Moving her hands, Vita confirmed that she did not feel restrained in any way. Only then did she raise her head and shoot Gwen a puzzled look.
"Although that expression of yours just now was indeed quite amusing..."
Facing Vita's puzzled gaze, Gwen controlled his expression well and smiled.
"But I'm not bored enough to deliberately tease you...
Perhaps Aha's followers, those fun-seekers, would be very interested in doing that, but at least for now, I'm not one of them."
Unable to determine whether he would become one of those fun-seekers in the foreseeable future, Gwen chose his words with considerable precision.
"..."
Vita really wanted to retort, No, you are!
But her instincts, honed through years of carrying out missions, made her notice something in Gwen's words. Her expression turned somewhat strange.
"You mean there are people in the outside world who specifically seek out entertainment just to watch the fun?"
Although Vita herself often enjoyed watching a spectacle unfold, she only did so casually when it did not interfere with her missions.
As for the information Gwen had mentioned, while it had become rather untrustworthy in Vita's ears after he revealed that he was an Earthling, she did not mind hearing more... Even if it was false, she could treat it as a story.
"Though it may sound unbelievable to ordinary people, such things do exist—"
Gwen nodded and explained to his captive.
"Aha, the Aeon of Joy, was an Aeon on the same level as Nanook of Destruction and Lan of the Hunt.
According to the Masked Fools, They would never give you up, never let you down, never run around and desert you, never make you cry, never say goodbye, and never tell a lie and hurt you.
But in most people's eyes, They simply wanted