Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

The waltzes are in the new house (?) It is a building not so far from the village where I set up the store. In the dimly lit room, there was a figure of a girl.

"... definitely. Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..."

The girl with a smile on her face looked as old as Eve, an eight-year-old child, or Waltz, and at first glance she looked like a young girl.

However, in the room where she was, there was a bookcase with high ceilings and a pile of books stacked at the same height. Moreover, there were many experimental tools lined up on the desk... It's too out of place for a girl's room, like an empty bottle of wine rolling on the floor. If the owner of the room was the girl there and Equal, she didn't seem to be as old as she seemed.

"Well then... how can I bring you here?"

She was staring at the other side of the dark terrace, where it was not yet dawn, but rather the playboard on which the tokens rested, as if she were thinking of a way to attract the tokens dancing on the board to her. The girl sent a glittering gaze with great joy to the other side of the view, which should be invisible to ordinary people.

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”Fu, fuuhhhhhhhhh!”

Yeah? Lucia, did you catch a cold?

"Hmm, I don't know. Did you feel something like this?"

Isn't it a cold after all?

"I don't know... I think it's just like when Teresa treated me like a sister, so maybe it's different..." I think someone's talking about it. "

Waltz and Lucia went to bed early last night, and woke up early in the morning, in their basement home (?) I was standing in the kitchen and preparing breakfast. The ingredients were boar meat that Lucia had hunted with her chase-type burst magic, and wild vegetables that the beasts had picked... I'm lining it up on an instant frying pan and baking it.

By the way, how are Theresa and the others?

Would you like to summon it?

"Ehhh... can you do that?!"

"You can do it?" Bhun "Look, Teresa-chan."

"... zzz... nh?"

"Well, I don't need it right now, so I'll put it back on" Boon.....

”What do you mean... Teresa... you're completely in Lucia's hands...?”

Having been summoned to the hard floor of the kitchen, and thinking of Teresa who was immediately repatriated, the waltz showed a complicated expression that was difficult to express. It looks like you're sympathetic, like you don't have to be yourself, and it's a mixed expression of positivity and negativity.

Well then, maybe you can summon Cortex?

"I don't think I can do it except for Teresa..." It's pathetic, and it would be terrible if I failed and got injured. "

Is Teresa okay?

“I've never failed, so maybe it's okay, maybe it's okay.”

"It's not a flag... it's..."

Waltz and Lucia are making breakfast while talking about something they can't control--

Kon Kon...

--Someone knocks on the kitchen door.

In response to that knock, the two of them answered, "Yes," and they came to the kitchen--

"Good morning!" I'm sorry I fell asleep! You're both early, aren't you... "

It was Asteria, the girl of the Fox Beastman. Guessing that it was too early to get up, he still assumed he was a slave and came to make breakfast for Waltz and Lucia.

She lived in the same building as the waltzes. The other beasts, brothers or long-time friends, were able to split their dwellings smoothly when they assigned them to nearby buildings, with the exception of Asteria. Sometimes the days were shallow when she came to the capital, and she was the only one called Boch. As a result, Waltz and Lucia decided to invite Asteria to their home.

"No, I didn't sleep with you." just because we were early..... "

Can you wait a little longer for dinner?

Well then, I'll help you too!

In front of the Asteria who offered to help, Waltz and Lucia looked at each other and asked at the same time.

"... can you cook?"

"Eh..."

"Why are you two looking at yourself so seriously..." Asteria, who could not swallow the situation, could not respond immediately, and she stood up.