It's gone!

　Garnett stomps on the floor and comes to a sudden stop.

　I also immediately activate 【Restoration】 to seal the injury, while closing the wound on my torn left arm with the magic of 【Restoration】 to stop the bleeding.

　Eir's body collapses on the spot and the severed head rolls across the floor.

　Earlier, due to swinging a heavy sword without skill, my speed and accuracy weren't enough to aim and slice through the fatal spot, but as long as I was able to strengthen it, this is what I would have done.

''The White Wolf's!　You're alive!　You're alive!
'Yeah, it worked: ...... It was a pretty close call, to be honest.

　If only a large amount of magic power could be scattered in the air, Hild would stir up the magic power and make it possible to activate the skill - that train was what came to mind the moment I heard that.

　I already knew that the power source of that train was magic power, thanks to the 'right eye'.

　It's a good idea to have a good idea of what you're looking for when you're in the market.

　That's why we decided to make use of the destructive power of Eir's magic in reverse.

　The reckless provocation is all a foothold for it.
　If they continued to torture me endlessly with weak attacks, I wouldn't be able to do the operation.

　Of course, there were a number of backfires.
　Even if they were motivated, their destructive power might fall below expectations and they might not be able to destroy the vehicle, and in fact, there was a fear that they would die normally from the damage of the attack, as they almost did.

　But the result was this.
　We won the bet and got the right to bring back our lives and memories safely.

''Commander-dono!　Lord Garnett!　Safe travels, .......

　Hild jumped out of the shadows when he saw the settlement, but when he saw me with my left arm blown off and Eil with his head cut off - this is just a duplicate - he wobbled to the point of almost swooning! He shifted his stance.

'Oh, hey. Are you okay?
I'm sorry ...... I'm not a big fan of blood, so much so that I lost consciousness the moment I saw the body in storage, such as during the Night Ripper incident the other night. ......

　Hild is showing his sky-high energy as he turns blue in the face.
　It seems that the sight of an extreme acid nose is really no good, as his knees are trembling like a newborn fawn.

　However, the body of the Night Ripper case was really horrific, so I don't think it's special to faint at the sight of it.

　Me and Garnett were both in the fine category together, though.

'Well, if you're ......, I guess I shouldn't ask you to retrieve the parts of my left arm.
...... Um, what do you mean by parts?
I'd like to collect as much flesh and bone as possible before [repairing] my arm because it popped off around my second arm: ......
Hey, white wolf. I got your arm. I'm just missing the end of the elbow. It connects, right?

　After receiving the two-step attack from me and Garnett, Hild collapsed from his knees without power.

I had a feeling that my psychological senses had become a bit numb lately, but doing something reckless with the assumption that I could [repair] it later might be quite problematic from the side.

　Anyway, I worked with Garnett to [repair] my left arm, and I was finally able to take a breather.

...... Huh, now all that's left to do is [repair] it back to my body, but ...... now, what's going on?
Is there something you haven't done yet?
'I don't know if it's a dream or an illusion, but I'm sure there are clues lying around here that Ail wanted to hide so badly. I thought it would be a good idea to find out as much as I can.

　In order to prevent us from doing so, Ail has resorted to such an elaborate sabotage.

　On the other hand, there are enough clues in this space to expose the truth about the ancient magical civilization.

　It should be worth it to postpone the return somewhat.

　As I was having such a conversation with Garnett, Hild suddenly let out an upturned scream.

''Da, Lord Commander!　Eil's body is ......!

　We turned around to see what was going on, and we all gasped at the unexpected sight.

　--A headless corpse was standing up, holding its head dripping with fresh blood in its arms, shivering and shaking.

　The head in his arms goggles his eyes and spits out a mouthful of back-flowing blood.

　A shiver runs down my spine.

　But when I think about it, it's not a flesh and blood body, but a mental body, and that's just a duplicate.

　There's no surprise that it was operating under different conditions than my flesh and blood body and our current one.

'You're still going to do it: ......!
"...... We won't let you, we won't let you, we won't let you do what you want ......

　The 'right eye' that had been left activated catches the signs of a change.

　Eir's physical body, the duplicate of his mental body, disintegrated as if it were crumbling from within.

　And from the crumbling place, the light of magical power overflowed out, and in the blink of an eye, its brilliance increased.

''This thing is going to self-destruct!
'No, sir!　This is no way!

　Almost as soon as Garnett and Hild's cries reached his ears, a tremendous flash of light filled his vision.

　Not hot. No pain.
　It was just dazzling, and at the same time as vision, even the senses of the whole body faded away -










　-- and the next scene that jumped out at me was unmistakably that of the living room of the White Wolf Store.

　I was sitting in a chair, just as I had been just before I was dragged into that space, Hild was lying on the floor, crumpled in front of me, and Garnett was leaning on my lap as a result of falling forward.

'It's back ...... to normal, is it ......?'
"Hmm ...... here is ......... oh my!

　Garnett, who had regained consciousness, scurried around in a daze for a while, but jumped back with a flourish when he noticed that I was using my thigh as a pillow.

　Somewhat later, Hild, who was lying on the floor, also noticed, and stood up, holding his head as if he were trying to endure a headache.

'It looks like you were forced out ...... sorry to hear that.
You only make so much money with your life. He seems to remember everything that happened over there, and I think he got a lot out of it.

　If it was just a dream, it would be forgotten before and after awakening, but this time the memories were as vivid as the actual experience.

　The duplicate of Eil literally used its last ounce of strength to get rid of us, but it didn't have enough time to do anything with our memories.

　We couldn't do any additional research, but the result would be a near-full score.

　Any further investigation was just an opportunity to accumulate more than a hundred additional points.