Rushing Into
"Father, are you okay!"
The two enemies left and Sedona and the others got off the ship.
"There's no problem, the discomfort is gone."
As expected, the real reason for the discomfort was those women.
"That's... Mother, right?"
"No. It's not Wince."
It never was.
They are just fakes
"Let's head for the hole before another obstacle comes along."
"Shiro, about that."
Yukikaze looks worried.
"Two airships stopped working."
"…Did they get caught up in the fight earlier?"
"No, when they moved forward, the furnace suddenly went haywire."
Looking up in the sky, the wyverns are tying ropes to the first two ships.
Will the other airships be pulling them?
"Let's walk from here..."
"Or I could just fly."
"Is it okay?"
"It's okay!"
So, for the first time in a long time, I'll be riding on the back of Sedona in her wyverm form.
"I'm coming with you."
"It's fine if I come too, right?"
It looks like Yukikaze and Tenrei are coming with us.
"What about the airship?"
"They'll stay here. If something happens, they will abandon us and run away immediately, and since Ginkei is here, I'll leave the decision to him."
Neither of them wants to be left alone.
"I'll protect you as much as I can, but you can never be too sure, okay?"
"I'm prepared for it"
And so the four of us fly to the giant pile of sand in the center.
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The land of black sand is eerily quiet.
"There's no wind."
"There are no living things, not even plants… There is silence everywhere."
Crunch*, crunch*.
There's a strange sound approaching.
"What's that sound?"
"It's the sand mountain that we're aiming for. It's crumbling little by little."
Perhaps because there is nothing around to serve as an indicator, my sense of distance from the pile of sand is off.
I only notice it when I get a certain amount closer
"It's smaller than when we got out..."
"Is that so?"
"It was bigger back then."
Sedona rises up the slope of the sand hill
Over the top
When I looked down, the big hole from before was there.
Deep into it, I see a small light at the bottom.
"Let's go!"
Following my words, Sedona rushes into the big hole.
We go deeper and deeper into the pit.
Little by little, the light gets bigger and bigger.
As the light gets closer.
I feel a strange sensation in my body.
Same sensation I felt with those fakes
But there is a clear difference
There was something strangely reassuring about the discomfort
When I feel it, the light suddenly bursts forth
"What!"
Before we knew what happened, we were engulfed by light.
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