The World’s Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country’s Novice Seeker, Vol. 7 by Tôwa and Huuka Kazabana

Author:Tôwa and Huuka Kazabana [Huuka Kazabana and Tôwa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2022-08-10T00:00:00+00:00

Part III: Twilight Lakeside Stroll, First Floor

Humid drafts wafting past us, we ducked into the cave and walked out onto a meadow covered in short grasses. A quick look around revealed a lake a short walk away. Unlike at the Beach of the Setting Sun, time here seemed frozen at the uncertain moment when you couldn’t be sure if the sun had dipped completely beneath the horizon. Igarashi walked ahead of me, glancing every which way as she went—this labyrinth appeared a little too overwhelming for her after all.

Choosing her words carefully out of concern for Igarashi, Suzuna looked out at the lake steeped in the colors of dusk and said, “The witching hour…isn’t that what twilight is called in Japan? That’s what this seems like to me.”

“I wonder which is worse luck, that or the dead of night…,” Igarashi whispered, then grasped Suzuna’s arm.

Misaki snickered at the sight—Gamblers, evidently, were naturally gutsier than Valkyries.

“Ooh, what if we’ve got to get to the middle of that big ol’ lake? Think we’ll have to go for another swim?”

“W-we can’t go swimming when it’s this dark!” Igarashi quickly protested. “The resort was one thing, but there’s no telling what might be lurking under this lake.”

“That’s true… You never can tell what monsters might live in labyrinth waters,” I said.

The Merciless Guillotine had also popped out of the sea at the Beach of the Setting Sun without warning. I couldn’t help but wonder if something else that formidable would show itself as I looked out over the water.

“From what I saw in the archive’s books, water snakes are the strongest foe here, but they don’t appear that often. Apparently, it’s best to go around the lake from the west to get to the second floor,” Elitia said.

“Indeed, they did advise against following the eastern route. Perhaps that indicates it’s a more challenging path…or alternatively, leads to secrets the archive cannot disclose. When considered in that light, the warning counterintuitively gives me the sense it may be worth exploring in that direction…,” Seraphina added to the nuggets of information she and Elitia had discovered in the archive.

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