137話 白い炎
「ようこそ、二尾の寺閣『
そう言って半月の如く双眸を歪ませ、ほくそ笑む白き狐耳の巫女。
彼女の様子はどこか白々しく、
な様子を見せるNPCに、俺達はやはり警戒度をぐんっとあげる。
思えばNPCとの関係性はスキル『名声』を使用していれば、一早く悟ることができたはずだ。さっきの双子巫女戦のように、不意を突かれる事も避けられたはず。
:特に他意はない:
予想とは違い、関係性は中立と出た。
という事は別段、敵意はない?
「遥かな昔、人の子は......わちの事を、満たされぬ空腹に溺れた、
が取り出したのは薄っぺらい茶色の何か。
よーく見ると......アレは
なんだ、この腹減り巫女は。
しかし、さっきの双子少女とは違い、何やら対話が可能な雰囲気であるのも確かだ。
は俺とミナを見て、特に頭の部分を目にして奇妙な事を言い出した。
「しかも、これまた奇怪な質問をしてくる
俺達は急に始まった昔話に警戒を解いていいのかどうか、困惑しながらも彼女の話に耳を傾けることにした。
「太古より
その尾の数通り、九つの欲を司る神獣、九尾の空羅刹。
そんな超生物の加護の下、妖狐族は
が言うには、みなが信奉する空羅刹さまは、どうやら一人の友人に『お前は欲深すぎるし、欲が多過ぎる。もう友達は辞める』と言われた事がきっかけで、己の全ての欲を封印するべく、この辺りに自ら眠りについたようだ。
その際、悲しみによって溢れ出た九尾の炎が
結果的に他所から侵入者を阻むのに役立っているから、他の神獣は何も言ってこないし、生態系に大きな影響を与えなかったとの事で静観されているそうだ。
というか友達と喧嘩しただけで、そんな大仰な事をしでかすなんて......すねたのか、神さま。いや、神獣か。とにかく、神獣の考えることは俺達みたいな、ちっぽけな人間には理解できないなと思った。
って、この雲の下にあるんですよね?」
となると、俺達が今いるのは多分、
その遥か下にある幻想郷から、あの木が生えていると言う事は......。
「ふぅむ......ざっと高度で言うなら、5000メートルぐらいじゃなかろうか?」
5キロメートルもあるんかい!
30メートルで大きい木だなと思ってたけど、あれってちょろっと
「あの巻きついている、白い毛のようなモノは?」
「あれはわちらの母様、
どんだけ長いんだ、九尾の尻尾は!
5キロメートルって怖すぎる。
「いや、なに。わちの力で
スライムを生みだす木?
それが世界樹の一柱の効能なのか。
「困った事にわちらの母様は自らの欲を清めるために、世界樹の根元で封眠に入ってしまっての......スライムは古来より
「そこで、九尾さまの欲を少しずつ浄化されてしまうのを、こうしてスライムを変質させて防いでいるというわけなり」
獰猛で、禍々しく、荒々しい、それこそが九尾さまなり。それこそが、わちらが畏怖すべき真の九尾さまのお心とお姿なり、と俺とミナに力説してくる
は、きつくトワさんの後ろにいるビッグ・スライムたちを睥睨する。
「九尾さま復活の日まで、わちらが蒙昧なスライムたちに祝福を与え、飢餓の心を宿
は木と尻尾が絡まりあった建物に右手をつけた。
詠唱らしきモノを唱えると木が青白い光を帯び、白焔の手から黄色い閃光がほどばしる。
黄の光は、巨木の青い光を浸食するかのように押し寄せ、融合していく。
の祝福、与え増し」
びゅるるっと音が弾け飛ぶと共に、木の頂上からは真っ黄色で大きな大きな花が急激に芽吹いていく。
その花から、何やら丸い粒が大量に放出され、まるで花粉のように空を舞い上がる。しかし、それらは重力に引かれて当然のごとく落下していく。
その丸い粒の正体は、数十匹もの黄色いスライム、『タフ・スライム』だ。彼らは雲の上にボフンと弾み、着地するとピィピィと混乱しているように騒ぎ出す。
トワさんの呟きにピンと来る。
「知れたことなり。九尾さまに近づけぬよう、とめどなく飢餓の心に塗れさせ、後はどこへなりとも行けば良いなり」
こうしてタフ・スライムたちが飢えを凌ぐために、雲を超え、イネ村やコムギ村、ミケランジェロ近郊にまで出現するようになったってわけか。
「トワさん、スライムたちに触れてみて欲しい」
から目を逸らさずに、トワさんにお願いする。
「なんて言ってる?」
「えっと......『苦しい』、『お腹空くのイヤ』、『助けて』『黄色の仲間を増やさないで』......」
諸悪の根源はあれのようだ。
「白焔さん。何か他の方法を考えませんか?」
「スライムたちもああ言ってますし......」
「スライムごとき、わちらの知った事ではないなり」
周囲でぼてぼてぽよぽよ彷徨うスライムたちを、さも邪魔だとでも言うかのように顔をしかめて袖であしらう。そして油揚げを食べる
りをあげて、津波の如く俺達を襲ってきた。
名声スキル......あてにならないな......。
139 137 Words White Flame
"Welcome to the Temple Palace of the Second Tail, Tengu Tower."
That's what I said, twisted my eyes like a half moon, a white fox-eared witch who giggles.
Her condition was somewhere white, and the opposite of the welcome dialogue (line), we both had a cold gaze. Especially when my eyes went to the big slimes that came with me, I didn't miss the shade of hatred running into those polar-colored eyes.
We still keep our guard up against NPCs that show such a surprise.
The relationship with NPC, I think, would have come to an early understanding if it had used the skill 'Fame'. Like the Twin Witches fight earlier, they must have avoided being surprised.
: Nothing in particular:
Unlike expected, the relationship came out neutral.
Does that mean there's no hostility?
"A long time ago, the son of man... even called Wachi, drowned in an unfulfilled hunger, an eating arc... but Wachi received it from the Empty Ladder, by the name of Baek."
But what Baiji took out was something light brown.
Looking at it... isn't it fried oil?
What, this hungry witch?
However, unlike the twin girls just now, it is also certain that it is somehow an atmosphere in which dialogue is possible.
Bai Xuan looked at me and Mina and said something odd, especially with her eyes on the head.
"Besides, while I'm asking this strange question again, I'm a fox. That's a line. I heard a lot of slime bullshit, and I rushed."
We decided, bewildered, to listen to her, whether or not we could de-alert the old story that suddenly began.
"Watching the eastern realm of Fantasma over Tai's ancient past has become the role of your parents, Kuratsu."
A few streets on its tail, the god beast that presides over the nine greeds, the emptiness of the nine tails.
Under the protection of such a superorganism, the Demonic Fox Clan seemed to live neatly in a fantasy town (Fantasma).
Baek Jin says that the emptiness brake that everyone believes in, apparently tells one friend, 'You want too much, and you have too much greed. My friends quit now' cause I seem to have fallen asleep around here trying to seal all my greed.
At that time, the flames of the Nine Tails overflowed by grief burned the surroundings of the Fantasma, and went underground, melting and extinguishing the soil like lava, and dropping the Fantasma Town round the ground.
They're stationary because it's helping to hold intruders from elsewhere as a result, and other godbeasts haven't said anything, and they haven't had a significant impact on the ecosystem.
Or I can't believe I just fought with a friend and did such a big thing... did you, God? No, a god beast. Anyway, I didn't think a tiny person like us would understand what God Beast thinks.
"Hmm? Fantasma is under this cloud, right?
Then maybe we're in the clouds above Fantasma...
To say that that tree is growing from a fantasy town far below it...
"Hmm... if you say it at a lot of altitude, shouldn't it be about 5,000 meters?
Five kilometers!
I thought it was a big tree at 30 meters, but that's just part of the heavenly side (top) coming out of the clouds... too different scale.
"What about that curly, white-haired thing?
"That's my mother's tail. Just one bottle."
How long is it, the tail of the nine tails!
Five kilometers is too scary.
"No, what. With the help of Wachi, we inhibit the action of the world tree that produces that slime, and give her protection."
A tree that produces slime?
Is that the efficacy of a pillar of the world tree?
"The trouble is that our mother went to sleep at the roots of the world tree to purify her own greed... and Slime had a slight ability to purify her flesh and greed than she had in ancient times."
"Therefore, this is how we denature the slime to prevent it from purifying the greed of Jiu-tai sama little by little"
Fierce, disastrous, rough, that's what makes Nine Tails. That's what makes me and Mina so scared of the true Nine Tails.
Baekan-san sneers at the big slimes behind Mr. Tough Twa.
"Until the day of the resurrection of the Nine Tails, this one will bless the obscure slimes and mark the heart of hunger."
As such, Baiji put his right hand on the building where the tree and tail were intertwined.
When chanting a chanting thing, the tree bears a blue and white light, and the more yellow flashes from the hands of the whites.
The yellow light pushes and fuses as if to erode the blue light of a giant tree.
"Blessings of the Demon Arc, Increasing Giving"
The sound plays all the way. As it flies, a bright yellow, large flower sprouts rapidly from the top of the tree.
From its flowers, some round grain is released in large quantities, rising up in the sky as if it were pollen. But they fall naturally, pulled by gravity.
The identity of the round grain is dozens of yellow slimes, "Tough Slime". They bounce bohun on the clouds and when they land they make noise like they are confused with Pippy.
I come pinned to Mr. Twa's whining.
"Know it. Let the heart of famine paint so as not to get too close to the Nine Tails, and then you can go anywhere."
This is how the tough slimes began to emerge beyond the clouds and even in the villages of Ine, Comgi and near Michelangelo in order to outperform the hunger?
"Mr. Twa, I want you to touch the slimes."
I ask Mr. Twa not to distract me from the whitewash.
"What are you saying?
"Er... 'bitter', 'I don't want to be hungry', 'help', 'don't add more yellow people'..."
The roots of all evil are like that.
"Mr. White. Would you like to think of any other way?
"The slimes say oh too..."
"When you slime, it's not what we know."
The slimes wandering around me and po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po And fried whites.
The whites roared at us like a tsunami.
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