Chapter 179: The Nest
“Huh?”
Surprisingly, it wasn’t Whitney who reacted first to the girl’s words that had just dropped like a bomb—it was Ember, her eyes wide open.
“Whitney’s father...?”
She repeated the words slowly, dazedly chewing on them, then turned her head toward Whitney, her expression blank.
“Huh? That’s strange...”
“...?”
“There shouldn’t be anything I don’t know in the setting...”
This was Ember, after all—someone who had played not only the original game but every DLC, and had devoured the official lore books and even the most obscure theory posts on user forums.
So yes—she was aware that Whitney’s father had been sent off on a secret mission.
But to think the place he’d been dispatched to was this—the territory of dragons?
That had never come up anywhere. And if it had been mentioned, even in passing, there was no way someone like her would’ve forgotten it.
“Um... Whitney.”