The Gap Between Ideals and Reality

Although Fang Zheng agreed to Kuru's request, strictly speaking, it was a very difficult matter. Like everyone else, forming a mercenary group required Star Pattern identification. Naturally, Fang Zheng could not use his own identification, since he had formed this mercenary group to gather intelligence in secret. If he used his own Star Pattern authentication, would that not be tantamount to giving himself away?

But Kuru and Kurumi were both unregistered citizens. Neither of them had Star Pattern identification—this might have been a problem in the past, but with Kurumi around now, it was no longer a problem at all.

Kurumi's solution was simple and brutal. She directly activated the Angel "Gabriel," walked into the Mercenary Association, and told them, "We have no identification, but we want to form a mercenary group. Tell us what we should do."

Kurumi's second Angel, "Gabriel," could make ordinary people without Spiritual Power unable to refuse her requests once she infused her voice with Spiritual Power. As a result, she threw the entire Mercenary Association into chaos. In the end, they actually came up with a solution. By coincidence, a group of one man and two women registered with the Mercenary Association had been declared dead after failing a mission, while the mercenary group they had formed had not yet been deregistered. If Kurumi did not mind, they could simply take their place.

As for the mercenary group's name... they only needed to alter it slightly.

Neither Kurumi nor Kuru had any objections. If there was anything strange about it, it was that they had to use dead people's mercenary badges. Kurumi remained perfectly calm about that, and Kuru went without saying—she had been dead from the start.

"If you had been around back then, I wouldn't have had to go through so much