"Hey, Kinuhata, what do you think will happen to this girl afterward?"
In a heavily guarded room, Frenda boredly pointed at Busu Dixin, who was tightly bound and still unconscious off to the side.
"No idea, but since she committed such an ultra betrayal against the higher-ups, they definitely ultra won't go easy on her." Kinuhata Saiai looked at Busu Dixin with pity. "The fact that they had us capture her instead of killing her outright means she'll probably be facing an ultra miserable life with nothing left but her own life!"
Frenda obediently shrank her neck in response to Kinuhata Saiai's tone. "Ah... that sounds really terrifying."
"Frenda, are you slacking off again?" Another, more mature female voice came from the entrance.
"Of course not, Mugino! We've been very seriously guarding this girl!" Frenda patted her flat chest, assuring her that she had not been slacking off.
Kinuhata Saiai listlessly walked aside. "Mugino, how much longer do we have to watch this girl? It's ultra boring."
The woman called "Mugino" was Mugino Shizuri, leader of the dark-side organization Item and one of Academy City's seven Level 5 espers—the No. 4, Atom Collapse.
Mugino Shizuri expressionlessly swept her gaze over the bedraggled Busu Dixin and said flatly, "I don't know either. The higher-ups seem to be discussing how to deal with this girl, so they've had us guard her for longer. But the pay has gone up quite a bit too."
"Hey, Mugino, can Kinuhata and I get a little more?" As though money had gone to her head, Frenda frantically tested the boundaries of her own death.
However, when Mugino Shizuri gave Frenda a kindly smile, she immediately backed down and became invisible in the corner, repeatedly chanting in her heart, *So scary, so scary... If I'd said any