The next day.
December 31st, 7:37 a.m.
Before the inner-ring iron gate on the first sea level of Impel Down.
Sasori, Miliellia, Miada, and Alicia and Beth of the Black Twins, acting as guards, were ready to depart at any moment.
"Miada, you must listen to Sasori and Miliellia. Don't ever leave their sight, understand?"
Clarice, acting as her "mother," wore a black prison guard uniform as she crouched down and stroked her "daughter's" face, reminding her with concern in her voice.
Behind her, Dr. Dae silently watched Miada.
He knew the child was dissatisfied with him, so he did not say anything.
Still, he believed Miada would understand sooner or later that he was doing it for her own good.
While Miada enjoyed Clarice's embrace and concern, and Miliellia chatted with Dr. Elaine, Sasori stood to the side, looking up at the two "giants" before him.
They were two bald men nearly three meters tall, burly in build, with deathly pale, bloodless skin, slightly yellow pupils, calm eyes, and clenched fists.
They wore dark green trench coats and silver-gray steel boots, giving off an extremely cold and forbidding air.
These were the guards arranged by the Biochemical Research Institute.
Strictly speaking, they were assigned to him.
That was because he had already passed the relevant assessments and obtained the qualifications of a junior researcher.
According to the latest regulations concerning the Academy of Sciences issued by the Propaganda Administration,
official researchers of the Academy of Sciences—researchers of junior rank or above—could receive different levels of security arrangements according to their rank when traveling to other worlds.
Cipher Pol No. 1 was primarily responsible for security work.
However, the Academy of Sciences' researchers preferred to bring guards developed by their own departments.
Before Sasori left the Biochemical Research Institute, Director