Back inside the room, there was an old mirror on the wall. So the mirror vassal weapon had the ability to transport things using other mirrors as a medium. That seemed pretty conventional and convenient—one advantage of having a funky weapon, perhaps.

In the room with me was Raphtalia, Filo, Sadeena, Shildina, Rishia, Itsuki, S’yne, Glass, L’Arc, Therese, Ethnobalt, Raph-chan, and Chris.

“Where are we?” I repeated.

“No idea . . . but the way the mirror vassal weapon appeared like that, I think it wants to lend us a hand,” L’Arc said. That made sense. The legendary weapons seemed unlikely to try and get in our way without good cause.

“We should be careful, but take a look around,” I responded.

“I’ll use some illusion magic and take a look,” Raphtalia suggested.

“Raph!” Raph-chan wanted to go too. The pair of them together could handle anything that might come up while scouting.

“Should I go too?” Filo asked.

“Just because you can fly, don’t drop your guard. Be careful,” I told her.

“Sure thing!” she said.

A short while later, Raphtalia finished her scouting and returned. The place was apparently an abandoned house deep in the mountains. There didn’t seem to be anyone else here.

“Let’s get moving and try to find some people,” I said.

“This is pretty exciting!” L’Arc was in good spirits, as always. Now that he had the scythe back, he was probably spoiling for a fight.

“If the mirror vassal weapon helped us get here, I would think this is close to the location that Chris indicated,” Ethnobalt said. I agreed with him. That definitely sounded right to me. That said, the vassal weapons could sometimes pull some odd stuff too. We definitely needed to proceed with caution.

Regardless of how strong we had become, we didn’t need to just butcher anyone we came across. That would make us no different from Takt. The best move would be to remain undiscovered, just take down our target, and get Kizuna back. We could retreat easily enough using a portal. If our retreat was impeded in some way, we’d work something out.

As I was considering our situation, my shield arm started to tingle. I checked it over a couple of times but didn’t find the cause. So was I just imagining things?

We left the abandoned house and headed toward civilization.

Chapter Eight: Subterranean Maze City

Chapter Eight: Subterranean Maze City

We arrived in civilization—a town in a certain nation. The buildings had a definite Western style. Things were also a bit steampunky, with various machines on display. It seemed pretty rare in this world of mainly Japanese-styled nations.

We decided to head into town after Raphtalia put some illusion magic on our faces, just enough to stop anyone from potentially being recognized. Checkpoints were a fixture in Kizuna’s world, but it looked like we were already inside.