Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

... dreams.

The dream was a ruptured one.

I should still have expressed my will to live, but I was admired (...) by (...) who (...) jumped my neck...

I should have died, but my sisters cried and rejoiced...

The scenery is changing with a corny...

And a dark darkness comes where a stranger beast has touched him with a sad face.

What 'she' had was such a dream.

It wasn't a distinctive dream when it came to this, but if you still insist on mentioning it... the last look of the beast man I saw resembled the * * * * that came out of a very old gaga story... is that it?

"(Ha ha...!?

The next moment, to intense systemic pain, I wake my eyes.

"(Ouch, Ouch, Ouch, Ouch, Ouch, Itai!!

But no voice, no movement.

At the earliest, I don't even know if I have a face that distorts me into pain... in such a vain consciousness, just 'pain' filled all of my senses.

"(Itai! Itai! Ita...)"

... pain that disappears unexpectedly after a while.

And

"(Damn, it's painful!!

The next thing I did was squash pressure all over my body.

Then, the heat that's going to boil.

Conversely, the cold that seems to freeze.

Others include vibration, itching, and itching...

Only a feeling that doesn't even make sense pushes me in turn.

And the roar that punches me in the head and the smell so sweet that it's going to break my nose...

Furthermore, with the vomiting sensation felt when food was forced into my mouth, I pushed it like a flood of various flavors... and after the dark scenery enveloped me in a bright light, the polar colors hit me.

In that, 'she' tries to find a way out in too much pain.

But no matter how much I refused, I couldn't block the information coming in from the organs in my body.

"(I already... want to die...)"

I just want some silence.

At this point, I even think it would be good in perpetual darkness.

But I had no idea how I was going to die.

No arms, no legs, no body, no mouth... nothing.

In the first place, how the hell can I hold my breath...

"(No feeling of breathing, no feeling of the heart moving...)"

And 'she' thought.

This is the world after death... hell.

... That's when a glimmer of light plugged in.

However, it is not visual.

Tactile... it's also a sense of hand.

Gyu...

Surprised by the feeling of someone's hand that suddenly appeared, and unwittingly gripping back.

Grr...!!!!

However, that grip back was never gentle.

The desire to escape the pain, and the desire for help, loneliness, to kill... those feelings and desires that had no place to do so exploded at hand.

... but still,

Gyu...

The hand that held my hand was ever so sweet.

Even then, various senses rush around trying to ravage the body.

Every time I shook my hand back with all my heart that I wanted to escape the pain... but that hand never tried to let go of me, it just kept holding back gently.

... and I don't know how long it's been since.

Is it just enough, or is it a few days, is it another few years...

Notice was returning not only the sensation of the hands, but also the sensation of the feet, and other sensations of the whole body.

"Hmm..."

It conveys the feeling of opening your mouth for a long time.

Apparently, he also has a voice.

I guess hearing your own voice means hearing your ears too.

When 'she' thinks about it, she inadvertently hears the women.

"... End of neural connectivity procedure"

"Bioactuator works well"

"Nanomachine Control Module Load Rate from 3%"

And finally,

"Mr. Waltz? All procedures have been completed."

a nostalgic name I don't think I've heard in such a while and

"Yes... thank you"

Somehow my heart warms, I heard voices like a sun all over me.

"(I can't believe it's so comfortable... I'm sure this is a dream)"

With that in mind, 'she' drifts through the quiet little sleep I've been waiting for...

"... why do you think I don't wake my eyes?

Now, such a slightly sad voice came into my ear.

"Again, your brain is dead..."

"No. Sure, there were dead areas, but that's just the end part, and I replaced it with artificial neurons, so it shouldn't be a problem? For once, there's an EEG... You checked Catalina, didn't you?

"So you couldn't because your sister was holding hands? For example, he was sucking off his chi..."

"You know, tempo. Am I a labyrinth or something?

"You're a demon god"

"So why don't you do your usual ritual ~?

"What? Should I knock you up with gravity control?

"Yes. This place is already gutsy ~"

"For once, you're alive, if you do that, you're dead, right?

"I mean, your sister was up to killing Atlas ~"

Shortly after I heard such a careless voice, the hand I had been holding accidentally left.

"(Ah...)"

Picun...

"Hmm? Didn't it work now?

"What are you talking about, sister? Or is that it? Problems with cognitive function? So, before the accident happens, we should just give you your manoeuvre license back, right?

"Yes, sir. I don't know if dementia exists in the neurochip architecture, but don't worry, it'll be fine for at least another 100 years. I mean, I don't have a license for manoeuvre armor."

With the end of those words, the feeling of a hand that was away, now it comes back to my face.

"(tickles...)"

Feeling for cheeks I didn't feel for a long time.

The moment I tried to open my eyes to that feeling...

"I guess it's a good idea to wake it up in the same way as the tempo..."

Grr...

Suddenly he pulled his cheek.

"Idadadadadadadadada...!!

'She' raises her voice unexpectedly.

"Oh, I knew you were right this way"

"From the side (was), that's how you were woken up... Was that the look a woman shouldn't have..."

After hearing such a voice, his hand, which was grabbing his cheek, quietly separated, and was now accompanied to his cheek, which had turned red.

Then the Lord (or Hand) of the Hand closes his face and then opens his mouth with a full grin.

"Wouldn't it be a long time to wake up? Yuki."

'She' in those words...

Gyu...

"Hey!?

Suddenly, Waltz was ataffected when Yuki, who slept in bed, hugged him.

"Uh, sister? I don't really want to say this, but I don't think it's ethically very good to have those developments between surnames..."

"No! I'm a Guardian, not an ordinary human being!

"Normal gar... is that right? Well, that's good.... but you're not convincing at all."

Along the way, he was tempered to stop as if he remembered something, but as soon as he regained his mind, he turned his jitty eyes against the waltz being held.

"I mean, why is Yuki's actuator limiter off! I can't get away with it at all..."

"We keep it down to 1/10 of the constant (...) scale (...) ~? Electricity consumption doesn't make you stupid, and fever can destroy biological tissue ~"

Cortex checks the monitor while saying.

Since the current load rate was 12%, from the rated output, is it about 1.2%?

By the way, the rated and maximum outputs are separate.

"I'm a snowwoman, but what is fever? I didn't... I didn't design the actuator wrong... I didn't... you see, Yuki! Get away from me! I'm not a magnet!

Waltz, a non-magnetic body (not stuck to magnets), tries to pull Yuki off by raising the output.

Meanwhile, what was Yuki doing with the hug?

"Ugh... it hurt. Ugh... I was scared. Ugh..."

... was crying on Waltz's shoulder.

Waltz, who noticed such yuki, stops to untie his arm.

"... I'm sorry. It hurt because I checked every single one of them during the neural connection, didn't it? But if we don't do that, it's gonna be tough later. Don't you have trouble feeling 'nice' when you hit me? No, I'm here sometimes, but... that's who I am."

"Ugh..."

(You must have felt harder than dying...)

Just keep crying yuki, waltz losing words at last.

Eventually, she decided to let Yuki hold her until she settled down.

... except while unnecessarily bombarded trying to magnificently avoid the chills flying from the tempo that was next door...

After a while, when Yuki finally settled down...

"Where am I...?

Holding onto Waltz, Yuki looked into the room wondering, and said such a question.

"This is the king's capital of Mid-Eden. It's in the basement. It's a maintenance room dedicated to Homunculus."

The maintenance room of the underground large workshop, which is recently becoming dedicated to the growing Cortex.

It's an emergency operating room in there.

Inside the room stood three women (Catalina, Tempo, Cortex) wearing white clothes and masks as if they were going to cover their entire bodies, and the waltz as usual, a total of four of whom surrounded Yuki.

Inside, two people, have white bags on their back hips... apparently to prevent hair from falling off their tails.

"Lucia's transfer magic (emergency transport) sent me. Yuki, I was dying."

Instead, Lucia herself (...), who could not be transferred, was left behind.

"Was it... Ugh?! Hey, what is this guy?! That's me?!

Yuki was stunned to see herself reflecting on the windowsill that was nearby.

"That's right. Except for the brain, the body was useless... or nothing in the first place, so I rebuilt it all. So, I thought I'd make you look like your original Yuki... but, you know, at the temperature of the day, you're gonna change your height and your appearance, right? So, I can't help it, so if you want to try to be about 17 years old at your physical age... you've failed..."

"Sorry..."

... as Waltz and Catalina put it, a different face and figure from Yuki's ever seen was there.

The colour of the eyes is the same pale blue colour as the original colour, but the details around the eyes, mouth, etc. are different and the height is about 165cm.

The long, blue-white hair, which should have been up to her waist, had been cut to the length to her shoulders and turned bright white.

Among other things, it was like a black line that stretched countless times from all over the body.

"Oh, this? After all, you're a tentacle when it comes to demon kings..."

"What..."

"... no, of course I'm kidding, right? This is just a cable for maintenance. I'm done with it, so I don't mind pulling it out."

That's what Waltz said, when he put Yuki to bed again,

Kachin...

With such a small noise, I removed the bayonet-style cable connector from her right arm.

"... you can't take this metal..."

Yuki whines as she gazes at the metal terminal left in her arm after the cable comes off.

"Well, I won't use it unless it's heavily broken (...), so I'll have Catalina hide it one of these days."

"Break...? Injure... isn't it?

In such a Yuki inquiry, Waltz said with a literally difficult look that could not be taken as a bitter smile or a bitter face.

"... right. You need to think about the future and show it to me. Cortex. Total nerve amputation of the left arm, and nanomachine circuit amputation."

"I understand ~..."

That said, Cortex punches in somehow towards the console.

Then,

Chewie... Gatan...

"Ah... my arm..."

Yuki suddenly loses her senses and has a strange look on her arm that fell from above her stomach.

"So..."

Waltz lifted her arm to look yuki, then protruded a silver blade about a few centimeters long... a medical female, without hesitation.

"Eh...!!

Yuki accidentally smiles at her face.

But...

"... you don't hurt..."

Instead of pain, Yuki felt no sense of touch.

"Well, I'm out of my nerves."

Then Waltz, as he cut in to circle, put his hand in the gap between the skin and the fat that was attached to Yuki's arm and applied the force by pushing it wide open.

"... even if you don't have a feeling, it's not something that feels good..."

"Well, don't say that. It's your body you're going to have to hang out with for a long time, and it's important that you grasp it, okay? You know it or not, I think it's going to change a lot of the behavior you can take. So here's what's in your body right now"

That's what I said. At Waltz's fingertips...

"... the same as Master Waltz...?

While wet by red blood, I could see the silver glowing frames, tubes, and various other organs built in (...).

"Mmm. Sure, if you ask me if I'm closer to you or a human being, I might be closer to this side."

Yuki changes her expression and looks happy in such waltz words.

"That's why you're so much stronger, so be careful when you have things, when you hold people's hands, okay? Truth is, I thought the holographic system would break again."

"What...?

Yuki raised her doubts, but somehow she seemed a little embarrassed by Waltz, and she stays through.

"And next time, even if you get shot with a pistol, it'll heal on its own like this.... Cortex. nanomachine circuit connection while the nervous system is disconnected"

"Understood ~"

At that moment,

Buk, buk, buk...

From the arm that was severed, when something like blood bubbles emerged,

"Yes, I'm done."

My skin connected instantly, as if by magic, and my scars were gone.

"Auto-recovery magic...?

"It's not magic, but it's similar. For more information, ask Cortex soon? 'Cause that's what I'm supposed to do."

"Hands on?"

"Yep. We'll talk about it after we get out of here."

Then there goes the story of Yuki's body specs, by Waltz.

Says it's sturdy because the bones are made of magic metal.

Says he doesn't have to breathe to suffocate.

Says he won't die if he ingests poison.

Says it is vulnerable to heat because it uses Yuki's original cells.

Says, it depends on training if magic can be used.

Says, heavy weight...

... In short, it became the same specs as the Tempo and Cortex.

If there is a difference, are you using neurotips in your brain, or are you using a real brain?

And you're using Yuki's own cells... that's all.

Once Waltz finishes his explanation,

"Really... so I'm not a person anymore..."

You're a little tired, and then Yuki meditated on her eyes.

"Well... I won't deny it. But it's not like you can't have children because you've rebuilt your reproductive organs, is it? However, due to the structure of the skeleton, the pelvis is difficult to deform, so it would be cesarean..."

to such waltz remarks,

"Ko, can you make children?!

Yuki was surprised enough to jump up somehow.

"... what... was it awkward?

"No, that's not true. However, to the other sisters who were married, I had never had a child before, so..."

"Ah... yes..."

(I wonder if the body of Homunculus can keep the child...)

Though I think so... at the same time, uh, waltz trying to get out of sight of Yuki.

There seems to have been a feeling that he has trampled a mine somehow.

But...

Gassi!

Yuki grabs my arm with fierce force.

... They said it was too late.

"... now it's time to say! Me and knot k"

"I can't."

Sooo...

... and Waltz dissolved into the air, releasing the hologram...

Then, when Yuki, who had a vain look on his face like a broken heart, was somehow revived by Cortex whispering in his ear.

In front of the large mirror provided for the operating room, Yuki sees it in her new body as she disconnects herself.

"... Dear Sirius. If you don't like it, we'll rebuild it."

The unmasked Catalina held a blade (surgical peeler) with some complicated shape in her hand and said so with a serious look on her face.

Yuki hardens to see her like that.

"... Catalina? You'd better put Peeler down before you say that, wouldn't you? See, Yuki's scared and hardened, isn't she? Besides, I don't use peelers for facial plastic surgery..."

Waltz, somewhat pathetic to Yuki's appearance as he is solidifying, shows up again and points out.

"Was I? I thought it would be quicker to scrape and rebuild once..."

"Maybe it is, but there's something a little more to do, isn't there?

"... you understudied... too bad..."

"No, there, I'm not sorry..."

With that exchange, Waltz makes Catalina punish the equipment, but...

Still, Yuki was stiffening her mouth with her gaze on Catalina.

Together with giving Yuki such a strange look or looking at each other.

Then a while later, she says to Xu Ro why.

"... Dear Vixen...?

"... Huh?

... Apparently, Catalina resembles the Demon King who said she was here a long time ago.