“…Is it over?”
Mitra cautiously removed the hands covering his ears.
Draconian hearing was extraordinarily sensitive to noise, so he could still hear what seemed like the phantom echo of the piercing siren ringing beside his ears.
The young Manta also resurfaced and looked around.
Its expression suggested it simply could not believe the resonance broadcast had ended without anything happening.
“What in the world happened…….”
Then, by pure chance, Mitra’s gaze landed on the wolfdog that had been maintaining a dignified posture for some time.
‘Wait… surely not?’
Would it be too much of a stretch to think that dog had just done something again?
No, but that utterly relaxed attitude when it alone was so composed……
Before he knew it, Mitra could not stop himself from asking.
“This may be a rather belated question, but what exactly is that dog? It used the racial key however it pleased, and now it seems capable of freely controlling even an Ionian artifact.”
Logan answered calmly.
“This fellow is a member of the Holy Emperor’s family, as well as a distinguished divine beast mentioned even in scripture.”
“A divine… beast? What is that?”
“Well. For now, I have no way to explain it beyond saying that he is simply no ordinary dog. From now on, please treat him as though he were effectively human, Mitra.”
“……?”
Though the entire affair had ended rather anticlimactically, the disturbance had not been entirely without results.
When the emergency protocol terminated unexpectedly, the system overseeing it automatically revealed an operator console so that it could receive further instructions.
Whiiirrr…….
With a small mechanical sound, a pillar emitting a peculiar light slowly…