Card collector from different worlds

"My people have been eaten by the castle!

Farrah exclaimed, and the two hardened.

Kim Noisuke thought. I thought this guy might have hit him in the head somewhere.

So I saw Elev. "What do you mean?".

Elev also shook his neck sideways, so he still doesn't know what it means.

"Uh... can I talk to you in more detail?

Farrah seemed to realize for the first time there that she was moving.

He inhaled heavily and exhaled slowly.

Once I closed my eyes quietly and opened them, I said, looking at Kiyosuke's face, did my head clear?

"There's a cardy out in the shape of a castle. I couldn't tell it from the real thing at all. After a party member walked in and said he was going to explore, the castle moved out. My people won't come out, but I'm sure they're alive. So please help me."

"... cardy in the shape of a castle?

"That's right. Probably [Terror Castle LV15]. This is the first time I've seen the real thing..."

Apparently Farrah didn't go crazy. That's the kind of cardy there is.

"Tell me more about that teller castle"

"Yes...... I don't know much about it either, but it's in the shape of a building and there exists a cardy that invites people. Abandoned houses, forts and castles... usually crammed into casual places, eating people inside."

"A man-eater mansion? Elev... did you know?

Elev shook his head to the side. I hear it's the first time I've heard it.

"I don't think it ever appeared in the dungeons here. There have been a few examples in other dungeons, so I don't remember them in detail either.... and there are examples of sightings in remote fields."

"I see... it's a pretty rare cardi"

Kinosuke's voice flipped slightly. Maybe I got a little excited in my face.

"The story I heard is that the cardy I simulated in the building has one LV inside that keeps the cardy on top. Unless we defeat it, we have to get out there."

"It's an LV on one. So the cardi in there... LV16?

".................. Yes"

Reminds me of something hopeless, so small that Farrah's voice seemed to disappear.

Kim Noisuke asked for a little more explanation so that he could continue the conversation. Especially the part where we met.

According to Farrah's story, things were going well today, so we decided to take a look at the eleven layers that had the topographical alteration.

Instead of hunting there, they said they saw that place where they fled and thought about overcoming it.

And I went down to the eleventh floor, but I found the castle somewhere not so far along.

He said he was so close to the stairs that he wondered that no report of the castle had been made to Labyrinth Management.

"However, buildings may also be found in the labyrinth… e.g. abandoned houses, fortifications, etc."

I was suspicious, but it hasn't been so long since the topographic alteration, so I thought that might happen, and they decided to investigate it themselves anyway.

"I don't know what that investigation is. What are you doing in there?

"Often, it's for a crate. Because crates often appear in unusual places. The crate is definitely not on the side of the road around it, but if there's a waterfall, it's on the back, if there's a cave, it's on the back."

"I see. It's a labyrinth."

"That's right. I thought the castle appeared due to topographical alterations, so I decided it was likely that there would be a crate. And there's a part of me that hoped that if the size of the castle wasn't a small building, we'd be able to base camp there, even if there wasn't anything."

Farrah and the others said they were in favor of exploring the castle without hesitation.

They didn't have anything strange at all at that point.

"It sucks not to be distinguished from the actual castle"

"Even if we'd heard there was a cardy like that, we hadn't actually seen it, so we hadn't thought about that possibility at all either"

"Oh well, let's sort out the situation. How many people were eaten?

"Five."

"Is that the member you met with me last night?

"Yes."

"Terror Castle said LV15, didn't he? The hierarchy that emerged was eleven, near the stairs that descended from the ten floors, no doubt?

"Yes, definitely"

"Is it okay that you didn't just go into the castle?

"That's right. The first two of them walked in and didn't come back, so the other two walked in... Me and the other stayed outside, but I said I'd see what was going on as far as I could see from the entrance, and when I stepped in, the door suddenly closed... and then there was no castle and I started moving all the time."

"How fast does the castle move?

"It was about as late as walking. I was alone, so I'm not chasing you. I thought I'd go get help right away."

"Well, then you're not traveling very far. I can show you around, right?

"Yes, you can"

"Then that's my last question. How could you help us?

"I was actually going to ask you to take me to the ground. And reach out to the Explorer who can dive into the eleventh level... but that's very unlikely."

Farrah's voice grew smaller and smaller.

"... what do you mean?

Kinosuke turned to Elev. Elev shook her head softly to the side.

Few Explorers can dive to the eleventh level.

As it stands, there will only be two parties.

Those two parties, too, are now jointly conducting thirteen layers of exploration, and they don't know if they are on the ground, and even if they are found, they say they have little chance of coming to the rescue.

"Uh, that means you're more than likely going to be wasted going back for help. I guess that's why he called us."

"No...... but our leader said. If you compete with Kim no Yasushi for solo destruction rate, you'll probably lose... so I was wondering if maybe Kim no Yasushi is the most likely one."

Farrah says he thought it would be useless to ask for help from a seeker hunting on a floor shallower than ten floors.

This time, Farrah said he asked for help because there was Kim Noisuke by chance, and he would have asked for an escort to the ground if he was supposed to.

"When I say help, if what I just said is true, does the cardy that comes out be LV16?"

"Yes... but we haven't had company yet, and I was wondering if Kiyonosuke would be able to do something about it if she joined us"

So Farrah said she asked for help.

"What do you think of Elev?

"(can't be bundled)"

The candid answer came back.

Speaking of LV16, it is a cardi that comes out from sixteen to twenty-first layers.

In Kinosuke and Elev today, that hierarchy will not be reached.

Well, hunting there is no different than suicide.

"Please!

"I'm saying...?

"(impossible)"

"Hmm."

Kinosuke disappeared in response to Elev, who had no particular island.

There was a reason Kim Noisuke was in trouble.

When the special training was over and Garg returned to his town, he told Kinosuke.

"Follow Elev," he said.

Even if Kim Noisuke wants to go, if Elev says no, he will pull it off. He said to make sure he did.

Kiyonosuke therefore obeyed the word, this time giving up and making the choice to return to the ground….

"... you won't. Hey, I'm coming. to the castle of eating the man."

"(Even if I disagree?

"Oh... you don't want to pull here. If you disagree, say goodbye here."

…………

Kim Noisuke and Elev often stare at each other.

How long would we have been staring at each other?

Elev threw his own big shield toward Kim Noisuke.

…………

"(lend)"

"... thanks"

Elev took a small shield one turn from [Tools].

Seeing that I equipped myself with it, Kinosuke hardened his feelings.

"I'm sorry. Say goodbye here. But I will definitely return this shield."

"(Cochlear)"

This is how they broke up.

Kinosuke walked with Farrah down the stairs to the tenth floor, and Elev walked out toward the ground.

Without ever looking back at each other.