Koney, a boy who lives in the Empire, visited the Imperial Museum with his parents. As if telling the turbulent history of the empire, the hall was filled with a solemn atmosphere. But Ko Ni, who was still a child, didn't feel that way at all. He simply felt that those ancient things were being offered in the museum.
"There are a lot of people in the museum. You must not let go of my hand. The kid and his family who get lost in the museum will be eaten by monsters."
His mother was worried that it would be easy to act rashly in normal times, and Kony, who did not listen to his parents at all, warned him.
"Yes, yes, that's it."
Kony was bored with her mother's usual reminders, and answered her perfunctorily.
After only a few minutes, Koni really felt bored. He hoped that he could at least move around freely. When his parents were immersed in admiring the exhibits, he casually let go of his mother's hand and started a person in the museum. Within the adventure.
Kony walked slowly away from the crowd, and finally walked to a wide place. There is a mural on display.
The mural depicts a dragon with huge wings and a beast with strong bones. Kony was moved by the powerful posture of the beasts in the painting, but at the same time he held the worldly feeling that such creatures from fairy tales could not exist in the world.
Beside that mural, there is an old painting on display. In that painting, there are several small boxes side by side, and they are depicted in killer colors.
After careful observation, Kony also found that a part of the painting was obviously full of strangeness. In many boxes, only the lid of one box was opened, and only the piece of paint inside the box peeled off. Although Ko Ni didn't know what kind of artistic conception this painting wanted to express, he felt an incredible charm.
So Kony stopped in front of the painting, but someone unexpectedly spoke to him at the back.
"Do you like this painting?"
Kony turned over and took a look. Behind him stood a girl who looked older than Kony and had a gentle smile on her face. The girl didn't wait for Kony to answer, and went on talking on her own.
"The museum is very quiet, and there are only some ancient things. Don't you think it's boring? But I'm very interested in this painting."
Kony has a good impression of girls who feel exactly the same as him.
"I think so too! Like the place where this box is opened, the color is like breaking free from the box. It's very interesting."
After the girl heard him say this, her expression became very cheerful, and she took Kony's hand.
"We got along very well! I also found other interesting things. If you don't mind, would you like to take a look around with me?"
When Kony heard her say that the two of them "get together", which made him feel good, he readily agreed to the girl's proposal.
So Kony took the girl by the hand and began to visit the museum. The exhibits that the girl took Kony to see were all very interesting. The boredom of visiting with her parents suddenly disappeared, which made him very happy.
"I have always been locked up in the hospital. I am so happy to be able to visit the museum with you like this."
The girl said so shyly.
"Me too... it's better to be with my family."
Because Kony was too embarrassed, he took the truth with him in a somewhat vague way, and answered her like this. After the girl listened,
"Then what happened to your family?"
Continue to question with a little worry.
"I left them in the exhibition room at the entrance, because it was too boring to visit with them."
Hearing Ko Ni's hesitant answer, the girl only calmly replied "Oh...".
In this way, after the two of them have gone through all the exhibits,
"Then in the end, let you see the good things I have hidden away!"
The girl said so enthusiastically. Since Kony was also completely immersed in the fun of visiting the museum, he asked the girl to hold his hand and just follow her obediently.
The crowds became scarcer along the way, and the two finally came to a place where there was no one at all. There is a simple door that exudes a sense of history, and at the same time an inexplicable and strange atmosphere is exuding. It was just standing as if watching Connie quietly.
"It's inside this door, because it's too heavy, I can't open it alone. But today there are powerful boys, so it's okay!"
The girl said innocently, and gave Kone the position in front of the door. "Open it now, open it now." At the girl's urging, Kony followed the girl's instructions, grabbed the handle of the door with his hand, and began to exert force.
"Huh... so weird."
There was no movement at all in that door. Coming seriously, Ko Ni began to push forward and backwards indiscriminately. Then, the heavy door finally opened with a sigh, and a staircase leading to the ground appeared, and a cold wind came from inside.
"There is something very strange ahead! Let's go!"
In front of the opened door, the staircase led to a bottomless darkness, almost as if it were leading to another world, but the girl was holding Kony's hand and going down.
On the other hand, Kony stopped in an instant and pulled the girl.
"Wait, wait a minute, I don't know where this ladder will lead to. If you go down, you will really get lost. Isn't this dangerous?"
Although he had enjoyed exploring the museum before, Kone still felt uneasy about going to the unfathomable underground. At this time, a surprised expression appeared on the girl's face.
"Could it be... Are you scared? I thought you were a more courageous boy..."
Kony couldn't bear what the dejected girl said to him, and couldn't help refuting it.
"How is it possible! I am not afraid at all. I am also worried that you may be afraid in your heart, so I said that!"
The girl said, "What? It turned out to be like this. You are so sweet!" With a hearty smile, she took Connie's hand, who had been holding it together, and walked down the stairs together.
"It's coming soon."
Step by step, the two of them tentatively explored the unknown place, while walking down the pitch black stairs leading to the ground. Kony felt that the girl walking in front seemed to be holding his hand harder and harder.
In this way, the two had been walking down the long stairs, which was so long that people almost disappeared the sense of time. Suddenly, the girl stopped.
"It's here."
Kony stood side by side next to the girl, looking forward. In the space unfolding in front, there was a scene that was exactly the same as the picture he was looking at when he met the girl. The slender boxes are arranged at equal distances, and only one of them is opened. I don't know where it came from, the chilly air added a sense of tension to the scene. Kony completely ignored the sense of crisis he felt before opening the door, and now he was only moved by the fact that the scene in the painting actually appeared in front of him.
"It's amazing! It's where it appears in the painting!"
Kony's joyous voice echoed in the underground space, echoing.
"It's called an underground cemetery. It's located deep underground, no matter how you call it, no one will hear it, and no one will come to save you."
Suddenly hearing something that was not right, Kony looked in the direction of the girl beside him. Then, he watched the girl who was there before, and that lovely face gradually distorted and turned into a black shadow with only red eyes emitting a weird light. The girl's soft hand that was holding him turned into a dark shadow, and she clenched Kony's hand with an unimaginable force from the girl.
"Wow!"
Kony couldn't help letting out a scream. The comprehension is completely unable to keep up with the appearance of the girl's entire tone change, as well as the current situation in which he is currently in. Although there was a feeling of surprise interspersed in the middle, it immediately turned into a feeling of fear.
Kony resisted desperately, trying to get rid of the girl's hand who had changed back to the original black shadow, but the hand did not move.
"Even if you don't have to shout so loudly, everyone has already been quarreled by you."
The black shadow still faintly left the girl's voice, and smiled unscrupulously.
Then, the lids of the boxes, the stone coffins arranged at the same intervals, made a banging sound and moved, and from the opened gap, a dark shadow crawled out. Just when Kony was unable to move due to fear, all the black shadows in the coffin appeared completely.
In Kony's blank head, a word suddenly flashed.
"There are a lot of people in the museum. You must not let go of my hand. The kid and his family who get lost in the museum will be eaten by monsters."
That was what his mother said to him before entering the museum.
"I didn't expect it to be true..."
Kony's feet trembled because of fear, and he deeply regretted it. The black shadow who got up one after another approached him step by step, gradually shortening the distance, and finally surrounded him.
"It would be great if I was obedient... I'm sorry, mom..."
Kony was tormented with regret, but he just watched the shadows who opened their mouths.
At this time, a rumbling sound suddenly came from the depths of the underground cemetery. At the same time, a burst of sand and dust can be seen expanding and expanding from a distance, while approaching here. When the dust finally came to Kony's side, the height had expanded to reach the high ceiling.
Kony immediately raised his unheld hand to protect his face. The small gravel hit Kony and bounced back, and he felt a tingling pain in his hands and feet, but he just endured it quietly.
After a while, the storm subsided and Kony opened his eyes halfway. Then, in the harsh field of vision that raised a large area of sand and dust - unexpectedly, there was a huge silhouette that couldn't even accommodate the high ceiling standing in front of Kony and the shadows.
"how come……!?"
So surprised, Sombra's strength in catching Connie's hand also relaxed. Ko Ni immediately let go of his hand, found a gap in the black shadows that surrounded him, and slid his body out. At this time, there was a very majestic voice that stopped Kony's actions.
"Stay where you are, boy."
With a feeling that he couldn't help but want to stand upright on the spot, Kony stopped his actions as the voice commanded.
"Souls controlled by evil spirits, I will extradite you to the goddess of the sky now."
After the majestic voice was announced in this way, countless light spots appeared from the direction of the sound, and they sprayed strongly at Koni and the others. The black shadow that touched the light spot made a painful scream. The longer it was irradiated by the light, the black shadow became thinner and thinner, and then quickly disappeared one after another.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"
The voice that Kony had heard screamed sternly, and he couldn't help but look in that direction. Then I saw the black shadow surrounded by light, and at the same time the screams disappeared, the girl's figure appeared. Kony couldn't think of what to say to her, but just kept staring at her, and the two of them crossed their eyes.
"...I'm sorry I lied to you. But I can go to the museum with you, I really have fun. It feels like I have become good friends with you, so happy...I really didn't lie on this point. "
The girl stared straight at Kony while she was crying. The spots of light that hit her increased in an instant, and when they hit the wall of the vast underground cemetery, they soared up, all of which fell on Koni and the others. Among the numerous light spots, the girl's silhouette gradually became transparent.
Kony immediately ran to the girl's side, as if he wanted to tie her together tightly, and took the girl's hand.
"I know, don't worry, I believe you! I also feel the fun of the museum for the first time because of you. I am the one who is happy because we met! So...we are already friends! I can't allow my good friends to leave in tears!"
Kony was afraid that the disappearing girl would not be able to hear the end, so he finished speaking like a bullet. After hearing his words, the girl showed a slightly surprised expression, her face bloomed with the same gentle smile as when she first met.
"Haha...Thank you. You are right. You finally became a good friend. If you parte in crying, it would be too lonely."
The feeling of Kony holding the girl's hand has disappeared.
"Don't worry, because we get along well, we will definitely meet again."
The girl who had become as thin as water vapor finally nodded with a smile on her face, blending with the light shining on the underground cemetery. The dazzling light and tears that made it impossible to look at him made Kony's vision blurred.
After opening his eyes for a while, Kony found that the residue of the light spot had merged with nature, and then disappeared.
"It seems that you have made good friends."
Hearing that majestic voice made Ko Ni, who had been stunned, come back to his senses. At the same time the owner of the voice appeared lightly, the sand dust that had originally been raised had also subsided, and the true appearance of the huge silhouette was also revealed.
"Dragon...Dragon!?"
Kony couldn't help but shout out. Standing there leisurely is a dragon with huge wings, and just facing it, it is shocked by the divine temperament, which is deeply awe-inspiring. Long said to him in a voice that was so low that even his skin could feel the vibration of the air:
"But, if you continue like that, you will almost be swallowed by the evil spirit? The only people who will be deceived by the evil spirit are those who abandon the family covenant. Boy, do you know it in your heart?"
This question made Ko Ni feel cold all over, almost cooling off the excitement of seeing the dragon with his own eyes.
"Yes... Mom clearly told me not to go away with her, but I ran out without authorization..."
Long quietly listened to Ko Ni's confession.
"You should understand that this is definitely not something worthy of praise, right?"
Kony nodded quietly.
"There is a rumor circulating in this museum. If a child abandons the family covenant, the child and his family will be eaten by monsters. Now you are being attacked as a teenager... What about your family?"
"Wh... how! Is it possible that mom and dad!? You have saved me, can you please save them too...!?"
Kony begged the dragon for help. But the dragon just quietly lowered his eyes and shook his head.
"The teenager's parents must be like the teenager now, worrying about you from the bottom of my heart? I didn't think about this at all. The consequences of this are the result of the teenager. The mistakes once committed can't be written off."
After listening to these words, Kony reflected on himself from the heart for the first time in his life. He always rejects nagging parents inexplicably, but he perfuses them on the surface, and he starts to feel that he was stupid in the past. Kony knelt down while crying quietly.
Long looked down at the regretful Ko Ni, sighed, and said to Ko Ni like this:
"...However, things from now on can be changed through the efforts of a young man. If you repeat the same mistakes...you should be aware of the consequences, right?"
Kony nodded vigorously while wiping his tears. After confirming his appearance, Long gently moved his head close to Kony. So Ko Ni with a miserable expression was reflected in the dragon's pupils and filled it, and Ko Ni stared back at himself reflected in the dragon's pupils.
Then Ko Ni suddenly had the illusion that his vision was sucked in by the dragon's pupils, which made him shake.
"Make a choice that can proudly face your friends."
In the end, it seemed that I heard the dragon say this to him in a gentle voice.
Ko Ni suddenly woke up and was about to stand up, only to find that his feet seemed to be pressed by a force.
"It's too dangerous, don't stand up."
There was his mother staring at him worriedly, and the back of his father quietly carrying him.
"Are you all right!?...Where is the Dark Shadow Monster!?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Did you have a horrible nightmare? Maybe it was because it was exhausting to visit the museum together, Kony fell asleep, so Dad would carry you on his back."
Although the sudden facts made Kony stunned, he was relieved and came up with tears naturally. When the parents saw Ko Ni like this, although they were panicked because of worry, Ko Ni insisted on going by themselves and got off his father's back.
"Don't start running suddenly? Because Koni was sleeping just now, maybe he will fall."
Kony smiled at his worried mother as usual, and replied:
"Well, I know. I won't worry you anymore, it doesn't matter."
Kony visited the museum again in the future, although he wanted to find the door leading to the ground, but he couldn't find it. Kony already had such a premonition deep in his heart, and moved on to the painting in the underground cemetery. I saw that the lids of all the coffins in the painting were tightly closed, and they had been transformed into paintings with plants growing everywhere and being exposed to warm sunlight.
"It has become a better painting than before."
Kony buried the incredible memories of that day in his heart, and stopped doing things that made people worry or worry about. Although his parents were very surprised at the amazing growth of Ko Ni, they still guarded him warmly.
"In order to be able to meet again at any time, I can't do shameful things."
Kony never forgot the promise he made with the dragon, and grew up to be an outstanding adult all the way.
