Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

'... Cortex. A little bit better now?

".................. zzz ~"

'No, I don't have to do anything I'm not sure about, like put snoring on the radio...'

Waltz called on Cortex and the response back from his sister was some extended snoring (?) It seems to have been. I mean, apparently, Cortex was still awake.

In fact, she stopped snoring immediately after getting Waltz's allegations and started responding decently.

"Already ~, what time do you think it is ~? It's morning ~? Morning ~. I'm going to have a short sleep and I'm going to have to prepare for Parliament tomorrow...... no, I'm going to have to prepare for Parliament today. Does your sister know about that area ~?

'That means you're back in Mid-Eden. Well, anyway, your sleep isn't that long from time to time, so just hang out with me this hard time, okay? I mean, I don't really need to go to bed...'

"It's super black ~. Well, that's good. So what can I do for you ~? You disrupted my sleep, so you had a pretty tough problem with that, didn't you? If it doesn't matter, I resent you for contacting me ~?

'Uh, it's not a big deal, but the world tree's about to fall. Are you serious at last?

'Really? ~. Good night, then.'

That's how Cortex tries to disconnect the line.

There was a joke through her like that, but Waltz, who sensed it had been ignored, hastily adds words.

'Wait a minute. No,' cause it's really hard. '

"I know that ~? But it's not a big deal ~?

"... sorry"

"Totally ~. So what do you want me to do? By the way, you don't have mana ~? Ask your sister Strella to do that. '

And when Cortex said that to his sister, who was not honest, he said so as if he was frightened... Waltz, reluctantly, began to talk about the situation.

'... no? It's not like I want magic. There are circumstances, the roots of the world tree are getting stuck, and the tree is leaning, so I have to support it somehow, but Nike here is the named demon god -- "" No, the rest is not the demon god, etc., but the "guardian of the world tree” -- the guardian of the world tree says that until now, the worms have been able to control the magic of the world tree itself and have some freedom to repair the world tree, right? But... hey?

"Yeah, I know exactly what your sister wants to say." You need a presence to replace the bug because the bug is gone ~? So he wanted to ask me if I had made any magic tools that would allow me to control the magic of the world tree ~.... None. 'I knew it.

"Oh, I knew it... eh..."

Waltz hardens with ”eh" in his mouth because the words that flew from Cortex were unexpected.

Cortex, on the other hand, began to talk about alternative plans without worrying about his sister like that or anything else.

"According to the story, the demon god ~... Nike was going to defeat the world tree, wasn't he? Then at this time, wouldn't it be nice if your sister knocked you down ~? If you're so worried about falling or not falling, knock it down, hottogis ~, right? That way, you won't have to cure the world tree, and if you can defeat it at the time we decide, you can even prepare to retrieve the macrophages on the side of the sky ~... '

'... well, that's true...'

And, saying so in a way that he couldn't boil off somewhere, Waltz turned his gaze to those around him who were listening to the communication. Then there was the appearance of those with the appearance of complexity with the alignment... He seemed to react hard to say yes or no. However, in its heart, doesn't everyone want to defeat the world tree?

Of those, Nike, who lived with the world tree--

"... I don't mind the rest. If you mean defeat, you can't disagree."

—— Originally, there seemed to be no intention of opposing it, either because he was going to defeat the world tree or because he heard someone say "defeat it”. Such a girlfriend seemed to haunt her head about something different, not about the status quo, knocking her down or not.

"But... how do we take them down? It's such a giant world tree, isn't it? Even if it's easy to say" knock it down "by mouth, it's not as easy as knocking it down intentionally."

As a nike who was trying to control the magic of the world tree itself with the help of insects and defeat the tree, he didn't seem to come up with the means to defeat the tree in a way other than using insects.

In contrast, Waltz replied with the same expression as he said, "There is no such thing."

"If you want to take him down, you can always take him down, right? Lucia can burn it down, I can evaporate it... well, there are many other ways."

Listen to that--

"... who the hell are you guys? No... a demon god..."

—— and Nike, the demon god who squeals.

In contrast, while Waltz had the look of saying something, he didn't argue with it…. Because there was something complicated that only she could understand, maybe it was...