Global Upheaval Came Abruptly and All at Once – Part 03

When Raiga learned what had happened to the village—and that Hikaru and the Four Eastern Stars had helped in its recovery—he bowed his head.

“Thank you for everything.”

Hikaru was surprised at how easily this stubborn-looking man conceded, but when he saw Renka—Raiga’s daughter—standing behind him with her arms crossed, fuming, it clicked.

Between a father who was absent during the village’s crisis and Silver Face, the latter was far more trustworthy. Hikaru didn’t know what she’d said to him, but Raiga looked dejected.

They asked about the anomalies occurring across the continent, but Yoshino and even the research institute director, a man who looked like a red ogre, both said they didn’t know anything. That, apparently, was the limit of their research, the cost of clinging to ancient artifacts instead of advancing their studies.

Hikaru’s group decided to move on to the Quinbrand Empire.

“Ugh. I really don’t