On thinking that I should have asked Schmitt more about this, I
couldn’t help but frown. Asuna and I never registered Schmitt as a
friend, so we couldn’t send a message to him to check with him. We can
send instant messages to each other even though we’re not friends if
we just know each other’s names, but this kind of message couldn’t be
sent on the same level, and the number of words I can type were rather
little.
I’ll just ask him the next time we meet. We’re not looking into the
‘ring incident’ half a year ago, but the ongoing «Inside area PK». I
wondered as I continued to take out the parchment Schmitt wrote to
me.
I said to Asuna, who was giving an incredulous look from the side,
‘don’t look away from the bar for now’, and checked the names of all
the Golden Apple members listed on the parchment.
Griselda, Grimlock, Schmitt, Yolko, Kains…the names were
written in messy alphabets, and amongst them, 3 are no longer in this
floating castle.
We can’t have any more victims. We definitely must find Grimlock
and find out how the inside area murders took place.
I told myself this in my heart and got ready to keep the
parchment into the item storage.
But just when the small lambskin was about to change from the
materialized item into a name in the system—
My stare was suddenly sucked by a point on the parchment.
“…Eh…?”