"You can actually affect crystallized magic like that?" Kroya found it hard to understand. That "inscription" could have the existence of its other half erased and still function normally.
That was an inscription of friendship!
Friendship was something both sides maintained together. If one side no longer remembered the other, could it still be called friendship?
Ivy, meanwhile, was furious. "A friendship profound enough to be engraved in my heart just vanished like that! Lady Pandora!"
Miya showed no particular expression. "Why is the magic crystal grape vine here?"
The three different questions left Pandora looking bewildered.
In the end, she could only answer Kroya's question. "Because this was its wish-Robert's wish. It hoped that, in the distant future, there would still be a chance to see its master again.
"By then, it will have returned to this world through its own strength, and the rain curtain of friendship magic will lift."
"What?" Kroya was shocked and puzzled. "It wants to break through the bewilderment of death through its own strength? Then why start over instead of simply accepting Eden or a sunlight magic potion?"
"..."
"It said it wanted to work for it itself."
Pandora answered.
"...All right."
The answer left Kroya both resigned and gratified. He felt resigned because, if Robert had been willing to accept its master's help and grow within Eden, it should have been able to achieve quite a lot.
He felt gratified because it truly lived up to being a Flame-Tailed Dog he had raised himself. It had such ambition, wanting to break through the bewilderment of death and reincarnation. If it really managed that, it would certainly deserve praise.
-In fact, more and more people were unwilling to accept Eden's "eternity." Many chose to embrace death and travel to the Underworld to begin