Duke Leander's automatic response was to tell him it was nothing. And he did just that.
But then he realized… if he kept quiet, he might not have a home to return to.
Only, in the end, he didn't get the chance to break anything himself, because apparently, they had all forgotten about someone whose "loyalties" were terrifyingly strict.
D-29.
Even Luca was surprised when the little system suddenly asked for permission to focus on a "momentary task."
At first, the dungeon owner did not think much of it. But when D-29 had gone quiet—completely quiet—even after he had finished building a biomecha, and even after he had tinkered with his ultra-private project, Luca started to worry.
When the missing system finally returned, proudly reporting a "successful field trip," Luca immediately felt compelled to dig deeper.
That was when he learned the truth.
