c361 (1/2)
Chapter 361: An Enemy of an Enemy is
It’s not like we’re just going there to die
We’re leaving to protect everyone
I envisioned that wish strongly in my mind
Even if we don’t have the power to defeat Medea, I’ll go
But if possible, I want to protect them
Even if my body is to rot away
It felt as if I had suddenly run into a wall at full force
But there was absolutely no pain
It was as if I had crashed into a sponge
What surrounded er than nor
No, gelowed around me
But the ground was too dark, and I couldn’t really see it
… As I looked around, I realized that Raphtalia wasn’t by my side
“Raphtalia!”
Even if I call out, there’s no answer
“Raphtalia!”
I call out her name multiple times, but no voice rises to respond
Is this already the other world?
I check to see if I can pull up ic
… There’s no response
By the light of the stars, I began searching the area
I traentle slope one step at a time as I rose up
… Just how long have I been walking?
I think it’s been around 30 minutes
On top of the hill, on top of a large stone, I met someone clad in a robe that covered their entire body
The figure was sitting on the ground as they gazed at the night sky
Around hiathered like fireflies
His build was… short
About up to my hip
But, he had quite a bit of width to hi human
“You’re finally here… I atching from the top of the hill”
Like that, the robed figure called out to me
He atching? In this mountain so dark I can barely see my own feet?
Anyways, I’ll try talking to him
Depending on the outco
“I’ve lost irl anywhere?” (Naofumi)
“Eh? What are you talking about?”
This guy looks really shady
The robe covering his entire body is just way too suspicious
While he’s sitting, there’s so it
There’s a strange extension in the back
I guess I should assume he has a tail under there
A Deh
“More io, I may be of some help”
“My, how kind of you Sorry, but I don’t have a personality that lets me trust people like that” (Naofumi)
“I see… then why don’t I start by telling you about Me?”
He dismounted the rock, and started to walk towards me as he answered
The light of his fireflies illuminated the area
“To put it bluntly, you guys ran into Me That’s why I was a bit curious”
“What?” (Naofumi)
“When you got here, did you not feel yourself running into so? That was Me”
“I… see…” (Naofumi)
So that back there was his fault?
Does thatto the other world?
“You sure s!” (Naofumi)
“W-why are you getting angry? I was just walking around nored your path and crashed into Me was you guys, wasn’t it?”
“Mu…” (Naofumi)
Thinking back, Atlas told ly to return to the world Instead, I… wished to protect everyone
I was also thinking about beating that Goddess
This train of thought… could it be it altered my course?
Ge… Then only Raphtalia was able to go back? What should I do!?
shi+eld! Please respond!
I think that as I confirm the shi+eld Strap
A light coure before me
And wait, aren’t those fireflies circling the area the Holy Weapon Spirits!?
“You… just who are you!? Why are you accompanied by the Spirits?” (Naofumi)
“So you can see them?”
The dubious robed figure seems surprised
“Well, even if you say I’m accompanied by them… unfortunately, I can’t really see them, you know”
“Are you blind?” (Naofumi)
(TL: Not an insult, an honest question)
“No, it’s not that I can’t see Spirits, or beings of that sort I guess it has so to do with My constitution?”
…
So out from the robe’s depths
Is it a weapon!?
I braced ure merely opened his hands to show it to me
It was an expensive-looking necklace with intricate ornaments fastened on it
“This is what’s attracting the Spirits here You see, the Spirits can’t perceive Me either”
He threw the necklace to the ground at my feet
And the surrounding spirits started swar around it
… He doesn’t appear to be lying
“Even if you ask me who I aive If circuuess About how a normal person ended up in a place like this”
Even the Spirit of the shi+eld left it to approach him
Thereto what he has to say
In the first place, there’s also the question of where it is I am
“Can I ask you so?” (Naofumi)
“I’ll give you as many answers as you want”
“… Then, where is this?” (Naofumi)
I do think the starry sky is pretty, but I really can’t see where I’
Even with the light of the spirits, that doesn’t really change
“Here? Would you understand if I called it the dimensional rift?”
“What?” (Naofumi)
“It’s the space between one world and another Each and every light you see floating in the sky is but another world”
(TL: Wait a second, does this robed figure happen to have a drill on him?)
The er to the sky as he answers
As I squinted my eyes, I could see that they were, indeed, not stars
They kinda looked like crystal balls floating in space, I guess? Not like true stars
And they looked closer that I thought As If I could reach out and grab one if I had a ladder
“This is the rift you can reach froic, so I guess if I put it si similar to that A rule-less world of disorder A noret lost here”
“Well… I do understand thathere” (Naofumi)
“So it isn’t”
I gaze up at the sky
I saw the circular stars shi+ning brightly
These orbs, so each and every one of them is its oorld… Where is the one I want to reach?
Unless the Spirit of the shi+eld tells