Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

After the first aid to Beatrice by Teresa.

"... I was wondering if you were okay?

Lucia was looking into Beatrice's face worryingly.

Beatrice, who was ahead of her gaze, seemed to sleep with a restful look on her face. No fever, no disturbance in breathing... It just seemed quiet asleep.... Of course, he's not dead.

"Is that about the Lord? Or are you talking about Bear?

"... 90% Bear, 50% myself"

"... more than 10% of the time, but they're probably both fine. So, Miss Lucia?" Sickness comes from the heart. "Don't worry forever about what can be solved."

Teresa looks embarrassed about Lucia. But so far, there's no way Beatrix is going to wake up... Lucia's worries weren't going to clear up for a while.

Her concerns like that were in addition to those of Beatrice.

"By the way, Teresa. I'm talking about Alicia..."

"Hmm?"

"Which neighborhood did you think was suspicious?

"... right. This is intuitive, but I don't think his name is Alicia. As a possibility...... about 30%?

"That's a subtle percentage..."

"When I say my name, I say it out loud. Unless you fall asleep, say your own name, etc., and your head is obscured, there is no way. But he didn't seem to fall asleep... And there's a 80% chance that his parents aren't dead from the disease."

"High this time?! What made you think that?

"Then why don't you ask the other way? Lord, can you stay home by yourself for the death of your parents? And despite his recent death,"

"... I can't. I could handle it because I had my sisters, but I definitely can't have one or something. I think I've been crying for, like, five years."

"Hmm. I don't remember a concubine, so it's just an imagination, but, well, definitely, I guess I'm going to be spending my days making my eyes bright red..."

Lucia was murdered by soldiers of the robbers, and Teresa used all her relatives to sacrifice... From those who have such a past, it seems that Alicia, who was responding to herself without changing one complexion, was only a chunk of discomfort.

"And there's a 90% chance he hasn't recovered from the disease."

"Well, you're almost dead..."

"We're talking about not being cured. We're talking about not being sick from the start. Unlike your Lord, even Bear, who is supposed to be strong enough to have hair in his heart, has been like this since he came to this town. Honestly, I can't think of a natural cure without special effects or nanomachines. And most importantly --"

"Do you still have it?

"Uhm...... This disease, after all, has almost a 10% chance of not occurring naturally. In short, does that mean someone's killing people in this town with malice?

"Eh."

"Okay? Miss Lucia, Bear came to this town and wandered the abyss of death in just a couple of hours. So, if the first infected person were to be in a coma and die in the same amount of time... if only for one night, this heinous disease should disappear soon."

"... because if I get infected, I can't live a day? You mean the cause of the illness died together?

"That's right. It is only natural to cook that pathogens that are too powerful will perish for each host. If the host dies, there's no way the disease will spread all over town. The concubine believes that the adventurer and the others came to this town and died in the first place. You got an infection in the woods around there? Or were they infected in other towns?... Oh, I see. I guess I've traveled the shortest distance with metastatic magic or something and rushed into the Adventurer Guild with the sole goal of dying. It's a very sick death."

"That's a little... yeah... (what do you think... it...)"

"Well, Miss Lucia. There's a problem here. Isn't that a huge problem?

"What? You still got something?

"Who the hell is killing people in town? And how am I supposed to kill him?

"That's............ no way, Alicia?!

"... I'm not talking about possibilities."

"But how? I wonder if I can do the same thing magically? (Curse? I've never heard of it being real...)"

"It's contagious as if it's a disease, and it makes the host die as if he had just taken poison... It's not like there's no way--"

So Teresa stopped talking. That's not because I thought Alicia might be listening with her ears shut outside the door. Because the possibilities I imagined were too unclamped.

Nevertheless, Teresa seems to have conveyed her speculation to Lucia. Lucia then leaned down with her head there as she entered the chair that was in the room. If you like, it's as if you'll regret it......

Not so long ago, Teresa's story was incredible to Lucia.