“…It is a leap in logic in itself, but there is no other explanation.”
Wow!
The red-pen teacher gave me a circle!
I felt a small burst of joy simply because my guess had been right, while at the same time feeling a slight tension.
Naturally, the reason was what else would become true if this conjecture was correct.
“Did the information leak?”
“That is rather late to be asking.”
Fair enough.
We had openly used the alluring scent, so calling that a leak or anything like that was rather ridiculous.
If, on the minimap—I had no idea whether Pride actually viewed Demon Territory like this—you saw your allies suddenly swarming toward the enemy without you doing anything, naturally you would be more likely to conclude, ‘The enemy must be shaking its ass at them…’ than, ‘Those lunatics are charging in without orders again.’
“Still, I think we should be careful.”
But what I was truly worried about was not the fact that the alluring scent itself had been discovered.
It was the possibility that the demons might now know what we were doing in general.
When I indirectly brought up the implications of that, Commandment looked straight at me.
“You possess a remarkable talent for saying obvious things with complete seriousness. Surely you have not only now realized that Pride’s magic circles are not the sole reason we are pushing…