Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"Uh, I'm sorry? Grandma. Now, hey, I'm taking it in, so wait a little longer for dinner, okay?

"... demon god. I'm not too busy yet."

"So... you're not hungry, are you?

Against the waltz, a jit-eyed reeble.

Perhaps those eyes are saying, 'That's not what I'm talking about...'

Then Reeble sighed, as he gave up, before continuing his words.

"... why, did you stop it?

For those on the side who helped her, the only answer to that question would be, as a matter of course, 'I saved her because she was dying'.

Ask even though the answer is obvious... in short, Reeble didn't want to ask why.

What if this is what bothered me (?) If it was a conversation between the heavy towns of the Boreas government, she would have immediately realized the sincerity of the word and spoken the answer she sought.

But I'm not good with people, and on top of that, Waltz, who is currently admirably working, never noticed it... but the answer she gave me wasn't something that came out of it.

"No, it's not your day of life, and..."

Waltz to answer that short.

It was a word I uttered without thinking particularly deeply, but it seemed to contain enough meaning for Reeble to do something,

"... Really..."

and she shrugged small, then dropped her shoulder again.

By the way...

"... Um, demon god? What the hell are they doing?

From earlier on, Waltz seemed to be working on some sort of sticky touch with Yuki C (Dry) 's unfamiliar accessories on his neck, which somehow stopped moving as if he had frozen with his arms up.

From the side, I don't even look like I'm decorating a mannequin or wax doll...

"No? I think maybe Yuki C is being manipulated with this collar. So did Null... That's why I'm looking into removing it."

As the word goes, what she was doing, rather, was the exact opposite of decorating.

To her words like that, Reeble accidentally retreats after holding down her chest, which was hit by ice earlier.

Seeing my face go blue at the same time... it seemed pretty painful.

If Reeble had been younger, he might not have asked why he behaved, but Waltz asked just in case.

"Hmm? What? Could it be your chest hurts? Stop the ventricular fibrillation or something..."

"Shin...? Yes, no. I certainly don't deny my chest is painful, but I'm not sick. It's more of a relief..."

"I hope so..."

Waltz restarts his investigation of Yuki C's collar, cemented with gravity control, after making sure Reeble's complexion doesn't get any worse.

After a while...

"Uh, I see. That's a hybrid of magic and science... I have no idea how it works."

and other things slightly disturbing. She speaks... backwards of words like that,

Pattin...

I heard such a small pin coming off,

"Ok. Sample secured. Successful!

The neckline and collar on Yuki C's neck came off in the proper way.

Apparently, for the part of the lock that holds the split collar in place, it was a level of silo stuff Waltz could manage to do.

At that moment,

Gaku...

and Yuki C, who collapses to the ground, like a marionette with a broken thread.

Reeble asked Waltz with a worrying look on his face, keeping his hands on his chest after he was surprised to see her like that.

"... are you okay?

"Well, Null was okay, so isn't Yuki C okay too? I don't know if I can get a proper examination of the details."

"... Really?"

That's what I said, Reeble approaching Yuki C, who collapsed to the ground.

At that time, she looked down regrettably when she saw the soldier whose Yuki C arm remained stabbed.

"This soldier... he was still young..."

She was a Reeble who showed a greedy attitude toward the soldier, but that was just what her personality made her do, and there was nothing at all like resenting him.

She seemed to think that, for that reason, he would not have died if he had treated him in a more decent way.

And Reeble, after praying against him, pulled out Yuki C's arm, which was stabbing him in the chest, took off the coat he had just borrowed because of it and hung it gently on him...

Waltz thinks as he looks at Reeble, who later began to pray, and the soldier he is dedicated to.

(... now, maybe I can still help...)

... but she didn't have any intention of helping him.

Of course, that's not because he hated it, or because it was troublesome as usual.

(Admitting one exception... then it's like an avalanche, because we're all going to have to help...)

... it was something she had thought about before.

For example, on the battlefield, suppose someone was about to get hurt and die.

And Waltz and Catalina have the help to save such an injured person, so let's just say we saved them all.

... fulfill. So there will be no more people for them to save?

The answer is no.

Injured and sick people never disappear from the world more than people live.

There's a big and small difference in that... but if people are to be known among themselves that there are doctors in this world who can definitely cure injuries and illnesses, it goes without saying about people coming from all over the world.

Well, if people just push over, like an extended task, we're just talking about treating them... but the problem is, if the one who comes wasn't a person.

States, companies, guilds...

It is also inevitable that such an organization should try to move to proprietary interests.

In doing so, what happens to the weak people who have come to the two of us for salvation...

Organized strife arises, and it develops into war, caught in it...

Maybe more people will be sacrificed than those who saved them.

Alternatively, another organization could come up against such an organization and try to protect the Waltz.

... Well, that's only speculation, but we can almost say for certain that there is a dispute among people, and there are new injured and sick people out there... and as a result, they fall into an infinite loop.

In fact, in the history of the modern world, disputes have been repeated under similar circumstances...

Waltz therefore laid his eyes upon the corpse of a soldier without doing anything.

Had Catalina been here, I wouldn't have known what kind of action she would go into with the overriding aim of saving people, but at least here and now, Waltz would never have saved anyone who had stopped their heart from moving.

(You're selfish... well, whatever they say)

Waltz prayed silently against the soldier, thinking of that only for a few seconds.

Later she realizes that the shadow of those approaching her is on the radar.

The number is seven.

Within, the three bodies went straight from the direction of fragmentation to the waltzes.

And the four bodies, acting solidified, were approaching Zigzag from the direction she had just come, in such a way as to see how the citizens were doing.

Given their respective positional relationships and travel speeds... apparently, contact with the three bodies that were approaching from the direction of fragmentation seems faster.

"I'm sorry, Grandma. As for what I'm going to see, could you pretend to be a mess and decide not to see it?

"... what?

Reebles raising his voice like that, a little angry at Waltz for saying that in a tone that makes him half stupid.

By the way, as for why Waltz doesn't say Reeble's name... well, you'll know without saying it.

... I simply didn't remember the name.

Then Waltz waves his hand hilariously as he deludes himself against a reeble with a surprising and sharp gaze...

"Good," he said!

With that said, he showed a bare gesture as if he were pulling a line.

At that moment,

Gun!

and Yuki B, D and E emerge from the other side of the darkness around them in such a way that they are pulled by an invisible rope or something.

To what Waltz looked like at that time...

"Hmm?!

Reebles suddenly and unintentionally solidified.

"So shut up, will you? I don't really want them to say it's disgusting or anything..."

On each Yuki collar, a waltz that speaks of that with one (...) book (...) without one (...) arm extended.

And the collar she touched...

Paki, paki, paki...

floated in the universe after making a noise and coming off.

And like earlier Yuki C, the Yuki who collapse to the ground.

The way it was, it wasn't that we were fighting the demon kings against each other, it was just, nothing but a simple task.

"Not at all... I wonder if you were going to do something about me with something like this... That's a waste of time..."

When Waltz said so toward the collar, which was still glowing smaller in his own hands, the light faded from the collar, turning it into a merely ornamental appearance, as if it had been powered off.

In fact, it would be due to the disconnection of the supply of magical energy from those who wore it.

"Wouldn't you leave us alone..."

Waltz whines in the hope that his voice will reach the wanderers who were manipulating Yuki on the other side of the lost collar.

"So, Catalina... no, even if the nulls come, don't tell me about this, okay? Okay?"

While holding Yuki and putting her to bed on the ground with three arms, Waltz said so against Reeble, but never heard back from her.

Fulfilling it, did her personality make her do that, or is it silent consent...

... From that appearance that Reeble had kept her mouth open and solidified, it was impossible for Waltz to guess her will...