A Bold Idea

"What did you tell them?" Chen Xuan asked curiously.

"That the Devils would join forces to attack the Sanctum where the Artifacts are stored, that a giant reptile on the moon would destroy humanity, and that Paris City would one day be reborn underground..."

Just as he'd thought.

Who was Elorie? A newly minted Angel, a nobody. From the Angel Alliance's perspective, she had disappeared for months while tracking a Devil, then returned acting strangely and spouting the least original doomsday predictions and prophecies imaginable. It would be a miracle if the higher-ups took her seriously.

"If you want to convince them, you'll probably need solid evidence."

"I tried! It's all Eastern Aerospace's fault!" Elorie said indignantly.

"Huh?" Chen Xuan felt as though a story he'd been watching from the sidelines had suddenly become his own. "What did Eastern Aerospace do to you?"

"They'd just launched a lunar exploration craft and brought samples back from the moon!"

He immediately guessed what had happened. "The sampling site matched the reptile's location?"

"The Alliance called me. They said the higher-ups had pulled strings to investigate, and the samples were all ordinary moon rock. There wasn't the slightest sign of life. They told me to stop bothering them."

"Uh..." Chen Xuan was speechless. Her luck really was awful. Not only did she have no reliable evidence of her own, but someone else's evidence had been used against her. She had no chance of being believed now.

Come to think of it, Elorie's luck had always been bad... She'd caught a big fish on her first attempt to track a Devil. If she'd located him and passed the intelligence to the Angel Alliance, Gustav would have had nowhere to run, and her contribution would have made a name for her. Instead, the pursuit had