"In your Japan, which is just the size of the palm of a hand, how hard could it be to find an underground ruin the size of a city?" Anjou frowned slightly. "Doesn't your Shieki Eight Families have a funding organization for underground mineral exploration? After all these years, still no progress at all?"
"Yeah, there were experts who theorized that the Divine Era Ruins weren't destroyed, but buried deep underground, so they suggested the family could use underground hydrology to locate the ruins," Uesugi Etsu said. "The method made a lot of sense, so back then I approved a substantial budget for him—enough for the family to explore the Divine Era Ruins for forty years—yet not a single trace was found... Later on, watching television, I finally understood. Those 'brick' experts are all talk. They spin seemingly logical theories just to make money, caring not at all whether their words actually hold any water."
"Underground hydrology?" Anjou caught the unfamiliar term.
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