Oath

The most pressing question among all of the pressing questions that the dragonling's confession raised was…

"What is the secondary effect of Devour?" I thought to myself. "Is the breakdown of mechas considered one effect, and devour another effect, and the manifestation as another effect? Or are they all considered one effect? If they are separate effects, then wouldn't there be three effects?"

"And? Just two effects? You really like being in pain huh?" I asked him, careful to inject a huge amount of scorn and remove all traces of excitement from my voice.

"The tertiary effect… We do not know it yet! Ahhhhhhh!! The pain is unbearable… We do not know it yet!! Its… My father said it is missing a crucial trigger! We don't have the trigger! We…

… …

You! You have the trigger!! That's why you know so much… That's why you are able to do something strange to the Black Pearl!"