Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Concon Con.................. Shin

"No one... is there?

"... like?

A large barrel-shaped house in the basement of a world tree that reflected the hobbies of those who lived there. The waltzes who knocked on the wooden doors that were provided there seemed bewildered because no response had come back from them.

"What do we do?

"Are you going in there on your own?

"The problem is that... do you want to go like a brave man? (For once, Lucia, I'm a brave candidate for Mid-Eden...)"

"You sound like a brave man... maybe you're going to do something like that thief you said before, sister?

"Huh? No... if you don't take things, it won't be a burglary, will it? Well, I think it would be an invasion of privacy..."

and waltz to say so in half a joke, recalling a bunch of the brave barebacks (akugi) in a RPG. Then she said this, looking just a little serious.

"But since the situation is the situation, you think you have to go with enough momentum to break in... If I'm confused here now, tomorrow night, the world tree may be gone..."

"That's... yeah. Right..."

"If there's anything in the house that looks like" demon gods, "let's just look inside to apologize peacefully, shall we?

"Yeah. But actually, if you're just sleeping?

"Because time is the time... Well, that's when you do! Bad demon god who doesn't wake up when he speaks! Yeah!"

Say that--

Giggy, giggy...

—— and waltz that opens wooden doors. And so is Lucia...... And we both tried to peek into the barrel —— that's when it happened.

Zdwong!!

Bun......

Those two sounds echo on the spot at the same time. In which the former --

"Hey?! What, is that it?!

—— With sound generated around Waltz grabbing Lucia and backstepping at high speed......

And the other sound--

".................." loose

--It was a magical sound emitted against the waltzes by a black object that was somehow incompetent. To be more specific, of metastatic magic.

"Hey, whatever..."

"I want to hear that, too.... I mean, no way, that's not the demon god, is it?

"Oh no... the demon I saw was a woman, wasn't she? I wasn't like that ghost..."

"Oh, really? You also know Lucia that the demon god I saw here before... Someone like that black shadow. Well, people at that time, they had feet on the ground..."

"Yeah... maybe they're both the same person... I'll be back!

"What is it now, that..."

".................." loose

Bun......

and towards the place where the waltzes stood until just a few milliseconds ago, the distortion of the apparent space as if it were a ripple —— something "black" that generates metamorphotic magic. It is an indefinite object that is clearly different from both the collection of insects that the braves are in the process of exterminating on earth and the ”demon gods” that the waltzes have previously seen in the world tree... He seemed to look like black gas woven with worn out robes. Or maybe I can describe it this way. —— Death God, and.

"Sister already? For one thing, isn't it good to do it? Absolutely, that, I don't think he's a demon. I mean, even if I was a demon, I'm not sure I can have a decent conversation with such a scary opponent..."

"Well, in terms of the scary looks, I can't say about people either... but I agree with Lucia on that suggestion. Even though I'm not sure I'll negotiate, it's a good place for them to look at it like that, and it's already super hard mode..."

Even so, Waltz, who didn't try to fight right away and decided to talk to him for once. Apparently, she decided, just in case, to make sure the other person wasn't a "demon god”.

"... I just want to confirm one thing, you're not a demon god, are you?

In response to that inquiry, it is unclear how it is pronounced, but the person speaks out a response.

"... I'm Eccleria's Shin"

As soon as Waltz heard it, before they finished talking ——

"Oh, yeah. That's enough."

Gyum!!

—— and, centered on the opponent, created a space of supergravity. Even the light can't escape that black space, when you swallow it without even the inexplicable opponent... He left only black solids on the spot and slowly disappeared as if they were dissolved in space.

Then Waltz opens his mouth again, observing it squeeze up with his hand as he pinches up the solid that was rolling on the ground.

"... is this something from Eccleria? I haven't heard it all..."

"Hey, sister. I just want to ask you... is that a corpse?

"Hmm... I feel like I analyzed the ingredients and they don't contain so much carbon, so maybe they're not creatures. Well, a corpse, maybe a corpse..."

"Wow... (Sister, ghosts can easily defeat you too...)"

"Let's just put that aside. Now we have to find the demon god anyway, right?

"Ugh, yeah... right..."

Waltz and Lucia start walking towards the barrel again after having that conversation.

Then the two of them look for no demon gods in the big barrel-shaped house without neighborhood, but all that was there was still fancy furniture and traces like something was in dispute...... I couldn't seem to find the demon god after all.