Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Rain falling through a dim town.

If you felt people breathing there, how relieved could you be?

Unfortunately, however, no sign of a person could be felt, and only the atmosphere as if it were a dead town had quietly dominated the air.

Have the lives of the citizens who may be here... already been stained with the same colour as this air?

The end of the Royal Castle conference room door was connected to Deftery Vixen's main street as if it had been shortcut by twisting from space to space.

Before such a suddenly widening sight in front of us, it was the waltzes who were baffled at first, but immediately, fix the priorities of what needs to be done and move on to action.

"Huh! Master Waltz!

"Yep! I'm sorry about Yuki and the others, but securing the lives of the general public is our priority now!

"Yes, I know. Maybe... Master Sirius should want the same thing...!

To Waltz's words, try to spit out painfully, and respond, Julia.

After all, I guess I'm more concerned about the cheapness of the former Lord (or not) than anything else.

But she could not ignore any more the citizens who might be in the city in front of her.

Yes, the next time you get away from this place, there's no guarantee that you'll come back to the same place again, because there's nowhere...

"The biological reaction... eh! No. It's like a sea of noise..."

Because this is the body of the labyrinth, or because biological reactions are detected from the walls and the ground on one side per area, Waltz's sensors could not be used as they thought.

"But one house at a time, you can't go around..."

In the middle of such words, Waltz closes his mouth with a frown.

"... Master Waltz?

To such a waltz appearance, Julia tried to peek into her face and gave her a worrying look.

Then a few seconds later, Waltz mouths the decision with a bitter look on his face.

"... boost and get things going all at once."

"What... you don't have any food, are you okay...?

"Yeah, because once or twice it's no problem.... heh. Worst of all, we're just talking about swallowing even the stones in that heap, so it's okay..."

"Uh..."

Not knowing that Waltz was actually about to fall into a gas deficiency and mouthed the stone that was falling on the ground, Julia seemed unable to make a decision as to whether she had made a joke or seriously said it.

"... well, let's go, shall we?

"Um... yes.... good luck."

And the moment Waltz's hair dyed black,

Dogowong!!

... everything turned into rubble and floated in space, up to the building called the Town Building, the objects, the stalls and the barrels that were on the side of the road.

Some of them are:

"Ah, there are people!

... included a large number of unconscious citizens.

Instead of useless bioreaction sensors, as long as Waltz uses super telephoto lenses to check their condition...

"... Huh! Not yet, it looks fine!

Apparently everyone was barely breathing.

Then Waltz began to separate rubble from people at super high speeds, from all the battles of time from here.

The rubble fell to the ground, and people floated to the universe... and they sort it from one end to the other.

About 10 seconds after the work began,

"Lucia! Can you hear me?

While continuing the work, using a wireless communication system, Waltz inquired against Lucia, who would be outside.

In doing so,

Pun!

"... Huh?

Surprised Julia for the smoke that has erupted with such a sound, inadvertently from her bag.

Apparently, because Waltz transmitted a radio wave of high output enough to penetrate the body of the labyrinth, a radio that was valued in the bag burst and broke.

To that situation, Julia starts to check the contents of the bag as she blues... and Waltz looks sideways like that, a response came back from Lucia slightly late.

"Oh... big... bu?

'... I'm sorry. I can barely hear you on this side, so I'll just tell you what to do. I'm going to drill a hole in the belly of the labyrinth and send people outside, so take it. And when you drill a hole, don't fly down to the ground because you think it might be dangerous.'

"Uh-oh!

From time to time, Waltz was convinced that two people outside had gone down to the ground from fragments of Lucia's voice that were heard dispersed by noise.

Then she smiled a little...

Chewie, Win...

Never stood up, shooting the charged particle cannon out horizontally.

The beam then disappears outside the body of the labyrinth without detonating as it is, and the light outside slips into the interior without delay.

The view outside seen from the hole at that time seemed slightly distorted, either from the influence of spatial control magic.

But even if space control magic hung, it wouldn't turn into a hole that leads outside, so Waltz doesn't hesitate and starts sending citizens out there.

... and in just a few seconds, they completed the evacuation of as many as 10,000 people up there.

At first glance, it was a rescue operation that seemed to be well underway... but here, some problems arise.

Gogogogogogogo...

On the axis of the beam, because there was no steep point in the labyrinth, the hole began to block rapidly.

Or the labyrinth itself could not deny the possibility of exercising restorative magic.

On top of that,

"Uh, I can't do it anymore... Yulia... and then you fly yourself..."

Waltz fell on the verge of running out of gas.

"So, are you okay?! Dear Waltz!"

"If I don't have something to eat, I really can't do it anymore... I totally forgot to shoot through the wall with so much output that it wouldn't explode and consume energy when sending people outside..."

I mean, they've consumed three times as much energy as they planned.

"Well, I'm going to find something to eat!

It was the moment when Julia turned her gaze to the wreckage of the town stacked in front of her and said so.

... the last irregular occurred.

Gogogogogogogo...

Shot through the wall... that is, the structure inside the labyrinth began to change dramatically because it formed a new passage.

"Huh?!

Waltz catches and attracts Julia, who was about to fly to the rubble to find food, with his manoeuvred armor arms.

Immediately afterwards, a large mass of rock flowed (...) and (...) into the space where she was.

That's not all.

The appearance of the township, which barely left only its foundations on the ground, became entirely a thing of the past by the protuberance of the ground, and at the same time began to form a cave as if to cover up the sky.

Because of that, the rain that was falling was blocked, and the Waltz were ruled around by total darkness.

And the walls that suddenly form in front of you or the low sounds you hear from the other side of that wall...

Guess from that information... apparently the waltzes have been thrown completely into the middle of the maze.

When such great fluctuations rock the whole labyrinth settle all the way down.

"... I'm sorry, Julia..."

Waltz apologized to Julia, who was protecting him with his manoeuvring armor.

"... uh... what is it?

"... that I got into trouble."

Not to say that it would not stop immediately due to lack of gas, Waltz did not have enough energy left to not shoot the wall with a charged particle cannon again.

Therefore, in the event of any further unforeseen circumstances, it was not an exaggeration to say that there was no way to save Julia, who had little fighting power.

... But in response to such Waltz's apology, Julia returned the words with a smile in the dark.

"No. I went ahead and got here myself. As I said before we entered this labyrinth, no matter what happens here, there's nothing to resent Master Waltz, is there?

"... yes"

Waltz couldn't look directly at her smiling in her own hands (...) in such a way that she didn't regret it...

"... Anyway, let's find a way out"

"That's right. Because it's still too early to give up. Maybe Master Sirius..."

"Right..."

But now that the inside of the labyrinth had changed dramatically, believing in their survival could not be said to be realistic.

Rather, we can say that priority should be given to maintaining our own lives, as this is a situation in which we have to say that mummification is extremely likely to become a mummy.

But Waltz didn't argue with Julia.

Was that because of my apologies for involving her... or because Waltz himself hadn't given up on saving Yuki and the others yet...

In any case, beyond knowing Yuki's position or the location of the exit, they decided to look for Yuki at the same time as they searched for a way to get out anyway.

... but in case of unforeseen circumstances, make preparations for the exercise of the last resort (labyrinth tasting)...

Pickah...

"Oh... that's Mr. Waltz. It's nothing."

"No, it's just a light..."

Julia shouts her surprise with a slightly dazzling look at the view illuminated by the lights on her manoeuvre armor.

What I've seen in her eyes like that...

"It's a labyrinth, no matter where you look from..."

"Well, there was a castle and a town in the labyrinth... and that's right"

It was like a nest made of hand digging by demons, with curved tunnels spreading up, down, left and right.

"Now, which way do we go?

Is it in front or behind...

... especially, whichever is forward is where the debate divides.

"I'll leave you to Master Waltz, won't I?

"Maybe if you let me play such a big part in indecision, you'll get to Tondemonai later, huh? It's a strangely intuitive place for Julia to make her way."

"Ha..."

Intuition so sharp that Waltz keeps a secret about Yuki and the others, or Zubarizes who that Yuki is (?) It is about Julia, who has

Is it only in these parting circumstances of judgment that we can attract the best results?

"Um, well, over here"

When I say that, Julia is the one in the back (?) pointed to the tunnel leading to

"Well, shall we go that way"

That being said, Waltz slowly began to walk through the tunnel, not so wide, while grabbing Julia with manoeuvre armor.