Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

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"This, that's it, right? If I stay here like this, I'm fucked. No."

"" "What..." "

"No, because? The basement here is just full of cavities, and... I think the ground is so brittle because of me and Lucia digging holes... So, this vibration, right? I think all you can say about this is that it sucks..."

and looking over the surrounding woods and world trees that began to shake...... Waltz speaks such speculation toward his companions who were on the spot.

Then Nike questioned her words.

"Hmm, that does make sense... But why did they dig a hole or something under the world tree?

"Well...... Actually, I came all the way here last night looking for Nike. I heard you said," Take down the world tree, "so I thought I'd tell him you wanted me to wait a minute. But I didn't look anywhere... I thought you were sleeping at home in time. Nike's House."

"Do you dig holes in the ground?!

"Yeah, I had Lucia dig all over the ground with dirt magic, did you look around? But because of that... the... too much..."

"... the world tree leaned," he said?

"... yeah" shun

And before Nike, who looked angry to see, Waltz didn't think of an excuse, he leaned down with his brow in the letter (c).

Nike then, after exhaling heavily, mouths like this towards the waltz.

"... do it well. That's what I said, demon gods and brave men. Well, for the rest of us, we live in isolation from the world, so we didn't think about visitors to the house or anything... If you think about it, is there any other cause..."

"That would help if you could say that... But first, let's get out of here, shall we? Otherwise, it's not going to go out of style..."

And even while Waltz says, in the woods where they were, there comes a big change.

Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu......!!

Some of the woods accidentally disappeared as the earth smoked and roared —— no, the ground sank. Apparently, the weight of the surface became unbearable and the underground space began to collapse.

And that was no exception where the waltzes stood.

Zubo......

"Hmm?!

Of the seven people on the spot, Yuki's feet, who jumped through and weighed heavily, begin to sink into the ground.

"Hey, Yuki?! Die a little, my lady!

"I can't do that!... you can't, can you? Seisei...... Master Catalina?

…………

"What... can you even diet in a cyborg?!

Yuki managed to avoid falling as a result of being supported by Waltz's gravity control system. She sent a startling glance at Catalina, a teacher and benefactor of her life... Ahead Catalina seemed to be stuck in words somehow frowning. Note that, just in case, Yuki never looks fat.

Well, aside from that.

"But what do we do? Lucia's asleep too..."

There were several ways for the waltzes to escape from the interior of the world tree.

In time, travel by metastatic magic is hopeless, given Nike's residual magic and Lucia's still asleep... Running away on foot was also unspeakable and not a good idea to say when someone would slip because the ground was brittle. Or, to fly and flee in the sky, because those who were on the spot had no wings, the method was also difficult.

Or one more thing ——

"Hey, Cortex? Are we good now?"

—— and there was also a way of calling my sister, who has magic props for metastatic magic, for help, but this is also ——

"............... I haven't heard back"

—— As Waltz said, no response.

And in the meantime--

Gogogogogogogo......!!

Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu......!!

—— and the forest inside the world tree is collapsing...

As a result, Waltz reluctantly decided to make a certain choice.

"If this happens again, I can build a ship in Round Tai and lift it... because there are only thin trees... It's the only way. Mr. Hunter? About Lucia, please."

"Oh, oh, okay"

Shortly after Waltz gave the hunter Lucia, who was floating --

Bun......

—— and the body of the waltz, the manoeuvre armor, appears inadvertently.

Then she deformed her manoeuvring armor into a form of flight, lowering her body to the ground, and then told her companions:

"Come on, guys? On my back? I'm embarrassed, I don't really want to do this, but if I don't do something like some turtle right now, I don't think we're all going to survive, so this is the only special service we got? Oh, Mr. Hunter? Please don't stick your hand in the intake there. They'll take your hand to the turbine blade, won't they?

"What?! Oops... Sorry..."

and a line on Waltz's back, albeit with some confusion.

In the meantime, about two of them seemed bewildered by Waltz's back riding, until the end.

"Who are the unusual signs... this or..."

"…………"

It is Nike and Randy who see Waltz for the first time who he really is. They seemed to have lost their words in front of objects like clumps of metal that suddenly appeared in front of them.

Then Waltz, who was watching over the bright red double eyed, says this to the two of them.

"That's why I'm telling you, right? I'm not a demon, a god, a monster... I'm just a town girl. Really, don't worry about the details, okay?

Mouth something so unintelligible, unilaterally restrain Nike and Randy with gravity control, and put the two on their own backs...... And the waltz that rises in the universe.

Then they watched as the place where they stood collapsed until earlier...... He jumped into the crack that was open on the side of the world tree.