Hmm?
As if sensing something, Klein looked at Alice. The moment he looked at her, Alice reflexively raised her head and defended herself:
"I just didn't notice him for a moment!
"What does him offending Ouroboros have to do with me?!"
"I only wanted to ask whether the earthquake was your doing..." Klein explained.
After a pause, he promptly added:
"I'm not blaming you. I just found out that you... well, can do something like that."
Alice, who had originally felt guilty, immediately became proud again. She puffed out her chest and said with a solemn expression and tone:
"Fear me, tremble, mortals!
"I am the master of doom... Aaaah! I was wrong!"
Halfway through her act, Alice saw Klein raise his hand as if he were about to hit her. She screamed, hugged her head, and hid behind Cattleya.
Having seen similar matters countless times already, Cattleya silently stood where she was, playing the part of a qualified corpse.
Anderson, who was encountering something like this for the first time, gaped in astonishment, wanting to say something. Yet he realized there was no suitable person to say it to.
—The only person who looked potentially suitable, the adventurer whose name he didn't know, had walked over to the remaining half of the Stone Giant's wreckage and begun searching through it.
"Empty." He stood up and said.
"Can you get me out first?!" Anderson shouted angrily.
At the end of this farce, Cattleya, the Admiral of Stars, called over two sailors whose names Alice couldn't remember and had them dig Anderson out.
Anderson grimaced as he walked and muttered:
"Damn it. Ever since I saw that painting, I've been this unlucky..."
Alice blinked her eyes and asked doubtfully, "So what exactly did you do to that painting? Did you really