Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"... here, where?

In the middle of a dark plain, there was a pompous figure of Lucia disappearing from the king's capital.

... No, it's not exactly dark.

With the big moon illuminating the neighborhood, even Lucia, which didn't work at night, was bright enough to ask what was going on around.

"... I'm lost"

Too meticulous to talk to yourself that leaks out of your mouth.

Maybe that's because it reminds me of a night I tried, when I was alone in this world.

"... I want to go home, but... I don't know the direction..."

Using gravity-controlled magic and wind magic, it was Lucia, who had travelled south on the streets at about the same speed as a common airship, but had lost sight of the streets because of the darkening of the surroundings.

If this is an energy boy, waltz has the art of sailing (?), so worst of all, as long as I could see the stars, it was not impossible to return to the King's Capital.

But in Lucia's case, normal (?) It was about a week ago that I was a girl and was able to travel at high speeds.

The fact that she is not an adventurer and moves into the night could only be described as reckless.

... I just knew Lucia a lot about that, too.

All right, so I was doing such a reckless thing.

"... Energia... sister..."

I can tell you that the desire to cure (fix) the energy boy thing as quickly as possible and the desire to reduce the burden on my sister, who has something else to do, came above the concern of getting lost or injured.

"What can I do when I'm like this..."

Lucia remembers the contents of the book she tasted and saw.

In some of the books that were once in her house, there were many that could be referenced in doing adventures, such as Adventure Tan and Travel Recommendations.

"... you're going to set fire to it at night... Speaking of which, both the hunter and your sister were."

To cook, keep demons away, or illuminate the neighborhood, Lucia reminds the adventurer to set fire at night.

"Hmm, it's dangerous to go into the woods looking for firewood in the dark, so burn a whole tree..."

Dogowong!!

... and the tree that was growing near her, in an instant, turned to ash.

"... after all, little magic is hard..."

Fortunately, however, the flame on the stump was burning without disappearing, so it succeeds in securing the light somehow.

Except it was a little flame that I didn't even know when it would go away.

Staring at such a flame, Lucia remembers the light magic thing that my sister taught me.

"... oh, well"

I seem to have noticed that if it means ensuring the light, you can use magic to illuminate it directly.

And Lucia holds her hand against the sky.

"... Yikes!

Pica!!

... and the sun appeared 1000m above...

"You should have done this from the beginning!

Lucia satisfies herself with the view illuminated by the sun during the day and the unblemished brightness.

Now you can go mining materials for the energy boy... when you think so,

Guuuuu...

... my stomach rattled.

"I'm hungry.... as bright as this, it's safe to go into the woods, right?

Lucia then advanced to the nearby woods.

"I don't know... something, so quiet..."

In the woods with Lucia in it, somehow, I couldn't feel any sign of any creature.

Not only can we not hear demons and animals roaring, but we cannot even hear bugs roaring.

Yes, as if all creatures were hiding by diving their breath from the horrible bucket of things nearby...

"I wonder if there's even some kind of scary demon..."

To too much quiet, Lucia feels a spooky sign on the contrary.

Walking in the woods like that for a while,

"Ah, it's Hercherry"

Lucia finds a tree whose bright red fruit is deflected.

But there was only one problem.

"It's expensive..."

It was on a tree many times the height of Lucia that Herchery was fruitful.

Of course, for Lucia, who has been collecting mountain vegetables in the nearby woods since she was a little girl, climbing trees is not a big problem.

But while climbing a tree, she becomes defenseless.

As Lucia, I wanted to avoid quieting down and showing gaps in the woods with unusual signs.

"... can we use magic?

In order not to show any gaps, Lucia apparently decided to use wind magic to collect fruit.

But since the fire magic was too strong earlier, it seems that it is now time to try to unleash the weakest magic possible.

"No, no..."

Lucia gathers her magic in the palm of her hand with a difficult face...

Then,

Gowwwwww!!

... the wind magic, in an instant, hunted the fruits and leaves of all (...).

"Yeah! It worked"

Lucia then succeeded in collecting the hercheries that had fallen from her head and harvesting them so much that they could not fit into her hands.

... except at the expense of one forest...

"| Han Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha" It's Brighter Than When Something Came "..."

Lucia stuffed with tree fruit all over her mouth, but a forest with not a single leaf left (?) Coming out of.

Apparently, it was a matter of concern that something was lurking in the woods.

"Hmm... what shall I do?"

Should we keep going south and go for the volcano we went with Waltz before, or should we quietly return to the King's Capital...

... By the way, south of where Lucia is currently, there are no volcanoes.

If you refer to the volcano in terms of its position from the Wang capital, it was about 400 km southwest.

"... Sisters, you may be worried, so go home"

With that said, Lucia again exercises gravity-controlled magic and wind magic to jump up high in the sky.

"Eh, there's a big road over there, so is the Wang Du in that direction?

and Lucia looking in the western direction.

It should be noted that the Wang capital is in the northern direction.

"Yeah! I just need you to go back if you're not, so let's go!

... and Lucia, at a speed of about 200 km/h, started flying west...

Yes, in the direction that the moon is still about to sink into the horizon.

However, because of the light magic that illuminates the surroundings in heaven, Lucia didn't get to see that moon...

Then about 2 hours later.

"That... I knew, the road, I wondered if I'd made a mistake..."

... somehow, I can see the volcano and the wetlands spreading at the foot in front of me.

"... well. Now I can help your sister. Hey!

Style that doesn't care for Lucia for details either because she was impressed by her sister (?) seems to have worn it.

And she pointed her hands at the volcano.

"Um, I should have raised the temperature a lot and melted it?

Last time Waltz came to the volcano with Lucia, he was refining it using gravity control after plasmatizing the ore...

Dwow, wow...

Lucia, who doesn't know how to refine it, apparently decided to heat it for now.

"Sister, how much do you need... ma'am, all of it"

And Lucia heats the whole fire (...) mountain (...).

Then,

Dogowong!!

Did it heat up and swell inside, or the Mount Fuji volcano erupts from the top?

... but does that have nothing to do with Lucia?

"Eh!

Furthermore, it increases the output of fire magic.

Then, the gradually red-hot volcano gradually began to melt from the top (please) part.

"Um, did you turn this into a square chunk?

Using gravity-controlled magic, Lucia shapes a volcano into a square mass that is beginning to dissolve in drool.

"Later, we're done chilling, right?

Exercise ice magic in the final finish.

"... um, something different..."

She leaked that sentiment to a volcano (which was) that turned black diced about 700m on one side.

Previously, Waltz had seen a metallic gloss in the refined stuff, but what Lucia had made was hard to say about metallic, no matter what.

A lump of shiny black charcoal... or a monolith that's going to come out in some SF, should I say?

"I don't know, but I think your sister would do something about it, so this is fine"

And such a monolith (?) toward which Lucia held her hand,

Bun...

Towards the broad hillside near Wangdu, they moved him.

"Yes, we're done."

At that time, because the giant structure disappeared in an instant, a phenomenon such as explosion occurred, causing a strong wind to blow in the direction in which the object disappeared.

Well, it didn't really matter to Lucia, who wears gravity-controlled magic.

In that case,

"Lucia!"

From above my head, I hear my sister.

"Ah, sister!

And Waltz goes down to the ground. No, no, no.

Gyu!

... hugged Lucia.

"I was worried!

"... I'm sorry. Sister..."

In the end, Lucia sinks into trying to help her sister and, conversely, into the shape of a pull on her leg.

"But I'm glad there's nothing..."

Normally, he was concerned about Lucia's excessive power, but he was still anxious that Lucia, who was not old enough, would act alone.

"Next time you're going out, you have to go out and say you're going out, right?

"... yes"

Waltz scolded me, and I'm not well, Lucia.

On her head like that, Waltz put his hands gently.

"Hey, sister..."

Lucia asked quietly to Waltz, who caressed her head gently.

"What could it be?

"How can I... help your sister?

"What..."

Even (just) said Lucia was more useful to Waltz than enough, but she still thinks it's not enough.

"That's really helpful enough, isn't it? I'm not flattering you, am I?

"... I wonder..."

Lucia shrugged so with a difficult face.

Around her there were many desperate people, such as Catalina, who continued her research day and night, and the hunters who were running around to rebuild their homeland.

In it, I don't know what the hell I'm doing... maybe I had that question.

"... you know, Lucia. It takes time to manufacture parts, so even if you're in a hurry, you can't finish repairing your energy quickly? Besides, as I was saying, if you rush, you make as many mistakes as you rush. It doesn't make sense that you're about to get hurt trying to fix the energy, does it?

"Yeah..."

Even though Waltz persuades, Lucia's expression is not excellent.

"Right..."

With such a bitter smile inside Lucia's expression, Waltz examines one solution.

"Then should I do Lucia a favor?

"... per favor?

"Yes. That I would be very helpful if Lucia would do it. It's like your job."

In that sense, could teaching energy boys how to exercise be one of them?

Well, the energy boy is currently suspended, so he had nothing to do with Lucia.

"... yeah. I want to."

"Bye..."

Then Waltz says something unexpected.

"Will you go with Julia to Sirius the Demon King?

"What..."

In short, I want you to do the Mid-Eden messenger.

"I really wanted to go with everyone, because Catalina can't leave the energy, and I'm too busy to do it right now..."

When Waltz says a little bit unfortunately,

"Yeah! I'm coming!

Lucia, who had not been well until earlier, nodded loudly with joy.

"I'll talk more about it later, but for now, please?

"Yeah!"

Thus Lucia was entrusted by her sister with the task of going to the Boreas Empire as Mid-Eden's envoy.

... by the way.

"... Hey, Lucia?

"What? Your sister?

Waltz asked Lucia as she leaned her head toward the view in front of her.

The midnight sun shining in the sky was also bright, while a clearly strange landscape was unfolding.

"... don't you know the volcano that was here?

When I came to mine chromium, there must have been a fine volcano, like Mount Fuji, a little smaller, but now it was lost to beautiful sapphire.

Instead, magma was blown out of the middle of a strangely flat plain, and the waters of the surrounding wetlands were exhausted, and all the trees were carbide.

If you're going to describe such a view in a nutshell... hell, or the demon world, is it?

"Um, hey, I transferred you near Wang Du, didn't I?

"... Huh?

Waltz couldn't understand Lucia's words like that at all...