"Will there really be no problem just letting them go?" I was still somewhat uneasy.
Sandora replied, "Don't worry. The technology isn't so prone to malfunction. The Neural Controllers implanted in those three will ensure that they can't leak even the slightest secret. My intuition tells me they haven't told us everything. If we don't use this method, we'll never find out who's behind them."
"What a headache," I sighed. "It looks like I'm really not suited for this kind of thinking that wastes so many brain cells. With that belly full of schemes, it'd be a shame if you didn't become a Great Demon Lord."
"Then exterminating all humans hostile toward you would be the simplest and most effective method." Pandora, whose presence had been abnormally faint from the beginning, suddenly spoke, instantly raising her presence by several levels.
I gave the little one a light knock on the head. "You little war maniac!"
Sandora was even more exaggerated. The War Song Princess, currently in one of her war-weary phases, placed both hands over her chest in the pose of a savior and said with a holy expression, "Stay away from war. Only peace can save this chaotic world..."
As if I didn't know whose idea it had been to install parasitic machines in people's brains!
By the time we returned home, it was already past one in the morning.
Time in the projection space was relatively frozen compared with the real world. So although we had spent quite a while there, not a single moment had actually passed outside. To my older sister, we had only been gone for less than an hour—the time we had spent going to see Alaya.
The moment I stepped through the door, I noticed that every light in the house had been