Mechanical otters.
Mayer had once been a member of Rhine Lab. As a mechatronics researcher, she possessed exceptional expertise in machinery and circuitry. After leaving Rhine Lab, she opened her own personal studio, Lutra, and began cooperating with Rhodes Island in many fields.
Now, she had been trapped by her own self-destructing otters.
"Does she do this often?"
"After all, Mayer is just an engineer. It's perfectly normal for her to get carried away and make all sorts of weird things."
Hoshino had not expected to see the classic scientist-discriminates-against-engineer routine even in Terra. It was strangely nostalgic.
"Does she often shout that art is an explosion?"
"Not really."
According to Silence's guess, the shrine maiden had probably encountered a child who was clearly superior to herself in every way, which had given her a certain sense of inferiority. It was an extremely complicated sense of generational disparity, something that could not be explained in just a few words.
To solve it, Yae Sakura needed to have some kind of shining moment in front of this child.
That was Silence's theory.
While Silence was trying to figure out what the girls meant, Ifrit and Lisa's conversation grew louder and gradually reached their ears.
Silence noticed that Yae Sakura's expression had become somewhat unnatural.
"That day at the shrine, I met an amazing friend!"
"Oh?"
Lisa was very interested in the shrine. After learning that Ifrit knew someone from there, that interest shifted onto Ifrit as well.
"She defeated a natural disaster with a single coin, just like... um... the thunder god."
Ifrit paused before saying that description.
"That coin suddenly gave off a really bright, really hot light in her hand, and then Lightning Empress gave it a light flick. The coin shot out like a cannonball! Tornadoes, storm clouds,