Chapter 620

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And so the elegant mansion, the sort of place one might expect a Hollywood star to live in, had no actual owner in residence. Only the bare minimum of maintenance staff came and went.

Now, however—

It had become the headquarters of the goddess Ishtar’s faction.

Inside a room so lavish it could have been part of a palace, a television over 120 inches across was showing the morning weather forecast and news.

A massive typhoon was currently ravaging the western United States.

The storm had appeared out of nowhere, and reports said it was heading straight for this region.

Rumors online claimed that it would strike this city dead center.

People no longer thought it was coincidence. They were convinced that something was happening in the city.

There was no concrete evidence.

But for several days now, disasters beyond the explanations of modern science had been occurring one after another. Despite the government’s efforts to control the flow of information, anxiety was steadily spreading among the residents.

That morning, a riot had even broken out near Central Hospital.

When the city was first built, the mages had woven countless suggestions and bounded fields throughout it, suppressing the citizens’ emotions to a certain extent.

But—

Even those safeguards were nearing their limits.

The city itself was about to become an altar to welcome the typhoon—the Divine Beast Gugalanna.

“I’m back.”

“Welcome back, Mr. Shirou.”

The person who opened the door for him was Berserker’s Master, Haruri Borzak.

To avoid complicating matters, Shirou had parted ways with Assassin after getting Tsubaki Kuruoka out of the hospital.

Tsubaki was now under Assassin’s protection. With someone so skilled at concealment looking after her, there should be little need