Chapter 1047 – Lila’s Exciting Experiment Classroom
000
The next time Kuon opened her eyes, she saw red filling her vision and felt something hard wriggling beneath her.
“Ugh…!”
A familiar, pungent smell of herbs wafts past her nose along with a painful voice coming from beneath her.
“Hot…!?”
When I hurriedly raised my head, what I saw around me were my fellow expedition members who had all but been buried in the ground, leaving only their heads.
And, of course, the owner of that hard touch that she felt underneath her earlier was-
“Wow, it’s heavy…”
It was Laila who fell under Kuon, making a difficult voice.
Everyone was looking at her with a surprised expression and with her mouth open, as if she was at a loss for words.
“I’m sorry! Lila, I’ll get out of the way now!”
First of all, if you don’t get out of the way of the girl who is crushed by your own weight, it won’t work.
Kuon carefully moved her feet to her side and lowered her to the ground.
Then, Lila slowly raised her body and head and made eye contact with Kuon.
“Where did it suddenly appear…?”
Although she didn’t particularly resent Kuon, she needed to answer her questions about where she appeared, so Lyla said so.
Kuon couldn’t find the answer on her own, so she just scratched her cheek.
“I should say that while I was watching, Kuon suddenly jumped out from above Lila’s head…”
If Sasha, who was next to Lila, said that, Amelia would nod her head.
“Yes. It’s a little different from transfer magic… I think it would be better to say that something that wasn’t there appeared.”
Hearing Amelia’s words, Kuon says ‘Ugh…’ And tries to recall what happened a while ago.
So, I was withstanding the guardian’s attack with the half-ghost army.
At the end, she couldn’t bear her drowsiness after listening to her divine hymn and fell asleep.
Does that mean this place is a ‘dream’?
However, for her dream, everyone’s reactions and what she felt about Lila a moment ago felt quite realistic.
“Anyway… I’m glad she showed up. We were worried that Kuon might have disappeared somewhere.”
Lila said that while sighing, and Kuon answered while looking at Lila.
“… Lila, maybe. It might not be so fortunate…”
“Huh? Oh, by the way, what about Mr. Quartz and the other kids at Bangui University?”
As expected.
From her words, Kuon could tell that those four people were not in this dream.
Until just now, she wasn’t even confident.
In other words, the fact that no one was asleep meant that this was a space with sleeping people – in other words, ‘in a dream’.
Therefore, Kuon relayed what he had realized to the people gathered there, and was able to see the expressions of the people around him, including Layla, change in various ways upon hearing what he said.
“Ugh… Buried in the ground with only the head left…?”
Attis was feeling his neck with his hand.
“… Now that I think about it, it seems like it’s a little difficult to breathe…?”
Although Kshat spoke there as if he had realized it.
“Pshu… Nose…”
And Fleur next to him nodded.
“Ah, maybe that’s because part of the gills are buried in the ground.”
When Laila spoke while pointing at Kshat, Kshat himself seemed to understand, saying ‘Aha!’.
“As expected, Laila. That’s a clear deduction.”
“Huh. Well, that’s about it.”
“It’s not a very bright situation…”
Lila was immediately flattered and reacted that way, but Amelia had a dark expression on her face as she realized that they had been caught in the guardian’s alcohol and were trapped in the dream world.
“Is that so?”
“Isn’t it… Isn’t it?”
However, it must be said that Lila’s reaction was quite light, and she did not react that negatively.
So much so that even Amelia thought that Lila lacked a sense of crisis.
“With that response, Ms. Lila, it seems she has already found a way out of this place?”
“Huh? It’s still a win, but… The dream world allows you to ignore many laws.”
Laila said that and got up from her seat.
“Just knowing that this is not reality, but a dream world… That is, a virtual world where all of our minds are connected, is a huge step forward. If we had all fallen into it at once, we might never have noticed.”
“Uh, yeah… Is that also true?”
Should we say that the culprit did not know what the genius was thinking? When Sasha heard those words, she couldn’t help but look puzzled.
“Then, Lila, explain. What should we do?”
Attis asked Laila for an answer, and Laila turned her head towards Attis.
“Huh? I don’t know yet.”
“…”
In response to her very confident answer, the same ‘I understand!’ From a moment ago. The culprit is in here!’ The reaction was the same, but the atmosphere was the same.
“Ha. I thought so.”
Of these, Kuon, who spent the longest time with Laila, sighed and shook her head.
“To find a way out of this place, I’m going to try various things from now on. Whether it’s using magic, or trying a way to wake up from a dream. I’ll do it until I succeed, so prepare yourself.”
“Why, for some reason, when Lila says that, I have a slightly uneasy feeling…”
As Sasha watched Lila talking with her bright smile on her face, she couldn’t help but feel her fear, to the point where her tail and her ears on top of her head drooped.
001 -Experiment Case 1-
“Hey… Is this really okay?”
It was Amelia who was looking up at the sky from the ground.
“──!@#!#!$!!!!”
And what you hear is a nervous voice echoing from the corner of your gaze that reaches the sky.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. Cats don’t get hurt even if they fall from a tall building.”
“No, should I say it’s a tall building? It’s already at the sky level…!”
Sasha was also saying that she was worried, but she didn’t have the courage to stop Lila.
First experiment. It was a test of how to wake up in a dream without realizing it.
For example, if you fall from a high place, your body will move and break.
So, in order to conduct the experiment, Lila sent Schrödinger up into the sky using flight magic.
And on the floor… A magic cushion for shock absorption created with Kuon’s magic.
Even if it falls freely to the floor, it will be able to absorb most of the shock.
Of course, falling itself takes quite a bit of courage.
Thanks to Lila, who remembered the cat’s habit of always landing even if it falls from a high place, Schrödinger’s angry voice, which was forcibly sent up into the sky, was already so high that it could not be heard.
“But isn’t it too high…?”
Kshat also seemed a little worried, but Laila shrugged her shoulders.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s a dream anyway, so what’s the point?”
Laila answered like that.
Kuon asked Laila a little suspiciously.
“Lila… Isn’t she trying to conduct an experiment to see what happens to her if she dies in her dreams?”
“…”
There was a moment of silence between the two.
“Ahaha~! That can’t be possible! It’s okay, it’s okay! Because I have Kuon’s cushion, I won’t die!”
“!!!@$%^$^@^^!!”
Perhaps because of the cat’s hearing, Schrödinger heard Leila’s words and screamed something.
“What are you saying? Sasha.”
“… Demons without blood or tears. You are the first to be worse than the returnees! …”
Sasha glanced at Laila as she spoke.
Then Lila laughs and looks up at the sky.
“Then drop it! 3! 2!”
Perfect!
Before Lila can count to three, she suddenly snaps her fingers.
Then, the magical buoyancy that had been keeping Schrödinger in the air disappeared, and her body instantly fell into free fall.
“!?!?──NYaaaaa!!”
Due to her sudden fall, Schrödinger’s speech function was paralyzed and all he could utter was a pitiful scream.
Nevertheless, should I say that it is a cat-like instinct that remains in the body, or perhaps such things were activated.
Whilick! And she did a spin in the air, spun around and fell to the ground-
It landed lightly on the cushion.
“…”
The people who watched the scene quietly applauded Schrödinger’s stunt, saying, “Oh!”
Lila looked at Schrödinger for a moment.
“It doesn’t work.”
“Hey, let’s have a real fight, s***”
002 -Experiment Case 2-
After Schrödinger’s Rebellion was subdued, Lila shook her hands and thought deeply about what to do next.
Seeing Lila like that, Amelia and Sasha were trying to stay away from her and not give her ideas to Lila.
If she gets noticed, she finds herself in a similar situation as Schrödinger.
Because she thought so.
“Artis, is there something wrong? A dream where you suddenly wake up.”
Finally, as if Lila was running out of ideas, she asks Artis.
“Actually, I don’t sleep that much, and I rarely wake up from a dream.”
When Lila, whose basics are to spend all night doing research, says so, Artis replied.
“That’s a coincidence. Me too.”
“It’s not helpful…!”
“It’s not for you to say.”
Why do so many scholars never sleep?
Kuon and Kshat, who heard the story from a little distance away, just shook their heads, thinking the same thing.
At that time.
“Hoo ho!”
And when they heard a strange sound next to them, the two people looked in that direction at the same time.
There, Fleur was raising her hand with all her might as if she had something to say.
“Miss…? Something, an idea?”
“Pshu!”
Kshat, who was moved by Fleur’s more energetic appearance than usual, wiped away her tears and went closer to her and listened.
Then, the sound of push-ko-ko sounded a few times, and Kshat nodded her head several times as if she understood.
“Indeed… If you say so.”
“What is it? Did Fleur come up with the idea?”
Artis, who had known Fleur for a long time, also spoke as if he was surprised by Fleur’s proactiveness, and Kshat answered everyone while nodding her head.
“Yes. That means that if you have an ’embarrassing dream,’ you will wake up.”
“Shameful… Dream…?”
I have a bad feeling about something.
“For example, a scene with someone you like, where the atmosphere is like that, and you’re trying to move on…”
Kshat herself spoke calmly with her mouth, but her face was slightly red.
“─Isn’t that just like a dark dream shown by succubi?”
“Pshuuuuu!!”
When Artis pointed out that, Fleur lifted her arms and shook her head.
Apparently, it seemed different from her standards.
“… It’s different from the experiment using Schrödinger a little while ago, but it seems to make sense if you think of it as a type of shock therapy…”
However, Lila surprisingly liked Fleur’s idea and seemed willing to actually test it.
As she said this, she held her wand once again, closed her eyes, and concentrated her mind.
“… What are you going to do? Lila.”
As Cuon showed her anxiety over her failure a moment ago, Lila spoke with her eyes closed.
“Anyway. All you have to do is experience something embarrassing enough to make your face get hot, right?”
And her magic begins to flow from the tip of her wand.
The magic power that flows out will slowly begin to take shape, and soon after, it will begin to take on the shape of a person.
And the completed product was 98% in the shape of Cleon.
“Complete…! A welcome from Cleon!”
As Laila spoke as if she had accomplished it and pretended to wipe the sweat from her forehead, the illusion in front of her also showed the same movements as Laila.
“… It’s amazing perfection. The only flaw is that the pose is a bit feminine.”
Kshat seems impressed, but says that her perfection is a bit lacking because her movements mimic Laila’s.
“It’s proof that Lila usually watches Cleon very carefully.”
When Amelia said that, Lila blushed and said, ‘What?’
“Well, that can’t be possible! That guy has a lot of easy-to-recognize characteristics, so he’s just memorable.”
And, seeing Laila speaking as if she was trying to hide her embarrassment, Artis smiled with the corners of her mouth raised.
“Why does Layla seem more embarrassed?”
“… S-it’s noisy. Anyway, Fleur? I’ll do as you said. Just stand there.”
Following Lila’s instructions, Fleur stands at the designated location.
Then, Lila moves the ‘Illusion of Cleon’ she created, and she approaches Fleur.
When Cleon approached her, Fleur’s body trembled and reacted in surprise, saying, ‘Psshu!?’
It was the first time since ‘back then’ that I had seen Cleon from such a close distance.
Even though she had already experienced it, Fleur’s tolerance towards others and the opposite sex was still infinitely close to 0.
“The young lady is embarrassed…!”
As Kshat played next to her, Lila nodded her head and moved her hand, causing the illusion of Cleon to slightly lift Fleur’s chin.
… There should be no feeling in the illusion, but Fleur’s chin naturally rose following the finger.
“Pohueh…!”
Fleur is so embarrassed that she makes strange crying noises.
It was clear that the underside of the gas mask covering her face was stained redder than Lila’s hair.
“Just a little more…!”
If Sasha also cheers like that, Lila slowly brings Cleon’s face closer to Fleur’s face-
Soon, the moment when Cleon’s lips touched the forehead of the gas mask she was wearing.
“Fuooooo!!!”
And a sound similar to that of an elephant rang out, and Fleur fell backwards.
Thud! Before she can hear the sound, Kshat quickly catches her and quickly checks her condition.
“How!? Did you go!?”
Lila will get closer, erasing Cleon’s illusion.
“Laila!”
Kuon got angry at that vulgar expression, but Lila responded as if making an excuse.
“It means that you have gone to reality!”
“Then you would have disappeared from here… Unfortunately, you just lost your mind.”
Kshat shook her head at Laila’s words.
Haha, sighs flowed from everywhere.
“If this doesn’t work, I’ll have to find another way.”
At Lila’s words, she sighs once more.
“Hmm… Is it really possible to wake up from a dream in a normal way…”
Kuon says, and Lila shrugs her shoulders.
“If there was a magical connection to the outside world, I could forcibly drag my mind outside through it. But I wasn’t using magic before I fell asleep… The staff here is just something I created from my imagination… “
“I see…”
Kuon was about to respond to Lila’s answer by saying, ‘Then there’s nothing we can do…’ But something about her suddenly occurred to him.
“Ah.”
“… What’s wrong?”
Lila asks in response to Kuon’s reaction.
“… Maybe. It might be connected to the outside world… It might be!”
Kuon was squeezing his hands tightly while sounding quite confident.
