Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"... Hey, Cortex? Didn't anybody else see you or something?

"... I don't know ~? Don't overdo it for me, even if I get stabbed later from my back, crisp ~"

With that said, Cortex shows a bare gesture holding the blade backwards and slashing his neck off his back.

Apparently her back, it's on her neck... (?).

"Wow..."

Yuki who sees such a Cortex trick and suppresses his own neck.

I guess I even remembered the 4 days before I had a thin one.

Well.

They exchanged like that, at the suspension bridge in front of the main gate of the royal castle.

Just a week ago, it was the place where I was dropped off or dropped off for Boreas.

The place was the same, but there were three very different things.

... Rather, can we also say that only places have the same thing...

The first is that we are all waiting for Catalina.

Waltz invited Catalina on the same day, so she wasn't ready yet.

Nevertheless, it shouldn't even be that time-consuming, as it's just an easy prep to properly shove a tool into a magic bag...

And the second is that the drop-off is only Cortex.

Teresa and the Water Dragon are replacing Cortex, who was to be attached to taking care of Leah (?), which had been canned in the chancellor's office.

Others, the hunter, as usual, work as a representative of South Fortress, and Syranui, because of some massive production of works, the tempo is already on Leah's side, and Atlas... unknown.

"Is that it? What about Atlas?

"Atlas is ~..."

Cortex, after saying that much, smiled nicely,

"... it's a secret"

... deceived.

"... I don't know what you're doing, but think about minimum human rights and morals, okay?

"It's okay around there ~"

"Fine, but..."

A phrase tied up in a state of freedom, made to a torture table... waltz imagining Atlas with a spring roll stuck in his mouth.

Cortex says he's going to protect public order, so he won't be running in a hell of a direction... maybe.

And it is the last of the different points.

Last time, he had left the royal castle early in the morning, while this time it was already before noon due to Catalina's circumstances.

I mean...

Gaya, gaya, gaya...

... citizens who were running errands at the Royal Castle (City Hall), and the bridge was full of crap.

So,

"Oh! Is that Master Waltz who hears rumors?!

"Stop, look away! They're gonna eat us!

"Mom, huh? What is Master Waltz?

"No! Boy! Don't look at me!

... as if the citizens would observe the waltzes from afar, coming and going.

Well, as if there was an invisible wall, no one tried to get close to the waltz...

"... I wonder if this is... a joke..."

Can you say eight minutes for a village or eight minutes for a city?

Apparently, Waltz's demon god (Mashin) statement, proclaimed in one of Lucia the Brave, has spread throughout the city.

By the way, the only words such citizens utter were against Waltz.

"Isn't that Master Teresa?

"But you're with Master Waltz?!

"Well, I'm sure there's a Shadow Warrior at Cor's, right?

"Oh. So you're still holding Master Waltz back instead of Master Teresa."

"That's tough. You know, putting your body up against the demon god..."

Listening to the words of such citizens,

"Boulders, smart citizens ~"

Cortex gave a satisfied look.

"No, no, no... why is it just my rating, it's so bad..."

Note that this is the result of an impression operation performed by Cortex.

However, it is not a Waltz impression, but an operation aimed at Cortex impressions.

... Well, there was another one on the waltz's side.

Needless to say, it is about Yuki.

Even though I'm with the two of them, there's no way Yuki is going to be in a less than waltz village octagonal state of being ignored by the citizens... etc.

Rather, it attracted more attention than the two of us.

Take the example of a citizen who saw about Yuki...

The one who stops and triumphs.

He who suddenly begins to worship or pray with both hands together.

He who begins to flatten out, even though men say that they are wasting their time.

... As far as the condition of such people is concerned, it seems to their eyes that Yuki's figure is pictured like some grateful one.

There was no waltz nearby, but if it weren't for her, I wonder if she would come with me or hug me.

"... Um... Master Waltz? Gentlemen, why are you bowing your heads to me?

"Uh, that's not..."

Then, for the first time in a long time, waltz that brightens your hair.

At that moment,

What was walking on the suspension bridge all stopped and gazed at the waltzes.

"... wow..."

Seeing them like that, Waltz turns into a black figure this time.

Then,

People started flowing smoothly again.

... Rather, it seems to be flowing better than earlier for the citizens to run and pass where the Waltz are.

"Like this, in this country and in the realm of the human side, people with bright white hair are worshipped as gods. So I'm trying not to look white..."

Yuki turns a strange gaze at such Waltz's explanation.

"Oh, nothing, because Yuki didn't want you to work as my decoy or harass me and make it white, did she? Is it true?

"Harassment..."

There was also the matter of a hair-growing switch all over her body, so Yuki tried to think back if she would have done anything wrong... but she remembered too much to stop thinking along the way.

Of course, as Waltz said, they didn't deliberately whiten their hair (except for the switch).

So why is Yuki's hair white?

That didn't mean that I was dying or that I did that due to stress during nerve checks...

(No, no way, the hair root cells I sampled didn't have any pigments by chance... amazing coincidence, right?

Even normal people, like gray hair mixed by the way in their hair, had gray hair mixed with Yuki's original pale blue hair, and the hair root cells sampled by Catalina were, coincidentally, gray hair cells... that's all we're talking about.

Especially when I found out that, there must have been a hand in redoing the transplant, but I didn't... fulfill...

"... okay. This is the body you made for Master Waltz and... Katarina. I'll take care of it because I think that's what it is."

Yuki rubbed her bright white hair with her fingertips.

"... by the way, come on... something - Catalina, isn't it too late?

Waltz turns his gaze slightly towards the royal castle, still looking black.

Then, space can be created so that the crowd (one or the other) can be broken.

(So, guys, you don't like me?

Waltz thinks so, but when he turns his jitsu eyes to the open space, the crowd cracks even more...

... at that time.

Among the parted gatherings were those who did not try to escape but one.

Katsun, Katsun, Katsun...

Catalina, a red-haired fox beast who flipped her white coat and grabbed her not so big back in her right hand.

She walks straight to Waltz, without any particular cowardice, through the cracked crowd.

And when you come to the sight of Waltz,

"... I'm sorry. Thank you for waiting."

That's what I said, to her, smaller than I was, I lowered my head.

To look like that,

Zawazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

"That... who?

"Something with that white coat... like a red stain on it?

"Seeing you bow your head to Master Waltz, could..."

"Demon King...?!

The citizens leaked such a blur.

"Is that it? Catalina. It's got ketchup on it, isn't it? Look, the chest part..."

"Ah... that's the one that was on the breakfast scrambled egg..."

Then Catalina, when she takes the surgical scalpel out of nowhere, sticks it straight into the white coat and cuts off the spotted area.

Then she puts her hand on the empty part of the hole and says something magical...

"Yes. Now you're beautiful, aren't you?

I repaired it so beautifully that I didn't know the trace of the hole.

"Heh... you can use restorative magic as well as restorative magic now?

To such a waltz inquiry,

"No. It's restorative magic, isn't it?

I don't like anything but restorative magic, so... Catalina responds with a look like that.

Then I said a sassy problem statement.

"It's actually a kind of white coat, mushroom."

"Eh..."

Then Catalina hung a healing magic on the cut white coat.

In the meantime,

Nyoki, Nyoki...

The white coat, which should have been just a piece of cloth, becomes large (...) long (...) and turns into a large piece of cloth.

"This is user-friendly inside, isn't it? Because even if you get sweat and waste, you'll eat it, and if you leave the dirt alone, you'll be beautiful one of these days. Even if it is solved, healing magic can be easily cured, and wearing it all the time doesn't smell. Keep it away from your skin. If you wear it, you'll get attached too..."

Catalina strokes the sleeves of her white coat with love.

Those who were on the spot inadvertently lagged behind her in such a way.

"... because, how long have you been wearing it?

"Well... are these kids, like, a month ago because they're the third generation"

"Oh, yeah..."

(Catalina, unlike everyone else, thought she was a common sense person... but she's already a girl... or maybe she's even trying to stop being human...)

Waltz turned his raw warm gaze to Catalina, who spoke in the same way as usual and without shame.

If you look at even Yuki pulling it off, you can probably say she's wearing so-called 'Cursed Gear' that even the Demon King doesn't equip...

So.

Waltz opens his mouth where all the members are leaving.

"Well, then, you're coming."

"Yes. Please go with care ~?

"Cortex. Do you want to talk about Leah?

"Leave it to me"

"Dear Cortex, Thanks for your help."

"... Ah, Mr. Yuki?

Cortex stopped Yuki from thanking herself.

"I'll give you this."

With that said, Cortex gives you a silver rectangular plate enough to fit in one hand.

"What is it... this...?

"It's a radio, right?

"Holy... this is...?!

Yuki opens her eyes against the radio in her hand.

"Maybe I thought your sister might have forgotten to give it to you ~... but you really forgot how it looked ~"

"Uh, I totally forgot..."

With that said, ahhh, waltz holding his head.

... Note that that's not all I'm forgetting...

"This is Royal Castle equipment, so please give it back properly ~?... if, if I break it or lose it ~..."

Cortex said so, when he could put his hand on the chest of Japanese clothing, he took out some kind of purple poisonous switch.

"I'm going to press this switch, right?

"Ma... no way... hairy switch...?!

"It's not... is it? It's a switch that adds weight. That too, gut fat ~"

"Hey... what a hidden feature you have on Yuki!

"If you choke on a nanomachine, there's nothing to it ~. Even your sister was doing something ~"

"Ho, is that true?! Master Waltz?!

That being said, Yuki turns around the waltz... but she wasn't there already and was waving about 10m away.

"See, guys? Come on, let's go! Lucia and the others are waiting."

"Hey... wait a minute! My... what other features did you add to my body?! Master Waltz!

Yuki, saying so, rushed off and went after Waltz.

"... then you're going"

"Yes, please be careful"

Catalina slowly chased after them after greeting Cortex...

... and then 20 seconds later.

"... it's a long and early return ~"

"Sorry, I totally forgot to ask Catalina to cure Atlas tenosynovitis."

... apparently, Waltz's departure is still ahead of us...