"…This isn't the largest one." Robin lowered his gaze toward the ground, muttering under his breath in a voice so faint it almost blended with his breath.
"…?!" Althera froze, the air catching in her lungs as she slowly turned her gaze back toward the chest with stiff movements… In this sudden moment, she remembered Fear, something she had long buried and forgotten ever since ascending to become a monarch.
She had been standing right beside Robin when he opened the chest—inside were just over twenty identical pearls neatly arranged, each perfectly similar in shape and size… and then, there was one vastly larger than the rest, radiating a quiet but oppressive aura.
If Robin had casually taken one of the identical pearls, and that single one belonged to a mature space beast… then what unimaginable horror was that larger one exactly?!
