"By the way, how many centimeters had Seele grown this month?"
"..."
Blinking, Seele shook her head somewhat gloomily.
Having spent over a year with everyone, Seele no longer blushed at the drop of a hat. Still, when Anna asked about her height, she could not help feeling a little depressed.
"Choukai... I mean, Choukai and Mobius said it was because of the Sea of Quantum's influence. My growth would be very slow..."
"Mm, don't worry, Seele. You're still young. You'll grow taller someday."
Anna smoothed Seele's hair and smiled.
"Mm..."
Seele nodded, though she did not look particularly confident.
After all, nobody at the orphanage seemed to have grown taller than one and a half meters...
"..."
Just as Gwen was about to say something to comfort Seele, his smile abruptly vanished. The gentle, spring-breeze-like aura around him turned cold and severe, frightening Seele into instinctively retreating behind Anna.
"What happened?"
Sensing the shift in Gwen's aura, Yolandale, Anna, Wendy, and the others turned serious as well and quickly asked.
"Erosion may have gone berserk. The marks I left on Alicia and Eden have been isolated by a layer—
Bianca, contact Otto immediately. Lock down every missile in the world and prepare to cut off the global network.
Contact Mei. Have her prepare to temporarily isolate electromagnetic waves worldwide.
Fu Hua, you and Little Herrscher get ready. Intercept and capture her within the network.
Anna, Wendy, you, Bronya, and Kiana prepare to deploy at any time and suppress any disaster that may emerge.
I'm going to the Elysian Realm to check the situation..."
With that, Gwen vanished amid an almost imperceptible ripple of space.
"What's going on? Hadn't that Erosion become Alicia's electronic pet already?"
Little Herrscher, who had suddenly been dragged back from some corner to join the