Klein studied the young man stretching calmly below him.
'This kid is something else. As expected of someone who cleared the first S-Rank gate.' His gaze drifted briefly toward the horizon.
Selene's eyes widened as the beast came fully into view. The pressure rolling off it landed on her, and her breath caught in her throat.
"This aura. It's a Fourth Star beast." Selene muttered, staring at the creature approaching alongside the Surpasser.
The realization struck her, and she turned to Moon, her eyes filled with disbelief.
"You knew about this?"
Moon's only response was a smile.
Selene turned back to the beast, and everything clicked into place. The reason Moon had thrown away an entire hour of time. The reason he had been so confident, so patient, so unbothered by their dead-last ranking.
He had been waiting for this.
"By killing this beast." Selene said slowly, the math forming in her mind. "We'll gain a thousand points total."
