Even Muse did not know—then who would?
Muse did not answer everyone's doubts. Instead, he took out his usual cane and lightly tapped the floor with it.
Amid a rumbling roar and the clacking turn of gears, a medium-sized mechanical device slowly emerged before everyone's eyes.
"This is..."
Horus seemed to recognize the device and was about to name it when a groan interrupted him.
Melantha, who had previously fallen unconscious, had awakened. Rubbing her woozy forehead, she groaned as she sat up. By sheer coincidence, once Melantha sat up, she was facing the long metal table—and on that table lay... Rosen's head.
Melantha stared blankly at Rosen's head. Fragments of memory flashed ceaselessly through her mind, and the horrifying scenes made her whole body tremble.
Just as Melantha seemed about to become trapped in her own thoughts again from fright, Rosen opened his eyes and softly said, "Melantha."
Melantha's expression was still stricken with fear. Upon hearing Rosen's voice, she did not even have time for it to turn into joy.
Looking at Melantha, who normally never showed her emotions, Rosen softly said, "Don't worry. I won't die for the time being."
Melantha and Rosen entered a stage of quiet conversation, while Angel and the others silently watched Muse operate the device.
It was an exceedingly complex mechanical device. It had a beetle-like shell, though a single "horn" protruded from its top. Under Muse's control, that lone horn began to emit a faint glow.
"What kind of machine is this?" Gloria quietly asked Angel beside her.
It was Angel's first time seeing it as well, but some of the internal mechanical structures looked rather like... a signal tower?
Antonio confirmed Angel's guess. "This is a miniature signal tower."
Fifty years ago, Sky Mechanical City had developed signal towers for