Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

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Back, huh?

After my vision stained bright white, the intense pain I felt behind my eyes, which is now a lot of pull.

The surrounding scenery is also... dark, but once visible.

No... isn't it strange that it's dark?

The water I was about to go up from the sea was certainly full of brightness.

I don't know what the light source was, but it did have light.

And yet there's nothing like that here.

I can see my surroundings... due to the special nature of my eyes.

It's so bright that even normal humans will barely see it.

Besides, there's no sign of the Capitans around.

Why...?

"... really, you have an edge, you have"

A voice was heard abruptly from behind.

What's scary isn't that there's someone behind it.

It's that you clearly recognize that you've been called, but you don't feel any sign (...).

Horrible, I look back.

Then there he was...

"Long time no see. Corpse ghost" Shiki "guy. No, now...... it doesn't seem so. I see, has it happened...... this is unusual. You didn't become a vampire, did you? But it is also a cannibal ghost lineage...... Rather, it is something that is convincing given the history. But you used to suppress your sucking urge, didn't you?

There was a woman whining about that like she was talking to herself, staring at me with her eyes as if she were seeing something odd.

If this is all you got, there's some weird lady, maybe it'll work, but I've met this guy before.

Or closer to the benefactor, if I may be clearer.

My robe, and the original owner of the Acacia Map.

I say.

"... you were, then. How did you end up in the Labyrinth of the Daughters of the Sea God...?

The woman in front of me now, the presence with gray hair, with watery eyes, breathing terrible pressure to have a gentle atmosphere, should certainly have been in the untouched area of The Labyrinth of the Water Moon.

So I was nearly burned down by this woman, but for some reason I was helped on a whim, and even given and returned special magic items that I would rarely get anywhere else.

I can still recall the odd feeling that I was bored by the fox then, but the evidence does remain in this hand.

I never thought we'd meet again... but why, here.

First of all, that was the pure question.

To this the woman,

"I'm flying around pretty busy because I don't have time to look like this either. This time we met here, coincidentally... you're too good for it. I'm sure something led it. It's inevitable. I just didn't really mean to speak up. I've given you a lot of things before, but those are for apologies only. Essentially for me, I want you to work hard on your own."

Something, they expect.

I have no idea what to expect, it's fluffy... but it still doesn't seem like an enemy.

I don't know if it's okay to be cautious, but I think it would be the same for me to be cautious in front of this woman.

When we met before, I was a corpse ghost.

Compared to those days, I think I'm stronger now.

But nothing changes the image that comes to mind when I imagine a little bit about the magnitude of the pressure I still feel on this woman, what happens if I take it.

Perhaps, but I'm with one of this woman's fingers... no, they make me disappear from every being without even moving my fingers?

So much so that I feel like it.

That's the same thing I felt when I met Dragon in The Labyrinth of the Water Moon.

It was instinctive fear and giving up on someone who had never fought against him.

The point is, it's no use doing anything.

Conversely, that's why I can be diagrammatically fat in a way.

Because you know I won't even care what I do.

"Thanks for the support, I just wanted to say...... if that's what you mean, how did you talk to him? I look like this, too. I'm busy there. I was about to explore the labyrinth with someone I knew."

"I know. Just because I could see you were about to be drawn to the labyrinth. If I let it go, I'd be integrated with this labyrinth... or I wouldn't be able to get out of here."

"What..."

"You don't know a lot about a thing called the Labyrinth... oh, my God, naturally. Now there are only so many people who know."

"You think you know?

"For once. And from that perspective, you were dangerous. You saw something, didn't you?

"... ah. Someone was just talking to a man and a woman..."

"That's the memory of the labyrinth. I can say it's a record, but I can't be sure of either because I'm not that familiar with this labyrinth either. Whatever happened in this labyrinth used to flow into your head. Most of those things were stored in labyrinth nuclei... Oh, did you know, labyrinth nuclei"

"... that's for once..."

"If so, you talk fast. The labyrinth nucleus connects to the entire labyrinth, finally it's like a source of water. It's connected to everything in the labyrinth... and so is this demon inside the labyrinth. If demons break in from the outside, the labyrinth nucleus stretches the thread to connect with it. You were about to get tangled up in that yarn. And in doing so, I took a peek at one of my memories... living in the nucleus of the labyrinth."

"I mean... is that it? You helped me?

"In short. But the yarn is still connected, so I wouldn't recommend staying here very long. If you were going to be explored, you should always go outside once a day. Otherwise the same thing will happen again sooner or later. Besides... it's possible to see something again even as it is."

"Hey, what am I supposed to do..."

You have to explore the labyrinth, but you can do something about it again.

The woman says to this.

"It's about being strong in your will, right? If you look at a similar sight, you won't be taken in if you shake it off"

"Is it true...?

If so, it doesn't seem as difficult.

Besides, I thought...

"... If a demon enters the labyrinth from outside, then why was The Labyrinth of the Water Moon and The Labyrinth of the New Moon okay? And I've dived into some of the other labyrinths."

"That's this labyrinth...... whoa, sounds like it's time. It's not going to happen if I'm talking to you. By the way, it is possible that the illusions you just made may also be visible to someone who was near you. That explains a lot well… yes, one more thing, if I were to finally advise…"

"If I...?

"Here, there is. You're the only one... who can't get in without you. Okay, looks like it's really out of time. Good afternoon."

The moment the woman looked up and said so, the scenery turned in a mess.

"Hey..."

I still have a lot to ask.

That's what I wanted to say, but all I can see is a woman waving her hand distorted.

Make sure everything is swallowed up by the vortex at the center of my sight and darkened... and my body just happened to be thrown out in a strange floating sensation.