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"Who's playing music at a time like this? Whoever it is, step forward!"

The moment Bilborn heard the sound, irritation surged through him. It was like nails scraping glass. For no reason at all, Wrath took hold of him.

Music? Now, of all times?

"No, it isn't coming from us."

"That singing sounds like it's coming down from the sky."

"How is that possible? This room is soundproof."

The staff in the control room exchanged bewildered looks.

"The Celestial Choir. That's Ghroth's Celestial Choir."

The man who had first said the G-10 asteroid looked like Ghroth cried out in terror when he heard it. "Ghroth has brought the celestial song! It's awakening the Great Old Ones! Blue Star... Blue Star is about to be destroyed!"

"Impossible. It can't be Ghroth from the Cthulhu Mythos," an expert immediately objected. "That's just fiction—science fiction, at that. The things it describes can't be real."

The so-called Cthulhu Mythos was a fictional mythology based on the world of American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft's stories, developed by August William Derleth and created collectively by many other authors.

It had first appeared as science fiction in Weird Tales. Readers had even written in to complain, asking what kind of science fiction it was supposed to be.

How could the events in a work of mythological fiction with such a well-documented history possibly be real?

"But I remember a line from the Cthulhu Mythos: art is a by-product of the madness that naturally flows from demons."

Ryosuke Kitada, an expert of Eastern Isles descent, offered a theory. "Maybe those writers were unknowingly affected by the Corruption of the evil gods' auras and glimpsed their true forms. That sparked their inspiration and led them to create the Cthulhu Mythos."

"The fact that those writers all independently wrote Cthulhu