"Flame. Frozen to Death Match Girl? Hm?"
Shade thought in surprise. He suddenly realized something.
By then, the two had returned once more to the seemingly perfectly normal corridor. Miss Louisa glanced at the golden cracks still lingering on Shade's body, while Shade learned from the woman in his heart that the surrounding Whisper Element remained extremely dense.
Just as Miss Louisa raised her hand for the third time, she suddenly looked upward:
"Watch out!"
Black mist shot down from the corridor ceiling above them toward Shade. Miss Louisa raised her hand to block it, and though Shade's reaction was not as quick as the Sorceress's, he also raised his hand in time to shield himself.
But before traces of moonlight could take shape in his hand, the golden radiance covering his body suddenly flickered.
The black mist let out a miserable shriek, then darted into the floor and vanished. In the Reality World's God's Radiance state, Shade's thaumaturgies and spells only became somewhat stronger, but in the spiritual world, no evil could approach him.
The Blonde Young Lady holding his hand smiled at Shade and teased him:
"A very nice decoration."
"Mm."
"No need to explain. Since it has risked attacking us on its own initiative, that means we'll soon be able to leave the Dream. That's a good sign. Detective, focus. We'll be back in reality soon."
The two runes that lit up this time were Scribe and Dream Illusion.
Ripple-like runes drifted from Miss Louisa's fingertips and merged into the space of the Dream. As everything before them shattered like glass, the hand-holding pair came back to their senses and found themselves once again in the normal third floor corridor. The golden cracks on Shade's body had completely disappeared.
The reminder in his heart said that all