Re:Zero - Jobless Reincarnation: Succubus Sword God? I don't recognize it!

Chapter 244: Forgotten Things, Water and Murder

The structure of Stiran's Well is very simple.

It is like a tomb, and when you are in it you will feel depressed, as if you are a toad covered by a pot.

Dark and damp.

The layers of stone steps winding down in front of the crowd were not steep, and the width of each step was almost the same as a big step, about 70-80cm.

In sight, he slid down the gentle slope along with the darkness.

And, it 'slid' down along with the stairs.

There are also densely packed heads.

——The puppets were faceless, standing on both sides of the stone steps, with their hands placed blankly on both sides of their bodies.

sluggish.

stiff.

Humanoid.

Inhuman.

One by one.

Groups of people.

He tilted his head and stared intently.

The horizon swept away and disappeared into darkness, and the darkness also melted into their faces.

The farther away it is, the blurrier it becomes.

But precisely because of this, people have an eerie feeling as if they are being stared at.

The faceless man looks from the shadows.

The uncanny valley effect suddenly popped into my mind.

However, this was only a momentary perception. The sunshine behind me, the bustling city, the noise of the docked ships behind me, and the beam of light in front of me all quickly and firmly diluted this feeling.

Manifested in——

"There's water down there!!" Alice is a thick-skinned and cheerful person - at least to her own people. Her red pupils lit up with flames, and in just a moment, the tail end of her exclamation words exploded directly in this space!
It invades like a flame, instantly burning the 'discomfort' into embers of regret!
However, there was one person who was still afraid and held onto the corner of Alan's clothes tightly.

Alan looked a little dazed. His memory had been lingering in his mind since the moment he saw the doll, eager to surface, but there was always a layer of thought missing. After Alice's yelling, it finally didn't come to light.

But if your concubine is afraid, you must comfort her.

Nothing wrong?

So he turned his head.

His face was stunned.

In the reflection of Alan's dull eyes.

——Rudy’s face turned pale, and he grabbed the corner of Allen’s clothes tightly and pressed close to him.

It's very hot!
In their peripheral vision, Izuluti and Sylphy were slightly surprised for a moment, and then they both glanced at Rudy.

Very solemn!

No man, are you a 34 year old NEET afraid of this?
Allen subconsciously wanted to punch Rudy, but then he blinked and reacted.

Hiss. That's right. For modern people who have seen all kinds of horror entertainment works and bloody plots, the "reality" of this scene before their eyes is actually more bizarre and more difficult to accept.

Because, under the impact of virtual works and reality, people become more and more afraid. On the contrary, the natives of the sword and magic continent are already accustomed to all kinds of strange things.

After all, there are real ghosts in their world.

That's what Alan thought.

But some people don't think so.

Alice, who was standing by, saw Rudy's evil look, raised her eyebrows, and slapped him on the forehead!
Rudy stumbled in a familiar way and fell headfirst into Alan's arms.

He was a little scared at first, but the heavy blow on the back of the head immediately showed the effect. The fear was immediately replaced by humiliation and anger. He instantly got rid of the inexplicable weird feeling and turned around to question loudly.

"What are you doing!?! Why are you hitting me again?? Can you please put away your rude personality??"

"What are you doing!?"

Rudy was so angry that he laughed.

"What did I do? I didn't do anything. Uh."

But when he had said half of his words, he felt a burning gaze, and he turned around in surprise to look at the source of the gaze.

——Isaruti and Sylphy both looked at him sideways, their expressions were a little strange, with a hint of inexplicable murderous intent, and a hint of...
I feel inexplicably envious.

? ?
envious?

He was stunned and turned his head.

In front of me was Alan's chest.

Look up again.

Alan looked at him expressionlessly.

Rudy jumped out of Allen's arms.

Leaning against the wall beside him, his expression changed several times, and then the abstract holy body attacked again. It took him only a moment to think of what to say, and he spoke with great confidence.

"What was I doing? I saw Alan was scared, so I went to comfort him."

Alan:.
Isa Luti:.
Sylphy:
Alice: (◣_◢)ノ

Alice raised her hand to slap the rolling knife thing again.

But Alan grabbed it casually and then stroked its fur naturally.

After a moment, Alice stopped talking, snorted, and stopped talking.

Rudy also breathed a sigh of relief, but the next moment, he felt something strange.

The skin on my back felt hard and it was a bit scratchy.

He opened his mouth, realized something, and slowly turned his head.

Next to my ears, I could hear the sound of water splashing under the stone steps.

In front of him was the doll's gray face, 'looking' at him.

Gulu.

Rudy heard himself swallowing.

The next moment, a hand pulled the sound of wind from the side of his ear and brushed across the side of his face.

Grab the puppet's neck.

Alan took a step forward and casually pulled Rudy behind him. He raised his eyebrows and looked at the puppet whose throat he had subconsciously strangled.

The puppet just looked at him expressionlessly, well, literally expressionlessly.

Alan looked at the puppet and narrowed his eyes.

Unlike a human neck, it feels very hard when you hold it in your hand.

Subconsciously, he rubbed it a few times with his fingertips.

Izuruti and Sylphy were both stunned when they saw this scene, because Allen's movements were too fast, so fast that he just flashed by and then, in their sight.
Then he began to stroke the doll's neck.

Although the posture is quite aggressive, the movements of the hands seem somewhat gentle.

It gave them mixed feelings.

Although their reason told them that Alan should only judge the material of the doll based on its movements.

But there were still some subtle emotional feedback.

how to say
There are some
想.
That one
Become that puppet
When this thought came to their mind, they were both stunned for a moment, looked at each other, and found that the other's eyes were similar to their own. Then their faces turned red and they lowered their heads.

What are you thinking about?
However, it is not surprising to have such thoughts. If Alifa, who is far away in the sky, saw this scene, he would probably kneel down.

This is the strength of the jobless succubus.

The jobless succubus was unaware of this. He simply tilted his head and lifted the coarse cloth of the puppet in his hand, which was similar to the outer shirt worn by fishermen.

As expected, the puppet's body is made of steel, covered with fine grains of rust.

Alan looked at it carefully for a few seconds, then shook his head slightly. With Rudy's interruption and confirmation that the puppet was just a puppet, and there was no assassin hidden inside as he had imagined, he breathed a sigh of relief.

But the strange thing is that the thoughts that came to his mind the moment he saw the doll were still very chaotic and floating. The memory was like a thin thread that he held in his hand, but he couldn't figure out the source of the uneasiness, as if he had forgotten something important.

"Look!"

Then, I heard Alice's excited shouting.

Alan turned his head and looked down the stone steps.

The stone steps went directly into the water, but people couldn't really walk into the water. In the darkness at the middle of the stone steps, there was a corridor connecting the stone steps on this side with the stone steps on the other side of the archway.

This is the path people should take.

And just when the few of them were "playing and fighting" for half a minute, their attention, which had been focused on the puppets, the stone steps, and the Well of Stellan, was drawn back.

In the dim light, there were two figures on the corridor.

They are people. So far, apart from Alan and his group of five, they are the only two passers-by in the Well of Stian.

However, they ignored the argument between Rudy and Sylphy and were concentrating on what was happening in front of them.

They were standing right in the middle of the covered bridge.

In front of them was the light projected from the skylight.

At this moment.

With someone serving as a backdrop, the beam of light took on a more concrete shape in the eyes of Alan and the others, projecting from the sky into the river before their eyes.

They stretched out their hands and placed the "Divine Servant" in their hands into the light.

In the light, particles of dust floated in the air, covering the "God's Servant" with colorful light, and fish scales flickered in the light.

The light flickers, shakes, and falls.

With a plop, it fell into the "well" created by the light.

Alan and the others blinked, and at the same time, they all remembered the stall owner's words.

——It is the "medium" of prayer. As long as you throw the "god servant" into the well and establish a "connection" with the god, you will be qualified to make a wish, and the god will respond to the wishes of the person who prays.

Then, two almost overlapping voices sounded at the same time.

"This life is this morning, and next life is this evening."

"Whether it's birth, old age, sickness or death, I am willing"

"With you."

It’s a wish.

It is also an expectation.

As the words fell, at this moment, the strange faces of the puppets serving as a fence beside the two of them, which were not insensitive, seemed to be stained with holiness.

The couple smiled at each other, hugged each other and kissed gently, and separated as soon as their lips touched, very subtly.

But firm.

Then the two looked at each other and smiled. At the same time, they walked happily across the covered bridge, stepped onto the stone steps, and hand in hand, stepped out of the archway opposite which was curtained with light.

Then, the figure stepped into the light and disappeared.

At this point, the prayer ceremony is completed.

It is extremely holy, and even though the environment is extremely simple, it is still shocking.

All five of them were stunned.

because.

Those were two burly men.

Alan:.
Isa Luti:.
Sylphy:
Rudy: .
Even Alice was stunned for a moment, then she raised her brows and murmured in confusion and horror.

"What are they doing?"

Alan opened his mouth in astonishment. As they got closer to the royal capital, the XP of the humans in this world without a job became more and more abundant.

There's shit in sugar.

It's really inedible.

He tried to answer Alice's questions several times, but after opening and closing his mouth repeatedly, he could only utter a few words through his teeth.

"Let's put other things aside, at least, their words sound pretty... nice, don't they?"

"Yeah, that's right." / "Yeah, that's true."

Alice frowned to show her inability to understand, and did not answer Alan, but Izuruti and Sylphy responded in unison that he should have replied to Alice.

Alan was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the two women behind him.

After Black and White responded subconsciously, they felt a little shy and lowered their heads.

Sylphy was playing with the hem of her skirt, while Izolo looked at the stone steps at her feet.

This is just great.

Alan was even more stunned.

No, this broken place can also become a Shura place?

How outrageous.

The air was silent for a moment.

Seeing that Alan was becoming more and more at a loss, Rudy looked at Izuruti and Sylphy and coughed lightly.

I showed a sense of responsibility, as if this family cannot do without me.

"Well, since there's no one in front of the Wishing Well, let's go over there, shall we?"

-

The sound of footsteps echoed in the Well of Atlantis as several people walked down the stone steps and entered the corridor, moving forward under the gaze of the puppets.

Soon, they all stood in front of the light column.

Below me, separated by the doll, is the blue-green "wellhead".

However, because it was already sunset outside, the floating light at the wellhead had dimmed a lot.

Perhaps they knew this, so no one came in through the archways on both sides.

Obviously, sunny daytime and midnight with a full moon are the limited times for making wishes.

The rest of the time, this 'Wishing Well' would not light up at all.

Sylphy, Izolotti, Alice, and Rudy stood in front of the light column, each placing the "Divine Servant" in their hands into the light.

Alan stepped back and stood behind them. From his angle, he could see everyone's hands bathed in light.

The prayer is about to begin.

Watching this scene, Alan crossed his arms and leaned on the puppet behind him.

Sylphy, Izuruti, Alice, Rudy.

As his eyes passed by, names flashed in his mind.

Watching this scene, Alan had a faint smile on his face. With nothing to do, his eyes gradually became vague.

Since entering the Well of Stellan, although he experienced all kinds of weird scenes and his thoughts were constantly interrupted, he still felt vaguely that he had missed some important information.

Very important.

Almost there, but I can't remember it.

He frowned, frowning.

In the peripheral vision, the puppets of the Bridge of Supremacy were motionless.

They have no sorrow or joy, just quietly
Look at yourself.

At this moment, in the flow of feeling, the wind floated down from the skylight above his head and swirled around his ears.

All kinds of information rose and fell in his senses as clearly as flowing water.

The waves on the water sparkled, the breathing of the people rose and fell, and the dust in the light column swayed.

The puppet's shadow on the covered bridge remained motionless.

like a statue.

Alan's pupils suddenly contracted!

Won’t move?!?
Dolls are not supposed to move, but are there any plots in Re:Zero where dolls move?
The answer is yes!

At this moment, he heard a very faint creaking sound beside his ear.

It comes from behind oneself.

waist.

The wind is moving.

The arms of the two puppets behind him cut through the darkness and suddenly stabbed towards his ribs!
(End of this chapter)