097 – Sisters are best friends! #6

097 – Sisters are the closest friends! #6

“… Is this really the right place? Free time is over soon. Wouldn’t it be nice to go back to the park? yes?”

Barr-.

Elizabeth shuddered from tension and cold.

The underground arrived through a ‘compass’ made of Morumoru’s fur.

It was a place where only cold stone walls continued endlessly.

In May.

Even though it was spring in full bloom, it was underground without even a single thread of sunlight.

As I came down the endless stairs, I had no idea how deep I had descended.

「2 Mile」

There was some old paint written on the wall, but it was a meaning that Elizabeth could not understand.

“Ugh, it’s cold.”

Since it was a picnic on a sunny spring day, it must have been a mistake not to bring a jacket.

A cold chill seeped through the stone walls like a snake, wrapping itself around the legs, shoulders, and neck.

But the cold wasn’t actually a real problem.

It was more primitive to make the children’s hearts afraid than the cold.

“It’s so dark I can barely see anything… !”

darkness.

It is to press down on the children’s bodies like a heavy blanket.

One syllable magic of ‘Fire’ created by Tywin.

With the brightness of that candle, I could barely see the bottom of my feet.

“Tywin, that magic. Can’t you make it brighter?”

Elizabeth asked fearfully.

A continuous stone wall.

It felt like something was about to come out of that end.

For example, a gigantic hairy spider monster… !

Of course, even for Tywin, the brightness of a single candle was the best.

“Don’t be noisy.”

He said that, but Tywin was a little nervous as well.

The laboratory’s door was firmly closed.

The place you entered through the door that was barely opened with Naru’s ‘lock pick’ was the basement, which was said to not exist in this laboratory.

At the end of the endless stairs, this basement was so dark and gloomy that it felt like walking through the dry guts of a huge building.

‘Why is this place in the basement of the laboratory? It looks like a very old place.’

It felt like being neglected for a long time.

Come to think of it, I felt like I remembered seeing a place like this somewhere recently.

Naru said about this.

“Here, it feels like a cellar in the basement of our house! The basement with the strange stone statues! Are there any stone statues here?”

Naru thought that this place had a similar feel to the “Old Sanctuary of Nocturne” located in the basement of the Junk Mansion.

It was the same with the dark and cold spots and the old flat stone walls.

Maybe Naru’s friend ‘Morumoru’ saw this basement and thought it resembled the basement of the mansion, so he might have hidden somewhere here.

Naru shouted into the darkness.

“Morumoru… !”

I had to find Morumoru and go back quickly.

After the picnic, there were snacks to eat on the bus home!

Basrak-.

At that time, I felt a presence at the end of that hallway.

It was the sound of something moving.

-Morumorumoru!

“… did you just hear Someone copied Naru from far away!”

Elizabeth was startled and asked the children.

When all the children said shhh and shut their mouths.

At the far end of the hallway, I heard something clanking and metal.

Cut it, cut it-.

It was a noise that stimulated children’s imagination in many ways.

When everyone was puzzled by this situation, Naru tilted her head and murmured.

“Has Morumoru ever evolved? To the steel anvil… !”

Otherwise, there would be no way such a sound would be heard.

However, Cecily, who had good senses as an aristocrat, keenly felt the presence in the dark.

“It’s too big to be an anvil. Judging by the sound of its steps, it also has at least two legs. It seems to be quite light in weight… .”

It was a specific number.

When Elizabeth heard this, she was slightly surprised and said, “Cecily! It’s amazing!” and Cecily also admired her talent.

For nobles, hunting is a basic quality of entertainment.

For that hunt, the fact that he had learned the search ability from his mother came to mind in this darkness.

Above all, this darkness did not seem so dark to Cecily.

It was all thanks to Cecily Biggie’s Cat’s Eye.

What Cecily found at the end of the dark corridor was the presence of a giant.

He was wearing rusty armor and a helmet with horns, but the unusual thing is that the body that could be called the contents inside the armor was pure white bone.

And the body was very long.

Like a huge centipede.

A monster made like a centipede made of bone and bone.

Cecily seemed about to fall asleep.

I thought it was fortunate that the other kids didn’t see that scene, but I was very nervous and said to the kids.

“Never speak or make a sound. Don’t even move… ! They said that beings who live in the dark usually have bad eyesight. If you don’t make a sound, you won’t get noticed… ! Stick to the wall as much as possible… !”

At Cecily’s words, the children did not even nod.

Children clinging to the walls of the corridor and stopping like pillars of salt.

The skeleton centipede crept closer to the children and stretched out its arms around them.

-Morumorumorumorumorumorumorumorumoru.

The hideous creature moved its hands in horror as the naru called them.

Dalgrak, moongak-.

It seemed like he was looking for something.

Fortunately, the children were small and did not touch the skeleton.

But what would happen if you made even the slightest noise or touched that huge, terrible skeleton—none of the children could have imagined.

– Morumoru?

After a few seconds that seemed like hell.

Cut it, cut it-.

The Skeleton Centipede pushed its rusty armor against each other again.

When the sound became completely inaudible, Elizabeth raised her hair and gave a small roar.

“Bah, I just saw… !? what the hell is that… ! We’d better get out of here… ! Let’s go back to the adults… !”

Elizabeth was on the verge of fainting.

It’s to the point where the skeleton didn’t urinate when it stretched its hands here and there.

The idea of going back was perfectly reasonable, but Tywin shook his head.

“No, I might not be able to go back.”

Tywin’s ears were pointing in the direction they had been walking.

Numerous presences were crudely mixed and echoed through the stone wall.

As if everything in this subterranean had awakened.

Guard deuk, guard deudeuk-.

Ugh, eewuk, bagak-.

Grrr… .

Ying ying ying.

Unknown noises filled the darkness.

Elizabeth was so nervous that she couldn’t breathe.

“Hey, about… .”

Elizabeth took out a candy-sized sedative from her pocket.

As I chewed and swallowed the extremely bitter pill, my mind calmed down a bit.

The current situation that he grasped with his head that was so stable and wiser than usual was—.

“We are all in trouble… !”

It was a big deal in many ways.

pat-.

Then, Naru saw something shining in the distance.

“There is light!”

light in the dark.

Unlike Naru, who was happy to see it, Tywin felt extremely tense.

It reminded me of an angler that attracts prey with its luminous organ in the deep sea.

* * *

“The sanctuary of Demiurge?”

Brigitte heard the story and frowned.

The sanctuary of Demiurge.

Who would have thought that such a thing would be in the basement of the Phrygian laboratory?

“Why is something like that under the lab?”

“That kind of thing is underground, so we made a laboratory. Demiurge’s wavelength has amazing power. There are a lot of things that can be called ‘miracle’ happen.”

“The miracle of the Demiurges can’t always be good… !”

Except for Yahbach, the god of light, the Demiurges generally had ambivalence.

As an example, Efar, worshiped and followed by wizards as a goddess, could be cited as an example.

The goddess Epar once bestowed the wish-fulfilling artifact “Nymph’s Hand” to her shaman.

The effect was surprisingly to grant five wishes.

The Miko, who had been poor all her life, had her first wish to become rich.

After making a wish, a bone in the finger of the “Nymph’s Hand” was snapped off, and at the same time an earthquake occurred, revealing the golden ruins buried under the shrine maiden’s house.

It was a huge pile of gold coins.

However, it was said that the shaman lost her footing due to an earthquake, fell into the golden ruins, and met her end by breaking her neck on a pile of gold coins.

The conclusion of this story is that ‘wish must be made carefully’.

And it was ‘You shouldn’t try to understand Demiurges with human intellect’.

Opening the laboratory to people or designating it as a place for children’s picnics, knowing that there is a ‘sanctuary’ deeply related to such beings underground?

Brigitte couldn’t understand.

However, El Cladeco seemed to have something to say about this.

“Wouldn’t it create chaos if people noticed that there was such a thing underground? And the tomb is sealed 3.5 kilometers underground. Also, it is tightly blocked with a level 0 sealed iron door, so no one can step in. It was under complete control.”

sealed iron gate.

Does that mean that the children penetrated it?

why?

I felt puzzled in many ways, but I seemed to know the answer to ‘how did you get into it’.

Perhaps Naru unlocked it with her headband.

“Professor Brigitte, there are many things to say, but let’s focus on finding the children. The underground is a large place with a radius of more than several kilometers, so we can save the children only by working together.”

It was the right story.

Brigitte thought it was time to leave for the lab.

But instead of rushing, El Cladeco picked up the carpet from his dean’s office.

Seruk-.

What emerges under the carpet is a magic circle of 12 stars.

Brigitte, who was bestowed with the color, was immediately able to figure out what it was.

“A portal?”

“As expected, you are the son of Walpurgis. This is a portal. connected to the deep underground. I will activate You may feel sick to your stomach, but please refrain from vomiting. There are things in the basement that are attracted by smell.”

Woo woo-.

The magic circle on the floor shone.

For a moment, the unnatural feeling of the organs inside the body being reversed from top to bottom shakes Brigitte’s body.

When she came to her senses, Brigitte was in the darkness full of dark stone walls.

“flame.”

Hwareuk-.

Like a wizard accustomed to the dark, Brigitte lit a flame in her palm.

Looking around the area with the bright light, it was full of bricks with ancient letters written on them.

“… What is it written on?”

Ancient characters that even Brigitte, who studied as a mage, could hardly read.

Such things were written on every wall, and it was very creepy.

Shuk-.

Cladeco puts his hand on Brigitte’s shoulder.

“First, we look for children. I heard that Tywin was with the children. I guess you could call it fortunate.”

L rummaged through his pockets and pulled out something that looked like a case for glasses.

What was inside were not glasses, but a few small strands of hair, but El holding them in her hand lightly mumbled an incantation, “Compass,” and the hair radiated light and pointed in a certain direction.

“Fortunately, it’s not far.”

“… … .”

Brigitte looked at this scene in silence.

Brigitte knew very well about the magic of making a compass.

That’s probably Tywin’s hair.

I’m sure there’s no mistake in the direction, but… .

– Morumorumorumorumoru.

Then something appeared in front of Brigitte.

It was a strange-looking creature.

No, can it be defined as a creature simply because it is moving?

“… Why Morumoru? Is it related to Naru?”

It was like a snake or a centipede made of human bones.

At least ten meters in length.

It was clear that the level of danger must be at least a gold level or higher subjugation level.

In a form that aroused physiological repulsion to women, Brigitte quickly cast a destructive magic that condensed six chant into a single chant.

“The spear of destruction, Brunak!”

aaah-!

The beam of light emitted from Brigitte’s palm pierced the bone centipede’s body.

Seeing this, El was greatly impressed.

“It is a great skill. Should I call it the magician of the party who defeated the demon king?”

“Come now and stop praising me. what is that just now? Isn’t that a monster that could come out of ‘The Sanctuary’? At least I know there are several of them in this place.”

There are many signs that can be felt by Brigitte’s perception.

It was clear that this basement was full of terrible things like the monsters just now.

This was no ordinary sanctuary.

Ancient characters that Brigitte had just read but could not decipher.

I feel like I know a little about it now.

It was a ‘warning’.

A warning not to set foot in this basement.

When Brigitte demanded an explanation from El Cladeco about this situation, Cladeco responded earnestly, flashing his glasses with magical flames.

“This is a tomb. The tomb of Nocturne the Wrong. 12 years ago I… , so it was a place I found when I was about the same age as Professor Brigitte.”

Nocturne’s Tomb.

The story took Brigitte by surprise.

It was a well-known myth that the mighty god Nocturne was torn to pieces by the other Demiurges and their warriors.

However, where on the continent of Pangea was the place where Nocturne died—was the main subject of debate among theologians.

The place where ‘God’ died.

To think that Brigitte was now stepping into a place where adventurers and mystics had spent their lives searching for glory and miracles.

As a magician who worships miracles, Brigitte is equally interested.

Then Cladeco said.

“But, strictly speaking, it is not a tomb. Nocturne is not dead. The only thing dead is his ‘vessel’. Nocturne’s main body was sealed on the other side through the ‘door’ installed here.”

“… door?”

“Does Professor Brigitte believe in another world? It is a completely different world beyond heaven and hell in the religious sense.”

“… … .”

a completely different world.

The original Brigitte would not have been very interested in such things.

But not too long ago, on the rooftop with two moons rising, Brigitte remembered hearing a rather surprising story.

─A world with only one moon─.

The hometown where Judas lived, where everything was hidden in a veil.

A different world where one day, that man might throw everything away and go back.

Thinking about it, Cladeco said.

“I thought Professor Brigitte looked like my sister Bathory. I’m wrong. Professor Brigitte resembles me in my youth, not my sister. Even loving a man from another world.”