"If you really forgot, then don't care about this kind of thing anymore, right?" Tata looked at Ann worriedly, "I know you yearn for adventurers, you don't want to stay in this small village forever, you always tell me that you want to be a great adventurer." But the kind of thing that takes risks, if you just have enthusiasm, is destined to become a corpse on the side of the road, and you are never careful in what you do. ”

As he spoke, Tata began to count the stinky things Ann had done in the past.

"Stop, stop, I know, the old ones are really sorry. Explain the Chaos Rift to me, I don't think I'll ever be near those places in the future, but it's okay to find out. ”

"If it's a dangerous thing, at least you have to know why it's dangerous to avoid it, right?"

"Well, I can talk to you about those things, but I hope you don't continue to be curious and yearning for what is going on inside. ”

"I don't know how to explain the Chaos Rift in detail, I've only seen it once, and it's... You that time. Specifically, it is the same as the image drawn in the book, it is like a crack in the space, if you must describe it, it is like a mirror that has broken and there are a few pieces in the middle that cannot be found, and then the space that disappears is some of the distorted colors, and some of the scenery of another world is presented," said Tata, pointing to a book called "The Mystery of the Rift" in the stack: "The illustrations in that book are very detailed. ”

"A broken world?"

"Yes, that's what the book explains, and it probably means that there are many worlds, and some worlds are destroyed and broken into pieces, I guess that's what it means. ”

"Is there anything in there?"

"Monsters, or treasures, may or may not have both. Most of the Chaos Rifts have monsters in them, all sorts, and the Chaos Rifts point not to just one broken world, but to many worlds, so the dangers inside are also various. You just wanted to find some loot out of it to prove yourself, and I didn't really realize the danger in the rift at the time. ”

"I thought you would come back quietly in the morning after you went out that day, I waited all night in the backyard and didn't see you come back. But you didn't come back until noon, and I hid to make everyone think we were just going out to play, but you didn't show up until the evening, and I started to get anxious, so I had to ask the adults to confess that you went to the Chaos Rift. But you didn't tell me where the Chaos Rift you found was, so we had to look around. Your father organized a search in the evening, and it wasn't until near dawn that he found the rift. ”

"I'm sorry. Ann subconsciously apologized, I don't know why, it was obviously not her, but after hearing Tata finish speaking, she still felt a feeling called guilt.

"It's a good thing the Chaos Rift hasn't closed, otherwise we would never have found you. Tata looked at Ann with a scared expression, "Small Chaos Rifts appear and disappear randomly, and usually the pastor of the church has the means to know how long the Chaos Rift has appeared and when it will disappear. ”

“... Sounds scary. If it disappears, people will never come back. Although she didn't experience it personally, after thinking about it for a while, Ann still looked at Tata with a scared face.

"yes, I've heard that if you don't come out before the Chaos Rift closes, you may be lost forever. ”

"Possibly?"

"Theoretically, if the Chaos Rift reopens, there will be a chance to come out, and that's what I asked Asso afterwards, Aso is a member of the church that you came to town after you fell unconscious, and he founded that church here, and he is a priest. ”

"Hmm... Uh-huh..."Ann played with the feathers of the feather nest with some fear, and now she was really thinking about what kind of things she would face if she was really trapped in that kind of place, but if she thought that if Ann was really trapped there, she would definitely be dead a long time ago.

"Are you alright?" Tata looked at Ann with a worried expression all the time.

"Well, it's okay, it's okay, I'm just a little afraid that if the rift closes at that time, I... It's just a little scary. ”

"yes, I'm scared too. So don't be near that kind of place in the future. Tata looked at Ann and sighed again as he continued.

"Chaos rifts are usually distinguished by the size of the rift, and the larger the rift, the greater the danger inside. The smallest Chaos Rift is about three meters, those below five meters are classified as small, those above five meters and below ten meters are classified as medium, and those above ten meters and below fifty meters are classified as large. ”

As Ann listened to Tata's introduction, she looked at the illustrations in Rifta Mystery, and she couldn't imagine what it would be like to have a fifty-meter hole in the sky.

"And the Chaos Rift above the large rift is officially called the Nest, the Chaos Nest. There is a fundamental difference between the Chaos Nest and the Rift, the Chaos Rift appears and disappears randomly, while the Chaos Nest does not disappear on its own, as for how to make the Chaos Nest disappear, the book never mentions it. In short, the Chaos Rift is very dangerous, and the farther away we ordinary people are, the better. ”

"How big is the rift in the Chaos Nest?"

"I don't know, and there is no specific definition, maybe the size after that is meaningless. Tata frowned.

"However, there is a chaotic rift in this world that has not disappeared until now, and that place is called the Abyss, and it is rumored that the diameter of that rift is more than 6,000 meters, and I don't know what method they used to measure it. ”

"It's... Sounds like an exaggeration. ”

"yes, I think too. Actually, you told me all about it before, but now it's the other way around. Tata looked a little emotional.

"Is the difference between the Chaos Nest and the Chaos Rift just size?"

"No, the monsters in the Chaos Nest may be able to travel to our world, and a few powerful creatures can even open the spatial corridor so that the monsters inside will swarm out. The first Beast Tide of the Abyss wreaked havoc on our world. As for the aftermath, I only know that our world has slowly recovered, and although the abyss cannot be closed, people have built fortresses on it to suppress the beast tide. Specifically, it's not clear. ”

"It's because I didn't tell you, so I don't know. ”

"No, I took the initiative to find out about these things after you fell unconscious, but there are not many rumors. ”

"........." Ann smiled awkwardly at Tata, who touched his head and smiled.

"But the Church can still crusade against those powerful monsters. Your favorite books to read in the past were novels and illustrations about the church's crusade against the Chaos Rift, but my uncle and I want you to know that in my opinion, most of the success of those heroes is due to luck, and I don't want you to yearn too much for those heroes, you can see their glory, but you always ignore the success they have achieved by standing on top of how many victims, and I don't want you to be those victims. ”

[Don't worry, my greatest dream is to live a stable life now.] I'm just curious about those things. An said secretly in his heart.

[As long as you all think of me as this person named Ann now, I can wake up laughing in my dreams.] You want me to be an adventurer? Maybe when you see through and sweep away, maybe I'll ...... No, I'm not going to be an adventurer, there are so many jobs I can do, why do I have to do it. ]

"Well, I don't think I'm going to yearn for these things anymore. ”

"It's for the best. ”

After that, Ann and Tata talked about some things in the past, and it seemed that Ann's diary recorded almost all the stories between her and Tata, so she was well dealt with in the past, but the more she did this, Ann felt guilty in her heart, because she felt that these past did not belong to her in the first place.

"It's almost time to go back, it's evening again. Today, my uncle is going to hold a banquet to celebrate your awakening, and if you can't find you for half a day, I guess I'll be in a hurry again. ”

On the way back, Tata put Ann back on his back and quickly disappeared into the woods.

As they approached the edge of the town, Tata and Ann heard voices shouting Ann and Tata's names from ahead.

"Eou......... Finished. I'm going to be scolded again, maybe my family found out that you were missing again, and now I'm in a hurry to find you. ”

"Of course...... And me. Tata looked at Ann with an embarrassed expression, and then hurriedly ran in the direction of home with Ann on his back.