After leaving the passenger cabin, El-Elf quietly followed behind Sousuke Sagara and witnessed the hijackers activating the bomb in the cargo hold. Once the hijackers left, Sousuke opened the case and glanced at what was inside, his expression immediately turning heavy and complicated. After hesitating briefly, he hurriedly turned and left.
Only after Sousuke had gone did El-Elf suddenly appear before the large case containing the bomb. Opening the lid and seeing the timer connected to its complicated wiring, El-Elf pondered for a moment. He then glanced in the direction Sousuke had disappeared and began inspecting the bomb, which had less than twenty minutes left before detonation.
Perhaps due to the slight gap in their technological systems, El-Elf could not immediately determine what kind of bomb it was. However, its complex wiring was nothing to him. Still, he did not immediately start tampering with it. Devices like this generally had safeguards; cutting the wrong wire would cause the bomb to explode immediately. Even El-Elf would need several minutes to study it before attempting to disarm it through the wiring.
By then, Sousuke Sagara, who had already left, might have gone who knew where. His protection target, Chidori Kaname, might suffer some accident during those delayed minutes. Since it was a timer made from chips and circuit boards, it also had a keypad used to activate and pause it.
El-Elf chose a simpler method to deal with the bomb. Taking out his handheld computer and placing a small component from it onto the device, he quickly began hacking it. In less than a minute, he changed the countdown from seconds to minutes. More than nine hundred seconds became more than nine hundred minutes, extending the detonation time by dozens of times.
After finishing, El-Elf turned and left. Using the shadows cast