When we came out of the labyrinth, the place we came out to was a volcano cave──the scenery had made a complete change to the point of making me want to say that.
After we had defeated the Beholder, when we went through the room that could be called the connection between the tenth floor to the eleventh floor, a heat that felt like it would singe our skin assailed us.
Up until the tenth floor, it was a labyrinth whose manmade structures that looked like historic ruins made it stand out, but this floor was the opposite and seemed like something natural that the hands of man couldn’t reach.
「This……looks like it’ll be extremely intense.」
The floors up until the tenth floor had, putting it bluntly, a degree of difficulty where you could say that it would be easy if an adventurer with a certain amount of experience had done it, but was it my misunderstanding in feeling that the degree of difficulty jumped up after entering the eleventh floor?
「The floors from this eleventh floor are called『First Sight Killers』. Although there aren’t any kinds of traps, the height of the magma changes like the rise and fall of tides, and you can’t get away by the time you notice it……Things like this often happen.」
There was a necklace that made use of a gem that looked like a sapphire on Fiona’s neck, who explained that without shedding a bit of sweat.
Ah, this girl is using an anti-heat magic tool, isn’t she!?
Just when I was feeling anger towards Fiona who was shrewd enough to only prepare an anti-heat magic tool for herself, Bernadette, who had been awfully quiet, stepped forward.
「O wind, envelop us and overcome the heat……『Cool』! ……Phew, with this, it should become considerably more comfortable.」
At the same time she stepped forward, Bernadette used magic. When she did, a cold wind blew, and wrapped us up.
「Ohh! Is this magic?」
「Yes. Even without a staff, I am able to use magic of this level.」
「Kuuー! Thanks, Sister-nee-chan. I was about to die from it being so hot.」
Angelica and Kuon raise cheers to Bernadette’s Cooling Magic.
When I was about to say my thanks to Bernadette as well, Bernadette approached me.
「Since I wasn’t able to do anything a while ago, I need to at least do this much.」
「It’s nothing that you should worry about. It was just a matter of the right person in the right place you know, the right person in the right place.」
When I smiled and replied to Bernadette who looked like she was experiencing feelings of guilt, Bernadette showed an even sadder looking face.
「……Yashiro-san, is dying, a matter of the right person in the right place?」
I reflexively shut my mouth from Bernadette’s words that she said in a small enough voice that only I could hear.
「Yashiro-san, I understand that you can’t die……and that you fight with that as a weapon. ……But, using it as if to say that it’s only natural that it happens……Seeing that, it makes my chest hurt.」