Gawain and Amber looked at each other.
Camil, standing nearby, let out a soft sigh that broke the silence in the room. "Their warning has finally reached us... but I don't know what it would take for mortals to be truly prepared to face the 'sentinel' left behind by the Voyagers..."
Gawain did not respond. He merely lowered his eyelids slightly, gathering and organizing every clue they had obtained so far. In his mind, he reconstructed the sequence of events and the information revealed behind them, speculating on the sentinel's possible goals and the means by which it pursued them, considering its weaknesses and the cards mortals still held. As he pondered, Amber's quiet muttering drifted over from beside him. "So it was just as we guessed. The Elf Twins active in the real world really were replaced... except they weren't replaced by some indescribable god, but by an... ancient mind used to monitor the gods?"
She truly could not think of any better term to describe the sentinel that had broken away from this "home port," so she could only call it an "ancient mind."
Yet Amber's muttering sparked a flash of insight in Gawain's mind. He suddenly realized a rather suspicious detail. "...Right. The ones active outside are the Elf Twins... but according to the information Feilna and Raina left here, the sentinel only copied one of them and used her as a vessel to leave this place... The sentinel that entered the present world had already escaped successfully, so why did it create another individual? Just to preserve the setting of the 'Elf Twins'?"
"...That makes no sense," Camil said at once, his voice grave. "It was seen entering the present world alone. My colleagues had already concluded at the time that one of the twins had