In Gwen's mind, Alicia, who shared his senses, also noticed that something was wrong.
"Looks like... something incredible showed up this time..."
Floating in midair and looking from afar at the second source of light in this space, Gwen spoke to Alicia in his mind.
"It feels dangerous."
Alicia, who could share the immense sense of danger Gwen felt from it, agreed with his assessment.
Within Gwen's line of sight, a tiny flame flickered weakly, as though it might go out at any moment.
Yet that faint flame, which looked as though it could be extinguished at any time, gave Gwen an unprecedented sense of danger. It was even more threatening than the weakened Herrscher of the Void had been, making his hairs stand on end and causing him to instinctively stay away from it before arriving here.
"That is... a bonfire..."
When Gwen narrowed his eyes and looked closely at the flickering light, Alicia was finally able to see what it truly was.
"There's even... a sword stuck in it?"
"That is..."
After seeing the flame's true form, Gwen pressed his lips together, which had somehow gone dry. Having found something similar in his memories, he spoke its name—
"The Spiral Sword..."
As though it had heard Gwen's words, the flames on the Spiral Sword embedded in the bonfire flickered slightly and grew a little brighter.
After hearing the term Gwen had spoken, Alicia, who was studying the bonfire, suddenly sensed a primitive and lonely aura—
That aura had appeared alongside the bonfire and Spiral Sword.
It was only because of the danger they had just sensed that Gwen and Alicia had overlooked it.
"Gwen... you seem to know what this is?"
There was curiosity and a hint of hesitation in Alicia's voice—
Alicia knew that Gwen still hid