Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Now the waltzes, in a row, are down a dark staircase.

This is a spiral staircase to a dungeon in Royal Castle.

Waltz's bio-response sensors showed a large number of creatures as thought to be those imprisoned beneath the Royal Castle.

Up to this point, it's about the same situation as it was yesterday before Teresa and the others rescued the survivors.

Given the impact of the illusion hanging over the entire Wang capital, after being rescued, we must have returned to the inn on our own feet.

So I am imprisoned (?) Waltz is taking everyone down the stairs to save the people.

"Something feels strange..."

"You mean you're flying in the sky even though it's underground..."

It is the sentiment of Teresa and Julia.

In their eyes, they will see the large spaces of workshop style (...) in the village of Alk, made of illusions, slowly falling.

The point is that if Waltz goes down the stairs, everyone will descend in illusion accordingly.

"So, where are we now?

A voice was heard from the brave man behind the waltz.

Half way to the basement.

"Well... that's deeper than I thought."

Now, the hunter who was supposed to be here yesterday said.

"Right. Something like a geofront..."

I remember Waltz being in the modern world, talking about an underground city (shelter).

That said, this underground space doesn't mean it's that big.

If the massive geofront had spread, it would have fallen from royal castle to castle at the time Waltz hung supergravity on the moat to crush the hidden passage.

"Geofront?"

"I'm talking about a massive underground space that I dug to live underground."

"Well... but it didn't seem that wide when I came yesterday... well, it was dark, maybe there was an invisible part"

and says the hunter, who is supposed to work at night.

(Maybe yesterday you went down the stairs in the dark or something?

As Waltz tried to hear, the hunter continued.

"... Waltz thinks South Fortress has the same space?

It is a land that does not rain for more than two months but does not dry up.

Waltz is stepping on something in the basement, but...

"No, I don't think you have a geofront. I thought it was an underground lake."

Recently, however, Waltz's sensors found that the magical water (mana), which only reacts with H2O, erupted from all over South Fortress, so he couldn't say enough that there was a basement lake in general.

Of course, the principle that is springing up is still unknown.

"Well, I don't think there's anything, but let me know if you know anything"

"Yep. Of course... hey, it's underground."

Waltz and the others went down the spiral stairs and reached in front of a large door made of something like metal.

It was a door with a heavy atmosphere with no decorations whatsoever, but it created a feeling behind it that something was likely.

"Something's wrong with the door... I mean, yesterday, you opened this door and rescued everyone, didn't you?

Can Teresa and the others just open it with their arms?

Teresa said Waltz would speak such a question.

"Door? What's that then?

"Huh? There was no door yesterday?

"Yep. You went down the stairs of Ma (...) Hu (...) Gu (...) and then you stayed there."

"... wasn't that a spiral staircase?

"Yes, it was just a staircase"

My buddies' memories and the view Waltz was eating differently.

(The scenery, the memories are tampered with...?

"Teresa? Once here, will you disarm the illusion? Oh, but I have trouble being 'in Kabe' as soon as I disarm it, so after five seconds, put it back, okay?

Waltz not considered if it was in lava or on a needle (rather).

Well, in the first place, if there's such a trap, it's something that's already deployed.

Especially though I've been in there ignoring everything.

"Hmm?... well, good. Let's go?"

Theresa then solved the illusion.

And five seconds later, undo it again.

"So, what happened?

"I saw you yesterday. You're a mess..."

"... everyone too?

"Yep. It was the entrance to the cabin."

Yesterday, the fellows who were in jail say the same thing to each other.

Apparently, visual illusions are unfolding, but there is no breakdown in memory.

"... really?

"... what's going on, Waltz?

"Yeah..."

Waltz was beginning to feel something disgusting in his spine.

"I'll keep going."

And waltz doing his hand on the door.

But...

"... won't open"

"Won't it open?... Sister, are you serious?

"... yeah. Not at all frightening..."

Even though we're not boosting, even though we're exercising gravity control, the doors don't even work together.

I was also usually confused about the tempo that was supposed to be calm about a development that had never happened before.

And

"... your sister. We're going to proceed with the retreat."

Tempo suggests.

'What?'

A voice rises from everyone who was there.

"Well, why not?

Why should I withdraw when my family says it is in front of me?

There was a family smile on Teresa's brain that she saw yesterday.

"... I think it's a precaution to anticipate your sister coming."

Mouth the cause of the anxiety that the tempo was in the chest.

"... tempo, there can be no retreat."

"Then... we'll do everything we can, right?

"Yep."

"Really? Okay."

"But yeah... maybe we should just get some food first."

Waltz got the rest of his breakfast from Tempo and started eating.

to use boost mode.

But a brave man who doesn't know about it,

"Hey, why all of a sudden, there's no rice..."

Naturally, I raised my doubts.

"Dear brave man. Please shut up."

Tempo showers colder voices to the brave than usual.

But there was no room for that voice.

"Sister?

Lucia worries about the waltz and the change in tempo.

"... it's okay, Lucia. You watch here."

Waltz, who threw all the food he had received into his mouth, smiled gently at Lucia.

And

"Brave men, I know you're going to see what I really am now, but there's no point in saying anything else. If you ever fall apart on someone, I'll make you look worse than dead!

Yes, tell the braves, then Waltz disappears and reveals his manoeuvred armor.

The brave men lag behind in surprise, but there's no way Waltz cared about it.

Finally, Waltz spoke to Teresa.

"Teresa... What if... No"

Waltz swallowed the words that were all the way out to his throat and said the alternative words clearly.

"resent me."

(And I hope you don't resent yourself and regret it)

If it's too late, it's my fault.

"What..."

While Teresa is losing words to abrupt words, Waltz looks back towards the door and puts both arms of manoeuvred armor against the door.

... to eliminate the mass of the door by converting it into energy.

The act itself was also possible in a holographic state, but the maximum mass convertible had been determined.

When the mass is too large, the so-called "evaporation" of the black hole occurs, so the generation - evaporation of the black hole is repeated, and it takes a considerable amount of time for the door to be consumed (...).

However, with direct use of manoeuvre armor, it is possible to generate a relatively large black hole by utilizing anti-gravity reactors mounted on both arms.

This allows us to convert mass into energy without any problems, even if it is an object of considerable mass.

Is the difficulty in having to touch it directly with manoeuvre armor?

I found out something after the door disappeared.

... The door was not a door, but a metal wall (lid) as thick as 4 m.

It was not made assuming that it would be opened more than the original, and it was merely a mass of metal.

Thus, the door (Kabe) disappeared from everyone's sight, and instead, the energy released by the waltz drilled into the ceiling so that the sky could be seen...

And...

Different kinds of air, like rotten odor, came into the area.

The source is the other side of the hole where the door was.

Waltz slowly moves on to where the door was, without making any noise.

On the side are the companions who remain floating in the air.

At first, it was a waltz I was thinking about leaving behind, but I didn't think it was something I could hide from Theresa or her people because of what (...) ah (...) ah (...) (...) (...) the place (...) I brought with me.

Besides, until I saw it in person, the hopeful possibility was never zero either.

But...

Waltz comes to where he can see the room in the door and stops his leg.

Mobile armor has no expression.

So no one could tell what look Waltz was getting on right now.

instead,

"Hih, terrible..."

Tempo blocked his mouth with both hands, opening his usually sleepy blue eyes wide.

"... what do you have?

Teresa, who is in the space created by illusion, asks.

By contrast, Waltz was silent.

Waltz projecting a holographic figure behind everyone after that state for a while.

And I said.

"... tempo? Will you take Lucia and the monk girl and wait outside?

"What..."

"Wow, me too?

"... okay"

They both seemed to wonder what was going on but were grabbed by the tempo and disappeared outside the room.

"... Teresa"

Waltz quietly called Theresa's name and tried to tell her it depended.

But Teresa opens her mouth.

"... you know."

That my family is no longer in this world.

Waltz had a lot of words to say.

But I couldn't tell you what to say and what not to say.

I wanted to choose my words carefully for Teresa.

"It's not the Lord's fault..."

Waltz can't answer anything to Teresa with an already sad look on her face.

temporarily, and silent time continues.

But Waltz eventually decided to teach the truth.

"... you want to know what happened to your family?

"Of course not!

Theresa responds instantly to Waltz's words.

"Yes... Then just remember this. You always have company on your side.... Never forget this."

And Waltz released a laser against all (...) of (...) the (...) raw (...) life (...) the (...) response (...) except for the people who were there.

"Ggah!!

But only the Lord of that cry will not stab Todome with a single blow.

"... Teresa. When you're ready, solve the illusion. That way, you'll know everything."

Theresa closes her eyes once to Waltz's words.

And then you open your eyes,

"... um"

Teresa solved the illusion.

The view Teresa had seen was a room that was supposed to be in the Royal Castle (My Ya), but had never seen before.

The walls are lit with purple flames of pine.

Near the ground, gases like fog or smoke.

The walls were not made of stone, but left marks like they had been made by scraping the rock beds directly.

And it was Theresa who was supposed to be ready, but...

"Uh-huh!!

I put my hands on my mouth and raised a voice that wouldn't be a scream.

What was in Teresa's eyes.

It's like a black orb connected by a tube from a body without a neck and where a head would have been.

It was in a room as large as a warehouse, lined up unwrought.

And from each orb, something like a thick cable stretches, concentrating on a huge, transparent capsule.

The capsules were about 2 m wide and 3 m high, with cracks in the glass part of the surface and some of them adhering to things like blood.

Apparently, it cracked when something crawled out of the inside.

I mean, this was some kind of experimental facility, using the human body.

But nowadays, I don't use it as an experimental facility.

Because Waltz's laser pierced the heart of the human body, which had been beating without a neck until earlier... and stopped functioning.

"... this is..."

Catalina muttered as she observed the experimental instruments around her.

"Homunculus..."

Homunculus made at the expense of the living in large quantities.

Because she built the tempo, she seemed to understand what the equipment there was like.

"Oh my God...!!

Brave men also lose their words.

And when he fell apart, the wizard and the wise supported him where he was about to fall.

"Leo..."

"... brave man. It's not over yet."

Yes, it's not over yet.

"... Kisa Well!!!

First, it was the hunter who pointed the blade at the enemy in front of him (...).

"Mr. Hunter, I'll take care of this place"

Waltz stops the hunter.

"Waltz! You're gonna make this guy regret being born!

"Before you do that, there's something I need to ask you. Catalina? I don't care what you do. Let the information spit."

That's the enemy Waltz suppressed with gravity control...

It's...

"Captain..."

... is the word of Julia.

Yes, the head of the intelligence unit to which Julia belonged was here for some reason.

From the circumstantial evidence, there will be no mistake in judging him an enemy.

And called captain, she was the same sacubus as Julia.

"I thought you were dead..."

Yesterday, Julia was confirming the death of all intelligence units.

But the captain, who was supposed to be dead, between everyone's eyes, waltz pierced his hands, his legs, and all his back teeth, turning (...) on the ground.

Yesterday's body is no stranger to the fact that she created herself in illusion so that only Julia could tell.

"... hahaha... then, you idiot"

"Huh! Everybody close your eyes!

A wizard who felt in danger screamed.

Then the brave men who close their eyes.

... but Teresa, who had gotten into the ground, and Julia, who was confronting the captain, had a delayed reaction.

And the demonic eye of the enemy made an effect.