"Bell Clement practically sang your praises in his telegram."
The moment Angel sat down, Dunn waved the telegram in his hand and said this.
"Oh? What did he say?"
Genuinely curious about how others viewed her, Angel asked.
"Ahem." Dunn cleared his throat, picked up the telegram, and read aloud. "He said that during the battle to attack the cargo warehouse in the Port District, you helped your teammates escape an impending loss of control, made an outstanding contribution in the fight against the Sequence 6 'Rose Bishop,' successfully defeated this Mr. C of the Aurora Order, and nearly killed him. Then, when ambushed by another Machinery Hivemind defector carrying a Mystical Item, you successfully counterattacked and... hmm, why is it nearly killed again?"
"Because they both got away in the end..."
Angel felt rather embarrassed as well. She was certain that she had stabbed Tomaz, the Machinery Hivemind traitor, straight through the heart, yet his corpse had vanished from the cellar in the blink of an eye, making her battle testimony somewhat unconvincing.
As for that extraordinarily tenacious Mr. C, judging from all his bizarre Flesh Magic, it was less surprising that he had escaped while near death.
After concealing some information about Bloodthirst, the Mystical Item she carried, Angel told Dunn Smith about how the Nighthawks from the various teams had gathered at Enmat Harbor and launched the operation before the Backlund Team arrived. He listened carefully while occasionally writing something in his notebook, apparently an effort to fight his declining memory.
"2-031, the Hand of Declaration... I've seen this Sealed Artifact before. It was created when a Beyonder Item that emerged after the death of a Mid Sequence Beyonder of the Arbiter Pathway combined with a leather glove. As long as one understands the opponent's abilities and