152 - - The Thing in the Dark

Peter and I have come to a different road, now a winding road in a tree hollow.

While chasing after the white rabbit, we cross the obstacles almost alternately, with me maneuvering the gimmick through the narrow hole and Peter moving the cogwheel that cannot be moved in its small size.

While I was chasing the white rabbit while defeating enemies, the Cheshire cat snatched the white rabbit's pocket watch, and the white rabbit was taken away by a troop of card players.

The Cheshire cat has entered the hollow of the tree where I am advancing, and the white rabbit is being chased by Peter.

The enemies in this dungeon are stone-throwing lizards, fat twins who use magic and physics, and a griffin who was the boss in Hoth. Griffins do not appear among the enemies in the dungeon, but they are all characters from Alice's story. Many of the enemies are tricky to fight, and they drop spices and sugar and .......

"So I'd really like to hunt them all down, but I'm too small to move around ......."

I don't care about the front!

White fur is bliss.

That's it, once White took me for a ride, I didn't care about drop items or battles anymore. It's the kind of fluffy fluff that ruins people. I was covered in white fur, my whole body was soft and fluffy. Letting go of it is harder than getting out from under the covers on a cold winter day in a room without heating.

Here he is, the Cheshire Cat!

"White, I don't think Peter's arrived yet, so we'll take a detour."

Don't be stupid!　Take him down quickly!

Ugh, my bliss is gone.

I'm in a tree hollow, in an open forest.

I'm talking to a cat with a grin that reaches from ear to ear, made famous by the tale of .

A big cat with yellow eyes, a grin, and a face as squashed as a Dora Yaki with fine stripes. I like cats, but the mere fact that they're cats doesn't give me the fluff correction. I mean, the meow-ooh sound of the cat's voice is definitely not that of a cat. If you don't think it is a cat, it sounds like an old man saying "wah~~oh" at every opportunity.

Still, if it is a cat, I watch it and it meows "nya~oooo", wags its fluffy tail like a raccoon dog, and flicks its needle hairs at me.

You try to close the distance between you and it by cutting it off with your sword, but before it can reach you, it disappears, leaving a stripe behind, and appears behind you.

"What?

The stripe on its tail extends like a spring, and the drill-like tip pierces.

Turn around and shake it off, and this time it disappears, leaving behind a crescent-shaped mouth. Then it appears again with a smirk on its face in the other direction. .......

It forms a box in the air and attacks with its grinning tail in a variety of ways. It moves just before magic can reach it.

"This is not a matter of speed."

Not even at white speed have they been able to attack.

I examine my surroundings while dodging the needle hairs, but there is nothing gimmicky about it.

"Is there a specific place where it appears when only its mouth remains or when only its stripes remain?"

Its attacks are painful, but the most stressful thing is that it attacks only with its tail while smiling and laughing when we cannot hit it.

They are big and attack without even standing up. --The reason why they are so big is because I am small...anyway, let's observe them and find a pattern. Peter and Ochazuke are good at this kind of thing.

I've got Cheshire cat whiskers x5.

I've got Cheshire Cheese x 5.

I got a jar of salt from the Cheshire Cat x 5.

I got the magic stone of the Cheshire cat.

I got .

I got the .

I got the white rabbit pocket watch.

Wait, what's ?

The illusion of a glove with a cat's paw is attached, but what is it really a Hyakureyuken?

......Petero case in progress!　He is not really a fan of young girls, although he makes it into a story. He just likes little girls for some reason. Maybe he is not a true pedophile, maybe. Maybe?

For a moment I thought about giving it to Lapidus, but she was a wolf. I don't know any other young girls, but I'm not sure if this is acceptable for an adult female or not. I'm going to give it to Shin already.

The Cheshire cat was only hit by long-range physics the next time it disappeared leaving its stripes, only by magic the next time it appeared after disappearing leaving its mouth, and only by melee physics when it disappeared altogether. It was an ordinary enemy once I realized it, but it was frustrating until I realized it.

--I should also raise [Throwing] a little more seriously.

I don't think I beat him, since he disappeared leaving a crescent-shaped smile as in the original story. I can't help feeling that he is already grinning in the treetops somewhere.

"It seems I can finally go back."

< and examined it, and as I expected, the effect was to increase my body size. The chunky shape, yellow umbrella, and red polka dots reminded me of an item from a certain game that has been around for a long time and is still popular among younger people through VR, and I wondered if the copyrights were safe.

"Well, then, I'm out of your business.

"Oh, no, no!　It's just my imagination, they'll still be small for a while!"

I cling to my white chest hair. Wonderful white chest hairs, so soft and fluffy and silky to the touch!

The white, who gave me a short ride to the exit, has left, and I quietly eat the mushrooms. ...... why do they taste like chocolate?

I look back before going back out. The field that I thought was so big was smaller than the other bosses' fields.

When I went out of the exit, Peter was in the middle of a battle.

"I'm in!"

You're finishing up too fast.

"I ignored most of the enemies along the way."

and to Peter.

"I moved around so I wouldn't catch the enemy too."

"Shall I release the ring's ability?"

"No, there are too many of them, but I can avoid them. Maybe we have to kill all the heart cards first. The other cards multiply as they are defeated.

"And I think a lot of them are poisoned: ......"

"I just wanted to get them all [deadly poison] first."

"That's the way to do it."

Diamonds use recovery, clubs hit you with a club, and spades chase you with scissors. Hearts are magic. It is a general rule to defeat them from recovery first, but this time, hearts are the first to use magic. As I recall, the last boss of the original Alice is the Queen of Hearts.

If you aim at the heart, other cards will cover for it, and other cards have a higher H! is lower than that of the heart. I will refrain from using magic and try to defeat her without fail.

Peter and I know each other well since we often travel together in other games. I usually use melee physics and Peter uses bows and guns. I am not using a bow or a gun this time, but I am still in charge of the front.

I got 5 pieces of processed paper.

I've got five sugar jars of playing cards.

I've got 5 diamonds.

I got the club cudgel.

I got the magic stone of trump and diamonds.

I've got the .

"There are a lot of them, but their attacks are light and manageable range."

"No, normal parties don't avoid most of them."

Come to think of it, Peter also has [Val's blessing]. But he is fast and precise in exploiting the weak points. He seems to have difficulty in attacking from the front, but that can't be helped considering his occupation. He seems to be bad at ranged skills and wide-range magic, but he is able to repel single target magic. Since he only plays magic, not cuts it, it must be a different item effect or skill from <> or of my [Sword of Moonlight].

"I think Peter is out of the ordinary enough.

"I'm a single-minded person."

A white rabbit that seems to have been in the corner runs away.

When you follow it down the rabbit hole, the hole, which started out as a mud wall, turns into glass.

The hole leads to a spherical dome. Although you have fallen down the hole, you can see stars outside.

>

Verna.

He has black hair that melts in the darkness and heddles white heddleskin that floats in the darkness.

"You are my beloved Homura. Who is the other?

Peter.

You carry a piece of my power in your body, don't you?

"Now, there should be no place in the land of the living where I live and breathe."

Are you the king of the things that wear darkness?

"Okay, I give you my blessing."

I've heard that line before.

But Peter has a nice smile. He's mad, he's mad. Did he just tell us what he's been covering up? What is ......<>?

"I am the king of all things dark, but I don't like to reveal people's secrets in public."

"I am in the dark, not seeing but hearing."

"I know it only when I speak it."

You are Homura's servant.

"If you are not a part of this, then let there be a silence that stops the clock."

"There was no announcement of [deprivation]."

Peter shrugs and stops any further complaints from being filed.

"Mr. Peter, do assassins have master rings, by any chance?"

"Yes, there is?　If you reveal it, usually the whole skill of the assassin is [stripped]. Apparently, thanks to the ring contract, it's safe to talk to Homura?　I don't have a dragon ring, though, because of my profession or whatever. Instead, there is <?"

< and [Assassin]. I have a feeling that there are still many mysteries that we don't know about.

I mean, does the one-pointed specialization mean that they specialize in assassin?

"The first and eternal girl created by the White Alchemist."

"He named it ."

Alchemy, flasks, and made homunculus. Peter has noticed it, too, and is looking at the domed glass wall. It can't be a girl of this size, can it?

"The White Alchemist has come to the end of her life.

"<> tried to create an alchemist."

But only a girl can come from this flask.

"As long as <> wants to."

"The thing in the flask can be a girl."

"nor alchemists."

"You can never be anything."

"Things with ambiguous boundaries create boundary tears."

"That's why the flask and were sealed."

"Can you stop <>?"

"Can you stop what <> wants?"

"You can take him if you can stop him."

"<> is the weakest of the beasts we've sealed up.

It's very tricky.

You two are alone.

We might be able to work something out."

"It's decent from what I've heard, but ......"

"What?"

Peter, who had been listening silently at the end of the conversation, asks a question.

"Why are you serving pudding?"

"No, well, we had an appointment. Eventually, Verna was going to disappear after we finished talking."

Verna is munching on the pudding. The caramel sauce is a bit bitter, just the way Verna likes it.

"Is it different from the last time because of the ingredients?"

"Yes, as expected, I can't compete with Dru's ingredients."

"Hmm, I like this one, too, because it's rustic. What do you use?

"Eggs, milk, and sugar, basically."

Since the rank was high, I tried to make it again using the from here, but it was far from enough. I wonder if the labyrinth drops eggs but not milk. I wonder if Ole Rougeyer dropped milk in the labyrinth. I tried to find out if it is milk for polishing floors or for food, but I forgot.

"It's hard to react when you're served with pudding before the boss."

Some assassin ninja is talking while eating pudding.

Not very convincing!