Do You Remember? (13)

There were several possibilities.

A new small Messiah might have been deployed and be fighting on the surface for some unknown purpose. The other races might be battling monsters. The monsters might be fighting among themselves. If he thought about it, there were countless possibilities.

Yet above an underground facility where monsters and the other races had been all but wiped out, every possibility he could think of seemed unlikely. Kagami couldn't help breaking into a cold sweat.

“...We’ll have to go check, won’t we? Going back again is a drag, but I can get there in a few minutes if I run. We need to at least see what’s going on.”

“We have no choice, Master. It’s unusual for anything to happen around here. If this gives us a clue to finding the true enemy lurking behind everything, we should investigate it thoroughly, no matter how trivial it may seem.”

“Right. We’re just going to take a look, so Pitta, you stay here...”

As Kagami said this, pulling back the cloth concealing the passage to the surface and glancing over his shoulder, Pitta leaped onto his back as if to say, “Don’t leave me behind.”

Knowing there was no point in trying to talk Pitta out of it, Kagami said nothing more and started running toward the surface again.

While walking with Takako and the others, he had matched Merry’s pace, so it had taken quite a while to reach the surface. But things were different when Kagami went alone.

The hollow leading to the surface shook with every leap Kagami made, as if it might collapse. A gust strong enough to send clods of earth tumbling from the walls swirled in his wake...