Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"Be, be, be, bear?! Duh, duh, duh, what do we do?!

"... Miss Lucia? Just take a deep breath and calm down. If anything goes wrong with your body, don't you think the Lord will tell you immediately?

"Ugh, uhh, yeah, ok...... Sooo hah... sooo hah... I may be getting a little breathless..."

"It's just hyperventilating..."

Lucia was disturbed when she saw Beatrix fall over Teresa's lap. Besides, the fact that Beatrice had lost consciousness also seemed to applaud her confusion.

The innkeeper's daughter, who watched the whole room, couldn't hide her surprise.

"So, are you okay?

If you think about what the disease is spreading in this town, it couldn't have been "okay"...... Theresa answers this, after sighing and dropping her shoulder, to the daughter of the inn.

"Mm-hmm. It's okay. The concubine promises this one. … must protect,"

"Guard... Ru?

"Hello, Miss Alicia? Can you lend me an empty room in this inn?

"Uh... I'm not ready for bed or anything... I can't even serve rice... but still good?

"Mm-hmm. As long as there's a place, there's nothing wrong with that.... Miss Lucia? Why don't you carry Bear around? Because the body of the concubine is hung by Col and Waltz, it can only be as powerful as the tears of a fox."

"That's good...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

"It's okay. Unlike Bear, your Lord stands on two legs and he's talking, right?

"Well, maybe..."

Lucia floats Beatrice in the air with gravity-controlled magic, while saying.

Alicia, who saw it, seemed surprised to open her eyes as promised...... As a result of Teresa's prompting me to show her to the room, I seem to have decided to show Teresa and the others to the inn room, even though she had some unspoken expression on her face.

◇

"Well...... Is Bear still alive?

"Yeah...... I think I'm breathing."

After putting Beatrice to sleep on the bed where the futon had not been pulled. Teresa told Alicia, 'It's too miserable for the Lord to show you what's ahead...' and made her wait outside the room... I was watching Beatrice's condition with Lucia.

The look on Teresa's face directed at Beatrice is more daunting than you would normally see...... Lucia, watching it, asked her unexpectedly.

"Are you sure you're okay?

"... Miss Lucia"

"What?"

"Don't tell Miss Alicia what your concubine is going to do or say."

"What's wrong?

"Oh man... I'm worried about something. It's like you're hiding something... that's what I think."

"I don't know... ok"

And, to Theresa's words, Lucia nods honestly.

Theresa starts talking after she sees it.

"Lord, did I tell you that your body is only, uh, not very strong?

"Why my body?

"Just to be sure."

"... I wonder if I used to catch a cold every time and never get out of the house much. Playing outside was a lot of fun..."

"What about now?

"Now?"

"Waltz...... no, I was wondering since I met Lord Catalina?

"Then it's been the past year. I heard after I got better that I had a dangerous disease only once, but whether I had a cold or a disease, I wonder if that's clear. If you think about it, maybe you've been stronger since you met my body, my sisters."

"Well... maybe Miss Lucia's body hasn't gotten stronger."

"What? What do you mean?

Lucia tilts her neck wonderfully when she hears Teresa's words.

The opposing Theresa put her hand on her sleeve and took the knife out of it for some reason.

"Lord, to try, do you want to cut your hand?

"... I don't know what you're talking about..."

"Perhaps if you cut your hand, you'd know why your body got stronger?

"No... It hurts to say you have healing magic."

"Well, it's gonna hurt. Hmm, I can't help it..."

With that said, Teresa put the tip of the knife at the tip of her own finger--

"... uncut..."

—— Though I protruded, there was no blood... I put a lot of effort into this seemingly splatter act of striking the tip of the gun and blade in my hand ——

"Ha-ha-ha... my blood is finally bleeding... (this body is very sturdy, but it's difficult at times like this...)"

—— I finally got a scratch and the blood seeped out of it.

"Teresa, could it be that you're out of your mind? Oh, originally..."

"Rude...... I tried to bleed smarter, but I just didn't. Well, leave that..."

And Teresa approaches Beatrice...... I only got one drop of blood coming out of my gripping hand--

"Miss Lucia. This is what made your Lord's body so strong."

—— drooled in the mouth of an unconscious beatrice.

"Hey?! Hey, what are you doing?! Teresa?!

"Don't you see?

"I only think Teresa went crazy after all..."

"... it's a nanomachine."

"Yeah? What? Like Ene and the others?

"It's about a thousandth smaller machine than that. It flows through the body of the concubine with blood... perhaps even in the body of the Lord."

"The machine... is flowing through your body...?

"The body of the concubine is mostly made of machines, but it is necessary to keep the remaining living parts alive. In the case of the Lord, Waltz and Lord Catalina would have administered it with the aim of boosting his immune system because of his weakness. The nanomachines the waltzes built are powerful. So... the disease that is spreading in this town will not be transmitted to your Lord and concubine."

"... So, Bear says there's no such thing as that nanomachine in your body?

"Mm-hmm. Well, for various reasons, if you want to die a legitimate death as a person, it's better without a nanomachine or something."

"That's... well, I 'm--"

"The question ahead is, wouldn't you ask Waltz? Because I don't think it's a good thing my concubine said..."

With that said, Teresa wipes her own hand's blood with a handkerchief. There's not one scratch left there...... It seemed to tell the story of her being out of the framework of a creature called "man".