Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatte Iru Darou ka

“He’s gone…” Aiz quietly said to herself.

She was on the tenth-level floor. She stood alone in the fog, surrounded by the corpses of all the monsters she had slain.

She had seen the boy through the fog not too long ago, but the moment he cleared the next set of oncoming monsters, he’d left the room as if he were shot out of a cannon.

At Eina’s request, she had collected information from other adventurers about the whereabouts of a white-haired boy, and she finally managed to track him down…only to have him run away from her once again. Her shoulders drooped.

But…

Aiz thought vaguely to herself that maybe he was used to his power.

While she couldn’t be sure because of the fog, she felt as though he was fighting with impatience, full of desperation. And when she cut an opening for him, he shot off like a madman driven by thoughts of something that wasn’t her.

Aiz got the impression that the boy had a reason to rush, but she didn’t know why.

What should I do now…?

She had accepted Eina’s request to confirm the boy’s safety. She should go after him.

However, going after him now would be another wild-goose chase. She was considering her options when suddenly…

Something glinted through the fog.

“…What’s…”

She bent down to pick up the source of the light from the grass. It was an emerald-colored vambrace.

The vambrace, the exact color of Reveria’s and Eina’s eyes, was somewhat the worse for wear. It looked as though it had taken a bad hit or three before falling off, and the surface was covered in nicks, scratches, and cuts.

But why here? she wondered to herself before it came to her. “Ah!”

An important thought occurred to her.

“Could this be…?”

—Behind her, a lost needle rabbit hopped around the prairie field on the tenth-level floor of the Dungeon.

LITTLE • BARISTA