Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"What you're thinking is the same thing... that's my sister..."

Cortex came to Waltz's room, said what he wanted to say, and walked away. That's what she told my sister...

"I want to use the moon to go home, so help me, or..."

—— The idea was to compress one of the two moons and use it as a supergravity source to return to the world of the future, slowing down only the time around us. In short, we use the moon as "fuel" to return to the future.

The opposing waltz seemed sincerely sorry, though he recognized it. Because ——

"I also wanted to use the moon..."

—— because she also had something she wanted to do with the moon. That too, for purposes other than to return to the future….

But that seems to be a private matter, and in order to give priority to the objective of bringing those on board the ship of Energia back to the future, they seemed to have to give up.

"I don't mind. But we have to find a replacement..."

That's what I said, after I gave up using the moon. Waltz sat in his own chair and exhaled slowly.

Inside her room, in a nutshell, the killing landscape. degree of sorry (?) There was just one chair placed in and nothing else. Well, it's on board the energy ship, so everyone, it's similar, but her room doesn't even have a bed... It was more like a prison than a room. Especially since there was even less stuff than in the room that was capturing the Enders boy, I couldn't even say, in a way, it was below prison.

Waltz looked into his room like that, and then smiled small and bitterly at what he thought --

"… resume work"

—— Looks like he closed his eyes while sitting in the chair and started doing some work in his head.

... Yes. Your own restoration work to return to the original world.

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When that lasted about an hour. A visitor visits her room.

"Master Waltz, aren't you asleep?

"I might just knock on it"

Concon, Concon.

"I'm asleep. Yikes?

Gashu.

"You might be awake..."

I wasn't asleep.

Eve and Rosemary came to Waltz's room somehow.

"Is something wrong?

Respond to an enquiry from Waltz, who was sitting on a chair in the center of the room, with Eve deciding somewhere.

"Um... maybe I want Eves to teach me how to study!

"Study?"

"Yeah. Eve......... like Master Bear, I might not be able to get close to Master Catalina......"

"... I see. You don't like Catalina. (I think there are other Yuki and Yulia...) Right. I think we've accomplished the norm for today, okay? I don't care if you go out with your studies."

"" Really?!

"Yep. But there's probably not much I can teach you, is there? What do you want me to tell you?

Because the person who comes to ask himself to teach has not been outside of Catalina lately since he made Cortex... Looks like Waltz decided to take the Eves offer.

Eve and Rosemary say unexpected things to her like that.

"You may want to know about the stars!

"Tendo, how are you?

"... Hey, Rosemary. Who taught you that word?

"Mmm, it's Master Teresa!

"... but you didn't tell me the details?

"That 's--"

and before Rosemary spoke...... Eve opened her mouth.

"That's because Eve has a cause... because she may not be comfortable with Theresa..."

"... sounds like a lot of bad stuff, huh?

"I may not like or dislike food, but Master Teresa is a little... Something about Eve, she could always treat me like a dog, she could be persistent..."

"... what about Catalina?

"He could come after me around with a tiny syringe and drain Eve's blood...... You know what I mean, Master Waltz? Whether you run away or not, they could chase you everywhere. What?! It may not hurt so much that I don't even know when I was stabbed... but the day I met Master Catalina, it could always come out in my dreams..." shudder

"... something, I'm sorry. I'll keep an eye out for those girls..."

"Yeah. Maybe that's good, huh? Because Eve...... you may have decided to be smart enough to beat the two of us! If you're smart, you might be able to give it back!

"... yes. Then you have to work hard, right?

After the Eves who came to ask me to teach them, understood why they had come. Looks like Waltz quickly decided to start explaining what the stars are like.

"So, what do you want to know about the stars?

"Um... for now Eve might want to know what the stars are glowing in the sky. Where's Marie?

"Marie is just as good as her master."

"Hmm. What are stars, huh? Speaking in detail, I'm going to run out of chili, so just to be brief... are you a burning fireball? There's a sun, isn't there? That's one of the stars, and it's burning so hot. So, those little stars you see at night, the ones like the sun burning so far away that it's distracting? So, a lot of stars are shining, which means a lot of them are actually burning very similar to the sun. Is that good enough?

In response to such Waltz's explanation, arguably insane in this world, Rosemary --

"There's plenty of sun... are you on fire..."

—— and quickly, the understanding didn't seem to keep up... Eve seems to have had quite a bit of prior knowledge, and nodded cocklessly at Waltz's inquiry.

"Yeah. You know what I mean? So, where do stars come from and where might they go? Do you have a star or a star or something?

"That's a tough question... Well, there won't be any parents you can call your parents... but if you dare, the stars that are so small that you can't see them could be like the sun's father or mother"

"" Little star?

"So. about the size of a cobbler, about the size of a castle, or a bigger chunk of rock hits a lot on the other side of the sky and gradually grows bigger like a snowman...... one day I feel like I'm going to be on fire and a star like the sun"

"Only the last part, I think the explanation might have been very appropriate..."

"Well. Of course, I can explain it in more detail, right? But it's too hard to explain, so for now, it would help if you could think of burning for some reason? It's me. It's me. If you hit a stone and a stone, there's gonna be a spark, right? That amazing thing happened, and it felt like the spark was scattered and burning with tremendous momentum."

"" Firestone...... "

"... you can somehow imagine what sights the two of us are thinking of... By the way, if it doesn't catch fire, it's gonna be like this star we're on or the moon?

Countless firestones are floating in space, huge firestones as they bump into each other (?) In the process of forming, whenever a fire becomes a star...... Imagining such an unscrupulous situation, Waltz smiled bitterly. Well, we have to talk about a level that 8-year-olds and 6-year-olds can understand, so we have some fairytale (?) But I can tell you that I have no choice.

"Hey, Master Waltz. So, what if the stars die?

"Death of the stars, right. They think there are three patterns? The first is a pattern that simply burns out and turns into white ash. The second is a pattern that explodes and disappears. And the other one..."

When Waltz said so, he showed a trick as if to wrap something in with both hands.

And on that hand she opened again--it seemed to wrap around something like a vortex as the black spherical object rotated at a fierce rate.

"This is it?

…………

"Star carcass"

"" What... "

"No? I picked it up yesterday because I found the guy who fell out of the sky... but it's a lie"

""... Huh?

"But this is what happens when the stars die, I'm pretty sure? A star that got too big to support its own weight, and it gets so compressed... that one day it even puts a hole in space... and disappears from this world. … the horizon of events. Or is it called a black hole?

Eve and Rosemary take an intriguing peek into the black lump that Waltz had in his hand. However, we cannot see beyond the true abyss, where even light is sucked in... Looks like the two girls had to lean their necks in front of just a black object.

"Oh, this is dangerous, you can't touch it, can you?

"" What... "

And it was shortly after Waltz advised the girls who were closing their faces to the black hole.

"... waltz"

The hunter's voice reaches the radio communication system.

"Ah, yes. What's wrong with you?

'Oh, a little... I'm going to be a little late to go back. "

"What?"

'But don't worry. Well, there's no such thing as a big guy like you've never even seen--' zazz...

"Um, Mr. Hunter?... Looks like you're out. What the hell are you doing?

Communications received from hunters who should have been out hunting in the morning were interrupted by noise riding along the way. As far as hearing it goes, apparently, she's caught up in something troublesome.