Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

The sky in the Vixen region, which should have been clear between morning and noon, had been covered by cloudy weather while the waltzes were eating.

The rain seemed to shake... slightly different to that sky color, Waltz narrowed his eyes, but if for some reason he grinned, he stood on the terrace of Nur's office (the chancellor's office, to put it in Mid-Eden's king's capital) and inhaled the cold air heavily.

At that time, Catalina, who was out on the terrace with her,

"You're suddenly getting colder than in the morning..."

And I leaked that feeling while making sure the exhale leaking out of my mouth was white.

Seeing that Catalina's mouth is also just a little lifted doesn't mean she doesn't like the cold either.

I just came with two behind me, a warm animal (?) For Fei Long, who is...

"... if you stop the physical movement, it might be a little too cold for me..."

Though it seemed to be bitter cold.

By the way.

Here, the Yuki, the snowwomen, are not following.

To skip the instructions to the soldiers, an anti-labyrinth headquarters (?).

Nevertheless, even if there was something in the labyrinth, there was nothing they could do about it now, so the room seemed to be simply a place to gather and organize information...

Still, from the soldiers, the royal castle staff, and the citizens who are cooperative with Yuki and Yuki, I can't seem to say enough that the countermeasures headquarters are often pointless because morale varies greatly just because they are there or not.

Well, that's anyway.

At the end of Waltz's gaze as he stood on the terrace looking out, two labyrinths swept wide apart.

The big difference compared to the morning is that it started to move vigorously and... and its shape has changed?

As well as the slime-like propertyvixen, which had not originally been shaped, the imobe-shaped defteryvixen, which had been biting, had now somehow lost its body contour and transformed itself into a slime-like meat mass, just like the propertyvixen.

There is no shadow left in that figure when he was biting.

"... it looks like a mirror cake."

Waltz leaks that feeling when he sees the labyrinth overlapping on two steps.

In her words like that, Catalina opened her mouth trying to remember as she put her finger on her chin, wondering what it was.

"Kakimochi... Are you referring to the rice dish that Mr. Waltz used to talk about, decorating at the turn of the year?

"Yes, yes. I remember you so well."

"Yes, the cake itself is also in this world, but there was no culture to decorate the boulders, so I thought it was interesting..."

"Uh, that's true, I think people outside our country (Japan) said the same thing... I've never heard it in person."

and waltz and catalina to develop mirror cake rigging.

But for Fei Long, who was nearby...

"Mochi? What is mochi, what is it?

In the first place, I didn't even seem to know what a dish was called a cake...

"Cake... cake. Hey... That's a very difficult question..."

To Waltz's words, Catalina gives a strange look... but apparently, Waltz was seriously worried.

Then Waltz started talking after he snorted one person to see if it had been sorted out in his head.

"Right... Simply put, rice... uh, earlier Yuki was eating (originally) white food, hanging enough chili to make it a pile and turn bright red. Crush it until the grain runs out. Cook in pieces, huh?

Fei Long nodded as he was once convinced after showing how troubled he was with the words of such waltz, whether they were red or white.

But I didn't seem convinced by Catalina, who was next door.

"... sounded like it was normally explained... was there any difficulty in explaining it?

Waltz then sighed small and then started talking about why he said 'difficult' himself.

"... so, I ask the other way around, but in this world, no one dies of having a cake stuck in their throat? Around Yuki and Eve, where you swallow food without chewing it often, when you're a grandmother, you're probably going to get it stuck in your throat, but..."

"I can't deny it... but that's a lot of terrible examples..."

Catalina says so with her eyes narrowed to the words of such waltz.

Later she sighed, too, before continuing her words to answer Waltz's question.

"... indeed, I have heard of the death of a clogged throat, even in the Wang capital"

"Right? In the world I was in, people from other countries sometimes criticized me for saying, 'Why bother eating such murderous food?' It's a culture, and it's delicious, so I don't think we have a choice. So, back to earlier. The question is, what kind of food is a cake? It's delicious, it's hot... but the devil's dish that kills people... You worried about how to accurately and easily communicate this to Fei Long... After all, I never touched the place where people die..."

And Catalina... At the same time, Fei Long began to worry with a difficult look on his face.

They each seem to think of something separate, but what the hell did they think about the cake...

"... ma, I think I passed it on, so that's enough, huh?

After squealing so, Waltz turned his gaze back against the labyrinth, which had been silly in the middle of the plain, leaving the two people who had been troubled.

(If you look at it this way, the deftery vixen on top was smaller than the one on the underlay...)

Waltz thinks of that feeling in two labyrinths.

When the deftery vixen was immature, it was not easy to compare it from appearance, but now they both have the same shape, so it was easier to compare its size.

From above, perhaps its shape should be in a beautiful circular shape, with a diameter of... such as 1.3 km for the Protty Vixen and 1.1 km for the Deftery Vixen...

(I feel like I saw it, it looks like gravity is pulling me and crushing me, but if I turn gravity down, I wonder what the hell shape it would be...)

And when Waltz is worried about whether to seriously apply gravity control...

"Still, what are you doing..."

Catalina muttered those words when she saw her labyrinth look as if she had returned from the world of cakes.

"That's... if that's a mirror cake, isn't it an offering? I don't know who you're offering it to."

"... do you still pull that crap?

"Of course, I'm kidding..."

Once he turns a jitty eye on Waltz, then Catalina starts mouthing guesses that look like her.

"... normally, are there two possibilities? If you consider the situation in which organisms can be traced back to other organisms, are they preyed upon, or are engaged in breeding activities to leave offspring... However, in any case, I haven't seen any reports of such organs inside or outside the labyrinth, so I can't say for sure..."

"There's only one of them... It's hard to think of it as physically or magically stuck, like a magnet..."

and waltz nodding at Catalina's words.

Then afterwards, Fei Long now uttered the speculation.

"Momo... because it sticks?

"Yeah, but... the story about the cake is a joke, so don't worry about it anymore..."

Waltz had a bad metaphor and was beginning to wonder if Fei Long's thoughts had started running in weird directions... but apparently, that wasn't the way it was.

"Really... I thought I was stuck and I couldn't leave..."

"It's not sticky... I wasn't thinking about it."

With that said, Waltz, who actually went into Protty Vixen and Deftery Vixen, remembered how he felt at that time.

"... yeah. I'm sure there were no sticky elements..."

"I agree. If it was sticky... I'm sure I would have acted differently and..."

Catalina, who had broken into Protty Vixen at the same time, also seemed to agree with Waltz.

"Really..."

You thought it was a good guess, that's what I said and unfortunately a flying dragon laying his eyes down.

... that's when it is.

Dosha!!

We could not hear the sound directly, but we saw a significant change in the labyrinth that was overlapping.

"... crushed?

"No, didn't you bury it?

"You can even look like you're one..."

... As those three words put it, the deftery vixen that was on top sank abruptly into the property vixen that was underlying it.

And the next thing that happened...

"... it looks like we've merged."

"It's the opposite of cell division... it's like cell fusion"

"Was it a droplet, not a cake..."

... the boundaries between the labyrinths were blurred so that the two droplets merged into one and merged.

"... if you go into the labyrinth right now and find out what's going on in the nucleus, you'll be a leader in labyrinth research at once... I'm sure"

After being one, Waltz mouths such thoughts on the appearance of a labyrinth that has become vibrantly wavering.

But she,

"... no, I knew you couldn't."

... I withdrew my remarks shortly afterwards.

Because the labyrinth that was under their gaze...

Dgowow...!!

and crumble it as if you drilled a hole in a water balloon, scattering something like liquid...

Oh, the meadows are withering and... no, they're dying...?

And because it began to spread toward the surrounding meadows and fields, swallowing all life that touched its liquid.

On top of that...

"... sounds like you're coming this way, doesn't it?

The main body and the lump of meat crawled across the ground deforming like an amoeba, and gradually... but in a straight line, they were getting closer to the city.

Keep it up... apparently, the labyrinths (?) The fate seems to lie in the carriage to be erased by the waltz...