"Phew. Let's keep going..."
Mo Hei said this without immediately pressing Dania about her connection to the president of the Remnant Star Society.
She chose to back off and let Dania resume her role as guide.
She could see that fear still had its grip on Dania.
Just now, Dania had forced herself to stand before Napomo and persuade Mo Hei to stop.
After letting Dania lead the way, Mo Hei did not send her Shikigami back into the shadows.
Instead, she kept it beside Dania like a guard.
This was a base the Remnant Star Society had once built. She did not want carelessness to land them in some other danger.
Dania said nothing about it.
She led Mo Hei onward, trying all the while to work through her fear.
Bzz—
As they ventured deeper into the base, Mo Hei and Dania felt the space ahead grow darker.
Perhaps the facilities had been idle too long, and the lights and other fixtures had deteriorated beyond use.
Whoosh—
As they pressed on, it was not just the darkness. They also felt cold air brush past them.
Under those conditions, Dania was nowhere near working through her fear and returning to normal.
Mo Hei could even sense that Dania's fear had grown stronger than before.
Could the president of the Remnant Star Society really have shaken the usually laid-back Yaya this badly?
As she wondered, Mo Hei had her Shikigami move closer to Dania.
After inheriting the powers and features of the Scorpio and Leo Shikigami, Aries had a strange-looking face.
The Aries Shikigami now looked like a Chimera from the stories of Rinascita: one of those misshapen, chaotic Fusion Beasts.
Come to think of it, perhaps the tales of that monster in Rinascita had come from the Chimera Tacet Discord