Chapter 12: Another way to end the game

"Aren't you the one who wants to find the murderer the most, why change your mind?"

"Now that you know your details, it doesn't matter if you kill the murderer. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" said Hikaru Fujiwa.

"Killing you can end the game, but we're still in this game. At the end of the game, Darkrai managed to escape, and this time we didn't turn into a situation of killing each other, a big factor was because of you, the overly merciful murderer. ”

"But if one day, Darkrai brings another group of people to a similar place to play such a 'game', then what awaits them is probably real despair."

"The boy is right." Shirona agreed. "As the champion of the league, I can't let this desperate queen who has transformed into an elf continue to harm humanity."

"Of course, just now it was just out of righteousness, in fact, I am not a messenger of justice, the reason why I don't want to kill you is just that I am very unhappy when I think of everything following the guy who spread despair without authorization, so don't care."

"Rightly, it's always unpleasant to see that Darkrai looking down on us from somewhere else."

Xiaoguang suddenly looked at Hei with a somewhat wry smile.

"I haven't even given up hope of being forced to be a murderer, and if I kill you for my life, I'll definitely think 'I'm not even as good as a fake,' and I'll go on with this regret forever."

"All I need to do is be with my Shanaido." Huang Quan didn't seem too interested in this matter.

"Although I don't have any relationship with Mr. Hei, if it weren't for Mr. Hei, I should have been treated as a murderer, and I have to repay this kindness." Alyssa said.

"It seems that everyone sees you as a symbol of hope." Hibiki laughed. "Anyway, a passerby like me has no right to speak, and the girls don't want to kill you, so I won't kill you."

"Speaking of girls—"

Black looked at Theresia again.

"Oooo What are you doing, Theresia!? ”

Black didn't expect that Theresia was groping on herself, her delicate face against her abdomen, sniffing like a dog.

"No, no, no, no! It's impossible for me to recognize the black, absolutely impossible, absolutely absolutely absolutely impossible. ”

As if she hadn't discovered the essence of the black in front of her before Mei Yi, Theresia repeated the words as if she were chanting.

"Theresia, what's wrong?" Toko asked with some heart.

"I mean, black is what it tastes like, it can't be fake, you're the real black!"

"But that's the truth."

"That's not right!" Theresia looked up at her dark eyes with a look of resentment.

"How much do you think I know you, since we were children, we played together, bathed together, washed together after seeing you recently, got into your futon in the middle of the night, and smelled your underwear when I was doing laundry, how much do you think I like you."

"Wait what you just said, a statement that is even more perverted than Toko!?"

"Huh? I think I'm a little more serious than Theresia, but I also smell black clothes a lot, and sometimes I can use them (beep-)"

"How can you do this!" Hearing their words, Mei Yi said angrily. "You don't even let me know about doing this kind of thing!"

"Huhu, in two years, I will also tell Xiao Yayi how to get into the black room."

"Even though I'm a fake, I feel like I've heard something terrible." Black covered his face with a desperate expression.

"How could there be something wrong with my nose? There is no doubt that your body smells black, how could I smell it wrong? ”

"You're not a dog."

"But your smell, even if it turns into slag, I can recognize it from thousands of smells, even when I am a brave man, I often rely on the smell to find your place."

"Don't talk like I never take a shower!!"

"Anyway, I don't believe it, you're definitely not fake!"

"If you can't make sense of the truth, this game won't make sense in the first place, will it?" Fuji and Hikaru interrupted Theresia. "Hurry up and find the secret passage to confirm that it's true."

"No way, I know the smell of black, even if it's a fake thing, I will never be deceived."

Theresia stepped back with a gloomy expression.

"Anyway, it seems that everyone doesn't want to solve the problem by killing the murderer, and I was worried that Theresia would definitely cut down the fake black." Toko said.

"No, I'll tell you first, I don't admit that black is fake!" Theresia said in a resolute tone. "Rather, if anyone dares to attack the black, step over my corpse first."

"Hey, that's a bit too much," said someone else, the pseudo-black first who was the murderer. "Let's not mention what you think about my authenticity, the rules I said just now are true, if you want to protect me, maybe you will be the first person I killed."

"It doesn't matter if I am killed by you, this will will never waver."

"I'm going to disappear anyway, but if you don't leave alive, I'll be sad after the original."

"But—"

"I understand everyone's opinions, and since it's your own decision, I don't have to let you kill me. But now, if I don't get watched, I'll commit crimes, and even if I'm watched, as long as the subject isn't noticed by a third party, I can use magic to complete the assassination. ”

"Therefore, I don't want to see such dangerous behavior as turning his back on me."

"However, as a member of Black, I should be Black's sword and shield."

"Oh? The entrance has been found! ”

As Kuro tries to convince Theresia not to protect herself, Fuji and Hikaru, who pushed the bed open, flip through the floor and find something that resembles a door.

Although this part of the floor has the same pattern as the other floors, there is a noticeable gap between the surrounding area of about one square meter and the other parts. Fuji and Hikaru tapped their fingers on it, making a crisp sound that was noticeably different from the rest of the floor.

There are no handles or keyholes, but there must be something hidden underneath.

"If you limit the room, it's not difficult to find a secret passage." Fuji and Hikaru said with satisfaction.

"But how do you open this kind of secret passage?" Mei asked.

"Wouldn't it be enough to destroy it directly?"

"Straight--Wouldn't it be okay to destroy something directly!?" Alyssa said with some horror. "After all, it's the room left by the boss."

"Hey, now that people's lives are at stake, is it the time to feel sorry for the house?"

"But—!"

seems to have a strong obsession with the integrity of the house, and Alyssa is still very reluctant.

Black, on the other hand, walked between the two.

"According to previous speculation, it seems that the seal that was originally made after the queen's death has been opened, so it is probably not a trouble to open this door."

As he spoke, Black stepped on the different floor.

I really stepped on it and sank in, and the original floor became a ramp that connected to the stairs below.

"I see, I really can't compare to you in this kind of thing."

"You're just too obsessed with a certain path once you've identified it, and people like this are usually clinging to the first idea and having difficulty accepting the other ideas that follow. Just like in the Elf Battle, you only focus on swordsmanship, although it may be very surprising to see you for the first time, but if you know your methods before you start fighting, there are many ways to do it. ”

Listening to Kuro's suggestion, Fuji and Hikaru smacked their lips.

"I was preached by a fake."

"Hehe, but I'm a fake." Black turned around and said to the crowd. "It seems like it's hard to see without lighting down there, but even with lighting, it's hard to see everyone."

"And if any of you can't be seen by a third party, you might be killed by my magic, what should I do?"

"In this case, if one person is kept an eye on the other, Kuro won't be forcibly killed." Xiaoguang asked.

"That's right, but in a place where at most two people can walk side by side, the last person is very unsafe, right?"

"Then I'll be the last one." Mei Yi said. "Black should have said that because I think of Black as the murderer, the only way to kill me is to use physical methods. I'll see all of you in the back of the interview, and if Black is at the front, he won't be able to physically kill me. ”

"I see, it's doable." Toko agreed.

It seems that everyone agrees with this proposal, and just like that, Hei leads the way in front, and Mei Yi breaks in the back, everyone takes a flashlight and walks into this secret room.

Step by step down the staircase passage, the staircase becomes wider.

On both sides of the wide and neat staircase, ancient frescoes have also appeared.

From the beginning of the mural, you can see a man who came to this isolated island, and that man brought civilization to the island's aborigines, which became the beginning of Sellius.

Then, he marched in all directions, and then the city of the country was bustling with traffic, and he went down the staircase, and the stroke continued.

It seems that it was probably the life of the people of Serlius when the kingdom called Seleus still existed.

This mural is probably the last artwork made by those who survived the disaster to remember their country.

"The top seems to have deliberately reduced the space in order not to attract attention, but the bottom is particularly magnificent." Theresia said, walking beside Black.

"Therefore, it is certain that there is such a large-scale construction in this castle, unless it is the Queen's secret passage, I am afraid that no one else can make such a large project."

Constantly moving downward, I don't know how long I walked, the content of the mural finally changed.

The painting is a miserable scene of a flooded city, the earth is shaking, diving continuously, people fleeing in a hurry, and some people try to climb to some building, but the building is still submerged by the sea.

The once prosperous city has become a vast ocean in the blink of an eye, as far as the eye can see.

The earth seems to have opened its bloody mouth, and no matter what kind of civilization it is, it can be swallowed up.

And the last remaining islands are like the remaining dregs of the earth, which remain in the world.

People who didn't have a real sense of this story before, when they saw this mural, probably understood how cruel it is to destroy a civilization.

And when the rise and fall of Cellius for 1,800 years was reproduced before everyone's eyes, the long staircase came to an abrupt end, and before their eyes appeared a hidden door.

This massive iron door was once topped with huge chains and magical seals.

Now, however, the scraps of the chains are scattered on the ground, and the sealing technique has long since become waste paper on the ground.

"You can't be wrong, behind this door in front of us—"

"I'm glad you found this place!"

Before Hei could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a voice from nowhere, different from Darkrai's neutral voice just now, which undoubtedly represented despair, the gray queen's own voice.

The torches on both sides of the road suddenly lit themselves and illuminated the path in front of them.

"After finding the murderer, you didn't choose to end the game, but openly challenged me, you guys are so bold."

"And what arrogance are you trying to bring down me, who is spreading despair, instead of despair? An imposter created by me dares to subvert my ideas, dare to go against my ideas, and to put it bluntly, I am very angry now! ”

With that, a powerful force opened the door.

Standing in front of them was the Darkrai just now.

In front of everyone's eyes, the Darkrai gradually turned into a mass of gray, and then turned into the woman who had just talked to Black alone, wearing a long black dress, gray hair, and pale skin.

There is no doubt that she was the last queen of Seirlius 200 years ago.

Infected with despair, although she gives people a gray feeling, she is not listless. She is petite, a little taller in Lori's description, but her figure is unexpectedly good, and she looks like a queen in a long black dress.

She looked at this side with angry eyes, ignoring what she had done before, and looked like an ordinary tsundere beautiful girl.

"Originally, if you killed that imposter, the game would have ended, but you didn't come to me with long eyes, you brought it on yourself."

"Now, I, as the embodiment of despair, will personally bring you despair!"

……

Although it is an underground chamber, this underground room is like a palace, and even more carefully made than the castle above.

The chamber is the size of a football field, and the green marble reflects the light from the chandelier that seems to be powered by magic.

The chamber was spacious, but it didn't hold anything.

The only conspicuous thing was probably the empty coffin that had been opened behind the queen. (To be continued.) )