Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

From there, when the waltzes walk about 200 meters to their destination...

"Why, ha-ha-ha..."

... Eve was taking a rough breath as she laid her hands on the city wall.

Sometimes after opening up to the Loricons, there's no way she'll be back in strength in just one day, but it seems that the town path, which was snowy and harder to walk than usual, has taken her strength more than she needs to.

"Look, I'm gonna catch a cold."

With that said, Waltz scratches off the snow piled on Eve's head with that hand, then, over her head, unfolds a transparent umbrella made with gravity control.

If you had a snowball fight, said you were getting soaked, but on top of that, running all at once, scratching sweat... and being cooled by ambient temperatures, it would never be surprising if you caught a cold.

"Look, Fei Long too. You can't throw up braces trying to warm Eve up, can you?

With that said, Waltz can similarly retreat the snow from the head of a flying dragon.

"Ugh, um. Katajikano-kun."

How much output can I exhale the braces and warm them up without burning about Eve...

Fei Long seemed to be pointing in the direction of no one and adjusting the output of the flame coming out of his mouth (face).

A little more, if the waltz were late to come... maybe Eve would have been completely black burned by an ultra-high output dragon brace that would even melt the ice made by the Demon King (null) by now...

"... Okay, we're gonna climb up on this, okay?

Without blaming such a flying dragon, Waltz lifts two people who can't fly through the sky and the null that was weakened by being heated or cooled, over the city wall with gravity control.

After that, Catalina walks up the wall, Yuki jumps and follows.

Then you could see them from the sky like that...

Stuff!

"I'm tired of waiting, aren't I? Sister!"

Lucia also came down from the sky.

"I'm sorry... Lucia"

"Yeah... next time, if you go shopping with me, I'll forgive you"

"Ugh, yeah... okay..."

The price of keeping Lucia waiting seems to have become a lot heavier for Waltz...

... well, aside from that.

"So I wonder where that increased labyrinth is..."

Reaching above the city wall, Waltz turned his eyes toward the snowfield, not the depressed forest... but the trees and grass that had not grown.

So when I look at the fact that something like a cactus with snow is growing... apparently this place was desert until earlier, but because of the snow pile, it has turned into a snowfield.

"Uh, according to the soldier's report, we were talking about being able to see from this place... but you're not sure it's dark. Now I see... is it about the lantern light the soldiers walking around for an investigation"

and null to say such words against the yellow light like a small star, shining in a dim snowfield.

Waltz, who was then looking at the view from the eyes of a high-performance camera, spoke to her of the fact that she had seen from herself.

"... that light, it's all, it's the labyrinth, right?

"... to?

"Sure, it's the lantern that's glowing, but underneath it, it looks like there's a cave-like hole... Isn't that it? It feels like a lantern was installed on top of a labyrinth hole found by the soldiers"

That's what Waltz, speaking of, remembered... was the appearance of a small labyrinth entrance created with Lucian magic, near the village of Alk in Mid-Eden.

A small lantern that would have been raised from the ground into soil, holes that had been holed in pieces, and by those who had discovered them.

There were more than 20 caves of that appearance and an almost similar outfit, even in the sight that was difficult to see because of the continued snow.

"Look, don't you see it there?

With that said, Waltz points to a lantern and a hole in the surface that was at a distance that even a person's eyes could see adequately.

Then another opened his mouth to the word, not null.

"Again, this kid wasn't a mimic, he was a labyrinth child..."

With that said, Catalina strokes her white pockets thanks to love.

Perhaps she remembers the final appearance of a huge labyrinth with arms stretched around her, like a linear fireworks.

So the things that were unleashed from his arms were the labyrinths in front of him.

(Catalina... Did I say that... Cheval? What do you want me to do with it? Are you going to turn our king's capital into a labyrinth city? No, I don't think so.

And when Waltz is worried about whether to mouth it, now Nuru and Yuki, who were solidifying after seeing the labyrinths, open their mouths.

"What can I do... Are you happy?

"What shall we do... I knew I had to make a mistake..."

The schematic of 'Vixen-Labyrinth City' itself was adhered to, but two people worried about how to deal with a labyrinth that was growing too much more than they could have imagined.

"Given that the same thing could happen in the future, isn't it reasonable to say that we'll be about 90% off?

Waltz to say so, thinking about the future town of Vixen.

And then, at that time...

Bikung...

I feel like something just moved... "

Schwartz's intention to kill in white (?) Because she felt it and moved, or Catalina said so, trying to make sure she felt it and put her hand in her own pocket again.

At the same time, Eve, returning from hyperventilation, opens her mouth while holding her flank painfully.

"Um... Master Waltz? Are you gonna kill the labyrinth?

"... it's still settled, isn't it? It's... it's not me, it's the Yuki guys. You can help me if you want me to turn it off, but this is all a story for the Boreas people to decide..."

... so it's not something I can decide on my own.

Leaving such deputy audio behind, Waltz pointed that gaze at Yuki and the others.

Then Null kept his mouth shut, but opened it as Yuki, who was beside him, had decided to.

"... I think... maybe you guys will take it as irresponsible, but I don't care either way. Because the only choice is not to erase or not to erase."

In other words, people may emigrate, or they may search for new ways in which people and labyrinths can coexist.

In the first place, since we have managed to coexist, it seems that we thought that we could continue to change shape and build the same relationship.

Having received such words from her sister, Null, the original of all Yuki, began to mouth his thoughts as he slowly opened the eyes he had closed to think deeply.

"... even if we looked for the whole world, there would be no other land with ever denser labyrinths. In that sense, I guess it can be described as an academically and very important place.... It's just that the problem is, it's still the future of the people who live there. Can it be fulfilled, realistically, that many labyrinths and people live together... I've lived a long time, but I've never experienced a situation like this, so I can't decide right away."

"Ma, right... Too many uncertain elements to decide right away, right?... effects when you mistake the labyrinth and when you didn't. Besides, the question of the time and cost and location involved in the migration of people. I don't know what else to do with my functioning as a government or the economic implications. It still is, but because the country is weakened, we can't deny that it could be attacked by another country..."

"Yes, there are piles of issues to think about, but it is impossible for us to get our hands on them at the same time for everything. Therefore, based on maintaining the status quo, we think it would be best if we could get our hands on the part where we can deal with it... and in the meantime, discuss the future with the labyrinth."

So I finished the words, Null.

I guess that means I have nothing more to say.

I mean, then...

"... then the story of thinning out the labyrinth... will it be gone?

Would that mean...

While we recommend maintaining the status quo, we will explore ways to deal with the 'people side' one by one... which means that the number of labyrinths will change and respond, without taking into account.

In the first place, if you are thinking about reducing the number of labyrinths, would it be easier to say that you do not use the term 'maintain the status quo'?

"Yes."

Null with a small grin, answering so briefly.

"Yes... When you change your mind (if I'm around), I'll help you if you say so. With Yuki and the other adventurers, we're gonna figure this out, right?

"... thank you"

And Null and Yuki bowed their heads against Waltz at the same time.

And, at that time, a strong wind, accidentally flowing from the north, hits the city wall, causing an upward airflow, striking even the fellows whose bodies are getting cold.

"Ugh!! Cold!!

That being said, Eve pulls the collar of the coat she was wearing (borrowed from Yuki) and makes it smaller to keep the gap wind out of it.

"Look, catching a cold and getting a painful injection into Catalina, I don't know, do I?

"Or, Master Catalina, I'm not getting an injection!

Killah...

"Hih?!

The moment I turned my eyes to Catalina, Eve suddenly seemed to start to scare me, but did I even see something I didn't want to see...

"You're a weird daughter..."

With that said, Waltz turns his gaze toward Catalina.

"... something?

"No. It's nothing..."

But there doesn't seem to be anything unnatural about her appearance.

Well, if there's anything... is it about putting the hand that was out there until earlier, in my white pocket?

Afterwards, again, Waltz turns his gaze against Eve, thinking, 'If we stay like this, we're not kidding, we're all really going to catch a cold...'

Then there... Eve, not Catalina, was pointing in a different direction and solidifying.

But when Waltz realized, Eve wasn't the only one that was solidifying.

Null, Fei Long, and Lucia were also looking at the snowfields in opposite directions to the town, with some serious gaze.

And so as to follow it, Catalina also began to turn her eyes.

"... Gentlemen, what is it?

The only thing that wasn't responding was Yuki, who had only recently become a cyborg.

Lucia answers her queries like that.

"The magic... is concentrating..."

"Magic...?

To the word, Yuki leans his own ear (man).

But with those ears, I couldn't seem to hear (...) the magic (...) take (...) ru (...).

Waltz, unable to feel the magic as well, realizes how it is and opens his mouth.

"I'm sorry, Yuki. Next time, in order to be able to feel the magic, additional surgery s..."

"No, that's fine! We're on time! Never!

and with all my might, Yuki shakes her head and arms as a boom.

Behind her like that... it suddenly occurred.

Bun...

It was over the lantern, which was in the nearby snowfield, that a giant moon appeared on the other side of it, as if to crack a cloud.

There's more...

Bun...

Now two bright suns appear... and even...

Bum, bum, bum...

And upon each lantern emerged a sky as cut.

Starry skies, rain, storms, alas, thick fog...

That appearance was such a sight that the interior of the Deftery Vixen, which was reversed day and night, appeared above each small labyrinth.

"Boulders are the children of the labyrinth... Space-control magic?

"Come on...? You don't even know my details..."

Yuki tilting her head at Waltz's words.

And then, over them too...

Bun...

and a low sound, and a different sky seems to have emerged from where we are now.

"... after all, Schwartz was a labyrinth child"

"Yeah... but..."

While returning that to Catalina's words, when Waltz turned his eyes to the sky... it was snowing from there, somehow unlike the little labyrinth around him.

It is also from the dark sky, indistinguishable from the surrounding sky.

"... Now I know if you're really a labyrinth child n... yeah. Nothing."

Despite the dark surroundings, I somehow felt like a darker shadow over Catalina's expression, waltz inadvertently blocking words along the way.

Around them interacting like that...

"Beautiful..."

"It's spectacular..."

"I mean, could this be the end of the world?

"This is going to yield crops all year round."

"... why is there no place that looks hot..."

He seemed to see it in the sky of various colors, lit by white snowfields, with his companions leaking that sentiment to each of them.

"Now, if I'm wrong, I don't think I can make a mistake right now..."

"Right..."

And with everyone, Waltz and Catalina look to the colorful scenery.

In front of them like that...

"Heh, heh, heh!!

and at the same time all my buddies sneezed and then turned around to make sure they were behind the horror... fulfilled, how was it...

For Waltz, who never caught a cold and took care of Catalina, he didn't seem to understand until the end.

So.

Thus did one case in the Boreas empire show an end.

Correctly, I showed the (...) end of a (...) day, should I say...

After this, the waltzes are going to visit the land again... well, we'll talk about it some other time.

... Whatever.

Early this morning, the Waltz rode back to Mid-Eden on their energy.

At that time, I'll just say that there was no particular confusion about Yuki boarding to Energia alongside Waltz, although Nuru seemed to shudder with a complex look on his face.

That's right.

At this time, there was nothing...