When Gawain gave Noreta a swift, discreet once-over, the senior agent from the Mithril Treasury, temporarily filling in for Melita Pernia, also took a second look at him. She was indeed curious about this human—returned from the dead, a legendary Pioneer Hero, one who had overturned a kingdom and established a new order... In Noreta's long life, she had seen many figures who could be called "legendary" in the human world, yet even among them, Gawain was quite exceptional.
She kept her gaze and expression in check, wearing a faint smile. "Then, what would you like to ask about?"
"Strictly speaking, this isn't an inquiry. I want to confirm something with the 'dragons' behind the Mithril Treasury," Gawain said, waving a hand and taking on a serious expression. "Not long ago, a large Magical Device we installed on the Holy Spirit Plain picked up some mysterious signals. After extensive comparisons, neither humans, elves, nor even sirens could identify their source, so I now suspect that they came from dragons.
"Given the development of Magic-Conducting Technology, and to prevent any misunderstandings between humans and dragons in the future, I think it is necessary to... confirm this with you."
"Mysterious signals?" The woman in white who called herself Noreta raised her eyebrows, and her expression immediately grew more serious. "What... did they contain?"
"We still haven't deciphered them. They're a series of extremely brief vibrations and echoes, with a structure unlike anything we've seen before. The scholars are completely baffled, but we recorded a copy of them using a Magic Crystal." As Gawain spoke, he casually gestured toward the side. A pale-blue crystalline wafer no larger than his palm silently flew from a nearby shelf into his hand.
This was a recording medium improved by Camil. Its prototype had been the memory