Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Ballistic flight at an altitude of nearly 5000 m (?) Atlas and Minotaur who were.

After she recovered only Atlas, of which she had a grumpy look with her arms around her, and the two of us came back to the underground lake.

Using a bio-response sensor, the Waltz came to the City Hall in South Fortress, or Count, to report the results of the war, repeatedly saying, "Find Minotaur, connect to the chain, find to the chain..." and capture all Minotaurs.

There are four members who are coming... waltz, atlas, hunter, and brave.

Otherwise, Cortex, who was supposed to have been swimming in the underground lake but not at all wet, took Yuki, who was eating too much Minotaur and was again guttered, Eve, who looked worried about her, and Yuki, who had a look on his face that had been cut off by connecting all Minotaurs with the chains he had made himself, back to Energia first.

If you consider that all nine of us are not going to come all the way to the Count, you can say just the right number of people.

... Well, for Cortex, who is deciding to take a vacation (off), in the first place, he didn't seem to be going to see the Count.

So.

Waltz and the others were walking back to City Hall about 20 minutes down the tunnel leading from the underground lake to the city.

At that time, the sun passed by the heavenly side of my head and there was a delicious smell in the city... that is, a vacation (?) I spent half a day on minotaurs, would that indicate?

It's such sunshine, in front of City Hall...

Mwow!

and roaring... 511 minotaurs with monkeys attached, lined up in chains...

"... what is this?"

Somehow, when the Count noticed that the outside of the building was noisy, when he came out, he mumbled such words in confusion at the indescribable sight that was spreading in front of him.

Then, his daughter, the hunter, briefly explains only the facts with a seemingly difficult look on her face.

"Waltz and Atlas, who caught Minotaur underground, brought him all the way here."

"... well..."

After all, if he thought it was something to kill and dispose of, the Count accidentally held his head, frowning at the fact that he had brought a living minotaur.

It's good to have been brought here, but even if we dispose of them, they're worried about what we can do with our own power.

Although I asked you to crusade, I couldn't seem to ask you to kill me because I was in the way.

"But... how did you get him alive?

An unexpected mouthful of such questions that naturally sprang up.

The answer to that question was... he was a brave man standing beside a hunter, holding a stick that he thought was made of metal and shaken with love.

"It's... there's something about Waltz and Atlas, and I can't answer that."

and a brave man who utters an answer that is terminally 'unanswerable'.

Needless to say, the reason Waltz brought the Minotaurs so far... can't help but say they were pathetic and couldn't be killed...

"... well. This sounds awkward to me. You shouldn't have heard the process because I'm the one who asked you to crusade..."

"No. Never mind that, in the sense of 'crusade', it cannot be called fulfillment of a request"

That being said, instead of the waltz requested, the brave man carefully bows his head.

... The Earl, who felt that his behavior was very different from that of the brave until the other day, seemed to have decided, with all due respect, to also ask about the question.

"... is something wrong?

The Earl inquires in a whisper that those around him will not hear against the strangely gruesome brave.

He had... another thing that bothered him.

"..." Mussu.

"... I'm so sorry!

From earlier, a little further away, Waltz is plainly apologizing to a stranger boy with his hands together...

The Count, unaware of the circumstances, after seeing how those two were doing, seemed to think that there was something complicated going on that could not be said, and that it might also have something to do with Sole that the attitude of the brave was strange.

"... difficult to explain inside..."

He was a brave man who felt that the Count's question contained various implications, but he no longer knew whether to explain them with his hands from Doco on the whole thing, and the words didn't seem to come out immediately.

... so he seems, for now, to have decided to explain first about the first two people with whom the Count is now turning his gaze.

"Actually... it looks like Waltz blew up about him, Atlas"

"... Huh?

"According to his story, every minotaur was launched into the sky or something..."

Because the hell I couldn't imagine what way to fight it would launch every Minotaur boy into the sky, the Count directed his eyes towards the high sky, which was about to be sucked in blue...

"I don't know the details of what happened to me either, because I haven't seen it in person, but seeing as Waltz is rarely apologizing, there seems to be no doubt that she has a downfall"

That said, the brave man who closed the report against the two.

Then, when the Count stopped thinking about the mysterious battle of Waltz, which he could not even imagine, he asked the brave man again.

"Right... So, I might change the story a little bit... but could something have happened to Lord Brave? Seems to have suddenly changed my attitude..."

Until the other day, a brave man who should have deepened his rapport like a friend while we were drinking together.

How could he have stiffened his attitude as if he had become someone else?

Apparently, to the Count, I was more concerned about the brave man's reaction than about Waltz's and the boy's (Atlas) behavior.

"... actually..."

Frowning, I lay my gaze down a little... and the brave man said why.

"I thought I'd let you be my apprentice at Waltz's..."

An earl with a surprising look at a brave man who groaned with a voice as big as he could only hear.

In short, the words of the brave... meant nothing more than quitting Endelucia's 'brave'.

"... is that true?

With a simple monochrome on his face, containing nothing but surprise, the Count asked again.

It's just... that color didn't last long either, and it faded rapidly over time, and I went back to my original look... because I remembered that my own daughter was doing well at Waltz's, too?

Rather than... the waltzes leap behind this country (?) Because I remember that I am, should I say...

"Yes. I... I wanted to be stronger. Otherwise, I thought I couldn't protect my people..."

And a brave man who remembers his weak self, who can't even defeat Minotaur, and speaks in a pioneering (snarling) way.

In his brain like that, at the same time as his weak self appearance... he didn't have tons of minotaurs as objects, he was simply fighting like twisting a baby's hand, etc. (?) The figure of the former demon king (Yuki) was also emerging.

In her hindsight, what the brave man felt was not an easy one, such as' admiration ', but a 99% sense of crisis, a harsh one that was not an exaggeration.

As a result, imagine what would happen if I fought an active demon king right now... not to mention what the brave man thought and felt.

"... well..."

Earl who hears the words of a brave man and has a complex look on his face.

'Don't drown in power' is a mountain, but if the person you say as a mentor is waltz... he seems troubled.

Then there was the figure of a woman interrupting from the side into such two painful exchanges.

"Father, you don't have to worry."

He is a hunter who spoke politely because he was in front of his father or differently from the usual crude.

"Lord Brave is much stronger than I am, Jen. Under the waltz, you will soon be strong and will surely act as the original 'brave' (the problem is, you can safely join your people, but...)"

"Hmm? I think I heard something now, but...

"No. It must be my fault"

Oddly enough, I feel like I heard a statement that could stir up my anxiety, the Earl frowning.

Either way, my daughter says she has empty ears, so she seems to have decided to forget.

"... well. Try your best, huh? Brave man. I hope."

"Yes.... but right now, that doesn't mean. Since we'll be talking about this city after it's rebuilt, I've been training here for a while now, and I'm thinking about helping you with the evening booze m..."

"... then why don't you let me hang out with you today?

"Yes!"

That's what I said, Counts and brave men smiling at each other.

Apparently, we're also going to be rushing to the tavern early tonight (...).

And... from the waltz of how he finally reconciled with Atlas, annihilate the Minotaurs (?) In response to a report that he had succeeded in doing so, the Count was to receive the tip of a sturdy chain that seemed to connect the Minotaurs.

At that time, he seemed to think, 'Can't we use Minotaurs for the reconstruction of the city...' etc., but it is unclear whether they can accommodate the Minotaurs, who are more than twice the height of the Counts.

Whether this behavior of the Waltz is auspicious or vicious...

I tell that story about the brave men's social contribution activities ahead (?) At the end of the period, it will be when Waltz picks them up again...