Chapter 110 - Volume 7 (1/2)
Volume 7, Chapter 0: Hero Summoning, Part 1
In a large room surrounded by walls of stone, a huge crystal ball hung like a chandelier from the ceiling, emitting a pale, wafting light.
It made the entire room look rather mystical.
With no windows and only a single set of double doors, there was a gigantic [Magic Circle] drawn on the floor of this place that looked like a nobleman’s mansion.
The pale light that illuminated the room suddenly went dark, and then glowed brightly again.
In this uninhabited room, the crystal ball in the ceiling pulsed slowly, getting brighter, and as light and darkness alternately dyed the room, the magic formation on the floor began to glow, filling up with magic.
*Bachin*!
The pale light shone brighter and brighter until it popped, the space distorted, and a dense fog covered the room.
The light from the ceiling returned to normal, and silence returned.
However, something was different.
“……owowoww…… what?”
The voice of a boy, or should I say, a young adult, was heard.
That boy: “Daichi”, was rubbing his sore forehead with his hand, having fallen suddenly onto the cold floor.
“……What the……”
He didn’t know what had happened.
No, he remembered an event that was so far removed from reality that his common sense couldn’t accept it.
“What…… where…… am I?!”
There was a deep mist, like from dry ice, covering the room up to his waist, but it was thinner above, and he could tell that this was a stone room.
“I-is anyone there!?”
There was a moving shadow in the fog.
What was this creature that was in such a strange place……?
If it was something dangerous, it would have been foolish, but Daichi instinctively understood ‘who’ it was and rushed towards them.
“Touka? oi, get a hold of yourself!”
“……uu……n”
When Daichi shook her shoulders, the girl slowly opened her eyes.
“…Dai…chi…?”
The girl who had a slightly strong jaw opened her eyes wide when she get ahold of herself, and hugged her chest to fool herself over her relief at seeing Daichi’s face.
“D-Daichi, what are you doing to me…”
“I’m not doing anything, what are you even saying!”
The boy and the girl stared at each other until, noticing that their faces were too close to one another, they hurriedly turned away, their faces turning red.
“W-we shouldn’t be doing that!”
“Y-yeah”
The two young adults continued glancing at one another. When it seemed like the atmosphere under the lights would be unbearable, they hear a low groaning sound from nearby that startled them.
“Eh, who’s there?”
“Someone’s here?… This is Futa!”
“I’m here too! It’s Mizuki!”
The lights on the ground moved slightly, showing the two new figures.
Two of their classmates were now visible, the first a girl named Mizuki, who looked up from the light and gave a small smile, before her expression became unsteady again.
The other person, a boy named Futa, adjusted his glasses and makes a face as he looked down and asked:
“Where is this…?”
“I have no idea… Futa, do you remember what happened before you woke up here?”
“… Yeah, we were at school…”
“Yeah, the school end bell rang and I was staying in class waiting for the crowds to calm down.”
“Y-yeah”
A shout from Mizuki at the shining lights covered up what was he was going to say, but Futa, just nodded.
Futa, seeing that his words weren’t be heard, gave a light shrug and sighed as if used to it, not giving a complaint.
The four people begin comparing memories, to get a picture of what happened.
Daichi and Touka met in kindergarten, Futa and Mizuki joining them as childhood friends in elementary school, and all four of them advanced through the same escalator school, acting like typical childhood friends.
The four of them were talking after school in their high school junior year classroom before looking at the sky as a rumbling sound began and the sky turned black.