Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"The killer... it's me"

Most of the people who could not swallow it had a questionable look at what Yuki (N) (hereinafter referred to as Yuki X) said.

"Um... Null sister? Maybe I misheard you, so say t again."

"I'm the killer, right? Eins"

Yuki X (Euclid = N = Sirius) looking at Yuki A (Euclid = E = Sirius) and repeating.

"... sorry sister. I don't know. How could my sister, who was supposed to be caught with us, be the killer? Besides, didn't we have an emergency meeting in the conference room when Deftery moved out..."

So Yuki A asks if there shouldn't have been time to stab the sword in the nucleus of the labyrinth or something.

"... right. So if I put it this way, do you understand? I asked someone else..."

In one word, Yuki and the others gave each a different look.

Stunning.

Who thinks deeply.

who give a difficult look.

He who closes his eyes and looks up to heaven.

In that, Yuki A...

"... I invited someone into the nucleus of the labyrinth where I was strengthening my security... is that what you mean?

He was desperate to indulge in a look that was going to collapse, and he was trying to grasp things.

"Exactly. Ains (Yuki A)"

With that said, Yuki X narrows his eyes against Yuki A.

And she opened her mouth... with her eyes down, after a deep sigh.

"... I'm tired."

To her words like that... Yuki and the others would bow down with the same look on their faces.

Apparently, everyone understands her mood.

Then Yuki X turns her gaze to Waltz this time.

"Demon God... I didn't want to feel any harder than this anymore..."

Waltz listens silently to words that are also close to Yuki X's penance.

"17 years of living in this world..."

(Short! Wasn't that 250 years?!

"Whether reincarnation makes your flesh younger, your heart wounds are on the increase..."

(Uh, you know what?)

In that one of her words, Waltz went along with the question she had been thinking about.

In short, here's the thing.

"... you ladies, you were homunculus"

"No, rather than homunculus... do you feel like you're moving on to an artificially created body and letting it survive (while) life?

"Yes, you're right."

Waltz was convinced that Yuki and the others looked too similar and, above all, that no biological reaction was detected from them.

That said, I noticed about the biological reaction after coming out of Deftery Vixen earlier.

Waltz said such Yuki's secret... right after that.

"... Huh!

Yuki A, who had endured not to break his expression, rushed out somewhere without showing his face against Waltz.

"... Huh. Julia and Sylvia? Go after him."

"Yes, sir."

"Oh, oh, yes!

After sighing, Waltz muttered as he put his arms together, Julia flew away as if waiting for her words, and Sylvia also flew away late in the form of a chase after her.

"My sister... seems to have missed the demon gods for a long time."

"No... even if the Demon King misses me, I don't know how to deal with it..."

Waltz and Yuki narrow their eyes to the running Yuki A as they transform one side of the perimeter into an ice world.

After I dropped her off... waltz, I went back.

"So, could it be that I'm tired... and I can't maintain my body without periodically taking people's lives, but I don't like sacrificing people... or something?

"... it's a boulder. Demon God."

(No, I'm not a demon god, am I? I mean, I always wonder why everyone calls me a demon...)

Against Yuki X, Waltz turned to Zito's eyes, but there was no way he cared about it to her.

And Yuki X keeps the word going.

"So far I (...) have seen a shift in the world for (...), roughly over 500 years..."

"In the meantime, I already don't remember how many lives I've taken to maintain my power or to perpetuate my life. I've killed so many people."

With that said, Yuki X turns her gaze to the sky, as if to those who have left the world.

"It was only in the beginning that people repeatedly killed for my life, taking it for granted that people would sacrifice. Has that changed my mind dramatically around the time I was approximately 200 years old... There was a great battle between me and the brave... and in doing so, I lost all my people."

(Uh... you mean the brave men killed all the demons?

I was a waltz with such doubts, but swallowed them as they were for now.

"Even if there was a flame nearby that warmed me, it never warmed me to my heart... After such a very cold thought, I stopped murdering people.... Now that I think about it, maybe that was all my fault"

"Then I decided to minimize the number of people I would sacrifice to live with.... but that was the beginning of real spiciness..."

Then the look on Yuki X's face with her eyes closed turns into a self-derisive thing.

"Demon god? Everyone who's going to die for me is going to die smiling, right? Can you understand that?

"Fear eats me to death, begging for my life, apologizing to my family... and I used to think it was normal.... set up the city's environment so as to be as populous as possible, protect the people from being reduced to the demonic kings of other nations who invade it, and advise them not to starve... that's all, how did the people end up dying smiling at me?

"... as a result, I can no longer eat people. Thanks to you, I've lost a lot of power. I used to be with the most powerful demon king... That's the time. I made my sisters."

"Huh? Aren't the Yuki guys with you from the beginning?

"Yes, since I took the land from my predecessors 500 years ago, I've been doing it alone for roughly 250 years, but I couldn't do anything about the weakening of power, and I created my sisters, who are my copies, to entrust me with national politics. And I hid myself as a maid."

(Hmm, some kind of schematic I've heard of somewhere... is that it?

"So, on the first day, the maid who picked us up in the guest room was you?

"Yes.... you know, didn't you ever get it?

"No... you know, we all looked the same face, so we couldn't make a decision..."

Apparently Yuki X was Yuki F (maid).

"But you can't solve it. Didn't you make Yuki and the others to reduce the number of victims... and you were doing well with it?

"If you want to cut out a 'certain part' of your time and think about it, you could say you were doing well. But considering the whole thing, it wasn't like that either."

"What do you mean?

"The cause is the aging of the flesh. Roughly every 100 years, we change bodies..."

"... I mean, every 100 years, you're gonna need a new body for all the Yuki's... and every time, you're gonna need a civic sacrifice, too, right?

"That's right. That's never a small number."

Waltz narrows his eyes to Yuki F's words.

In other words, if we consider the people who have lost their lives in the royal castle of Mid-Eden as a criterion, there will be roughly 12,000 victims in six.

"Only one person is not strong enough to protect the country... But six, every 100 years a lot of people are sacrificed... After all, the number of victims remained almost the same before and after we had our sisters."

"... yes"

"Realizing that, we also thought about reducing the number of people. But when it comes to copying, the life I was born into this world once... We all didn't want to die, and we didn't want to kill... so..."

"I took Yuki and all of them on the road and tried to be heartfelt. So now that we know we're going to save our citizens...

"Exactly."

Perhaps two months ago, Lucia dropped a magic bomb on the land... planned before that.

Yuki A's mission dispatch is actually bluff... no, the story of food support by Mid-Eden is probably the end of thinking about the citizens left behind after the labyrinth broke out.

"... didn't you have any other choice?

"I've been looking for it for over 250 years, unfortunately..."

"Yes..."

To her like that... waltz worried about whether to disclose the android technology she has, or the homunculus technology Catalina has.

Then Yuki F.

Something small and whining in my mouth, then opening my mouth with some determined gaze at the waltz...

"... but I have to take responsibility alone, more than I've made the problem so much bigger"

And I'm done saying it.

It was about that moment.

Dogowo!!

... I hadn't seen it recently, 'black chunks' hit Yuki F.