Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"That's terrible..."

Pine lights thrown aside to illuminate the end of the aisle. Picking it up and looking around, Julia sighed loudly. That's what she was looking at.

"Exactly, a labyrinth..."

- As her cousin put it, it was a sight like in the giant labyrinth that was in the neighbouring country, Boreas.

However, unlike the living ”labyrinth," there was no magic of space expansion, no magic of environmental adjustment, and it simply seemed that there was a dark cave that was just a deep, long serpentine. If you want to make a more appropriate analogy - ”Ant's Nest," which people have made big enough to get in, you might want to describe it as.

"If it's a labyrinth, if we destroy the core, we'll shut down the activity... but in this case, unless we wipe out all the bugs inside and take care of filling the hole or something, maybe not anymore..."

"Right... at the tide?

Seeing that sight, Julia and Dahlia each mouth that sentiment. What they say is similar and non-existent. Its content was pointing in the opposite direction.

Julia figured out a way to keep the world tree intact until she got tired of it, and Dahlia had the world tree haunting her head as falling. Well, if you think of one, a senior official in a country where science and magic blend together, and one, or an intelligence agent in a country that was being destroyed, you might have no choice but to think very differently between your cousins.

Incidentally, those who do not apply to either of them seem to have thought of something else again.

"Eve... To be honest, I might not be very good at this sort of place. What do you think, Marie?

"Are you good or not good in dark holes, are you? Marie doesn't really care, does she? Because here, neither Eve Master (...) Craftsman (...) nor Julia (...) Sister (...) Chi (...) Dahlia..."

""............ hmm?

"... because we also have Chef Dahlia!

"I'm not a cook, I'm a florist, right?

and Dahlia turning a bitter smile against Rosemary and Eve, who were soothing the place with mypaced remarks.

In contrast, Rosemary, who was pointed out, seemed to have troubled Dahlia's honor or, more than that, to have been left untouched by stories involving her name. Rosemary instead turned her gaze to the ceiling of the worn roots of the world tree and said this with an unfortunate look on her face.

"... Marie has another reason not to be afraid. This is in a tree. Until the bugs ate me, it was just a tree. It's supposed to be this tree that's hurting... and yet why should Marie and I be scared?

Listen to the honest words of Rosemary.

"... yeah, maybe you are. Maybe it's not a labyrinth or a dungeon..."

- And with his mouth, he snorts Eve. She seems to have been reflecting, recalling her own remarks up to the last minute.

Meanwhile, Daria, too, seemed to have something in Rosemary's words to think about.

"Right. Even trees are flowers, they're the same plants, so it's too harsh to say that without doing anything to hurt and wither away just to look at them, disgusting or scared..."

As a result of the sale, no one will ever be able to love them, just the flowers that will wither away. I don't think it's worth it, and Dahlia has been trying to figure out how to make use of it. As for ”the intelligence agent bo (...) ta (...) n (...)" it seemed like it was only one piece of information, such as to the life and death of the world tree, but as for "the florist da (...) ri (...) a (...)" it seemed impossible to overlook the wounded world tree.

As a result, she threw these words at her cousins.

"Margaret...... what do you think I should do? How to heal the wounds of this world tree... Anything?

In contrast, Julia replied with her finger between her eyebrows, a short word.

"... nothing."

"" "What..." "

"Normally, there's no way to cure an injured tree. You can't just put a scratch pill on a tree for people, can you? If you take the time and heal slowly, you might be able to do something about it... but in the present situation, you can't even say such a long thing... And if there is... if it's a way no one's ever done it before, maybe we can do something about it."

"How no one has ever done it? Is there an unusual way?

"In theory, though? But I can't help being a member here."

Just asking, Julia mouths words that can even be taken as giving up. But such a look on her face seemed to have a grin.

Eve and Rosemary, who saw it, read that deputy audio of what she was trying to say and raised her voice at the same time.

"... maybe you're Catalina!

"... it's Master Catalina!

"If you don't ask me if I can, I don't know, do I? But I think it's worth asking to see, right?

Listen to the three of them.

"... Catalina?

- And Dahlia leaned her neck, it was that moment.

Baki Baki Baki...... Zdwong!!

It was like breaking through a wall, breaking the brittle roots of a world tree, and a giant black shadow appeared from beyond.

Dahlia, who sees it, raises her voice as she sits up.

"No way...... Queen?!

Big nest holes that follow like ants' nests, tons of little bugs, and the appearance of those big bugs that suddenly appeared...... The situation tells the story of the bug that appeared in front of him as a giant ”queen”.

As a result, Dahlia tries to cast her sleep magic again, trying to protect everyone... Before her like that, this again, something impossible appeared.

Bun......

- It's, like, a giant hand. If you're human, about 10 people were big enough to be easily enveloped, and the other side was a translucent hand that looked clear. The hand pinches the imminent black and giant worm as if the child were picking a tent and pinching it between his fingers.

Buscha!!

- I didn't have time to let the disconnect go up, and I crushed it flat.

Eve and Rosemary, who saw how it went, screamed (?) Raise your voice close to.

"Wow, dirty! I might want you to think a little bit about the direction of flying fluids!

"It took a little..."

As if you're used to the sight, you don't get a surprised look, the girls with a suspicious look.

For the two of them...

"I'm sorry. I didn't expect to fly this way..."

- And he heard Julia answering, and he sensed what had happened, and now Dahlia spoke up.

"Maybe now...... Margaret's magic?!

"Huh? Yeah, but? Shit.

"You... Whatever it is... I mean, if you do anything, you can use that, hell of a lot of magic..."

You honestly couldn't accept the sight of the one-sided massacre that went on in front of you, Dahlia with your head to say so.

By contrast, Julia replied this way with her little hand made of magic between her eyebrows when she put both hands on her hips.

"That's why I told you. Ardelheit, my grandmother is about to give me the housekeeper of the Schach family, or even the director of the Intelligence Agency, who is entrusted with chores in Mid-Eden... And Marie's sister?

"Yes! ♪ Shisha ♪

With that said, Rosemary turns a glittering longing gaze against Julia.

And Dahlia seemed to understand according to the matter.

"Maybe I... I was making a terrible mistake..."

Again, Dahlia blues her face as she mouths a grunt that needs to be returned to such a water-covered basin. Apparently, the cousin she knew well, at some point, had become a distant one.