Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"... yes. You buried the outer moat."

'Yes, yesterday's Rotgarten was the last, and so far, nothing has happened that would allow the cities around us to be recaptured or raided'

"As planned."

"So, finally?

"Yep. I didn't know what to do with the Boreas, but I thought I'd do it. Operation Capital Retrieval"

Rebels —— Wespel, a town in western Boreas that was also a base for coalition forces. So Waltz was giving thought to the next operation after a report of the war from Julia, head of the Mid-Eden Intelligence Agency (?) It seems.

Until now, the recapture operation itself has been elaborated on several occasions, but an early recapture of the capital, located in the centre of Boreas, could lead to a large-scale battle, with intermittent reinforcements sent by the surrounding uncontrolled areas, and the recapture of the capital has been dropped off. But this time, all the big towns surrounding the capital city of Vixen, such as Rotgarten, controlled by the Yuki's, have finished dominating, so it's less likely to call in enemy troops from the outside...... Waltz has finally decided to move the recapture operation into action.

'Finally, this is the time...'

"Yeah, right? That was a long time...... It's been two months since the war started."

'What do you say...... I felt like it had been about six months......'

"Well, if you include what you've been through in past times, you won't go until six months... but you have something close, right?

'Yeah... by the way, for what we've been to in the past, we're older than the others... right?

"... Julia. When you start thinking about it, it makes you sad, doesn't it? asexually."

'Right...... let's not'

After the word, a small sigh heard from the other side of the radio. In contrast to its magnitude, the spirit of Julia seemed to be heavily damaged in some way. Well, I don't know what the damage is.

So I asked Yuki and the others to wait in Rottgarten until the operation was decided.

'I understand, oh, yes. Dear Waltz'

"Hmm? What?

"Dear Sirius... uh, I mean, Yuki and I have a report for you about Sage"

"What? Guy who's both suspicious of his memory? Didn't that calm you down?

'Yeah, as far as the reports go, I'm talking about being calm until yesterday... since the wise man inhaled Eccleria's sleep gas, and he's had another memory loss'

"Hmm. Was it even a memory-taking ingredient?

"No, Master Cortex said, as far as analyzing the recovered gas, it was not such a gas with special effects, but Catalina's commonly used nitrous oxide was also detected."

"You smoked too much and your memories flew? No way..."

"So, there was a continuation of the conversation... in fact, Yuki seems to have lost her memory, too."

"What? Yuki smoked gas, too?

'No, it's not. I don't know the details of what kind of interaction there was... but it seems Yuki kissed Sage in an attempt to wake up about the sleeping Sage'

"Normal, the other way around... it..."

"Yeah, what really happened? So, as for Yuki, he was so ashamed of what happened at that time, that instead of at the time he kissed him, he even blew away all the memories of the wise man himself.... So neither Sage nor Yuki seem to remember each other. Fortunately, we both seem to be awake now...... '

"Trouble... those two..."

'I just seem to have a truly rootless memory of being engaged...'

"Engagement? Well, it's my first ear..."

'Me, too. Perhaps, after losing his memory, someone breathed in those wrong memories--'

"Who the hell... planted that wrong memory..."

"Possible contact with the two people who regained consciousness is about Master Null and Katarina. However, as far as I can tell, Katarina and Null are rather surprised at why they only have memories of their engagement, and I assume it's unlikely they've blown in. Neither of us are fooled like that..."

When we lose memories of each other, we should even have lost memories that we were originally engaged to each other. When you remember that, that means someone blew it in after you lost your memory, but neither Waltz nor Julia can see it by saying this about those who blow it in the flirtatious half... In the end, it appears that the investigation is to be continued on this matter.... It should be noted that the killer, at this time, is sleeping in Katarina's white clothes wrapped around a tuna, but he (she?) never seemed to find out it was the killer.

Because as the capital recapture operation is transferred to execution, Waltz, Julia, or any other Schwartz will be manipulated by the tasks that have to be done to each of them. So much so that Operation Capital Retrieval made it hard-- no, it made it extremely confusing.