The next day, Mousse asked his mother to make him a new poison-type Homies. Then, together with his wife and Amon, he returned to the previous day's battlefield, intending to clear away the pollution while also searching for any surviving wreckage of the Ancient Weapon, Uranus.
But Mousse found nothing. Had it been completely destroyed? Or had it flown away?
"Flying away is impossible. If it could fly, it would have done so earlier instead of sitting there and taking the blast. Besides, my trigger wasn't activated, which means no unidentified object left the Red Line."
Mousse first ruled out the latter possibility, and then he vaguely guessed what the so-called Ancient Weapon Uranus truly was.
"Its original location should have been beneath Pangea Castle, meaning it was directly connected to the Eve Tree. Now it has vanished so completely... Could it have been a plant? Burned to ash by the high heat and powerful oxidizer? Then was it actually something like a parasitic plant, drawing energy from the Eve Tree?"
Mousse's brain worked like a supercomputer, rapidly generating all kinds of theories. Even his greatest question soon found an explanation.
"Not being able to fly doesn't seem to fit the title 'Uranus,' but without Holy Land Mary Geoise concealing it, wouldn't something hanging alone ten thousand meters in the sky naturally be called Uranus?"
Although the theory was logical, it would not be confirmed until the secrets of Laugh Tale were revealed later. For now, Mousse had more urgent matters to handle, so he quickly put those thoughts aside.
If Uranus, which was suspected to be connected to the Eve Tree, had been blasted so thoroughly by Horace's fierce bombardment that not even scraps remained, how could the latter possibly have escaped unscathed?
In fact, that miraculous plant—so thick