"Did you do that?"
There were plenty of experts present, and Fu Qian was far from the only one to notice the new development.
Under everyone's strangely intent gaze, Aiko, who had been serving as their bodyguard all along, was the first to ask A Kai for confirmation. It seemed she'd been harboring a faint hope that they might actually have made some progress.
"I'm not sure..."
Unfortunately, even though the new passage seemed to fit seamlessly into place, the person involved still didn't have the courage to claim credit.
Professor A Kai stared at the suddenly appeared passage, muttering to himself for a moment.
The former Institute of Curses director had done a real number on him. He'd taken a promising future star of academia and made him completely lose confidence in himself.
"So what were you doing just now?"
As he mused, Fu Qian casually asked the question to help clarify things.
"A miracle I haven't tried before. I wanted to see if it might help us connect with reality."
Not wanting to disappoint Professor Fu's efforts, A Kai quickly came back to his senses and explained what he'd been doing.
"I'm not entirely sure how likely it was to work, but according to the records, this should be an extremely gentle miracle... Yet it seems to have caused a huge disturbance just now. I don't understand..."
It was clear that he'd learned his lesson. He'd been much more cautious this time, and his approach had been quite practical. Unfortunately, the results still seemed unsatisfactory.
"There was a bit of a commotion."
Fu Qian didn't offer any meaningless reassurance. Something had indeed stirred just now, and the disturbance had even spread throughout the ship before settling down again in the blink of an eye.
Also, although he hadn't