Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Some four-legged animals, even if they are good at climbing trees, are not good at descending.

Bears, for example.

They climb vigorously with their arms and legs as they plunge that sharp claw on their hands into the tree... but when they descend, they often descend slowly, making sure of the scaffolding, and from the sight of it, they never seem to be good at descending.

Or goats.

In the case of goats, even with almost 90 degrees of chopped cliffs, the body is equipped with a slightly climbing ability to run... but it seems to be much slower when descending than when climbing to prevent it from slipping due to its own weight.

In particular, we cannot deny the possibility that our own people think they are good at climbing and descending... but in any case, it is an indisputable fact that descending involves a greater burden on the body than climbing.

... and cats also love to climb high (?) Nonetheless, it was a bad animal to go down.

Well, in their case, it's unclear if they really can't get off at all... it's just that the hunters here didn't seem anxious to get off the tree.

She may be a cat beast, but the behavior is very different from that of a real cat...

"The hell, everybody, where are you..."

Against the trunk of the tree, the hunter alternately stabs Pickel and Dagger while descending towards the King's Capital, which you can see below.

From her eyes like that, no matter how far down she went, she did not seem to see the soldiers of her men.

"Ouch..."

Just like when she climbed, she went down the tree for the ground, taking several breaks and replenishments.

At that time, recovering the unseen plants that were growing in the trees, as well as insects, is part of an investigation that is one of the reasons she came here.

... the investigation was a mission entrusted to it by Waltz.

What if World Tree (?) If it does harm to the King's capital at the foot, we have to think about compulsory exclusion.

This time the hunter, acting on behalf of the busy waltz, this world tree (?) I've come to make a decision as to whether or not we should eliminate... apparently, so far, this tree can be said to be harmless to the King's people.

... It just didn't seem like much of a problem to her right now whether this tree was harmless or not... rather, she seemed to be starting to feel anxious about not seeing at all the other soldiers who were supposed to be here about us if it were true.

"No way... you were stunned by me and didn't follow me? No... or..."

Give priority to teaching from Waltz. Not really. My men soldiers lost their jerk along the way because they climbed more and more trees at their own pace... and may have returned...

At first, the hunter seemed optimistic about that, but soon, assuming the worst... he reconsidered the idea that some sort of incident might have struck him about his men, and she seemed to have begun to regret her solo actions so far...

"... in the meantime, let's go back the way we came"

It is unclear whether it is good to describe it as a path, but a hunter who follows the path he has climbed and decides to look for his men.

On the side of the great tree that was in the shadow area because the sun was passing just above her, she hurried home (Michi) feeling a strange chest noise...

And around where she came back about 150 meters high to the ground...

"... was there a horizontal hole in here?

It was like a void that some of the trees could do when they were rotten... or plugged into a place that gave an atmosphere that should also be called a cave.

The vertical and horizontal size of the hole is about 3m, and normally it shouldn't be the kind of size you would overlook... but somehow that unlikely event happened.

"It was dark when we started climbing... Could I have missed it?

and a hunter who thinks about the cause of how he overlooked the hole while pointing his narrow gaze into that hole with such a solitary mouth.

Or the possibility that it was suddenly made was unthinkable... but because it was limitless and small, she seemed to have ruled out that possibility from her thoughts.

Normally, no one should think of going in a hole like that that that doesn't make sense, but...

"... just in case, I'll check inside..."

It seemed that the hunters had to decide to enter the hole because they had to explore the men they had lost sight of and investigate the great tree entrusted to them by Waltz.

"Inside, I hope it's not a deep cave..."

And there, I wish I didn't have my men...

The negative thought seemed to swirl in her head that if there were any of her men in such a place, perhaps it would not have been a busy thing... but when the hunter shook his head to shake off such an idea, he lowered his heavy backpack on the spot... and proceeded with his favorite dagger and rope, into a hole in the great tree, his leg.

... and she'll just regret it.

"... I should have brought you a pine light..."

If it was wrapped in total darkness, for a nocturnal hunter, there was nothing wrong with it... but the difference between the light outside inserting through the entrance and the darkness drifting through the hole didn't seem to allow her to get used to it immediately, and her eyes at the moment she entered the hole couldn't seem to see what was lurking at the bottom of the darkness.

As a result...

Bhun!

She was unable to respond visually to the sudden appearance of the sole.

... but there's the boulder hunter.

He flipped himself reflexively, feeling the sound he had only heard for a moment and the 'signs' that might be called the seventh sense.

Shortly afterwards, something swept right around her...

Becha...

Such a damp sound was heard from the wall on the side of where she was.

As a result of encountering such an event, the hunter, surprised without speaking out, lowered his signs to the extreme... and usually stood up to deal with some object that would be lurking in the darkness, just as he did when hunting.

... No, to be precise, I set (...) and (...). ()

But...

Zulu...

"Eh...!?

Because it was dark around... or because the end of the hole was downhill...

Perhaps because of the overlap of both of those conditions, the hunter slipped his legs and fell ill.

After all, she, like a normal cat, didn't seem to like going down...

Because of this, the hunter scattered around signs of himself temporarily disconnected from the outside world.

... and with a huge breakdown in position.

result, the next moment,

Bhun!

Becha!

"Damn!?

Something with a high viscosity, flying from nowhere, became massively attached to the hunter's body.

Reflectively, she tries to peel herself off the slimy, bird-like sole, but for a moment...

"... this is..."

Seems like he decided to stop moving in vain immediately and act cautiously.

The more you move, the more thread (...) becomes entangled...

The hunter understands who this mysterious mucus-like opponent is from his vast experience as a hunter.

... and that opponent slowly began to show himself as he hid eight red light points from the other side of the dark.

"... General...!

A hunter who accidentally whines his opponent's nickname as he turns his attention to a general spider that extends a few meters in length.

Apparently, there were other 'hunters' lurking in this world tree besides her...