"This... hehehe, spare me..."
"Little cat, shut up."
Apparently annoyed by Pardofelis's awkward laughter, Kalpas stopped stroking the Key of Domination in his hand, a one-handed sword that looked as though it had been forged from gold.
He had found this Key of Domination, made from Immer's Herrscher Core—Immer being one of the Thousand-Man Herrschers and once Kalpas's adjutant—only after destroying numerous other Keys of Domination.
"Got it, Brother Kalpas."
Hearing Kalpas's words, Pardofelis, with her captivating mismatched eyes, immediately responded.
At the same time, she playfully made a gesture of zipping her lips.
"Hmph."
Seeing this, Kalpas snorted and prepared to let the matter drop.
However, at that delicate moment, an indescribably strange force quietly descended and enveloped him.
"Kalpas, please calm down."
Apponia's Discipline once again stirred the fury buried deep within the white-haired warrior wearing the strange metal mask.
"Apponia!"
Just as that anger was about to erupt like a raging wildfire, Kevin's steady voice sounded at the right moment.
"Kalpas, stay calm."
"Hmph!"
Though he was still unwilling, Kalpas ultimately chose to endure it and give Kevin that much respect.
After all, he knew that with an enemy as powerful as the Herrscher of the End awaiting them, stirring up conflict within the Serpent-class Flame-Chaser Warrior team would be exceedingly unwise.
"...Forget it."
The green-haired, orange-eyed youth opened his mouth and exchanged a silent glance with the gray-haired girl sitting opposite him, but ultimately said nothing.
Watching all this, Prometheus Seventeen, who had been floating inside the spacecraft cabin, could not help but feel a faint ripple in her heart.
Was a team like this really going to be okay...
As the spacecraft carrying Kevin, Kalpas, Hua, Kosma, Apponia, and Pardofelis—the six Serpent-class Flame-Chaser Warriors—successfully entered the planet's high orbit amid the roar of a Heavy-lift