They had been told they were free to explore the Sapphire, a vessel built by humans from the surface world, but Professor Jin Kailun was in no mood for it.
The tip of the iceberg His Majesty the Emperor had revealed about the humans currently living on the surface had left the professor deeply worried.
Yet he could never sort out exactly what troubled him or what he feared. Looking through the submarine's window into the darkness of the deep sea, Professor Jin Kailun felt only that the Destiny Organization's future was as bleak and uncertain as the darkness outside.
Perhaps even he had never realized that he was the sort who worried needlessly about everything, a born alarmist—though, of course, the Underwater City's history contained no such idiom.
Throughout the journey, Professor Jin Kailun had shut himself away in the lounge the Emperor provided, seeing hardly anyone. Konghai, a member of his organization, was instead wandering around the Sapphire with considerable enthusiasm.
Then Konghai ran into Boss Luo in a corridor.
Having seen one another regularly over the past week, they were all reasonably familiar... Although the young man was usually quiet, he accompanied Professor Jin Kailun every time, so naturally he could hardly go unnoticed.
When they met, Konghai was standing before a metal wall in the corridor, his palm pressed against it... his eyes closed.
"Is there something different about this spot?" Luo Qiu approached curiously and asked—incidentally, he had already changed into the white flying gyroscope outfit Maid Miss had selected.
Konghai had chosen a dark blue outfit.
"I can sense traces of magic energy." Konghai's fingers slowly slid along the metal wall. "Magic energy flows through Magic Energy Lines. It's like running water: wherever there are lines, magic energy flows, leaving traces behind. Here... there