The commoner kid controlling the creature must has been hallucinating the entire time and wasn't shocked by the experience at all. Yet he also knows that the creature "wasn't successfully mimic human form yet". That's rare mental strength.
It's not like Odette didn't try to conceal the bits of info, but how even do anyone hide the truth of A MASSIVE BLACK ARMOR IN DISPLAY AND IN ACTION? Everyone will be prying nicely and with a lot of passion and intrigue. Everyone wishes that utopia of protection to happen. Everyone was saved...
Funny that many of those big groups actually waited to be sniped to actually update the TLs.
It’s the other way round, sniping motivates the main TL to keep going instead of discouraging them.
Every moment I read this manga, I keep reminded of this exact scene and it's the one thing that made me stick to this series and get back to rereading anywhere I want.