Vermillion

"My magic power............!?

Just because he couldn't believe it, Kay accidentally watched Sieve.

The spirits of the wind drifting over their heads have a luscious smile to the point that they are incompatible with their outrageous appearance. "Thank you, eh?" A good face just to say. Speaking of which, it's a Doya face.

Sure - I thought I was getting used to being sucked by Sieve here, too. Even just before entering this forest, he exercised his technique on his own and was sucked out of some magic powers, but he was about to be attacked by a standing glare for a moment, and he was recovering from just a short rest.

I didn't know magic was growing.

It was too shocking a fact for Kay, who was proud of his physics-specific brain-muscle warrior.

"Normally, it's something you might notice but hey... the recoil of magic depletion wouldn't be something you can handle with accustom"

Oz with a frightened face with his arms around him.

"No, even if you said that... I didn't know what it felt like to deal with magic until I came to 'here'..."

"Well, your world might have no choice."

"Awesome, you did it Kay!! If the magic grows, make the most of Sieve's potential!

Instead of Kay, who is perplexed, Irene looks very excited. but "Hmm?" and Eileen tilting her neck like she noticed something.

"Wait a minute, am I not undermining that?

"…?

"'Cause I grew some magic, didn't I? But it's hard to train your body in the game right now... because your flesh has been strengthened to its limits, and you're going to be able to build magic."

In [DEMONDAL], Ninja "Andrei" Irene, as a magic warrior, retained the enhancement of her physical abilities there and increased her magic-related aptitude. In other words, a significant portion of the character's potential is allocated for magic skills.

Even though Irene herself could be expected to grow further in various respects in the future, it might have been more efficient to keep physics as extreme as Kay did - a statement that seeps through such thoughts is anything like an ex-game obsolete.

"No, but... when I said I'd train my magic, it was never easy."

But Kay is a sinister face to know reality. Immediately after transferring to this world, I remember the first time I revealed Sheave in order to inform the curser's old woman (Anka) of the type of venom that invades Eileen. I dedicated a large grain of emerald to preservation as a catalyst, but they still sucked the magic out of me at a level where I was ready to die. To be honest, something important falls out of the depths of my body, and I'm still not used to that hairy feeling either.

If asked which is easier to build, muscle strength or magic, Kay would not hesitate to answer muscle strength. At the very least, you won't die in a muscle tray if you're not so unscrupulous, but magic can easily die if you add or subtract it wrong. The fatigue attributed to that mental pressure - cannot be compared to that of the muscle tread.

"Well, I'm pretty sure Eileen has better magic aptitudes. Eileen is the reason why the magic limit increases, so the magic widens even more?

"That's true, too. I'll always count on you, Kerstin."

When Eileen spoke, the shadow at her feet took the shape of her hand, and bih! and let me get my thumbs up.

Kay was trying, pointing toward Irene, who could play with Kerstin, but she peeks in here so that the windy spirits in the matter can fall asleep on the table. "Do I have something to say? Hmm? Hmm?" Not only that, "she said, laughing at Nimanima and cheeks in the air, ending up approaching a few centimeters from her face," so Kay also observed and called out to sigh, "I'm counting on you," she said.

Laughing with Couscous, Sieve swims in the air as she twirls.

"You seem to be very close."

"We've been dating a long time."

To the teasing words of Oz, Kay has no choice but to shrug his shoulders.

"No, that's really interesting. In the meantime, I'm so emotional that I don't think I've earned personality… maybe Kay's image in the game is also influencing."

"If you ask me that, it's the Spirit of the Wind, so I guess he's this kind of free guy," he might have thought.

"It's an interesting phenomenon that your will intervened in the 'fleshing' of her being... because the previous metastasizers weren't magicians. It's my first case."

"Oh, yeah. Besides us, you were a metastatic, weren't you, sir? It's like the Earth's song is being passed on to a village near this forest?

Suddenly I remember, Eileen hitting her knee with a pussy and changing the story.

"Right. In this world time, roughly, about two hundred years ago and about a hundred years ago? Players of the game showed up in the woods, just like you guys. We both sent them out of the woods, though we don't know them afterwards. As far as I can tell, those two are the only people who have metastasized. In their case, it was more like Kamui's interference than his soul being pulled naturally into this dimension."

"... 200 years? It was a long time ago. Are you out of time with Earth and 'over here'?

"It's a horrible story that your soul is pulled out of nature..."

Eileen leaning her neck, Kay, who would probably have gone through a 'deathbed' in the real world, makes her face cramped with thoughts about the unknown players.

"Your game and this world are extremely similar. It's kind of like engaging each other. Besides, VR technology, where the spirit works superiority over the material world, is a 'more dangerous' substitute than you think. Well, now that I know it, it's already too late..."

Oz laughs as he takes out the teacup like a trick and savors the tea.

"When it comes to time discrepancies, by the way, to compare your memories with those of 'em', apparently the 'Earth' dimension and this world were beginning to approach rapidly. The first one transferred was about two hundred years ago in" Here, "but in your world, about three years ago, shortly after [DEMONDAL] began its service. In contrast, the second one was a hundred years ago in 'Here', in your world - about two years ago? The course of" Earth "seems to be significantly slower than" here. "But both, very little of them, are aligning."

"… can it be possible that time discrepancies fluctuate?

"Of course it could be, Kay. It may be difficult for you to understand… there is something between the world and the world that we should call relative 'distance'. Every world is repeatedly approaching and distant from each other. The closer the world gets to each other, the more time flows tend to be aligned, and even when I cross the world, for example, the 'nearby' world can break through the walls of the dimension with less effort. By the way, my homeland, Heaven, tends to slow down the course of time for all other worlds. One of the reasons' Fallen Heaven 'is hated is that it consumes magic faster by heavenly time standards... Hmm"

Slightly out of sight, Oz showed a bare gesture of putting his hand on his cheek and thinking of something.

"As it turns out…," Earth "and" This World "are probably the closest to each other now. Nor can I observe or predict the distance between the present world and any outside world, but it would be possible if Kamui, the great spirit that governs space-time. It's a mystery as to what purpose he had or had, but it's very likely that the two worlds targeted the closest timing in order to minimize the use of magic when you summoned him."

"... that's it, what did you call us for..."

"Come on. Why don't you ask him in person? Maybe if we call an informer, they'll come out, right?

To Oz's words, Kay and Irene face to face.

"……… Kamui's husband?

Eileen called to the void.

…………

Naturally, there's no response.

"You're not coming out."

"Actually, I was expecting a little too. I still can't do it. I thought I could read some great memories, but I'm sorry."

Oz without a bad wind against Irene inflating her cheeks like she blames.

In fact, there won't be a presence equal to the 'God' who adjusts the world to show up, Oz says.

"Being that big will consume a huge amount of magic power just to 'hang around' and you won't manifest it unless there's so much going on."

"In the end, I don't know what the purpose is, ……………"

"Whether calling you guys in was an end in itself or expecting the impact you guys have on this world... I don't know. Now, assuming there's something I want you to do, you should ask the boulders to do it in a way that's a little easier to understand. You guys should just relax as you want to. For all that, the world of 'here' has only been called upon to call it a disaster."

"I hope I still have a healthy body..."

Kay, who told him to roar, looks at Eileen worried. She smiled cheerfully as she stared at this one.

"…… It's okay. Me too... If I'm going to live this way, I think I have plenty. I'm worried about my family."

"With that said, if the Earth is slower in time, isn't our body dead yet? If you go home now, you'll make it, or something like that?

"How sloppy time can be when crossing the world, right? In a moment, your distance from the world may be breaking away again, and there is a chance that Earth is passing faster at the border one day. Either way, it would be a big fight. For you."

"Is that so………"

"Either way, I can't twist my magic across the world. I have no idea how much I need. Or will you take off your skin if you ask your husband?

Eileen joins hands behind her head and asks with tea glare. Somehow, the smile looked like something painful in Kay's eyes.

"No, it's not the kind of thing you can ask me to do, because it consumes a hell of a lot of magic... and I wouldn't be able to pay you guys for asking for consideration. It would still be better if they asked us to plow the whole continent overnight."

"Not so much."

How much magic would it take to dig back the continent without scraping - Kay, who first assumed to plow dozens of meters of square land with the power of Sieve, was swayed by the amount of extraordinary catalyst that would be required to try to apply it to the continent.

"You can't."

"Well, it must be tough on people."

"But Oz's husband doesn't say 'I can't'..."

"Pretty painful, let's just say."

Oz, who answers with a floating voice, has an atmosphere behind his back that is likely to accompany his nose.

"Well, I can't cross the world, but if it's anything else, why don't we do something good? Far away, from another dimension, he visited my house because of me. There is no art in talking a little and ending it. Let me give you something to commemorate, a little 'wish' for each and every one of you. I hope your life here will be fulfilling."

Niyali, and Kay looked anxiously at Oz with a grin he could hardly see. I appreciate the offer.

"……… doesn't that take souls later?

"If you're going to take it, I'm already taking it."

There is a back to a good story. To the half-hearted Eileen, Oz answered sayingly.

"What, you got a precious memories of the other world, that's all. Don't worry, if you ask me to do something too big, I'm going to say no."

"For example, what kind of wish would that be? Oh, this question is not a wish."

To Kay, who stretches the line of prevention, Oz laughs with a delightful grunting throat.

"Right, any wound or healing hypothesis, or any poison or disease special effects. Of course, a certain amount of gold and silver treasure is fine if you want."

"…… I don't think it's 'whispering'."

"It's not much like juice for me."

Chin, and play the juice bottle on the table with your fingers, Oz.

"…… Nothing, doesn't it have to be 'goods'? Do me a favor?"

Eileen confirms.

"Of course, fine."

Oz nodded with some inclusiveness. Those green eyes look at the Kays as they observe and as they enjoy themselves.

"……… What do we do? Kay."

"……… You're in trouble."

Too many choices, I don't know what's wrong. They looked at each other again.

"Hypotion is fascinating..."

Caressing your hips pouch, Kay. Hypotion doesn't know how many times they've saved lives before. But that leaves only a few bottles.

"High potion is cheap. Let's raise it in dozens with one wish."

"Is it possible to have magical weapons too?

"Hmm, that depends on things." A sword that can slash anything "or" a shield that prevents all things "is impossible, at best an arrow-saved feather coat or a ring that can hide itself..."

"… That would be great."

Kay is unintentionally intriguing. Such legendary items existed in the game as well, but they were often too valuable to be used and were exclusively banked for fear of theft and loss.

"Um, but I guess I'd rather have an abstract wish than an article. It's more versatile."

Eileen thinks calmly about Oz trying to recommend the item in good shape.

"Gold and silver treasures… are unnecessary. You can make as many magic items as you want using the power of Kerstin and Sieve, and you don't have to worry about the sales route because of the Chamber of Commerce. Maybe me and Kay won't have any trouble making money in the future. Besides, Kay, if you're going to be an arrow cape and an amulet, you can make it on your own when magic grows, right?

"……… it certainly was"

To Eileen's point, Kay slaps her forehead pessimistically. Even at the moment, if you consume a valuable catalyst, you can distract from the rain of the arrows. Reproduction of legendary items, like Oz gives us, will not be possible for boulders, but if you are a demonic item to such an extent that small grains of gems are misplaced as collateral, you should be able to create them on your own.

"And the potion is certainly fascinating, but it has difficulty saving and transporting... no, wait, Kay! I came up with a better 'answer'!

"What?"

"This place is... on hold! You should retain the right to have your wishes heard. Get extra help when something goes out of your hands!

How about this, Irene, with a good face just to say. Blink your pussy and eyes into Kay, bitter Oz.

"... so is that. That's the most versatile thing."

Kay was also convinced. There is no need to give an answer in this place right now. For example, when something happens that makes you want an extra potion, or a case that you can't solve on your own, you can ask Oz for help again.

"Well, that's your wish, then"

"Right!!

"…… we both have no appetite. No, I'm in trouble."

Darkening the color of bitter laughter, Oz is messing with his hair.

"But you're both free to retain your rights, but are you going to visit this forest again on purpose when something goes wrong?

"" What? "

We both hardened to an unwillingly grinning Oz.

"…… then, in 'The Right to Help If You Call Oz in Trouble'!

"No, no, Irene, you can't do that."

Irene immediately rephrases, but Oz denies.

"As you guys have guessed, that wish encloses two wishes. It's two things: the desire to" call me when you're in trouble "and the desire to" I'll help you. "… it's unacceptable to bring it all together"

"…… do something about it there! Please, Oz's husband!

Eileen winks lovingly, but Oz didn't even break a millimeter of half-laugh-like expressions he couldn't catch.

"No, you can't."

"Damn, I'm just a person, too, and the superior doesn't get the taste of inferior creatures......!

"Come on, who do you think I am? Aside from the inferior creatures, superficial flavors will not pass. Kay is the only one you love from the bottom of your heart."

"Become."

In return for Oz, Irene is out of line. She is dyeing her cheeks while keeping her mouth full. Kay, who somehow got hit next door, also did his hand on the back of his head like it was lit.

"No... well... yes..."

"Eileen......"

"Hehe. Then I guess that's my wish."

Before the two staring at each other, Oz explored the nostalgia, biting off the laughter.

"Let's do this, then. I'll give you this ring."

What Oz took out was a simple red copper ring.

"This is like a magic prop for contact that disappears once you use it. Call my name on this ring and I'll rush you anywhere in the world in an instant. And if you make a wish, I'll only make it happen to you once."

Place it on the table and offer it to the soothing Kays.

"There would be a flair, wouldn't there? Actually, I thought I'd make it a magic lamp that I'd pop out of if it rubbed cuckoo. Because the ring would be more convenient to carry."

Imagine Oz jumping null from the tip of the lamp, which is interesting, etc.

"Ugh...... Grunt...... Ugh, Kay, are you sure this is okay!?

Irene, who seems to regret the blunt and radiant ring in front of her. Once you took it, you were going to admit you lost, but it seemed like you thought.

"… well, you have no choice. In fact, it's been a lot of work to get to the North (here) … If you think you can shorten it and get help in a pinch, you won't be lucky to wish for it."

"That's right...... Knock it off! Why! Why is Oz's husband living in such a secluded place! You don't plan on moving all over the city any more!? You can read all sorts of human memories all you want!?

Peppy and modestly slapping the table, Eileen asks. Oz replied, laughing at Irene, a bad forebearer.

"No, I also extend my legs to people very rarely. But basically, I pulled it off, and vice versa, once I read the memories of the residents there, I'd be happy with that for a while. In that sense, there's not much merit in settling in people."

Outside the mansion window, Oz takes a tranced sigh somewhere, showing with his hands the gray forest as if it had been sumptuous.

"In that regard, this forest is good. It feels so comfortable to me. [M] This place is like a bubble of magic in the world. Space-time is a little more volatile than outside. Thanks to you, strange things often get mixed up... not just from this world."

Oz smiled with a devilish smile that their memories were unusual again.

"Those monsters in the fog............!

"I knew I was a resident of a different world………"

Kay, Irene, who remembers and roars at the monsters she encountered on the road, is also looking a little pale.

I thought they were too unfamiliar and heterogeneous in this world that resembled [DEMONDAL]. I was also convinced when I heard that it had been distracted from another world.

"A lot of 'em' are flesh and soul, or things where the boundaries of matter and spirit come from an ambiguous world. So in this forest, where magic is intense and the laws of the world are easily distorted, we can keep our existence."

It must be another cozy place for them, too, Oz. Being as much as he is, the suspicion in the fog is probably completely harmless, but it is not something that I would have enjoyed from a living human being.

But nothing else. Should I say that it was an unexpected harvest because his words proved that the monster in the fog could not go out?

"Whoa, is this already such a time? Tea would be nice, but I guess it's time for dinner."

A glimpse of the kind of sandwich that was still left untouched, Oz. As he patted his fingers, the tea set disappeared like a lie.

"You'll both be tired, and you should stay here today. Dinner for now."

Pan, and when Oz rang his hand, a candle appeared on the table. Kay took the tabletop ring in his hand, approaching Oz, who began to wonder "what to do with the menu".

"This should be kept by Eileen"

"No, that's fine. Kay took it."

"However…….."

"That's okay."

Irene, elbowed at the table, stares at Kay mischievously.

"- If it's a ring anyway, I want another one."

The smile illuminated by the light of the candle is glossy.

Kay felt her heart bounce.

"……… Okay."

With the ring on her left pinky finger, Kay nodded with a sincere expression, more than any more.

Eileen laughed as she blossomed, wondering if the serious Kay was funny.

He wants to keep an eye on Irene, the emotional face that changes from time to time.

Kay thought so from the bottom of his heart.

The Kays then behaved Oz for dinner.

The menu is hamburger with miso soup, white rice, borschi, pyroshiki, salad, and other soft drinks, etc., that are very clutter-free. They were reproduced from Kay and Irene's memories, respectively. Hamburger baking, miso soup utensils, those are the very flavors of my mother that Kay remembers softly, - I'm sure that was the same dish Eileen ate.

Inevitably, for dinner, there was a soggy air somewhere.

After meals, Oz takes you upstairs to a room that he has prepared. A splendid room with modern interiors, reminiscent of luxury hotels on Earth.

There was a splendid double bed with a spring, which I hadn't seen in a long time, and Irene had accidentally become a big letter and dived.

"Kay! This is awesome - it's fuzzy -!

To Boyon Boyon and Irene, who bounced around on the bed and shagged, it was Kay who was determined to arrange a fine bed if one day he were to set up a house.

Apart from the rooms, a bathroom was also provided.

That, too, is two. One is Japanese style. The other is - regular, western-style bathrooms. However, the interior was still in Kay's and Eileen's memory, the "bathroom of my parents" itself.

If you twist the faucet, the convenience of having clean water come out immediately. If I leave here, the 'here' world is going to feel terribly inconvenient and horrible.

In a Japanese-style bathroom, Kay thought to himself as he soaked his shoulders in hot water.

"…… I think this is too much"

Oz's compassion is conveyed - but not cruel, on the contrary.

I don't mind yet. Memories, grief, even untrained, are all far beyond the dimension. I've already made up my mind about them, and in fact, I have this difficult situation that I can't live long when I return to Earth.

But Irene...

Kay meditated on a sobbing voice that sounded slightly from the next bathroom, pushing him to death.

If you look up at the ceiling, the light of the lights illuminates the bathroom brilliantly.

It was too dazzling for Kay's eyes.

Sinking himself in the water to his head, Kay exhaled and played like a child.

The tub felt much narrower and smaller than I remember.

†††

By the time Kays got out of the bath, it was sinking into the darkness at night outside the window.

However, only the thin lights that leak through the mansion's windows illuminate the garden.

"No, that's bad. I was wondering if it was Ali's wish to live here."

Falling asleep in bed and rubbing dry blonde hair in a hairdryer, Eileen blurted and said. With long hair, every time she took a bath in this world, her hair was hard to dry. It's still summer now, so it's good, but winter will be troublesome.

"... right. It's a little too convenient to be scary."

Sleeping next to Eileen, Kay nods at the lights like a ceiling light.

- Live here, huh?

I thought it might be an ant, too. At least, it's convenient, there won't be any danger to your life, and with Oz's library, you won't be bored.

"…… Ah, I'm kidding, right?

Eileen panicked to Kay, who had begun to think seriously.

"Really? Now give me back my ring and I'll figure it out."

"…………………………………………………………. If you can live here, it's convenient, it's safe, and I think it's great."

While falling asleep, Eileen grins sadly.

"But something, I don't feel right if I'm here"

"……… Eileen"

Kay doesn't know what to look like anymore.

However, I can somehow sympathize with what Eileen is saying.

Living on the inside of a wall - maybe not the life Kay wants - in this, blurry, misty world detached from the outside world, to be protected.

And probably, that's the same for Eileen.

Kay, once again, stared at his loved one.

Her eyes are a little red.

With her hands gently on its cheeks, Kay peered into her jewel-like eyes.

"Irene."

"…… yeah?

"When Oz asked Eileen if she was going home. He said he'd stay with me. That's what Eileen said... I'm so glad."

Thank you, as I whisper.

Kay softly hugs Eileen.

"So now I can say... thank you for staying with me"

Every arm, at this time, is somehow weak.

"Me and I want you to stay with us forever."

Eileen thought, as if she were a snuggling toddler.

"... With Sieve's help, I think even a hairdryer can make it. In places full of nature, buy a big house. If the two of us join forces, we will surely have a life so convenient that it is unbeatable in modern times -"

Then Irene gently blocked Kay's lips as she tried to keep talking.

Stuffy mouth.

"…… Kay, I love you."

Eileen also hugged her loved one back.

Tearful pale eyes gleam.

Kay, who looked like a jerk, had a blurred vision and felt it go away.

"…… so am I."

Kay laughed, too, crying.

"I love you, baby."

So they layered their lips, again.

- The next morning.

At the front door of the mansion, Oz stands laughing.

"Now, both of you. Have you forgotten anything?"

The two men, who were in good hands, deliberately checked their belongings.

"…… Looks like you're okay."

"I'm sorry, but I'm just gonna leave you homesick."

Irene laughs at Kay, who is serious and snorts.

"Right. That's good. … Then, as promised, when the ring calls my name, I will rush to fulfill my wish immediately. Except that's a one-time opportunity. Think carefully where you use it."

"Yeah. At best, I'll let you use it when it works best."

"………… Please be gentle."

Oz smiles bitterly at Kay, who says it out with a neat face somewhere.

"Now, as soon as I leave this mansion, I'm making sure it leads to the forest entrance. If you walk two steps, it's out of the fog, so don't worry."

"It helps, because there's no life line anymore."

Gently, Kay holds Eileen's hand. Instead of a lifeline.

Eileen smiles, too, and grips back much more forcefully.

"Heh heh. Now, tell the two of you to get out of the door, Happy Tatsu.... It's a strange story that the Devil is a blessing."

"Doesn't that seem like a good idea? …… Oz, thank you"

"You took care of me, Oz's husband! I don't know if I'll see you again."

They pray to Oz and walk out.

Step by step, continue on through the soothing garden of Toya.

Oz leaned to the door, dropping them off.

"No, everyone in the village must be worried. When we get back, we might lose our hips."

"Right...... it's going to be a question attack"

"…… and is it a daemon? You've met a hell of a man."

A superior who presides over memory and oblivion, living perhaps distracting years. It's a 'big man' that I never imagined, and the inhabitants of the village would be surprised to hear it.

"Whoa... that sounds real to me."

"I'm making you listen. … Ah."

But Eileen, who was slapping lightly, stops inadvertently.

- Something was caught in my heart.

It was yesterday. When Eileen first asked Oz if it was possible to return to Earth.

Before answering, Oz asked Eileen the other way. "What are you going to do," he said.

At that time, I was surprised when the water was suddenly pointed at me, but now I know who the discomfort I felt at that time was.

In the first place, Oz didn't have to ask the Kays anything. Because if we explore Kay's thoughts and memories, we don't have to ask questions, we know nature and the answers.

So why did Oz, then, bother to 'ask Irene a question'?

"Thank you for staying with me"

Reminds me of Kay's words last night.

- Yes, that's to make Kay listen.

Kay's impression is completely different before and after Irene's expression of her own readiness to 'stay here' turns out to be 'impossible to return to Earth'.

If Eileen had answered 'Stay' after hearing 'I can't return', then it would sound as if she had no choice but to say so because there is no other way.

That must have left them lumpy in their relationship later.

So to avoid that.

Oz dared to ask.

And then I made Eileen put her readiness into words. Before Oz reveals the truth.

…………

Eileen looks back.

Dressed in a bright red suit, the frigid looking demon laughed with a glaring look at everything.

"... thank you, sweet devil."

Eileen laughs again.

I don't know if that word arrived. Only the devil laughs.

"Eileen?"

"Mm-hmm. No, that's okay."

Shake his head, and Eileen turns back forward.

"…… Let's go. Kay."

"Yeah. Let's go, Eileen."

The two of them, holding hands, stepped forward.

Outside the fog.

To the bright outside world, where the sun descends.