Planetes
3. z. The Door Mind (2)

Kazuto makes his laboratory dim and provides a comfortable bed for Elliot to use. Do not forget to prepare a tool to monitor what is in the mind of Neptune's embodiment.

"Kazuto-san, is Clarissa's eye power working inside here?" Elliot pointed at his head.

『Hhh, I'm not sure either. The thing is you said it was cursed by a ghost, not a cursed mind creature.』 Kazuto's response sounded like a grunt.

"I don't know why, either," the person seemed confused.

『Aaah, already! Hurry up you lie down!』Kazuto was patient.

While Clarissa came up with some items that were used for the ritual this time. Without saying much, the girl put down the needed items.

"El, are you ready?" clarissa asked when she saw Elliot wearing a device made by Kazuto.

"Already," bowed his head and looked at Clarissa. "Please, yeah."

Clarissa then began to make Elliot comfortable while lying on his lap. He begins when Elliot is on the brink of trance.

"You are at the end of a long corridor. On your left side there are many doors. Explain to me what you see, hold, and hear."

Elliot opened his eyes in his mind and he saw right and left there were many doors. It's like an old hospital.

"It's an old hospital that's been abandoned by patients and doctors, the hallways are dusty, and there's lights on every door." Elliot begins to explain what he sees in his mind.

"Walk, Elliot. Until you meet the yellow door." Clarissa again guided Neptune's embodiment to explore the realm of the mind.

Although Kazuto is able to keep an eye on what Elliot sees in the world of mind, there is something he must be aware of here. The sense of the curiosities is still not subdued even though Clarissa has so far not revealed any strange actions.

Elliot spread his gaze around, suddenly surprised by the hands coming out of each door in front of him. Slowly he backed up and said.

"Suddenly there were hands coming out from behind the door, and the end was dead-end!"

"What are you doing? Run from there!" Clarissa nodded at Elliot.

Elliot turned around and left the location, looking for the door that Clarissa had asked for. Long Elliot traced until he finally arrived at the door mentioned earlier.

"Claris? The door was chained up." he said as he stared at the door.

"Open the door, you're carrying something in your pocket? Or anything?"

Elliot reached into his pocket and found a miser. "There's a miser in my shirt bag."

"Good, use it to cut the chains! You can do that." Clarissa was driving Elliot back.

Even though there was writing from the blood on the door, Elliot ignored it and tried to cut the chains with a miser. Beyond a doubt the chain is thinner than it looks and in a long enough time— is not too long as well, only 30 minutes. Elliot finished cutting all the chains.

"It's open!"

Elliot opened the door and as soon as he entered, he saw the doors on his left. Beyond a doubt, his mind was like a minotaur labyrinth.

"You keep walking in that hallway, and avoid the door that contains the clock. Next look for the red door!"

The door is red. Elliot circulated the view and searched the red door according to the instructions of Clarissa. As soon as I met, I felt a little strange.

"Clarissa, this door is a strange haw." Elliot said innocently. "It's like something's awkward. Do I have to go in?"

Clarissa was silent for a moment. The red door in front of Elliot is suspicious, but if not overcome now the more complicated the problem.

"Come, El. I'll be back-up." Clarissa said after thinking.

Elliot entered the door and saw a terrible grandmother with blood-red lips and eyes glaring at horror. This is what Clarissa had been waiting for, she put her hand on Elliot's forehead and said.

"El, imagine I'm there and help you destroy that grandma!"

Elliot complies with Clarissa's request. Although Clarissa said so, in fact she transferred her consciousness into Elliot's mind. Without Elliot's knowledge of course.

The monstrous grandmother roared furiously and raised her big hand towards Clarissa and Elliot. Trying to pull them into endless darkness.

Clarissa pulled the gun out of Elliot's pocket and shot the grandmother with a magic bullet. Elliot himself is surprised to see Clarissa take the weapon.

"Can there be a gun in my pocket?"

"Let's explain! Now I have to fight this ugly granny first!"

Clarissa dodged the grandmother's attack with great difficulty. He shot from the ghost's blind spot.

The roar of the ghost in the form of the old grandmother also sounded so creepy. Any attack was launched by the ghost. That's what Clarissa is looking forward to. Quickly, he uses the power of his Medusa eyes to turn the ghost into stone.

Horrible screams sounded again. Apparently the ghost of the grandmother can still attack even though half of her body becomes stone. Clarissa's left arm was injured in the attack. The girl's anger peaked.

"How dare you!"

Overwhelmed by anger, Clarissa could no longer remain calm. Fiercely, he shot the ghost repeatedly.

"Clarissa, relax! Calm yourself! Don't attack like that!" Elliot tried to stop.

"God!" with unusual energy, Clarissa rebuffs Elliot, who stops him from attacking the ghost of his mind, and Elliot is thrown.

[In my mind, I have no power. It is difficult to hold Clarissa who is raging like this,] Elliot's mind while enduring the pain of her head being hit earlier.

It seems that Clarissa is content to go berserk and destroy her mind creatures. But for some reason, the figure of Clarissa looks so scary in the eyes of Elliot.

"Els? What's up?" clarissa's voice resuscitated Elliot and somehow, he had returned to the real world. "You're like you're in the middle of a nightmare?"

A little surprised because it seems that Clarissa is not aware of what is happening in her mind. But Elliot is still thinking positively, that who knows who enters his mind is Chylara.

"No," Elliot decided to shut up. "There's nothing, Clarissa."

At least one more curse has been broken.