But compared to the thoughts of Sakuragaoka Academy's board members.
Within Tokyo's urban district,
at an Exorcism Department branch,
a young man was reviewing the field data gathered yesterday by the multiple inspection teams they had dispatched.
Unfortunately, apart from the enforcement officers in two teams who had acted alongside Onmyoji and Shinto Shrine Maidens and found a few clues,
the remaining monsters seemed to have vanished into the streets and alleys of Tokyo without leaving any trace.
So even he had begun to suspect that there might be certain "abnormal" factors within the Spirit Disaster Management Bureau.
Lines of highly classified data quietly appeared before his eyes:
According to Article 17 of the "Spirit Disaster Response Act"...
These are the timestamps of the twenty-seven approval seals altered this month and last month, all displayed for your review.
"The approval seals really were problematic.
Were they used by unauthorized personnel?!"
And scenes like this were taking place all across Tokyo at that very moment:
The entire world resembled a precision machine slowly turning, with every gear's movement already providing power to the next,
and that was the implication behind the conversation between Old Constance and Miss Elda of Gatekeepers Alijos:
Uncontrollable factors.
They had caused the chaos effect to intensify further.
Therefore,
even Su Wen, who had already fully confirmed the conspiracy of several Sakuragaoka Academy board members, did not know
that even the computer of this core data expert at the Tokyo Exorcism Department had been infiltrated by another hacker.
Yet that hacker was someone he knew all too well.
Because she was:
Caroline.
Amid the countless neon-lit skyscrapers of New York,
inside a vast, somewhat dim room.
Countless networks and transmission cables crisscrossed like spiderwebs, gleaming with eerie green light. Like agile green pythons, they climbed and coiled