She had some faint suspicions in mind.
This was, of course, the very edge of the Mu Continent.
The pseudo-black hole would still need some time to expand this far.
Little Griseo had not even told Hen that this place lay along Kevin's retreat route.
They would wait for him to walk right into their trap.
When the time came, they could return to the Moth of the Fire with Kevin.
That would save Little Griseo the trouble of escorting her old man along the way.
She somehow... really didn't want to.
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Little Griseo quickly came up with an idea.
She didn't care what Hen thought.
Although, just in this short while, quite a few more areas had been swallowed up, and quite a few more people had died under the pseudo-black hole's pull.
But!
That was simply the kind of girl she was.
Unhurried and leisurely, never rushing.
She would save people, and she was willing to save people.
But if she failed to save someone, she wouldn't feel disappointed or guilty.
After all.
It was enough that she had tried~
They weren't people who were especially important to her.
She was a very willful girl, after all.
"So..."
Little Griseo's voice was soft and sweet, yet at this moment, it carried an unquestionable weight.
She issued a brief command.
"Sorry to trouble you, Mister Knight."
Boom!!
Immediately afterward.
In that very instant.
Space rumbled again and again, as if it were being compressed, as if bones were cracking with crisp snaps without end.
At the same time!
The earth trembled.
The sky, too, roiled with wind and clouds.
Howling gales carried a disturbance that made the entire planet shudder, spreading throughout the world.
However.
This was only the prelude.
Everything before their eyes seemed incredibly fragile.
Everything around them appeared to be falling apart!
Although it was merely a sensation!
It felt real.
It was as if some indescribable, overwhelming terror had suddenly descended upon the surface of the planet.
It had nothing to do with the region or the people.
Nothing to do with age, or anything else at all...
Except that those on the far side of the planet at this very moment might not be able to see any of it.
From every other angle, everyone saw it! A towering, magnificent figure gradually rose from the ground!
Tall, immense, colossal! It continued to grow.
In the end.
The entire planet seemed to rest within the phantom's embrace like a small, lightweight rubber ball, appearing utterly ridiculous.
But.
Could "ridiculous" really describe this?!
The Mu Continent faced the enormous phantom head-on.
Countless people looked up, unable to see the sky.
All they could see was a glimpse of its painted, colorful armor, like peering at a leopard through a narrow tube, wrapped in the terror brought by that colossal being.
Was that a person?
Or was it a god?
That immense pressure, that terrifying presence...
It merely lowered its head and looked down, its arms loosely cradling the world, yet that alone was enough to leave people's minds utterly blank.
They were seized by a terror that seemed to rise from their very souls.
A continent? A nation?
Some of them were probably not even as large as its palm.
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