"Seiya, what secrets are you still hiding? Why, when you're already this strong, are you still so desperately trying to become even stronger?"
After hesitating for a while, Lakyus finally voiced the greatest doubt in her heart.
Seiya possessed talent and potential that the entire kingdom... no, the entire continent envied.
Even if he simply trained step by step, Lakyus was certain that Seiya would one day become one of the strongest people on the continent.
Yet what Lakyus could not understand was that, having known Seiya since childhood, she had always sensed that worry and urgent desire to grow stronger within him.
If Seiya had been an ambitious person, Lakyus could have somewhat understood everything he did.
But she knew that Seiya had no ambition at all. He did not even have the slightest interest in the throne he was expected to inherit.
Then why was someone like Seiya so urgently determined to become stronger, to the point that he had even collapsed from exhaustion due to overtraining last time?
Hadn't his strength already surpassed the kingdom's strongest Warrior Captain long ago?
"It's the Hundred Year Aftershock he mentioned before, isn't it? He knows so much about the Six Gods, the Eight Greed Kings, and the Thirteen Heroes. That means he must have deliberately investigated them before.
"Combined with the urgency Lakyus mentioned, it means he already knows something and is certain that this time's enemy is extremely powerful, which is why he feels such immense pressure, right?"
To be fair, after Ivilia met the Skeleton King, she had become so lovestruck that her intelligence had practically gone offline.
But when she was not being lovestruck, her more than two centuries of experience and keen observational skills still made her smarter than most people here.
The truth had already