"Is this really okay?"
"This is really okay."
"Of course it is."
"I wouldn't be doing it if it weren't."
The Night Raiders were wrapping up their operation when Eisuke Wakura found himself pulled aside by Ling Luo, who insisted on exchanging contact information before he left.
"..."
Should he add them? Oh well, might as well...
There was something inexplicably convincing about this kid.
What a day...
Things were developing in completely unpredictable directions.
Meanwhile.
Komon Kazuki, still in a daze, heard a vague, out-of-context remark from Muzaki. Before he could react, a sudden commotion broke out in the crowd outside.
Phrases like "Are those cops?", "Look, they're saying there's a suspect here!", and "What's going on?" rippled through the gathering people.
In short, the entire area was about to be sealed off, and nobody was permitted to leave.
The authorities were adopting an aggressively unyielding stance.
Yet Komon Kazuki could tell it wasn't because of the monster from earlier, but rather due to some other pretext... one much easier for the general public to swallow.
"What's happeni—"
Before he could finish, his mind still spinning, Komon Kazuki turned his head only to catch Muzaki's effortlessly cool retreating back.
He was left standing before a door that looked straight out of a sci-fi movie, the sounds of rising panic drawing closer by the second.
Komon Kazuki snapped back to his senses. He had to run!
He couldn't afford to let those people outside catch him!
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Chapter 157