There was a brief pause.
Lynn snapped awake in an explosive instant, immediately bursting into booming laughter as he adjusted the empty space over his eye.
"Ahahahaha! So everyone's here! How lively! But I assume you all only just appeared here, rather than being here from the start, right? Hahahaha!"
His booming laughter rang through the room.
By the windowsill, Black String Moon quietly held a book, turning a page without looking away as she said:
"We've been here the whole time."
"..."
The laughter cut off abruptly.
An eerie silence settled over the room once again.
Lynn coughed, took the Monocle out of System Space, secured it in place, and said with a smile:
"I-is that so? But I'm sure none of you saw anything strange, right? Of course, you all understand perfectly well that when someone dreams, they're bound to do some strange..."
"Don't worry, meow, Master! We didn't see anything!"
Before he could finish, Miao Miao pounced onto the blanket covering his legs, lifted her head, and gazed innocently at him with her big, round eyes.
Lynn instinctively breathed a sigh of relief.
"Master only offered the ladies here some friendly greetings while talking in his sleep. As for what Master was trying to do when he reached his left hand under the blanket several times, we have absolutely no idea. We really were worried and stayed by your side until you woke up, meow!"
She blinked, reassuring Lynn with her innocence, because they really didn't know anything at all.
Lynn: "..."
After a brief silence.
Keeping a horrified smile on his face, Lynn reached up to adjust the Monocle, rubbed Miao Miao's ears approvingly, and praised her:
"Very good! Miao Miao, you really are Older Brother's most considerate Adorable Creature. You explained that very clearly, and