Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

The ship was wrapped in chaos, as Yuki and Alfania had assumed. All of a sudden, because of the darkness and the floating sensation that struck me, few were in a state of panic.

In time, those who were acting on a group basis seemed relatively calm. We were talking to each other, trying to stabilize each other's spirits so that we wouldn't panic.

It therefore seems that Yuki and Alfania went around looking for only one person who was isolated and unable to move, while speaking out and cooperating with such people. Private rooms, dining room, warehouse, toilet, etc…. While successfully using railings, walls, etc., he searched around the ship without scraping.

"Yu, it's Yuki. I need a minute......" hey ha

"What's wrong?

"At my age...... It's hard to keep up with young people."

"Ha..."

"Why are you doing so well? Because she's a snowwoman?

"Right...... Maybe it's because there are no humans?

"... Huh?

"Well, anyway. I'll be circling the ship in a few moments, so good luck. Next... Ah, that's the last one. It's a room with a magic furnace."

in a room that was just ahead of us when we moved the long aisle. It was in a room with a Stranzia magic furnace.... No, the magic conductor furnace is a (...) room, to be exact? In any case, it is a room where the Deprexas struggled to the end to stabilize the rampant demonic conductor furnace in order to protect those in Strandia.

Neither Yuki nor Alfania seemed to know what had happened in the main engine room where the Magic Conductor was located, as they were not in a situation where they could converse with Cortex and Waltz, who knew the circumstances. If I had known, I would have hesitated to enter the room.

They will therefore open the main cabin door, without any particular concern for anything. Well, that's not why the vacuum world is spreading.

Gaga, gaga, gaga...

The other side of the door opened by Yuki's power was a pile of crap. It was as desolate as if we had been forced to remove the various devices connected to the mainframe, and there was a sight that could literally be described as unbroken.

Inside such a room was the figure of one girl. She seemed to be kneeling in front of the place where the main aircraft would have been, as if to pray. Yes, as if gravity was working just there......

She —— Cortex, without looking back, asked Yuki and the others:

"... do you two know what happened here ~?

It was Alfania who answered that question.

"... how is this, someone rammed up?

"… in that answer, it is both correct and incorrect. It was Master Deprexa and Master Sebastian who were here. You two broke the equipment here to disconnect the demon conductor that started the runoff from the ship... and you two traveled to space with the demon conductor."

"Become..."

"That's what..."

"That's right. That's what happened. With those two here, this is how we can breathe, right?

Cortex, while saying so, did not break his attitude as if he were praying.

Seeing how it was, Yuki and Alfania looked at each other and then approached Cortex's side, both of whom, like Cortex, were going to offer their prayers.

And the two began to pray thoughtfully as they pulled the cable that was out of the nearby ground and fastened their bodies. Cortex, who sees how it goes, smiles bitterly for some reason and asks again at the two of them.

"Both of you, what are you doing ~?

"What... I'm praying..."

"Has Master Deprexa lost her life trying to protect herself from the weasels? Don't you deserve to pray?"

In response to those two, Cortex zeroed in a crunch and a grin. And she turned her gaze toward the direction of the lost magic furnace, and said:

"Those two are still alive ~?

""... Huh?

"I've given you two a macrophage number one, so there's no mistake. I just confirmed that Macrophage-1 was able to keep the two of us safe ~"

"So, then I have to go help..."

If you mean you're drifting into space, you have to go help...... Yuki, who knew what a vacuum outside was like, seemed in a hurry.

But Cortex, unfortunately, shook his head sideways.

"That's impossible."

"Why?

"Because history changes."

"What...? History changes... change?

"That's right. Macrophage No. 1, absorbing the explosive energy released by the demonic conductor, is wandering somewhere by now, enlarged. Place and time ~... we don't know"

"Does that mean... that one day, on top of the world tree, it will be like when Macrophage was there?

"No ~, that's a little different ~... I don't think the point of view is wrong. Evidence of this is that Macrophage-1, previously recovered from the top of the world tree, did not have the appearance of either Deprexa or Sebastian."

When Cortex said so, he narrowed his eyes happily.

I don't know why such an explanation of her proves the survival of Deprexa and Sebastian, although Yuki and Alfania tilt their necks... Because Cortex didn't go into any further detail, he decided to think, "That's what it is."

Thus, their onboard patrol is over...... Those who were in Stranzia only waited for Waltz to arrive.