Who knew where those kidney thieves had gotten their hands on a fairly high-grade Blocker Chip, but they had used it to cut off her distress signal.
As a result, the fixer had learned of the kidnapping before Trauma Team did.
Even now, Trauma Team remained in the dark, unaware that their Platinum Member was already on the kidney thieves' operating table.
That was why mercenaries had to step in.
Generally, only mercenaries who were just starting out, or those who had been at it for years without making a name for themselves, dealt with kidney thieves.
But the woman's family had offered Wakako a generous fee and specifically asked her to find reliable mercenaries to rescue her.
There would also be a hefty reward once the job was done.
When it came to reliability, the first people Okada Wakako thought of were naturally Su Xiao's team, with their hundred-percent mission completion rate.
That was why she had contacted Su Xiao.
Japan.
Something major had suddenly happened at the Arasaka laboratory in northern Honshu.
The custom-made relic belonging to Arasaka Corporation's CEO, Saburo Arasaka, had vanished without a trace.
It was as though it had simply evaporated, leaving no clues behind.
The laboratory's director was frantic.
For a moment, the thought of covering it up crossed his mind.
In the end, however, he reported everything honestly.
If he reported it, at worst, he alone would have to commit seppuku to atone.
If he concealed it and was found out later...
Then his son and daughter, who also served Arasaka, would be implicated as well.
The relic had been stolen from Arasaka's own laboratory-not an overseas facility, but one at its Japanese headquarters.
The matter received the utmost attention.
Arasaka's senior management immediately granted the counterintelligence department at its Japanese