After Princess Lily’s surprised face vanishes, a small, dreary room appears in front of me.
It looks like I was the one who was transported.
This kind of teleportation isn’t possible with current alchemy, but it’s one of many legendary spells that’s said to have existed back when primordial magic was common in this world.
“That scared me… That was a marriage proposal, wasn’t it?”
My whisper echoes in this small room.
I wasn’t expecting her to ask me to marry her… I guess it’s some sort of marriage of convenience so she can take in the one who formed a contract with a dragon, but… No, I have to focus on dealing with the phenomenon in front of me.
I look around, but don’t see a door or even a window.
There’s only one thing. In the center of the room there is a pure black cube that’s slightly bigger than the palm of my hand, and is floating and spinning.
“So this is a secret, inaccessible room…”
But I get the feeling that I can leave if I hold up this magic crystal key to one of the walls. The wall where those letters appeared looked like the walls in this room. But now the question is…
I look at the black cube that’s still spinning.
Is it a trap? Or… Before I was brought here, I saw something about administrator privileges written on the wall. Does that have to do with managing something? Is this room actually intended to manage that?
I don’t really know what to do, but then I reach the same decision I always do. When in doubt, prioritize curiosity.
I walk towards the center of the room and reach towards the floating cube. But just before I touch it, I feel a repulsive force on the palm of my hand.
I raise my hand and the cube follows it. I don’t feel any weight.
But then, the cube starts spinning faster, and a half-transparent plate appears in front of me.
The letters on it are the same as always, that I can’t read. It’s pretty inconvenient.
There’s one part with what I think are two characters, and a second part with five.
I think I remember seeing this before.
It’s the same thing I saw when I formed a contract with Seilook.
A white line comes out of the still spinning black cube, and then a white light bursts from it. When it finally starts to settle down, I see what I think are numbers on the plate rapidly changing.
The cube is still shining on the palm of my hand, and the numbers on the plate are still changing.
I don’t know exactly how long it took, but eventually the plate disappears, and the cube returns to the center of the room.
“What just happened…”
I try to touch the black cube again, but this time my hand goes right through it.
“I can’t touch it… And I can’t check the plate either because it’s gone.”
I start thinking about what just happened.
Judging by how the symbols changed, I think whatever went down when I formed a contract with Seilook went up a little. I remember the symbols going in the opposite direction back then. But I still have no idea what this is.
I decide to leave this mystery aside for now, and test whether or not I can actually go back. I go to the wall that I was standing near when I got here, and hold up the magic crystal key.
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