And now, Suppression Isolation Barrier was exposed to âThe Flames that Purify All.â
However, the barrierâdid not budge.
10 seconds. 20 secondsâŠ
Time kept moving, and yet the barrier wasnât even shaking a little.
Outside, the heat was so high that it was melting everything in sight. But the barrier continued to protect us as if none of that were happening.
And thenâ âThe Flames that Purify Allâ faded away.
Outside the boundary of the Suppression Isolation Barrier, the world was the same. But inside, there was a giant square-shaped hole that remained after everything had evaporated.
âThe Flames the Purify Allâ was definitely stronger than Hellfire of Death.
I didnât know what they had used to create such a thingâŠbut there was one thing that I knew for sure.
It was that we had survived.
ââŠWe should go back then.â
âYes!â
We said as we began to walk back towards Rikardo.
â
âItâs Yuji! Yuji has returned!â
Mister Udoka shouted when he saw that I had returned after my fight with the Blue Moon of Salvation.
Upon hearing this, the other residents of Rikardo gathered around and raised their voices.
âYuji is safe!â
âTheyâre all safe!â
Apparently, they had been worried about us.
I was sure they didnât know that I had been out fightingâŠso something else must have been happening
âDid something happen?â
âAh. There was no damage to us here, but there was a massive explosion in the forest⊠Didnât you notice it?â
âŠRight.
So they mistook Hellfire of Death as some kind of disaster.
Well, since there was no trouble here, I might as well pretend to be ignorant.
âI did hear some loud noise, but I didnât realize it was a big explosion.â
âYes. Part of the forest was burned to the ground. No one knows what the reason is, but itâs rumored to be a meteor.â
People seemed to mistake it for a meteor a lotâŠ
Well, perhaps when something of that scale happened without explanation, there was nothing but meteors that sounded credible.
ââŠA meteor, huh. Itâs a good thing it didnât hit the town.â
âExactly.â
We talked about this as I returned to the inn.
It was already getting quite dark outside.
As I was tired from all the fighting today, I was sure I would sleep well.
â
The next morning.
As soon as I got up, I went to the guildâor tried to, but then I remembered that there was something I needed to do first, and so I returned to the inn.
First, I had to check yesterdayâs spoils of war.
I could leave the treasures aside for nowâŠand look through the things that would give me information.
While I did this, I put a barrier around the room.
I didnât know what might come out.
Thankfully, my MP had already recovered.
So if something dangerous popped out, I could just use Suppression Isolation Barrier again.
âOut of the things you collected yesterday, take out any documents.â
âOkay!â
I said, and then the slimes started to take out the documents they were storing.
ButâŠ
âOh! It disappeared!â
The slime cried out in surprise.
The moment that a pile of papers came out of Slime Storage, all the writing on them vanished.
âWhatâŠwhat does this mean?â
âI-I didnât do anything!â
The slime said sadly as it looked down at the white papers.
âYeah. I know you didnât do anything. âŠBut, maybe it would be good to refrain from taking any more out until we know what is causing the words to disappear. It would be a huge waste to lose these resources.â
I said as I flipped through the pages.
Maybe there was something that hadnât vanished yet.
And then⊠After looking through about half of the pages, I found 2 that had not disappeared.
Both of them had some writing on the top left corner that read: For outside use. Destroy when no longer needed.
Judging by this writing, it seemed that these papers were made so that the writing would automatically disappear.
And if they had special papers for taking outside, then it probably meant that it happened when you moved a certain distance from their base.
Maybe I could find a place to hide near their base and then take the papers out.
Of course, it would be a dangerous thing to do. But I was sure the opportunity would arise eventually.
I thought about this as I inspected the remaining papers.
One was just a normal map.
There was nothing interesting about it. It was a map of the area around Rikardo.
The problemâŠwas the other sheet of paper.
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