<h1>Compelled to Act (3)</h1>
After a long lecturing session that Harumachi Sensei gave to me.
She finally separated from me and almost immediately turned away from me. It was because her face was flushed and her eyes were red from crying. It was a side of her I have never seen before.
She’s kind of cute like this.
Composing myself, I take a deep breath, inhaling then exhaling. Since the battle had ended and the lecture was over and I went over things.
It was about time to finally open the treasure chest. This was the whole reason why I entered the 2nd Floor.
Bending down over the chest, grasping the lid and opening it. It always felt like reaching a good reward after a lot of hard work.
Glittering silver, the item resembled a utensil. The rough size and shape was closer to a drinking glass. But that wasn’t right, because of the string that was clearly attached to the round bottom of the item. What’s more, the mouth of this cup spread out more towards the rim.
Looking within the chest I took out the note with the item details and began reading it to myself.
“Nightmare inducing Bell”
When the bell is rung, the individual closest to the user will fall into a state of trance for 10 minutes. That Individual memories can be altered during this time as if nothing had happened. And that individual will never question the experience. Moreover, the individual will dream about their trance-like experience on the night of the day the bell was used.
“Oh, I see, so this was actually meant to be a bell.” I voiced my thoughts reflexively. I looked at it amused, learning the metallic item’s true identity.
Sensei curiously stares at me.
“What are you holding? Did you go exploring for something like that?"
“Uuuhh, well…….You see…….” I bit my tongue.
How should I answer this? Various thoughts swirled in my head, but at that moment in time I could not come up with an adequate response.
Even with this item, it would be impossible to have Sensei forget everything about this dungeon. And it’s not like I can compel her to keep it all a secret. I know this isn’t the kind of item for a situation like this and I sort of expected this.
Pulling out my knife, I tap the “Nightmare inducing Bell”.
A high metallic ring resounds inside the small room and at that moment, the fiery light in Sensei’s eyes turned dull.
I don’t know if this was really the right thing to do, but I can’t stop now.
Only one thing came to my mind when I did it. There was no way to confirm if this plan would work, but I went ahead with it because I couldn’t think of anything else.
From the very beginning, this whole dungeon exploration was hopeless from the start. So, I had to take every gamble.
I approached Harumachi-Sensei while she was in a trance――
”I can’t hold back this feeling any longer, Sensei……I…I really like you!”
Whispering those words close to her, I embraced Sensei strongly by putting my hands around her and bringing our faces close enough.
"Sensei….. I like you, I really really like you!" I whisper those words to her again.
"From the moment we had shared a part of our bodies with each other. I felt it. I am sure you do it too." I look at Harumachi Sensei and she was beautiful and brave when she saved me and I knew I would never regret saying those words to her even in reality.
Maybe that's how I had come to feel about this too.
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