＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ [Saint Knight] Ray Sterling

The face of < K&R > left, and we were driving the carriage for the village of Torne again.

It's completely sunset, and now it's slowly moving forward in silver, illuminating the front with a magic item of lights mounted on the carriage.

Other than us, there seems to be a group of Tians who survived and were not originally targeted for the village of Torne.

However, it seems that there have been about two victims from the party behind us, and that's the thought of "I'm sorry I got involved". Well, the bad news is < K&R >... I guess it's a wolf cherry blossom.

And did Louis get tired of a series of disturbances, and now he's resting in the carriage?

Forced troops to come to Wang Du early in the morning by carriage without this incident and take it back to the village of Torne. It will be tough on children.

Was I very distracted, too, pretty tired?

... This one from yesterday's kidnapping riots, there's no time to rest your mind inside.

"I want to get to the village of Torne and get some rest."

That's what Nemesis, sitting next to me on your desk, said and blurred... I agree.

"Nevertheless, Beasley hasn't said anything since before."

Then I see Senior Beasley sitting right next to me in the words of Nemesis, which was conveyed in the reading.

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Seniors don't say a word from the conversation they had with the cashmeres earlier.

Eighty-nine, the wolf cherry blossoms uttered when they left, "Now why don't we PK together again".

After that, it seemed that Cashmere was mocking the wolf cherry blossoms, but that didn't make the words out of her mouth disappear.

The words of wolf cherry blossoms illustrate two facts.

One is that the seniors were still face-to-face with < K&R > and not necessarily hostile.

And the other thing is that Senior Beasley is also a PK.

Hiding it against me would mean I didn't want them to know.

Now, if you say what I myself think about that fact that was hidden...

"... you still care"

At that time, a senior who had been silent all along spoke to me.

"As I'm sure you already guessed, I'm a PK. It is also a notorious PK to the extent that it is called alongside < K&R >."

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"We had recently suspended activity, but by then the number of people pushed to death penalty will reach four digits"

"More than a thousand people are terrific."

I'm not convinced I'm watching today's battle with < K&R >.

He seemed to be good at analyzing them.

"I should have said something first, I suppose. But to the junior who just did it... Ray, I hid it from you.... I'm sorry I hid it"

That's it, the senior looked me straight in the eye and then lowered his head deeply.

I guess that's from the bottom of my heart, an apology for what I was hiding.

But I...

"Um... me... I don't know what else to think."

From the start, I really don't care if the seniors are PK or anything.

"................................. Huh?

"So there's nothing seniors wouldn't avoid even in PK, is there? If they were after me like I was earlier, of course I'd say" annoying. "

If it's not like thian getting involved and terrorizing like this one's white coat, there's nothing I think about PK that's not hostile.

In the first place, there's a killer at the party who desperately attacked me.

What kind of PK is that?

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Seniors looked me in the eye jeezy and found out that my words were genuine, I breathed to relieve myself of "Phew" and then... I laughed a little crunchy.

"Is it a big nostalgia, a favorite... or is it just a sweet idea"

"Ha, well, you can't deny it. But PK or not, I thought seniors were trustworthy people."

There are [plague kings] that Marie defeated, and [King of Crimes "King of Climb"] that my brother told me about, and like Franklin I relative, who slaughters Tian as well.

But I'm sure seniors don't.

I know that from the battle against werewolf cherry blossoms, even at the expense of my shield, I protected Louis.

Well, even without it, I knew all along that this guy was kind and attentive.

"Even if they told me from the beginning, maybe I didn't care. That's even when we're talking in college cafes."

When I say that, the seniors will look away somewhere the day after tomorrow.

"... no, I don't think I would have ever spoken at that time"

I said.

"Why not?

"... So when I said, 'I'm the infamous PK,' Ray, you would look it up on the internet, etc. and then log in, wouldn't you?

"I don't... uh, I don't know"

Maybe I will.

"When that happens, you know, with something embarrassing"

"Huh, embarrassing, huh?

"I, in the middle of PK, have changed people... I can't show them to anyone I know in real life..."

Seniors who say so are holding their reddish faces by their hands.

In the gap with the previous depositional calm...... I felt a little cute.

"Ha!? Now for some reason I feel a fierce sense of crisis! That's right, Beasley. Lord, didn't you look particularly different in your earlier battle? Isn't that also a PK when it comes to PK?

"At that time...... because I hadn't switched it on yet"

"" Switch?

What switch... does it even have a switch like a power supply behind its head?

I was going to ask you a few more questions about that area.

"Ugh, yeah, that..."

I heard Louis wake up from inside the carriage.

"Are you awake? It's time to get there."

"Yeah, I can tell because I can hear you."

"Sound?"

Take Louie's word for it, and I'll try to clear my ears a little too.

Then, from beyond the slopes of the loose gradient ahead, several hidden sounds were heard overlapping.

When silver goes up the hill and the view beyond is revealed......,

"... beautiful"

Nemesis muttered so with admirable words.

There was a fence on the road leading to the village of Torne, like a guardrail... but the fence was a sight to behold.

A windmill (Kazaguruma) is arranged all over the fence, and the wind blows around at night.

Whether the windmill is painted or something, the windmill still looks bright at night.

A windmill glowing like a light in the dark at night, circling in circles... was guiding the way to the village of Torne.

Some fantastic atmosphere convinces me that visiting this village for this festival is also "I see".

"The production is tomorrow, but the wind stars are already decorated."

"Hussey?"

Isn't it a windmill?

And, if you look closely, the windmill had five feathers. From the front, it also looks like a pentagram.

"I think it's an old story from this part of the world. Instead, the star who came down when the wind blew shut a bad monster in the dirt."

Hmm, is it an indigenous faith or something?

When it comes to faith, I first associate that feminized student, but other than that, I guess there is naturally a religion.

"Ah! You can't take the wind stars that are decorated on the fence!

Moving his gaze, Nemesis was stopping the gibberish movement in the position he reached for the fence.

"... nemesis"

"Well... if I watched you turn around..."

It's not a cat, and why?

"If you want Windstar, I'll give you this."

That's what Louis said, he took the windmill out of the small item box and handed it to Nemesis.

"Is that good?

"Yeah! It's a amulet wind star, but if you go back to the village, there's more!

"Right...... thanks"

Nemesis, who got a windmill from Louis, stares happily at Nico and the wind star in his hand.

"You've never seen anything but when you're eating sweets, the face that nemesis looks like"

"Mm! You're rude! I'm a lady, so I just can't show my sweet face like that!

... Lady when you don't show your sweet face, aren't you a samurai?

Like how to talk.

... Well, okay.

Whatever it is, we've had some trouble on the road, but the village of Torne is only a few miles away.

Send Louis home as soon as possible and start collecting information that will lead to Mr. Sizima's real life tomorrow.

This time, it's the real deal.

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□ Home

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< K&R > At the deepest end of the base, in the owner's room, the cashmere was checking the documents gathered through the strings while sitting in the seat.

It was created with the skills of the Bachelor lineage, because it was a job from heaven and earth or the fitting was like an old painting grass.

I frown slightly in one respect, scrolling with perplexity.

"Darling, what are you reading?

By such cashmere stood a werewolf cherry blossom equipped with a bucket of water in both hands and head.

It is the smell of word execution.

It should be noted that I did it in the hallway at first, but as soon as there is no cashmere, I get a treat in the cashmere room.

Maybe he went for it after a while.

"This is today's Hunting Report"

"... Shh"

Yes, it's a report from a member of today's misunderstanding personal grievance hunting at the order of the Wolf Cherry Blossom.

In addition to the hunting executor, there are also records of changes in the situation, and the reports are raised to Cashmere and Wolf Cherry Blossoms.

Cashmere, who had to rewash the information for the two months she was not there, including compensation for novices from now on, had first been revalidating on the most recent issues.

"It was my fault. Come on, I want you to forgive me already..."

"This time, several people from the group fighting group, and one troop fighting group, have been defeated"

The elucidation of the wolf cherry blossom was blocked by the content of the words spoken by Cashmere.

"... what?

The mass combat group's death penalty is due to Beasley's counterattack on the Shield Flyer.

There is no wonder that Beasley class opponents are touched with armor sleeves, as group combat groups are still full of members who are not at a high level.

But the Troop Combat Group is different.

Troop combat groups are partying with people who canst 500 levels to senior positions. That's equals, and even if you're dealing with a 500-level Kanst party, you can antagonize it numerically.

This time, the main purpose was the raid of Ray and Beasley, but at the same time the hunting that was scheduled for today. Therefore, other than the group combat group of tow and the main werewolf cherry blossoms...... the four troop combat groups were doing normal hunting.

One of them being wiped out between the beginning of hunting and a few minutes before Cashmere's withdrawal order was issued was… something somewhat strange.

"There shouldn't have been any super positions in the advance search."

If you're a Biological Explorer who checks levels, you'll know as soon as you have a super position that's over 500 levels.

But it wasn't there. Except for the werewolf cherry blossoms, that hunting ground was capped at 500 levels.

"Right. It's in the report."

"Then..."

"Apparently, we've been pressured into numbers. Fighting isn't just determined by the power of a single horse."

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Wolf cherry blossoms are inside, "Is that what Darling says?" I thought.

It is the cashmere in front of you that powers the single-horse power that determines the battle.

A thousand, not a metaphor. For a thousand people, they would end up slashing their necks in turn.

"But they're moving strangely."

The utterly annihilated battle group raided a high level party among those who searched.

A confrontation between the parties, they were antagonistic at the beginning.

However, multiple parties gathered there close to the start of the fight in about a minute.

To that group, which immediately began to collaborate, the troop combat group took the form of a siege.

At that time, the two men were on the road making it a death penalty, both of which the report says.

"It's too soon, and working together too well to improvise. This..."

"The guys who were one group from the beginning, they were splitting up into party units for some reason, weren't they?

"Right. So I'm pretty sure."

Cashmere also affirms the conjecture of wolf cherry blossoms.

Werewolf cherry blossoms have been unthinkable dogs, but they have only led the PK population for a long time, and some of them are more familiar with it than Cashmere in terms of tactics.

Therefore, it was the original style of < K&R > that the clan's operating policy was initiated by Cashmere and the tactics at Hunting were devised by Wolf Cherry Blossoms.

Mass tactics that allow immature members to take long-range offensive positions that are prone to focus their firepower and use dozens of offensive skills simultaneously are also due to the wolf cherry blossom plot.

"But it's strange, isn't it? The fact that it was headed towards the village of Torne at this time meant that the purpose would be to visit the Windstar Festival, right? Then it would be more natural for us to go on the road together, but why spread out..."

"I guess it's not for sightseeing. They must be in the same industry."

"How do you know?

"I was in heaven and earth, and Beasley used to do it before the dissolution. That's just too noticeable when there's a large number of people in one piece, and it's immediately perceived when you try to do something (...). So move on a party-by-party basis like you said otherwise, without interest... capture the prey and destroy the siege."

"You're an occasional hand in wildlife hunting," the werewolf cherry blossom chuckled. Note that I fell out of balance on the applause and snagged the contents of my head bucket.

"Wow, it's a mess... that's why maybe they were tailing some prey (...). So, Darling, do you have any other information on who they are?

"I hear someone marked the first party to raid like this"

That said, cashmere shows a certain shape.

That was like overlapping a red circle with a black circle... it was also a mark that looked like an eclipse depending on what you looked like.

On that mark, the werewolf cherry blossoms looked familiar.

"..."

"Soru... Soru?

"Oh, you wouldn't know darling. The PK clan that has grown since the beginner hunt for the example we had. They're trying to sit in a cauldron where Gobst's gone. Style…"

In short, this time a unit of < K&R > was defeated by the emerging PK clan.

Wolf cherry blossoms thought "I want to fight snowflakes," but at the same time I thought "but I don't know what Darling would say."

So, speaking of that cashmere,

"Really? I knew it would change a lot after two months..."

You have something to think about, I sighed with a worried face.

He's right, there have been multiple major incidents and movements within < Infinite Dendrogram > over the past two months.

Cashmere, who could not participate in them in any way and could not be informed, had felt a little lonely like she had been left from around while she had not logged in for a while.

It should be noted that the wolf cherry blossoms excited me about such a cashmere worried face...... I switched stories with a critical and sedative sedation.

"Speaking of which, there are some strange rumors about Sol Crisis!

"Rumors?"

"Oh, there's one person in Sol Crisis, a standout PK. I should say that the gear he is wearing is more noticeable than…"

"What kind of equipment?

"It's armor. Armor used by a PK…"

The werewolf cherry cut the words there...... I uttered the words that followed, thinking of a certain person.

"Rumor has it that Barbaroy Bad Byrne saw [Iron Fire Armor Magnum Colossus], a perk equipped full body armor used by Barbaroy Bad Byrne, in Sol Crisis."

To be continued