Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"... there is only one way. If what they're saying is right, let's just put it aside and we'll work together."

"" What... "

…… Don't you have to cooperate? I gave you this incredible clock. I mean, isn't this, like, the consideration for cooperation? I didn't give this to you just because I wanted to see my magic props. "

…………

"... No way, they..."

Because Waltz and Cortex reacted very differently than they expected, or Alfania reacted in a frightened manner. It goes without saying that the Waltz did not come in here to mount Alfania's cooperation.

You guessed that--,

"Hehe... hehe!

—— Suddenly, Alfania starts laughing.

"No way, you guys, did you really give this to me just to deepen rapport with me? Hehe..."

"... is there something wrong?

"No, normally, if you give all this substitute as a gift, you think that's what you're asking for?

In response to that word of Alfania, Cortex responded strangely.

"Really ~? I still have extra, but I'm going ~?

When Cortex said so, he simultaneously retrieved the clock in the item box on the ground on the spot. That number, 99.

Look at the pile of clocks stacked as if they lay the cardboard unwrought --,

"............" Pocahontas

—— Now it's time for Alfania to stop. And she realized. … the waltzes think less of the value of the watch they gave as a gift. And I don't have that much expectation of consideration for gifts that I believe are only of low value, ….

As a result, Alfania seems to have decided to change her mind.

"… I understand that they do not need cooperation. So, really, you just need to look at the magic props that the eagles made, huh?

"Uh-huh. Thank you for your postgraduate education."

"... that's what Cortex says, so please?

"It would be good. Follow me."

That's what I say and take a seat, Alfania. After collecting 99 watches, Cortex and Waltz also go after them.

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And the three of them came in a room in the mansion built to surround the great trees. The room was in a position that could not be peeked from other houses that were inside, and the plates attached to the windows also seemed to be mounted at an angle such that the inside could not be peeked from outside except to incorporate light from the sky. Of course, I can't even see the outside from the inside.

Inside such a slightly dim wooden room, it was like a witch's workshop. There are various appliances on the desk, colorful liquids inside that appliance (?) is flowing...... And at the wall of the room, it seemed like it was a failure or something like snobbery-shaped golems and canes lined up.

"This is my workshop. Don't touch anything in the room on your own.

"Yeah, I wouldn't touch it. Because even I, if you don't know, don't want to get roughed up in the room ~...... For example, maids who go into cleaning ~ …"

"Hmm? Do their workshops sometimes get vandalized by servants too? That's odd, isn't it? Even the crocodiles can get hit by the pinus."

"Yeah, I just really want you to give me a break about that. Because I can be fine and deprived of a week's worth of effort ~"

and Cortex remembering what happened in his workshop in the future king's capital of Mid-Eden. Her workshop is overflowing with substitutes that only seem crappy, and maids who go into cleaning rarely throw away what they need... Note that the person in the cleaning is not a maid length Eve, but a waltz pattern whimsically cosplay the maid.

"Uhm. Don't keep each other difficult"

"Sounds like ~. By the way, what are they doing on that desk ~? It looks like they're extracting some toxic liquid ~ …"

"Is this it? This generates ink for drawing magic circuits on magic props. In conventional ink, the circuit is burned out due to overcapacity when more than 3 mags/mm of magic is shed. So what I'm making now is ink that has been crushed and subjected to its own enrichment process and produced. Experimentally, we make sure we can run magic up to 10 mag/mm"

Waltz interrupted Alfania's explanation that

"What's a mag? I understand the permillimeter part, but what's a mag? Magnets? Teslas?

It was Cortex who responded to the inquiry.

"Mag is an indicator of the strength of magic. Consider that the maximum output that can be delivered to one general wizard is roughly 1 mag. By the way, we don't have a standard device, so it's a pretty good unit."

"Hmm. So when I wrote the circuit with ink so far, I could shed magic for three people at a millimeter wide, right? So, the better the ink performs, the thinner you can write, so you can miniaturize the magic props,"

Hearing that word of Waltz, Alfania opened her eyes. Apparently, it wasn't that she was in the process of developing new ink to allow even people with misdigit magic powers like Lucia to use magic props.

"Have you spotted the value... that's just great. Increasing the performance of the ink will not only make the demon props high, but it can also be small."

And Alfania uttered an unexpected statement for some who knew the circumstances.

"If we stick this in... we should be able to reduce the demon avoidance circuits that require massive magic circuits until they are palm sized. But as it is now, dream again. It's going to be a long time ago..."

"... Hey, Cortex?

"... yeah, it's probably about the urban juncture ~"

and waltz and cortex remembering the crystal ball-like magic props that are unfolding a junction in the future world 1300 years from now that protects the town from demons. The demonic props of the urban junction they had seen, from the outside, did not look like a circuit was drawn with something like ink, it was a completely transparent demonic prop.

The two people who remembered that seem to have come to some certainty.

"That demonic prop... could it be..."

"Did you make it out of photolithography or something ~?

"Yep... Does this mean that we're going to teach Alfania how to manufacture integrated circuits? Well, it's not a semiconductor to make..."

Waltz, who drew extremely small lines in extremely small areas, came to think of integrated circuit manufacturing technology in the modern world. Apparently, the two have found a connection between Alfania, who was trying to create high-performance ink, and the demonic props of the urban junction in the future.