Chapter 450 – Adults and Children

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Cleon, Amelia, and Sasha, who were sucked into the mirror, fell from the sky to the ground as if drawn by the force of gravity.

However, since it is a space where physical power works strangely, it floats upward for a while with a fluttering sensation before touching their bodies-

Right! It sounded like finger snapping, and at the same time, it fell all at once with a thump.

“Ouch…”

It would have been nice if it was safely lowered to the end. Sasha rubbed her nose when she got up from her seat, wondering if her face her hurt when she hit the ground.

“Cleon-san, Amelia-sama. Are you okay…?”

“Yes, yes…”

Amelia, too, gets up from her seat first and examines herself, brushing off the dirt from her clothes.

“I don’t think there are any injuries… ?”

However, when she suddenly realizes that her outfit has changed from the academy uniform, she examines her own clothes her in surprise.

It was women’s armor based on white and gold.

A cloak hangs from her back, reminding her of the warrior’s robe that Aruru wore before.

“Ah, Amelia-sama…?”

And, when you hear Sasha’s voice and look that way-

She seemed to have grown up to about 17 years of age, she stood there.

The design of her clothes has n’t changed much, but with a cloak draped over one shoulder and a longbow that’s as big as her height her, she’s by all accounts a masterful hunter.

Besides, her breasts her, which had swollen for her age her, the push-up fabric, her thighs peeking out from between her skirt and her boots, gave her a grown-up charm.

“Sa, Sasha? How did you grow up like that?”

“And Amelia-sama too… “

At that, Amelia realizes that it is not only her own clothes that have changed.

She, too, had grown to the age of about 17, similar to Sasha.

That is, she was about the same as herself in the previous Frost Queen’s palace, when she dreamed of it.

She wore her long, platinum-haired hair in pigtails, and a masterfully maintained suit of armor draped over her body.

I feel the feel of her breasts pressed a little oppressively beneath her plate breastplate her.

Both of them must have been about 170 cm tall, and Cleon stood up as he stumbled between the two who looked like great adventurers.

“Damn… Is it like this again…”

Cleon then looked down at his hand her.

There was a boy, Cleon, who was about 5 years younger than the original Cleon.

The clothes he was wearing were also ordinary cloth clothes, not adventurer clothes, and a wooden sword was hanging from his waist instead of the caliburn that should have been on his waist.

“Hey, Cleon!?”

When Amelia covers her mouth in surprise as she sees Cleon, who has become shorter than herself, Cleon looks up at Amelia with a tired expression.

Sasha, too, looked at Cleon like that, while holding back the itching of her fingers her, turning her head and looking around.

The colorfully painted ground was a material I had never seen before, neither soil nor rock.

Mushrooms were dancing in the distance, and huge sunflowers were swaying.

“Huh, I guess this is… The Mirror World, right?”

“I guess that’s the case. Lewis’s mirror, besides the one in the academy, was there… Hey! Management mirror! I’m sure you’re looking at it somewhere anyway!”

If Cleon scratches his head and gets nervous, less so! A mirror with a beard looked down at the group from the tree above the three of them.

“How come you know I have a mirror…”

If he muttered that, Cleon would raise his voice as he looked into such a mirror.

“You’ve seen it before!”

“Hey! It’s not a mirror! Even if it came in as another Louis mirror, it’s a different management mirror!”

When Cleon gets angry, the mirror hides behind a tree branch, making what sounds like a scream.

And, looking at Cleon, who rarely raises his voice and gets angry, Sasha talks as if to calm down.

“…Ke, Mr. Cleon, please calm down.”

“Somehow, it seems that he’s a little more hot-tempered than usual…”

Certainly, let Sasha and Amelia be perplexed as they look at him, who is a little more impulsive and hot-tempered than the 20-year-old Cleon.

The frightened management mirror once again appears from behind a tree branch and speaks.

“That, that’s because he became a rebel when he was young Mirror…”

“What!?”

“That’s why the mirror is scary!”

Mirror trembles at the voice of Cleon, who frowns while shouting.

‘…As expected, when the body becomes young, the personality is attracted to it…’

Rather, if she were herself in her childhood, she would have been perplexed, but Sasha feels a small surprise at the fact that her own mind her is stable.

It was the same with Amelia, but if she said something like that, Cleon, whose patience was running low, might get angry again.

“Come on, Cleon. If you scare the mirror like that, the story won’t progress. Please be patient.”

When Amelia talks while putting her hand on Cleon’s shoulder, Cleon shuts his mouth for a moment and then lets out a sigh.

“What. Okay. So? Why did you pull us in?”

“It’s not me who pulled the mirror… It’s probably a monster hiding inside this mirror mirror.”

“…A monster?”

When Sasha tilts her head at the mirror’s words, the mirror bends and straightens her body. Perhaps, it was her nod her.

“Ha, even a month ago. A man was dragged in by that monster and still can’t get out of the mirror.”

“A month ago? Then… By any chance, isn’t it the manager of the store we entered?”

When Sasha says that, Amelia nods her head too.

“I think that’s right, Mr. Mirror. You can’t get us out of here, can you?”

“This, this Mirror World is now being ruled by that monster. Mirror… It’s impossible to let you go even with my own power, Mirror.”

In response to the expected answer, Sasha shakes her head as she places her hand on her forehead, and Amelia speaks while clenching her fists.

“Then, let’s defeat that monster and rescue the kidnapped manager!”

There are some that are the only way to escape from this world, but to rescue someone who was captured by monsters.

Amelia, who seemed to be able to do something truly adventurous, felt a little excited.

Sasha also nodded at Amelia’s words and looked down at Cleon.

“Cleon, will that work?”

“What… If there’s no other way than that, I can’t help it. …Wait, but why did I become so young, and the weapon changed to a wooden sword? The two of them rather grew up. “

When Cleon said that as if he still couldn’t understand it, the management mirror spoke cautiously.

“That, that’s because… I like the combination of a little boy and a slightly older girl in the mirror…”

“Under?”

At the mirror’s words, a moment of silence passed between his party his.

The next moment, when the arrow is pulled from the bow in Sasha’s hand, Mirror is startedled and tries to hide behind a tree.

“Mi-I’m sorry Mirror! But, the mirror world basically fulfills the desires of the person who entered it! Didn’t you guys also want to become more mature than that guy, Mirror?”

“…Sasha, Amelia. Is that true?”

At Cleon’s question, both Amelia and Sasha turned their heads and whistled.

“You, you guys…”

“Anyway, if you’re going to defeat the monster. I’m thankful for the mirror. The monster is in the castle over there.”

The beard on the manager’s mirror grew long and turned into fingers, revealing a large castle visible from over several hills.

For some reason, only the sky around it was dyed purple and swirling around, as if it were showing the Demon Castle in a fairy tale.

“It looks like the distance is quite large… What if the landlord’s grandfather thinks we’ve run away?”

“Isn’t it okay if the manager comes back?”

When Cleon shrugged her shoulders, Amelia wondered a little, ‘Is that so…’, But she nodded her head.

“That’s right. Anyway, saving people comes first.”

“Yes…!”

“Wait. Hey management mirror. So, what kind of monster is this mirror world doing its own thing?”

When Cleon asks that question, the Admin Mirror once again pokes out his face from behind the tree and speaks.

“…Girl, that mirror was the first monster I’d ever seen. But it must be a monster derived from ancient artifacts that was hidden among the artifacts that man brought.”

“…That means I don’t know.”

Cleon let out a sigh as if to say yes.

Then, in a huff, the mirror raises and lowers his beard like a hand, talking.

“That’s not true, Mirror! I’ve heard the name Mirror!”

“Then tell me about it.”

When Cleon said that, the mirror hesitated before replying like this.

“Falcon, Maxwell’s demon. He introduced himself like that in Mirror…”

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Trudge trudge.

When Cleon leads the way to the Demon King’s Castle (tentative name), Sasha looks at her castle with a slightly worried expression.

“Maxwell’s devil… Really, does such a monster exist? If it’s Maxwell, he’s a regressor who tried to summon the Beast… Isn’t it?”

“And speaking of demons. They are beings that we cannot leave alone. What kind of demons are they… “

Cleon glances back at the two people who are so seriously troubled, and he talks.

“There’s no need to be so nervous. He may or may not be a real demon, and Maxwell is already dead. If it’s a demon contracted with him, there’s no way he’ll remain in this world until now.”

“Yeah, that’s it too.”

Amelia nods her head at Cleon’s exact point.

Even if his mental age was drawn to it because of his youth and he became a little cheeky boy, he did not seem to have lost his keen insight into analyzing the situation.

“But, if that’s the case, it’s even more nonsensical. Why did he introduce himself with Maxwell’s fiendish name? What the hell did he have to do with him…”

“This is just my guess–I think the manager of the shop is someone who had a connection with Marquis Hughes Woodnocker. Earlier, I suspected it when he said he was connected with a merchant from the kingdom who died overnight.”

At Cleon’s words her, Amelia blinked her wide eyes.

“…If Hughes Woodnocker is Eustes’s father, right?”

“Yes. That guy wanted to have an immortal body, so he cooperated with Maxwell who was trying to call a beast to Ellesia. Rubera cut and killed it.”

“Lubera…”

Amelia had heard before that she was a woman who sharpened her sword to avenge her, but Amelia did not have the courage to dig into the details.

And, it was the first time I learned about it from Cleon.

“He punished the wicked with revenge. I support his choice.”

“I know that as a member of the royal family, I shouldn’t say things like this, but… I think the same, too.”

“…It doesn’t matter. Amelia is Amelia, and if you tell her not as royalty, but as Ruba’s colleague. Well, I don’t know how he’ll take that.”

“Cleon…”

Amelia looks at Cleon, who walks in front of her and speaks outspokenly.

Perhaps, Cleon might have wanted to talk to Amelia like this on a regular basis.

He may be a little irresponsible, but he is easy-going and free.

The reason why he chooses his words must be because, as a responsible adult, he cared about Amelia’s feelings about her.

“…By the way, Mr. Cleon. It’s not a caliburn, it’s just a wooden sword. Are you okay?”

“It’s not that the mana is gone. And this wooden sword. It’s just a wooden sword in appearance, but it’s a Caliburn inside. It looks like it’s asleep because it’s become like this.”

Saying that, Cleon let magic flow into the wooden sword in his hand his, and divine magic rose to its surface, just like the usual Caliburn.

“If the opponent is a demon, the divine magic will work well too.”

When Cleon said that with a confident face, Sasha nodded as well.

And- the three of them, who continued to walk forward, changing the topic of conversation as they came to mind, soon stopped.

“…Something. Doesn’t it look like you’ve been walking in the same place since before?”

“…Do you think so too?”

At Amelia’s point, Cleon nodded and looked towards the castle.

Obviously, the three of them were moving forward without stopping, but no matter how long they walked, they could not reach the castle.

No, rather the distance to the castle did not decrease.

“Wait a minute… I’ll check.”

Saying that, Sasha borrowed the power of her hunter’s imprint from her own eyes to examine her surroundings of her.

Then, a trace was confirmed in her eyes.

“Eh…?”

She realized that the place where they were standing seemed to be looping, as their traces continued back and forth.

“…Wait here for a moment!”

Saying so, Sasha moved forward.

And, about a minute later, Sasha appears behind Cleon and Amelia.

“As expected…! I was walking in a repeated place!”

“…Is it the work of Maxwell’s Devil?”

The fact that Sasha and Amelia have fallen into the devil’s trap darkens their faces.

“…What should I do? If I do this, I won’t be able to reach the castle forever.”

“Your stamina isn’t infinite, so it’s better not to move easily. Maybe, you’re trapped here…”

Encountered in a very difficult situation, the two exchange opinions and think about what to do.

If it’s a barrier, is it necessary to destroy the weak point of the barrier, or is there a device that spreads the distortion of space somewhere around here.

At that time-

“Oops.”

Cleon took out his wooden sword, and just like that-

Awesome!

And slashes from top to bottom, tearing apart space.

“Eh?”

“…”

Amelia and Sasha stared blankly at it, while Cleon looked beyond the torn space.

“Oh, it’s right in front of the castle. What, you were wandering around nearby?”

He used Caliburn’s power, the ability to leap through space.

“…What are you doing? Aren’t you coming?”

When Cleon said that and looked back at the two of them, both Amelia and Sasha hunched their shoulders in a sense of futility.

“…?”

Cleon tilted his head looking at the two people who seemed to be losing their strength even though they had solved the problem themselves.

‘Cleon… Because he’s getting younger…’

‘Should I say that I’ve become bolder… Or should I say that I’ve lost my restraint…’

The two of them, looking forward to an adventure to solve the mystery and get through the difficulties, pass through the gap he opened while looking behind such Cleon-

Soon, he was standing in front of the castle where Maxwell’s devil was waiting.

‘What. Still.’

‘In this castle, there must be some adventure.’

I mean, thinking the same thing.