And now…
"Yeah, not funny at all."
Renjiro sighed helplessly. "So, Miss Daphne, looking at me like this… do I look like I'm joking?"
Daphne fell silent.
At that moment…
"Some things… I should explain."
Lumine smoothly interjected. "I think you've probably heard rumors about the 'Genshin,' right?"
"Yes."
Daphne nodded. "From another world… like the highest-ranked spirits… basically 'demigods,' energy-based lifeforms with immense power."
"And only the Twin Stars can summon them with their exclusive magic."
This information had long been circulating across the continent.
No wonder—the siblings had defeated Antares and confronted the Arrow of Orion head-on. Naturally, such exploits created enormous buzz.
Ancient monsters, divine calamities… even one of these would be enough to inspire a new heroic saga. Two at once? Songwriters and bards everywhere couldn't stop talking about it.
Legends spread like wildfire; many writers rushed to craft stories starring the Twin Stars.
Amid this large-scale backdrop…
"I won't go into details. Miss Daphne, Miss Cassandra, you only need to know one thing."
Lumine spoke seriously. "I have a powerful person on my side named As… uh, her name is long, just call her 'Mona.'"
"She is an astrologer skilled in foresight and divination in her home world."
"And a recent divination she performed in Orario…"
Lumine glanced at the blue-haired girl covering her eyes. "Some of the information matches exactly the prophecy poem you provided, Miss Cassandra."
Renjiro, being careful and pragmatic, had arranged before coming that Mona would try divination in this world.
Unlike his scatterbrained sister, he had memorized Mona's full name—a small point of pride.
Previously mentioned: perhaps due to inter-world differences, Mona's power wasn't always reliable.
It worked perfectly for small-scale information but became fuzzy for hidden events, past, or future matters.
Even so, it revealed enough troubling information to unsettle Renjiro.
"If just one person says: 'I dreamt the world will be destroyed,' it could be nonsense, or an attempt at mystique."
"But if multiple people say it, and one of them is a trusted companion of mine…"
Lumine's tone turned serious. "Then even if the event doesn't exist, we cannot ignore it."
"Because if it truly comes to pass, the consequences would be unimaginable."
Her gaze moved between Daphne and Cassandra. "Even if it's just a joke, the worst outcome is merely wasting time and energy—consider it entertainment during leisure."
Despite her natural skepticism, Daphne paused to think—her disbelief softened by the seemingly "cursed" nature of Cassandra's prophetic skill, something even gods could not counter.
"Then…"
Renjiro seized the moment. "Miss Cassandra, what exactly did you see in your prophetic dream?"
"I…"
Feeling the gaze of this stranger, Cassandra instinctively shrank behind Daphne's shoulder. Blushing, she whispered the fragmented memory of the nightmare from that night.
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Over two hours later, Renjiro and Lumine left the Apollo Familia outpost together.
Before departing, they had greeted the familia's primary deity. After all, this was the deity's territory, and they had achieved the purpose of their visit. With Hyakinthos guiding them smoothly as captain, ignoring the god would have been rude.
Even though neither Renjiro nor Lumine particularly wanted to interact with Apollo.
Fortunately…
"Looks like Apollo really loves music."
"Yeah, maybe he wants to leave a good impression on me, so he can invite Barbara for a performance later. Surprisingly, he behaved decently this time—no terrifying facial expressions this round."
As they walked, already away from the outpost, Renjiro and Lumine casually chatted through their spiritual link.
"Anyway, enough about him."
Renjiro tilted his head toward the blonde girl half a head shorter than him. "What do you make of Cassandra's prophetic dream?"
"What can I do? We need to evacuate Orario immediately."
Lumine sighed. "The ocean, once as blue as the sky, turned a fiery red, and countless flame-wrapped monsters emerged."
"They transformed into the forms people feared most, sweeping everything aside… Aren't these the Hellhounds born from the uncontrolled fire of Olympia.
Clearly, after listening to Cassandra's description, Renjiro and Lumine were able to match her vision to known events.
Olympia—a remote, isolated region far from the continent. According to the gods, it could have been considered the Three Great Unexplored Regions
Fourth Great Unexplored Regions, alongside Orario, Dragon Valley, and the Third Region.
But its isolation had caused many to doubt its existence.
"A place that is mysterious is bound to produce extremely troubling problems."
Renjiro muttered. And indeed…
Regardless of the specifics, the monsters cloaked in flames, capable of moving underwater and manifesting as people's worst fears—this was exactly the beasts Cassandra saw in her prophetic dream.
These entities could merge and split; when numerous, they could even emulate the Scorpions.
Beyond replicating the calamity, even moves like Light Rain could be copied.
When numbers increased…
"This is ridiculous."
Renjiro complained. "First, the main boss from the movie storyline breaks its seal early, and now this? No peace for even a few months, huh?"
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