sad is that two women have to go to the aquarium. Reiko said she had just been hit in the head by the heat moaning that it was still more constructive to do her summer homework.

"No! Ah, so-boo's! If I stay here, I'll die!

"…… Yes, sir. I understand."

Lil gave up his sigh to the wishes of a selfish friend who had been hit in the head with a fever and toddler regressed.

"Hey, Lil."

"What is it, Reiko?"

"Why was I in such a fucking hot room?

"Come on? I don't know what stupid people think."

Reiko was regaining her sanity when her head was cooled by cooling on a train that ran circumferentially around the city.

"No, I called because I was a little wondering if Lil would remember if he got hit in the head by the heat, but still, that wasn't there. My head almost pared. Danger. Danger."

"What are you talking about?"

"Bezu. My life is in the aquarium."

Arrive at the station of destination with an irregular chat.

The place you're looking for is an aquarium in a complex in the heart of the city, and sometimes special corners attract guests with catchy creatures. He said that he had bought some strange creatures again, so we were supposed to go see them.

Lil stopped for an ad.

Stayed out on the columns of a station campus with a bunch of them, it looks like an ad for a game with a background and characters written in pop tones. Sounds like a game coming soon with setup software, not the fashion of recent years, but it wasn't a range of knowledge of the lil neglected by the subcals.

"The Labyrinth of Sephiroto"

Regardless of the subtly tasteless title, Lil was somehow blinded by the girl portrayed at the center of the ad. A girl with burning red hair over her head.

"…… Lil. Are you interested in that kid?

"Does Reiko know?

"Yeah."

Apparently he remembers, Reiko nodded lightly, preferring Subkal in general.

"I guess it was about the fourth in the series. It's an RPG that explores the labyrinth (dungeon) in a tiny tree called the World Tree. This series has a subtly different view of the world every time, but mostly goes to the bottom of a labyrinth of a hundred layers to save the world."

"Hmm?

I couldn't imagine a simple explanation for a lil not playing the game.

"What kind of child is this painting?

"No, I don't know if you want a specific description of what the game was like before it was released. It's the protagonist, I guess. That's the vibe."

That too, shrugs my shoulder.

"But something... you look good. She seems a little silly. She feels like she needs to be protected."

"Really? One way or another, it feels like a solid person... Ah. This kid at the end, he looks like Lil."

"If you're a blonde, don't think you're with me on anything?

"No, no, it's a little out. The tone of the callout or something. Wouldn't Lil look just like you if you tried curling her hair too?

I walked about enough from the station to get there.

Buy tickets at the reception and go around inside. Though I thought what was sad about the two women, it was usually fun and a little regrettable to go around the aquarium with a thoughtful friend.

"Next, the advertising area. What is it? Is it the strangest biological exhibition in the world or what? They have crabs and shrimp."

"Isn't that normal for you?

"Hey, it's been pretty tough, I'm pulling that one over here"

"Why are you like a purchasing manager?"

Scared, he looks around at the creature in the tank. Most organisms have never even heard of it and observe it with admiration for commentary.

Cancer, I heard a noise.

Crabs with blue scissors slapped acrylic plates.

What is this? I approach it uncommonly.

A crab was tapping even the tank. For a lil I don't know, it's just called a red crab. Most crabs look like crabs, but the scissors are blue. I wonder what type of crab you are, but for some reason there was no plate here for commentary.

"Wow. What are you, this lobster? Ugh.... I mean, were you there, too? Long time no see."

Reiko is Reiko, and Reiko seems to be having some fun against a lobster-like creature who is lifting her body and intimidating her in another tank.

Crabs rarely slapped guns and acrylic plates when they did it. Over the tank, Lil stares at the crab.

"You're a very temperamental creature."

"Crab."

"Crabs have a rough temper?

"Come on, what do you say?

Reiko shrugged her shoulders irresponsibly as she said it herself.

"Unlike Lil, I don't know much about him."

"…… Reiko?

"I'm going to hang out for a bit. I don't know any crabs."

Reiko turns around and turns away from Lil, who listens to suspicious words and actions.

I wondered what you wanted to say, and I was confused, and the crab slammed the tank again.

Lil is stretching her hair around her shoulder blades. Longer than this increases the labor time for maintenance, so it stays at that length. Still, he's a long one, and he doesn't lack care. It's a little wavy, but it's from the beginning. For straight hair like Reiko, to tell the truth, I admire it a little.

The crab, who stopped his hand slamming the tank, snaps uncomfortably.

"What's wrong with that? It is lamentable that you, who dared to challenge and defeat me, are exposing yourself to the unwillingness to sink in peace. More importantly, what happened to that hair? You don't grow vertical rolls?

"At least tell him to stretch it."

After reflexively saying it back, I realized that, uh...

Crab talked.

"Huh."

Such an idiot, the next moment I thought, the crab scissors cracked into the acrylic plate.

Increasingly unlikely. Crabs jump out of the tank along with the running water.

"It's been a long time, Lildor. How are you feeling?

"... why do crabs talk?

"Hmm, I'm definitely a crab. But don't insult me just because I'm a crab. Even crabs have a personality, just as humans do. Then it would be no surprise to be intelligent."

Strange. But not uncomfortable.

I see. Does this crab talk? Somehow I was convinced of nature and the matter.

"I'm a crab, but who are you? It's lamentable, it's Lildor. What happened to the hair? Where did your brave hair go when you defeated me?"

"Why do crabs know my name?"

"Because you named me. Because it burned my body and soul with a glow I'll never forget."

Water is pouring in more and more.

But strangely, my feet never get wet.

Lil thought there was a hole in the tank.

No. There was a crack in the world.

Crabs stand directly in front of the lil, through the cracks of the world. Soon, a crab grown big enough to look up raises the blue scissors to heaven.

"That's my name. You would have named me, but you forgot that even? I don't know if it's cheap."

Yes. Lil knew the name of this crab.

At the same time that this crab could crack the world, there was a crack in Lil's memory of life. Stranges and various scenarios flow in from the cracked gap.

"Kanyel......"

"Exactly. Don't you still remember? That's my name. If there was a trigger, wouldn't it be surprisingly easy to remember?

Why do I know the individual names of crabs, etc.?

I don't know about that, but for some reason, I got anti-sexuality against the great crab.

"That's a lot to say when the aquarium was decorated."

"Hmm, that's how it goes, Lildor. Well, that was a surprisingly good point, over there. Whether it's a creation, it's comfortable to swim in a peaceful world. Sinking to the bottom is probably one of your options."

That's right.

Somewhere, in the depths of my heart, Lil himself makes excuses.

Isn't this a good place? Filled, safe, never abused. In that world, that's what I'm allowed to be. Above all, it hurts and hurts and it doesn't kill and get killed.

It's like a dream world.

"It's okay to melt like this into a tranquil dream. But let me just say one thing."

The red crab closes the blue scissors properly and cuts the words and tells them.

"- In this world, there is no light for you."

"…… Yes. Right."

That was a decisive word.

Lil raises her own hair. Heavy, proudly packed and curly hair. Shake it to show off.

Lil had recovered five longitudinal rolls.

"You're right, Kanyel."

"Hmm. Didn't you still grow up?"

"It's stretched."

In retrospect, Kanyel laughed as she blew a bubble.

"And you made it look great. I don't know how you got here, and I appreciate the advice... but who do you think I am?

"Even if I knew. If you remember yourself, that's fine. You are the world's shining lil 'dor!

As the crabs laughed and shook down the scissors, the world broke apart.

There was a bright white space.

It's the result of the world of dreams that was wrapping the lil. The view of the world scattered in the air is scattered like a kaleidoscope.

It wasn't that there was nobody else in such an incredible space but Lil.

"I remember."

At the front of Lil, Reiko was there.

"How was it, that conversation with Crab? Zariel was like that too...... The Fifty Hierarchy Lord guys, they all seem subtly great, don't they? I guess it's because my eyes are getting old from up there."

Reiko... No, who are you?

Lil now clearly recognises that he was tucked away in the belly of a hazed cat. This is the world in the belly of a haunted cat. I don't know why Kanyel showed up in front of Lil, but Reiko tightens her gaze with her own watchman or something.

Reiko laughs provocatively at Lil like that.

"Huh, didn't you notice? When I was with you, I remembered."

I can play violet electricity.

Along with the lightning, the information that follows her changes.

Keep your hair and eye color intact. Her height shrunk slightly and her hair was shorter.

"No way."

"Yes."

She laughed hauntingly and wildly at Lil, who was stunned.

"It's me, Lildor."

Lila Toja was there.