I have become stronger, but also shorter [comprehensive]

On the first day of "camping", the strongest trio lost one member.

The specific reason is too embarrassing, so I will skip it here and not review it.The current situation is that Eric and Saitama have no choice but to move on.

The ones who got lost happened to be superpowers with the ability to find people.

The remaining two people, without exception, may have the only shortcoming that they do not have the skills to accurately find people, which is particularly stretched at this time.

Assuming that the "fools" can persist tenaciously in this world until they find them - it should be the most correct judgment to do a basic investigation of the current environment.

At present, Eric and the others just feel that this broken place is a bit strange. At most, the creatures that are not insects are disgusting, which affect the perception.

"But speaking of it, this forest is quite big... Well, the smell is also quite strong."

Saitama suddenly said something.

He was still a little puzzled: "After staying here for a long time, I have an inexplicable feeling of nausea-strange, I have seen a lot of weird people who look weird and out of shape. Why didn't I have this feeling of nausea before?"

Could it be that staying in a peaceful world for too long has resulted in a decline in psychological endurance?

Not likely.

"...Let's go first."

In order to initially observe the world, they did not teleport to any place randomly, but picked a direction and walked straight forward. During the process, they cleaned up countless monsters that rushed to try to eat people.

Eric also smelled what Saitama said.

It's very light, and it's not all the smell of blood. It's hard to describe in a few simple words.But in terms of essence, it is a rotten smell, no wonder Saitama feels sick to his stomach.

"Out of the forest, ask someone, and you should be able to understand." The silver-haired boy said, his eyes suddenly fell into the shadow under a certain giant tree in front of him.

It was a depression covered by tree shadows, half-decomposed animal remains lay here, and dense white bones were protruding from the carrion that had not yet completely rotted.

And in the middle of the wreckage, probably between the sternum.

A gorgeous flower blooms on the corpse.

Time should have passed for a long time, but this flower has not faded yet.

The color of the petals is blood red, and it will not stand out in a garden full of flowers.

However, placed here in a dark place, it is like the only blooming flower in the entire forest, becoming the only color here, eye-catching, strange and bewitching.

"Oh, let's go then... What's the matter, is there anything over there?"

Saitama was talking, and found that Eric was looking in the same direction without moving for a long time, so he asked.

His own eyes also shifted there, but before he could clearly see the true content of the things there, the target was destroyed lightly by his friend.

"Whoa!"

What the man couldn't see clearly froze in an instant, turning into a large lump of ice, and then shattered into pieces, the same way he used to deal with waste products that he didn't want to waste time.

Saitama: "Huh?"

Eric raised his foot without changing his face: "Nothing, let's go."

Saitama: "Oh, let's go."

He didn't ask any more, and showed his absolute trust in his friends to the fullest... Anyway, he wouldn't tell Eric if he asked, as long as he knew the truth, it would definitely be harmless to them.

The two moved on.

Although they rely on "walking", at their speed, even walking is several times faster than ordinary people.

Generally, human beings need to walk for at least a week on their legs. It only took the two of them half a day to cross half of the dense forest and reach the end of it——

"..."

"..."

"It's interesting."

This was the first sentence Eric said after standing on the top of a tall tree and looking into the distance.

Of course it was not a comment with appreciation, on the contrary, even though his fiery golden pupils were shrouded in the bright sunlight above his head, there was still ice floating there.

"This shape, this purposely divided area, and the only bridge over there..."

Saitama finally saw this scene clearly.

Before he clicked his tongue subconsciously, his eyes were slightly opened, and he tasted something wrong in time.

"Hey, Eric, don't you feel it." Saitama slowly gestured with his hand: "The place we see now is artificially made...?"

Later, his guess was omitted in the hesitation that he couldn't help thinking deeply, but Eric must understand.

In fact, the situation in the eyes, reflected in the eyes of anyone with a little bit of thinking ability and common sense, will lead to the same answer.

Come to the end of the forest, there is no way to continue forward in the normal way.

I don't know how deep the cliff is, between the forest and the high wall that stands opposite.

Just standing on the edge of the cliff and looking down roughly will bring endless fear, let alone trying to cross the insurmountable abyss-or imagine from the perspective of ordinary people.

On the opposite side is a high wall that continues to extend to both sides, as if there is no end.

However, if you stand at the highest point and look from a distance, you will find that the wall actually has a border.

Extending to a certain distance, the wall next to the cliff will turn and tilt, constructing a rigorous and compact whole.

What Eric and the other two saw was a huge enclosed space composed of five perfect equilateral triangles.

The boundaries that make up a perfect equilateral triangle are also walls.

It is the tall wall rising here that separates the huge area. Each area is lush and green, and a solitary building stands in it, not connected to other areas.

If you don't look at these walls, you can make them think that this is a quiet place with beautiful scenery.

But the dark wall cuts off the originally pleasant scenery, like a giant monster guarding here and warning the people in the fence, with a very strong sense of depression.

It's strange to have one place like this, let alone five places gathered here.

Eric and the others also saw that there was only one real passage connecting the cliff and the forest side, and that was a long bridge located quite far away.

At the other end of the bridge, there are buildings quite different from the five white buildings inside the wall.

Suddenly it was even weirder.

What is this place, and why is there such an unusual layout?

There is a white building in each area, and the quiet and refreshing scenery in the area is as consistent as copying and pasting.If this is perfunctory by the designer, is it too perfunctory?

And this cliff.

why--

"There are so many whys."

Not surprisingly, Eric grew impatient.

He only glanced ahead, and felt that this broken place was full of weirdness.

Unlike Saitama's constant nausea, he's direct, he just wants to smash this unsightly place—

"Calm down, calm down, don't do anything before you figure out what's going on."

Seeing that his friend's expression was wrong, although he didn't know the reason, Saitama immediately stopped him, and managed to restrain Eric, who was inexplicably upset:

"The place connected to the bridge seems to be very important. Let's go there and have a look first. We should be able to get important information... Well, in short, don't be impulsive."

"alright."

Eric deserved a little bit of reluctance, but his calmness could still suppress the inexplicable emotional fluctuations in his heart, so he didn't object.

"Your face is a bit ugly." Saitama asked again: "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Eric said.

Looking at it again at this time, the boy's expression has returned to normal, and there is no clue that he only showed some strangeness before.

Saitama was skeptical, but he couldn't see anything unusual, so he had to give up.

There are many suspicious places that can be visited, and they gave priority to the most suspicious and eye-catching one.

With the strength of the two of them, it only took a few seconds to kick in the door from the front and take out all the living things in this building at one go...

No, it's too much like a bully coming to you.

Then go another way.

Instead of blasting the door directly, Eric intends to go in low-key first, grab someone who can talk and ask for details, judge whether he needs to adapt to his inner rage, and clean up this broken place——

Saitama: "Ah, here you go again. Shhh, we're sneaking in now."

However, at this time, the man who hinted at lowering his volume by hissing his voice was not necessarily so low.

After removing a certain window that should have been sealed, they "sneaked" in smoothly.

As soon as Saitama's voice appeared, it spread in the space where he had landed, with a bit of echo.

No one noticed them because there was no one there.

In other words, no one is there temporarily.

Eric's luck seemed to improve a lot suddenly, and there was no situation where he was surrounded heavily as soon as he entered.

But when he came in, his brows couldn't help but tightened.

Taking a closer look, the lines between the brows are deeper, and the expression on the silver-haired boy's face at this time, in the words of the sharp-eyed man next to him, is "as if I saw a nest of taboo wild beasts, and I can't get in. Retreating makes me seem weak, so I am so entangled in a dilemma."

"—I'll catch it."

Saitama reached out his hand as quickly as lightning.

Eric: "?"

"What are you doing, you think I'm going to run away? How is it possible, put your hands away quickly."

Saitama: "No, you can't let it go, I believe you Eric, you will not escape, you will only..."

"You don't take a step forward even if you kill yourself! Walk around, if you don't move forward, you won't have any hope of victory!"

"Can't I walk by myself! Need you to drag... Hey! Saitama, let go! It's so annoying!"

Less than ten seconds after quietly sneaking into the target building, Eric and Saitama got into an argument.

One desperately wanted to drag the other forward, but the latter really didn't want to get close to it from the bottom of his heart, and would rather turn around and pull the former in the opposite direction.

They had a serious disagreement on whether to go forward or backward.

"Isn't it just a row of cute babies? What are you afraid of!"

"It's an easier road. If you don't take it, you have to step on the thunder, stupid, no, stupid, ah, stupid!"

The subsequent pause was a difficult sound that had to be squeezed out between the teeth under the condition of the whole body being particularly exerted.

It is not yet clear where this is.

But Eric, the strongest person's intuition seems to be on the line first, making him have to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.

Yes, there is no danger here, but there is a riot lurking and waiting to break out.

What they randomly entered was a rather spacious room. Ignoring the mechanized facilities and equipment on the side, rows of neatly arranged cradles came into view first.

Needless to say what the cradle is for.

"……hiss!"

Eric should have emphasized many times that he doesn't like children.

Back then when he was hanging out with the teenage brats, it was because he subconsciously wanted to find something, so he made a mistake and said that he had no intention of getting close to the brats—at least he thought so.

At the moment he still thinks so.

On this basis, thirteen or fourteen-year-old brats are noisy enough.

Eric couldn't even imagine what a tortured hell scene it would be for real human cubs under the age of thirteen or fourteen to make a fuss.

Although hell has not yet appeared at this moment.

However, it seems that there is a curse in the invisible.

The silver-haired boy who doesn't like to be surrounded by little ghosts will always be entangled by little ghosts who pop up out of nowhere and stick to him for no reason.

This was the case thousands of years ago.

This is still the case thousands of years later.

This has probably become an unsolved mystery that is difficult to find the reason for.

So, this time.

The best way to keep yourself out of trouble is to cut off the possibility of getting into trouble right at the source.

It means...

Don't go there, the farther away the better!

"Don't do that! The thing you're worried about hasn't happened yet!"

Saitama is about to lose out from the standoff.

Eric was determined to stay away from this place. Even if the human cubs who belonged to the first juvenile stage could not crawl or run, and it was impossible to entangle him, he refused to repeat the same mistakes.

"……All right."

Saitama could only hold on to his friend while trying to say: "Can I tell the truth one more time?"

Eric, who won't change his mind no matter what he says: "Say!"

"You have been entangled by children to gain experience, and you should be able to sum up an undoubted fact by the way——"

"What?"

Saitama took a deep breath: "Every time you meet some children, Eric, no matter how unwilling you are, you will be entangled in the end."

Eric: "!"

Saitama: "This is the so-called destiny."

Eric: "???"

Saitama: "What should come will always come, let it be, just get used to it. Be happy."

Eric: "... what!!!"

Being poked at the sore spot, the silver-haired boy was furious, and he was about to fight for hundreds of rounds with his friend who didn't save face.

Boom, boom.

The ground seemed to shake twice as they spoke back and forth.

When this change first appeared, it attracted the attention of the two of them.

Eric and Saitama stopped at the same time and looked back.

No sign.

The machine placed near the cradle suddenly floated up, as if being grabbed and waved by a transparent hand, it was actually dangling in mid-air by itself.

As if worried that it would not attract enough attention, only one floated up first, and then dozens of instruments waved together.

The only dissonance is that during the dance, these instruments almost collided with each other several times.

Very inexplicably.

In this situation, it gives people an illusion that the person who controls them has worked hard to adjust the track, but is still affected by unknown reasons, and cannot control it perfectly, leading to the rollover... illusion?

Saitama: "..."

Eric: "..."

They were not intimidated at all by the supernatural event that the object flew up by itself, they looked at each other, and then rushed to the place where the mutation happened in an instant.

In fact, it was only ten steps away.

On the right side of the cradle area, the two people who came immediately stopped here.

A variety of stubbornly dancing instruments now returned to their original positions, replaced by a few lines of characters formed by the flow of mysterious white liquid.

First of all, the first sentence: [It’s fine to open the window and come in. Don’t you see that there are eight cameras in the corner of this room? 】

Followed by the second sentence: [If I hadn't discovered it in time, you would have been exposed by now, you are really two idiots. 】

Then, there is the third sentence that seems to use enlarged and bold fonts to express inner emotions:

[Don't ask me why I became like this, don't ask, and don't show a weird expression-I said it all!No!May!laugh! 】

Saitama: "No..."

Eric: "You..."

Did not laugh.

What nonsense are they laughing?

how is this possible.

With Eric's indifferent personality that never cares about other people's affairs, and Saitama's upright personality, it is impossible to do things that are ridiculed in front of people.

Even if it is suddenly discovered that they are just friends who have been lost for a long time, they are here.

Lie in one of the row of cradles.

And they would never, without compassion, laugh out loud—

"..."

"..."

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Writing with milk! It tastes that way, it must be milk! Damn! I am convinced, Saiki Kusuo, you are really a genius!"

"Hahahahahahaha, hahahaha, it's too bad, Eric, help me quickly, I can't stand this development, it's too unexpected, puff-hahahahaha!"

They didn't laugh in front of Saiki Kusuo who was lost and found again, but went out to laugh out of face.

The laughter is like the rustling autumn wind, and it is very impactful when it reverberates in the forest.

Saiki Kusuo: "..."

Oh sorry, correct me.

As if hit by a ghost, he turned into a superpower in the state of a child after missing a chapter: "..."

Same thing with not being able to ask Eric how short he is.

At this time, the superpower user is blocking everyone, and when he hears the insolent whisper that cannot be stopped by the wall or a distance of several kilometers, the black air is even more shocking-if he can stand up from the cradle.

For some reason, Saiki Kusuo has been unlucky since he met those two people.

Although, this fits the "novelty" criterion perfectly.

Before that, Saiki Kusuo never thought that he would shrink.Still shrinking, it shrinks into this virtue.

This was not the worst of luck.

Recall that more than ten years ago, even if the omnipotent superpower was just born, he was still a baby, and he was already able to use superpowers proficiently.

Levitating yourself, letting something float, twisting an iron spoon out of a 720-degree turn, etc., are all trivial things.

But now.

The same is the state of infants and young children.

Because of various irreversible reasons, the superpowers who inadvertently sneaked into the childcare center here fell into a situation where they were forced into the cradle and were unable to resist.

The superpowers that I had finally accumulated from zero blocked the camera, swiped the machine a few times and wrote a few lines, and it basically returned to zero.

It's too awful.

The baby version of the psychic (hereafter simply referred to as baby Kusuo) was unable to speak, so that he could not break his composure again, and reprimanded the two heartless men with sharp words.

About a quarter of an hour passed since the trio reunited after half a day.

Back in the dense forest, the two let go of their worry that Kusuo boy would be scared by bugs and evaporate out of thin air, and finally laughed enough to let the correct train of thought go back.

"How did Qi Mu become like that?"

"Why did Kusuo go there and be taken care of as one of his own?"

At present, both Eric and Saitama feel that this is not a good place. There is no basis for it, just a feeling.

When they saw the huge room full of cribs, they felt that something was wrong, but they knew too little at the moment, so they couldn't judge further.

Now I must go back and take out the baby Kusuo.

However, there was an accident that the plan could not keep up with the change.

When Eric and the two returned the same way, the window that had been removed earlier had been restored to its original state, which should have been done by the baby Kusuo.

There are more than a hundred cradles in the childcare center, but there are no pink-haired babies born with expressionless faces.

Missing with baby Kusuo, there are about a dozen other babies.

By mistake, during the time Eric and Saitama were going out, they were taken away by the people who came in behind.

When Eric and the two found the baby Kusuo again, he was being held in the arms of a woman in a nun's attire.

It was a black-haired woman with excellent temperament, dignified and gentle, from the gentle and beautiful eyebrows, full of maternal brilliance.

The nun carefully carried the baby Kusuo through a rather long dark passage.

Accompanied by the clicking sound, the bright sunlight from outside the passage happened to be projected in, trying to pierce the eyes of the visitor who had just emerged from the darkness.

"Are you asleep...good boy."

At the first moment, the nun raised her hand and covered the baby's fragile eyelids with her palm.

Even if a child of this age can't open their eyes and be protected from the bright light, she still has to do it.

When making this gentle move, the black-haired nun seemed to exude a soft but bright light all over her body.

She took the newborn baby she just received from 【】, and embarked on the return journey that she had gone through countless times.

At the end of the road is the only white building in the triangular space.

……

Because Saiki Kusuo was here, he could only temporarily leave behind the secret of the unknown building and follow the two people who came over to take a panoramic view of this scene.

They fell into deep thought, and then, they all seemed to realize something in unison.

They looked at each other very tacitly.

"Could it be..."

"Could it be..."

"—Is this an orphanage?"

"—Kusuo boy really likes the gentle big sister of the mature type?"

Eric: "..."

Saitama: "..."

The baby Kusuo, whose super powers have recovered a little bit, can't bear it anymore (telepathy): "Enough! Come here!"

"This place is an orphanage, and it's not an orphanage. Here, it's—"