Beyond the barrier, the visible waves being transmitted toward Earth continued.
Great Will's scan of Earth had already been going on for quite some time.
Perhaps from Earth's perspective, it was merely a series of brief, high-frequency scans, but within the time-accelerated Moon, it felt long and slow.
What was it doing?
Did confirming the Earth Crystal's location really need to take this long?
"Miluno~!"
After seeing Locust and the others off, the lively Mono came running over again. The conversion was mostly finished, so there were not many people left in the room.
"Come look at this! Ha!"
She was holding a printed photograph.
"Wait, isn't that—?!"
I reached out to snatch my photo away, but Mono pulled it back the moment I extended my hand.
"Don't rush! Don't rush!"
"Night Owl actually printed this photo out?!"
Pinching the photograph between two fingers, Mono spun around on tiptoe as though she were dancing.
"Bad news: after taking everyone's photos, she plans to bind them all into an album. Your body's curves will be passed down through the ages... oh, wait, they're straight lines?"
I frowned.
A beam of solidified light shot out and yanked the photograph from Mono's hand.
That was not enough. I needed to make Night Owl delete the photo data too...
"Good news: this incident has increased the number of people who need photos! You don't need to rush off to find her yet. She can't spare the time right now, much less spread the photos around."
Leaving aside the Negative Variants who had originally been human, quite a few Native Monsters imprisoned in the cells had just been infused with radiance and transformed into new forms—human in theory, but with halos floating over their heads, like people in cartoons who had died and gone to