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"It's really strange." Zero also squeezed his chin and muttered.

Eugeo looked back at the road he was walking with a half-belief in his heart, and suddenly Alice murmured in his ear:

"If this is the Mountain Range at the End...then there is the Kingdom of Darkness behind? Although...we have walked for four hours, but this distance should not even reach Sakarya! Rulid Village...is really located in the world the edge of the..."

In other words, we don't even know where in the world the village we live in is located?Thinking of this, Eugeo could only stand there blankly.

No—maybe not even the adults in the village know that the Mountain Range at the End is so close.

Could it be that in the 300 years of history, we were the only four other than Bercouli who had passed through the forest to the north of the village...?

I always feel... something is wrong.Eugeo suddenly had this feeling in his heart, but he couldn't tell what made him feel strange.

Adults just get up at the determined time day after day, eat the same breakfast as yesterday, and then go to the wheat field, pasture, blacksmith or weaving place as yesterday.

Although Alice said just now that she would not be able to reach Sakarya even if she walked for four hours, none of the four had actually been to that town.

They just heard from adults that they can reach Sakarya after walking to the southern streets for two days.But among those adults, how many people have actually been to Sakarya and returned...?

Before Eugeo's growing doubts were officially formed, Alice said: "In short, since we are here, of course we have to go in and have a look. Before that, let's have a lunch."

After speaking, she took the wicker basket from Eugeo, and sat down at the junction of short weeds and gray gravel.

The three boys also found a place to sit down and started to quickly finish their lunch.

"If I could... find a lot of ice in that cave, tomorrow's lunch wouldn't be so rushed like this." Kirito muttered with his mouth full.

Zero glanced at him: "As far as you, a starving ghost, have reincarnated virtues, it's hard to say—"

Hearing this, Kirito was furious, swallowed the food and said angrily: "It's not because you and Eugeo grabbed it too fast! If you don't hurry up, you two will eat it all!"

"Hey... I don't have it." Eugeo raised his hand in protest.

"Okay, okay, pack up after eating and let's go." As usual, Alice stopped the noise of her friends.

The girl carefully folded the white cloth wrapped in the food and put it in the empty basket, then stood up.She came to the river with the cups for the four of them, and used the river water to wash the cups quickly.

"Wow!"

Alice couldn't help but let out a slight cry when her hand touched the river water.

A few people looked over, and zero doubt asked: "What's wrong?"

"The river water is really icy! It's like well water in the cold winter." Alice said while quickly washing the cup.

Saying that, she got up and handed the cup to Eugeo.

Eugeo took the cup and put it in the basket. Seeing Alice's hands that were red from the cold, his heart ached.

But Alice walked casually behind Zero as if she didn't care.

Then, with lightning speed, he stretched out his cold little hand to the back of Zero's neck.

"Wow--!"

Zero shrank his frozen neck and screamed.

Turning her head and glaring at Alice viciously, the girl had already run away with a silver bell-like laugh.

"You bastard!" Zero caught up angrily.

"Hey! Wait for us!" Eugeo and Kirito also rushed to catch up.

But they didn't run very far, and they all stopped. The reason is very simple——

It's too dark in the cave...

In the end, it was Alice who used the sacred spell to make the bristlegrass growing on the ground glow and dispel the darkness.

"Ai, Alice...is it okay to use spells for such things? Will it be punished by God or something..." Eugeo said weakly.

"Hmph, if you use this level of magic, you will be punished by the sky. I have been struck by lightning more than a dozen times." Alice put one hand on her hip and glanced at Eugeo.

Saying that, she handed the glowing dogtail to Eugeo.

Eugeo subconsciously took it, and then he reacted and said: "I... I go to the front?"

"That goes without saying. Do you want the weak girl to go first? Eugeo, you go in front of me, Kirito, you go behind me, Rei stays beside me, don't waste time, go quickly."

"Okay, okay." Under Alice's strong urging, Eugeo had no choice but to raise the light source in his hand, and began to shrink back into the depths of the cave.

Although the flat rock shed keeps turning left and right, it still has enough width for people to walk.

The gray rock walls glow wetly under the blue light, and sometimes there seems to be some small things moving in the dark where the light does not reach.

But no matter how intently they looked around, they couldn't find anything resembling ice.

Although there were a few gray icicle-like objects hanging down from the ceiling, it was obvious at first glance that they were just ordinary rocks.

After walking forward for a few minutes, Eugeo whispered to Zero behind him:

"Hey... didn't you and Kirito say that you can see the icicles as soon as you enter the cave?"

"Huh? Is there? That's probably what Kirito himself said..." Zero decisively blamed it.

Eugeo originally wanted to get close to his partner who pretended to be stupid and looked away, but Alice stopped him with her right hand, and quickly whispered:

"Hey, bring the light closer to me."

Eugeo subconsciously followed the instructions and brought the ear of grass in his right hand close to Alice's face.

At this point Alice pursed her lips into a circle, and breathed out into the light.

"what……"

"What, see? It's like winter, it can spit out white smoke."

"Wow, it's true. No wonder I felt so cold just now..."

"Although it's summer outside, it's winter inside this cave. So there must be ice."

"Well. Let's go a little further."

Eugeo turned his head, aimed the light on the grass ears at the depths of the cave that seemed to be getting wider, and then walked forward again with cautious steps.

What can be heard now, apart from the sound of the leather boots on the four people's feet rubbing against the rocks, is only the gurgling sound of the groundwater.

Even so close to the source, the flow of the river has not weakened.