Long ago, after the outbreak of the world war that led to the fall of the God of Combat, Judgment Xio had taken advantage of George III's death and the new king's accession to formally join MI9, the Loen Kingdom's military intelligence agency. With the Tarot Club's help, she had successfully completed many seemingly impossible missions, steadily rising through the ranks until she became deputy director.
On the one hand, this allowed her to uncover the truth behind the unjust death of her father, Mason Diel Earl, and clear her family's name. On the other, fighting enemy Beyonder spies and evil cults during and after the war gave Xio legitimate opportunities to digest her potions, "accidentally" seize the potion ingredients she needed, or exchange her merits for suitable rewards to advance.
Now, although she was only deputy director, she had become the highest-sequence Beyonder in MI9. Even her immediate superior, the director of MI9, was only a Sequence 3 Chaos Hunter, on par with Xio before her advancement.
The general had already hinted several times that Xio should succeed him, to put an end to the awkward situation of a Saint being an angel's superior. But Xio felt her current position as deputy director was quite good. She had enough authority to protect her family without taking on too many additional responsibilities. As an angel, she also had no need to rigidly follow her superior's orders and had the authority to act independently. It was a comfortable position.
Of course, any Beyonder incidents her subordinates could not handle would eventually pile up on her desk. That counted as a minor side effect of power.
The document before Xio was one such case.
The incident had occurred during an operation over two months ago to eliminate a spy base established in