413. Verification




I'd like to be able to see the changes on the spot so I can verify them.
You're on the fifth floor, but you can still see the entrance.

 Celeste said and I nodded.

'That's what I mean,'
I'll take care of that for you.

 It was Alice who came forward.

'Can you make it?'
'Yes! Me and the rest of you, we're one in spirit, even though we're apart!

 Alice said, and her fellow monsters started dancing on her shoulders in unison.
 As if to say, 'We'll take care of it.

'I see, can we ask then?'
'Yes! I'll leave everyone at the entrance so they don't miss the change.
'Do that. Emily, take care of Alice's guard.
Yes, sir!
Celeste, I want you to reenact the action with me.
Yeah, I get it.

 After the distribution of roles among the companions, I left Neptune and entered Carbon again.

 First, Alice, Emily and Celeste headed to the back of the dungeon.
 The gate to the transporter room was located on the third basement floor.
 The three of them were supposed to go there first and then return to the mansion once they got there.

''Here you go.

 A few moments later, Celeste appeared at the gate.
 Celeste took me back to the mansion once I got there.

 Emily and Alice were waiting for me in the transporter room of the mansion.

Emily and Alice go to the first floor. Continue on foot to the third floor.
You're building a gate downstairs.
Yeah, please. Celeste will come with me straight to the third floor.
Okay.

 First, we saw Emily and Alice off, then me, Celeste, and Vanadium went to the third basement floor of Carbon by gate.

 I avoided the basement second floor for Vanadium, and the procedure was to make a gate on the first basement floor as well, so that we could move easily for the future.

 I moved to the third basement floor and waited for a while to meet up with them.

 We took a detour, but we finally started the verification process.

'Celeste. How was this place earlier? When I wasn't around.
Let's see, ...... all of us killed a monster once, I guess.
All of them?
'Yes, all of us. Including the three of us, and Eve, who isn't here right now.
Speaking of which, you switched places with me, didn't you, Eve?
I think he's still on this floor.

 I'm a little surprised at Alice's point.

'Really?'
Yeah, it's right up there.
Can you sense the adventurer's presence?
'Yes! Not as much as a monster, but it's easy to understand, Eve. You've been in the same place for a while now and haven't moved.
I see. So can you guys take them down one at a time?

""......"

 Emily, Celeste and Alice looked at each other and gave each other a complicated look.

 I wondered what was wrong with them.

'...... Okay,'
Are you sure?
One at a time.
...... I see.
Okay.

 For some reason, the air was a bit serious.
 Like before, what kind of monster is this third underground floor?

 As I couldn't plan for it, I walked off with Alice in the lead.
 I used Alice's radar to look for the monster and encircled it from here.

 The monster I encountered started to transform against Celeste - and took on the form of me.

 Celeste easily killed the fake me instantly with her yarn manipulation bicorn horn.

 Then I start walking again.
 Thanks to Alice, I quickly recounted.
 This time, Emily was the other person's transformation - it was me, after all.

 Emily glanced at me, then twirled her hammer around and crushed the fake me.

'You're going to use your ri-chin,'

 Alice declared as she left her fellow monsters behind.
 Encountering almost without pause, she summoned Alice Garryochin at the same time.

'Me again?'

 Three times my fake appeared and Ree-chin blinked it away.

"What do you mean by this--
There's no change in the entrance.

 Bitingly, Alice interrupted me.

'Oh, oh? Okay, so there's been no change.
I don't think it's on this floor.
Let's go down to the fourth floor.
Oh, oh ......?

 The three of us were somewhat nervous, and we wondered what was going on, but we came to the stairs and went down to the fourth basement floor without being able to listen.

 We came down to the fourth basement floor.

Ugh. ......

 My heart ached a bit when I remembered the memory from earlier.

 The monster on the fourth basement floor, the ridiculous one that turns into the black history of the person I'm targeting.

''We have to do ...... here too. ......
That's not good.
Yeah.
I'll do my best.
......

 Aside from Emily, Celeste should have been baptized with black history as well, but the part of her that didn't like it seemed to have a brighter expression compared to earlier (third floor).

 We went around the fourth basement floor with Alice's guidance.

 Me, Poemer Celeste, and Emily, the Demon King.

 We each defeated our respective black histories in order once more.

''Well?''
Not yet. It's like nothing has changed.
Right, then. Fifth floor.

 I went down to the fifth floor, this time with my friends who nodded at me.

'Yeah, still a bit different,'

 The moment you descend, you feel the difference in the air.
 The air was slightly different between the fifth basement floor and the floors before it.

 Once again, I knew it wasn't an illusion.

'Could it be because I entered here?'
No, it's still open.
'Right, ......, well, what did I do here earlier?'
I'm sure you've been up and down the stairs to compare notes.
It's so true. It's so true. It's so true.
Lyota!

 As soon as I got back to the fourth floor and then turned back further to the fifth floor, Alice called out to me in a tremendous rush.

'What's up,'
The doorway is gone.
Really?
'Yes! That was the moment Lyota came back this way.
Which means: ......
So you turned around?

 I felt like I could see the answer.