Chapter 17 Tower of Trial Little Girl's Advent! (Fifth Floor)
The fifth floor of the Tower of Trial is filled with an ominous presence.
I destroyed doors and walls in the way since we had no time.
Width is around 20 meters, depth is around 30 meters.
The ceiling is high, there's several stone pillars standing.
And there's a small door at the back of the room with a stone coffin in front of it.
"Now, Big Man, go forward."
"Hope it goes well."
With echoing footsteps, the golem arrived before the stone coffin.
Brown soil falls on the coffin.
"My name is Keika Hiko-no-Mikoto! God of streamlet from a foreign earth! O Mother Earth God Rupersia! Appease the heart of your raging child!"
The soil around the coffin shined.
--And.
"Eh!? Big Man! Hold down the lid!"
However, in face of that, the lid opens anyway.
"Celica, Old man, don't look at it!"
"Please."
It'll broke if this keeps up!
The golem slowly heads behind the nearest pillar.
After a moment of silence, the golem crumbles.
A black shadow in the shape of a human stands.
After defeating the golem, she walks step by step.
"She's coming here."
"Why.... Why didn't the Mother Earth God didn't grant my wish...!"
『someone's here?』
『run away!』
『everyone will turn to stone! that's why, run!』
『mommy is angry! to protect lapisia!』
I noticed my mistake.
"Keika-sama! She's right there!"
She's coming to the left stone pillar where we are.
"Come here you monster!"
--Nice, Old man!
I quickly call Lapisia.
『inside the box nano.』
『lapisia can't move.』
Lapisia speaks.
--What will you do after that?
--Okay. I'll do something.
"Celica, make some noise to the left of the entrance. I'm going to the coffin."
"Celica too, don't overdo it."
Celica went to the entrance with her blond hair flowing.
I slowly went to the back of the hall from the left while checking on the mirror.
"I'm here, monster-san!"
I jumped out of the pillar's shadow. Running straight to the coffin.
"Keika-sama, over there--!"
"Damn--<
I throw water out of the gourd.
A shock hit my head.
I fell down on the floor.
"Shiiiit.... S'long as I'm not petrified...."
【Parameters】
Willpower: 513,456/566,600
I got damaged for more than 200,000 just from one attack. As expected of the Mother Earth God.
However, an abominable wall stood in front of me before I could completely stand up.
The shadow moves. I can sense her moving arm.
I'll make a single finishing blow in this situation while I know exactly where she is!
I'll finish it with a quick-draw counter when she attacks!
I recite in my mind--<
A critical moment.
She moves--.
"HAA!"
ZAAN!
The sensation of deeply cutting flesh.
A grating cry echoed in the hall.
--Kuh, she's too fast, I can't make her out!
However, a childish voice echoes in the hall.
Dwoon!
"mom, stop it! don't turn people to stone anymore!"
"lapisia loves the kind mom nano! stop it nano!"
"protect lapisia..... won't let kill."
"protect.... kill hindrances...."
Or rather.
"Lapisia, holds down your mother."
"Restoring your mother back to normal."
"stop....stop....!"
However, the wound on her stomach is deep, she's unable to do it at full power.
I came to their side while looking at the mirror.
"Pure brook flowing among the mountains Wash away the evil purify--<
"Uuuuu.....Guwaaaa......!"
"i-is mom alright nano....?"
"She's fine. Believe in me."
And then the black shadow changed into a white shadow.
Lapisia hugs the white shadow with all smile.
"Lapisia.... I'm sorry to have left you alone."
She's rubbing her childish face on her mother's chest. That face is shining like a sun.
"There's no need to look at the mirror anymore. God of another world--Keika Hiko-no-Mikoto."
"Yes, somehow. As long as I don't move."
"The demon king held my child hostage.... I had lost myself in anger."
"I'm ashamed.... By the way."
"Please take care of this child."
Lapisia raised her face. Her long blue hair spreads out.
The mother reaches out and gently pats her child's head.
"then lapisia will sleep together!"
"You've already slept a lot haven't you? I can't sleep if Lapisia also sleeps, so stay awake okay?"
I speak.
--Either of the earth Gods probably has to sleep as their duty as the Mother Earth God.
'Uu', tears accumulated on her golden eyes, she shook her head buzzingly. The blue hair furiously fluttered about.
"You're a good child, Lapisia. Now then, Keika Hiko-no-Mikoto. Please take care of my child."
"That's quite enough, thank you. Then, Lapisia. Listen to this person, and be a good child okay.... And help him."
And then the white shadow dimly shook and disappeared by sinking into the ground.
Lapisia keeps patting the floor where her mother went.
"Now, let's go Lapisia."
"keika thank you for saving mom!"
"lapisia, work hard!"
And then, I heard a voice from behind a stone pillar.
"Yea, it's fine. Everything's over."
She looks downward at Lapisia who's joining hands with me.
"aunty, who?"
"granny!!"
I sigh and warn her.
'Muu', Lapisia's soft cheeks swelled.
"You can't. Get along with her."
Celica grasps my open hand.
Celica looks at the broken pillar and the dented wall.
"And Keika-sama who won over that is wonderful."
--To be honest, I underestimated the hero's exam. To think the demon king was involved in the very exam itself.
I have to be more careful until I'm qualified as a hero.
The old man came.
"How much we have left?"
"This is bad! Let's hurry."
We went to the floor door.
"It only needs a key. I'm opening it."
A passage spreads out beyond the door.
"okay!"
The old man speaks.
"With the possibility of anyone watching turning into stone, I don't think they would broadcast it."
"Then, let's go."
We passed through the passage.
『Please take care of the world.』
I'm only doing this for myself.
We opened the door, the evening red sky jumped into our view.