Chapter 278

“…”

Xona is not good at psychoanalysis, especially Will’s.

She now feels that he is abnormally excited, but… she can’t say whether this is normal or not.

“Oh, right. And…”

“What?”

Xona turned back and her hand was gently pulled up by Will.

Then…

He gently kissed the back of Xuna’s hand.

“Little… Will…?!”

“Well… I haven’t heard this name for a long time.”

He raised his head and put down his hand.

To be honest, Xuna didn’t think his hand-kissing ceremony was very “gentlemanly”, but it had a bit more of the flavor of a playboy who would start to talk slickly in the next second.

"Thank you. Because of you, I did remember a lot of things in those ten seconds, and I did have a new goal... Although you may think I am a little strange... Well... Let's just treat it as 'Will's blackening'? Anyway, it seems that the other three people always become like this after a certain point. It fits the 'first law of blackening'."

"... Can you tell me, specifically why it is because of me... or something?"

"The reasons are too complicated to explain here, but..."

His eyes suddenly became very serious--

"I promise you that after everything is over, we will roam to the deepest part of the dungeon together."

-See, see, he really said something that sounds corny!

--But... never mind. Shuna admitted that she...she did like it.

--Rather, it's because Will is such a person that she can barely accept his words.

"Okay, okay. Since... since you want to find a place to talk slowly, let's go."

"However, if I have to summarize it briefly, it's probably... 'I have fallen in love with you since my last life'?"

Will said this sentence in a completely declarative sentence, without any shame or stumbling, as if he often made a confession in the most plain tone.

Plop. Shuona's footsteps stopped.

Plop. Shuona slowly turned around.

Plop, plop, plop. Shuona's blushing started from the roots of her ears and went all the way to the top of her head, as if it was hotter than the steam in the next room.

Plop, plop, plop, plop.

"——What were you talking about just now!!"

"Yeah. That's the reason. Oh, it does sound like a confession. Ah, so Shuna is... the kind of person with high attack power who can point a knife at my neck and say she loves me, and low defense power..."

"Shut up! Okay, I accept your confession. Although it's a bit strange, I'd rather... than you say... you say you like to go on adventures with me. Of course... the description of a confidant is also good."

"I like to go on adventures with you!"

"Okay, then... let's go."

"But... wait a minute."

Will hadn't noticed it when he first walked in.

After he told how the sauna was built, he realized one thing - the basement project seemed to be entirely promoted by Carver.

Before that, the basement of the Systrom family had almost no other use.

So...

Even he found out for the first time that next to that room, under the Systrom family, there was such a large... secret room.

Then, it seemed that Carver had found the reason why he rarely cared about something.

He wanted to hide this room in front of him - if it weren't for Shuona taking such an abnormal way, he might not even find this place.

He lit the flame on his fingertips, instead of temporarily using the light from a corner of the room to look at the room.

"This place seems to be... a place that Carver used to use, and... at least it was more than ten years ago..."

"How did you judge?"

Shuona, who was blushing just now, became excited when she heard Will start the reasoning, especially the reasoning about the president of the Adventurer's Association.

"Because he hasn't been here since I was born."

"...Yeah. I know this too. When I was here before, I saw the layout of the house, which looked like... an ordinary adventurer's hut, but it didn't have any special features."

"Because of the weapons hanging there?"

"There is also a potion making table like this. If it is an academic research table, the process will be more complicated. This simplified form is obviously practical."

"..."

Will was very curious, but he really didn't have much time to stay here.

Carver used to be the captain of the first team. His strength was not weak, and his understanding of the dungeon might even be higher than his.

Will lit the fire and walked across the table. The clean table seemed to have been cleaned, without any paper materials left - as careful as Carver was, there would be no paper materials left for him to speculate.

But...

He did see it.

On the corner of the table, two very cute little people were "carved".

The way of drawing was somewhat similar to the little people he used to teach Iel and to talk about the royal family to Treya.

One of them seemed to have long hair tied in a long braid, and the other...

Wearing glasses that he was very familiar with - something that seemed to be inherited from the Systrom family.

"Let's go, little~Will. There should be...no written information that we can find here."

"Yeah. But, as you said, you think it's a safer place... maybe..."

"Where else could it be? Of course..."

"It's always the forgotten Tenth Castlevania that 'welcomes us back'!"

Chapter 307 "Don't call me sister"

About three days later.

The 10th Castlevania.

"Well...cancel the environment rendering - you coined this word! If you only keep the summoned hallucination monsters, the strength can indeed be guaranteed."

Lucifer sat on her seat, folding her hands and pouting.

About two days ago, Will and Shona came to her place on the grounds that "we came to take refuge and there was really no place to go"! eat! rub! drink!

oh.

But think about it, these two people agreed to help her clear the dungeon levels here, but they still quit before reaching the BOSS level. It is true that these two people have cleared all the adventurers here for a year.

Based on this, Lucifer has accumulated a lot of new dungeon energy, and is much closer to mining the next level!

...Hehe, it seems like she is the one eating and drinking.

"Let me explain in advance, if you...you want to practice at a high level, I, a naive dungeon queen, can't do it, and you may kill me in one fell swoop."

"no problem."

"I...I said, I can see that you are different now...compared to about a month ago...or two months ago?"

Lucifer scratched her head.

Not just because Will seems to be wearing a "magic outfit"——

The strange white earrings have some kind of "demonic" power on them, but they are older than hers.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a collar that is not suitable for children to play with. It contains magic that has a longer lasting breath. It is unexpectedly very powerful.

There was also his blood. When she met him, this man had a strange smell of blood, and now the smell seemed to be even stronger.

"That's it, that's it. Can marriage make a man so strong? Should he be called a husband?"

In the end, she came to a conclusion that sounded like a child with only half-knowledge.

"puff."

Xiuna, who was watching the excitement with her hands folded, couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Actually...it hasn't been formed yet."

"...Huh? Didn't you prepare gifts with one hand and sincere words with the other, and also planned to help? Why didn't it happen?"

"In this way, if you let me lose this battle, then I will tell you."

"Come on, come on! You don't know this, right? I've become a lot stronger during the time you haven't come -"

Lucifer, who usually likes to stand at the entrance of the village and listen to gossip, became extremely excited when she heard that this was gossip from the royal family. She was originally discouraged because she had lost once.

"Please obey the call of the tenth empress, and your deepest fears, glimpsed with the devil's eyes, blurred dreams and hallucinations, reappear in the world——"

Stretching out her hand from her black hood, Lucifer's eyes glowed with a faint purple light, and then...

In front of Will.

In the end, a "slime" that was several times larger than what he saw at the time appeared.

It was about two stories high, like a very large drop of water. The eyes alone seemed to be able to stare someone to death.

However, this low-level monster itself is indeed "pure". Even if it is magnified so many times, it still looks like a fish.

"Because the rendering of the most terrifying thing in your mind and the surrounding black scenery are removed, this thing has really developed towards intensity. Come and try it."

Will turned out his staff from the ring with a translucent crystal ball that was black on one side and white on the other.

"Well, it looks like an opponent who can withstand a few attacks. Come on, my Tai Chi staff!"

"What the hell is this name!"

"Isn't this half white and half black thing very 'Tai Chi'?"

Lucifer looked at Shona.

"Um, you should be... considered his guardian? Why did he suddenly become, seems to be even weirder than before."

Shona actually showed a happy and doting expression, looking at Will who named the staff with a strange and incomprehensible name in front of her.

"If you've seen his appearance a few days ago, you'll know..." She paused and laughed, happily and sweetly, "Little Will is cuter like this~"

This made Lucifer retract her expression.

She began to think about who the man in front of her was.

Why can he feed her dog food so blatantly on his own territory even though he is engaged to a contemporary queen?

"Lucy, when did you change the prefixed eulogy? This eulogy doesn't sound any better than my naming skills."

"You...you care about me! Am I not allowed to name the magic I invented myself?!"

Puff——

"Huh? Has it started?"

In the BOSS room, Lucifer sat on a slightly higher platform and looked at the slime she created that was higher than her head on the platform.

It seemed that the slime side was the first to attack.

It spat out blisters like crazy - well, let's just say it was a regular attack.

"Yes."

After Xiuna started, she didn't even have the expression of pampering and happiness anymore. All that was left was the seriousness of a teacher in charge of an exam - she was asked by Will to be his battle coach, responsible for finding problems in one of his battles.

So she had to be much more serious. Although she didn't have a notebook, she would remember every detail of Will's trial in her mind.

Dodge.

Step back.