Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"What? You know me... or aunt... aunt?!

"Ah, no... Master Ardelheit may not know, because we, previously, had been referred to you. So... what is it, Auntie? Shit.

Ardelheit, my grandmother, ran into me by chance about 1300 years back. Seeing that she had reacted to a kind of word that she didn't really want her to react to, Dahlia simply tried to mislead the story. The direction of that excuse seemed to be more of a full speed forward than a withdrawal by replacement, but that seemed to be the way to deal with her streaming grandmother.

Did that work, while Ardelheit leaned his neck --

"Yes...... no...... Looks like it was my fault..."

—— No further, it appears that he did not seek to pursue the story. When the word "granny" was misheard, she thought it was herself who felt ashamed.

Seeing how such a grandmother was, it seems that Dahlia, who sensed that she had taken off her predicament, decided to move on to another topic as it were.

"Was I? So, how can I help you?

"Yep, you helped the kids, but I couldn't say one thing to thank you, and I'm sorry... This is the only thing we can do right now... can you take it?

Ardelheit said so, and the next thing she did ——

"... it's sleep magic," chuckles

—— It was a sudden exercise of magic, without any foretaste. Ardelheit tried to put the three of us to sleep using sleep magic.

She seemed suspicious of the waltzes at this time. From the "brave ones", it was impossible to recover the children in just one day, so I was wondering if the identity of those in front of me was not a companion of the brave ones. To question that slowly, I guess I thought about catching the waltzes and interrogating them.

That magic that triggered her suspicion was undoubtedly on target, although she could not see the entity. If this was what was unleashed on a common human opponent, those humans must have definitely been in a coma.... Yes, if the average person is the other person.

But what was there was Waltz, whose entire body was made of machines, and Catalina, who had a medical understanding, and Dahlia, who was resistant to magic because she was just as eager to sleep magic as Ardelheit. I mean--

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—— No matter if you take Ardelheit's magic, without sleeping as one......

"Oh, this, where I have to read the air and sleep?

"No, I don't know about that..."

"…………"

All three seemed to be face-to-face, not knowing how to react to Ardelheit's sudden behavior.

Seeing how it goes, Ardelheit, who was more perplexed than anyone else, opens his mouth with two steps behind him.

"What... hey... what are these people..."

"What... hey?

"It was a passing adventurer...... wasn't it?

and that Waltz and Dahlia are wondering what a good answer to Ardelheit's inquiry --

"... Dear Ardelheit. As far as I'm concerned, I asked you who Master Ardelheit is? What are you doing here?

—— Catalina said such a question. Although she knew who (...) Ardelheit was in her former (...) Hour (...) Generation (...), she had no idea what Ardelheit was doing in this era...... She suddenly attacked me. She seemed to want to ask me what she was doing here. As a child, I never saw Ardelheit in an orphanage, which seemed to be one of the reasons.

In response to such a Catalina inquiry, Ardelheit --

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—— can't answer right away...... I seem to have thought of it with a difficult look on my face. Its inside is uncertain, but something like regret, suspicion, or fear would be swirling.

And a little while later. Did you get organized in your mind, Ardelheit opens his mouth again...... The words that came out of it were not an explanation of who I was, but once again ——

"… metastasis (teleport)!"

—— Seems to have been a word for activating magic.

But, I repeat, it wasn't just normal people there, the waltzes. Hereinafter synonymous.

"... no use trying to escape with metastatic magic. We have boundaries around this perimeter, so instead of transferring magic, we can't even activate all sorts of magic. Gimme up and explain."

Listen to Catalina and try it...... And did you realize that you really can't use magic ——

"... hiccup...!

—— Ardelheit looking cornered at last. Apparently she is in this age 1300 years ago, in a haul to be abused by Catalina......