Her eyes were covered with black cloth, but her hands were not bound with rope. Compared to the bedraggled state of Aoba Asagi and the other two, Kurumi was clearly being treated much better.
Next, Kurumi used soul perception to watch quite a show. Akatsuki Kojou's best friend saw Aoba Asagi and the others being kidnapped and displayed a wind-controlling-like superpower, stubbornly chasing after the terrorists.
Just as the Black Death Emperor Faction terrorists boarded a helicopter, Yase forcibly enhanced his abilities with pills, intending to keep up with those Black Death Emperor Faction bastards.
Then... an energy cannon forcibly destroyed Yase's pursuit.
And the one who had obstructed him was none other than Duke Vatler.
Meanwhile, Akatsuki Kojou received the news and hurried over with Kousaka Sayaka, though the way they traveled... greatly surprised Kurumi.
The two of them had taken a taxi here at a leisurely pace!
They looked rather anxious, but their mobility clearly had not kept up!
Kurumi secretly mocked them. Even Yase, just a friend, had gone all out. As the Fourth True Ancestor, far beyond an elite human, wouldn't running through the city have been faster than taking a taxi?
Not to mention Kousaka Sayaka. As an elite of the Lion King Organization, this little distance should have been nothing to her, right?
She had fought so fiercely when competing with Akatsuki Kojou for affection, so why did she go limp at such a critical moment?
Kurumi could not understand that behavior.
While Kurumi spent the journey mocking Akatsuki Kojou's indifference, they had already been delivered by the Black Death Emperor Faction terrorists to a small artificial island.
The small artificial island was by the sea, with a dock nearby and numerous factories across the island.
As Kurumi and the others were locked inside