Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"... heh!... that way!...... Hmm. Not yet!" Niyali

"... hunter, what are you doing?

When I come back to the entrance hall, I'm smiling with Niyaniya as the hunter stares at a place where there's nothing in the room... Eve, who saw how it was, pulled it off unexpectedly. At this time, in her, the always cool and dependable figure of the hunter must have collapsed with a roar.

"Hmm? Are you back?

"Ugh, yeah......"

…… Oh, well. Eve wouldn't know. "

"What?"

"There's room to hide everywhere in the room, and someone peeks at me from there. Maybe he could have told me to keep an eye out for something bad here."

"Who... who? I don't think there's room for people to hide..."

"Right...... I can make my body smaller like energy and potentia...... right! A fairy!"

"?!" Biku

Gattang!

The moment the hunter speaks of a "fairy," there are obvious signs drifting from the shadow of furniture that was in the entrance hall. Apparently, something hidden there surprised me when I was put to the test of who I was.

To that word of the hunter, the elf girl back with Eve is also listening...... She also seemed to have had a surprised reaction with her eyes open again.

"I didn't know you knew who you were when you didn't show up... It's not just that, is it?

"Who am I? Hmm... I'm just a hunter! ♪ Killah ♪

"... are all those around Lord Waltz like this?" Boso.

"" Yeah?

"No, it's solitary. When life gets longer, thanks for talking to me more and more."

"" Long life?

"Hmm. But I'll be alive for thousands of years."

The hunters are now more surprised by the girl's words. They say they only look a little older than Eve, but they live hundreds of times longer than Eve. For two people who still lived only about one or two digits, it would have been unimaginably old.

Still, the hunters never doubted what the girl said. Since both the hunters and Eve had heard rumors that the elves were a long-lived species, the foundations for accepting even a long life could be said to be abnormal.

As a result, against two people who were pointing their gaze at the elf girl as if they even saw a rare beast...... The girl on the side who was being watched asks, dropping her shoulder.

"So, what are they doing here?

"Hmm? Yeah, actually, I'm looking for people"

"Do you think some of our elves would annoy Lord Waltz's hand?

"No, I don't know. Maybe not, maybe not. Waltz asked me to bring him in."

"Hmm. So, who are you looking for?

"The one with the name Alfania--"

"Buffoo?!

"Hey, you okay? I suddenly coughed up..."

"Yes, I'm fine. I may have caught a cold recently because of the sudden cold..."

and a girl who keeps her mouth shut with an excellent look on her face as the word goes.

Then she seemed to think of something, with a rugged look on her face. The hunter, watching the condition, asked, leaning his neck wonderfully.

"What's going on? Could it be that you have any idea what the name Alfania is?

"Oh yeah... not that I don't have any idea"

"Then tell me--"

And, where the hunter spoke, the girl interrupts the words.

"Oh, I can tell you. But instead of teaching, can I ask for one?

"Hmm? Please?

"What do you want me to ask?

"Mm-hmm. Actually... I'm facing a big problem in here right now. I want you to help me solve that."

"Problem, huh? You were just about to talk to me halfway, weren't you?

"Could it be a problem that the Eves can do something about?

"We know that they (...) are similarly hilarious hunters. Therefore, I would ask them to crusade a certain demon."

"... Hmm?

"Monster... (Eve, you may not be a hunter...)"

Hunter and Eve each had a distinctive look on their face. The hunter seems to be pleased somewhere, and Eve is an annoying look.

But the two expressions changed to the same color the next moment. Because the girl said a hard word to believe.

"The demon I want you to hunt... is Elder Bear"

"" Hmm?! "" [incomprehensible]

"You're a vicious demon who ate and killed the inhabitants of this town... Now everyone avoids inadvertent outings to avoid being attacked by bears. Even if they visited the houses, nobody tried to open the door because of him. He's a strange bear... It's like imitating what people do, knocking on doors. So I was distracted..."

"Just give me a minute. Um... how many bears did you kill?

"There is one dead. There are about five injured. I hear that many of the injured were attacked trying to help those who lost their lives."

To that word, both Eve and the hunter lost their words. That should be it, too. We both know the Elder Bear the Elf girl spoke of... But because that elder bear didn't seem to attack people.