Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"... why don't you stop apologizing? You're getting smaller with both ears blocked, aren't you? Endels."

"... Huh?

".................." puffy

It's unclear what effect it had on Deprexa's apology, but the Endels boy on the side who was receiving her apology was reacting beyond the level of not wanting to hear an apology or anything else, just saying he wanted to get away from the spot. Perhaps Deprexa's words also had an ultrasound modulation function added, which, on the same principle as bone conduction speakers, allowed the apology to reach the auditory nerve directly.... Well, one of the possibilities.

"... I can hardly seem to forgive you"

"That's right..."

and waltz to answer while including a variety of implications.

Seems like she decided to go back to the point where Deprexa was going in her absence after she said that.

"Well, Deprexa? You already know where we're from, don't you?

"The future in 1300 years, did you mean?

"Yes, yes. So, as for you, I don't know how to go back to the future, but we can work together, right? For once, just confirm."

"Yes, unfortunately, neither principles nor theories exist in the database within me that would transcend time. So to the best of my ability… I will cooperate if it is to replenish supplies or to accommodate personnel. But...... I don't doubt it. How could you jump from the future to the past? If that's possible, I think it's easy to go back to the future..."

How hard is it to come to terms with the past on the same timeline... Even Deprexa, who had the knowledge of the modern world, seemed completely unimaginable.

That waltz was the same. That's why she seemed to let herself find out what Deprexa was trying to say.

"... I mean, where we made the time jump, you want to say that tip, right?

"I see... is that likely?

"Oh, yeah...... Well, anyway, let's go to the first place we've been in this era, shall we? There's no objection, is there?

There was no one to dispute her words like that. Somehow, they would have headed straight to the heavenly side of the world tree if Beatrice hadn't said they wanted to see Olija...

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The scene moves to Cortex's lab. There the two fox daughters seemed to face each other with a somewhat serious look on their faces.

"... is it good ~? Lucia. You should never tell anyone what you're about to explain ~?

".................." Kokuri

"I told someone how it works, but at the end of the day, maybe, the world should never go back to normal ~..."

"…………" Thank you.

Lucia, who couldn't hide the tension, before Cortex, who spoke heavily and slowly. When Cortex talks with a serious look, it doesn't always get busy...... Lucia seemed to have such a hunch.

And the hunch is meddling.

"Lucia. As a matter of fact, I could have predicted a long time ago that you would have difficulty with the outburst of magic"

"What?"

"I wasn't the one who expected it. I'm your sister."

"Your sister...?

"In the first days Lucia and her sister met, Lucia's magic was only to the extent that she was somewhat fire-powered. That was, at some point, beyond the magic of Mid-Eden's most powerful magician and wandered Canopus-like, and even more so magical that it melted the mountain in an instant ~ … the propensity for increased magic was just secondary function. Your sister was watching it and noticed ~.... As it is now, Lucia said that one day she will literally turn it into a walking bomb."

"Walk...... bomb......?!

"So your sister ~... well, let's put that aside. And there's one more thing I need to tell Lucia. Why does Lucia's magic keep increasing ~"

"Wow, you know what I mean?! How did this happen..."

"... I'm shocked to hear it, don't you?

"I'm already in shock, so maybe there's nothing more..."

"... the cause is your sister. Seeing this time travel and the presence of Dear Deprexa, I was convinced. Perhaps your sister ~ …"

"... what about your sister?

"Not only are we from a different world here, but I think we're from a future way ahead of the future 1300 years from now."

"Oh, yeah... what..."

"As far as the reports from Atlas in the future go, whatever we do in the past will not change the future. Why that is, because we - and Lucia in particular - are going to match the tsunami of history. To put it another way, the distortion of the world gives Lucia magic in an attempt to match the future with the tsuji of the past...... you know ~?

"... even back in the old days, your sister herself is the one from the future, so you're trying to match the tsuji of the future farther ahead... after all, you're going to give me magic, right? So the magic was gathering on me when I was with your sister... Yeah, I'm gathering, he said..."

"You know. I can't say for sure, but that's exactly what I'm thinking of the theory. I mean..."

And Cortex uncovered the hypothesis he had in mind against Lucia.

"Magic power —— or something called magic vegetables, is a distortion of the world itself…. Because it is the distortion of the world itself, can the people of this world exercise [magic] beyond the relativity expressed in E = mc ^ 2...... That's what I think. If not, Lucia would have been like a dry mummy the moment she used so much magic that she turned the moon into a fireball ~"

"... sorry, Cor. Hey, I don't know what you're talking about..."

"Well, in short, it's going to be a big deal if we keep this up, so I'll tell you what to do."

And, just a little bit unfortunately, Cortex mouths the conclusion.

It should be noted that the meaning of Lucia's words was not as received by Cortex, but as if they had different meanings...... She didn't seem to realize that.