Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

A few days later. Hermes, who had entered into coordination with the various parts of the relationship in order to move the scheduling optimization by Strela to execution, was even more busy with her daily routine this day--

"Strange... impossible..."

—— Looking at the unfolding documents on the desk, he sifted his shoulders.No, to be precise, should I say (...) this day too?The documents Hermes was looking through were a list of how many times Strella's men had used the word, lined up by their names.Hermes happily added a count to the paperwork for the past two weeks or so, but for some reason it hasn't increased in the last few days.The fact was unacceptable to Hermes.

"(Strella-sama did something....)"

A few days ago, instead of admitting a date named Strela and Canopy's Magic Experiment, Hermes conditioned the number of participants in a special lecture, a penalty with instructions, to be less than 500 by the due date two weeks earlier.As for Hermes, it seemed that the counting of the remaining 54 people could be accomplished quickly, but behind the expectation, the increase in the number of people stopped sharply.As far as Hermes was concerned, the cause could only be found in Strela.

"(Do you have any orders not to use instructions?No, there's not zero people who use instructions.However, they are already on the list.....) "

As long as Hermes looked around at Strela's men, he didn't seem to be unnaturally avoiding the use of instructions.If there is a compulsory order not to use the instruction, they should not stop using the instruction immediately.

However, as Hermes sees it, Strela's men have conversations with each other as often as they normally do, and the way they talk is quite natural.I didn't see anything strange at all.

"(Does that mean there won't be more than 444 people?) Impossible... Impossible... "

It's too unnatural to say that the number of people has increased proportionately, but suddenly the increase will be zero, as it has been every day...Hermes had no choice but to think that Strela was spinning something.

But that's why I couldn't find any evidence that Strela was doing anything.About two days after the increase reached zero, Hermes followed Strella far away, but Strella didn't tail her.

"... I will definitely find out what caused it!" Kiri

Because it was a battle of pride, Hermes wronged Strela (?) Make up your mind to find out.At this point, Strela says, "You don't really work much, do you?The point made a few days ago was exactly as it was, but Hermes never noticed it....She went on a patrol today with a roster.

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On the other hand, Strela was aware that Hermes was turning a blind eye to suspicion.She was therefore cleverly concealing her work.

"That paperwork... you're going on patrol again today?Am I free after all? "

Strela sipped tea in the backyard as she peered into a crystal magic tool to monitor Hermes.It seems that she decided to activate some magic today.It is a magical illusion that manipulates human perception.

Strela had deceived Hermes' perception and asked her to patrol the same place many times.It is impossible for Hermes to find a new special lecture participant if those who have already decided to send the special lecture are placed in the patrol route.Moreover, Hermes didn't realize that he was glued around the same place, and he didn't realize that he was under phantom magic.

As a result, on the other side of the crystal ball, Sakura, who was next to Strella, said a word as she saw Hermes grunting around the same place again today.

"... poor thing."

So, you'll handle it?

"... no, I haven't seen anything, I haven't heard anything.Speaking of which, I haven't seen Hermes lately. "

"Ah, the other day, Hermes said he wanted to do something about Sakura.If anything, if you go to this patrol route, you can meet r-- "

"No."

"... I'm kidding."

Strela slightly turns her eyes away from Sakura because she has denied it with her true face.As a result, her gaze was directed towards a crystal ball that reflected Hermes....Hermes, who was in that crystal ball, is still alive today (?) Walking down the exact same path and checking how the exact same people spoke seemed discouraged by the names on the roster.