Secret's! [War Of K-M-DGsp-M4221] Locked OSO.0
[B1-14] How to Cure Without a System (3/4)

The emblem, which is listed in the middle of the silver door in front of Ret, suddenly rotates clockwise 180⁰ and forms a lock. It shone brightly, then the key opened itself and just disappeared.

The silver door in front of Ret and Sei, split in half and revealed a staircase one lane up. Yellow light on the emergency lights from both sides of the corner of the stairs, illuminating the other steps leading up. Despite the light, the last steps and the top of the stairs are not visible to both of them.

“We go up there?” ask Ret to Sei. “It really feels weird to be called Gate, huh.”

“Ya.”  Sei replied weakly, “We go to the checkpoint, first.”

Ret climbed the stairs while carrying Sei. He moved his legs one by one up the stairs, even though his body felt very heavy.

It's complicated like this, still to be checked, huh, Ret thought. He sighed and shook his head.

Arriving at the top of the stairs, Ret and Sei are greeted by a homeless man who is sitting on the ground as if he has been waiting for the arrival of the two of them.

The bum stood up and greeted the two of them with an annoying smile.

“Oh~” exclaims the bum, stretches his arms, “You have a new toy, Sel―”

The words of the man in disheveled appearance and wearing a pawky outfit before Ret, were cut off by Sei's sharp gaze which was as if he was saying: Shut up! It was clearly written on his face.

“I'll get straight to the point,” said Sei, still staring intently at the tramp. “Open―Ng... in Which inn do you live, Rat?”

“Uh...” sigh Ret, started goosebumps as he felt the sharp gaze of the woman on his back.

Did I just go home? Uh. That's impossible, ‘they’ must be attacking my entire residence. I will let those fools take care of the rest, Iah, Sei thought. He decided to hide in the Secret Inn.

“Ng.” Sei nodded in agreement with his own idea. “Where?”

“Ah,” exciting Ret, reawaken. “In Area.0, Lodging in the western suburbs of District―Area it.”

Sei looked at the tramp. “You heard that, stupid?”

Even though the woman on Ret's back, said weakly, the two men around her still felt firmness in each of her words.

“Oh~Ok, ok.” The vagrant looked a little frightened, but could instantly affirm his expression back. “There si Roy area, right?”

Feeling the vagrant ask him, Ret just nods silently even though he doesn't hang out with any bums.

The bum plays a smartphone and thrusts his smartphone screen into Ret's face.

“Credit again?!” Ret was surprised when he saw the smartphone screen of the bum. “Sial.”

Ret sighed in frustration as she fused her smartphone screen onto the bum's smartphone screen.

“How much,” whispered Ret on Sei, “Credit it?”

“I've told you, right, from the beginning,” with the woman's rest on Ret's back, replied, “Signing Gate entry requires 10 Credits only. This only adds 5 Credits, why, anyway, you are so―”

“No,” object Ret, look back, “Total 25 Credits I already used.”

“Ng?” Sei stared at Ret. “It's only 25 Credits, stupid. Better than all of us imprisoned―Or maybe worse than that, huh?”

“Uh,” sigh Ret, resigned and can only shake his head. “Telah. You're right.”

As Ret groaned, the floor below them all shook. Then the ground ripped and opened a door from underground.

“OK,” said the bum, open that door, “You can enter. This door will go directly to the backyard of the Roy―”

“Huh?” exclaim Ret, enthusiastically surprised, “What is a Door Legend Anywhere?!”

“There is no such thing as ‘Door Where Just’,” says Sei, “It is just a regular gate. That strange door is only in the manga, stupid.”

“Uh.” Ret said, “Only one way gate?”

“Ya~” replied the vagrant, “You can enter now.”

The empty space of the rectangular door field before all of them, suddenly gave rise to a silver-black colored aurora like a strange liquid that kept on moving.

“We go straight in, Sei?”

“Ng.”

As Ret and Sei walked into the Smuggling Gate, the vagabond behind them both chuckled.

Accompanying the bums of the Smuggling Gate guard, Ret steps into the strangely colored liquid before him.

“This is the first time I entered the gate,” muttered Ret, amazed. “Now we are in Area.0?!”

“Ng.” Sei nodded weakly.

Ret stepped out the gate, and the liquid silver behind him instantly disappeared. And he and Sei immediately saw someone lying on a cardboard bed facing the door.

“He named Roy?” ask Sei.

Ret shook his head. “I don't know.”

They both looked around him. The little hut where the other bum was lying in the cardboard and playing a smartphone.

The vagrant stood up and turned his body, then said, “You have come,” and face Ret and Sei.

This bum named Roy looks a little better than the previous bum. However, he had an apathetic face with not a single second releasing his gaze from the screen of the smartphone he was holding.

Then, the tramp suddenly smiled and stared blankly at the two people before him.

“Follow me,” said tramp Roy, opening the door of the Hut.

They all came out of the Little Hut out of bamboo, and Ret saw a familiar territory for him: District.2―Area.0 The place where he lived.

We're in the Slum Park on the outskirts of this area, huh, Ret thought.

“I get a lot of credit, oh~” murmured Roy, staring at the screen of his smartphone. “And I just need to be beaten by some gangster, ah~”

Ret and Me heard the bum. It was as if that tramp named Roy couldn't wait to be beaten up by the gangsters.

Roy looks very happy and passionate but with his apathy face has not changed at all.

They all walked and exited the Slum Park area, then headed to the Area.0 Inn where Ret was staying.

The Slum Garden behind them was all very quiet and silent with no one passing by. As it was almost midnight, there were only a few tramps and beggars lying on the ground as well as on the garden chairs.

Then the Lodge Building the back is visible to all of them. The tramp leads Ret and Me to the back door of the Inn.

However, Roy did not go to the back door let alone the front door, he instead headed to a square-shaped public toilet made of wood.

“You're Rat, right?” roy asked, opening the toilet door. “If I'm not wrong, is that your name, 'big rat'? Hahahaha.”

“Uh. Like this again. Come on,” sigh Ret, shaking his head. “My name is Sec―Call me: Ret!”

Although the bum's apathetic laughter makes Ret a little careless, she still enters the toilet she shows.

As Ret and Sei who she was carrying entered the toilet, the toilet sank and the wall in front of them all split open, revealing the stairs leading up.

“Ladders again?!” sigh Ret, feeling annoyed. “Uh ...”

Ret manaiki rungs the stairs for the second time, and Roy closes the door while looking at the news portal on his smartphone.

“Ugh...” The bum frowned, “Why the gangsters Area.3 should―”

Roy's words were broken when the door closed, but Ret continued to climb the stairs. However, she and Me were quite curious.

Ret and Sei simultaneously turned their heads back, when they heard Roy grumbling behind the door. And the door was suddenly blocked by the toilet wall that closed back as before.

Ret climbed the stairs with heavy steps. And he turned several times, then reached a dead end.

Not far in front of him there was only a brick wall, which as Ret continued to walk, as if it had been programmed by the bum, the wall suddenly turned in two by itself.

“Bathroom room I ordered?!” Ret saw a bathroom that was familiar to him.

Almost midnight, Ret had just returned to her booked Lodge Room. Sei who had been silent, his body continued to weaken.

Ret then enters his room, exits the bathroom, and lowers Sei on his bed. Although I call it this rent ‘ruang’ ....

“.... But This,” murmured Ret, gulped his own saliva, “Can be called ‘kamar’ too, right?!”

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