Volume 9 Chapter 35 Semi-Circular Round Table
When the magicians began to fight, risking their responsibilities, pride, and lives, there were those who were weighed in the balance.
"here..."
Lisha regained consciousness and realized that she was sitting in a chair.
The place she was in was a white room.
A simple room with no unnecessary decorations.
A round table was placed there, and several girls were sitting there.
"Lisha-san!"
"This...where did Nest go?"
Yunea and Bertina raise their voices in confusion.
They were also forced to sit on chairs like Lisha.
Lisha stood up and tried to assess the situation.
But it wasn't possible.
"I-I can't stand up."
She puts her hands on the desk, twists her body, tries in every possible way to get up from the chair, but Lisha's body never gets up from the chair.
The feeling of restraint isn't there. As long as she's on the chair, her body can move freely.
But she can't move from the chair.
It seems that Yunea and Bertina are in the same situation, struggling to stand up.
Then, a calm voice was heard.
"No matter how hard you try, you can't move. That's the kind of place this is."
"You..."
She was too focused on Yunea and Bertina and didn't notice. A girl with bright blonde hair and red eyes, looking like a younger Lisha.
It was the first time they met, but she immediately knew who she was. Perhaps as fellow captives, she felt some connection.
"Mevia-sama, isn't it?"
"Yeah. I'm the idiot who got caught first."
Mevia snorted displeasedly. One of the four heroes who traveled with Yuusuke to defeat the Demon Lord in Asteris.
Mevia is a master healer who is also known as the Saint who Breaks Commandment.
She had heard from Nest that she had fallen into enemy hands.
Fortunately for her, she did not appear to be injured and appeared to be in good physical and mental health.
"If Mevia-sama is here, does that mean this place is in the hands of the enemy?"
She had some expectations.
Once she was swallowed up by that huge magic circle in the mountain, her control was over there.
"Yeah. This place seems to be in a space called 'Kakehashi (Bridge to the Universe).' It's a different space created using magic."
"Another space. Something like Magic Domain?"
"If you look at it in a broad sense, that's true. However, when it comes to this scale, it's better to think of it as something completely different."
"A sense of scale?"
Mevia pointed above her with her chin.
When the three of them looked up, what they saw was not a white ceiling, but a mysterious space, like a rainbow-colored mist, like a night sky filled with an aurora.
The sky rippled as if waiting for everyone to look up, reflecting various scenes. There, Kanami, Tsukiko, Sharla, and Eris were fighting.
"Are they all fighting right now?"
Just like everyone else, they must have been brought to this 'Bridge to the Universe (Kakehashi).' If that's the case, the opponent is naturally a Grimoire.
"Yeah, it seems like the battle just started a while ago. As you can see, apart from where we are, there are several other spaces that exist separately."
"――‼"
Seeing their comrades fighting, Lisha tried to stand up again. However, no matter how hard she tried, the result didn't change.
Watching Lisha like that, Mevia said,
"Stop it. It's a magic spell to maintain this much space. It's not something that can be changed by one person's effort."
"If that's the case, then I'll do this."
Lisha answered so, she kneaded her magic power and activated magic around her body. It was obvious that some force was restraining her from the outside.
If so, she should block it with Sanctuary.
But that didn't work.
"Sanctuary, it's not activating..."
She couldn't even cover her body with Sanctuary. She could knead magic power inside her body, but she couldn't release it outside.
"I told you. The scale is completely different. This room isn't structured for one person's magic power to do anything."
"Even so, I can't just stand here and watch!"
Gritting her teeth, Lisha widened her eyes and pushed her magic power to the limit. Her hair floated up, and a crackling sound of magic power colliding echoed.
A few seconds.
That was the only time Lisha could resist activating her magic.
The consciousness faded as if a balloon had burst, and Lisha collapsed onto the desk.
"Seriously, I'm not just saying this..."
"...Everyone is fighting. If I stay like this, I'll just be a burden again."
Lisha said while still collapsed on the desk, even if it was just for a moment when her consciousness faded.
Mevia sighed.
Until these three came, they had done exactly the same thing. She couldn't make fun of them.
"It's not about just silently waiting. Believe and conserve your strength. Don't waste unnecessary energy. Until they come, until that moment."
"Believe and wait."
"Yuusuke, Eris, and Kougarou are here too, right? Then they'll come. I've entrusted my life to them all this time. They have never betrayed me. You also have reliable comrades, don't you?"
"...Yes, I do."
Lisha lifted her heavy body and looked up.
There, everywhere, a fierce battle was unfolding.
If there is anything she can do right now, it's to not avert her eyes from this battle.
While doing so, she noticed something.
"Yuusuke-san is not here."
It's difficult to understand because multiple images are advancing simultaneously, but Yuusuke's figure is nowhere to be seen.
"...Strange. That idiot wouldn't be the first to bite the dust."
It's odd that he's the only one not being shown, even though they've gone to the trouble of showing the others.
The unexpected answer came from an unexpected source.
"If it's the hero, he is currently in the midst of a dialogue with our master."
"Wha-!"
"What?!"
The four who were looking up turned their gaze toward the source of the voice.
The wall that the semicircular round table was adjacent to.
The completely white wall had vanished as if it had never been there from the start.
The remaining half of the round table.
Three humans were seated there.
Lisha didn't recognize any of the three. However, Kanami, who had confirmed their faces with Clairvoyance, had shown her sketches of two of them.
The young man with flaxen hair is Finn Canatilla Sarnold, self-proclaimed "Key" and the seventh prince of the Sarnold Empire.
And there is another slender man with tied black hair, the magician who usurped Sharla's magic, Kushina Mikoto.
The last person was the only one Lisha truly had no recollection of.
Her soft, shoulder-length golden hair carried a faint glow, and her vivid crimson eyes looked at them with a playful expression.
――She resembles someone.
The moment Lisha saw the girl, she thought so.
Like Mevia and herself, this girl also resembled her from her childhood.
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