Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"Hunter, I wonder where you might be..."

Why is the hunter awake when it's midnight...... Even as he remembered a small question about Waltz's words, Eve was wandering around on the energy ship looking for a hunter.

At that time, Eve seemed to think that the hunter might be at Pixie's, Nik's chick, but she just decided that the hunter wasn't after Pixie... Eve seems to have tentatively decided that the hunter is on board.... No, I wanted to believe that, should I describe it?

As a result, Eve begins to think about where the hunter seems to be when he comes from the Tallap of Energy to the hangar just a short climb.

"(Kitchen?...... yeah. You may not think I'm cooking from this hour, or special training in the hangar... there's no such thing as... or... out there?

Eve guesses where the hunter is while consciously removing the possibility that somehow, he's in his own room. Because Eve didn't want to go to the hunter's room. Anyway, next door is a private room with a bad Catalina. As for Eve, who doesn't like her, I really didn't want to get near her.

But she had to give up. I couldn't imagine where the hunter would be, except in his own room.

"... please, Master Catalina, maybe you want me to stay in the infirmary or somewhere else?

Whimpering about that...... Eve walked down the dim passage toward the living quarters.

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"(I don't know what it is... Something might make my spine feel frizzy... because of my mind...)"

One more corner to reach the hunter's room, and so on, Eve was stopping her legs. That, too, wasn't just stopping my leg. From the corner, he seemed to peer into Chirali and its interior and stare into the dim hallway that was ahead.

At the end of that gaze was Catalina's room. He felt signs that he didn't even get told from it.

"(The odds of opening Catalina's room by mistake with the hunter's room...... yeah. Maybe not. One, two, three... The third room from the corner is probably the only one there! The fourth room is... let's not think about anything extra right now...)"

Eve swallows gokuri and spit, about to walk out of the corner of the passage--,

"(... could it really be okay?

—— but it stops again on the spot.

"(What if the hunter wasn't in his room? The sound of a concoction knocking on the door could also be heard in Catalina's room, right? But the fact that there is no hunter...)"

If there is no hunter and Catalina comes out of the next room, can I handle it properly... With such a worst situation in mind, Eve seems to have unexpectedly stepped on two feet.

"... but we might have to do it!

Instead of standing here forever, there are concerns that things will even get worse in some cases... Eve, who so decides, is ready... And I stepped forward with that foot.

And I just walked about 5 steps --,

Gash!

—— Of all the things Eve had assumed, the worst would happen. The fourth door suddenly opened from where Eve was, as if to coincide with her visit.

"Hiu?!

Eve stood up unexpectedly. Think a scary doctor with a thick needle syringe might come out of the room with the door open...... Because of that, Eve's legs don't move forward or back...... All that seems to have prevented him from even standing.

Because the hallway where Eve stood was dim with little light, just like she used to be when she was traumatized.

And when Eve --,

"Awww......!

—— and voiceless (?) It was when I spoke.

"Is that it, Eve?"

It was Catalina (small), not the Lord of the room, who came out of Catalina (large) room. She and Catalina (Large) lived in the same room, so by chance, the smaller Catalina came out.

"What's wrong? Sit back in there..."

Little Catalina peeks into her face worryingly as she approaches Eve, who was also entering the floor.

versus Eve, if you pat your eyes a few times --,

"... yeah, it could be nothing..." Slow

—— He rose tired, floating a complex gessoli face that could not be taken away from either subsidence or relief. Apparently, as Eve, Catalina (Jr.) didn't want me to look embarrassed.

"Maybe Eve couldn't sleep either?

"Yeah...... I may not remember why, Eve, but I think I fell asleep a long time ago..."

"Bizarre, isn't it? Actually, so do I. I think I slept so badly, but I can't remember at all how or when I slept..."

"Hmm. And Catalina."

"Yeah. Vixen, even if I ask your sister, I don't know, and she says..."

"Eh..."

"Hmm?"

"Ka, Katari...... Dear Vixen, may I be in your room...?

"Yeah. I just fell asleep, didn't I?

"Well, maybe it is..."

Eve relieves Catalina (Jr.) of her words. And at the same time, I seem to have thought.... I thought I'd clean up my errands early and come back from here.

"Yi, Eve, actually, I might have some errands for the hunter."

That's what she said, and as she passed next to Catalina (Jr.), she knocked on the door of the hunter's room with Concon.