Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Energia has returned safely from the Royal Castle in Merclio to the underground large workshop in Mid-Eden.

Then a day went by and I was on a doozy Cortex vacation (?) after...

"... scattered. Really, it was scattered..."

Waltz uttered those words as he exhaled deeply, checking the situation inside the hull of the broken energy.

"Hmm. As far as I'm concerned, it sounded like a lot of fun, didn't it?

It was Lucia who stayed with Waltz for his novel inspection when he said he had business in Mid-Eden.

She seemed to imagine in her head what happened from South Fortress to Merclio, listening to her sister explain and the Cortex... but apparently, that imagination, for the most part, was Cortexnized.

Because Cortex himself seemed to have enjoyed this first vacation well.

Most of them... don't feel like they were just humiliating a certain boy in front of the people... but anyway, she was happy with this trip.

For that reason, Cortex gave a satisfactory report on this trip to Lucia, the rest of the group, and Theresa, who had replaced the chairman's work during her vacation, and Julia in the intelligence department... which, apparently, sounded fascinating to those of us who did not travel together.

"No, no. Really, it was just hard. Something was gushing in the basement of South Fortress... and then when I went to the coast, it snowed somehow, and the deserted island was turned into the (...) dream country of the rats... and besides, when I stopped in the village of Alc, I was tangled up in a troublesome drunk... and in Merclio, royal castles and submarines exploded on their own, exploding their energy..."

"Ugh, yeah. If you hadn't listened to the Coles beforehand, you'd have no idea, sister..."

"Right... In short, energy was going to be a big deal like this."

With that said, Waltz looks at the figure of an energy millimachine that continues to repair itself.

The way it looked... it looked as if a small ant was carrying a little bit of food, but what it was carrying was not food made of protein or amino acids... it was an alloy ingredient, consisting of nickel, iron, magnesium, etc.

That, when carried to a predetermined location by each and every one of the millimeter machines... at their mouth (?) The infrared laser for metalworking was released, and the shape of the original door was slowly being rebuilt while melting the material at high temperatures.

If we compare it to modern world technology, we can say that it is the same principle as a metal powder sintered (SLS) type 3D printer.

... well, aside from that.

Waltz's novel was still going on...

"At all, it's a troubled thing... If that girl (Energia) would open up the millimeter machine forming her body, it would be going to take extra time because she forgot to leave the swordsman at South Fortress, even though she could have been completely repaired in about two days..."

"... how long?

"... maybe a month or so"

"No... that"

"Yeah... So even for energy, you're going to increase production of millimeter machines. There's a plan to use a millimeter machine to drive out the Magi Mouse..."

That's what I said, waltz turning his back on the door being repaired.

Then she turned to Lucia and said:

"So help Lucia out these past few days, too, huh?

Such waltz words, directed at my sister, were the same as usual.

So, normally, the word that comes back from Lucia is, 'Yeah! Okay!' It's supposed to be...

"What..."

... somehow, Lucia's reaction wasn't Fang...

"... something happened?

Waltz sees Lucia react very unusually and unwittingly asks.

Lucia then began to talk about the reason, smiling bitterly.

"Sister, you've completely forgotten, haven't you?

"What... what? Breakfast this morning?

"After all, I don't remember..."

What I don't remember fulfilling is whether it's about the upcoming events in the next few days, or this morning's breakfast...

Lucia thought, 'Maybe it's both...' but I put the breakfast thing up on the shelf for now and kept the word going.

"... Sweet Festival"

"Three days from today, but... right... yeah. Prioritize your sister's help, okay?

"What... no..."

Before Lucia's grin, which was directed at herself with words, contained about 30% of the ingredients of sorrow... waltz suddenly acting strange.

Then she opened her mouth with sorrow when she put her hand on her forehead to support her head, which was dripping at will.

"... sorry. I totally forgot. You can help me after Sweetfest... I mean, the hunter told me to get out too..."

"... yeah. I thought so."

So, after a small sigh, Lucia smiles happily.

Perhaps she was looking forward to going to the Sweet Festival with her sister.

"Me, huh? Actually... for the last two days without your sisters, in the castle, you've been training to make cookies, haven't you?

"Oh, you know what..."

"Now it's time... to bake some delicious cookies and feed them to your sister!

"Ugh, yeah... Looking forward to it, huh?

"Yeah! It's absolutely delicious, isn't it? Inari Sushi Cookies"

From Lucia's mouth, I felt like I heard something I shouldn't hear, Waltz...

But she... she didn't do anything to finally ask back if she got scared that the same words might fly back.

At the very least, I want it to be empty ears... that's what she must have thought...

Then, interrupting the investigation of the broken door, with Lucia, Waltz decided to disembark in order to practice making sweets.

But it seems they decided to stop by the infirmary, which was on board Energia, not to head to the royal castle right away, but because they got here because of it...

Gashon!

"What do you say, Catalina? Are you breathing?

Waltz throws a greeting into the room with no other love as usual when he opens the infirmary door.

... was at that moment.

"Wow?!

... suddenly, from inside the infirmary, I heard a man screaming...

"What...?! Hey, what are you doing?!

Waltz peeks softly into the room, sheltering about Lucia, whose voice was so sad that she hid behind her own back.

Then there...

"Ah, Mr. Waltz and Lucia. Excuse me. Now, hey, I'm taking it in."

Catalina was injecting drugs with a syringe into something that somehow rattled and swayed on its own, diced about 30 cm in size on one side...

"... what's that?

It's supposed to be just a metal box, but what's that object that makes unspeakable anxiety stir... when Waltz asks...

"This was, until recently, inside a cylinder for biological preservation... a box that locked the neck of someone with a name like that criminal. Instead, should I say a prosthetic body, not a box? If you give me a body that I can move freely, I'll have trouble doing something criminal again, so I thought I'd keep it in a box with no legs or hands..."

"Someone with a name like a criminal...?

"Uh... sure, was it Shotacon?

"Oh... no, it was like a ciscon..."

"Huh? What's Ciscon?

"Yeah? Never mind, Lucia. Because it's just the Aya of the Word..."

Waltz replies gently, shaking his head slowly against Lucia, who has entered into a conversation between himself and Catalina...

Then she said, as deceiving as to what, his name (?) mouthed.

"Sure, Loricon..."

Loricon...

It was the Boleas Empire, ruled by Yuki and others in the far north of Mid-Eden, who were trying to kidnap the boys and girls, starting with Eve, and use them for some suspicious experiments, metaphysicians from the modern world (reincarnators?) Apparently, the name of the man (?).

He, along with a fellow man named Capella, was skipped in the neck by Catalina... and until now, stored in a cylinder filled with suspicious green liquid.

Apparently Catalina, in Merclio, also gave Loricon a new body (?) They decided to give it.

... I just didn't see another box that would have a capella neck in there.

Perhaps he's... still inside the refrigerator, inside the cylinder, stored untouched...

"Yes. Sure, it was a name like that. As a matter of fact, Julia from the Intelligence Department has been asking me to turn him in for investigation. But... he's the enemy of a woman, so to speak, so you didn't really want to heal him... So I had no choice, I decided to lock myself in a box with no more crime, not my original body... but my nerve connection didn't work and I would scream like I just did. Well, it would help if you thought it was a specification and didn't mind"

"What..."

To its so cruelty, Waltz and Lucia, who lose their words...

Nevertheless, he seemed to think it was something he had no choice in view of what he had done, and neither of us seemed to have had any objections.

... Well, even if there was disagreement, in front of the current Catalina, I doubt even if I could put it in my mouth with dignity...

"... on the way, right?

"Yep. You have to take care of your life."

That said, Catalina carefully wrapped and packaged in cloth about Lolicon, who has become the body of the box.

Right now, because he was put to sleep with something like a sleeping pill, or earlier it was different, nothing like showing any movement at all... but if, when he woke up to his eyes, he now had the means to recognize his condition... before too much desperate a situation, all the connections of the nerves would be irrelevant, and he would scream again...

Knowing it or not, Catalina began to talk, especially without changing her expression, when she grabbed the wrap and beckoned it into her white coat.

"... well, hey, I'm going to go deliver"

"Heh, that's unusual, isn't it? I can't believe Catalina's going out on her own."

"Actually... to the sweet festival in three days..."

... and like Lucia, I look forward to the sweet festival, says Catalina.

She says it's been a long time since she's been out to Royal Castle to practice cooking under the hunter.

Then Waltz and Lucia would head to the royal castle to practice cooking with Catalina... but there was nothing like seeing that pink wrap she had at the festival venue... and the two were eager or unwilling...