Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

The arm of the labyrinth that flew in drawing parabolas (?) hit the railings on the terrace of the royal castle and scattered the surrounding liquid as if it had enclosed the 'nature of the labyrinth itself' that was wrapped around it with the impact.

This "nature of the labyrinth itself" refers to absorbing as nutrients after weakening demons, humans, etc. taken into the body of the labyrinth, as previously mentioned.

Or a liquid that embodies the appetite of the labyrinth, could it also be said?

I wouldn't know if it wasn't actually absorbed, but if anything accidentally touched the liquid... the person who probably touched it would be sent straight to the main body as the nourishment of the labyrinth.

The labyrinth that has moved around with such liquids sprinkled... must have been in a situation where I had to eat it for some special reason.

Because if you just want to eat, you just open your mouth and wait, and you come all the way in from the prey on your own...

I mean, the biggest question here is... how could the labyrinth bother to move itself around with digestive fluid (?) Was it necessary to splurge?

"... you can't solve it..."

One person, Catalina, who was organizing the situation, shrugged small as she turned her gaze to the other side of the flowing liquid to avoid herself.

That's right.

She wasn't swallowed by the liquid.

In the first place, to the heart of the nucleus of the labyrinth, where phagocytosis is supposed to be strong, for Catalina, who can exercise the magic of junction so strong that she can advance her legs with her body, she did not seem to have even entered dangerous substances, such as liquids that could not take her life without touching them.

In short, if you don't hit it, how dare you?

In front of Catalina like that, besides the reasons for the labyrinth's behavior, something else had arisen that was incomprehensible to her.

... before the liquid hit her, avoiding her as if there were invisible walls, and never trying to get close.

Sure, she still continued to exercise junctional magic, but that was limited to the surface part of the body, so avoiding liquids as they hit the wall was a situation that was neither physically nor magically understandable.

If you think that the fluid flowing around her is part of the body of the labyrinth... apparently on the side of the labyrinth, you are not willing to eliminate Catalina...

"... is there something you can do for me as well?

After that, Catalina starts walking upstream through the liquid that continues to crack as it flows.

Then the liquid also continued to avoid her... and at last allowed her to approach even the arms of the labyrinth on which she was riding while destroying the railings of the terrace.

"You're a hand, no matter what you think..."

Catalina leaked that sentiment against the palm of the labyrinth, which was showing a trick that enveloped something with both hands.

There are things like nails, there are things like joints, there are wrinkles in the skin...

The colors and sizes on the boulders were very different from those of man, but the meat mass that was in front of Catalina was undisputed, thin lines, hands of a human woman (...) sex (...).

Then Catalina began to observe carefully the hands of the labyrinth, which were closed as if even butterflies were catching them.

No, rather, should I say that I have become more alert?

To be more specific, he approached the hands of the Labyrinth, allowing him to exercise the magic of restoration of apoptosis (programmed death) at any time so that he could quickly escape, even if something suddenly happened to him.

And about 2 meters away, just approaching a distance like...

Gabba...

... yu (...) eh (...) ku (...) ri (...) and (...), the hands of the labyrinth begin to open.

"... eh"

It was Catalina who maximized the degree of nervousness in the way it was... but there was nothing like a giant hand in the labyrinth doing something to her.

But nothing happened, not that, in the hands of an open labyrinth...

"... treasure box?"

... the way only one chest had been gripped jumped into Catalina's eyes.

From her point of view, that was never a small box, but if you compare it to the size of a giant labyrinth hand, would it be a cosmetic box with a ring, something like that?

"... if this is the labyrinth, it's an easy trap to understand. No, would that be the same thing outside..."

Catalina mouths such speculation without taking a step from it.

From the circumstances, it was clear that it was not an ordinary chest, no matter what you think.

Then Catalina tried to recover some of the flowing liquid into the vial to find out what it was... and then walk away from it as if nothing had happened, after fully observing the treasure box that had been placed as if she were just saying 'take it' and the giant hand it was on.

Then...

Zuzuzuzuzuzuzuzu...

A giant hand deformed left and right around the treasure box, stretching from side to side behind Catalina and beginning to move to block her exit.

"... is it just, like, take it?

Catalina asks small questions about the labyrinth, which, though blocked the exit route, still didn't look like she was going to do something to herself.

There was no voice response from the labyrinth to her words like that, but instead, strange phenomena began to occur.

... An arm the size of a person, when stretched out from the middle of a large palm, has been lifted so as to hold the treasure box and deliberately offered toward Catalina.

Catalina didn't know if she could make sense of her own words by fulfilling them, but she opened her mouth, convinced that her voice made sense.

"... In the world where Mr. Waltz was, he said there are these words. 'Nothing is just higher', he said. You should have gotten something for free, but when you think about it as a result, it's a very expensive expense at some point... a word that explains the situation. What the hell is in that treasure box, I don't know... is there any benefit to me from having it?

Then the thin hand of the labyrinth, which was about to give the box to Catalina, stopped pitifully, slowly returning.

... No, correctly, I didn't just go back, I gently put it in front of Catalina, who didn't try to receive the box I had, and then I went back, should I say...

Catalina, who couldn't help but wonder if the appearance was somehow similar to that of a proposal from a man, caught a small mouth at the chasm between the circumstances surrounding herself and the behaviour of such a labyrinth.

And when she started thinking, 'Isn't there actually a ring in the treasure box placed at her feet...', etc.

It was only after the arms of the labyrinth of the smaller, completely bare hands, returned to a degree that was not unnatural as a person... that they began to stretch again.

Except now it seems to have grown not only in arms, but also in head... and body.

And the labyrinth, which created something like a man's body up to about on his knees, refined that detail, which was at first as smooth as liquid, this time as he saw it.

As a result, I see...

"... you have a bad taste"

... so much so that I thought it looked just like it from Catalina, it looked like me.

To such a labyrinth doll (one), Catalina would go out of her way to say that she had a suspicious gaze, as usual.

Well, only this time, it seemed to contain a little, a bit of a frightening ingredient...

... but the puppets on the labyrinth side didn't have the same look on them.

When she gave a soft look, like she'd never even shown Catalina herself, she layered her hands in front of her body... and, as if to ask, lowered her head.

On the boulder, it didn't seem possible to reproduce even the organ that creates the voice, but if there was a vocal cord, would it be desperate to ask for something?

When Catalina is pointing some troubled look at herself and a labyrinth doll that looks just like her, instead of a surprising glance until earlier, suddenly...

Zabah!!

and make the sound of the waves pushing against the beach in the sea, the meat mass of the labyrinth that was in front of her and the liquid that was around her completely lose its shape, leaving marks on the terrace as if they were simply wet by rain, disappearing from before her...

Perhaps, as for the labyrinth side, it means that we have finished what we need to do.

Then, right after.

"Ca, Catalina?! Are you okay?!"

"Dear Catalina?! also, sorry!!

From the room leading to the terrace, Waltz and Fei Long appeared surprised.

"... no. There's no problem. There's magic in the world."

"No, I know that would be..."

And, against Waltz, who called out in a worried manner, Catalina began to talk in a slightly frightened manner when she sighed small.

"... Mr. Waltz, you were insignificantly protecting me, weren't you?

"... hey, about what?

"That labyrinth of liquid. I did get to feel a complex magical element, but it didn't seem to be made to work itself. I mean..."

... I mean, the liquid was moving to avoid it from Catalina because...

"... Nah, did you find out?

... because Waltz was gravity-controlled, protecting her, it seems.

"... maybe about that one..."

"Huh?"

"... no, it's nothing"

Catalina suddenly shuts her mouth after seeing Waltz's attitude.

To her like that, Waltz opened his mouth with a look that seemed to interest him somewhere.

"Nevertheless, Sole, you seem to have a lot of importance..."

"What?"

In the wake of such Waltz's words, Catalina, for the first time there, took her gaze down.

Then there, at some point, was a treasure box held.

Apparently, when the arm of the labyrinth melted, I held it unknowingly.

"... Mr. Waltz, didn't you know what this contents are and try to make me take it?

That's what Catalina said, re-hugging the treasure box she was holding in an inexorable way, turning her half-assed jitty eyes to the waltz.

"I won't deny it. But even if I didn't cooperate, Catalina, didn't I end up taking it?

At the time her arms flew in, she should have had as many means of avoiding them now.

Still, that's where she kept staying... I mean, I guess that's what happened.

"Right... I can't deny it either... But this is probably gonna be a big deal, right?

"It's okay, it's okay. Only people, because there are so many!... maybe."

And to Waltz and Catalina, who are having such an exchange, Fei Long, whose situation cannot be swallowed, asked from the side.

"... what the hell are you talking about?

In response to that inquiry, Catalina pulled her cheeks small... with her mouth, opening the treasure box she was holding.

"It's..."

Kappa... Nyu...

"This kid... we're talking about what we're gonna do with the labyrinth baby."

As soon as Catalina opens the box, some suspicious shadow hides from that gap.

Can't say slime or tentacles, just like a shadowy creature (?), can you imagine.

"... something, not a labyrinth baby, not a mimic baby? This?"

"... after all, do you think so? From the phenomenon of the thin (...) foci (...) fusion (...) seemingly between the labyrinths, I could have guessed that that was a breeding act, so I thought I had received a labyrinth baby..."

"No, I didn't confirm that, did I? Maybe Mimic is the labyrinth baby... I mean, it's not like we decided this kid was Mimic."

"... sure, right..."

That said, but with my own predictions and a little (?) Because it was different, or the look on Catalina's face could not be very...

Well, that, too, sees a shadow in the treasure box and somehow quickly reverts to it...

"So, Flying Dragon? Help me raise this kid, will you?

"I understand, sir?!

He was a flying dragon who was suddenly told the story by Waltz and showed confusion, but then he opened his mouth as he remembered something, and, yes, showed how he was.

"Um, by the way... what does that mimic eat?

Catalina frowns at the words of such a flying dragon for some reason.

Apparently, as for her, the baby in the crate (?) they don't want to be called 'mimic'...

"Of course that's..."

After saying that... for some reason, Waltz looks at the tail of a flying dragon.

"... if you think it's a labyrinth child, isn't it meat after all?

"To, meat?! Wow, my tail is finite, right?!

With that said, Fei Long looks like he takes care of his tail again...

"No, I don't need yours... Or Catalina, too, if she's giving you something weird, right?

"... is that right? I was wondering if labyrinth meat would be good because it's not going to decrease no matter how much I take..."

"What... is that a sotch?... then it's nothing..."

To a waltz that looks like something to say, Catalina is a labyrinth baby per treasure box (?) was strangely necked as he gave up...

And that's when...

Doshahhhhhhhh!!

Such a loud noise was heard from the outside as something struck.

Apparently, something went wrong with the body of the labyrinth while the waltzes were engaged in mimic rigging in the room...