"Hm?"
The Argo's sudden violent lurch and sharp turn naturally could not have gone unnoticed by Hikari and Rejedo.
However, such a disturbance clearly would not interfere with the creation of the demiplane. Rejedo merely glanced outside before withdrawing his gaze.
"What a coincidence. We've run into one of our targets."
"Which one?"
Though they had slacked off a little along the way, their objective in setting out to sea had always been the Four Kings and Seven Generals: to gain control over the sea by killing or subduing these rulers of the ocean.
As for why they had not simply spread out their senses and charged straight in—well, there was no great urgency. The scenery along the journey mattered too.
"A fish that slipped through the net. Blood Admiral Senior."
That fellow was a member of the Rose School's Indulgence Faction. He raped, pillaged, and committed every conceivable evil upon the seas. When they had wiped out the Indulgence Faction on the Southern Continent before, he had escaped disaster only because he had been at sea.
Running into them this time meant he had walked straight into the line of fire.
"What a pity. The Silent Mary has gone to Tizamo Town. Otherwise, the Bound God could have cleaned house himself."
What could make an Extraordinary being more despairing than running headlong into the hostile Angel King of their own Pathway?
"Whatever. We can just kill trash like this. Why bother making a spectacle of it?"
Running headlong into a hostile Sequence Two from another Pathway was not much better for a Sequence Five, either.
Hikari and Rejedo stopped paying attention to the outside world and devoted more of their energy to the demiplane.
Although they were no longer pursuing a perfect replication of every function of Source Castle,