Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

All over the ship, various thoughts (?) whirling. Energia was taking the path south. He was headed to Crestling, where Deprexa was based.

"Mid Eden...... or south of the continent. I thought there was only the sea and the rock reef, but could anything else have happened?

In the age of the future, the Waltz had been to the southern tip of Mid-Eden, their destination in this trip. He rented a villa from Count Beltz, the hunter's parent, where he enjoyed a sea bath and so on, and labored his companions.

And at the same time, the place where the Magi Mouse, an experimental animal used by Catalina, was dumped…. It was also the place we tested to see how much Lucia's maximum magic output was.

There is nothing but a rocky reef, the Great Sea Plains. That was Waltz's perception. So she chose it as a laboratory of sorts.

"That place was the first place I got off when I came to this world."

—— For Deprexa, it seemed like a special place.

"... sorry. Deprexa. Actually, hey... that place, the future, is our experimental ground..."

And, I'm sorry, Waltz to apologize.

But for Deprexa, even "special places" didn't seem to mean "important places," and she shakes her head at Waltz's apology.

"That's an odd encounter. I use that place as an experimental ground, too. It could be a new magic experiment or an experiment with all kinds of weapons..."

"You are. I was worried it might be a very important place. Now, there are no more prototypes of the bay left..."

"... Huh?

"You know what? Deprexa. If you condense magic so much, it's like a mass of metal, and when you touch the ground, it's going to explode? If you do that in the heart of the bay, it's already... hey? Maybe it's a deactivation bomb."

"... excuse me, Waltz. Hey, I don't know what you're talking about..."

"Yeah, I guess so. 'Cause I didn't know what it was then, either."

and waltz with both palms facing up. For her, a total doorman about magic, it seemed like a really unexpected thing at the time.

What happened, by the way, was that as soon as the magic sphere released by Lucia at the time fell into the center of the bay, a mushroom cloud of nuclear weapons rose from the spot, evaporating the water in the bay, while creating a huge tsunami. The sight was enough to be seen as a bombing by nuclear weapons or a meteorite drop. By then, Lucia's magic had become powerful and dangerous.

... That was about six months ago. Nowadays, her magic is even stronger and must produce different results than it once was.

"It...... was my house okay?

"Maybe you'll be okay? Because in your home, in the future world, it's somewhere else."

"What? Different place...?

"Right? But... if you say anything extra, history is going to change, so where did you move it, let's keep it for fun in 1300 years?

and once the words are punctuated on the spot...... Waltz, who was on the bridge, asked Deprexa, looking at the view flowing under his eyes.

"So where is your crestling? You can't go anytime soon if they tell you about the universe. I need to set up an airtight hatch or something."

Then Deprexa shakes her head again and responds to Waltz like this.

"It's not the universe. As for the location...... well, let's be a surprise when we arrive. Spectacular, isn't it? What does that crestling look like..."

"Hmmm...... Looking forward to it? (It's spectacular...)"

Waltz turns his gaze forward in the front of the ship with a trace made virtuous.

What they were currently flying was over what we would call the Kingdom of Merclio in the future. There's also a view of the lake where the capital of the kingdom is made... It still seemed like it would take a few dozen or so minutes to get inside Mid-Eden territory.

In such a scenic setting, Waltz will in some ways see what can be termed a "spectacular" sight.

"Could that be..."

It extends straight from south to north, like a large waterway...... Such a thing was made in the view beneath the eyes.

But is it really an aqueduct, it didn't seem that way? There's no water flowing there, no bridges crossed, and on top of that, it looks like it's just been made recently... Yes, the brown ground was ripping out, as if it had been made in the last couple of days.

What it means is ——

"No way, is that... the magic trail that Altair unleashed?

—— A trace of the Altair's magic beam that was transferred by Lucia to the southern lands and released from there towards the Lucians. It seems that all those who were on the bridge arrived at such a hunch in unison.

And right after that. Waltz will notice some concerns.

"... I don't think so, but when I go to Crestling, it doesn't mean Altair's waiting... does it?

The word pointed Deprexa frowned silently as she stared where she was going...... Because Waltz couldn't wipe away the concerns he had......