Chapter 273 – Reunion.

Usher walked along Krikaliev and looked up at his back with a cross on it. Why would he leave his friends and family behind to go up? It was true that he had agreed to save Belka, but it was still true that he was doubtful. Who would do this out of mere favor? He didn’t want to doubt him who had been with him and led him until now, but he was disappointed in himself who kept doubting him.

“Usher, Usher~”
“Ah! Did you call…?”

The girl who realizes Erica’s voice calling him, and the moment she looks back at her, is embarrassed by the touch of her poke on her cheek, so when she bashes, her laugh spills out.

“Hee hee, are you feeling better now?”

Usher laughed bitterly at the sight of Erica snooping over him. It was because she was so familiar with the image of a girl who worried about him first even after experiencing something like that with Thaddaeo.

“Because it’s okay. I wonder if Erica is okay.”

The way she looked at him before her own comfort was also the same as Belka’s. Then Erica looked up at her Usher, her gray light blinking, then turned her face red and averted her gaze.

“Aww, I don’t know.”

As she was watching her, her Krikaliev voice interrupted.

“Hi, there’s no one, so I’m sad, but my side is sore.”
“It’s not like that!”
“No, there is an owner, but he seduces the lady and there is no Casanova.”

Usher didn’t know what to say to his words. Even if he tried to explain that Erica and Belka were the same, he couldn’t properly understand what it felt like, and there was no way he could convince him if he explained. I thought it would be better if Erica explained it, so I looked at her.

“Aha ♪”

Erica’s mischievous smile made her intuition that she wouldn’t tell her.

“Usher is a playboy♪”
“Erika! Even you?!”

It was a time when she was confused and unable to do anything about the way she even made fun of him.

“Now, since we’ve arrived, let’s go up.”
“Yes? You arrived?”

He looked around at Krikaliev’s words, but no matter how much he looked, he couldn’t see anything worth climbing.

“I can’t see anything like a lift no matter how much I look at it?”

He came up on a lift from downstairs, so he thought he would go up on a lift here too, but I don’t see anything like that. Even they were still standing in the middle of the forest. There was a moment when I was worried that something might be wrong.

“Don’t worry, it’s true that I came straight to you.”

Usher was startled by the sight that followed as Krikaliev stretched out his palm toward the air. Because, obviously, in the empty space, a soft blue light spread out from his hand and drew a circle.

“Mister, didn’t you say you can’t use magic?”

In particular, the letters that looked like a total of 40 shining pictures, 20 each inside and outside the circle, were certain to be runes.

“It did.”
“Then how did you do that now?”

Rather than drawing a rune, the light that appeared from his hand spread out, if not magic, what would we call it?

“That’s because I didn’t write it. This is a security device here.”
“A security device?”

I want to know what kind of place uses magic to make something like that, but this place was a holy place. Perhaps it was a door that had been used a long time ago. As Krikaliev held his hand in the air and twisted his wrist back and forth, out of the 40 runes, the inverted Manaz, the upright Gaebo and Perth, Nautiz, Inguaz and Aiwaz shone brighter than the other runes, then disappeared and formed a circle. It grew larger and opened its mouth to empty space. Rather than a door, what was reflected beyond the mirror-like figure revealed through the circle was a rain-drenched forest.

Perhaps because it was raining too much, it was blurry like a shimmering illusion, so I couldn’t make out it properly, but I could tell that the trees over there were much taller than the trees here.

“Here is.”
“It’s a pavilion sector.”
“The Pavilion Sector?”

It was true that I was curious about what the place was doing, but it was surprising that it was so different from what I had imagined. If I just listened to the people here, I thought that at least rich people or nobles would live there. This place seemed unsuitable for a castle or mansion where such people could be murdered.

“Usher, look at this!”

Looking back at Erica’s voice, she mysteriously put her hand in the place that appeared through her circle. But that wasn’t the end of it. Her hand, which she put in and pulled out of it, was so full of water that it was dripping with water, as if it had been submerged in water.

“Ugi, of course. It’s a headache.”
“Ugi, is this outside by any chance?”
“It’s not like that. It’s the same here as underground.”
“…Would this have been natural in the Tsushima era?”
“I don’t know. I’m not from that era.”

I never thought that it would even rain in the basement. Even where they are right now, there is no sign of rain, but inside, it was clear that it was raining.

“It can’t be helped. You guys, get on the power machine. I’ll pull it.”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

Erica should be, but she didn’t have to be with Usher. It’s only raining. But Usher soon realized that wasn’t the reason.

“I don’t think there’s any time to go leisurely.”
– Detect improper access. Exclude the target.
“Tsk, I haven’t been this far in the past. Is it because of this body?”

Because, beyond the curtain of mirrors, I vaguely saw that something in the shape of a person scattering yellow light was approaching this place with an inorganic voice of a man. If it was his first time seeing it, he wouldn’t have guessed what it was, but Usher had already seen a shape similar to them.

“Could all of those be golems?”

It was so disparate that they resembled the golem that kidnapped Erica, from the pure white color to the shape.

“The guards of the pavilion sector. Since they were originally mass-produced, their performance is not good, but this situation is a bit difficult.”
“So what?!”
“I have to run anyway. Get on the motor now!”
“Ugh, Erika! Get on board quickly!”
“Huh? Okay!”

Usher took Erica who had approached him and climbed into her power machine.

“Ooh, this is uncomfortable.”

Erika complained that it was hard and uncomfortable to sit on, probably because it wasn’t originally made for riding, but she couldn’t even bother with that now. Usher had her Erica propped up in front of him and held onto the pipes that ran around the sides of her motor as handles for her. Krikaliev, who saw it, stepped inside the handle that he was dragging, and it became like a rickshaw.

“Hold tight so you don’t fall!”

With Krikaliev’s cry, the power generator starts to move quickly. Because of this, Usher almost missed the power generator, but he managed to keep it from falling by holding onto it with force. But the problem was not like that. The raindrops hitting my face fell not one or two drops at a time, but like a waterfall, making it hard to open my eyes and even breathe. However, Usher, relying on the warmth of the girl in his arms, grabbed the motor and stopped his body from flying backwards.

He hated being sick, but it was clear that if he couldn’t hold on, even Erica would fall into his arms. Even if he thinks it’s enough for him to climb back on, he can’t hurt the girl just in case. Belka and Erica couldn’t be properly protected, but she couldn’t tolerate herself not being able to do even that. How long did it take to get through that rough rain? It wasn’t until his arms started shaking that he felt the rain stop and when he opened his eyes, what he saw was the inside of a building. Thinking just in case, I looked back and saw rain pouring through the transparent door.

“Kyahaha! This was fun! Let’s do it one more time!”

Then Usher shuddered at the words of Erica, who squirmed in his arms and lifted her head, brushing her body and wiping the moisture from her long hair, bursting into laughter.

“I have something urgent right now. If there is something similar, let’s think about it then.”

It was intentionally going back out there, but Usher didn’t have the confidence to withstand that speed. Besides, saving Belka is the top priority right now.

“Chii, okay. Are you going to do it together instead?”
“That.”
“Must be!”
“Ugh, okay.”

If he didn’t promise, he’d get angry, so Usher forced himself to promise, and only then did he sigh when he saw Erica smiling in satisfaction. Belka didn’t seem to enjoy this.

“What a bold young lady.”

Usher asked while Krikaliev also laughed at Erica.

“By the way, here? Can I go up now?”
“I think you’re almost there. Just go through that door and you’ll find the manager of the Pavilion Sector.”

Then, Usher was going to go in right away, but he couldn’t.

“Ugh, wasn’t that all bullied?”

Because there were two golems standing on either side of that door.

“These guys are the ones who have been guarding this place from the beginning.

Usher grabbed the handle of the motor that Krikaliev had handed him and watched him. If the story Usher remembered about the golem was true, he thought it would be suicidal to attack him, but Krikaliev also had the same body as the golem. As he pulled out Barisada from behind, the golems holding maces and spears charged at him first.

– Confirmation of hostilities. All injuries are my own…
“Well, you guys have a lot of words, so it’s a mask.”

However, the result ended in vain, to the point that it was colorless to say that they were golems. At the same time that Krikaliev received the extended spear with his Flamberge and removed it, he slashed the swinging mace with his pommel, then spun his sword and cut the heads of the two golems.

“It’s not even a proper golem in the first place. It can’t be helped.”

A cross-section under the head of the golem rolling on the ground showed no blood flowing, only an unknown bundle of fibers cut off. Anyway, the golems guarding the door were also gone, so they were able to open the door and go inside.

“Hmm? What is it? Who visits at a time like this… What, what?!

There, a fat man is sitting at a desk writing something, and when he opens the door and sees them entering, he is startled.

“There must have been guards there! How did the lower classes get here?!”

When Usher was offended by the way they frowned and became angry, as if they were polluting the room with filth just for coming in here.

“It’s still a stereotype. I did, but I never thought I’d say the same thing for real.”
“This voice.”

At Krikaliev’s words, the expression disappeared without a trace from his face, and a completely different, inorganic voice came out.

“You already know everything you know. So let’s get rid of trivial acting. Primal Sector.”