Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

And everyone rolled out to the town of Rice at night, which was surrounded by darkness, and to the world tree, to do their part.

In the meantime ——

"(You're all gone... I... what should I do...)"

—— Waltz, who gave instructions to everyone via Cortex, seemed to have a head about his role. Apparently, herself, she hadn't decided to do it.

Against her like that, the last person left in the same room (?) asked.

"Won't your sister go investigate ~?

After giving instructions to everyone, but not following anyone, like Waltz, it is the macrophage - Cortex - that remained in the guest room. She should have been positive about the World Tree investigation, but didn't seem to follow everyone for any reason.

"Speaking of which, you were there too, weren't you? No? I'm really worried about what to do..."

'I see ~...... I mean, your sister was after the chance to skip the tiger sight, so...? You can't even put it on people's winds ~'

"Whether you skip or not, you can't stand on people's winds by mistake... In the first place, I'm not human..."

That's what I said, a sigh of sigh, a waltz trying to walk away from the spot. She wasn't really trying to skip like that, it seemed like she was going to act alone.

Then Cortex, who saw how it was, accidentally said this.

"What do you think ~? Sister ~. Sometimes we take walks together, etc. ~ '

"A sudden walk or something... that's disgusting, huh? Was there something wrong with you?

'No, it's a simple story.... I was wondering how to behave too ~. The truth is, I was going to go with Eve and the others, but I followed her around and I was upset ~. So, sometimes I thought it would be a good idea to go out with your sister to investigate ~'

"I knew you were free?

"No, I'm not free ~? It would be helpful if you could think about how to use your limited time efficiently and see it as a result. Look, isn't the time now, the time you're supposed to be asleep?

"Speaking of which, you're going to bed..."

and waltz remembering that Cortex was the only one among the homunculus, excluding Theresa, a former human being, who needed sleep. At the beginning of the creation of Cortex, Waltz seemed to be trying to investigate the cause, but now he seemed to have lost his temper to investigate whether it was troublesome or not. As a result, the cause of Cortex's need for sleep remains unknown.

"Tomorrow as a nap for what I was up to tonight ~... so what? Do you want to go ~? Why don't you go ~? Or do you skip ~?

"Go... If you're going with me, where are you going?

'Right ~. I want to explore, so, after all, is it in the world tree ~?

"In the world tree. Hey...... I think there's only traces of insect eating, though?

"So it's on the world tree ~?

"It's..."

Say that much and stop the words...... And waltz showing a few nodding barebacks, as if convinced. Apparently, she thinks Cortex's proposal is not bad.

"... did your sister get interested too ~? What's on that world tree, where it leads to, what's there ~... you're soooo curious ~?

"I don't care, that's a lie. But just so you know, we can't just go. If you want to go, I want to take Lucia and the others..."

"So ~... is it still an investigation in the world tree? I feel like I heard about Julia earlier and she went to the” roots ”of the world tree to do an investigation, but it felt like she hadn't done an investigation of the trunk (...) body ~ '

"... right. Even if we go to the others, there doesn't seem to be anything in particular to do just watching...... shall we, then, go investigate the world tree body? Well, maybe there's only bugs."

'Now let's drill a hole in the world tree and observe inside. It could also be a hand to build a tunnel and labyrinth it ~?

"That's the same thing you do with bugs..."

That's what I'm saying, little sighing waltz. I could only see a slightly happier color in her expression like that because she was happy to act with Cortex or because she was positive about drilling labyrinthine holes in the world tree......

Whatever.

Thus Waltz and Cortex headed to investigate the cracked body of the world tree.