Vol 3 Chapter 2 (2/2)
”It'd be fine Those rabbits won't come”
Gunjou enters
I also enter
On doing that, the wall turns around shut by itself
I ask
”How did you know they won't come?”
”Because the rabbits will only react to enemies that they can see And also because, not one of them have noticed the hidden door that I created”
Those are probably ot fros to her That's why she res that happened in this labyrinth
Just now she said 'surroundings' --- whichthat happened in the labyrinth, but,
”Anyway, this is a safety zone huh”
During eternal labyrinth raids, it's an established tactic to find a safety zone, caic, and repeatedly invade and escape to slowly clear it
I lean ainst the corner of the room, and sink down onto the floor
Gunjou looks down at me
” are you tired?”
” yeah A little I wonder why In spite of sleeping for a month”
No, if I have really been sleeping for a month, I won't be able to move like this normally Thus, there must be a special reason as to why I had remained unconscious all this while
Could it be due to the effect of the ic from the sword that Kiri had impaled into me?
That's not all to what I don't know
Where are shi+ro, Himi and Yousuke?
Where's Kiri?
Where is the Valor Team that had interfered with me when I tried to save Gunjou and caused her to turn into an eternal labyrinth?
And, more importantly, why is this labyrinth connected to 《Apocalypse Alice》 right now?
I want to ask those questions
Even as I turn a nu to ure it out There's too little inforo on
Thus, I look at Gunjou
She then starts talking immediately
” I also don't know the details though”
”Yeah”
”Erhm, where should I start”
”Fro”
”Fro you say, is it okay for ot stabbed by that japanese sword girl?”
On hearing her question, I recall
As to when I actually lost consciousness
The last thing I saas the leader of the Valor Tea Gunjou with a knife But that knife couldn't kill Gunjou And then the ti into an eternal labyrinth ---
That hen I lost consciousness
However, there is soht now
Because Kujaku clearly killed Gunjou back then
At that time, blood which was Gunjou's weakness had been splashed all around her, and on top of that, she had her whole body restrained by the members of the Valor Team
In that case, it'd be an easy thing to just separate her head froe out her intestines And also, Gunjou was an existence that had to be killed Since, if she turned into an eternal labyrinth, the streets and people sed up by her could no longer be saved
And even for us, the instant we get sed up by an eternal labyrinth, ould become part of the labyrinth
But Kujaku did not panic in the slightest
She merely stabbed a small knife into Gunjou's chest
And then, Gunjou ended up turning into an eternal labyrinth
Girl killing failed
But, that was obviously done on purpose
””
I rewindof what I should recall about this incident
The leader of the Valor Team called herself
A daughter of the lomerate 『Mitsutomo Group』
And she did refer to Gunjou, who should also be a lady of Mitsutomo Group, as 'one of us'
--- we'll dispose of our own shame ourselves
Kujaku did said so that line
Our own
As in a fellow daughter of Mitsutomo Group
But, in the class we attended, in the profile of the labyrinth diseased girl 《Mizuiro Gunjou》, the following information, which Gunjou herself is unaware of, ritten
Gunjou is actually an abandoned kid ---
She was an orphan bought by Mitsutomo Group from a children's home ---
Her parents are not even married, and merely serve as her trainers ---
Mitsutomo Group hid all that fro all that, she desperately worked hard, hoping for her parents' recognition ---
I don't really consider that as the worst kind of situations In the world of ic, you'd often hear these kind of stories
But, if this is indeed true, then to Kujaku, Gunjou is no kin
She's merely a lab rat
And if this lab rat had ended up turning into a labyrinth and if she was here to dispose of this failing, then she would definitely need to kill her
But Kujaku did not do that
In a laid-back fashi+on, while s, she stabbed Gunjou's chest with a s a fatal blow to a labyrinth diseased girl
””
I recall that knife
The knife that Kujaku had
What on earth was that?
A knife that wasn't used to behead her, nor to gouge out her gut, but merely used to stab into her chest
But was that really a knife?
Could it be an article for iic?
Could it be that, what Kujaku used, was a type of ic much like my Holy Sword switch, which could be used to irl?
I look aroundGunjou away, her labyrinth remains
And about the fact that right now, another eternal labyrinth nearby, 《Apocalypse Alice》, is connected to Gunjou's labyrinth
Could it be that that's the true motive behind Kujaku's knife?
Then,
” the true motive of Mitsutomo Group is the 《Apocalypse Alice》?”
That's bad While I' my time around here, there's a possibility that the Mitsuto military use of my little sister Saki
I look at Gunjou and say
”Hey Gunjou, can I ask you so?”
”What is it?”
”Do you know Kujaku?”
On hearing that, Gunjou's eyes go wide and she cocks her head to the side
”What kind of question is that? Of course I know you're talking about the bird peacock[1] right?”
Seems like Gunjou doesn't know about Mitsutomo Kujaku
But that's to be expected
There's no researcher ould tell a lab rat that she's a lab rat
And I do not knohether or not I should tell her about her parentage right now We are inside a labyrinth It's not a good thing to learn the truth about one's parentage out of nowhere and waver because of that inside the labyrinth, I suppose
Even if I have to tell her, it'd be outside the labyrinth And it should be at a fun place The truth about her parents not being her real parents is not so that she should dwell on, so I think it's best to tell her when she's singing herself silly at a karaoke box Maybe it's better to have shi+ro, Yousuke and Hi with us then
Thus, I ask another question
”What happened to shi+ro and the rest?”
On hearing that, Gunjou's eyes narrow slightly
On seeing that, ain
There's a possibility that shi+ro and the rest had died, perhaps
If that happened, I'd probably be hurt again
Easily hurt
Because I'et close to anyone
”Sorry We are digressing Start fro From the time when I lost consciousness”
I finally recover frohts, and prepare to listen to the story
The information that I've sorted out in my mind are as follows:
Gunjou was made used by the Mitsutomo Group
But she doesn't know it herself
There's a possibility that the knife that Kujaku used had a si use of Gunjou's labyrinth, Mitsuto to raid 《Apocalypse Alice》
But 『Metropolitan Kichijouji High』 probably has no connection with the Mitsutomo Group If there was a connection, then Gunjou's parentage would probably not have been revealed to us Thus, this is an experiment conducted independently by Mitsutomo Group They should have wanted to perform their experione their way Since there shouldn't have been anyone ree a time-limited rank 42 labyrinth
But so unexpected happened
Firstly, the top student Gunjou should have a disease onset occurring while she was in the chopper And at that stage, the school's elite team should have been sed up by the labyrinth and disappear In that scenario, there definitely wouldn't be anyone re labyrinth But, thanks to Gunjou riding in the chopper that was carrying the wounded, the entire Hero Team survived
That very Hero Tea the experiment
Then, they should dispose the Hero Team And there also wouldn't be any evidence left since they were inside the labyrinth
If this was an independent act of Mitsuto a labyrinth disease onset in Tokyo area, could only aot out, it was necessary to kill all witnesses
In other words, the chance of shi+ro and the rest getting killed by the Valor Teah
After sorting out all those thoughts, I ask
” so, what's the story?”
On hearing that, Gunjou starts recounting what happened since I lost consciousness
Translator's Notes and References
↑ Kujaku: Kujaku is the japanese reading and also writing (in Mitsutomo Kujaku's case) of peacock