Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Waltz's back in the barn, securing food and blankets.

They seem to have forgotten something important.

The sun had already set and the stars were beginning to fall in the sky, I wonder if there would be much anticipation.

"Oh, I didn't start the fire!

"Ah..."

For Waltz, who is not a person, he seemed completely oblivious to the preparation for the burning, as he was unrelated to the darkness due to the principles of the camera built in.

By the way.

Nothing is the only purpose of setting fire to the travellers when they camp.

There was also an aspect of using the habits of animals scared of fire to keep them from inadvertently approaching the camp.

Especially intelligent like a goblin (?) I didn't even know if the people were afraid of fire, just like the common animals......

Even if you didn't think about it, there are some girls here who aren't even old enough, so to pay for the darkness, you can still say you need a bonfire.

"Er... I can dot!

When Lucia said so, she brought a few pieces of firewood that had been piled next to the nearby ruins and woke it up in front of the barn and began to prepare for the burning.

For Lucia.

"Take care not to burn me, okay? Because if you get hurt, it's tough."

Waltz speaks of complaining advice.

But there she was, realizing there was.

"(With that said... Lucia, how do you light a fire?

If waltz were to ignite, using a laser or other high-output energy weapon, it could have ignited in an instant...

Of course there was no way Lucia could have had lighters, banners, or the equivalent.

Then how can she light a fire...

With that question in mind, Waltz said he was smiling at Lucia's actions.

"Eh.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Zdwwwwww!!

Along with the lavish sound, suddenly, the firewood lit.

Seeing such an unscientific phenomenon, Waltz, however, immediately grasps the situation.

"... magic, huh?

"Yeah! But... I'm not very strong..."

That said, when you tap the beast ear, Lucia gives a soggy look.

Look at that, Waltz thinks.

"(If you were to say” not very strong ”earlier, what kind of magic do normal people use... how strong is it? I don't care what you think, if you target people and use them, I think it's a level of bombing in one blow...)"

A waltz of how the magic I first saw was so powerful besides my thoughts that I had to think about it a lot.

Lucia says her magic isn't strong, but to Waltz at first sight, it didn't seem that way, no matter how he saw it.

However, there were no comparisons to be made...

Waltz decided to think that Lucia's magic wasn't really very strong.

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Then, dinner - I finished eating hard dried meat for preservation and bread with mildew growing on the surface, plus white water (sayu)...

And after a breath.

Looks like Waltz decided to ask Lucia what happened in this village.

"Hey, Lucia? I'm not saying it's impossible... but if it's good, could you tell me what happened in this village?

Upon hearing the inquiry, Lucia stared at the burning fire….

And I tried to say something about that time.

"You know what? About two days ago... my scary uncles..." Gu

But at the same time he remembered the time, he also remembered the scary memories......

Once again, she seems to have begun to accumulate large tears in her eyeballs.

"Uh... if it's hard to answer, don't you have to force me to say it? 'Cause I kind of figured it out in one word right now..."

"I'm sorry......" Shin

"It's okay. You don't have to worry anymore because I'm on it?

With that mouth, over Lucia's head, he reached out terribly...

And waltz gently stroking its head.

If that diminishes the fear of the girl in front of you, you can throw away the customs of the world you've lived in......

She seems unconsciously to have made such a choice.

Did that work......

When Lucia regained her composure, she opened her mouth again and began explaining.

"I... was out in the woods nearby to pick up some herbs, so I was saved..."

Lucia said it was about two days ago now.

While she was out in the woods picking herbs, the village appears to have been the victim of looting.

Thanks to that, she wasn't in the village at the time the looters were working rampantly, so they were safe.

You just think that when she came back from picking herbs, the looters were still in the village?

Fortunately, she was able to notice it away from the village, so that day she hid herself in a nearby forest with a view of the village….

So waiting until noon the next day, the looters said they had finally left the village.

Then another day went by, and the goblins came along the way...

And to this day, it was a story.

"Yes...... But you're okay now? Because I don't come here anymore scary people or anything (... I hope you're relieved...?

That said, Waltz putting his hand on Lucia's head again.

For her, who has never dealt with a child before, she doesn't know how to deal with Lucia......

After that, it seemed that the unknown and lonely struggle was to continue.

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Then again, when Waltz even continues to stroke Lucia's head...

Soon, she seemed to have traveled to the world of her dreams.

"(blah blah blah... that's hard for a communal disorder...)"

With that in mind, Waltz finally stops his hand.

Then when Waltz accidentally looks up...

Two triangular half-plane objects, with thin hairs, came into her sight.

... is Lucia's beast ear.

Her beast ears like that, from time to time, move pickly small as if they were responding to something......

I'm not responding to the sounds of bugs ringing in the shade of the surrounding grass or firewood (stag)......

He seemed to be reacting to something else.

Or maybe he's moving in response to events in his dreams.

Waltz stared at the beast ear as if the hole was empty...

In doing so, she seemed to notice a certain discomfort.

"(That? Normally there are also people's ears...... or are there no holes in the beast ears? That means... actually, habitual hair? No, that's a strangely realistic beast ear...)"

Waltz was about to reach out unexpectedly to Lucia's sleeping beast ear...

He seems to have managed to hold back the urge to touch him.

I should say that there was something else that bothered me rather than...

"(... explosion sound? Sounds a lot farther... could it be some kind of weapon? Or... magic?

Waltz looks suspiciously out of the barn, noticing an extremely small sound that can only be picked up by high-performance microphones built into mobile armor.

Then she leaves the barn to keep Lucia awake......

He came all the way up to the beautiful hill and turned to the other side of the horizon.

There, the flash-like brightness of the camera seemed to shine irregularly from ground to sky.

At first glance, it didn't even look like lightning, but according to the database that was built into Waltz's neurochip, apparently not like that......

It seems to have been a brilliant light because something blew up on the ground.

Something like a high-performance explosive, for example...

"Is the distance… 20 km…?

Seeing it, Waltz is wary that it was the soldiers who lost the battle that attacked this village.

Then she decided to pay more attention, no matter what.