"Did it fail?" Seeing Angel stand motionless for so long, Laplace asked curiously.
After hesitating for a moment, Angel shook his head.
Laplace did not understand what Angel meant. What did shaking his head signify? That it had not failed? Or that he did not want to answer?
"I don't know whether it counts as a failure," Angel explained softly. "I didn't sense Sweet Dream being pulled into the Dream Crystal Plain... but it seems something else was pulled into the Dream Crystal Plain."
Something else? What could it be? Laplace looked at Angel in confusion.
Angel did not know how to explain it either, so he could only gesture for Laplace to wait a moment. Then Angel closed his eyes and sank his thoughts into the Dream Crystal Plain.
When his thoughts returned to stillness, Angel confirmed once more that his earlier feeling had not been wrong.
Something had indeed been pulled into the Dream Crystal Plain along with the Dream Conch. Moreover, Angel vaguely sensed that the Authority Tree had even trembled because of it.
Had it trembled because a mysterious object had entered?
So what had come really been a mysterious object? Or part of one? Did that mean this attempt had not been a complete failure?
Angel swiftly activated the "Gatekeeper" authority and determined the location of the "object" that had just entered the Dream Crystal Plain.
Just as he had set beforehand, it was located at an out-of-the-way corner.
—Before Angel had decided to pull in Sweet Dream, he had already designated a distant area for it. To prevent Sweet Dream from dispersing, he had even specifically arranged a Dome nearby to bind its energy.
And now, "Gatekeeper" confirmed that the object that had entered was still at the coordinates he had set.
For no