Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"There's twice, there's three times."

The ancestors left behind such a proverb from their own experience.

For the most part, it is used to describe bad things happening over and over again, as in earthquake disasters, but on the other hand, it is also a convenient word used when good things continue.

For better or worse, maybe we can call it one of the flags.

Now, let me introduce you to another one that uses the number 3.

"Third Honesty"

It is a word used before two unsuccessful attempts, or when successful.

Now I can tell you that it's... that's what it means.

Why did you introduce these two items this time?

... it's to talk about a girl who's going to make a third challenge.

That's right.

She's already failed twice.

... escape the kidnappers from their hands...

There was a girl squatting (groaning) while holding her knees in a corner of a barn built in a pit like a dark cave.

... It's Eve, the dog beast man with drooling ears.

She is someone who calls herself Loricon (?) I got clothes from them, and for once, I wore them, but they were still smaller in a way that warmed my body.

If you consider the various disasters that have befallen her so far, you can say that you can't help but shrink yourself.

Among other things, what broke her heart especially greatly was the killing (...) of Sirius, the long-awaited demon king, in front of her during her last escape (...) and (...) and (...) and (...).

4 days after that.

Three meals a day, and a meal was provided by Lolicon, but he didn't touch it at all, and he was blocking it all the time.

The clothes she is wearing now were also forced by Loricon to wear 'cause she catches a cold', not something she wore as she progressed herself.

For once, he was, as he said, a gentleman (?) Apparently, there was nothing rambling about it, but Eve's mind had already been mausoled and in the same condition, and at the earliest, she had not had a people-like reaction...

Potta... Potta... Potta...

Water droplets that fall, trying to seep out of the prison ceiling.

Only the tiny noise it produces when it falls to the ground echoes through the chamber.

If you've only heard that sound the whole time, it's something that would normally make you sick of your mind... but her heart wasn't dead.

No, I couldn't die.

"... eh"

Slowly, when he raised his skinny face, Eve turned his glare towards the key that was at the entrance to the cabin.

Then she whips her body, which she hasn't moved for a while, and tries to get close to where she was staring, shivering and forcing her hands and feet to move as they wished.

Dosha...

... but for a long time, she had not eaten, and on top of that, she had not heard anything immediately from her body, which had not moved much, and she had fallen off balance, into the ground.

"Ku..."

In doing so, she hits her knees and elbows... but slowly progresses as she crawls through the ground, distorting her face to pain and bodily stiffness, as if she were being manipulated by something... or poked.

And when she finally got to where she wanted... she was so tired that she couldn't move at all.

Eve, feeling impudent, managed to lean back and look at the ceiling to her body, which had stopped moving just a few meters away.

Potta... Potta... Potta...

Then the droplets fell on her face... but she was debilitated, and she couldn't avoid it.

... and Eve's consciousness was sucked straight into darkness...

The next time she regained consciousness, the first thing she noticed was the feeling of a foreign body stuck in her throat.

Gehoggyhoggy... "

When I cough up, some clear liquid blows out of my mouth.

Apparently, the water leaking from the ceiling was accumulating in his mouth.

"Ha-ha-ha..."

While she breathed such rough, she pressed her boggling head and raised (...) her upper body (...) to (...) this (...).

"That... your body is lightening up a little...?

Her body was dehydrated because she didn't drink or eat for 4 days.

That seems to have improved somewhat because I swallowed the water falling from the ceiling while I was sleeping.

"(... eh!

Then as she turned towards the entrance, what came into her eyes was the meal that Loricon had plugged in.

The last time I saw what was brought to me was left intact, he didn't sleep that long.

Eve with a sinister look in front of her meal and meditating on her eyes.

She said if she ate this meal like this...

"(Dead Master Sirius may have no more trouble...)"

and he was desperate to fight his appetite.

But at the same time, I think the opposite is true.

"(... if I die here, that's what I'm sorry, then maybe you won't forgive me...)"

And Sirius with my father who preceded me (?) Eve floating his face.

And after all the trouble, she...

"... Ha, ha!

... I couldn't stand my appetite anymore, and I finally got my hands on my meal...

And in the end, after flattening all the meals.

"... Guru..."

Eve was crying...

"(I betrayed Master Sirius...) Gu..."

Seems that he thought his actions were treachery against the Demon King.

"(But if I didn't eat, I could have died...)"

Somehow the weight of sin (?) Eve thinking about excuses so that you can stand it.

Then after a while, she...

"Yeah! (Because even for Master Sirius, who tried to help me, he's going to make me get out of here safely!

... Looks like I've decided to reopen it.

Although the flutter of the body remained because the nutrition of the diet ingested had not yet reached the body enough, when she woke up, she began to examine the keys attached to the door of the cabin.

"(... I make this a lot simpler...)"

The mechanism of the key itself was made of metal, but not robust, and the shaft for securing the rotating parts, such as the cylinder into which the key enters and the cam for moving the locking mechanism, was made to protrude to the outside of the case.

Guess from that mechanism, if you turn one of these axes, the key is going to open...

Nevertheless, the key to the cell in the bend.

The axis wasn't out, so unless there was a special tool, it seemed impossible to turn it directly...

But Eve didn't seem to have any intention of turning that axis.

"(... I wonder if this axis...)"

After staring at one of the axes, she glanced at a wooden dish where the meal had been on until earlier.

"(This and... something stiff and pointy more... oh, is this good?

Then what she had in her hand was a piece of stone, peeling off the wall and falling off.

And Eve lifted up the corner of the stone to the axis of the key that was staring.

Gong!

He slammed the back of the dish against the stone and tried to force the shaft off.

"(... I wonder if this...)"

Gong!

If the shaft and the internal parts are made together, they cannot be removed...

Even with that concern, Eve taps on the axis several times.

After a while the axis she was tapping gradually buried into the case.

"(Looks like this is a good idea after all!

Eve showing a grin on such a recessed axis.

... that was the time.

Mayday! What are you doing!

The guard in charge of the prison appeared.

"(Mazu!... what an excuse... yes!

Eve to face for a moment when a guard suddenly appeared who had never seen it before, but raised his voice when he noticed the dishes he had in his hand.

"Not enough! I want more!

Lolicon, who brought this meal, seemed worried that he would not take it.

Then she thought that if she could make the guard think she was' hungry and rampant 'she would manage to mislead...

In fact, it seemed to have played a role,

"Hmm. Have you had a meal... Fine. Let's prepare a new meal."

So the guard departed from the front of the prison.

"(Ha... I thought you'd find out...)"

Eve stroking her breasts down in a ho manner to that appearance.

From now on, however, it was likely that it would be difficult to make loud noises and continue working.

Especially since the guard went to arrange meals and came back.

"(... only now!

When the guard opened and closed the door and checked the sound of him walking out of the room where the cabin was located, Eve continued to knock on the axis of the key, literally desperate, faster than ever before.

... then dozens of seconds later.

Bakin!

Such a tall noise rang, slacking inward from the hole where the axis was fitted, and it came off as she thought.

"(Later, take this lock...)"

I succeeded in destroying the internal mechanism, but unless I could pull a protrusion (lock) out of the door against the wall, I could not open the door.

If I could make a decision with something thin and stiff, it would be nice...

"None... nothing just right..."

So whining, feeling a little rushed, Eve looking for something that might work.

The gap between the door and the wall was about 5 mm wide and had not been so precisely made, but no thin, hard objects could be found to enter that gap.

"... I'll be back now...!

Unless the guard was cooking himself, it was almost certain that he would be back soon.

And if you're back... it'll be hard to get out the way you are now.

If that's all, it's not a big deal because you just have to figure out another way out.

Above all, the problem was that I had already broken the key.

If the guard or Loricon notices that the key is broken at the time of attempting to unlock the meal, her escape may be found out.

And when that happens... we don't know if we have the next chance.

... In Eve's head, all those negative thoughts like 'what if' were beginning to sound good.

That's when she...

"Cancer?!

Gashan!!

And, accidentally stepping on what was falling to the ground, I fall.

"Wrong dishes...!?

And she realized.

A metal basin with dishes on it.

If you use this, you can do something about it.

"... Huh!

Gun! Gun! Gun! Gun!

Eve slaps and flattens the basin with stone at the earliest, which was designed so that the edges would bend and the contents wouldn't fall off.

Then fold even the extra part back, fold it back, repeat the return, using metal fatigue to cut...

"So, so, so, I could..."

I managed to get the tools she wanted.

And with a pull and a shaking hand for fatigue, you plug it into the lock part of the door and you decide...

Kacha...

Finally, the key came off.

"Huh..."

Eve giving a relief look to that.

... at that time,

Giggy... batan...

... it seemed like the guards were back.

To the sound, Eve accidentally reversed her tail hair.

Apparently, she doesn't have time to catch a breath.

When Eve opened the door of the empty cell without straying, she squeezed her bare power and ran in the direction where the guard would probably come.

What if, on the contrary, a guard who realizes that he is not in a cabin can no longer escape when he searches around or closes the room itself where this cabin is located... that's what she thought.

And she lowered herself and dived into the shadow of the shelf, which was at the corner of the first corner.

At that time, a large amount of pointed metal tools and stained tools comes into her eyes.

It seemed like a shelf to keep the torture tools at bay.

It was Eve who was going to scream unexpectedly after seeing how it was going, but I suppressed my mouth at both places and managed to get something wrong.

Then, when I took only one handy tool (a fingernail peeling pencil) that stumbled into my eye, I pushed it into my pocket.

The next moment,

Cotton, cotton, cotton...

A guard wrapped in black armor appears from the end of a broken passage and passes in front of Eve.

Fortunately, either because the guard was wearing a helmet, or he never noticed her hiding, he went straight through.

"(... now!

On her leg, which had not run a great distance, but had already become like a stick, she whipped again, running down the aisle where the guard came, hitting her body against the wall.

Then shortly,

"No!? Where'd he go!

Hearing such a voice fly from his back, Eve succeeded in rushing out of the room where the cabin was located to the hallway...