I can't see anything.
　I can't hear anything.

　I breathe slowly and hold my hands together in the pitch blackness.
　I can feel my body heat in my hands.

　I'm conscious. I was conscious, and I could feel my body.
　I'm not dead, apparently.

"Seika-sama.

　Then I heard Yuki's whisper in my ear.

''It seems to have shifted. There's no enemy in sight at the moment across the ten-foot perimeter.

　Yuki was treated as my equipment, and apparently, she moved in with me.
　Thanks.

Do you know where you are?
"With all due respect...
Good. Where's Amu?
I'll be right there.

Amu, do you read me?

　I called out at a higher volume, and a light turned on in the dark world.

''...Thank God. You're safe too.''

　Amu, with a relieved look on his face as he lit up the tip of his staff sword, said.
　I looked around and said, "I wonder where we are.

I wonder where we are. It looks like a basement.

　We are now in a wide corridor covered with a wall of rocks.
　A pitch-black path stretched back and forth.
　I don't think this is just a cave.

''Come on. But that doesn't sound so good.

　Amu says.

''I knew it........maybe it was that magic circle.
'Maybe. The little magic circle on the stump was only part of the magic circle for the entire vacant lot. If someone stepped in it, they would have been able to transition it.

　I guess the reason it was written with different paint only at the stump was to draw attention to it and get it closer.
　It was done as it was.
　I knew I had a bad intuition.

"I don't think we're far from that place, but...
"...?　How do you know that?
No, sort of.

　There's a reason for that.
　It's because the link to the shikigami I left behind in the academy has not been broken.
　Distance doesn't matter on the first level, but if the addresses are too far apart, they won't be able to maintain relevance and maintain their jutsu.

　So perhaps this is the basement of the forest, or rather the basement of the temple.
　Well, I don't know for sure.

　Well, let's see what we'll do.
　When I moved to the new location, I was forced to leave all the surrounding formulae behind, so now I'm without pieces. However, I have the Hitogata to open the door for the stock, so I can replenish it.
　If we want to go for sure, we should skip the shikigami and explore the structure of this place...but I don't think we can find the exit that easily. If this was a trap, even more so.

　Hmmm, if we only know the exact location we're at now, we can swap positions with the forest ceremony and escape.......

''Huh!　Dear Seika.

　Just then, I heard Yuki's whisper with a hint of nervousness.

"There's something coming from the right corridor.

　I could hear it too.
　The sound of footsteps. And a faint rattle of metal.

"Amu. From the right.
I know.

　Soon, in the light of the sword's illumination, an enemy shadow appears.

　It was a figure that could be called a lizard human.

　It walks on two legs, but its entire body is covered with green scales, and its hands and feet are covered with claws. It was like some kind of joke that such a being had a curved sword and shield and wore simple armor.

　I think that was a monster called a lizardman or something like that.
　There are three of them in all.

　Six emotionless eyes catch us.
　The one on the right opened its mouth to threaten us.

　Amu had already jumped out.

　The tip of the wind-swept sword pierces the mouth of the menacing lizardman.
　The one on the left, who raised his curved sword, was kicked out of his chestplate and slammed into the wall.
　And the central one, which was behind, was hit by an unchanted fireball.
　The last lizardman surrounded by flames was giving a murky decapitation for a while, but eventually fell down and became quiet.

　What, the flame bombs (fireballs) are pretty strong too.

　Amu stabbing the lizardman stretched out by the wall to finish him off.
　He doesn't seem to be breathing unsteadily.

The first thing you can do is to get the best out of it. Could it be that you're used to it?
Some.
'But maybe we shouldn't do the fire magic in the confined space. It makes the air worse.
I'm fine for a little while. Well, what do you need?
Like this.

The wooden phase, the art of staking.

　Nine stakes emerged from the void and shot out from behind me.
　One after another, they thrust into the giant orc that was approaching from behind.
　The pig-faced monster wobbles slightly and then falls flat on its back.
　It seemed to be dead.

　Amu looks at the orc's corpse and frowns.

''What?　This magic. The wooden stake...?
Yes,

　The 《Staking》 is a technique I purposely created during my travels in the West to counteract vampires. Because I heard that white wooden stakes work well.
　In the end, I never saw it in Transylvania or Hungary, but the base, the ash tree (ash), has some breaker power, so I've been using it occasionally even after returning to Japan.

　It's not a four attribute, so it would be a little suspicious, but there are only a limited number of jutsu that can be used safely in a closed place.
　In a situation like this, it would be unavoidable.

'I've never heard of it. I've never heard of this kind of magic.
Yeah?　Well, I'm a Lamprogue man. There are opportunities to learn magic that aren't generally known to the public.

　I hope this will fool you.

'Well okay. Anyway, that clears one thing up.

　Amu looks at the monster he has defeated and mutters.

'This is a dungeon,'