Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

7.2-12 Visit Alk's Village Again 3

"... something, I'm sorry..."

Waltz looks sorry to bow his head against the shopkeeper who sits silently in the chair that was on the corner of the tavern.

Of course, the apology... for the Cortex outburst, is.

"... that lady... was that your former princess, Teresa? What the hell are you doing..."

"... that girl, it's not Teresa, it's our sister"

"You look the same as Teresa, but you're completely different... For once, even then, I'm the president of this country's parliament, and today I'm deciding to turn it off or something, and I think I'm removing the shark."

"... sorry. I don't know what you're talking about..."

"... I'm not sure either"

He suddenly appeared to the liquor store like a storm, and struck upon those who were there as soon as allowances or (?) Cortex.

She's not here right now, she's disappeared with Atlas to do some village sightseeing...

They find, by now, a new store where the city people who happily enjoy evening meals... and delightful criminals. Regards, they are raiding...

... It should be noted that the swordsman and the energy (girl) were unable to leave the hull for a long distance due to the range of activities of the millimachine and had not come all the way inside the village.

For this reason, the two of them should be enjoying sightseeing (dating) (?) around the village entrance or in the woods... but it is unclear whether the swordsman is alive when he returns...

... Forget that.

"... well, if you're going to say it's your lady's sister, wouldn't it be terrible..."

(Store owner... I've been thinking, aren't you too nostalgic?

Waltz has something like respect for the store owner because the level of not caring about the details was much higher than he was.

Needless to say, in Waltz's case, it's not a 'level where you don't care about details', it's a 'level where it's a pain in the ass to think' or something...

"That's right, hasn't it been a long time? And the hunter."

"Oh. I'm just saying, let me stop by."

"No. That's not true..."

Starting with that exchange, I said, 'How's it going? Are you eating properly?', around the end of an exchange that parents and children are likely to...

"... and yet, every time you come, you get more faces and you change... as usual, you look like ladies"

The liquor store owner said such a thing with a close look on his face as he turned his gaze against Eve, Feilong and Syranui, which had followed him from behind the waltz.

The Waltz seemed like a special party to the shopkeepers, considering that in a typical adventurer's party, no member would ever be replaced with a corny one in just a month.

What's more, the fact that all of its new members are under 140 cm tall is one reason why they looked special...

"The truth is, I also wanted to bring Lucia and the real Theresa, but this time, I stopped by, and I was in the middle of a rush, and everyone's schedule wasn't right."

"Right... How are the ladies?

"Yes. Making weird cookies, making reciprocal engines... how's everybody doing?

"Hmm?... well..."

And when I heard Waltz's unfamiliar fragmentary words, and the shopkeeper was haunting my head...

"... hmm? ♪ Kun-kun ♪

Somehow, I wonder if it smells (stinks) but it's drifting, not dog beast man Eve against the store owner... but somehow Fei Long, with his nose ringing, tells him (?) I approached him.

And she asks, leaning her neck in confusion after a glimpse of the aging sy... smell (smell) that was drifting from the store owner.

"... I'm sorry to ask, but I can smell a familiar smell from the shopkeeper's hall... have you seen him anywhere?

"No, it's supposed to be the first time...? At least not in my memory..."

and a shopkeeper who thinks about it with his arms around him and a difficult look on his face.

In the first place, it's a flying dragon that hasn't been around for long since I became a person, so the shopkeeper shouldn't know about her...

"Hmm... it's your fault..."

In contrast, Feilong seems to have decided to clean up the reaction of the store owner, who looks uncomfortable, because of his mind.

Apparently, she has completely forgotten that her present appearance is becoming a human...

Against such a flying dragon, he said, 'Why don't you go back to where you were?' Even so, I thought about her big body and didn't put it in my mouth, Waltz.

At the end of the exchange between the two, she questioned the shopkeepers about the doubts they had had since coming to the city.

"Still, isn't that a lot different than a month ago? On this scale, I think if you do poorly, the town is bigger than South Fortress...?

... by the way.

She said that even two weeks ago, to repair her own holographic system, this village (?) It came to.

At the time, however, because there was only one person, he did not see the view of the town because the cautionary was sick and did not meet anyone, and on top of that, he entered and exited with a hidden passage set up in the village workshop.

This was the first time I had seen the development of a village for such a reason that there was nothing I could do about it.

Then, in Waltz's inquiry, he laughed all the time, saying that he had listened well, and the shopkeeper, who was also the village chief, began to tell him why he had developed.

"... witches and labyrinths"

"... Huh?

"Before, half thanks to the witches the ladies brought to this village. And half thanks to the adventurers who came outside the village to attack the labyrinth."

"Witches... I mean, did they do something?

It should never be negative content, but if anything happens, I'm afraid to ask Waltz because his big yuan is on me.

In contrast, the shopkeeper returned the words with a gentle grin, deepening the wrinkles in his eyeballs.

"Because, like them, there was no one in this village who could use strong magic... You said you looked for other villages and towns, maybe two or three of them. That's the only village where dozens of people were concentrated, so naturally, life can change a lot. From daily hunting to washing in the cooking, to caring for children in civil works... I've lived a long time, and I never thought things would change this far in the village."

(Ah... speaking of which, my brother Canopus is about 160 years old grandpa (?) So the store owner, too, must be quite old... about 200?

Even though I think so, I wouldn't dare ask waltz.

Then she also asked the other half of the questions.

"Really... So, why the labyrinth?

... a labyrinth on a plain near the village.

It is naturally occurring by residual magic when we test Lucia's magic (?) was a labyrinth that occurred in

Previously, when the waltzes saw it, it wasn't supposed to be that big... but apparently it wasn't even small.

"That labyrinth... it doesn't look big at first glance, but it's actually incredibly deep, and no one's been successful in their offense, is it? So the adventurers wanted to come by and get together... and work day and night on offense. If there are many people in and out, there will be people and money gathered in nature and in this village.... Rumor has it that there are floor boss demons wandering from the first tier, and no one's been able to reach the second tier, right?

"... how do you know if it's deep or not?

"I'm not sure, either, but they have demonic props to measure the size of the labyrinth, right?

"Hmm..."

If you took that magic prop with you during your Boreas expedition, Waltz gives a convincing look at the store owner's words, thinking about what the hell you could have used... etc.

Then, after we talked about the public talk, about my brother Canopus doing fine... and about the cost of repairing the blown door...

"Speaking of which, village chief. I heard about my mother coming to this village... don't you know where she is?

The hunter, who remembered his father's story, most of all said such a question.

"Oh, Mr. Caroline? She would..."

And the shopkeeper tried to explain where Mother Hunter (Caroline) was... at that time.

"That was a shame today... I was just one step away from the floor boss..."

"Right... But tomorrow's the day to attack."

"Let's drink and forget about today!

Waigayagaya...

And, with a lively talk, about 10 people dressed in armor came to the liquor store.

As far as that looks, he's not an adventurer, apparently, the Mid-Eden officials...

And the person who was at the head of it spoke to the shopkeeper in a slightly abusive manner, whether he arrived or not.

"Whoa, store owner! There doesn't seem to be anybody here today... but could it be a holiday?

... waltz and hunters who solidify themselves when they see the figure, and the shopkeeper.

Because it's the person who...

"... Mother..."

She is the hunter's mother, because she was Caroline Alexandros...