Now that all three of them were standing in the Scorched Forest, Lukas had to admit that the place somehow looked different.
He and Melody had spent enough time in this place that it had stopped feeling hostile and started feeling familiar.
But with Akira standing between them in her gold-trimmed armor, the forest seemed to have lost much of its allure.
Maybe it was because the beasts weren't attacking them.
His eyes caught one of the beasts in the distance, leaving the moment it caught sight of them.
Shapes that would normally have begun circling the moment he and Melody entered their territory were now moving away instead.
They were retreating without any traces of hesitation, putting distance between themselves and what they could sense was an S-rank presence.
"Are all the beasts here this cowardly?" Akira asked, watching a pair of Zipper Bears disappear between the trees without so much as a backward glance.
