In the end, naturally, everyone and every appliance in the entire café was caught in the crossfire, becoming sacrifices to Misaka Mikoto's fury.
Under such circumstances, Fang Li slipped away without anyone noticing.
"All right, let's keep looking for Index."
As though nothing had happened, Fang Li resumed his search for the food-loving girl.
Unfortunately, Fang Li still failed to find Index by the afternoon.
That finally made Fang Li sense that something was wrong.
"Academy City may be huge, but Index couldn't have left the Seventh District. And with her limited range of activity, there's no way I still wouldn't have found her by now."
Moreover, Fang Li had sent Scorpius's subordinates to search as well. They found nothing, but they did receive some news instead.
"She was taken away?"
Listening to the report from his subordinate on the other end of the phone, Fang Li frowned.
According to the information gathered by Scorpius's people, someone had seen a silver-haired girl in a pure white nun's habit being taken away by several people.
"Did they have any distinguishing features?"
At Fang Li's question, the subordinate gradually relayed the witness accounts.
Apparently, they were merely several very ordinary people.
They were not dressed in any particularly conspicuous way.
Nor did they behave in any especially eye-catching manner.
Like ordinary tourists, they found Index stuffing herself at a stall, then apparently said something to her.
Then, Index left with them.
After that, the group vanished into the crowd with Index, leaving no trace behind.
That was the final reported sighting of Index.
Fang Li had only one thought about it.
"That's far too abnormal..."
Exactly.
It was far too abnormal.
Though Index looked innocent and naive, she was not completely without caution around everyone.
Index knew how many people had their