I Don’t Trust My Twin Sister

“Crazy…”

Ian opened her mouth in surprise. Neuer followed right behind him and stopped, flinching. In an instant, a huge amount of arrows rained down from the ceiling.

“Ian!”

I stopped staring blankly and quickly reached into my bag and took out the relic. It was a relic that had been shot with an arrow in front of my parents’ grave a while ago. He took the artifact from my hand. As his arm rose, my leg touched the ground, and in an instant, the gourd unfolded and struck the arrow. Arrows that seemed as if they were going to tear through a gourd rained down continuously for tens of seconds.

A few minutes later, as the rain of arrows surrounding the gourd slowly stopped, Ian lowered his hand and lightly snapped his fingers. A faint flame caught the gourd just above us and burned the arrow to ashes. When the gourd disappeared, arrows were scattered all over the floor except where we were standing. Ian looked at the relic blankly and then handed it to me.

“Are you okay?”

“I’m OK.”

When I turned my gaze to the side, I saw Noyer, who had not entered the area of ​​the rain of arrows. He was watching us blankly from afar. Ian said bluntly, narrowing his eyes and glaring at him.

“Did you enjoy the sightseeing, old man?”

“You have something interesting?”

“I thought the great old man would personally come forward and save me, but I got help from my lover. How can this be so different?”

“Do you need my help? Even if it’s not that object, you can easily stop it with an arrow.”

At his blunt reply, Ian waggled his eyebrows and narrowed his eyes. After putting the artifact in my bag, he looked serious again.

“Did you see, Lawrence? You can’t believe that guy ran away to live alone. You’re being betrayed.”

“…This guy?”

I laughed awkwardly while listening to Neuer’s words, which I wear as a habit. I didn’t know if they were getting along well or not, but I looked at the grumbling Ian and the growling Neuer at the ceiling. Was this what the picture on the map means? So, in the picture of a real animal, there is an animal, and in the picture of an arrow, there is an arrow…. something like that? I unfolded the slightly crumpled map.

There was one place where both bats and arrows were spread out at the same time.

“There’s an empty space right in front of you.”

Ian must have heard me complaining, so he came over and sat right next to me and looked at the map together. He stretched out his finger and pointed to where he assumed we were, then moved it slowly. Then he turned his head, looked around him, and called Neuer again. 

“Mister.”

“What?”

Despite his blunt response, Ian opened his mouth again as if he didn’t care much.

“Where is the popularity of the person closest to me?”

“It’s a little further from here. But I’m a little curious as to whether he’s dead or alive.”

“It’s been almost a week. They said the food and water they brought in were enough for four days, so we can assume he’s passed out from exhaustion. Is that person Viscount Ajstain?”

“No. Viscount Ajstain is a little further away, an hour away if you run at the speed just now.”

Ian nodded his head. As soon as I got into a position to be hugged by his hand, he quickly picked me up again. Ian moved on his feet again and I, in his arms, studied the map. I thought it was almost impossible to interpret the map, but after entering, I understood it clearly. The story was that the place where the animal was drawn was where animals really lived, and the place where the arrow was drawn was an arrow trap. I laughed at the simple and absurd content.

“Why couldn’t I understand such a simple map?”

“It may be because they don’t believe that life is still living in a tomb built hundreds of years ago. Still, it doesn’t seem like all the life on the map is living. It seems like they may have become extinct over time or left because there was no food.”

“Does an empty room mean it’s safe?”

“Maybe?”

As I was inferring the direction of movement by drawing a line with my finger, a maroon square in the center of the map caught my eye. So what is this? Since it is located in the very center, is this the location of the tomb? But why the maroon square? In addition, there were many things you wouldn’t know unless you looked at the map, including what the signs around it were and it was drawn intuitively. I turned my head, scanning the fast-moving scenery with my eyes.

“The boom is bigger than I thought. How did they build it so big underground? It must have been difficult to dig it out.”

“It must have been a flat land at the time. As time went by, dirt and sand covered it and grass grew on it, and the stratum rose and buried it.”

It was credible. I nodded and looked around, staring at the huge stone pillars erected here and there. It felt quite grand for a tomb.

“It’s more like a tomb than a tomb.”

“It feels like a temple.”

“I guess I’m the only one who felt that way.”

“I felt it from the moment I came here, the architectural style is similar to the temple architecture of 500 years ago. I wonder if they may have built a temple.”

“The emperor’s body was placed in a temple… This is it.”

“The Lirus Empire also moved the emperor’s body to the Holy Empire and enshrined it, so it must have the same meaning.” 

Complicated religious stories weren’t my thing. After nodding, I turned my attention back to the map and looked at the pictures, then folded them up and put them in my bag. Anyway, it was a matter of just saving people. There was no need to fully explore this place right now, so I just focused on what was in front of me.

Ian ran for a while and then slowly slowed down. Then he stopped, put me down and looked around.

“What?”

“…I hear a moaning sound.”

“Sound?”

He nodded in response to my half-indignant question and then looked at Neuer who followed him.

Neuer placed his hands on the wall and slightly closed his eyes. He floated and quickly moved towards one side. In an instant he disappeared into the darkness and returned not long after, carrying a woman in his arms.

“…”

There was blood all over her body. Her mouth slightly opened at the sight of a middle-aged woman literally covered in red. Ian tried to blindfold me but stopped me by extending her hand and then she quickly approached the woman. She was moaning softly.

After checking that she was still breathing, I quickly took out some water from her bag and slowly pushed it to the corner of her mouth. As the water touched her lips, her closed eyelids slowly opened. She looked at me with her lifeless eyes and slowly opened her mouth.

“Who are you?”

“It’s a rescue team. Are you in any trouble?”

She blinked her eyes a few times, then closed them completely, as if she was exhausted, and spoke quietly.

“Just… please kill me.”

Unexpected…

Her mouth opened slightly at her words. As her replacement mouth opened, Ian’s hand grabbed her shoulder. When he turned his head, his finger pointed towards the woman’s stomach. Underneath the torn clothes, clearly visible flesh was visible.

She covered her mouth with her palm in disgust.

“This…?”

“To avoid the trap…”

She looked very distressed as she exhaled, unable to continue her speech. She closed her eyes, as if she had already sensed her own fate.

“How much time has passed?”

“About a week.”

“It’s been a long time.”

She turned her head and scanned the passage with her eyes, then took her little medallion from her bosom and handed it to me. Her hands were shaking. When I held her hand, her medallion landed on my palm with a clanking sound. she was smiling

“Please pass it on to my family….”

With those words, he closed her eyes and bit her lip tightly as he watched her relax her body. Her death was sad, but what bothered me even more was the possibility that her grandfather might have ended up like this too. After seeing the medal soaked in her blood with her own eyes, he wrapped it in her cloth and put it in her bag. Neuer placed a cloth over her face and then helped her up. We couldn’t take her body out right away. She later had to send someone to clean it up. After marking her location on the map, she turned her body around with difficulty.

‘….May you be peaceful.’

After reciting a little prayer over her death, she walked behind Ian. For some reason, no one was able to raise their voice in the atmosphere, which was quieter than before. Leaving behind the death of one person was not a very good experience. I remembered when I saw her grandfather’s body once. The image of her body being torn apart by wolves from the waist down, leaving no trace of her body, was still deeply etched in my mind.

My grandfather’s death seemed to come to mind again as she looked at her, who was already dead. Trying to erase the memory of her that was repeating itself like a do-it-yourself sign, I shook her head once and looked behind her. I met Neuer’s eyes. He nodded at the dog that was following him and then slightly closed and opened her eyes.

“It’s not far. It seems to be around here.”

“…Is this a sign of grandfather?”

“This is the presence of Viscount Ajstain. However, there are not one, but two.”

My heart was beating fast. Hearing that there was a grandfather somewhere here made me feel impatient. When I asked Neuer which direction he was going, he pointed to one side with his hand. It was a passage covered in darkness.

Over there…

I took steps to move in the direction he pointed. But at that moment, Ian came over and grabbed my shoulder and shook his head. He opened his mouth in a calm tone.

“At times like this, you need to calm down.”

“…Ian.”

His voice held the shaky strings of reason together. Ian gently pulled me into his arms and spoke to Noyer.

“What direction are you moving in?”

“First of all, it’s coming this way. But it looks like it’s in a hurry. It’s tossing and turning, and it looks like it’s being chased by something.”

“Is it Grandpa?!”

“…That’s strange.”

His eyes rolled towards the passage. I also followed his gaze and rolled my eyes. The eyes of three people gathered together in the aisle.

The quiet room slowly became noisy with a small commotion. When I looked up, the entire room was rising.

“The sound…”

“It’s amplifying.”

I turned my head to Garsonnoyer’s explanation. Stone debris trickled down from the side. Is this…?

Stone dust and debris as if it might collapse While countless pieces of debris were falling from the ceiling, the commotion coming from the passageway was getting louder and louder.

Eventually, the moment Ian moved her body after telling me to wait, she appeared in the aisle with a nostalgic face.

“Grandfather!”

The face of the person who raised his or her head as if responding to my call was covered with rejoicing and joy. At the moment when worry and relief came rushing in, the grandfather’s face seemed to be slightly crumpled, and he urgently shouted.

“Lawrence! Come out!”

“Grandfather?”

The moment I tilted my head to see the grandfather’s urgent expression, the large noise that had been vibrating the whole place stopped in an instant. In that place, surrounded by silence, as if the whole situation had stopped, I quietly rolled my eyes.

The gazes of Grandfather, Ian, and Neuer, who were assessing the situation from afar, shifted away…

Did I lose him? As I blinked, the gap widened a little further.

“This?”

“It’s Roa!”

‘Kugugugugugugung!’ In an instant, the room began to move along with a loud scream. I screamed with my hands on the ground and my knees slightly bent as the scenery was moving away from where I was standing as if I was being moved to the side. However, it felt as if no sound was made due to the tremendous roar.

The scenery changes in an instant and the air surrounding me changes. It was only after the loud noise that had been going on for a while slowly stopped that I was able to recognize that I was moving.

He raised his head and straightened his hunched body. A scenery and a place I had never seen before. Before I knew it, I was standing alone.

 

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