Inside the Morning Dew Mansion, the lengthy "Dream Master selection" had finally ended, and the vast majority of the Oak Family members had been herded into a single room.
Ordinarily, a small room could never hold so many people, even if they lay down and piled on top of one another.
But that was no problem. The Morning Dew Mansion was situated in the Dreamscape, and its rooms were far larger inside than they looked from outside. Sometimes, one had to admit that memoria was wonderfully convenient.
At that moment, the Astral Express Crew was still waiting outside. The only people in this inner room were the suspects who might be the Dream Master and Sunday... along with a surveillance camera belonging to Tir Anders.
And it was not even the same camera as the one in the reception room earlier.
As previously mentioned, as a member of the Knights of Beauty, Tir Anders behaved perfectly normally most of the time. He was just a little aggressive, and his pursuit of perfection when carrying out so-called plans bordered on obsessive. When devising and executing a plan, he strove to get everything right in one go.
Clearly, that required a firm grasp of information. For that same reason, Tir Anders had an almost pathological desire to gather it.
Just like Argenti's endless praise and Yaoyorozu Kami's tendency to be easily moved, this was Tir Anders's own peculiar, excessively stubborn departure from the norm.
This Intellitron Knight would casually drop a tiny surveillance device in every corner he passed to gather information, as though he were relieving himself wherever he pleased.
And now, the little robots left behind by that habit happened to give him a way to test his theory about Penacony's current state.
When Tir Anders successfully used the fragment's