On one hand, Charles warmly welcomed Alex and Scott.
Not only because he had not seen Alex in a long time.
More importantly, Alex had miraculously appeared before him just when Charles needed support.
So, without a doubt, Alex was the first to join Charles's team.
Just like old times, except this time, they would be facing the White King of the Hellfire Club rather than the Black King...
On the other hand, with Scott's appearance and awakening, the person buried beneath Cairo had finally reached the moment of awakening!
On this night in New York State, during that day in Cairo...
Moira MacTaggert.
At that moment, she was making her way through a dyeing workshop in Cairo.
A camera hung around her neck, and she wore the work clothes favored by reporters of that era as she cautiously observed everything around her.
Of course, she only looked like a reporter...
She was a CIA agent!
Nearly twenty years ago, Moira had already been an outstanding CIA agent. She had personally participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis...
Nominally, it had been a missile crisis.
In reality, it had been a war between the teams of Charles and Erik and the Hellfire Club led by Black King Shaw.
Based on the classification of that incident, an agent like her who had experienced it firsthand should have long relied on those credentials to rise to the position of CIA deputy director.
But unfortunately...
After that incident, Moira had forgotten everything, and everyone else had forgotten her too.
Or rather, everyone had forgotten that Moira had participated in that incident.
Even she herself had forgotten.
So despite all she had experienced, poor Moira had always lacked the decisive credentials needed to advance because she had been forgotten.
Even though she was