Disedinel is currently on his bed, in his blue pajamas.

His apartment is almost one-to-one with Kaika's.

Disedinel was sleeping. What woke him up were several knocks on his door.

"Yeah, come in."

So he is letting whoever is knocking on the door come in, even though Disedinel is still on the bed in his pajamas.

"Hey, Dinel. It looks like I woke you up." It is a girl. She is wearing scrubs.

Her hair is the same color as Disedinel's.

Anyway... Dinel?

"Why are you here? To see me?" Disedinel didn't emit much energy as he spoke.

"No. Kaika told me to check on you this morning."

Her eyes are also just like Disedinel's...

"What? What is Kaika thinking?"

"You're saying there's nothing concerning you want to share with me?"

"No. There's nothing to have hurt me or anything."

Then why did Kaika do this?

"Then he wants us to talk. What happened while you were away?"

"Lee was taken away by the same guy I had an accident with."

"So that is why I didn't see him this morning. Look, Disedinel, you'll have to take him back from them."

"What do I do? He decided that he should get taken away from us, and he just walked to him and said that he will be the one to go."

...

"Alright. But do something to get him to come back. And get off the bed. It is already six."

Did I forget my alarm?

"I'll think of something. Bye, sis."

"Be smarter next time. Bye, Dinel."

So she is his sister. She had already left the apartment.

She isn't wrong. Let's get up and start the day.

Disedinel prepared his clothes. It seems like he'll wear his on-duty clothes again.

It took him a while to wear the clothes.

He looked at himself in the mirror.

"Looks fine." He walked to the front door, took the keys, and left the apartment.

Is that...?

"Sir Galland! Good morning!"

Somebody to the left turned around.

"Disedinel? Aren't you supposed to be away?" Galland is a tall, bald man. His body is superbly built.

"I came back yesterday. It was quite late, so no wonder you don't know I am here yet."

"I see. Good morning. Is there something you want to ask?"

"Yeah. I know you're closed today, but can I have the keys to the special exercise place? I'll be in debt if I can have them for today."

...

"Ha! Got beaten up from your expedition, and you came back to train? Is that it?"

"No! Of course not! But still, yes or no?"

"Know that if you do any damage or any mischief, you'll pay for everything!"

"Of course."

Galland checked for the keys inside his bag.

"Ah! They aren't here!"

"You must have left them somewhere else, right?"

"No, I remember putting them here!"

Some of the people passing through the corridor stared at Disedinel and Galland.

"Haha! Joking, joking! There they are. If only you saw your face!"

"Sir Galland!" Disedinel looks upset.

"There, there. See you around, Disedinel."

"Right. Thank you."

Galland went on to walk towards where he is needed.

Disedinel walked in the opposite direction.

After using an elevator and then walking for a few minutes, Disedinel stopped in front of double doors.

He tried the keys.

Good thing he didn't give me the wrong keys.

The keys worked, so he opened the door.

He made sure to close it and then lock it.

"Alright."

The room looked different than what a normal person would imagine. It was like a corridor on its own, but on the walls, there were machines. Many machines.

Disedinel walked to one of them.

The machine looks strange.

It is in the shape of a rectangle.

A tall rectangle.

At the height of the head, there is a screen.

Anyone would think that there would be buttons to do things, but there aren't.

The screen suddenly changed from black to white.

Then black words popped up.

The black words were...

HOW TO USE!

"Nah, I don't need that."

We need that!

The words disappeared.

A few seconds after they disappeared, a cube appeared.

The cube began changing shapes.

Then colors.

And size too.

Disedinel focused in no time.

Unfortunately for him, a few heavy knocks undid his concentration.

He can break through the compulsion field of this room?

"Fine, fine."

Disedinel unlocked the door, then opened it.

It is a push door, so Disedinel had to pull.

"Well, if it isn't Disedinel secretly training."

"Sir Reynard and Kaika. Hello."

"Disedinel, it is almost eight. Oh, I didn't tell you, a few hours ago, I managed to talk with Vumdr. I wonder why I forgot about you."

"Hey, Disedinel, what is your cel count?"

"I... didn't check in a while."

Cel count?

"Let's check it!"

They went to another machine.

This machine is different.

This machine is almost the same, but it has something for you to step on in front of it.

And Disedinel stepped on that thing of a machine.

The machine's screen turned on, and it said...

PLEASE WAIT...

"Hey, Kaika, why don't we check yours too?"

"Fine. Let's make it quick."

"Huh... Thirty-three thousand. And a couple hundred."

"That is an impressive amount, definitely."

"I guess."

"Alright, Kaika, your turn!"

Peter is really curious about their cel count.

Kaika did as Disedinel did.

...

"Sixty-eight thousand and one hundred and seventy-six?"

"I knew it."

"Hmmm. Disedinel, I don't know why, but I perceived your cel count as higher than it showed on this thing. Anyway, let's go."

"Yeah."

The group went to what seems to be the ship hangar.

"Sir Reynard, do we use your ship?"

"Yours is certainly bigger. Mine wouldn't fit four people. Or three. Anyway, Kaika, where is your ship?"

"I sold mine."

"Kaika, speaking of you, why did you ask my sister to visit me this morning?"

"So you talk with her. You know, it'll be useful to have your sister with us."

"She has responsibilities that wouldn't allow her to come with us, you know."

Disedinel is right.

"But she is talented."

The group arrived at Disedinel's ship. Disedinel seems to be using his watch to control the ship.

And he did just that.

"The entrance is right under the ship."

"This is why I dislike this type."

"We don't have another choice, do we?"

They entered the ship.

"This isn't a bad place."

"Yeah. By the way, you use compulsion for the doors, Sir Reynard. Is that a problem?"

"No problem."

"Upstairs are the bedroom and the kitchen. And as you enter through that door, on the right is the toilet."

"Got it!"

"Alright. The other door is the control room, right?"

"That's right, Kaika."

It seems like this ship offers fair services.

"Disedinel, you don't know where Vumdr's place is, no?"

"Well... I think I do."

"I'll come to make sure you get it right."

Disedinel and Kaika went to the control room.

"And you guys left me alone. I'll check out upstairs then."

Sir Reynard went upstairs.

As you enter the room, you're met with Lee's kitchen.

"So this is where he worked... Seems like he took all of his cooking instruments with him."

Strangely, there are still cooking instruments in the kitchen.

"And that must be the bedroom. Does it even have enough beds for us?"

As you enter the kitchen, on the left is a door without a handle. Again.

Peter opened it with compulsion.

"Eight beds. More than enough."

Before Peter could continue looking around, he heard his name being called out.

"Coming!"

So he came downstairs.

"Prepare for takeoff, everybody!"

"Right!"

"Right."

"Three, two, one..."

"Don't waste time."

"Fine. Go!"

...

The ship stopped the fast mode.

"I feel it."

"Yup. Man, if only there was auto-landing for places outside of the Empire hangars..."

Disedinel went to the control room again.

"Peter, what do you think about Vumdr's cel count?"

"It's something different. Makes you wonder how he got there, huh?"

"But it is still an unbelievable amount..."

"... You know, to have about seventy-thousand at age fifteen is also unbelievable."

"Ah. I guess you are right."

"Seems like Disedinel managed to land."

The exit also appeared.

"Let's go, Sir Reynard, Kaika."

"Disedinel, yeah."

Kaika didn't say anything.

They all left the ship.

"It's always amazing to be outside of the Empire."

"Yeah."

"Of course, you both rarely go outside."

The ground is made out of a strange material. It feels like sand to Disedinel, but it isn't.

And when you look up, you see the beauty of space.

"Man, it really feels weird to be able to see space like this."

"It is."

"It really is unbelievable that Vumdr made an artificial atmosphere on his own for this whole place."

It didn't have an atmosphere. At least not a natural atmosphere.. Not far away, you could see a white building in the middle of nowhere.

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They walked to the building.

The doors, once again... do not have handles.

As they were in front of them, they opened on their own.

"Hello, Vumdr!"

"Hello. Reynard, Kaika, and Disedinel."

"Vumdr, you're coming with us, right?"

"That is right."

"Alright! Together, we are unstoppable!"

"I didn't sign up for mischief, Disedinel." Kaika made sure Disedinel know that.

"Yeah, sorry. Now, is everybody ready to go to the foreign world?"

"Of course."

"I am!"

"I am."

"I am too! Let's go!"

Disedinel turned around...

"Now that I think about it, the ship is far away."

"I'll move it."

Everybody looked at Vumdr as he made the ship levitate with ease.

"Perhaps one day we will also be able to lift a whole ship with one hand."

Vumdr landed the ship right in front of them.

All through compulsion.

"So we're anyway using Disedinel's ship, Vumdr?"

"That's right."

"Alright, get on, everybody!"

They did as Disedinel said.

"Reynard, mind if you share your thoughts on Kiing?" Vumdr asked.

"Kiing? So you know of him. He has these strange powers, which are somewhat equal to compulsion."

Everyone sat down. Except Disedinel. He instead went to the control room.

"Anything else?"

"Yeah. In short, he is immortal."

"What about his memory?" So Vumdr is interested in Kiing's memory.

"I couldn't manage to find anything. I believe it is a mistake on my end. I'll have it figured out in less than a fortnight."

"Very well."

While they were talking, Disedinel had already entered the room, but he did not interrupt their conversation.

"Everybody ready?"

"Just make it go already. It's clear everybody is ready."

"No need to be rude, Kaika! Fine. Here it goes."

"Sorry."

And the ship began flying.

The destination is the foreign world!

...

...

This time, it took a while.

Disedinel had already landed the ship.

Everyone left the ship.

...

The birds sing,

over thick woodlands,

and just beneath after the woodlands,

flows an ever-flowing river.

...

"You don't see nature like this every day."

"Certainly. Everybody, this is the nation of nature, Perera!"

"So there is a civilization here?"

"That is right, Kaika, but they aren't nearly as advanced as us. And on the other side lies the great mountain, Linel!"

Kaika turned around toward the mountain.

So this mountain is called Linel. It's gigantic.

...

...

"Disedinel, there is no mountain here."

"Yeah, Disedinel. It must be called the Linel Depression instead of Mountain Linel. It doesn't go high; this place actually goes really low. What a cliff we are on."

"What Sir Reynard said is true, Disedinel."

"Ehh? No, what do you mean? There's this huge mountain. Come, Kaika."

In Disedinel's eyes, Kaika just walked through the mountain.

"Wow! What a nice mountain this is, Disedinel; thanks for sharing it."

"You just walked through the mountain..."

"No. I didn't.

...

"Disedinel. I will clear it up for you."

Vumdr reached out to Disedinel's head.

"Now, look again."

"The mountain... It is all gone?"

"Your brain was affected by foreign compulsion. The compulsion that purges this entire world."

"And I didn't notice at all?"

"Try to focus on that town over there. Can you feel it? There are many people with compulsion. However, there are also many who don't have it."

Disedinel and Kaika focused.

"Huh, you can't be wrong, Vumdr. I feel something coming from that depression."

"You are right, Vumdr." Disedinel just isn't trying to hide that he is confused.

"You are right, Kaika. The source of all compulsion around the world is coming from there."

...

"Oh, come on, guys! We should enjoy this place."

"You are right, Sir Reynard. But this mountain thing really distracts me."

"Alright. I have a request, then. How about we go down this depression, and explore it? Of course, while trying to figure out what is going on."

"Yes, I think that will help, Sir Reynard."

A good idea from Sir Reynard!

"I don't mind that. I'll make us levitate on our way down."

Everybody agreed.

And just like that, everybody jumped off the cliff.

But of course, Vumdr made them all levitate.

"Now that we have a better look, this whole place is beautiful."

Unlike above, where the geography as a whole was absolutely normal, here...

The ground has regions marked by what might be trees. The regions are all in the shape of a square.

The trees, however, look more like flowers. Gigantic flowers.

"Are those flowers? Wait, everybody, I think I see houses on those flowers!"

"Disedinel is right. I can sense them."

"I can too."

So this depression is populated.

"Can anybody else hear that?"

"Hm. Somebody is causing trouble."

"Is that so, Vumdr?"

"We will land quicker to check out what is going on. Does anybody disagree?"

...

"Very well."

They sped up.

Not a minute later, they landed.

"The grass here is thick!"

"Quieter, Disedinel."

"No need. We are all invisible, and unless somebody of an unreasonable caliber is here, which I do not sense, we are safe to do whatever we want."

"Heh, basically, what was done to Disedinel about the mountain."

"Don't mention it, Sir Reynard!"

"Let's get closer."

...

...

"Kiing?!"

"Why is he here!?"

"Heyy! Doesn't anybody hear me?! We got an intruder!"

"Seems like Kiing is in trouble."

Vumdr quickly reached for the air. Along with that, Kiing suddenly started levitating towards the party.

"Woaah!"

"Ah?! He suddenly disappeared?"

It is an old man. He has a set of bolo knives. A tool used for shortening taller grass.

"So you made him invisible. What about the memories of everybody else?"

"I got it." Kaika took on the job.

"Didn't Vumdr have five times your cel count?"

"Shut."

The old man... continued to work.

"Well, you did it. And also, that explains the grass... Now, Kiing is here."

"Yeah. How did he get here?"

It seems like Kiing is unconscious.

"I'll turn back his consciousness."

"How do you even do it? Messing with the brain is dangerous."

"Well, that is the strongest man in the universe for you."

Disedinel looked back at Kaika in response. With an annoyed look, to be exact.

"I do it in a simple way. That is all there is."

And Kiing opened his eyes.

"Uh... Hi, everybody." What an awkward tone.

"Hello, Kiing! Mind if you tell us how you escaped Sir Reynard's place?"

"I don't remember." Isn't that direct?

"You don't? Seriously? I'll make sure you tell us the truth!"

Disedinel stood up as he said that.

"He is telling the truth, Disedinel."

"He is? Hmm."

...

That is strange.

"We don't have time to figure this out. Let's all get going towards the centre of all this."

"Yeah."

"... Can't we talk about how dark it is here...?"

"There. It must be gone now."

It seems like Kiing was affected too. But Vumdr undid it!

They went past that man.

"Aren't these flowers huge? Like, actually huge?"

"Yeah, they certainly are. But they are as beautiful as they are big."

Disedinel is not lying.

But now they've reached the base of the wall of flowers.

Disedinel already made an attempt to fit through, but he couldn't.

"We can fly over it, then."

"No. Just walk through it."

After Vumdr said that, he just walked through the flower.

"Ehh!? I... that shocked me for a moment. I don't know why."

Kaika walked through.

"Alright, Sir Reynard, Kiing, let's go!"

Peter and Kiing walked through.

But Disedinel tried to jog through.

However, he stopped himself right before he could.

"... Reflexes..."

He finally went through the flower.

"There is another wall of flowers... Past it another? This will take long."

"It does seem like we'll have to walk quite the distance. Vumdr, can't you fly us through? It'll also be better for exploring than walking, right?"

"I am trying to do something. That is why I didn't want us to fly. But if you insist, then we will do it."

"Ahh, no. In that case, I'll let the party leader, Disedinel, take the decision."

"What? Me, the party leader? No, no. You got it wrong, Sir Reynard..."

"Yeah. Disedinel isn't the party leader."

"No fighting. I will do as Disedinel says."

"Ehh? Alright... Fly us. It doesn't seem like there's anything interesting inside the walls."

"Very well."

Vumdr did as Disedinel commanded.

"Wooah!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaa..."

...

Everybody enjoyed themselves throughout the flight.

But, of course, they landed.

"... I'll have to increase my water intake these days."

"I see why."

After everybody had their blood flow stabilized, they turned to look at this one place...

A flower. A flower that is much bigger and thicker than any other flower in Linel.

Along the flower are positioned many houses. They are all connected by stairs.

The houses are in white. The stairs along the roofs of all houses are brown.

The whole theme is white-brown.

"This house is impressive."

"I agree with Sir Reynard. How did they build this on their own?"

"With hard work."

"I can feel it. That is the source. But, wait, it is a book?

"Yes, Kaika, it is a book. No need to go inside. I will take it through force."

Vumdr reached out for the book.

...

And a book flew right into his hand.

"This is it."

"Vumdr, can you invalidate it?"

"I fear that invalidating it could create chaos."

"You may not be wrong, Reynard. However, I will destroy its compulsion."

"Oh, no, you won't!"

Somebody with an ever-changing hair shape and color and an ever-changing eye color threw himself at Vumdr.

"Aghh... my head hurts..."

"Kiing? What is wrong?"

"Well... I think..."

Before Kiing could finish... he fell to the ground.

Disedinel looked back at Vumdr and the foreign boy.

They clashed together.

The boy held an absurdly big sword compared to his own size, while Vumdr blocked his attacks with his own hands.

"Take this blow!"

The boy managed to slice through Vumdr's cloak.

And Vumdr's face has been revealed.

But... He has a mask? He has a white mask with goggles.

The mask covered his whole head. Normally, you wouldn't be able to breathe like this.

"Ehh!?! You're a scary masked guy?!"

The boy is scared of Vumdr at the same time.

"Everybody. I will take our fight elsewhere. I will get rid of the book's powers too, so be prepared for anything!"

At the same time, you could clearly hear him.

Or, actually, not so clearly...

"Alright, everybody, you heard what he said!"

And suddenly, Vumdr and the boy vanished.

Kaika, Peter, and Disedinel could only watch.

"Kiing, you hear me?" Disedinel crouched down to pick up Kiing.

But before he picked up Kiing...

"Everybody, keep in mind that anything could happe—oww!"

Kiing headbutted Disedinel away from himself.

"What are you doing?" Kaika gave Kiing a serious look.

Kiing didn't answer. He only stood up.

"Ow, ow. That hurt." Disedinel stood up as well.

"Good thing I had my sword prepared. Sir Reynard!"

"There you go, Kiing!"

Kiing only watched the sword go at Disedinel.

Disedinel managed to catch it!

"Kaika, Sir Reynard, stay out of this. It is my fault he is here after all."

"Fine."

"Some entertainment, then!"

Peter sat down. He is only missing a drink and some popcorn.

Disedinel jumped high. However not higher than the height of the flower wall!

He raised his sword high, preparing a strong strike...!

But Kiing, Kiing only watched!

It'll be over in one blow if that is the case!

And Disedinel, with full force, threw his sword at Kiing!

It was a concentrated attack, so no surrounding nature was hurt!

"Woah, Kiing! It went straight through the heart! Well, if that isn't a decisive blow, then what is!?"

Why does Sir Reynard have a sarcastic tone?

As Disedinel looks down on Kiing from the sky, levitating, he could clearly see a lifeless Kiing on the ground.

...

Huh, behind me?

There he was, Kiing! Behind Disedinel. Kiing had already prepared a dangerous punch!

Disedinel doesn't even manage to turn around to see what is behind him in time!

But... Suddenly, Kiing was pushed down by a foreign force.

Kiing hit the ground, and an ice explosion took over the entire surroundings, including the beautiful tree house!

"What the heck?!" Disedinel lost his focus and fell to the ground.

"Ow. Everything is ice now?" Disedinel tried to stand up, but he fell back to the ground.

Kaika reached for Disedinel with his hand to make him levitate.

"Thanks for nothing, Kaika."

"I had to move you away from the center of the explosion."

"Disedinel, did you forget? Kiing is semi-immortal. That attack simply can't do any real damage to him."

Disedinel slapped his face.

"Right."

"I sense somebody besides us four. He is coming."

...

"Is that who saved me from Kiing?"

The one who came out of the explosion that created an explosion has black hair. Unnaturally spiky black hair.

Eyes, red like blood.

And, they have a black outfit. It really just kind of looks like a towel, but anyway...

"Who are you?"