King of the Earth

At that, Fox looked at Old Dog with a little more respect.

"What a surprise..."

Aleister sighed. "After coming to Stibium, the person with the most grace I've encountered was actually a jester."

"Heh heh..."

Old Dog Laro merely laughed carefree. "With a king who trusts me, I'm a jester. Otherwise, I'm nothing more than a clown who likes spouting crazy nonsense... a pitiful madman. No one loves a clown, and no one can love one."

As they spoke, a commotion came from ahead.

Aleister bounded forward a few steps, then leaped back onto the white horse.

"You're back."

The white horse said in a deep voice, "Let's fight side by side again, partner."

Its tone had grown firm once more, without its earlier hesitation and inner conflict. Clearly, it had come to terms with the problem from before.

"You've become brave again, Your Highness?"

Aleister teased it.

"We've already come this far. There's no room for us to retreat."

The white horse's voice was clear and youthful. "If we take one step back, we'll be smashed to pieces. For the survival of our race—help me one more time, will you, my wisdom..."

"All right, brave white horse."

Aleister sighed and looked ahead at the heavily armored carnivorous animal army. "I never thought I'd have to fight animals like these..."

Compared with the ragtag army made up of the small animals behind them, the army formed from armored brown bears, wolves, hyenas, and eagles was terrifying even from a distance.

And what was behind her? Little rabbits, Little Deer, little lambs, little kangaroos, Little Cats, little dogs...

*How were they supposed to fight like this? Unless I stack-summon Tian Ting on the spot and let the little animals pilot a mobile suit. Otherwise, Aleister couldn't think of any chance of