Let Me Wait and See
"What...!?"
Seeing the appearance of the girl who looked exactly like Aurora, Vatra could not conceal his astonishment in the slightest.
But a moment later, Vatra laughed.
He laughed with utter delight.
"I see. His Majesty actually brought you here?" Vatra said happily. "Then, which one are you?"
Vatra asked the question.
The fairy-like girl gazed at Vatra, her eyes as still as an ancient well.
But the girl still opened her mouth and answered Vatra's question.
"I am Number Six, the familiar-beast doll who governs the Fourth True Ancestor."
The girl introduced herself as such.
Yes.
Number Six.
This girl was one of the twelve Blazing Night Lords, a vessel of the Fourth True Ancestor just like Aurora, and the person within whom one of the Fourth True Ancestor's familiars was sealed.
"You're Number Six?"
Vatra swept his gaze over the fairy-like girl as though he wanted to swallow Number Six whole.
Naturally, Number Six noticed this.
"Do you want to devour me, Ophiuchus?"
Number Six looked Vatra straight in the eye. She showed no fear whatsoever, remaining as calm as ever.
"How could I?" Vatra shook his head and answered sincerely, "You don't belong to me. You belong to that person."
Vatra now understood why Jada had brought Number Six to Kageno Island.
And he was delighted by it.
Because, just as Jada had said, if what she was preparing to do was truly what Vatra imagined, then it was definitely not a bad thing for him.
"This way, you can let me have a little taste of the Divine Child first, right?"
Jada confirmed this in a tone that sounded as though she were compromising with Vatra.
But in reality, even if Vatra refused, Jada probably would not care.
It would merely