The trio still sat in their loose little circle.
"So let me get this straight," Nico said with a gaze bouncing between the two of them as he continued -
"When you gained your human forms, you also got knowledge… like how to read, write, what you are, what monsters are, how your magic works. The basics you'd need to not die in the first week."
"Yes," X-97 replied without hesitation, nodding once as if this had been obvious. "Every magic beast carries ancestral knowledge within their bloodline. Fragments left behind by predecessors. When we become capable of comprehension, that knowledge surfaces."
"That would explain how you knew what a Greater Dragon was the moment Nom said it."
Out of the corner of his eyes, Nico caught Nom-Nom staring down at the grass with a frown as though she was snagged on a thought she wasn't sure how to pull free from.
"Parents, huh…" she murmured. "I wonder who mine are. Or where they are."
