Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

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"Are you okay...?

Cortex walks silently down the road intersecting his nose.

Atlas, who was walking behind it, couldn't help but whine so much as she looked at her happily waving her tail boom...

Because there was no township ahead of her, much less there was no way.

Going down the road without a way... it was a situation where those words fit perfectly.

As for the plan for the date, it's just broken, it would be an exaggeration to say.

"Nah, you have nothing to worry about ~?

"... (and I'm worried...)"

A carefree atlas who unwittingly holds his head against Cortex, who wields a magically created light (and a mobbit) towards the darkness, whilst complaining as if it were a constant complaint used by a con artist.

From behind them like that...

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Like someone else, a gladly nasal mumbling swordsman... not equipped with the energy to mumble a nasal song (?) The swordsman who did was following the Cortex and not leaving with this same door (...) confused (...) look as someone else.

"... energy? Sounds like a lot of fun, huh?

"Yeah!"

To the swordsman's inquiry, the energy that vibrates the nanomachine to create a voice and honestly affirm it.

Apparently for her, as long as there's a swordsman nearby, she can have a satisfied date, even if it's not in the city...

... on the other hand.

As earlier, neither Swordsman nor Atlas had an excellent look, as opposed to such a delightful group of women.

Apparently, he was worried that Cortex didn't know where he was going, and he kept walking down a roadless path like this... and was simply worried that he would get lost and run out of time and end up unable to do anything, etc.

"... (Where are you headed?

"... (You don't get lost, do you?

From behind Cortex, who joyfully kept walking down the dark night lane (Beast Road), two people turn their worrying gaze.

Then she stopped.

Not that there's anything in particular, in the woods.

Something like big trees, grass about hips tall, and three (?) It was just dark in the dark that I was going to inhale about...

Cortex, turning back his crooked heels on the spot, looked back at the companions who were behind him... and said this, as the two men were worried.

"I'm lost ~" Niccoli

"... ha..."

"... ha..."

With a gentle grin as usual, exhale loud sighs, swordsmen and Atlas, as they put something out of their mouths more than their exhaled breath, before Cortex, who speaks so.

Against them like that, Cortex... somehow, xox, smiled a lot smaller, then went on with the words.

"... it's a joke ~? This is like ~... an apology from me to Energia. So, guys? Have fun."

When she said so... somehow, she gently put out the magic light that was glowing at her fingertips...

... and the view around where it suddenly got dark.

In such darkness, the swordsman had a strange look on his face, either because he could not understand the sincerity of Cortex's words.

"... what the hell am I supposed to enjoy?

That's what I thought, apparently Atlas was the same, and he returns words against the swordsman with a similar look on his face.

"... after all, it's dark, isn't it?

"How do you enjoy the darkness?

"If you're in a big city or something, it's so bright that even at night you can't see the stars... and in those places, people gather in search of the starry sky to a dark place and look out at the sky with it, it's a common story..."

With that mouth, Atlas looks up at the sky.

But there, in front of the full starry sky... there were leaves of trees, and it seemed difficult to worship the other side of them.

... Especially if after midnight, the big moon that brilliantly illuminates the night sky doesn't sink across the horizon, so if you think about the time now, which way, starry sky can't you hope for...

"Uh, I mean that one? You want to cut the trees around you so the sky can show you, and then you can enjoy the night sky?

"No, you don't have that..."

For the first time in half serious thought about how to enjoy the darkness... and tried to ask sincerity against the Cortex... that was the time.

"Ah..."

The energy that was gazing (camera) at the surrounding trees rather than the invisible night sky, confirming the warmth of the swordsman that was felt even in the dark, raised such a small voice in the way that he noticed what.

"Hmm? What's up?

A swordsman who hears that voice of hers, which has been clearly heard in her ears, and asks why, rather than the sounds of bugs heard from around her.

Energy then returns the words with a mouthful that makes it difficult to describe whether the right words to describe the sight seen did not come to mind.

"Uh, hey, the light ran."

Hearing her words like that, the swordsman looked around.

... but it seems to him that he couldn't find the 'light' that Energia was talking about, tilting his neck while creating a crease between his brows.

Shortly afterwards, the energy raised its voice again.

"Oh, look, again!

That being said, when you unravel the appearance of the armor and return to the shape of a person again, the energy that holds your finger in the direction in which that light was seen.

'Look, there!

"... I'm sorry, energy. I don't see anything..."

But it seems that her hand, which was blending into darkness because she was looking black in the first place, was invisible to the eye of a swordsman who only had the same sensitivity as a common human being, and he had no choice but to turn that gaze in the direction in which the voice of energy was heard.

Still, the swordsman could not see the tip of her hand, including the appearance of energy... but something else seemed to have been reflected in his eyes as well.

"... hmm?

Neither yellow, nor green, little light points...

I could see such a tiny dot of light flying through the gaps in the trees, blinking.

"Light worm..."

The swordsman, a resident of this world and traveling with the brave men, seemed to have figured out who he was the moment he saw the light, and he said those words, staring at the little light.

Then, unlike the swordsman, the energy, which was lacking in knowledge, unwittingly asks him back.

"Here?

"Yes, light worms. It's about glowing bugs."

"Are you a bug?

"Oh. For the most part, you're a weak bug, smaller than the tip of your pinky finger. Even a year, it's supposed to be a special bug you can only see for once..."

That said, a swordsman who turns that gaze in the direction that Cortex would be.

Cortex then mouthed his response, feeling his gaze and the content of the inquiry against himself, which was contained in the paraphonic of the word.

"... for what, for this time of year, do you think you took a vacation ~? Everything in this country has been investigated. So, what did I tell you? If it's a date, let me handle it ~"

Say that... for some reason, Cortex exercises little wind magic.

Exercising wind magic with her left hand, she exercised different magic with her right hand... to perform some kind of operation with magic on the air that had gathered before releasing that air into the surrounding space.

... at that moment.

Bwah!

It was as if they had spilled shining little stars out of their palms, with small grains of light spreading around the Cortex...

Of course, every single one of those lights was not a real star, but of the little light worms found earlier by Energia and the Swordsman... their flock.

At first, they weren't glowing at all, but seeing Cortex glow at the same time right after she used the magic... I guess that means she exercised the literal 'magic' that makes the flock of light bugs shine.

"Cor, wow..."

"Pfft. There's no such thing as this ~? Oh, but don't use fire ~? To activate Luciferin's reaction, I was raising the ambient oxygen concentration a little ~. I don't think it's going to explode, but maybe it's going to be a big deal ~"

and Cortex speaking of alertness.

... but never seemed to reach the energy that was seen in the surrounding view, and she was happily walking around in the carpet of light, grabbing the swordsman's hand.

"Mr. Victor! It's glowing and it's not hot, is it?

"Ah... But that's amazing..."

Where did the bewildered look go until earlier...

The swordsman also seemed to have a pure interest in the sight while being drawn to the energy.

While looking at those two things... Atlas, standing next to Cortex, asked in a small voice to his sister, who was also smiling at the two.

"... talk about firefly season. That wasn't something you looked into before you got here, was it?

"... come on, what do you think ~?" Nikkoli

"... that I don't know, neither do you... well, no"

It seems that Atlas has decided not to pry any further, as it seems that Energia and Swordsman are happy with the result, whether they came here to look into it or not.

Then he, and Cortex, decided to quietly indulge in that view, wrapped in tiny lights, until the floating energies were tired of light worms...