Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

... Chin!

"... yeah. You burned like a good boy!

"Hunter sister... were you really baking cookies..."

Atlas came to the dining room, as promised to the hunter, after blocking a hole in the wall of the chancellor's office with piercing work.

Waiting for him like that was the fragrant, sweet smell and the expression of a hunter with a happy grin.

"I need you to talk to me. It's only natural to prepare sweets, isn't it?

"Oh... well... (guide, you're a mame... hunter sister...)"

Atlas sees the hunter wearing a casual dress, not the usual hunter gear, and once again feels she's really a courtier, except for the way she talks.

Then, arranging a large desk that was in the dining room where no one was, by the way of a small plate of hot cookies removed from the demon guidance oven, placed a small plate there and a cup of tea for two, and Atlas and the hunter lowered their hips to the chair.

"Green tea for cookies...... Wouldn't tea have been better?

"Black tea... Actually, I don't know what it tastes like..."

"What a surprise, huh?

"It does smell good, but that's all... It's a personal preference, but I like green tea (if you want to drink it, you can source it in the woods)."

"Oh well. Well, I don't care either way."

That being said, Atlas pours a bite-sized cookie into the back of his throat with green tea after throwing only one into his mouth and chewing it out once.

The hunter who watched him like that, after a small grin...... now with an unintentionally harrowing look, cut out much of the trouble with the subject.

"Actually. I want you to talk to me... about my brother."

"Hmm? There were definitely about four hunter sister brothers, right? Which one of them?

"At the top."

"Top of the line... the eldest son"

Atlas listens to that word of the hunter and accesses the database on the neurochip.

The result that has then emerged is:

"... after the death of the former king, he quit his service in the royal castle to train in swordsmanship under a swordsmith who lives in the king's capital..."

That was the thing.

"Oh, you're right. You remember so well...... Atlas"

"Well. So, what? We took over the country... and you didn't like being in the royal castle?

Atlas asked such questions to the hunter, even though he had a slight, unpleasant feeling.

Maybe we've taken our hunter's brother's job... he thought so.

But the words returned from the hunter were different from his expectations.

"This is what my father told me, but it doesn't look like you quit because you don't like Waltz and Atlas? Failure to protect the king made him feel immature... and unable to stay or stand."

So, you went to training?

"Ah. You don't have to go out on purpose, if it was anything I would have trained you to do..."

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When I heard that word from the hunter, I got a general idea of what depended. Atlas.

In short, in the Alexandros family, I guess the hunter is the strongest of the brothers.

That's how it feels to my brother......

"(Well, don't even want to get out of Royal Castle...)"

It seems painfully understandable to Atlas, who is currently in a progression and is being abused by his sister.

Then he asked the hunter again, as if to return to the story of his derailment.

"So what happened to that brother? You're talking about wanting to go back to working for the royal castle?

Then, once he meditated on his eyes, the hunter himself put the cookie in his mouth and poured it in with tea to open his tea.

"... disappeared"

"... Huh?

"Yesterday, I went to the building where the swordsmen and they live to see how it was... actually, it was a false address"

"Hmm? What do you mean?

"Come on. I don't know either...... Why did my brother want to disappear until he lied..."

".................. sure, that's troubling"

Listen to the hunter, in the tea drink that was in his own hand, Atlas drops his gaze.

At that time, it seemed that there was one younger sister (Strella) floating around who hadn't been in touch in about a month... didn't really want to think about it, he looked up and told the hunter.

"Steady...... why did you suddenly think I was going to see my brother? No, I may not need a reason to see my brothers..."

"I don't know... I actually saw it"

"Did you see him? That would have been nice. You mean you're safe and well and alive, right?

"No, that's right... I saw it, not the King's Capital..."

And as the hunter seemed difficult to say, he revealed the cause of his troubles to Atlas.

"... the man who came to attack South Fortress using a dragon... I didn't know he was wearing a mask, but the way he spoke, his physique and his voice were his brothers no matter what he thought... Like this, haha, and..."

"Ha ha..."

"Yes, hey, there it is."

"... is that important?

"No, not really... because it's my brother's cliche"

"... well"

Against the hunter's words, it was an atlas of how he had a lot to say, but when he said it, he felt like he was going to lose both his body and lid, and when he groaned so briefly, he shut his mouth and seemed to start worrying again.

"Really, what should I do... I don't really feel comfortable talking to my father or mother about this if it was just a mistake, it would only stir up anxiety..."

"Well, I'm already a big adult, so I can leave you alone..."

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And between us, there was silence.

Nevertheless, it was not a slaughter, as some brave man and king had unleashed...

Then a while later, when the tea was getting cold.

Atlas poured the sole into his mouth all at once before suggesting this.

"... why don't you ask around Julia to investigate your whereabouts? If you're on this continent, I'm sure you'll find us, huh?

"A personal favor...... do you have time to look me up?

"Nah. Those guys, they're free to say something, that's about all they ask. Worst case scenario, Cortex...... whoa, forget about the current story. I'll talk to Julia, too, so it won't be a bad thing.... So, Sylvia, are you there?

and the moment Atlas, towards the void, uttered the name of an intelligence agent who had recently become his exclusive,

Gacon!

"I don't... Senior Sylvia, I can take care of your business instead because I have business to attend to."

Pushing up a panel on the floor, from a secret passage, Lisa of Sacubus appeared stuffed with bright red cotton in her nose.

Against her like that, Atlas tells her to go straight in.

"I'd like to ask the Intelligence Agency to find people... will you do that?

"Who is it?

"He's the oldest brother of my hunter sister."

Hear that word,

"It's Rika!

And, Lisa, who gets a favor in two replies.

Then he turned to Atlas and Lisa with words of gratitude as the hunter gave him a slightly happier look.

"That's very kind of you to say, Lisa. We'll both be grateful."

"No, I don't mind. So... what happened?

To that word of Lisa,

"Ah...... But what can I say..."

Now hunters who seem hard to say and honestly can't.

I couldn't seem to mistake my own brother for what he might be like in this country.

Atlas also thinks about it and tries to figure out some proper excuse...

Before he came up with an excuse, Lisa also seemed to feel that it was a requirement for translation,

"Hmm... ok! Then I'll think of an excuse appropriately on my part!

When she said so, quickly, to report to Julia, or to keep the concealed door on the floor shut, she walked away.

But in doing so, Lisa...

'Proper excuses, proper excuses…. Oh, yeah. Let's just say that Atlas is interested in the hunter's brother for something he can't speak of!

"Hey?!

Unfortunately, I'm not mistaken, but I seem to have left the hidden passage at the feet of the two of us, making a misleading statement......

Well, they're Atlas, so it won't be a big problem.