Trust

"!!"

The moment he saw Mahoraga actually speak to him, Mo Bai snapped out of those frequencies.

And just as he was about to get up and tell Rover and the others what he had learned...

He raised his head to push himself up from the ground...

Thump!

But he lifted his head too quickly, and it made "intimate contact" with Aemeath's forehead as she crouched beside him, watching him.

"Ow, ow, ow! Why did you get up so suddenly..." Aemeath complained quietly, clutching her forehead.

"Hiss... I should be asking you that. Why were you beside me instead of helping Rover and Feixue watch for danger?"

Mo Bai scolded her irritably.

He remembered how Aemeath used to like sneaking off on her own when no one was paying attention.

"I-I'm controlling the mech and having it patrol everywhere right now. That hardly counts as slacking off."

"Tch. You probably switched on its automatic patrol function. How is that not slacking off?"

"You! How did you know..."

Aemeath and Mo Bai bickered for a while, but her guilty tone at the end proved that Mo Bai had won.

After all, even Mo Bai's antiquated Ten Shadows Technique could let his shikigami act independently, let alone Aemeath's high-tech equipment.

As she bickered with Mo Bai, however, Aemeath felt that earlier sense of familiarity grow even stronger.

That was also why she had taken the opportunity to study him while he resonated with those frequencies.

She wanted to figure out exactly what that sense of familiarity was.

So far, though, she had found no clues at all.

"All right, there's no time to play around. Please use your mech to call Rover and the others over, then we'll head back to the Academy together."

"Huh?"

Mo Bai's sudden announcement that they were