Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Time goes back just a little bit......

"You're hungry, huh? Sister!" Nico

"Ugh, yeah. Right..." Slow down.

The waltzes were walking towards the square near the town entrance, temporarily interrupting their errands at the clothes store.

It was time to join them for lunch… and go to the Adventurer's Alliance.

In the narrow city, on the only open spot, a small number of adventurers and thinkers stood by for a meal bought in the street.

Nevertheless, it is not so much the number of people who have to scratch people and move on, but it is not so much the number of people who are walking or hitting people with an approximation.

It was a town that could never be said to be big, but there was an open air lined with snacks, and on top of that, even at lunch, people seemed to gather from within and outside the town naturally.

"Ah, hunter!

You found a hunter in the square, Lucia, leaving her sister's side and running towards the edge of the square.

Then, with Theresa and the Beatrices, the hunter, who was sitting on the stone steps there, waves back.

"Ooh, Lucia. How's the buyout going over there?

"Hmmm...... you're not very good...... I wonder if Teresa and I have decided yet..."

"Right...... Well, after we go to the Adventurers Guild, we'll hang out, too."

A hunter with a bitter smile at Lucia's status report and seeing what a sleazy waltz was like to figure out what was going on.

At that time, Teresa, who was listening to their exchange...

"What..."

And it was solidified by the way I doubted my ears...

Neither Lucia nor the hunter, nor the beatrix that was next to her, seemed to realize that.

Only Waltz seemed to have a sympathetic look on his face.

Then not long.

From a different direction than the one in which the Waltz came, Nuru, Yuki B and Eve, and somehow Yulia, who was not supposed to be in this town... came a little Sacubus girl who I didn't see.

Seeing that figure, Waltz narrowed his eyes and inquired against Julia, who had come all the way to the position of voice.

"... do you feel like something's going on? Could it be a hidden child?"

"No, it's not like something happened, it's not like you're a stash, is it? I just discovered a little problem… I'm going to get this kid out of this town"

"If you only listen to that statement, it doesn't even smell like crime... doesn't sound like it, does it?

"Yes, this child... is, in fact, the child of the captain of the intelligence unit to which I formerly belonged"

"Captain of the intelligence unit?... oh, in the basement of our royal castle... yeah, it's nothing"

…………

Suddenly Waltz frowned and couldn't figure out why he shut his mouth, a sacubus girl with a strange look with her neck tilted.

Having seen her react like that, Waltz, changing his own expression, crouched in and then mouthed the question.

"You, what's your name?

Then the girl responds well... she makes some big mistake (?) Looks like you are.

"Oh, it's the first time I see you. Marie says, Rosemary. I'm going to take care of you. Eh...... thank you! Dear (...) Lord (...) People (...)!"

"... Julia? You just blew something into such a young child? ♪ Gogogogogogogogogo ♪

"Yes, no, you haven't said anything yet, have you? (I just lifted up about Master Waltz and said) Uh... it seems like this kid dreams of being head of the intelligence unit, so isn't that the effect?

"Yes...... So, let's educate ourselves, shall we? Because I'd be mad if I told you something weird, right?... the hunter."

"Ooh?

"Oh, it's all yours!

When I said that and looked back, I put my hand over Rosemary's head and said, 'Well said,' compliments Julia.

Rosemary to that word, though at first he was leaning his neck......

Ever since he realized he was being praised, he seemed to shake his black wings and tail small as he blushed.

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"So, how'd it go? Did you find anything new?

Since the Nulls, who were supposed to have headed all the way to the Intelligence Unit branch, somehow came back as a group of five.

Waltz questioned Null as he glanced at Rosemary, who was being question-attacked by Lucia and the Beatrices.

The null then replies like this, showing the pieces of paper he brought from his home in Rosemary.

"We thought it was sent from the upper management before and after Vixen fell, and we found a ciphertext for the intelligence forces. For any other information, unfortunately…"

"Yes. So, what did it say? Something seems to be encrypted... but I can't parse it. Um, what... 'Find out what's going on with the missing Shiryu...'... what is this? You're torn and you can't read any more..."

"" "What?!

"... what? Such a low level of cryptography, it's not natural to decipher it..."

As soon as I started reading the cryptographic characters that were written there slurred, Waltz returns that way to the sighing nulls sending a startling glance.

It should be noted that the ciphertext was a simple cipher that anyone could decipher because it was not specially magical or mathematically encrypted, but was simply primitive in replacing the letters with shapes.

Still, it was supposed to take a lot of time to decipher... but I didn't think it was going to be deciphered instantly, and the nulls seemed surprised.

"So, what's the rest of this?

"That's... the paper that was set in the magic prop of the transcription was just cut... and I didn't know."

"Oh yes...... By the way, can't you use that transcriptional magic trick and the other way around to ask questions?

"Unfortunately, the branch of this town did not leave any magic props on the sending side because it is a place that can be considered the end of all the branches of Boreas. If it's a little bigger town, I can handle it..."

"Hmmm...... Well, after all, it means we have to go beyond that mountain."

Hearing Null's words, Waltz turned his gaze toward the high mountains that spread across the town.

To be more precise, it would be beyond that mountain range, to a town bigger than here.

But naturally, the mountains are out of the way, so there's no sign of the town in her eyes.

Instead, what was in her eyes was a sight covered in bright white snow, ranging from the 2000 m mountain range separating the southern region of Boreas from the central plain, and its fifth close to the top.

Even at first glance, half-health and knowledge released an atmosphere that was even difficult to climb.

For that reason or against Null, Waltz mouths these questions.

"Hey, Null. We're going ahead...... no way, climbing over that mountain range?

"In the summer, you can climb over it, right? But now that it's snowing... it's hard for us, Snow Woman."

"Well, I guess so. If it's physically buried in the snow, it doesn't matter if it's a snowwoman who's resistant to the cold..."

"Yes, so I'm going to go down another route and cross that mountain"

"Metastatic magic?

"No, it's beyond the dungeon"

"Dungeons? Isn't that a labyrinth? (I think the language is just different and the meaning is the same...)"

"It's not a 'labyrinth', is it? 'Dungeon' is not alive, it is a name that refers to a cave that is long and large as if it were a 'labyrinth'. However, because the interior is just like the labyrinth and there are demons wandering around that are considerably stronger than the labyrinth... off the safe route can be a big deal"

"You've made a safe route to such a place..."

"Yeah, I'm free d... because I deserve to be the ruler of this country"

"Free time... so null made it..."

Waltz turns a frightened glance at her when he hears about Null, who is more high-spec than he thought, but unfortunately thinks.

It should be noted that Waltz himself may not realise that he is usually given the same gaze by those around him….