"How's it going, Schiller?" a deep voice came through the earpiece.
Schiller lightly pressed his earpiece and said, "Not bad."
"How far have you gotten? Found anything unusual?"
"No. But I successfully conned one idiot into looking for a treasure that doesn't exist, then conned another idiot into buying it."
"What?" Adventure Batman practically suspected he had misheard. "You've been in that universe for two days already. What have you been doing?"
"I already told you. I don't want to repeat myself."
"All right. I just want to remind you that, as the investigation team in this operation, we need to be more efficient. You must pay close attention to every detail. If you discover any abnormality that might have been caused by Dark Force corruption, report it immediately."
"Don't worry. I know what my duties are."
"You'd better."
After ending the call, Adventure Batman sighed. Main Universe Batman turned to look at him. Adventure Batman shook his head and said, "I don't think we should have sent this Schiller. He doesn't seem serious enough, like he doesn't understand how grave the situation is."
"But he's all we have." Main Universe Batman said, "Let's trust that he'll give us a surprise."
"Why are you so optimistic?" Adventure Batman said in some surprise. "There aren't many universes infiltrated by that strange Dark Force. Every one of them is an important sample, and this one is the most typical. You sent such an unreliable person there, and you actually think he'll surprise us?"
Main Universe Batman said nothing. He recalled what had happened before. After the duel tournament ended, he returned to his own universe and continued building the magical defense network. Then, the energy detection device he had installed on the network months ago reported an anomaly.
The strange energy readings