"Ahhh——!h

After a whirlwind, we fell out of the whirlpool and fell to the ground.

It took a while to recover.

"What's going on...... I was pushed down by something just now. I got up and looked around.

This seems to be the living room of a small house, and the surrounding space is normal, without any anomalous phenomena.

- Huh! Are you back?

Hong Ying said in surprise: "Sure enough, I escaped...... We're back, aren't we? ”

I looked at the whirlpool that had released us.

It stands in front of us like a door, slowly getting smaller.

I said worriedly, "But the others haven't come back yet." ”

Hong Ying looked at me in surprise.

I clenched my fists, walked over to the whirlpool, and said, "Gotta bring them back." ”

Hong Ying hurriedly stopped: "Wait, are you crazy!" The portal is getting smaller and smaller, and it may disappear soon, and you may not be able to come back once you enter. ”

I said, "In that case, we need to hurry up!" ”

Hong Ying grabbed me: "No, that place is so terrifying, aren't you afraid?" Do you really want to go back? ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "I'm going back." What about you? ”

Hong Ying tilted her head to the side and replied in a low voice, "I don't want to." ”

I looked at her again, and I couldn't think of anything to say, but I respected her decision.

"Actually, I was scared too. But my companion is still inside. ”

So he walked straight into the whirlpool.

After enduring some chaos again, he came out of the whirlpool.

This time he accidentally fell from the ceiling, and the place where he landed was not the ground where he entered the whirlpool at the beginning.

The swirls in the ceiling disappear when they hit the ground.

- There's more than one such thing.

At this moment, the spatial structure suddenly underwent a great distortion.

It went back to what it was like a normal house.

I looked around in confusion.

It is no longer a scene of a small house, but a large house.

Moreover, no anomalous changes occur after that.

- Strange, why did the anomalous space disappear just after returning here?

Is this the house back to its original state?

But why did you stand in a big house after recovery?

At the same time, I heard movement nearby.

A voice came from above.

"Fate, don't be stunned, run!"

I looked up and saw that it was Natsume—he and a few others were in the pavilion, being chased by a large group of black creatures in the shape of skulls.

The floor beneath their feet suddenly disconnected and they all fell.

Seeing a humanoid sculpture holding a spear beneath where Alice fell, I hurriedly ran to overturn the sculpture and catch Alice so that she landed smoothly.

The group of black creatures was also rapidly jumping from above.

We hurriedly hid in a secret room not far away, locked the door, and only then did we get safe for the time being.

"What's that?" I asked Natsume.

"I don't know, they just popped up." Natsume replied.

"And what's going on with the changes in the house now?"

"This ......"

Later, I learned from him that it was probably one of the tokens that was placed in the designated place, and the spatial anomaly disappeared.

Here's how it happened.

Late last night, the Gothic Girls found the location of a token as suggested in the book.

Such a token is called "Luoge Rubik's Cube".

It is because of its side effects that the space of the house is abnormal.

When I had just returned from the whirlpool to a space that had not been affected by the side effects, they had stumbled upon the designated place for the token - a torch holder.

In the center of the torch stand there is an engraving of a pattern similar to the three primary colors.

The three circles intersect with overlapping sections, which in turn superimpose a small triangle-like area.

When the Rubik's Cube is placed on the torch, its effect disappears immediately, so the space can be restored.

But when we came back, we were in a big house instead of a small house.

Probably because the Rubik's Cube and its torch are in the area of the big house, our position has been changed.

As for the dark creatures, it was another round of crisis that suddenly appeared after the house was restored.

I sat down next to him, and after relieving myself, I asked, "Speaking of which, I'm a little curious about what you were looking for in the last ten minutes?" ”

"Uh, this ......" Natsume glanced away in embarrassment, "Actually, something was inexplicably lost again......"

A voice came from the side: "Is this what you are talking about?" ”

We look at the past, and the person who said this is a foreign special.

He wore gloves on his hands, pointed a gun at us with his right hand, and shook Natsume's crystal clock in his left hand.

I gasped in surprise, and Natsume did too.

It dawned on me that the thing Natsume had lost was the clock, which was now in the hands of the outer agent.

As we stood up, Wai Te snapped, "I'm now sure you're the murderer!" ”

The eyes of the others were cast in amazement.

Natsume asked, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"You are the bearer of the dangerous token," said Waite. ”

Natsume said, "Tokens? You say me? ”

"That's right," said Waite, "I saw you holding something like this with my own eyes last night, and I stole it. ”

- Huh? Did he take it?

Natsume sneered and said, "Hmph, I originally thought you didn't believe in these magical things. ”

Waite also sneered nervously: "Do you think I can not pay attention to this kind of situation......

"But you can't make a judgment just because it's the same as the clock in the picture."

"But how do you explain the sudden appearance of a whole bunch of strange creatures out there? And you can't deny the fact that you took it. Waiter threatened.

Natsume thought for a moment and said, "I just picked it up by chance." But it doesn't have to be a token, after all, there are a lot of imitations in the house, and who knows if it's real or fake? You see I didn't have any anomalies in the book after touching them, did I? ”

- Do you actually say that, Natsume...... But to be on the safe side, it's wise not to state that it's your own stuff.

"Who knows if you're pretending." Waite's gaze shifted to me, "And you, the two of you have been staying together, maybe you are accomplices." ”

- Hmm...... This man......

I could vaguely see that cold sweat was breaking out on Natsume's forehead, and he replied, "I remember that people who have touched the token directly will become obsessed with it. But I'm not interested in this kind of thing, there's no need to threaten us with it and ruin teamwork. ”

"yes, not interested, that's good." Waite abruptly let go, let the clock fall to the ground, and then stepped on it.

"I'll make an assumption, if someone here is really the holder, they will be reluctant to give it up, after all, it's controlled. If not, I'm relieved. This thing isn't yours anyway, so it's okay to destroy it. ”

He smiled with a disgusting grin.

- Damn, bastard...... He had no idea how much Natsume had been wronged to get the clock. It is only sold once in five years, a year of intercession, plus the time that has been with me so far, that is a relationship that contains more than ten years!

I glanced at Natsume.

He hung his head, his body trembling, and his mood must have been very complicated.

- What do you want to do......

When the dial is cracked, it is about to shatter.

The next moment, Natsume raised his head, spread his legs, and flew over at the speed of an arrow from a string, snatching the clock from under Waite's feet, rolling a few times, and standing up.

He clutched the clock to his chest and gasped for air.

Waite pointed his gun at him, a wicked smile that looked like a guess.

I looked at Natsume with a shudder, panic in my heart, but with a hint of relief.

- Well, that's enough, maybe you lose the trust of other people, maybe it will be difficult later, but at least you can live up to yourself.

Just as I was about to make a move on the outside, Natsume suddenly raised the clock with both hands.

In front of everyone, he threw himself to the ground.

The moment the clock shattered, there was a screeching sound.

Glass and metal parts flew apart, and precision gears and springs fell to the ground.

The gems on the dial were scattered all around and disappeared immediately.

With our amazement, the air seemed to freeze, and we all stared at him in disbelief.

Natsume closed his eyes, sighed deeply, and turned his head to look at Waite.

"I said it, I'm not interested in that."

Waiter said in a panic: "This ...... This can't be proven! ”

Natsume immediately showed an angry face: "Do you think you are innocent?" You want to hit me with that gun? Okay, come on! Try to hide the truth with violence! ”

Waiter's face changed dramatically with enragment, and he immediately loaded his gun.

Alice hurriedly stopped between the two and cried to dissuade: "Don't quarrel! No one is bad, no one is bad...... Woowoo woo ......"

Both of them were stunned for a moment.

I couldn't bear to see this scene, so I hurriedly ran up and hugged her to comfort her.

The man in the protective suit came up to the foreign special and said, "Enough! What's the point of going on like this? How good can you be for a crying child? ”

Waite gritted his teeth and withdrew his hand, disdainfully stepping aside.

After that, he left the secret passage and left the group.

"Natsume......" I asked Natsume uncomfortably.

Natsume shook her head and said with a wry smile, "That's it." ”

"But that clock is something you've worked so hard to get all these years."

Natsume said, "Because the toy has put my friend in a difficult situation, I feel sorry for it and ignore my friend, so what kind of face do I have to see my past self...... And that vow. ”

I stood silently behind him and listened.

"I should have done it a long time ago. The big picture counts. ”

"Fool, you don't need to apologize to me." I say.