Logan’s response was swift when he sensed the danger bearing down on the fleet. His keen Sensory Perception as a Sword Master certainly played a part, but what helped most was the warning Sisley had given him just before he left the reef island.
—Please be careful. I have a bad feeling that something serious is going to happen around you soon, Oppa.
At those words, Logan’s expression had turned serious.
Sisley was his youngest sister, whom he had watched grow up since she was an infant, so even now she still felt like a baby to him. But precisely because of that, Logan knew better than anyone just how extraordinary his sister’s premonitions could be.
—Something bad? Do you think the Manta tribe might have some other ulterior motive?
—I don’t know. Even if it isn’t them, some unexpected enemy might suddenly emerge from the sea.
—An unexpected enemy?
—Yeah. Think about it, Oppa. We’re extremely far from land, and these waters even border the mysterious [Perception Horizon]. So it wouldn’t be strange at all if some monster nobody knows about suddenly came crawling up from the depths, would it? Like, say… a legendary dragon……
—…A dragon?
At Logan’s dubious reaction, Sisley hurriedly added,
—What I’m trying to say is this. We don’t know what might happen or when, so we should keep every possibility in mind and prepare for danger.
At first, Logan had thought Sisley’s words absurd.
But for some reason, they kept circling through his mind even on his way back to the fleet. Perhaps Sisley’s out-of-the-blue concern had felt somehow connected to the suspicious presence he had sensed during the first subjugation.
‘A dragon…….’
And so, the…