"The outside world calls that incident the 'Tokyo Earthquake'. But as you just said, that incident was not a disaster caused by an earthquake as the public knows. And it is indeed a disaster caused by alien beasts and otherworldliness. We are used to calling it the 'Tokyo Plague'. ”

"I see, I actually have a friend who also experienced that incident at the time. It was she who later told me about the monsters she had encountered, and other strange phenomena. ”

Levi is talking about what happened to Orange Aozaki at the time. And it was because of that incident that Aozaki Orange knew about the existence of those otherworlds and strange beasts, and investigated quite deeply for a period of time.

As for the reason why Aozaki Orange was interested in the strange beasts that appeared in front of her at that time, that is, they were no longer limited to the other world, but rampant in the real world......

"Also, Hiiragi-san, there's something I wanted to ask just now. ”

It's not that Levy wasn't interested in the disaster that happened that year. Instead, he sensed from the girl's expression and body language that she didn't really want to tell him the ins and outs of the incident. Whether it was due to the secrecy of the organization behind some of the girls, or the girl's own reasons, such as the possibility that someone important to her was affected by the disaster, she didn't want to talk about those past events with someone like Levi who was not very familiar with her.

In any case, as a man, rather than being a teacher and a student, Lévy would not make the other person feel uncomfortable.

Even though it's not from your own school, you're still a student, aren't you? Especially a cute girl...... Well, how could a teacher like Levy, a teacher who is loved by his students and respected by his colleagues, have such a sexist character? You see, even the kind of guy like Yohei Haruhara, who is both male and not handsome and stupid, our teacher McDowell has never discriminated against him.

"What are all those things on the ground?"

Lévy didn't end the previous topic bluntly. He was really interested in the things on the ground. In the place where the monster from before, no, it should have been called the 'Elder Beast' that had been knocked down and the corpse had disappeared, there were scattered things that looked like metal and gems from a distance.

If you think about the game, those things on the ground must be the treasures dropped by the 'boss' who has just been knocked down. Generally, after such a boss is knocked down in the game, it will drop some money, materials, and even props and weapons that can be directly equipped by the player. However, although the labyrinth of this other world has an RPG-like atmosphere everywhere, Levi has been secretly complaining since he first came in.

But, that monster, no, that elder beast won't really drop treasures and props after it dies, right?, Levi glanced at the sword in Hiiragi's hand again. She had just said that the origin of her sword was different from that of some people who would naturally acquire weapons after 'awakening'. Although Levi already has a reliable conjecture, could it be that the sword could still be a weapon that 'exploded' after Hiiragi Asuka or her predecessors in her organization killed a very powerful alien beast?

If this world is really a magical world that is exactly the same as the various settings in the game, then Levi really has to think about when he will tell this 'big secret' after he goes back, so as to exchange the 'valuable' chips from the woman in Penglai Mountain Kaguya.

"It's something that only exists in this otherworld. It should be the crystallization in the body of the alien beast, which can be understood as something like the 'relic' in some religions. Weapons and items crafted from these things can be used to great effect against exotic beasts, just like some minerals with special properties. ”

Really...... Although listening to Hiiragi Asuka's meaning, at least the monsters in this world won't really explode weapons or gold coins after they die, but those things on the ground can indeed be called the 'materials' that fall after the monsters are defeated.

If there is a real-life monster that bursts out of its stomach after it dies, the kind of picture that is taken for granted in the game is ridiculous to think about. Even if it was the tragic hero who tried his best and sacrificed his companions to destroy the monsters that caused disaster in the world, he might have been stunned after seeing such a scene, and even couldn't help but laugh out loud out of place.

However, if it's something like the 'relic' that Hiiragi Asuka compares, then it seems that 'dropping' from a monster is suddenly not so unacceptable.

To put it simply, it is the part of the beast that does not disappear as its body dissipates after it dies. Levy had been in a similar situation before. For example, some organisms that exist purely in the form of energy bodies, or even energy crystals. Such creatures are often very difficult to harm them because they do not possess entities, but rather pure energy aggregation. But also because they are just pure 'energy', once they die, they represent dissipation, and naturally they will not leave corpses like the 'organic life' that Yuki Nagato and Ryoko Asakura often say.

Thinking about it a little, in fact, the strange beasts encountered in this otherworld are indeed very similar to the energy body life that Levi had encountered before. Especially according to Hiiragi Asuka, ordinary weapons and ordinary physical attacks can't cause damage to those alien beasts. Even the most powerful bullets, shells, and even missiles may only 'pass through' directly like humans in the movie when facing ghosts and ghosts, and they can't be touched at all, let alone harm.

Isn't this kind of existence just like those energy body lifeforms? Or like the 'top boss' of the two alien girls around me, more incomprehensible than energy bodies, life that exists purely in the form of information combination, information integrates thoughts and bodies.

Isn't it precisely because people are more afraid of ghosts and ghosts that are 'not so scary' than monsters with terrifying images that they can't be touched or touched?

"I understand when you say that. ”

Levi nodded, and Hiiragi Asuka seemed to see what he was thinking, and her expression was not as serious as Fang Cai's, and she chuckled as if the ice was melting.

"Teacher, you were just thinking about those things in the game or in the animation, right? Do you think this other world and those strange beasts are as ridiculous as the existence in the game?"