"Frenda."
"Y-Yes...!"
Caught off guard when Fang Li suddenly called her, Frenda immediately tensed up all over and let out an overly nervous cry.
Although the members of "Group" seemed somewhat puzzled by this, Fang Li had no time to explain things one by one. He directly gave Frenda an order.
"Go to the Special Gunpowder Research Institute in District 2 and retrieve the water for chemical use. Steal it or rob it, I don't care. Finish the job and get here within half an hour."
Before Frenda could say anything, Mugino Shizuri spoke up.
"A job? Protecting those people at the venue isn't our job!"
Mugino Shizuri seemed displeased with Fang Li giving orders as she said this.
"Our job is to stop 'School' and 'Block' from running out of control, not to play bodyguards for those naive fools living in the light!"
That was indeed true.
For "Item," the fate of the fifteen thousand audience members at the venue was simply not something they needed to care about.
Even if war broke out across the entire world, it would not matter.
"Item's" duty was to prevent the upper ranks of Academy City from going out of control.
Other than that, nothing else had anything to do with them.
Not only was it irrelevant to "Item," but for "Group" as well, the orders they had received were not to protect the fifteen thousand spectators at the venue. They were to stop the General Council's rebellion and protect Chibune Misono.
As for everything else, it had nothing to do with them either.
However, unlike "Item," the members of "Group" were not people completely sunk into darkness.
Whether it was Tsuchimikado Motoharu, Ezali, Yuzuriha Awaki, or even Accelerator, none of them were utterly evil. If they could save someone with their