As for Shishi's candid admission, Bronya resumed her role as the one delivering snark.
"Bronya had thought Kiana and I had integrated quickly enough. I didn't expect the Herrscher of Sentience to be even faster."
"I could have been faster. As for the reason... shouldn't Raiden Mei know best?"
Mei, who had been inexplicably singled out, began analyzing things like a detective.
"Because... this is a vast web woven from billions of consciousnesses, and you just happen to be the Herrscher of Consciousness?"
"...What? Raiden Mei, are you playing dumb?"
This time, however, Mei's great detective talent seemed to have failed her.
Shishi scratched the back of her head as she asked that question, making it clear that Mei had guessed wrong.
That only left everyone even more confused.
"You were the one who let me hitch a ride, and now you're deliberately asking such a pointless question. What are you up to?"
"Uh... what?"
"Come on. If your Herrscher Authority wasn't 'connecting all other Herrscher Authorities'—then how could the 'they' you were just discussing have come rushing in from every direction like this, without so much as asking?"
Shishi spoke as though she already knew everything...
Her explanation left the three who had just been seriously pondering how to integrate the Herrscher Authorities dumbfounded.
Of course, the people in the Live Stream were even more stunned.
"Huh?"
"Huh, there's an operation like that?"
"Huh??? What kind of operation is this?"
"???"
Question marks from the viewers flooded across the Live Stream.
Clearly, no one had expected integrating Herrscher Authorities to be one of the Herrscher of Origin's powers as well.
That was truly eye-opening—so not knowing their own Authority was apparently a tradition passed down through the Herrscher of Origin line...
Boom—
As the roar rang out, the three