Chapter 165 (1/2)

Volume 2

Chapter 144

『Okay, Minnalis, Shuria, time to wake up. No time to sleep…』

「Hmm?」

「Huhh?」

From far away, I could hear someone calling Shuria and my name, and I felt someone toss ice cold liquid all over my face.

The cold seemed to transmit each drop into a never-ending drip.

「…here…this is…」

I opened my eyes with my consciousness still blurry.

I could see the contours of Shuria facing me as her limpid eyes finally met mine.

I started to get up and looked around; the place I was in felt like something from a dream that was completely unreal.

A wide legal-looking room, with milkish-white colored walls.

My consciousness finally cleared, but my heart still felt numb.

In front of me stood a 24 or 25 year old woman in white.

White hair, white skin, wearing a white habit of some sort. Her hair spilled down to her collar in thick curls much like a sheep’s.

After glancing at her, I looked down at my body, and checked my condition and my equipment.

『Okayokayokay! You’ve been locked up! There’s only one way out of here! From now you…hey, waitwaitwaitWAIT!! What are you doing?!』

Clank, suddenly white chains formed around our bodies, rendering me unable to swing my sword while making shuria drop the knife she grabbed onto the ground with a clank.

「What do you mean WHAT? If there’s an enemy that shows up in front of us, we’re going to attack it, right?!」

『Why do you think THAT I am an enemy?』

「Because you said you’re locking us up! Minnalis, we have to hurry, attack her, then get out of here!!」

Hurry, if I don’t hurry…

I have to hurry and save my master, my master, my master!!

『Wait, sorry! It was a joke! It was a joke I’m telling you!』

「Hurry up and let us out!」「I have to save Kaito-sama! Don’t get in my way!」

I made an ice spear with the all the magic I could muster, and Shuria flung the knife in an arc with her magic string.

『Wah, wahwahwah, you two are dangerous! My eyes are spinning, I mean, this hero of yours is not that big of a deal!!』

But still, she spun around and around, lightly, and just like she was gravity-less, danced in the air, dodging all our attacks.

『Time out! Time out! Why are you girls trying to act scary all the sudden?! Towa-chan, help me!!』

Suddenly, greaaak, the sounds of gears grinding and the white ceiling turned into an emerald green.

『Well, well, I told you I would be leaving first. Your love for fun, I guess, didn’t make that obvious to you.』

「?! What?!!」

The woman before me’s hair turned the color of jade, her clothes the color of emerald, as she spread something like snow all around.

Her playful ways disappeared and were replaced by a calmer appearance, almost like a rushing of cool, placid streams of water.

Her tone and voice changed, and her appearance became irrevocably different.

『Well, with that said, even if I were to continue conversing with you, it seems that you wouldn’t behave yourselves. —Bonds borne from the covering wind 『Link of the SpillWind!』』

「Whoaa, what?!」

「Eep! What, what is this?!」

Even though we were cautious, we couldn’t stop whatever magic she was now throwing at us.

This magic spell that was finely woven with magical power seemed to bind every movable part of our body with a creak, creak, creak, as we were made to sit upon the floor by force.

Shuria and I were forced into a correct sitting posture called a seiza that master had taught us before.

Even though I tried to resist the magic power with my own more powerful force, her magical force simply respread over my body and I couldn’t control it any longer.

「Agh…ugh…this…why?」

Even if I tried to get out of this magical force that held me in this strange position even with all my force pushing against it, the power simply pushed back from me breaking through.

『Ah, that power of yours is one technique you have. It’s one of the ideals of magic that this world’s magic has. I can settle that surge of magic and bodily power, however. There’s no way I can give an example to explain it, so wouldn’t you just stop and listen to me quietly for once?』

She smiled with a smirk, and let her power flow a bit more.

She gave a look like she was waaaaay a higher class than us, and threatened us. Then we knew that she pretty much was right.

But we shouldn’t just let that stand. We couldn’t let that stand.

「Uwaaaaaghhh!」

「Errrghhhh!!」

『?! Hey, hey, stop already! If you keep trying to break out of that, the reaction will just hurt your body! Those who go against the flow of the magic will just hurt their own spirits. Do you simply want to hurt yourselves?!』

Creakcreakcreak, my body screamed against the places that were held down by magic.

But who cares? Who cares if my body hurts?

I can’t feel any connection to this pain to what I feel about my master.

I have to help, help, help!!

「I can…take…ittttttt!」「Kaito, we have to heeelp himmmmm!!」

『Hmph, weird. I don’t think your hero has the psychological ability left to transcend this world…oh, maybe, you’re trying to die so your soul can meet his soul, since he’s dead? Now that just makes me disappointed in you.』

「「UGHHHH!」」

At the same time the bonds inexplicably began to break, the extreme pain caused my whole body to collapse.

My eyes clamped shut in severe pain, and I entered a world of darkness.

What brought me back to a slight consciousness was the figure of my master spilling blood and being face-up on the ground.

『Wellll…you’ve got some guts breaking through these bonds. There’s nothing logical about it. Even if you two were to get out of here, what would you do out there like that anyway?』