Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 880

Chapter 880: Answering the Questions of the World

Vespera’s gaze swept the staging plain once, cataloging every non-Eclipse presence in a single pass.

Foreign guild fighters lingering near the perimeter. Association officials milling between vehicles. Camera crews from four continents.

She nodded at Kaiden and turned toward Soren, who was already moving.

Eclipse’s veterans began the methodical work of clearing every unauthorized person from the ground surrounding his dungeon’s entrance, and the Association officials fell into step beside them without needing to be asked.

They’d received their instructions after the Chairman’s meeting.

The staging plain started shrinking.

Kaiden began walking toward the press cordon with his hands in his pockets, and the girls fell into step behind him.

Pebble moved behind all of them, six burning eyes sweeping the press line, tail still swinging in long, lazy arcs.

Kaiden stopped three meters from the cordon.

The cameras had been trained on him since he left the tent, but this was the first time he’d faced them willingly, and the reporters knew it.

The shouting died on its own as he stood there and announced, "I’ll take a few questions."

A man with shaky fingers took him up on the offer first. "The mana apocalypse...!! Awakened events have been escalating in frequency and severity in the recent months. The Kaiju emergence was entirely unprecedented. Do you believe more events of this magnitude are coming?"

Kaiden decided not to mince his words.

"It would be wishful thinking to assume the mana apocalypse has shown us its worst. There’s no basis to believe otherwise."

In São Paulo, Lúcia’s grip tightened on the phone.

In Ohio, Catherine’s son looked up at his mother.

"Can you tell us what was discussed in the meeting with the Chairman?"

"The specifics aren’t mine to share yet. The talks went well, and both Eclipse and I hope for a strong, cooperative relationship with the United States going forward."

Behind him, the first wave of foreign guild fighters was being politely directed past the perimeter by Eclipse veterans working in tandem with Association officials.

The process was orderly, firm, and left no room for negotiation.

"The creature behind you!" A different reporter, voice pitched higher. "The emergence today killed hundreds of people! Can you tell us what it is? What exactly are we looking at?"

Kaiden glanced over his shoulder at Pebble, who was sitting behind the girls with all six eyes locked on him, tail curled around his forepaws, looking for all the world like a dog waiting for his owner to finish a conversation so they could go for a walk.

"My cute dog."

The staging plain went quiet.

Pebble’s tail twitched.

Then it swung.

Then it swung again, harder, sending a shockwave that knocked a camera off its tripod.

Then it swung a third time, and a fourth, and a fifth, each wag punching displaced air across the plain in concussive bursts that flattened press badges against chests and sent a correspondent’s notes spiraling into the sky for the second time today.

Then Pebble arched his massive body back, all six burning eyes aimed at the heavens, and howled.

"AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The sound hit the staging plain like a second apocalypse. Low and vast, it climbed through registers that human ears weren’t built to process, rattling teeth in skulls, shaking the ground hard enough to bounce equipment cases off the dirt, cracking windows on the remaining command vehicles.

The howl held no hostility, no warning. It was joy, pure and unfiltered. His master had called him his cute dog in front of the entire world.

"PEBBLE!" Luna’s scream cut through the wall of sound, both hands clamped over her ears. "SHUT UP!"

"Close your mouth this instant!" Bastet’s ears had flattened against her head, her tail puffed to three times its normal size, and the dignity she’d maintained all afternoon was being shredded by acoustic assault.

Pebble did not shut up. A second howl followed, louder than the first, and Aria pressed her face into Kaiden’s shoulder with her hands over her ears, caught between laughing and wincing.

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