"I think the old bastard has been planning it for a while." He took the book back. "The body he put me in. The Core Attribute. The system that specifically caters to a summoner who can fight independently." He glanced at the wall writing again. "Someone left a manual two hundred years ago for someone with a Sovereign Core. And now there's a person with a Sovereign Core standing in front of it."
"...That's a long setup."
"Old bastards have time," Orion said.
Luna stared at the writing on the wall for a long moment. Her tail was very still. The kind of still that meant she was working through something serious underneath the surface. "Master."
"Yeah."
"If someone prepared this much for you." She turned back to him and her expression was stripped of its usual warmth, just direct and clear and slightly fierce. "Then what they need you to do is equally significant."
He'd had the same thought.
