Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

After expanding the optical camouflage to a greater extent than usual to envelop everyone in the invisible realm, Waltz, and his people, embark on energy so that they are not seen by the humans outside.

Then, placing an unconscious flying dragon near the entrance and exit of the energy, the rest of us headed straight to the bridge, waltzing ahead.

Gashon...

With such a noise, the bridge door slides in momentum and opens automatically.

When I came here, the sound finally leaked out of Eve's mouth, which had always been open and flashing.

"... Huh?!

... Instead of talking, I should have forgotten to breathe itself...

"Hey, what are you doing here?!

With that said, she turned a dishy eye to the seats and status monitors floating in the universe, and the view of the walls displayed in high definition as if they were inside a building (...) object (...).

To her, the facilities of the earlier facility were also sufficiently unrealistic, but inside this bridge seemed to be a cross-dimensional view that could not be compared to it.

"What is this place? The bridge?"

Waltz, unable to sit in the captain's seat because Lisa was stabbing him, stood beside him and said, 'Was something weird also?' and so forth, and return words to Eve.

"Kanko?

"Well, that means a cockpit for maneuvering ships."

"Ship...? Huh?!

"What? You don't even know the ship?

"No, I know the ship... but is this building the ship?

With that said, in my head, Eve thinks of a house that will be shed in the river.

"Hmm, well, that's the place, huh? You can't float on the water or snuggle in the water."

"Well, I wouldn't call it a ship..."

"That, that. Trends."

Did you not hear Waltz very well, or did you not understand... Eve tilted her neck with a frown.

When she smiles bitterly at her like that, shortly afterwards Waltz says, a little louder to herself, nowhere.

"Energy? You're here, right?

And then as soon as...

Are you there?

A voice similar to Lucia was heard from a bridge speaker.

"... I'd like to leave for Vixen, are you ready?

"What...?

You couldn't understand Waltz's words, the energy of raising such questions while creating the same atmosphere somewhere as Eve.

"Do you leave the guy outside alone?

"Yep. Nothing like being shelled, and I don't have to do it back. It's not like there was any damage here. Sure, I think I've said the same thing before, but... oh, you weren't there."

and Waltz spoke while making sure the hull's heavy particle shield and repair millimeter machine were working properly.

If heavy particle shields or repair millimeter machines hadn't been deployed, the hull would have been damaged at least by shelling from tanks... in which case, it seemed like they were going to fight back.

"Besides, don't you hate it when you attack weirdly and get tricky later? (Ma, I feel somewhat too late...)"

'I get it. But I don't know where Vixen is, so tell me on my way, okay?

"Yep. Sure, right?"

Then there was no time.

Fiwin-win...

Such treble sounded faint in the bridge.

And...

"I'm taking off."

and, the moment Energia told him, the view he was seeing from the bridge leaned heavily,

Gowwwwwww...

... Energia floated into the sky, leaving the surrounding tanks completely behind, cleaving the air with fierce momentum.

It hasn't been long since I flew.

Katarina, who was once on the bridge with the waltzes, opened her mouth.

"Speaking of which, I don't see Lucia or Julia... were they not with you?

"Yep. Lucia gave me a ride to Mid-Eden."

and Waltz returns the word to Catalina as he punches the route into the console.

"Lucia, that's your metamorphosis magic."

"Yes, yes. Long distances are an instant, so it's okay, but that girl herself can't travel, so it's surprisingly user-friendly magic..."

"Lucia's metamagic, it's not normal metamagic, so..."

Catalina smiled bitterly as she remembered Lucia's magic, which was neither spatial control magic nor metamorphosis magic, not sure.

"So you mean leave a message in Vixen?

"This kind of thing. Aren't we all buying and eating in the street by now? In time."

"Right. By the way, how long is it going to take to get there?

"Right... maybe, like, 40 minutes?

"Okay... Now, to Leah, I'm going to show my face. Instead of me, the temps and Cortex should be seeing me, so..."

To Catalina's words like that, Waltz said, 'Hmm?' And after I had a look like I remembered something, I was a little confused whether to say it or not, and then... I ended up opening my mouth.

Even if I don't say it here, you can tell by going to the infirmary... that's how it is.

"Uh, I think Tempo's in the infirmary, but Cortex had me stay at the royal castle. When something happens, the chancellor is alone with Teresa, and he can't move the defense system..."

"... okay"

I thought I could trust Teresa a little bit... but when I heard about the defense system that followed, I got a convinced look on my face.

Then she left for the infirmary, where Leah and Tempo would be waiting when she spoke to Waltz and Yuki lightly.

Well.

While Waltz and Catalina had such an exchange,

There was a shadow sticking to the bridge wall for two.

... Needless to say, it is Eve and Yuki.

They seemed blinded by the clouds flowing through the scenery outside, the colours of the evening sky, and the flying demons and big moons that seemed farther away.

"This is... the ocean?

You haven't seen the ocean once in your life yet, you said that against the clouds that Eve spreads on one side.

"No. This is not the same as a cloud sea... but it's like a carpet made of clouds"

And Yuki mouths an expression that seems to be spoken in some gaga story.

"... that, can you touch it? I know it's a grain of water..."

I know I won't touch you, and Eve whines like, 'Still, if I could touch you, it'd be nice...'

The question wasn't thrown by someone specific, but Yuki, who was near her, opened her mouth smiling as if to answer a question from a child.

"Right... Surely you won't be able to touch this cloud. But I have no dreams when I run out of saying 'don't touch', so let's put it a little differently. 'There are clouds in the world that you can touch'..."

"Hmm..."

Eve replied with her eyes open to the view outside, not knowing if such Yuki's words were getting to her head properly.

Well, more naturally when it comes to returning those reactions because it didn't seem to be the question I expected to reply to...

But Yuki wasn't convinced by Eve's reaction like that...

"... Well, you don't believe me, do you?

... protest as they swell their cheeks.

To her like that,

"... that's it, right? Snacks made by flying in wind magic while heating sugar.... I thought you said cotton candy?

... Eve returning words like those rubbed children.

"What..."

To her reaction, which could never be said to be cute, Yuki tried to counter and didn't think...

"Chi, no!

... that's what I answered.

Truth is, she was thinking about giving Eve a cotton candy and insisting it was a sweet cloud...

Eve, apparently, is an unsatisfactory child then.

"So, let me see it next time?

Eve (age 8) pushing Yuki (age 250) into strong (did)...

"Gu... yes, okay?

"Promise me, huh? I won't forget, okay?

"Gu, muggy...!

... Yuki will thus have the slightly cumbersome task of showing clouds that can be touched against Eve...

I thought so.

There was another person in this room who had rarely (...) flown in the sky on energy.

... on Waltz's back. It is still Lisa, who is restrained under her own gravitational control and continues to stick out the knife.

For once, she had sometimes traveled the distance from Mid-Eden to this point on energy, and now she didn't look particularly surprised.

... No, as a matter of fact, even when I first got on the energy, I wasn't experiencing a particularly big reaction...

(Maybe... the punishment was too spicy, blocked...?

I think that waltz to Lisa, who had some darker temperament than the original.

Then I thought, 'Can I open her up now,' and Waltz cuts Lisa's hand and the gravity control she was putting on the knife she was stabbing herself with, but...

(... that? Can't take it?)

... somehow Lisa didn't try to pull it out of Waltz's body while holding the knife.

"... Lisa? You... you okay?

With that said, when Waltz peeks into her face...

"... come on...!

... For some reason, shy, Lisa lay down on her face.

Waltz asks her how she is, with a strange look on her face.

But no matter how she stared, there was no sign of her pulling out the knife, so Waltz took her hand directly and tried to pull out the knife.

Then,

"Ah..."

Give me a sorry look for some reason...

"Yes, I don't like it!

Lisa said that while waving Waltz's hand off,

Saku...

It was that I stabbed her again...

"... what do you hate?

Why try to stab me about myself?

Jealousy should have caused the stabbing at first... but if you think about the meaning of her word 'dislike', this time I stabbed her for the same reason, it doesn't seem to mean that.

That's when... Waltz realizes something.

The knife Lisa gripped was shaking a little.

"... what's going on?

When Waltz asked worryingly, Lisa looked bright red, tears in her eyes... and slowly opened her trembling lips.

"Oh, I'm sorry..."

Feeling the feel of a knife still stabbing me, I said to her like, 'Huh? Aren't you reflecting?' and tilting his head waltz.

She was increasingly disturbed that Lisa's actions and remarks were clearly the exact opposite.

If you're reflecting, why the hell do you keep sticking out the knife...

Lisa pointed her gaze at Waltz somewhere... and said (...) why (...).

"... someone can see you stabbing Mr. Waltz... it feels so good"

"Ugh, wow?!

... Apparently, over half a day, Lisa has woken up to a new world because she was jerking off in a special way.

Instead, if you think about her being a succubus... maybe she originally had that kind of sexuality...

Waltz acted fast after that.

... At the earliest, it had nothing to do with whether the other person was a biological person or not.

Dogowong!!

Waltz blows Lisa relentlessly, using gravity control.

... and when she hit the wall, she fell all bloody...

As far as its appearance, have you passed out, or...

... Eve and Yuki, who watched those two exchanges from the side, turn a waltz at a look they don't know how to react.

"... yeah. It was self-defense, wasn't it?

... It should be noted that before self-defense, it was Waltz himself who directed Lisa to go into such action...

Then, using a radio communication system, she contacted Catalina about an emergency... and a while later, she came to the bridge at a temp waiting in the infirmary.

If you think about carrying people, it seems that Tempo, who is Android and homunculus, was more apt than a powerless Catalina.

Then, when she handily puts Lisa on the stretcher, she tries to head back to the infirmary.

... In doing so,

"... your sister? I'm going to talk to you about this later, will you give me some time? And you can't refuse, can you? It's settled."

As usual, the faceless tempo uttered those words to Waltz in a colder tone than usual.

"Ugh... yeah... ok..."

Normally, I'd almost argue with Tempo's words... but you couldn't find the ingredients to argue with, dearly... and with all due respect, waltz to say so.

Thus she heard the circumstances of the homunculus and the trial (?) I was to receive...

... Well, there's only one excuse for that...