I Have Crossed Over, but You Are The Second Week?

So, I decided to take a look around.

Subaru, who was thinking like this, met his eyes with the figure that suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Well……"

In terms of body shape, he looked like a child, his petite body was hidden under a large white robe with a stand-up collar, and the only thing exposed outside was a head that was not covered by the robe.

Although it could be seen from the pointed ears that the little girl in front of him should be an elf, but the other party looked at him without the slightest emotion in his eyes, which prevented Subaru from asking who the other party was in the first place.

Subaru tentatively took a step forward, but the girl who seemed to be around Petra's age still didn't move.There was no hostility or kindness, and no initiative to speak.

There was no response to his actions, which made Subaru pay attention to the girl in front of him carefully.

With long light red hair, she looks like a young girl in her early teens.There may be a problem with the guess just now, the girl may be younger than Petra.

Slender eyes and a straight nose bridge, and unhealthy white skin that seems to fall apart as soon as it touches it.He was less than the size of his chest, and he stood there blankly, not so much a human or demihuman, but more like a puppet without thinking.

"Well, may I ask who you are..."

Subaru tried to ask the girl's identity, but his voice seemed to trigger a doll's switch. The girl who was standing there just looking at him suddenly turned around and ran away into the depths of the forest. stand up.

"Hey—wait a minute!"

Subaru, who saw the girl running, immediately chased after her.

Although he didn't know who the girl was or what her identity was, Subaru was very concerned about the girl's inhuman aura that made him feel weird, and he still believed that there must be some reason for the pyroxene's teleportation, so he set off Interestingly, I chased after him.

"Hey, isn't this speed a bit outrageous!?"

Subaru thinks that his physical fitness has already surpassed many ordinary people. Although he may not be able to beat Julius, it will definitely not be far behind.

Even if the road in the forest is not easy to walk and slows down his speed, it should not be something that a child can beat.

However, if Subaru worked hard to increase his speed, the speed of the girl in front would become faster, and if Subaru's speed slowed down, the speed of the girl would slow down a bit.

"—This kind of intention is so simple and straightforward that there is no intention to hide it at all!"

The girl was leading him somewhere, and Subaru clearly recognized that, and was also curious about where the girl wanted him to go.

And after a minute or two, the field of vision in front of him suddenly widened, leaving the interior of the forest, what appeared in front of Subaru in the open area was piled up with bricks and stones, the style was very primitive and ancient, and he could see You can know that it is a large building that is a ruin.

And the girl who had intended to guide Subaru in the direction before had disappeared as if she had suddenly appeared.

"In other words, this is the destination..."

Looking at the building in front of him, Subaru scratched his head helplessly.

"From the perspective of this kind of ruins, it should be said to be in line with the title of 'sanctuary'? But it feels like a tomb like a pyramid."

"...Are you telling me to go in?"

After all, there is nothing in the open land in front of me except for the ruins. If you use pyroxene to teleport him here, and then specially guide him here just to see the appearance of the ruins, it would be strange, right?

"However, it's pitch black and there's no lighting at all. If only I could communicate with micro-elves like Emilia..."

At least the glowing micro-ghosts can also be used as lamps to some extent.

"However, it would be disrespectful to the micro-elves to think so. If Emilia were here, she might preach."

Smiling, Subaru looked at the pitch-black entrance in front of him, stretched out his hand to support the wall, and walked inside bit by bit.

Although it is true that there is a fear of falling, the main purpose of touching the wall is to fear that you will lose your way inadvertently when there is a fork in the road.

"...I always feel that the atmosphere is a bit subtle."

I don't know if it was an illusion in his heart, but Subaru, who walked into the ruins, had a feeling that the atmosphere had changed, as if the inside of the ruins and the outside were completely different worlds.

And just as Subaru was advancing, calculating the approximate distance in his heart and gradually raising his vigilance, a strange, girlish voice came from his ear.

"Sure enough, in terms of desire, your 'essence' really hasn't changed."

——The darkness in front of him was instantly replaced by light.

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"You've been very vigilant from the very beginning, this will make me very sad!"

Sitting on the white chair, the white-haired girl gently put the teacup in her hand back on the table, looking at Subaru with some dissatisfaction.

"You know, I'm just a young and cute girl!"

"...Sorry, for a woman who claims to be a 'witch of lust', I don't think I can simply associate it with the evaluation of being young and cute."

"No, after all, even if it's really cute, there's nothing wrong with being young, but..."

"'Witch of Lust' Echidna, this should have been killed 400 years ago, right?"

"Echidna the Witch of Lust", this is what Subaru saw after he realized that he was transferred from the building of the ruins to the plain in front of him. The self-proclaimed name of a girl with long white hair and wearing a black salute.

Echidna's name Subaru is certainly not unfamiliar to her. She was one of the witches who existed in this world 400 years ago. She is known as the "witch of lust" who knows all the knowledge in the world. The final ending is the same as other witches. Killed by the 'jealous witch' Shatila.

Similarly, Subaru's contract spirit Beatrice is also an artificial spirit made by Echidna. Because it is an artificial spirit, it has the defect of not being able to generate magic power by itself, and needs to absorb other people's magic power to maintain its existence.

However, leaving aside these things, the most obvious problem facing Subaru is that if the person in front of him is really Echidna, then the so-called killing by the Envious Witch 400 years ago is simply nonsense.

But if not, then what is the purpose of claiming to be a witch?

"I see. Is this what you're confused and wary of? It's true that I was negligent~"

Echidna said with a smile: "It is true that I died 400 years ago, but there is no rule that a dead person does not exist at all, right?"

"……What's the meaning?"

"Soul, oh soul, the death of the body doesn't mean the soul will also disappear, doesn't it? Since you are a witch, it is normal to have a way to protect your soul, right?"

"Really, you look very smart, but unlike your appearance, you are surprisingly stupid."

As if amused by Subaru's doubts, Echidna put the back of her hand to the corner of her mouth, and let out a laugh that was as crisp as a silver bell.

"So, after knowing this, can you feel at ease?"

"Look, after all, it was a visitor who waited so hard for me to come. I even prepared the tea in advance!"

Echidna stretched out her hand to signal Subaru to look over. On the table opposite her was the same teacup as in front of her, and the reserved chair was also prepared for Subaru.

"...Why, won't standing be tiring?"

Seeing that Subaru didn't come over at all, Echidna tilted her head and asked.But Subaru didn't pay any attention to such a cute behavior like showing off cuteness.

"I don't think it's a good thing to be near you..."

From the moment he saw Echidna, Subaru's body seemed to have triggered his instinct to face danger, and his whole body was warning of the danger of the woman in front of him.

That wasn't a biological threat, it wasn't just like a human being instinctively felt the crisis of life when he saw a tiger, but something deeper, like a warning from the spiritual level or from the soul.

Subaru couldn't ignore that sense of urgency, and couldn't believe anything Echidna said before him.

'Is Beatrice's 'mother' such a dangerous person?Although when I knew she was a witch, I thought she should be a very powerful person, but after actually seeing it, it can no longer be described simply by strength. '

After all, whether it was when facing the white whale or the laziness of the Archbishop of Sin, Subaru did not feel such a feeling as if his body was sending out warnings from the inside out.

It was as if what was in front of her was not a cute girl, but a poisonous snake that would be entangled to the point of being unable to break free if she was not careful.

"I always feel that there is something bad about your impression of me. You know, as you can see, I am just a weak girl. Even if you come forward and want to do something to me now, I have no way to resist Oh!"

"So if I'm stared at like that, I'll be a little dissatisfied too!"

"Although you are so vigilant, I can't do anything about it, but I still hope that you can sit in your seat before the tea gets cold."

"After all, I prepared the chair and seat just for you. If you just stand like this, doesn't it seem that my efforts are in vain?"

Echidna once again beckoned Subaru to come face to face with her, as if her expectation was so simple, and invited Subaru to have tea and chat together.

Although Subaru didn't think it was such a simple thing to be brought to such a place all of a sudden, he had no other choice at this point.

After all, if the other party was a 'witch', Subaru didn't think he could really resist.Like Echidna said before that she was just a weak little girl, no matter what he wanted to do, he couldn't resist such words...

It's fine to listen to it as a joke, but if he really believed it, Subaru felt that he might be able to experience the feeling of "return by death" for the first time here.

Moreover, Subaru also realized that it was something he had forgotten for a while because of the sudden arrival on this plain that had nothing to do with the strike and the forest, and the shock caused by the girl in front of him calling herself Echidna.

That is, the 'transfer' magic activated by the pyroxene worn around the neck.

The pyroxene that Frandelica gave him moved him to the vicinity of the ruins, and the young elf girl led her to the ruins, and after stepping into the ruins, she was transferred to the witch.

"In other words, Roswaal's purpose is actually to let me see you?"

Conscious that he was facing a more terrifying character than Moby Dick, Subaru, who thought it would be better to be submissive than rebellious, sat down on the chair honestly.

"Oh, did you realize the answer to the question so quickly? Sure enough, you have wisdom that matches your appearance, so my previous thoughts of treating you as a 'stupid' can't be counted~"

Seeing Subaru say the answer to the current situation, although Echidna expressed surprise in her tone, there was no surprise on her face, as if she knew it long ago.

"So, what is the purpose of suddenly transferring me from that ruin to this side?"

Subaru ignored Echidna's meaningless 'evaluation' and asked his own question directly.

"Don't tell me it's as simple as simply inviting me to drink tea?"

"I don't think that Roswaal asked me to meet you just to ask you to treat me to a cup of tea. Also, since you are here, why does that guy Roswaal want to go to great lengths to revive you ?”

Since there is a soul, it is not so difficult for the witch to resurrect, right?

"I'm surprised by your adaptability for asking so many questions all at once!"

Echidna expressed her surprise at Subaru's quick change from being vigilant and not daring to approach to accepting and directly asking questions.

But hidden under this astonished face was another kind of emotion.

"Let's answer the first question first, no... it should be said to be 'wrong'."

"Your appearance in my 'castle' is not a 'transfer' of Yin magic, it's not a physical space movement. If you have to say it, it's like a 'spiritual world'."

"Your body is still lying on the cold floor in the ruins of the sanctuary, but the spirit was invited into 'this castle' by me."

"……castle?"

Subaru looked around in a daze. The scenery in front of him was undoubtedly a green grass plain. Although it was more undulating than the plain on the side of the Fryugel tree, he couldn't see anything like it anywhere. Architecture of the castle.

"Are you confused? You should have experienced this kind of experience in your memory once when your body is outside but your spirit is in another space."

"Just 'over a month ago' wasn't it?"

"...a month."

Subaru thoughtfully recalled what he had written a month ago, and quickly realized that what Echidna was talking about should be the time when he participated in the Moby Dick Hunting Certificate and the Sloth Annihilation Battle.