Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Next to what Waltz had responded to the Great Sage who had "goded", treatment for the citizens by Catalina continued. Though, that, too, seemed almost over, leaving one more.

And that last one. Catalina was dealing with Ardelheit, who suffered more severe burns than anyone else because of a magical flame whirlwind.

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—— There seemed to be heavy air standing there.

That said, it doesn't mean Ardelheit's consciousness won't return, or her wounds won't heal. … post-traumatic stress disorder of the heart. Placed in a situation of dying or living, she was devastated by her heart. Even Catalina can't fix her heart wound so easily... Before Ardelheit, who had grown smaller and held his knee, he looked like he could not find a word to hang.

Among other things, there was someone who spoke to Ardelheit.

"Dear Ardelheit...?

It is Dahlia, granddaughter of Ardelheit, who will be born in a distant future world. It seems this was the first time she had seen Ardelheit look like she had subsided, and she seemed bewildered before that look, which doesn't even resemble her normal side-by-side unmanned grandmother.... My grandmother, who is usually stubborn as a rock, now looks more delicate than glass... That's what happened to Dahlia, she couldn't help but wonder.

In response to her call like that, Ardelheit began to talk with tears in her eyes as if it were a gushing fountain when she raised her face and turned her vain gaze.

"Come on, I was scared... I was scared... I can't breathe, I can't speak, I'm just hot, it hurts...!

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"How could I see this..."

Where the hell did I go wrong, did something wrong, and why should I be harmed... From the look on Ardelheit's face, which had been squashed by such a mindfulness, the bright grin to the last minute had completely disappeared, with only the colours of suffering and sorrow floating.

Dahlia, who saw it, seemed to want to turn away. I can't watch my grandmother look painful...... That's what I thought.

But she just narrowed her eyes a little and never turned away from Ardelheit. And when Dahlia sat down at her grandmother's side when she was young, she held her shoulders with both hands, and said:

"... it's okay. Hard things have passed already. The pain and suffering that was attacking Master Ardelheit has already disappeared. Come on, let's get some rest. I'm sure it'll all work out."

Dahlia exercising sleeping magic to Ardelheit, who said so and was about to hug her. The magic was inherently race-specific magic that was not supposed to work for the same sacubus to each other, and could not take away her consciousness, even if exercised against Ardelheit. But it doesn't mean it doesn't work at all, it works for sleep introducers, or about psychostats ——

".................." sooo

--Ardelheit, embraced by Dahlia, seemed to have slowly journeyed into the world of his dreams.

Look at that, Catalina opens her mouth.

"... thank you. Mr. Dahlia."

"What?"

"I can heal my trauma, but I can't get my hands or feet when it's a heart wound, so it helped."

"Uh... Me, did I do something?

Even when I heard Catalina's words, Dahlia looked unconvinced. Apparently, she acted intuitively without thinking deeply about how her actions would work for her grandmother.

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And not long after Dahlia put Ardelheit to sleep ——

Bun.................. dosa!

—— A magnificent man never seen before appeared on the spot, wondering if he had inadvertently heard such a metamagically low sound. He had a distressed look on his face, and when he showed up and poked one knee on the spot at the same time, he seemed to have turned a straight hostility toward Waltz.

Did you recognize the outfit he was wearing like that... Waltz spoke to the man.

"Nah. You didn't fall (...) toward (...) this (...) side (...)... And you... you've grown a lot younger, haven't you?

In response to that inquiry, the man - the Great Sage - did not respond... I raised my hand to the side. Apparently, he's going to exercise some kind of magic.

Waltz, who saw it, reflexively ——

Zang!!

—— Lasered off the right arm of the Great Sage.

"Gua?!

"No use. No use. There's nothing you can do now."

"It's... we don't know yet, do we? Look...... ♪ Oh, my God ♪

Despite the critical situation, a great wise man with a dark grin and his other hand on his side. Meanwhile, from his lost arm, the meat mass is twisting and stretching, which is rapidly creating the shape of his arm…. It looked like it was going to go back to normal in about a few minutes. It might be more appropriate to say "monster" than "god".

Waltz seemed to watch such a great sage act in a state where he could strike back at any time. What does his spare grin mean...... That seems to be what bothered me and I decided to observe.

And the Great Sage exercised his magic. The magic is already lost in the future world. Instead, in the future, there were certain magic items out there that had the same effect. … a demonic prop named "Item Box".

As a result, he removes an object from different spaces…. And Waltz, Dahlia, and Catalina, who saw it, all open their eyes and lose their voices. Anyway, the sole he took out--

"... Maria... honey..."

—— A girl who can be described as her sister to Catalina. Because it was Maria...