Summary Analysis and Key Conclusions

Talk face-to-face.

The highest standard for handling intelligence among magical girls.

This meant the information was even more sensitive than a Divine Codex Stone transmission. They had to meet in person and use a magical Cognitive Veil to ensure that no outsider could learn of it.

"A giant egg with black patterns? That was really what he said?"

When Inari first heard the information relayed by Su Tianqing, she was utterly bewildered. For a moment, she did not even understand what it meant.

It was not until the words "giant egg" came up that the red-haired fox girl suddenly froze, her swishing tail falling still.

"According to Shasha's father, he and his wife found a giant egg with black patterns more than ten years ago."

"He couldn't describe exactly what the markings on the shell looked like, but judging from the size he indicated, it was the same scale as the giant egg we saw in the Phantasm Dream Mindscape."

"Based on the patterns we've identified in the Phantasm Dream Mindscape, combined with Scarlet Snow's eyewitness report and Mercury's knowledge of the story, giant eggs of that size hatch powerful monsters. They attack residents and cause destruction, usually appearing in the form of Obsidian Shadows."

"Shasha alone was an exception."

The lounge was thick with magic used to maintain the Cognitive Veil. Concealment runes borrowed by Inari from the Star Realm Library covered the surrounding walls, eliminating any chance of information leaking out.

Su Tianqing took a deep breath, slowly let it out, then continued.

"We once suspected that Shasha was actually Garuda. Bunny Bunny thought Shasha might have been Garuda in disguise, but that possibility was too terrifying, so I never seriously considered it."

"She can't be Garuda." Inari's response was decisive.

"Neither her magic nor any other aspect