Volume 27 - Prologue

「Alec-san, I need to talk to you.」

On the day when I was relaxing in a good mood after the grand wedding ceremony in Vernia, Fianna came to my room.

She was a devout cleric in a white cleric's uniform, with long light blue hair. She's my girl with kind eyes.

「Talk? What is it?」

「Uhm ......」

So Fianna is about to say it and falls silent.

「It's okay. Just say it.」

「Okay. Then I'll say this...... Underneath the Great Desert, where Cerberus was, there was a gate to the Underworld, wasn't there?」

There was a gate that we found when we challenged the Seven Trials for fighting against the mighty Emperor Gilan.

「Ah. There it is. I don't know if it's true or not.」

「I've heard many stories about it from Letty and the High Priestess, but it seems to be real.」

「Mumurghh.」

The gate to the underworld - if it's real, what is Fianna going to ask me to do?

「I heard that there is a world of the dead on the other side of that gate. Once there――」

「No」

I said, interrupting her words.

What are you going to do? No, I know. Fianna is probably trying to bring back to life her childhood friend, Dill something.

I don't know how I feel about that. The guy she was partying with is dead.

But the dead does not come back to life.

That is an absolute and immutable law.

Even in this world of magic and monsters, there is no such thing as a temple of resurrection.

So, if you try to bring them back to life, they will either become a zombie or you will fail. Either way, it wouldn't end well.　

I don't know how to cheer up a depressed Fianna at that time, because I've never experienced the loss of someone important.

「Please, I beg you」

Normally, she would never be selfish, but she stubbornly refused to give in. I can feel it.

「Fumu, Fianna ......, anyway, let's discuss this once with the party members. Okay?」

「Yes, thank you very much!」

It's not like we've decided to go yet, but this kind of joy is troubling.

「Ehh? The 『Gates of the Underworld』 is .......」

I gathered the whole clan to talk about it, but as I thought, Serina and the others also looked troubled.

「It's fine, isn't it? Let's go! I've been wondering what's going on over there too.」

Jouga said without thinking about the future, but only out of curiosity.

「Me too! Maybe there's something delicious.」

「「「Nope, nope」」」

As expected, no one agrees with Marilyn's expectations. Because the gate was suspicious to look at, and had nothing to do with appetite.

Although it seems that food is the only thing on her Pink's mind.

「Ehh.」

「I agree with you. I've always wanted to go to the world of the dead. I'm sure there are rare items that can't be found anywhere else.」

said Letty, the dark blue mage.

But this guy is a mad scientist from the start. She'll be interested even if it's hell there.

「I'm against it. The dead don't come back to life, and they shouldn't be brought back to life.」

Ione, the blonde female swordswoman, says quietly, but with her common sense, she might be able to convince Fianna.

「That's right. Dead people don't come back to life. Well, maybe not if they're like vampires.」

Luka nodded, but then looked at her best friend, Hannah, as if she remembered.

「I'm not dead, you know. I'm just immortalized. Even if you're a vampire, it's hard to regenerate once your body decays.」

Said Hannah, the blonde rapier wielder.

「I guess so. Well, I can't say I'm going to try it.」

Saki, a lightly dressed Thief, crossed her arms and pondered, but the vampire was out of the main topic.

「Master, whether you can bring him back to life or not, why don't we take a look inside the gates of the underworld?」

My first lady, Meena, a dog-eared girl with white hair, started to say something like that.

As for me, I wanted her to somehow persuade Fianna. ...... Well, if she tries it once and finds out it doesn't work, she'll give up.

「All right. We'll check the gates of the underworld. Everyone get ready.」

「「「Roger!」」」