Retired Hero Wants To Sleep

Mission No.2 Seal Tower (15)

That’s it. It’s a crash.

All the crew clinging to the wall closed their eyes at the thought. Grabbing Ewald and his arms, Elif began to fall towards the endless floor.

“Quaaa!”

Chin!

“Kyaa?”

“Noisy.”

“… Kya?”

“Can you let go?”

It was Ewald.

Elif, who had been holding Balt’s body tight as if he were a lover, looked around him in amazement.

The two fell roughly one meter and were floating in the air. But it was never air. It was clearly the ‘ground’ that the repulsive force was transmitted from the floor.

It’s definitely a cliff with nothing under your feet…

“To?”

At that very moment, space began to transform. The place that seemed to be an endless floor wriggled and revealed its outline.

The air where Ebalt and Elif were standing was enveloped in soft light and instantly transformed into a rocky floor.

At the same time, all the stairs that continued downward disappeared, starting from the bottom where Ebalt was standing. The stairs that had been going down so far disappeared in an instant, and everyone looked puzzled at the newly formed stairs inside.

Of course, Ewald pushed Elef’s forehead with his finger, hoping that everyone would come to their senses.

“Let go.”

“aaa!”

Elif, who finally came to his senses, was startled and separated from Ebalt. However, Ewald walked somewhere, leaving the restless crew members behind.

“Come down, come down.”

Ebalt waved his hand at the crew members with a calm expression, asking how scared they were at this height, and at Balt’s threat to jump right away, the crew members jumped to the floor one after another.

Ewald, who lightly lifted Usbel with his arms wide open and put it down on the floor, stepped on the exposed floor several times and then nodded.

“What? What is it? Why did the stairs suddenly disappear?”

“Now that the deceit has been discovered, the false image will naturally disappear.”

After answering Usbel’s question like a zen dialogue, Ewald turned to the entrance of the stairs with his mouth open.

Unable to comprehend what had happened, the group each looked around and involuntarily looked up into the sky.

“That…”

At the end of the line of sight, the endlessly rising stairs were winding around the tower. But it can’t be this high. Because it’s the space they’ve been walking through. There was nothing like this. Moreover, at that height, it is believed that it is touching the sky.

However, what caught the group’s attention was a small dot on the stairs.

Innumerable shadows were wriggling in that high place.

“… What is that, chief?”

“Person.”

It was a small shadow, almost like a dot, but it was clearly a shadow with limbs moving slowly. The shadows of quite a few people were moving quietly at a height so high that it caused dizziness.

“Joe, it wasn’t until a little while ago…”

“Because we were also in an illusion.”

The group immediately felt goose bumps.

It was a natural result to think that if Balt didn’t know how to break the trick, he would have been wearing that shape too.

“Why, why, why, why are you doing that?”

“Because I couldn’t figure out the trick. It was like that when I first found it, and it is still walking.”

“Aren’t you supposed to help?”

“It’s impossible.”

Ewald asserted.

“They are already dead. Can’t help These are the people who were walking like that when I first came here.”

Dead people?

“Don’t even think about going up here again. Unless you want to walk forever.”

The hairs all over his body stood up. The thought of wanting to get out of here right away suddenly occupied the heads of the crew.

“If you can’t find the hidden stairs, you’ll look like that.”

I felt disgust from the dragon’s rareness, but as soon as I found the poor middle school students walking on the other side of my head like ghosts, fear rushed to the crew.

However, Ewald opened his mouth in a calm voice, whether he knew the feelings of the members or not.

“Move quickly. No time.”

* * *

“It’s late.”

High castle. The girl who had pushed her legs against the railing of the balcony and swayed her legs rhythmically, let out her incongruous sigh and put her face between the railings.

“Ah, I’m really not interested in looking mysterious.”

“… It looks rather strange than mysterious.”

With her sullen expression, the girl turned to where her man’s voice had been heard.

“Where are you intellectual?”

“I was just stating the truth, lady.”

The face of the girl who was called the lady swelled up.

The girl, with light brown hair mixed with white, with strange green eyes, grew just below her chin, looked at the completely darkened sky for a moment, then with irritated eyes punched the man who called her a lady with a small fist.

“It’s okay. Go away.”

“All right.”

“… Ten minutes later.”

“I will do as you command.”

The girl glared at her man, who was completely obscured by the shadows of her night, and let out a deep sigh.

“Aren’t you afraid to be with me?”

“Not really.”

The girl moved her green eyes.

Her man standing in front of her girl raised her head to the night sky. She was now revealing the pale face of the new moon that had just risen.

“Looks like it’s about time, lady.”

“Ah, I want to see the brother-in-law.”

“You know it’s impossible, right?”

Her man’s voice was low.

“… I still want to see you.”

“Miss.”

“Know! I won’t say anything like that in the future! It’s okay?”

The girl shouted at her. The girl bent her legs over her railing and bowed her head, her arms clasping her knees tightly.

“Miss.”

“I don’t.”

A girl puffing out her cheeks with her pouting face.

She was cute and lovely, but somewhere in her, the girl who showed her heart-wrenching behavior quietly caught her breath.

“Miss.”

“Don’t call me again.”

“You must go to bed now. I have a lot of work to do tomorrow.”

“… No.”

“If you keep sleeping that late, you won’t grow taller.”

“No! You can’t keep threatening me with the key!”

To the girl with her head down, the man spoke to her in her soft voice.

“Ladies go to bed late these days. To the extent that I, who is responsible for the health of the lady, have to worry about it.”

The girl didn’t answer. She instead holds her two knees tightly, only her head bowed.

“My lady, if you keep doing this, I’ll punish you…”

“Funny.”

At that moment, the girl’s voice changed completely.

“Were you trying to induce me to go to bed like that?”

“I’m sorry, Rahaf-nim. When did you come back…”

“Shut up.”

It was a crushing voice. A grown-up voice came out of the girl, thick enough to choke her listeners. The man hastily dropped her on his knees and bowed her head.

“Yo, forgive me.”

“Have you done enough of that already?”

Coquetry, sticky enough to make her head go wild, squirmed from the girl. The girl, who was burying her face in her lap, turned her head to the right very slowly, producing a menacing smile.

“She can’t find Ewald and yet she’s alive like that.”

The girl’s eyes, which were beautiful and grotesquely laughing, began to shine with black masturbation and yellow pupils.

* * *

An unbelievable sight appeared in front of the group descending one floor from the endless stairs.

“Wowaaa!”

A space several times larger than the towers seen so far spread out in front of the party. It should be almost 100 meters in diameter. From this floor onwards, it looked like a different building.

Moreover, even though I only came down one floor, there was a ceiling high enough to exceed hundreds of meters.

It’s a situation that doesn’t make sense, but since it appeared in front of their eyes, they couldn’t believe it, and the party was fascinated and looked around everywhere.

Neatly decorated walls and floors. A light source that I don’t know where on earth was brightly illuminating the space. It was a vast space, enough to make sense even if a dragon actually lived there.

“Daejangnim, why are there all these places?”

“Since the dragon lived, of course he must grow up.”

“Is it past tense? Please tell me in the past tense Aren’t dragons living now?”

“Would you have come in if you were alive?”

Of course, if it was a proper party composition, I would have imagined to catch it at least once, but if I meet a dragon with this party, it will be erased in the middle world.

Ewald immediately found the target.

And very easily, the cylindrical one in the middle caught Ewald’s eyes.

“… There is.”

It’s Schheim.

40 meters in length, 12 meters in height and 8 meters in width. Cylindrical power generators were installed on both sides of the beautiful streamlined white fuselage, and two main guns, the pride of the Dwarves, stretched forward from the bow of the fuselage.

Schheim is an airship.

The pinnacle of Dwarf technology. The weapon of unity that the Dwarves, who had built a fence against magic, joined hands with the Elves for the first time. A moving siege that uses magic to cover more than half of its main power. The Shuheim developed to slaughter dragons was there.

But strangely, instead of joy, Ewald was wrapped in an unknown emotion.

“It hasn’t changed.”

In a world where everything has changed in the past 25 years, Schheim remained here as Ewald’s memory.

As if waiting for Ewald alone in this world where his friends had grown old, the city had changed, and the characters in his memory were more than half dead, Schheim was reflecting brilliant light with his lofty appearance.

“… You are the same.”

Don’t be moved by inanimate subjects. Ewald, who unconsciously touched his nose, turned to Usbel.

“How many hours do you have left?”

“Four hours.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, yes.”

Usbel smiled and stroked her stomach.

“Usbel’s belly button watch is the best in the demon world!”

“… It doesn’t move according to the Pandemonium’s time zone, right?”

“Hungry is the same in both the underworld and the middle world. It’s the same.”

“Is that Schheim?”

Adele, who had approached me before I knew it, opened her mouth as she looked at the majestic Shu Heim.

“It’s amazing.”

“Will it be more amazing if I ride it?”

“Are you the captain?”

Sound natural. Ewald strode toward Shuheim, revealing such thoughts on his face.

However, the pace stopped after exactly three steps.

“… Leader?”

Before Adele’s anxious voice could finish, the floor began to vibrate.

Oh oh oh!

Low ringing. But an obvious shake.

“Everybody stop.”

It was such a force that it shook this huge space. The crew were confused about what had happened, but Ewald’s face went cold.

Someone started moving Schheim.

“Master, Master, it’s mana!”

“… I feel it.”

Most of the mana spread out in space was being driven to one place. Mana, which began to wind like a whirlpool, began to slowly rotate and gather toward the central point.

And in the center of Shuheim, a powerful condensation of mana occurred.

It is clear that the movement Ewald put out his foot straight away.

“Follow me…”

Quack.

Something splashed across Usbel’s face. What appeared to be liquid splashed down her cheeks and dripped down.

There was no way it would rain in her room, but Usbel, who touched the liquid that splashed on her face with her finger, stared blankly at the back of Ebalt standing in front of her.

It smells like blood

“… Master?”

“Back off.”

“Yes?”

Ewald brought his right hand to my left shoulder. Straight after breaking the collared rod, he yanked wildly at the arrowhead that had pierced the back of his shoulder.

“Master!”

A considerable amount of blood splattered from the spot where the arrow was pulled out. Usbel swiped her blood from her own face and moved to Ewald’s side, but Ewald stretched out her right hand and blocked her in front of Usbel.

“Usbel.”

“Yes yes?”

“Watch out for the kids.”

“Yes? Yes?”

“Leave it. It’s your responsibility if the kids get scratched.”

As soon as he could finish his words, Ebalt drew his sword from his waistband. As soon as the sharp blue blade reflected the sharp light, Ewald exploded toward Schheim.