What happened at Kannawa Lake was ultimately kept from leaking out because of the nation's information controls.
The public had no idea that an army of magical beasts capable of being called a calamity had emerged in the deep mountains of Tanzawa and was still lying in ambush in the wilderness. The Lion King Organization and the Self-Defense Forces were also fighting them. The divine child who had caused a worldwide uproar had wreaked havoc there, making Kannawa Lake disappear, along with several mountains and terrain spanning kilometers. It had practically been a disaster.
Even so, all things considered, this incident still had something of a happy ending.
Luo Zhen and Yukina had successfully brought Nagisa and Aurora back.
The Lion King Organization had successfully rooted out the terrorists within the Self-Defense Forces.
Even the Aldeia Kingdom had successfully recovered its precious magical-tool samples, while Kami-Ota Shrine had been freed from its age-old mission. It no longer needed to guard Kannawa Lake or offer sacrifices to it.
The general public knew nothing about such matters, but the powerful factions that had been watching the incident were another story.
For example, in a deserted area some distance from the Tanzawa Mountains, there was a small campsite.
A campfire burned in the campsite, around which several boys and girls had gathered.
The boys and girls laughed and chatted with one another, looking as though they were camping and creating a rather warm atmosphere.
A man came in from outside and entered the campsite.
He was a middle-aged man around forty years old, wearing a crumpled gray coat and sporting casually grown-out hair. His entire bearing radiated an almost artistic atmosphere.
As soon as the middle-aged man entered the campsite and saw the boys and girls laughing and chatting, he immediately revealed a