Isekai Taneuma

He pushed open the heavy iron door of the training ground and walked out into a narrow passage with a rattan shelf. Physically opening doesn't mean at least time is running out. Feng picked up a nice wooden stick that fell in the aisle and made a deliberate noise as he headed for the modus operandi that followed the castle hall.

The blowout hall in the middle of the castle, when it first passed through, looked at its magnificence and beauty, but now it just seemed creepy. The reason is simple and clear: there is not a single light.

In the middle of the hall was a huge chandelier hanging from the ceiling, and the walls were decorated with several decorative candlesticks. Originally, there would have been a beautiful scene where candles lit up and the light reflected randomly, but now that beauty had returned, it was creepy because it created something like an unknown feeling of loneliness.

It feels like abandoned ruins, to say the least. It's been hundreds of years since people disappeared. Until just now, I was overwhelmed by the sight of people crossing here. I wonder where everyone has gone.

"Is anybody there...?"

She won't reply. Of course, I wasn't expecting it, but I wonder why I feel a strange rush. The back of the castle was too dim for me to step in. The decorations placed everywhere seemed to be moving, and somehow I felt like I had entered the back stage of the video game.

I thought it might be a rotating door camouflaged on some wall, and I looked carefully at the wall, but of course I couldn't find such a thing. Because there was no other place I dared to think of, I only went to my room during the viewing, but even if I went inside, there was nothing to pick it up.

Well, it's confirmed, but this castle is unmanned. Looks like there's no one left. Then I had no choice but to find an exit on my own, but I wonder how long it would take me to investigate this castle, which boasts an unusual number of rooms... just to think about it would make me feel distracted.

Feng returned to the hall and sat on the bench in front of him. If I put my hand in the mirror, can't I go to the other side? He considered the future policy while thinking about Merchentic things like that.

That said, there is only a limited amount of work that can be done. Anyway, we're just walking around looking for clues. After that, I just got in touch with Jeanne for a moment, so I'll try talking to him regularly.

But where do I start to look? In a situation where there were no clues to look for, there was only a sigh. After all, I would have to investigate the room in the castle from one end, but if I could find anything, I wouldn't feel comfortable considering if I didn't.

Outside the castle, there are training grounds, barracks for soldiers, and gardens. Outside the castle gate is a castle town. If the exit were to be in that castle town or farther away, wouldn't it be done already? Feng still doesn't know about the outside world, right or left. After all, it's not a good guess to act. Whatever you want to do first, you should find a clue and act carefully....

If there's a clue, the most suspicious thing is the training ground where I woke up, but should I go back there again? I mean, why did I fall down in that place? After all, I remember correctly before I woke up, and I lost my life with Kazuya magic. I wonder if this is actually heaven....

I was really staring at myself in the mirror as if I wasn't hurt anywhere....

His gaze stopped at his chest pocket.

"This is... Chiyoshi, right?

That said, I woke up and picked it up immediately. Why did something like this fall? At that time, I went through it because I didn't understand the situation well, but it's a strange story to think about now.

This is probably not from this world. Last night, as I saw with Tinder's magic, there is paper in this world, but somehow the construction is miscellaneous. However, the beautiful patterns and dimensionless squares that Feng now has in his hands can only be regarded as Japanese industrial products.

If you think about why there is such a thing, it is difficult to understand....

"It's like I was dreaming just before I woke up....."

It's a bitter memory of my childhood. The burning Sofia, breaking up with Emilia. My mistake drove her away. Remembering that makes my chest painful... but maybe it's the meeting scene that I have to think about right now.

On the day of the first meeting or conversation with Emilia, Feng and I were silently breaking the crane. I was using Kent paper at that time, but this Chiyo paper smells more origami as a metaphor.

"Hmm... well, let's try something."

Feng got off the bench and began to fold thousands of pages instead of a desk. I didn't know how many years it had been, such as a folding crane, but it broke surprisingly naturally. Maybe the body remembers how to ride a bike.

He broke the tip of his stretched neck to make a stingray, and finally he tried to open his wings....

…… Emilia!?

When I raised my face, I felt like something was moving in the corner of my vision. When I looked at you aggressively, I saw a girl with golden hair running in the mirror. I looked back in surprise, but at that time, I couldn't see the girl in the mirror anymore.

I've only seen him for a moment, and I don't know who he is. Maybe he was hallucinating. But Feng didn't feel like Emilia. Or rather, the content of the dream, origami and so on, and if it is different, then I will call the person in charge. Feng stood up with a rough snort and hurried towards the girl who disappeared.

As the girl approached a corner where she thought she had disappeared, Feng noticed something glowing ahead. Of the two residential areas in the castle, the opposite was the direction where there was a mirror. It's the first basement that Feng and the others woke up in this world, a soldier's cage, and a cell block.

When I was looking for a clue, I was completely out of my head, but when I think about it, the first place I visited in this world stinks. Maybe, no, there's definitely something ahead.

"Seacue, Seacue, do you read me, Jeanne?

Feng tried to speak to Jeanne, but as usual the party chat didn't work. To be honest, I couldn't get in touch and I pulled my hips, but I didn't have any other way to go, so I went ahead.

Follow the blurry light and come into the mirror. The many hanging chandeliers and large windows, as well as the passageways lined up with mirrors the size of those windows, were beautiful enough to fall in love when I first visited them, but now that the light did not penetrate, it was like a slender concrete wall.

From the direction of travel, the right hand should be the window, but the left one feels the illusion of a window. Are you sure this is the window? When I stared at it, I felt like a mirror. When I looked at the other side, I thought it was strange, and it was a mirror. Both of them are strange in the mirror, so when I look in the opposite direction again, it was a window, so when I try to move forward again, I feel like a window on the right and left....

Are you moving forward or backward now? Right to the left, left to the right? Had it not been for the faint light coming from the direction of travel, Feng would have circled around the same place by now.

Thinking so, it seems that the light that guides the way is reliable, but because the appetizing plants say that they attract prey with a good smell, I am worried whether it is really okay to proceed like this. However, the darkness of the retrospective end was sometime darkly closed, making me feel like I would never be able to return to it again if I stepped in my foot.

After all, if you're only anxious whether you go or go back, you won't have to go any further. Feng thought so, and walked to the side where the light shined without thinking any deeper.

"Sea cue, sea cue"

Sometimes I tried to contact Jeanne, but she couldn't chat.

Eventually, they pass through the mirror, past the soldier's jam, and reach a staircase leading to the basement. Sure enough, the light was coming from there, but I was a little hesitant about the boulder to go down.

Because I haven't seen any candlesticks with lights since. Then, if you go down to the basement without a window, you'll lose sight of anything. He thought so, but it soon turned out to be bereavement.

The basement, which came down slowly with its hands firmly on the wall, was somehow clearly visible to every corner. The candlesticks weren't supposed to be lit anywhere, but the lights were the same on the ground and underground, no matter what you think.

I won't be surprised now because the strange phenomenon persists, but what the hell is going on here?

I thought it was much darker because of the lack of lights, but perhaps it was the color of this world that Feng had just seen. Normally, objects reflect light and show color, but in this world, matter itself emits color. That's why bright places feel dark and dark places feel bright.

But then, what is it that looks as glowing as if you're going to show me around? With that in mind, we follow it to the basement.

I've been expecting something before I got here. When the light pointed to this building, I thought perhaps it followed the room Feng first noticed. Now that I've been here, I was close to being sure....

But unexpectedly, it wasn't that room where the light went on. Passing in front of that room, the light was still blurry from the front.

I kind of felt like I was stuck in a fox, but, well, originally it was just an anticipation, and realizing that nothing would change in the wrong place, he tried to move on.

But then I remembered,

"Well, what happened to the room we woke up in the first place?"

That's what I thought, somehow. Really, casually, I opened the door. I didn't expect anything there this time. He opened the door with the intention of confirming that there would be nothing more.....

And he regretted it.

"Eh... no, what is this..."

The moment he opened the door, he somehow felt the smell of the beast. It is a unique smell emitted by mixed animals with manure that drifts from animal huts and the like. When I smelled the smell, Feng somehow felt disgusted and hesitated to open the door. But as a result and curiosity jumped out of it, he eventually opened the door.

I felt like something was hanging on the door, and when I opened the door while trying to push it in, there was the sound of something falling down and rolling over the ground.

I followed a rolling round object with my eyes... and I saw two big holes, a small hole, and a slightly lined up, pure white tooth.

Feng swallowed Gokuri and Tsuba.

"You're lying....."

It was a skull. It's probably human because of its size. The upper jaw alone did not have a lower jaw, but the rest was found immediately. It was on the other side of the door that Feng pushed down.

It was the human skeletal carcass that I had seen in a science lab skeleton. No, that's not all there is to it. There are similar human bones lined up next to it and next to it. The size is thick and mixed with men and women... It seems like something quite old because it's white, but the clothes worn by the body and the hair are still beautiful, so it doesn't seem that long has passed.

I'm not familiar with anatomy, so I'm not sure, but there are five bodies from the number of skulls. No trauma found. Aren't they lined up because they were bodies from the moment they were brought in, or because they didn't resist even if they were killed here? Like gas... magic?

Feng put up with the nausea coming up and leaned against his mouth, exiting the room and closing the door. As soon as he felt a fierce breath, he exhaled like an acid-deficient carp. Apparently he stopped breathing without noticing. When I thought I heard a loud noise, it was my heart beating.

He wiped away the ball-like sweat that had floated on his forehead, and as he left the room to flee, he laid against the wall, and lowered his hips to the ground.

"There are five skeletal bodies... we're five..."

I wasn't sure, but I didn't think it was just a coincidence. How do I summon a brave man in the first place? I have not heard of the method at all.

What is the price of calling one human?

Maybe you've found something you shouldn't see....

I don't know if this is inside the castle... but I don't think Isaac, the castle lord, knows about this. I don't mean to say anything innocently, because you'll only let me know when you hear it, and if you succeed, your life may be in danger....

After all, we'd better get out of this castle. Anyway, Jeanne had to tell the other three. But once again, I wonder what Isaac would do if Phoenix said he wanted to leave the castle....

Well, if we don't get out of this mysterious space before then, can we talk?

Feng took a big deep breath and stood up slapping his relaxed thighs. It was a shock to the boulders, but I can't keep doing this. After some calm, he walked out again.

Also, the end point was right after that. After turning twice from the room with the white bone body earlier, there was a compartment lined with cages fitted with iron lattices that looked like a dungeon, but I saw an abnormal light coming from one of the cells.

A closer look inside revealed that the space was surrounded by stone walls of the same size as other jails, but only the deepest wall of the room was clearly different. No, if it's true, it's camouflaged like any other cell, but now it's edged with light so that the middle part of the wall is cut out squarely. Somehow, there was a strong appeal that there was a hidden door here.

Feng dared to explore the surroundings lightly to see if it was dangerous before entering the prison in question. I thought it might be locked in jail, but there was no such thing, and I put it in quickly.

Standing in front of the wall in question, he tried to pierce his fearful fingertips into the light. Then, of course, your fingers slip through the walls that you think are there and rub into the other side. Apparently, there's no street wall here. I was curious about what was going on, but magic was irrational.

Anyway, there's only one thing we can do... just go to the other side of this pathetic door of light. There won't be any more options for turning back. After all, I circled around the castle and fell back here.

Then we have no choice but to push ahead without further doubt. If we get out of here, we may not be able to retreat from this mysterious space. However, Feng was optimistic that something would happen to him. His chest pocket is stuck with a folding crane made of thousands of pieces of paper.

Somehow, Feng felt like it would lead him.