"Yes, how about that. Relax, Chick."

If I rushed, there was Dahlia with a look that uncommonly exfoliated her emotions.

I'm glad I grabbed this guy's collar from the stand-up and pulled it off, but if I was a little behind, I would have started it on catfights, wouldn't I?

"What's going on, Dahlia? It's not like you're going to jump on people's families all of a sudden."

"... I... I have a limit of patience"

"Hmm. Lue, did you do something to Dahlia?

I don't even show how to pinch my mouth from earlier, I just say something to her quietly watching how things go.

Somewhere, like I gave up. Lue, as if he had such determination, who said that he had no choice but to do anything, slowly turned his gaze to Dahlia.

"... Dahlia. Even if you don't want to admit it, maybe this is true. He may be a cruel, hopeless story, but he's crazy enough to do it flat."

"Don't be ridiculous... I... our strides, our efforts, everything..."

Words similar to Dahlia's groans, like squeezing them out.

There, Lue pokes at it.

"It was futile. This ritual is not meant to enrich the continent or protect it from the outside."

"... I say how many battles we've been through to build this bond..."

"The seal of the Seven Stars wasn't meant to be established without sacrifice."

What the hell did Lue find out?

I wonder what conclusions we have drawn from the information we have spent and seen on this continent so far.

Why is Dahlia so disturbed?

The mystery is slowly told out of her mouth.

"Simultaneous sealing of two seven-stars. In doing so, it converts the vast amount of inert magic elements and qi that leak out with regenerative techniques and interconverts them into the magic force necessary for sealing each other. By doing so, we maintain the seal with the minimum necessary magic… That is what Dahlia and the rest of the continent have built, and the connections that cover the perimeter of the continent have the meaning of a defense that allows us to detect intrusions from the outside so that the magic doesn't escape -"

"Oh, yeah. So I argued with a lot of people to put up a ritual on all the continents. We can't just talk about it, the world."

"So - as a result of this tension -" unilateral magic collection ceremonies "and" thought induction ceremonies ", and finally," the magic of life extension that keeps certain people alive ". I mean... I'm here, Dahlia. There's someone on this continent who's in the same situation as me..."

"Nobody! Not to sacrifice! We fought!

"That's the paradox in the first place... don't you think Dahlia would sacrifice the lives she scattered in that battle?

"You've made up your mind... but more sacrifices than we can talk about, and the continent itself is far better than all humans perishing... even Lue... you can understand"

"... I get it. I know... but this operation... it's all inverted in this part of the world."

Rhue makes the meaning of the surgical ceremony precisely deciphered and spoken.

A surgical ceremony replaces and rearranges words that are inherently meaningful with specific words, and also presents in words the actions to be taken, weaving them into words.

In other words, it's a programming thing that simplifies and combines instructions.

And here's how she deciphered the part of the procedure that Dahlia and the others had carved that could not be analyzed.

'Exclusive' rather than 'give'.

'Keep fearing', not 'Don't be drunk by faintness'.

'Keep him alive', not 'Keep him killing the subject'.

We should all share the burden of magic, but we're rewriting it and focusing it somewhere.

The claw marks of battle, grievances, and the desire not to be trapped by such negative emotions should cause extreme fear, distraction, and quiet accumulation of negative emotions.

And to call it a seal is abusive, but by continuing to kill the subject, the technique of cutting off the power to break the seal - had turned into a technique of keeping someone specific alive.

"I'm sure he's here. Someone who keeps being kept alive and is in charge of the seal.... Hey, Dahlia. What were you doing to the kids who got your name?

"... education. You will be exposed to more magic than usual at the moment of your birth than you were born in response to my wake. Bring the pregnant woman on the moon to where I sleep. And he was educating his children in every way similar to witchcraft."

... That's probably a great honor if you don't know anything.

If my own children are to be given life with such blessings...... they will happily gather to come to Dahlia.

But if there's a back to that act...

And what if that man is involved in the beginning of that custom?

"It's a fennel, right, I told you to start it"

"... oh yeah"

"... well. I wonder if Dahlia still has that facility."

"There was a raid, and it was shut down there. It's happening in the royal palace now."

"Even in a closed place, I think I'll know a lot when I look into it."

The expression of Dahlia, whose emotional disturbance had subsided until earlier, seeped somewhere in the colour of giving up.

The emotional disturbance, the face of its giving up, I'm sure... I was thinking about it somewhere in my head myself, but it couldn't be, because it was a thought I had sealed, so what?

I can't believe you're so mad at me.

You're the one who doesn't get flushed around all the time, just decides the emotions to put out, based on the thoughts in you.

And you got mad... at yourself, I'm sure, it was.

"Daria, have you settled down a little?

"Sorry, just a little disturbed"

"Not at all. But... I was listening to the two of you, and a little bit of an unsolicited idea was built up in me, but aren't you willing to ask?

They're both important people. In the anxiety that those two would become contentious, as always, my thoughts without people had divided the bulk of my brain, which should be filled with worry, into a different idea.

What I've heard so far. Events I've seen. My feelings. And imagine.

We cover that made hypothesis with paranoia that we can imagine from even more nuanced events.

Though it may be a complete delusion, wonder and it can lead to the right answer.

"... Esper. Well, it's been strangely good for a long time."

"Well. Sometimes I think too deeply."

"Kai-kun, talk to me. Probably because I think it's something that's really looming."

Gain a certain trust and appreciation and start talking.

The timing of the birth of gray hair and the children chosen and blessed.

Moratorium nightmare and a reversing surgical formula of meaning.

Residents who are disproportionately afraid of the name of Semiere and the words and deeds of Fennel.

The seal of the Seven Stars and the way they were, someone who sacrificed them.

Circulate your thoughts so that you can apply them all, inexorably, to one story.

"… assuming that even when a common child is born, it gains some great protection or magic. Rue says that humans on this continent who do not have the protection they are supposed to have are prone to simple allusions and thought inducements. So even now, the story of a semi-alle witch is stained with the continent, and the residents react disproportionately."

"Oh, yeah. When children are born, they gain equal protection in this world. The first thing I can give you is to share it with the kids from this world. It's like immunity, the ability to handle magic."

"Oh. But... what if, at the time of birth, you pinpoint something important about it? And what if that... was given only to the children gathered around you?

This is already confirmed in me.

"Of all the children who were born, who were the twins?

"Only one pregnant woman gave birth to the only twin"

"... right. As a result, something to concentrate on one side was separated and produced a different result than planned. Just for the record, Amami's definitely got your name. One crack in the twins, they can't use witchcraft."

"... I knew it. So... you're Sir Arklight's daughter."

And Layla, that one crack, was born in an extremely pale color, as if Amami had taken her hair color.

I don't know what sorcery talent looks like, but I don't think I'm that good at it in my predictions.

"A grey-haired child is the harm of being deprived of the magic he needs to gain at birth. If your awakened and named child is to be born on the same day, it also means that the gray-haired child and the blessed child are born at the same time."

This is Dahlia, because if it's true, it's an event to be aware of. It's a simple equation.

But I still didn't know my awakening would bring misfortune... I guess I didn't want to think about it.

"And 'Demons of Moratorium' born at the same time. I honestly don't know this... but isn't it that you're triggering something to be born intentionally? To plant fear."

"... few people associate gray hair with that demon. That's a good chance."

"Speaking of which, I was told, too." Gray hair has brought disaster, "he said. Maybe there was someone in the past who was spreading rumors that way"

"To sum up what I think, a grey-haired child is something deliberately created to engage each other so as not to make that demon forget the culture that abhors grey-haired, with the detriment of producing a talented, excellent child. And Fennel is trying to gather feelings of fear and use them for something because of the continental rituals. From start to finish, it's my hypothesis that that frigid kid is involved."

It's rampant, but the muscles go through.

If that kid on this continent is also involved in the formation of a nation, there's no way such a frigid kid could have planted anything there.

As a result, there were also great secrets hidden in the bonds that Daria had made.

"I don't want to admit that reasoning, but I'm a little bit behind my head, too."

"Yeah, you are. But... there's one thing you don't know, right?

"... who, at the expense of the Hmm... I don't know all this."

Quietly Dahlia stands up and hands Lühe the notebook she had in her hand.

Perhaps that's her report.

Dahlia, who gave it to her, stepped out this way, exhaling a small sigh.

"... I knew I would accompany you to the Republic. Much of the beginning of the union lies on the republican side. And the site of the facility where Miss Amami was born is also on an isolated island on the Republic's side."

"... so you're going to accompany us on our investigation journey?

"Oh. Whatever, I'll hear your request, and I'll do whatever I want."

Fine. As I said before, if you get something definitive, I'll help you with it.

You flip the anti-flag... No, in this case, if you're going to fight a real enemy who has no enemies for the country, I was going to hitch a ride on it.

Dahlia's accompanying proclamation seems to have been too much to erase the disturbing air from the rue until earlier, so she brightens her expression in the wrong place and looks back here.

"Dahlia's coming with me!

"Yeah, we were talking about something that might happen originally. It would be more convenient to have Dahlia here than to find out about Fennel's aim or the seal"

"Caivon also said something windy that he was originally investigating about the Seven Stars. Come on, let me know about that."

Dahlia went on to discuss the results of the analysis of the procedure with Rue, and to tell her what the parts Dahlia couldn't read and decipher were.

If I didn't disturb him like I did earlier, he looked terribly bad and pointed his face at me... but what did he feel bad about?

"... the emotions that come up aggressively are already completely 'Dahlia' stuff, I wonder what"

Slightly, I think I miss that. Even if it looks like a wind that hasn't changed, the years of five years still change people.

... Everyone, change. Sometimes it's called growth, and sometimes it's perceived negatively.

Daria, I wonder which one it is in your case, huh?

"Mr. Kai, were you okay...? I thought it would irritate me when I was on my way to a large group, but I didn't really come back..."

Back in the kitchen, Rayce, who heard Dahlia's voice with me, ran over like she couldn't contain her anxiety.

I'll briefly summarize the conversation and explain it to her.

Then she is still outraged by the kind of content of an experiment using the child to be born.

"... put your thoughts on your mother's child and do such an outrageous thing... is it really human... and then... Isn't Ikes... sacrificing so many children -!"

"Oh... but fortunately, the majority of those gray-haired kids are here. Even a child born the same year as Mr. Ikes must be living here..."

A child who has been mercifully raised as my son has taken protection from many children.

The fact is, after all, it's inflicting no less pain on her heart.

A slightly distorted look on Reis's face. This too... is your fault if you trace it back, Fennel.

He deceives Lue, he deceives Dahlia, he deceives the country, he sacrifices his children, he grieves Reis, he distorts the country, he tries to fulfill his desires.

Be glad, you're the best motherfucker of all time. There is not a single way to help.

Wait, you'll be about to start noticing that 'incredible phenomenon' by now.

It's already started, what's the prelude for your last.

"Mr. Kai......?

"Hmm?"

"No... I just looked a little scared right now..."

"Damn shock. Oh, yes, Reis, I have another report... and when I went to the republican side, Dahlia was supposed to accompany me. I've been trying to figure out the origin of the laboratory and the juncture."

I was prepared that there would also be dissatisfaction.

But she said, 'Oh, I knew it,' but she gave me that look.

"Thin, I had a feeling that would happen. I'm okay now. My distrust of Dahlia... hehe, I watched her here and she just disappeared naturally."

"Well, he's the one who keeps looking, for better or worse,"

"Yeah. He seems to be floating, he's really thinking a lot, and he's carrying it. It looks clever and somewhere clumsy... really, someone looks just like you"

"Hmm, I know someone else like that."

"Hehe, yes. Yes, it is."

What a difficult guy there was.

You'd better get a little distance from that kind of troublesome acquaintance, Reis.

When I told her that, for some reason, she sounded strange and laughed out loud.

That night. We arranged a treat on the table just to say it was a continuation of the feast of the day, and we all indulged in it, and the inner director spoke at a time when it was time for less and less of the rest of the plate on the table.

"Phew, it's still delicious. I've never thought a dish made by a person would taste so good. I'd like you to share the recipe with me later."

"Yeah, that's for sure"

"Well... as I said at lunch, Mr. Caivon, may I have a moment after this? I'd be glad to have the Virgin here if I could."

"Hmm? Oh, I don't mind about Dahlia. Then we'll go with Caivon."

Leave the cleanup to Reis and Amami, as well as Rhue, and head to the long back bedroom as soon as possible.

When it comes to calling the two of us, it's probably about the body of the inner length or that device.

Opening the door of the room, which had been burned down by the action of her defensive mechanism, the inner length sat in a chair placed at the window, staring quietly outside.

"Heh heh, I forgot to knock again, Mr. Caivon."

"Ah... no, I'm sorry, I'm worried about the door"

I'll fix it later.

I still sit back on the couch in my room with Dahlia, who speaks in unfamiliar salutations as to whether the consciousness of sin still persists.

"Well...... I have to thank you both again. Thank you. Thanks to you, I can and will keep an eye on the children."

"Welcome, thank you. Sit down. Protect me from all this."

"I'm... I'm not the person to thank in the first place..."

"No. If I ask you, you're going to come in here without being informed of anything. I appreciate it, including the restoration of the settlement house."

"It's..."

"Daria, be honest with me and accept my gratitude. I appreciate it, too, for waking her up again."

"... ok"

"Hehe, did you miss me that much, Mr. Caivon? If that's all you have to say... I can thank you a lot, but how about that?

Whoa, that's a very soothing suggestion, but that's just not good.

It's a very, very fascinating and spitty story.

Then that's when Dahlia snuck up and whispered next door.

'Seriously, it's just like a human being... so normally “we can do this"'.

What the hell are you doing? I know you needed it to be treated. Do you say that here and now?

Stop, stop oiling the brakes of reason over here.

"I'm sorry, it's very fascinating... because there are two of them"

"Oh, too bad. So how's Mr. Dahlia? My point of view is that you're probably both a handsome cunt."

"Excuse me. Give me a break. I'm living a lot of things in balance... Oh, but if you could just do me one favor, I'd like to talk to you a little later..."

"Hehe, I get it"

"What, are you up to something?

"Secrets. Sometimes I want to give my greed full."

While we continue such exchanges, we close the topic once we try to listen to the original purpose, Director Ri.

And as expected, Director Ri started talking about that device.

"As things stand, I don't need to use that device often anymore, but I think that if we spend the next 10, 20 years and time, we may need it one of these days. So if it's possible, I'd like to ask you to repair the device."

"Oh, then it's already completely healed. I fixed the part of the peripheral magic that was dysfunctional, and it wouldn't start unless it was under certain circumstances."

"Yeah. I was talking to Dahlia, too, and then I thought I'd make a room dedicated to the hall and rest there."

"That's... that's very handy. It's a pitiful story, but for once, as strange as I may say, was it the effect of feeling 'death' that made me very, very timid?"

Director Ri tells a slightly sad distortion of that somewhere too finished face.

"Also, what if I stopped waking up? What if I can't stay with those kids anymore? I was feeling that anxiety. So I thought with that device, the anxiety would be a little clearer."

"Long..."

... I've thought about it before.

What makes a man define himself as himself?

What defines a person as a person?

I still don't know the answer to that, but I still have one thought in mind right now.

"I can fear my death for anything but myself."

I wonder if that's the idea, the idea, that makes people feel better.

Nor is it a survival instinct. Nor is it an instinct to protect the species. Being scared for something you decide for yourself.

Now I thought that saying fear was more evidence than anything that she was a person.

"You don't want to show people if you can. If you don't mind, I'll take you to the mansion later this evening."

"Right...... so, behind the mansion, take it to the center of the rose garden? It's also the entrance to the wine cellar."

"I see, are you going to rest underground?"

"Well, I'll coordinate the magic flow later in the wine cellar. It's just the magical side of the place flowing from that big white spirit tree, and it should be in operation for hundreds of years."

She shrinks and weakens slightly as if she had sighed, when she should not need to breathe.

Don't worry, are you ready? Good, then.

"Oh, yeah. Mr. Rei, it's actually an organ I removed from your body..."

Then Dahlia took some hexagonal mass out of the void.

It is not an inorganic or organic object like a machine.

It's artificial in shape but it makes you feel plush somewhere, it has a warm shine, it's red and transparent.

For a moment, it's as if blood crystallized without losing its raw color, what an idea.

"Heh... you looked like that. I've never seen it myself."

"The... detailed analysis was impossible even for me. Maybe I'll use it in the future, and I thought I'd give it back."

"Hehe, I'm sure I won't be using it anymore, either, it is. It's just... Right, Mr. Caivon, you're going to continue your journey, aren't you?

Director Ri walks over here with the crimson crystals he received from Dahlia in his hand.

"If, on your journey, you met someone like me. Let me show you this. In case there's one, it might be possible."

I received it, it was supposed to be cold, because it felt like the palm I touched warmed up.

"Okay. I'll take care of it."

"Hehe, you feel a little psychopathic walking with a piece of my body"

"Ugh... then I'll give it back"

"I refuse"

Again, they take it by the balls. I am no match for this man who makes it.

Then we told her what we were going to do.

Going to the Republic. And I can't come back here for a while.

And that this country will change dramatically in the near future.

No matter what I told her, she didn't surprise me, she just listened quietly.

I'm glad to hear that. It's like you're affirming all of this behavior.

"Then you should tell us about the entrance and exit on the republican side. Just take Amami to the exit... No, just you guys, I'll give you the map."

"The chief...?

"... could create a stray,"

"Lost...?

"Yeah. I talked to Amami a lot today. In a short period of time, the environment surrounding her has changed a lot."

Oh, I see. Indeed, now Amami is under the asylum of Sir Arklight.

But right now, we have to stay here for a little while.

The possibility of being able to keep an eye on the fennel, and the possibility of annoying Sir Arklight.

None of that made us antagonistic with Fennel.

But what is stray?

"I'm sure I want to live with you. But that kid can't leave this place alone. I don't want you to get lost like that."

"... Speaking of which, they told me to stay here, so did I."

"My first friend, made outside, so you are. Because she has never been able to make anything like it because of the situation. I can't help it."

"... I'll say it again. This country will change soon. I believe it will be a little more gentle than it is now."

"Tell you what, Caivon. Mr. Li, let me reinforce that declaration. This country, what I call it, is starting to go crazy. I'll make it right."

You're pretty good at it, too.

Yeah - if you're so serious, I'm comfortable too.

If that's all I'm saying, I'll show you my last hand.

Let me tell you one thing about that courage that will hold you back.

Rest assured, what's next to you is a crazy existence that can smash the culprit to death with all the seals and troublesome manipulations as a last resort.

"When the Virgin says that much, there's something quite truly looming. So... just a little bit this time, let's hope. Hehe, I'm sure you'll live up to that expectation again."

That way, after the inner length's room.

I got a map from her with details of the entrance and exit from the republican side, and with that leg, I'm headed to our bedroom.

Well, it's been a long time since I've planned a trip.