The moment Ethan stepped into the conference room, he could feel the pressure. Not the crushing, overwhelming kind he had felt from Titan, but something dense, layered, suffocating in a different way.
Dozens of presences, all focused, powerful, and watching him.
His shoulders tensed instinctively, his instincts sharpening as his gaze swept across the room.
'What the fuck is this?'
For a brief second, his mind defaulted to the worst-case scenario.
'Is this some kind of trial?'
It wouldn't be that surprising.
He had killed someone in front of a crowd and indirectly triggered an A Rank battle that caused immense chaos. But the more he looked around, the more that thought started to fall apart.
Because he recognised people in the room.
A lot of them.
'…Huh.'
His eyes moved from one figure to another.
The first he noticed was the bulldozer, the massive, grey-skinned man who had started something with him and Elara in the training facility.
