Arc 6 chapter
9
[Anastasia: About these sand dunes and the sandy plain between the watchtower, the space is distorted.]
[Subaru: The space is distorted……?]
[Anastasia: In other words, the land isn't connected, unlike what you see. If we continue walking with it being like this, weeell, we proooobably wouldn't reach it, no matter how long we walked.]
Anastasia nonchalantly clarifies the truth of the impact, and Subaru could not close his mouth. The Anastasia who was equivalent to Eridna should've known it from the beginning, considering how it sounded as if that matter was being told from Eridna.
[Subaru: So I guess that's why Reinhard and all the other challengers couldn't reach it.]
For some reason, he thinks of the adventurers' regret from breaking down halfway after having their goal in front of them.
It was the obstacle that obstructed the people that aimed for the watchtower, and the obstacle that even Reinhard gave up on. The distorted space and the end of the sand sea that actually couldn't be reached――perhaps those were the tricks.
[Subaru: How do you defeat that?]
[Anastasia: ……Aren't you kinda missing the point by asking about defeating and not defeating it? This is a trap of nature created by the miasma. There's nooo type of unnatural power going on here.]
[Subaru: A trap of nature!? This!?]
It was an extremely rare set up trap, which had a nature that he felt didn't have anything but an intent to kill with how it was.
The frequently seen mirages at deserts, and the snow covered roads that continued on the cliffs of heavy snow areas. Thinking about it generally, humans could get killed by things like bottomless swamps and being pulled in by rising tides.
However, as you'd expect, this watchtower was――
[Subaru: This is a trap made by nature? That's an exaggeration, isn't it?]
[Julius: Well, the Pleiades watchtower was built at a place where the phenomenon happens. If you think about it that way, it's not unnatural. Also, it makes sense.]
[Subaru: It makes sense? In what way?]
[Julius: You cannot forget. Yes the sand dunes lead to the watchtower, but you can't forget that the thing is not just a tower that is ahead of the sand dunes. Why do you think the watchtower is there in the first place?]
Julius chides Subaru, as he was talking in a rude tone, and he urges him to think. He immediately had an answer come to mind for his question. The watchtower they were aiming for was a seal of the "Witches' Shrine".
And assuming that the sand dunes' unsurpassed trap was the witch cult's deterrence to revive the "Witch of Jealousy", it was probably extremely effective.
He wouldn't stubbornly put the blame on that.
[Subaru: …….! Fine. Anyway, forget the details about why that tower was built there. I'm concerned about something else. It's how we're going to break through that distorted space.]
[Anastasia: You do know that we can't remove the source of it, right? This is the type of soil we're on.]
Anastasia smiles wryly at Subaru, who continued to pressure her, and she showed a pompous sort of attitude. After that, she nods at Subaru and Julius, who gazed at her, and she said it.
[Anastasia: During that "Sand Time", there should be a moment when the space connected to the watchtower collapses. We'll go through there, and we'll enter the real sand sea. That's the condition of breaking through, you see.]
