Vermillion

As far as I can see, a milky white world.

"It's thick………."

As she slowly advances the horse on an ever-walking path, Kay sets a bow so that she can release an arrow at any time, straining her nerves around her.

Although bright thanks to the sunlight falling from overhead, the vision is blurred and sumptuous, and the view is very poor.

It became difficult to see suddenly from about five meters away, and almost nothing was seen from ten meters away. Kay has just been forced by the shadows of the trees that appear all the time from the milky vale.

The illusion that every grain of particles that make up the mist appears crumbly.

It's like blurring all the way to your head because of your blurry vision.

There was such an unpleasant feeling.

Andrei, are you there?

"Oops. Sometimes I lose sight of it."

"……… Don't get carried away, eh?

"Be careful. Trouble with boulders."

Are you sure you're all right, Kay glances at Andrei, who follows right behind her. On a crisp, rocking horse, Andrei looked around intriguingly as he tapped his shoulder with a pound on his sabel.

"Wow, this fog. I've never seen anything like it in real life."

"…… Does your country often come out of mist?

"Uh... no. The fog is fine, and when is it snowing?"

"It's Russia, right?

"Yeah, Siberia."

"Siberia…… it looks cold"

"Lightly in winter - 30 degrees Celsius."

"Don't give him a break, I don't like cold"

Once, the conversation breaks.

"... is it still magic? I feel too thick for a natural phenomenon."

"Right. But even if MOB (monster) uses magic, hostile intentions occur, right? Then you should be able to sense it with your sixth sense."

"Then is it undiscovered witchcraft with zero threat...? No, given our witchcraft resistance, there would be no zero threat with this intensity."

"It's possible you're actually causing fog, not hallucinations," right?

"... If so, you're a pretty superior spirit. It would be a lucrative thing if we could make a deal... but it wouldn't be easy for the two of us to fight."

"……… I hope it's not an aggressive (active) MOB."

Andrei poses for you.

but all of a sudden, he made his face tense like a little bit and pulled out a hip-throwing knife with his left hand.

……

"What's up, Andrei?"

For a moment, Kay asks as he holds up his bow, sensing the sharp killing that Andrei emitted and stopping the horse from walking.

With the throwing knife in his left hand, Andrei answered with a confused face, pompous.

"……… I heard voices."

"…… Voice?

Unexpectedly, Kay frowns.

Not as good as both eyes engraved with the "Enhanced Vision" curse, Kay's ears also boasted considerable high performance as an avatar that increased his status to the extreme.

But from earlier on, I can't hear a voice or anything.

"... what... what... now..."

"…… calm down. I feel kind of nasty."

Like a broken machine, Andrei lets his gaze wander.

Kay, who remembered his unspeakable anxiety at that appearance, accidentally said so - confused by what he said.

I don't like it.

What a fool. I felt like smiling.

Indeed, there is a system in [DEMONDAL] that generates' chills', called 'Sixth Sense'. But it's only a reproduction of the freckling 'sensation' of goosebumps.

It's like turning down underlying anxiety.

It does not have a direct effect on human emotions.

But now it's nothing else.

Kay felt like something he didn't know was creeping up from his feet - that kind of sensation.

"... Andrei, I can't hear a thing."

"That can't be! Look......... again!

Andrei, with a slightly frightened look, raises a sharp voice.

"You can hear Kay too!?

"… No, I can't hear you."

Fact is, I can't hear anything. But Andrei didn't seem to.

"It's a lie! Why?!!

"True, calm down."

"Why can't you hear me! See, again..."

That moment.

Andrei, trying to keep the words going, opened his eyes slightly and stiffened.

…………

"…… Andrei?

"……… who!!

Andrei, who shook up the sabel, looks around and screams.

"Who is it!! Where are you?!

"Andrei."

"Who is it?! Why, why..."

With a frightened face, Andrei exclaimed.

"- How come o (...) le (...) 's (...) name (...) before (...) know (...) eh (...) and (...) y (...) ru (...)?!"

"……… What?

What are you talking about? And, Kay's thoughts cease for a moment by accident.

…… Andrei, settle down. "

Guru, Andrei turned to us.

At that moment, something cold runs on Kay's spine.

of a (...) n (...) d (...) le (...) a (...) the (...) line of sight (...) was (...), ke (...) a (...) was (...) vegan (...) through (...) ri (...) and (...) i (...).

Obviously, there is no eye focus. His face, which fell out of his expression like Nobu's, was as white as paper. Despite the realistic shape, the avatar of the high game - there was something nasty about the frozen spine.

…………

Remaining silent, Andrei waves up his left hand. Hard and glowing throwing knife.

Blurring, the illusion that Andrei's black coat swells up,

"No, wait a minute."

My left arm blurred.

Sharp, stabbing killer. Kay hurriedly turned away.

Bit, cut the sky open and Kay's head blushed with a silver blade.

"Whoa, don't be ridiculous, Andrei!!

Yelling unintentionally, Andrei didn't mean to, but he just glanced around as he did,

"Damn it, where are you? Wherever he goes, he disappears."

I scratch and hold myself as if I were freezing in the cold on my horse, whining like a rumor. Its body was like a winter mountain wreck, causing cataclysms and fine tremors.

Kay, whose worries peaked at the boulder, jumped from his saddle with a flicker and tried to get closer to Andrei.

but at that moment, Andrei, who stopped shaking perfectly, pulls the throwing knife out of his hips again.

I stood ready to come, but Andrei and Kay looked in the direction of the day after tomorrow.

"There!

I threw a knife.

Wind cut.

But a knife thrown where there is nothing naturally does not capture anything.

By the milky vale, swallowed, disappears.

Normally, it would have stabbed the ground, bounced on the rocky skin of a cliff, and there should have been some noise, but the world of fog remained creepy and quiet.

"Also, disappeared…………"

He leans down with a crying expression and Andrei squeaks small.

Kay, feeling pity for the expression and anger at the incomprehensible situation, couldn't help but squeal his voice from the bottom of his belly and scream.

"Hey, Andrei! Hold on tight!!

To that voice, Andrei looks up all the time.

"............ kay!!

Andrei screaming back, however, vibrated (...) ri (...) back (...) eh (...).

- Quite the opposite of the direction Kay is in.

"Kay! Where have you been!

With a voice with no heart or a seeping color of relief, Andrei sighs with relief.

"Totally freaking me out…………."

"Oh, yeah, I've been hearing weird voices since earlier."

"No, it's not an illusion. Really?"

"Better yet, where have you been? You scared me, didn't you?

"Huh? Are you here just now? Liar, you were never there."

Laughing at you, Andrei.

- No, I'm not kidding.

"Hey...... whoa!! Andrei!!!

To Andrei, who converses with pleasure, Kay felt her whole body grow gross.

"You, who (...) are you talking to!

Phew, and Andrei looked at this one.

Unfocused eyes.

"... hey, didn't you hear your voice again now?

Wandering gaze.

"Hey, Kay. …………………… Kay?

Again, I looked back and Andrei said, "Is that it?" and raise a bewildered voice.

"Hey, where have you been this time, Kay! Stop kidding me!

"You're kidding me! I'm here!

…… That way! "

Andrei, pointing in the direction of the day after tomorrow, grabbed the reins and kicked the horse's flank.

Hihin, the ringing Andrei horse, starts running on his running feet.

"Ke- Yikes! Wait a minute.

"No! That (...) isn't me! Stop, Andrei!!

scream desperately,

"Andrei!!!

The boy's hindsight was swallowed by the fog.

The sound of the hoof goes away - disappears.

…………

Kay, left alone, just stood still.

……

seconds, or dozens of seconds. Give it back to me.

I thought if we didn't go after him.

Honestly, I was in the mood to change characters when I logged out of this creepy situation.

Andrei wasn't a shallow opponent to hang out with, enough to leave him alone like this.

Something sucks. Kay was intuitive.

"Damn, Andrei's a fool"

He tried to pull the reins and jump on the horse, poisoning him with hassle.

……

But I can't move at all. Leaning his neck, Kay moves his gaze so that he follows the reins and looks at the horse.

"... Mikazuki? What's wrong?"

Calling his name, Kay turned to his beloved horse, feeling strange.

While holding the reins, riding - seeing Mikazuki's face does not make Mikazuki slight, as if she had been stripped.

"…… hey Mikazuki?

Hilarious, wave in front of Mikazuki's face. Usually, you should move your neck and eyes like you would trace Kay, the owner.

but Mikazuki looked straight ahead and didn't move at all.

"………… What's going on?"

Is that a bug? Kay sighs.

I knew I'd log out, I even thought.

I kind of want to leave this place right now.

"Buru."

The arrow tip I thought so, as if the computer that caused the error had performed a reboot, Mikazuki snorted and shook his head.

"Oh, back or good"

"Buru, buru"

Relaxed Kay approximates, Mikazuki snorts.

"Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit"

Immediately, I realized something was wrong.

"Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

Shaking his head, Mikazuki keeps ringing his nose.

"Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr -"

At the end of the day, as if it were a broken toy, he shook his head so hard that it looked like a brake, and the noodle was like an engine sound,

"…… Mi, Mikazuki?

Horrible, reaching out to the bluffing face...

Perfect.

On the verge of Kay's hand touching him, Mikazuki stopped the movement.

……

Mikazuki's eyes grabbed Kay and his mouth opened,

"Mi" ka "tsu" ki "y"

The cracked bass voice,

"Whoa!?

A little Kay accidentally tries to jump back and back off, causing her to snap her legs and butt on the spot.

…………

I don't know what that means. I just kept my mouth open like an abalone, and the words didn't say anything.

Normally, pets don't talk.

Of course. Horses.

There's no human voice, and I can't.

I couldn't, I shouldn't have.

…………

Mikazuki's face, like a peel, stares directly at me.

Glass eyeballs.

Stay still, staring at Kay, I'm not moving.

Goofy, like a shaky vision.

In my mouth, I feel like I'm drying out of my body.

Such an illusion struck Kay.

"……… Buru"

How long has it been?

Again, Mikazuki, with his nose ringing, deflected his attention from Kay.

Returning his heel, he leaves Kay, his master, and rushes away into the fog.

The sound of the hooves moving away eventually became deafening.

Silence.

…………

Only Kay, distracted, is left alone.

Kahu,.

Kay's throat makes a loud, faint sound.

Kay, whose lung function was finally restored, realized for the first time at this time that he had stopped breathing.

Often, keep your buttocks on and repeat shallow breaths.

In a world of quiet mist, a wheezing voice echoed, inhaled, and disappeared.

"…… calm down. …… calm down, calm down…………."

As I said to myself, whining small.

Kay, sitting back in his arms, put his hand on his chest and took a slow, deep breath.

Around his heart palpitations finally healed, he sighed loudly, suppressing his eyebrows so that he could get a headache.

Silence, a few seconds.

…… Let's fall. "

Kay chose to escape the situation. It was so, so gross.

Remaining pale, Kay tried to call the menu screen with thought manipulation in order to log out.

However, the operation, which was usually carried out unintentionally, does not work.

No matter how many times I called the menu, it didn't come out.

"……… Why aren't you coming out?"

Blush, squeak.

No way.

Without being able to log out...

Second, that idea blurs the back of my brain. On my spine, something cold ran.

No one.

Alone, in the fog.

Such a feeling that the surface of the body gets hot and the core of the body gets cold in reverse.

"... Damn. Why does it work?"

He shakes his head and tries to manipulate his thoughts again, whining irritably. Failure. Attempt. Failure. Attempt.

Failed.

"……………!!

The rush and frustration tried to reach its peak, precisely at that moment, without sound in front of Kay's eyes, a translucent window appeared.

On the inorganic white screen, as usual, there were three indications of the current time and GM call, as well as the logout.

When attempting cursor control at sight, the menu screen shows comfortable maneuverability, as if previous unresponsiveness had been a lie.

It's like, it's always been the same.

"…………… I'm glad."

Seeing it, Kay sighs relieved.

To be honest, the situation was so creepy, 'I guess I got caught up in a psychic phenomenon too',.

Such delusions of no other love swelled up in my heart, and there was nothing I could do.

"…… in the game."

Laughing with his nose as he stretched out, Kay reached for the 'Logout' button.

I touched it.

"no" ka "wa" ke "i" i "chi" "

From right behind Kay at that moment.

The crackling bass voice makes me nauseous and intense.

Why, without knowing his real name, creepy voice, awesome killing, meaning, Kay stood up to roll, kicked the ground and distance, bowed as he looked back, clasped arrows, squeezed strings,

But I stopped the movement there.

There were people.

Like a dead man, bright white skin.

I was completely naked for some reason. No, I don't see any genitals in my groin. Can I call them naked? Like an alien. A tight body.

I didn't see any hair on my head. Rather than that, I have a doll (human rattle), but can I call this a person?

Your face is like a razor, not a razor.

However, where there are eyes, there are two black holes.

――――

The blank of a moment's thought, the pure question, "What is he?", runs around the back of his brain.

And the face of the doll, just above the mouth, was torn to the side.

"yo" n "ta" "

Whoa, my vision shook.

comes and knees on the spot

So my consciousness was interrupted.