All around is a deep dark green, quite dim. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It should have been a bright October afternoon, but now even the sun is obscured by the fog.

"It's so cold......"

I shuddered.

"Ellie, are you alright?"

Just a head away, Ellie's little head looked a little blurry.

"Hmph, of course, don't compare us elves to your fragile humans."

I don't even have to look at it, I can imagine her looking proud and complacent with her chin raised.

Suddenly, a drop of snot slipped down her nose and hung on the tip of her nose.

"Uh," I pulled a handkerchief from my trouser pocket and put it on her nose.

Blowing ――――

"Well, it's much better, are you quite clever, little ghost, ah no! Do you think I'm afraid of the cold as an elf!"

"Good, good, good, Elle-sama is the strongest"

I said it in the same tone, and it seemed that I had a little bit of an idea of how to deal with this little girl.

"Hey, little ghost, who allowed you to call me Ellie, my name is Ellie, Akaba!"

"Ahh

My tone became impatient, just as I was in the mood.

"Don't you call me a little ghost too, isn't it just right that I call you Elle, make a couple?"

"Oh~ It seems to make sense, little ghost, you may be really clever haha"

The little guy was really coaxed to be happy.

"Where the hell is this?"

I looked around, and it had been a few minutes since I had been in the mist, but I hadn't seen anything different from before.

"The game has only just begun, and it hasn't had a real impact on the real world yet"

Ellie stood tall and proudly explained to me.

"So no matter the roads, buildings, or plants, they are still the same, but they are shrouded in the magic that has materialized."

Hmm-I seem to understand a little bit of that, too.

"Hmm-

"Of course"

Anyway, I crouched down and looked at the floor, which was the easiest way to confirm.

Sure enough, the familiar floor tiles were exactly the same as on the sidewalk just now.

I stood up again and looked around, not to mention the scenery, it was difficult to see even my own feet, and the fog was getting thicker......

"What kind of game is this?"

"I don't know, it depends on what the owner of the game is thinking."

"The conditions for the game to be launched are intense emotional fluctuations, so it is unpredictable and can change halfway"

"But—"

She deliberately raised her voice in a long tone, as if she wanted me to ask her and beg her.

"Ellie-sama, please advise!"

"Hmph, for the sake of your bowing and pleading, I'll tell you."

"I'm a member of the High Elf Akaba tribe, proficient in all kinds of elf magic, not to mention elf games or something."

"Ho Ho, God Ellie, please be clear, it's better not to beat around the bush."

"Hmph, worship me, little ghost! this game is so simple"

As she spoke, she reached out and pointed around, and from my point of view, it was hard to tell the line between her little snow-white hands and the mist.

"The path and the fog are the maze, the fog of the maze is a sign of confusion, and the owner of the game should be very confused now"

"Wait, you say 'master of the game'?"

"What's wrong?"

"By the way, this is an elf game, which means that there is a psychic medium like me who is playing the game?"

"Not necessarily, although most elf games are activated by psychic mediums, some elves can be activated under special circumstances, and even some natural objects, or special points of magical power, can also be activated."

"Huh?"

"For example, some supernatural phenomena, ghosts, UFOs, there are many elf games caused by the peculiarities of magic."

"So how do you end this game?"

"To put it simply, there are three ways, the first is to wait for the owner of the game to run out of magic"

"Uh-huh, like I did last night"

"The second is to wait for the spirit of the medium's host to run out of mana"

"Doesn't sound like a possibility"

"The third is to use external forces to force the end of the game"

"It sounds simple and easy to understand."

"You can either break the game or cause a change that makes the game no longer possible, and you can force the game to end"

"It sounds like two words, I don't understand"

"You're stupid!"

"I'm a fool, I've really made you bad."

"Oh oh boy, you're unexpectedly clever, haha."

Even if I was praised by you, I couldn't be happy at all, but I had been talking just now, and I had already gone a long way forward.

"It's almost over."

"Hmm, what are you talking about, little ghost?"

"The road is coming to an end, and it should be divided into two roads, on the left there is an old garden with a few apple trees, and on the right is the path leading to the school building."

"Wow, how do you know, you can't see anything here?"

I crouched down to check the ground, and sure enough, the sidewalk was at the end of the road, and the road was bent here.

"I am very familiar with this place, I am very familiar with it, I have walked with Mo Fei on every road here, and I have seen every tree with Mo Fei."

"Well, indeed, I'm all too familiar with this place!"

I suddenly felt a little more confident in my heart.

I hugged Elle by the hand, fearing that if she fell, she would never be found again, because the fog around her was getting thicker and thicker, and the green was getting heavier and heavier.

This green color seemed to have weight, and I was starting to feel a little tired, which was definitely not Elle's reason, she was still as light as a bag of potato chips.

The light is getting heavier and heavier, and like the winter dusk, the dark green maze is really about to be formed.

I'll have to pick up my pace.

"Ellie, hold on to me"

"Wow! Call me Ellie-sama"

The little guy angrily banged his fist on the top of my head, but without any force, and at the same time the other hand around my head seemed to really hold a little tighter.

It seems that my relationship with this little guy has changed a little bit......

I didn't care about it, Mo Fei's whereabouts were still unknown, I began to speed forward, and I almost ran, but in the thick fog, even if I had the courage, I couldn't run.

"Twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one......"

I counted my steps.

"What are you talking about, little ghost?"

"Nothing, fifty-nine, sixty, sixty-one......"

"Now, what are you talking about, little ghost?"

Instead of answering Ellie, I leaned down to check the ground and picked up a ball...... Wet handkerchief paper.

"Sure enough!"

"What, what, what the hell are you doing, little ghost?"

"Ellie, do you know what this is?"

"Huh, a wad of waste paper?"

"Well, yes, waste paper, I wiped your snot just now"

"Ahh

Elle tapped my head with both hands.

"Just by virtue of the little ghost, do you plan to humiliate me, I am the elf of the Akaba tribe, so I won't feel cold!"

"Ouch, Ellie-sama, Ellie-sama!"

"Huh, it's too late for you to apologize now!"

"No, no, think about it, why did the tissue that wiped your nose just now appear on the way here"

"Huh?"

Ellie stared at me in bewilderment, leaning at her tiny head, her long blue hair sliding down to the side and into the dark green mist, blurring in.

"Since it's a labyrinth, I thought there would be a mechanism to get people back to where they were, and it turned out to be."

"Huh, what's going on?"

"There is no such thing as a maze in the world, and anyone who has played a maze game knows that as long as you record the path you have walked, no matter what maze you can easily solve."

"But the advanced maze will play a little trick, it will make you keep going in circles in different places, back to the same place, even if you record the path you walked, you can't crack it"

"Ho, and then"

"After blowing your nose, I deliberately threw the tissue on the ground, and now I picked it up again, which means I'm back where I was"

"Haha," Ellie straightened up and laughed again, "It turns out that my Ellie-sama's snot works, worship me, little ghost."

"Yes, Ellie-sama's snot did work, but ......"

I can't be as optimistic as Ellie.

"But...... How can I get out......"