Sabaody Archipelago, Area 13. A Girl wearing pajamas and a soft hood, with two rabbit ears dangling from it, was holding a tablet computer.
"What a joke. This is a Tier-Five Contractor? He can even fight an admiral now. Are you kidding me? I don't want to compete on the same stage as a monster like this. How am I supposed to profit from the edge of the battlefield? Forget it. Sending the information to that disgusting pervert counts as completing the commission."
The Girl tapped repeatedly on the tablet computer, and a video was soon transmitted.
In a high-end restaurant in Grove 24, soothing music played. A pale man with short, dark-green hair sat beside a dining table. Across from him sat a woman whose face was covered in tears and whose entire body was trembling. She was beautiful and appeared to be around twenty-five or twenty-six years old. Several drops of blood could still be seen on her fair face.
The reason the woman was so terrified was that corpses were lying all over the restaurant. Tables and chairs had been knocked over, while creatures resembling hyenas, their flesh exposed to the air, gnawed on the bodies. The sounds of bones snapping between their teeth were exceptionally crisp.
The pale-faced man put down his knife and fork, drained the red wine in his glass, and let out a long breath. Then he looked at the woman across the table.
"My apologies, ma'am. May I ask you a few questions? I forgot to introduce myself. You may call me Aps."
The Aps the man referred to actually represented Priapus, the god of fertility in mythology.
"My, my father can give you money. He's from the World News—"
Before the woman could finish, Aps waved his hand and said,