Are you with Dazai today?

"Liar...the adult version of me actually opened the door..."

The closed door in front of her opened a small gap, but just a small gap was enough to surprise the young version of Gloria. The person who knew her best was herself, so the small Gloria Knows exactly who she is.

"Gloria is here to face it?"

There is no difference between opening a door and opening a gap, anyone can enter as long as the door is opened.

"That means I can enter."

"...It could be, but, Chris."

The childish version of Gloria hesitated.

"You have to be careful. I am now very dangerous. After entering this door, I completely belong to her domain. I can't interfere, and I can't go with you. I'm sorry."

"No, it's okay, I'm very happy that you can bring me here, but I have something to ask you."

When facing the child version of Gloria, Chris gently stroked the top of Gloria's head like a big brother.

"Can you help Reinhardt? I'm worried about him."

"I don't like him because he's, uh...smelly?"

"Eh?"

Chris froze for a moment.

"Smelly...?"

He didn't think there was any unpleasant smell on Reinhardt's body at all, rather, he didn't know if it was because of the shampoo. Reinhardt's body always had a faint mint smell.

"The stink I mentioned is different from the stink in Chris's mouth!"

Gloria rubbed against Chris' palm, her voice rising, as if she was being coquettish.

"Is it because of the mark on his hand?"

"Yes—so I don't like him."

Chris was dumbfounded.

"However, I hope he can survive, not in any capacity, this is just Chris's personal request, I hope you can help him."

Gloria's mouth was pouted, but even though she looked very reluctant, she nodded slightly.

"Let me tell you first, I'm not that strong, and I might not be able to keep him at all."

"I understand."

Chris chuckled lightly.

"Now I finally see something of Gloria in you. The timid and shy look just now is really unaccustomed."

"Acting skills, acting skills, don't they all say that a weak and pitiful girl can make people let go of their vigilance? It will be difficult if you strike me with a sword."

A childish version of Gloria nudging Chris.

"Let's go, be careful with 'me'"

"Ah."

— Chris opened the door

……

The shattered and floating stone slabs were constantly moving, and the suspended eyes stared closely at the 'uninvited guest' who came in, but they did not take any action, and it seemed that they had no intention of attacking.

This is the same space with weird gravity as Abigail's place before. Chris looked at the floating rubble and didn't know how to walk for a while.

The problem is how to get there to see Gloria. If I just walk aimlessly like this, I'm afraid I won't see her in the next century.

I made a mistake. I didn’t expect that there was such a space inside. I knew I should have asked the childhood version of Gloria in advance. It’s too late to regret it now. To return, the door that would allow him to go back also disappeared.

"Huh? That's..."

At this moment, Chris noticed that not all the eyeballs were staring at him. One eye with a black pupil was facing away from him, and it seemed to be looking far to the left.

"Over there? Try it."

It is much more difficult to advance among the floating stones than on flat ground, not to mention the fact that the current gravity is not consistent with the gravity on the earth.

Every time Chris has to calculate the movement trajectory of the stone in advance, and pay attention to controlling the strength of his jump, in case he jumps over the foothold he has chosen with too much force. At the beginning, Chris will make a few mistakes , but as his proficiency increases, he will no longer make these time-delaying mistakes.

The further you go in, the clearer the unpleasant sound of playing music, buzzing in your head, and lingering for a long time.

Chris rubbed his brows, at this moment he suddenly felt a tingling pain, the pain stopped his movements, and the painful arm was slowly melting like a candle under his gaze.

"Really...it's not funny at all."

The melting arm is real, and the pain conveyed by the brain is so vivid, Chris almost laughs out loud at the absurdity of the scene.

"Stop joking, this is too unreasonable."

In fact, Chris also knew in his heart that nothing normal happened to this messy space since he entered it. The frightening Abigail, a weird bug-like creature, was disorderly and did whatever he wanted.

Under the warning of the pain, Chris had no choice but to gather his energy and hurry up to move on. It is obviously impossible to return now, hoping that there will be something he wants ahead.

It hurts, it hurts, and there are more and more pains. Chris is not sure if his face is also dissolved in this space, but fortunately, his body can still move, and his legs can still run. The words are not over yet.

For some unknown reason, the strawberry cake conjured up by the childhood version of Gloria did not suffer any loss in this space. At most, the shape of the cream became uglier than before during the bumps.

In the continuous torture like knife cutting, the black cocoon-like fortress was finally reached.

"Gloria, are you there? Gloria!"

It wasn't until Chris spoke that he realized his voice had become hoarse, possibly from hurting his vocal cords as parts of his body dissolved.

Awful.

"...Leave me alone, Chris, let's go."

A faint but familiar voice came from the round shell.

"Don't say that kind of thing, I've come here."

Gloria could barely stand and talk without pain in her back, and she didn't know what he had gone through to get here, but for the sake of her going berserk, Chris still tried hard to suppress the little anger in his heart.

"Woo, I can't do it anymore, just let me fend for myself for a waste like me."

"Nothing like that, don't say that about yourself."

The anger that was finally suppressed rose again because of Gloria's words.

What is this person still talking about until now, if Gloria doesn’t do anything by herself According to what Tina said, the world may be destroyed because of her, in that case neither public nor private Chris can leave.

Seriously, Chris's fist was itching a bit.

"Wow! Just leave by yourself!"

【click】

Gloria, who was hugging her knees and crying pitifully, heard the sound of something breaking, and a small crack was broken in the shell that wrapped her, and a faint but unignorable shimmer of light was revealed from the gap.

"Chris... wait Chris?! I didn't say you're allowed in!?"

"Who cares about you!"

Chris swung the epee in his hand almost in a smashing way. There was no way to chop and chop. Just like a beginner, the epee hit the black barrier with a dull sound.

"Do you know how much effort I've put in to get here? Although it's true that you got to where you are now because you saved me, do you know what's going on outside now?"

Chris gets angry when he thinks about his own experience.

"Entering a strange space, meeting strange people, and being hunted down, it's already annoying enough! But, ugh... I'm in terribly painful, terribly frightened!"

Chris couldn't hold back a choked sob, and the emotions that had been temporarily concealed from Abigail burst out.

"You cry, I want to cry too! Really, one and two... woo... woo woo."

"Eh? Eh? Wait a minute, Chris, calm down, I know, I know, I will open it, don't cry!"

Gloria, who was still hugging her knees and crying just now, panicked when she saw Chris crying, and hurriedly removed the barrier protecting her.

Gloria saw Chris with red eyes and teardrops on his face. The other's face was hilariously twisted together because of the special effect of this space, and his body was also damaged in various places, so he was in a mess.

"How...how did you make yourself like this."

Gloria was made to laugh and cry by Chris, but she couldn't laugh at all after seeing Chris' physical condition.

"Here, strawberry cake, although I messed it up a bit, but I think... woo... it's still edible."

Chris sobbed and handed the cake to Gloria.

"I want to eat with you, so I have two."

"You are, you are, Chris, you are an idiot!"

Gloria took the strawberry cake, not paying attention to the bumpy whipped cream on top.

"Wow wow wow, don't say I'm an idiot."

At Gloria's words, Chris sobs and looks like he's about to cry again.

"Okay, okay, it's not a fool, it's not a fool, Chris is a genius in my family, hey, don't cry, please don't cry!"

Gloria quickly comforted the crying child. No matter how mature Chris usually looks, he is still a child.

No matter what will happen after this, what is the ending of this world, at least at this moment, the devil does not look like a devil, the brave man turns into a crybaby, and the devil actually comforts the brave, where did this come from a third-rate novel .

What do you do when you meet someone who is unreasonable?It's fine to be more unreasonable than him, but good boys can't learn, but because it's a special case, please forgive them.

Hush

The author has something to say: This story is coming to an end, and there are still a few chapters to go to Dazai (rubbing hands)