Suddenly I felt a breeze caressing my skin and I opened my eyes.

　He seems to be lying on his back on the ground. My hands felt like short grass touching me.

　I put my hands on the ground and raised my upper body. My eyes have just opened and I can only see vaguely, but I can see the light at the back. Apparently, I'm in the shade now.

　Looking to my left and right, I see large trees with thick trunks growing at equal intervals. I looked up again and realized that the branches and lush foliage of the large tree were providing shade.

　Slowly, he stood up and turned his attention to the front.

　The trees lined up to make way for a blue sky with a few floating clouds.

　As if pulled by something, he naturally walked out and continued on the path between the trees.

　The moment the trees on either side of me broke off, the sky opened up in front of me.

　The sky stretched out as far as the eye could see. The clouds are at eye level and I can recognize that I am above the sky.

　A moderate breeze blew, and I heard the sound of birds singing from somewhere.

'....Awesome.

　This is the only impression I can get from the too magnificent scenery. When I lowered my gaze after looking at the sky for a moment, there was a terraced garden that looked like terraced fields.

　You can see buildings in some places, but each step is wide. It's almost numbing, but each step seems to be quite large.

　And at the far end of the garden, it's already empty. Standing on the edge, it looks like a sheer cliff, which is scary.

　Now, I looked back the way I came and looked through the trees to the left and right. Then I saw white buildings standing along the slope on both sides. The number of buildings is not likely to be counted at a glance.

　I wondered if the place I was in was the highest place.

　I thought so and went back the way I came. The tree is too big, not to say a little, or the road like a tree-lined street continued for a while.

　It was probably two hundred meters long.

　After walking that much, the tree-lined street finally came to an end and the scenery spread out in front of us.

''Oh...!

　What appeared was a large castle with white walls. The roof is a little reddish brown. The walls are made of stone, and even from a distance the joints are visible, and there are several large vertical windows.

　Is there more than one roof, or are there independent towers adjacent to it? There were several pointed roofs that were separate from the large wide roof.

　The castle was still high up from the tree-lined avenue, and apparently we had to go up a slope that turned around several times.

　It seemed a long way off, but if you looked up, you could see a huge castle.

'Alright, let's go!'

　When I muttered that, the corners of my mouth naturally lifted and I started to walk towards the castle with great enthusiasm.

　When I climbed up the slope of a reasonable slope and stood in front of the castle, I was amazed once again at the size of the castle.

　The castle itself is large, but the gates are also large. It was a solid-looking, double-ended gate that looked like it was made of steel. It has a splendid pattern, and the edges are gold.

　It's too gorgeous a door, but the problem is that it's unlikely to be opened by hand.

　I looked up at the gate and thought for a few seconds, then looked around. The pure white exterior walls of the castle, without a single stain, stretched out on either side. It seems that there is only one gate nearby.

　I observed the gate again and suddenly noticed a round handle-like object. It's a large metal handle.

"....I'm supposed to pull this...?

　There was no way it could move. So I examined the handle and realized that it wasn't a handle.

　It was a door knocker.

　Skeptical, I lifted the handle and slammed it against the metal plate attached to the gate.

　A low, heavy sound resounded and the vibration was transmitted to my hand.

''It won't open, will it?

　The moment I muttered that, the gates began to open slowly towards the inside of the castle, on both sides at the same time.

　As I stepped inside the castle, watching the gates slowly open, the lights came on one by one, starting near the gates. They're oil lamps attached to the walls, ceiling and pillars.

''U, oh........''

　The brightened view of the castle left me speechless.

　The castle was large and the ceiling was high enough to look up. The round, arched ceiling was filled with paintings of white-winged and armor-clad humans, lion-like animals and dragons, creating a strange atmosphere.

　The thick and huge pillars are decorated with statues, and the gold and silver ornaments are gorgeous and gorgeous. The floor is made of polished and clean stones that seem to reflect the ceiling, and a red carpet is spread from the gate to the back of the building.

　I felt as if I had wandered into a movie.

　And as I was looking around the castle with that thought in mind, I unconsciously noticed the inner part of the gate that was opened.

''Whoa!''

　A large humanoid machine like object was standing behind the gate. It would be about two and a half to three meters tall. Its stocky body shape seems to have a certain charm to it.

''You opened it for me?

　I tried to talk to him, but he didn't respond.

'Thanks,'

　For now, I'll just say that and go back to exploring the castle.

　As I walked along the red carpet, there were three doors on each side and a large column in front of me.

　The column that stretched to the ceiling had a square line that looked like a door, and as I approached it, it broke off on its own from side to side.

'Automatic doors,'

　I say that vaguely out loud, and then I walk into the column. It's a round room with a white floor and white walls.

　When I walk to the middle and look back, I notice a panel next to the automatic door. The silver panel had a white button with the numbers one through five written on it.

　It was an elevator.

'It's the top floor after all,'

　Without hesitation, I pressed five, and the automatic door closed and the floor rises.

　The floor rises soundlessly, and suddenly the walls become transparent, allowing you to see the view outside.

　A hallway stretches out like an upscale hotel, with doors leading to the floor on either side.

　On the floor, countless robots stand in a large, dimly lit space.

　The floor with many windows on all sides, and a bright hall filled with sunlight.

　And in the space of a dozen seconds or so, the views of the floors in the middle of the building flowed one by one, and at the last floor, the floor stopped rising.

　The automatic door opened to reveal a space that was much smaller than before. It's dimly lit and not very clear, but it looks like a room with a jumble of things.

　As I stepped off the elevator, the room was automatically filled with light.

　There were four huge screens on the walls in all four directions, and several mysterious instruments lined up underneath them. From the front, two desks and two chairs are lined up in order, and there seem to be eight sets of them in total on all four sides.

''.......Huh? It's not what I imagined...

　I sat down in the chair in front of me, tilting my head and looking at the top of the desk. The surface of the desk seemed to be a screen, blackened.

　When I touch my finger, I hear a phone-calling sound, and letters line up on the black screen.

　I find the letters I'm interested in among them.

'Camera below...?'

　I put my finger on it as I read the words.

　The next moment, the huge screens on the four walls turned blue.

　If I looked closely, I could see that the blue was undulating and that it was reflecting the deep sea.

　The screens on all four sides must have been reflecting in different directions.

　In other words, this castle was floating in the middle of the ocean.

On the ocean. There's nothing interesting about it.

　Just as I was muttering to myself, a black shadow appeared on the screen in front of me.

　No, it's a fish shadow.

　I've been able to occasionally see what looks like a white bird, and I can tell that the shadow is unusually large.

　I've never seen it, but if it's a whale or something, is it as huge as this?

　While I was thinking about this and observing it with great interest, the shadow of the fish curled up and suddenly made a splash and broke through the surface of the water.

　Out of the water came a horrible looking mouth with sharp, irregularly sprouting teeth.

　Its huge mouth spread out to fill the screen and closed with a bang in front of him.

　With its mouth closed, it looked like an anglerfish with many large round eyes.

''I'm ... kind of, sorry.''

　It looked like Ankou was appealing to me because he was offended that I said it wasn't funny, and I apologized to the screen for once.