Reincarnation Monarch

Episode One Hundred and Seventeen: Spider's Nest

"Nevertheless, concealing the country name of the world over where you were born is certainly an answer."

Carla leaned down and questioned.

"Right... Japan... why did you hide it... why did you hide it? Does concealing it gain anything, or..."

"Hmmm... apparently this problem isn't like thinking about it now and getting an answer, either?

"Right. Ah, you've got another inconclusive question."

"Well don't say that. Maybe this is like a spider's nest."

"A spider's nest?

Carla smiled lightly at Gaius's query.

"That's right. It's a spider's nest. You look at that, and you ever wonder why spiders don't get tangled up in the spider's nest you built?

"... sure... sure might be strange if you ask me... that's a tremendous stickiness and will capture all kinds of prey, right? But I've certainly never seen spiders tangle themselves..."

Then Carla nodded satisfactorily.

"I guess so. It's made to stay out of it."

"Heh... well. It would be weird if it wasn't. But... how are we supposed to stay out of this? Like spider bodies don't stick to spider threads unlike other insects?

Then Carla smiled and shook her head to the side.

"It's not. You, remember a little spider's nest in your head."

"In your head?... Oh, I thought of that."

Gaius honestly thought of a spider's nest in his head, as Carla put it.

"Then explain the shape to yourself."

"Shape?... Oh, yeah. First off, it's overall round, isn't it? There's a center, and the yarn is stretched out to surround it... oh, and there's a longitudinal yarn, right? Radially stretched out from the center. Since the yarn surrounding the center is stretched in such a way as to traverse its longitudinal thread, does it feel like a transverse thread?

Then Carla nodded satisfactorily.

"Right. A spider's nest is a longitudinal filament that extends radially from the center and crosses with it."

"Yeah. Right."

"And the two yarns, the vertical yarn and the horizontal yarn, are the secrets that keep spiders from tangling in their own spider's nest."

Carla said so, smiling niggly.

"Really? But it's called two threads, but it's not another kind, is it?

Carla shook her neck to the side with a smile on Gaius's question.

"Another kind. The longitudinal and transverse yarns have different properties. Spiders use it separately."

When Carla said so, she raised one eyebrow and looked at Gaius' face with satisfaction.