Kelya, who hadn't been brought to the Galatan Star Castle, was walking inside the Storm Frontier with the robe she had just draped outside.

Although the sanitizing procedure must also be carried out after the return voyage, the Storm Boundary has a significant advantage over the Imperial Dream: it is smaller. Even if you count the almost otherworldly internal structure, which is too large for the entire ship to look like from the outside, it is still overwhelmingly small compared to the Emperor's Dream.

Small means less work to be sanitized, and it also means less obtrusive Storm Boundary. While the Mechanics' engineering equipment, servants, technocrats, and even sages were focused on the Emperor's Dream and arguing over all sorts of strange issues, the work on the Storm Frontier had been successfully completed in two days, led by Asclepius and Arjuna.

All in all, the current Storm Frontier had returned to the atrium of Tyros Cathedral cleanly, and there were no particularly noteworthy changes in it, other than the smell of disinfectant water was a little more noticeable - or maybe some "noteworthy changes" had occurred in places that were unclear to Kelya, and as such, she was unable to point out those parts.

Leaving aside the things that were gone, let's just say that now, Kellya is going to put the robe she hasn't been wearing for a long time back in the closet and hang it, put away the Aquila pendant with the protective force field again, and finally go back to the room assigned to her and have a good rest. In the recent meeting, the real impact was directed at Rika Fujimaru, so it wasn't particularly exhausting for her - but she still stood in place for two hours, and a break was still necessary.

If she learned anything along the way, it didn't seem to be. She didn't seem to get anything out of this meeting, except that she was startled by the Inquisitor at the beginning, and the inexplicable ravens and the angry Imperial Regent at the end of the day.

When Rika Fujimaru brought her here, she said that she would "feel the atmosphere of this formal occasion", but she was not sure what she wanted from this "formal occasion" to feel the atmosphere that Rika Fujimaru wanted her to feel. She also struggled to understand the main topics of the meeting, but the purely technical stuff was still too difficult for an unregistered psyker like her who hadn't even made it in.

I don't know what I'm doing today.,It's really tormenting this teenager who is caught between "no longer a complete child, but not enough to be an adult on his own". Kellia sighed and walked to the storage room with her clothes in her arms, thinking on the way: at least this work, she can still do it.

There's no one on the Storm Frontier right now - meaning, there's no Somny, no Coates and his Midnight Lord, and no Rika Fujimaru. It can be said that there is no "living person" who can actually be seen, but the corridor cannot be said to be completely empty. As a psyker who has awakened her abilities, even if most of her abilities are temporarily sealed, Kylea's inspiration is still slightly stronger than that of ordinary people. This often caused her to feel something disembodied but actually present in the hallway passing by. Sometimes, similar objects will also turn into a vague black shadow of a humanoid, at which point they can have an effect on real-life objects.

Rika Fujimaru once told her that this was normal. These spirits were basically similar to Asclepius (who she only knew at the time), and if they were just living on a normal ship, they wouldn't have to bother doing anything to get along with them. But for something that her senses couldn't recognize exactly, Kellia still instinctively felt a little scared.

And for some reason, these unseen spirits seem to be a little more active today than usual.

Compared to the wandering spirits and shadow followers, it was clearly Ritsuka Fujimaru's bedroom guards that made Kylia feel more relaxed. Even if they'll poke their heads out of the corner and pop out of nowhere to make them scary, the cute enough form to win too much on average.

But today, Kellia didn't feel right: even if she had only been on the ship for a few days, she could see that several living dolls were looking for something in the hallway, led by Koku, which was obviously an unusual sight.

"What are you looking for?" She couldn't help but ask the dolls as she passed by. She wanted to see if there was anything she could do to help—after all, she was clearly the one who had the upper hand in size. But Xiao Ku just brandished the small gun about the size of a dinner fork in his hand, and said very unceremoniously: "It's none of your business here, hurry back to the room and lock the door!" ”

After all, Xiao Ku had been her voice navigator in the ship for a period of time when Kelia first got on the ship, and the latter had more or less become accustomed to the former's habit of speaking angrily. She gathered the robe she held in her arms, and simply squatted down on the spot: "Is there something that I don't know about?" ”

"There's something strange mixed into the boat, don't make a mess and count it as a help!" The little doll looked furious, and then immediately began to stab Kellya in the shin with the round tip of the gun in her hand, "Don't stay where you are, go back to your room!" ”

The doll's spear head pokes people without causing people to hurt, but after all, it is a hard little stick, and it hurts to be slapped on Kelya's calf by Xiao Ku in this merciless way. The girl reluctantly got up from her place, and promised that she would return to her room as soon as she put the borrowed clothes back up.

Although she promised well, Xiao Ku was not reassured by this, and sent Wei from the team to follow her until Kylia returned to her room and locked her door from the inside.

Unlike Koku, which looks like a hunter in some kind of wild region, it looks like an ordinary and cute doll in gorgeous costumes, except for the fact that it has no facial features and the part that represents the skin is a little dark. Perhaps because she has no mouth, Vi never speaks, and now she just floats quietly beside Kylea and acts with her.

There shouldn't have been much to mention about the trip, but as she passed by a break room, she suddenly wanted to go in and take a quick turn. Not for anything else, but because there is a statue of the emperor enshrined in this lounge. As Pamenio's child, a largely devout Anglican, Kylia would also tend to pray to the emperor's statue for peace of mind when confronted with some intractable illness that she found difficult to deal with.

That's what she thought, and that's what she said to Wei. Probably thinking that there would be no threat from Chaos enemies in the room where the Emperor's Shrine was kept, Wei didn't insist on anything. Before arriving at the storage room, the two of them pushed open the door to the lounge together—

A raven with five eyes on its head rests quietly on the back of a chair facing the Imperial Shrine. When he heard the sound of the mechanical door sliding open, he turned his head as well, and happened to meet the eyes of Kylia and Vi as they entered.

Something that shouldn't have appeared appeared in the break room on the Storm Boundary. It immediately became clear to Kellia what the doll squad and the overactive spirits on the ship were looking for. This room was indeed a little darkly lit - no one could have imagined that the strange subspace creatures who had mixed into the ship would dare to run in front of the emperor, and there would be nothing to do.

Wei obviously didn't react, just floated quietly in mid-air.

In addition to coming face-to-face with the ravens who had just escaped from the meeting, another thing that made Kelia feel overwhelmed was that the raven had no intention of leaving after seeing them, and even stopped where it was, not even spreading its wings. He may have relied on it, and Kylia didn't know exactly what it was, but in the flash of light, she had a plan that she didn't know if it would work.

Inexperienced young people tend not to think about things that much before doing them. Kellia pretended to be okay and entered the lounge, and walked all the way to the Imperial Shrine, as if she hadn't seen the raven on the back of her chair, and made a gesture of wanting to pray. Vi couldn't speak, so he could only follow her with some hesitation—but the raven remained in place and motionless except for continuing to salute them.

She was unsure about it, but somehow, after ignoring the raven, she managed to get to him without alarming him. She repositioned the robe in her hand as she turned to face the shrine, and a second before she actually knelt down, she suddenly turned around and spread the fabric in her hand, trying to block the raven's escape route with a wide cloth, thus grabbing him—no doubt, failing at the last step.

Although the whole plan went very smoothly until the cloth was unfurled, the reaction power of mortals was still too slow for even a little bit of the primordial. Raven managed to escape before his robes were completely shrouded, but it also managed to make him realize that his psionic sneak somehow had lost its intended effect here. He was ready to fly out of the room for another round of hide-and-seek with everyone on board, but—

The mechanically controlled door had been closed, and while Kylia was trying to catch the raven with her robes, Vi, who had turned around on the spot, had frozen the closed door firmly together with a cold breath.

Realizing that something was wrong, the raven then attempted to escape into the subspace, but as if his stealth had inexplicably failed in this room, his attempts to get this part of himself through the veil failed.

"Don't run! We won't hurt you, but there are some things you have to explain! Before she could begin to learn about the history of the empire, and didn't fully understand what the name "Corvus Koraks" meant, Kellia shook the robe in her hand that had been temporarily used as a capture prop, and said this to the raven.

As V, who could also fly in the air, began to press closer, the raven, Koraks, realized that he seemed to be being trapped by his father, who was hiding in the statue with psychic powers, but did not reply at all.

Miwoo (serene)

(End of chapter)