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Leviathan regained her memories not long after I regained mine.

I gave Leviathan time to calm down and went outside for a bit to grasp the current situation and look around the area for a bit…, it feels a bit awkward to say my house. Anyway, when I came back home, Leviathan was completely red-faced and huddled in a corner wrapped in blankets.

I sat on a chair near Leviathan without a word and quietly opened my mouth.

“…Leviathan.”

Twitch

Leviathan, who was wrapped in a blanket like a caterpillar at my words, trembled visibly and wriggled, turning her body.

Leviathan, with only her face showing, couldn’t even meet my gaze and kept looking down.

Looking at her, I added a word.

“Did you get your memories back?”

“…Yes.”

Leviathan nodded slightly, speaking in a very small voice.

Leviathan was so swallowed up in embarrassment that it was hard to understand unless you listened carefully.

Still, I was relieved that there seemed to be no other problems besides embarrassment.

“I, I’m sorry….”

“….”

Then suddenly, Leviathan apologizes abruptly.

What is she sorry for? I thought about it carefully, but nothing came to mind.

Is she talking about the handjob she gave me before she regained her memories?

If that’s the case….

Shouldn’t I be the one who’s sorry?

To be honest, I…, felt good.

“…It’s okay.”

“…Ah, weren’t you hurt?”

“No, I wasn’t hurt. I actually felt good….”

I stopped talking there.

There’s no need to say that much.

“First, just listen to me from there.”

“…Yes.”

“As I looked around, I learned a few things.”

“W, what is it?….”

First of all.

This world is probably…. a world in the past compared to the Philgrean continent where Leviathan and I were.

“The Holy Kingdom itself remains the same, but when I check the other countries I hear about, there are many countries I don’t know.”

The fact that there are countries I’ve never heard of makes it clear that it’s a past time.

Maybe I’m guessing….

“I’ve read a story about in the Holy Kingdom’s Great Library before. I guess it’s probably…, the era in that fairy tale.”

“!”

Leviathan, as if interested in my words, turned her gaze, which she had been avoiding, to me.

“If it’s a story about ….”

“I don’t know if you know, but it remains in the form of a fairy tale. ‘The Hero and the Witch’.”

A witch with outstanding beauty who lived quietly in the mountains.

A prince who heard the rumors of the witch came to find her.

After many twists and turns, the prince who arrived at the witch’s house proposed to the witch.

But the witch rejected the prince’s proposal, and the prince returned to the kingdom in disappointment, suffering from incurable heartache, and lost his life. The death of the prestigious prince caused an uproar in the country, and as the story spread that ‘the witch cursed the prince,’ the king raised an army to capture the witch.

“The witch eventually met her death, but the witch did not die completely, and the witch became a fragment of the Demon King and brought darkness to the world…., right?”

“Yeah. That’s right.”

“…Why did we fall into this world?”

“Well. I don’t know either. I’m not the person who created this world.”

However, I can roughly guess the reason for this situation.

This world was created to seal .

Therefore, the biggest influence on this world is .

If that’s the case….

“A mirror reflects itself. Maybe the reason this world was created is to reflect the memories of ?”

“…If that’s the case…, I feel a little sorry for her.”

“Sorry?”

“Yes…. If the fairy tale is correct…, this memory is the saddest memory for the witch….”

Can you think that way….

I don’t know.

Anyway, the important thing is one thing.

That is in this world, and I have to catch .

“So, if you’re okay, Leviathan, I’m going to take a look around this world for a while. Will you come with me?”

“C, come with you?”

“Yeah.”

This world is probably the world beyond the broken glass wall that Leviathan and I discovered.

Looking back now, I think it was thanks to Leviathan’s luck that we were able to head straight to the glass wall in that world where we couldn’t confirm the correct direction. If that’s the case….

‘In a situation where I don’t know exactly where the witch is, I need Leviathan’s luck to quickly find .’

At best, there is only one word in the fairy tale: ‘The witch lived in the mountains.’

That doesn’t mean I can believe that and search all the mountains in this world.

Moreover….

“This place is where is sealed. Of course, I don’t think she can exert proper influence as much as she is sealed…. But she has experience in moving her consciousness beyond the mirror world and into the real world to exert that influence, right?”

“Y, yes, she did.”

The Magic Kingdom incident that Leviathan also knows about.

She seduced the wizards of the Magic Kingdom to build a magic tower, where she lured and experimented on those who would be used as her ‘vessels’.

Even though her body was sealed, she influenced reality, so there’s no need to mention the mirror world inside.

Rather, the inside of the mirror world can have more influence than the real world, and Leviathan may be in danger because of it.

“So I think it’s better to act together as much as possible.”

“J, just a moment…”

Leviathan, who had heard all my words, groaned and got up wrapped in a blanket and went into the room.

After that, I heard the sound of rummaging, and then she appeared again in a fairly simple outfit.

It seems she tried to change into clothes that were easier to move around in.

“L, let’s go…. Hero….”

“Ah, yeah. I understand.”

After coming out with Leviathan.

I was lost in thought.

‘No matter how lucky Leviathan is, it’s not a good choice to act without setting a clear direction.’

Then where should I go from now on?

Is it a mountain as mentioned in the fairy tale?

“First of all, since we have memories as ‘residents’ of this mirror world, this place must be the ‘starting point’.”

“S, starting point?”

“Yeah. At least…, will be in this country.”

If you think about it that way, maybe you can find it by wandering around famous mountains in this country?

Besides, ‘after many twists and turns,’ the prince met the witch, so it won’t be an ordinary mountain, so the candidates will be narrowed down even more.

Some rugged…. a mountain where very dangerous beasts live?

‘Or herself may have set up some kind of trap to prevent others from approaching.’

Either way, all I need to do is find the location.

No matter what dangerous thing is staying there, I can easily catch and kill it unless it’s a Demon King-level being.

Even if there are some dangerous traps set up, it doesn’t matter to me unless they can kill a Demon King-level being.

In the end, the important thing is location.

“Then first…, shall we find out about the witch?”

“About the witch?….”

“Yes. That…. The prince heard rumors about the beautiful witch and went to find her, right? Then I think the rumors about the witch will probably be spreading.”

“…Oh.”

Just as I was thinking that, Leviathan carefully suggested an opinion.

“I see…. The prince heard the rumors and went to find her…. I didn’t think of that. Thank you, Leviathan.”

“Ah, no! This is nothing…”

“Okay. Then rumors about the witch….”

Crack

Just as I was about to say, shall we look for it? I heard something breaking.

An ominous sound like glass cracking.

It seems that it wasn’t just me who heard it, as Leviathan also looked at me with wide eyes.

“H, Hero. What was that sound just now….”

“I don’t know? Some kind of breaking sound….”

Kwaaaaaaaang!!!

At that moment, a loud roar echoed.

The source of the roar was near the city’s main street, not far from here.

Both Leviathan and I ran towards it as if possessed, and the place was a living hell.

“Kkeuaaaaaaaack!!!”

“S, save me~!!!”

“Kyaaaaaaaat!!!”

A sound of groaning in pain.

A sound of begging for salvation to escape death.

A sound of screaming only in vain, unable to accept the sudden situation.

All those sounds overlapped and overlapped, creating an unpleasant dissonance.

“H, Hero, what’s going on?”

“I don’t know?…. What’s going on….”

My words couldn’t be completed.

Because I discovered a mass of flames falling from afar and quickly hugged Leviathan.

Leviathan was startled and stiffened, and then what happened was….

Kwaaaaaaaang!!!!

A huge explosion.

A loud roar.

An explosion of flames that equally eliminates those who groaned in pain, those who struggled to survive, and those who only screamed in panic.

Some of the humans who survived this explosion of flames screamed as if in despair.

“T, the witch…. The witch has returned!!!!”

“!”

Protecting Leviathan from the explosion of flames, I quickly looked up at the sky.

There, a woman with purple hair fluttering, whom I had seen sometime before, was leading a swarm of demons, looking down coldly.